January 21, 2025, at 1:00 PM

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The meeting is called to order at 1:06 PM; it being noted that Councillors J. Pribil and S. Franke (at 2:28 PM) were in remote attendance.

1.   Disclosures of Pecuniary Interest

At 1:07 PM, Councillor S. Lehman enters the meeting.

At 1:10 PM, Councillor S. Trosow enters the meeting.

That it BE NOTED that Councillor C. Rahman disclosed a pecuniary interest in item 11, clause 2.6 of the 2nd Report of the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee, having to do with Contract Award: Tender No. RFT-2024-315 - East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements - Phase 4 - Oxford Street East, by indicating that Fanshawe College is her employer.

2.   Recognitions

2.1   2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honour List

His Worship the Mayor recognizes the contributions made to London by the following citizens who were named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honour List in the following categories: Jacqueline Madden (Accessibility); Diane MacMillan (Age Friendly); Clark Bryan (Arts); Claire Crooks (Distinguished Londoner); George Kerhoulas (Distinguished Londoner); Jim Chapman (Distinguished Londoner); Mike Bessegato (Distinguished Londoner); Sheldon Carter (Distinguished Londoner); Tyler Stewart (Distinguished Londoner); Hetham Karky (Diversity and Race Relations); Shaquille Sealy (Environment); Maureen Spencer Golovchenko (Heritage).

3.   Review of Confidential Matters to be Considered in Public

None.

4.   Council, In Closed Session

Motion made by A. Hopkins

Seconded by P. Van Meerbergen

That Council rise and go into Council, In Closed Session, for the purpose of considering the following:

4.1 Land Acquisition / Solicitor-Client Privileged Advice / Position, Plan, Procedure, Criteria or Instruction to be Applied to Any Negotiations

A matter pertaining to the proposed or pending acquisition of land by the municipality, including communications necessary for that purpose; advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege; commercial and financial information, that belongs to the municipality and has monetary value or potential monetary value and a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the municipality. (6.1/2/ICSC)

4.2 Litigation/Potential Litigation/Matters Before Administrative Tribunals / Solicitor-Client Privileged Advice

A matter pertaining to litigation or potential litigation with respect to the expropriation of property located at 1690 Richmond Street North including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board, Ontario Land Tribunal Case No.:  OLT-OLT-24-000079; advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, in connection with the expropriation of property located at 1690 Richmond Street North; and directions and instructions to officers and employees or agents of the municipality regarding settlement negotiations and conduct of litigation or potential litigation in connection with the expropriation of a property located at 1690 Richmond Street North. (6.2/2/ICSC)

4.3 Labour Relations/Employee Negotiations / Litigation/Potential Litigation/Matters Before Administrative Tribunals / Solicitor-Client Privileged Advice

A  matter pertaining to labour relations and employee negotiations in regard to one of the Corporation’s unions, advice and recommendations of officers and employees of the Corporation, litigation or potential litigation including matters before administrative tribunals and advice which is the subject of solicitor client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose. (6.3/2/ICSC)

4.4 Personal Matters/Identifiable Individual

A matter pertaining to personal matters, including information regarding an identifiable individual, with respect to employment-related matters; advice or recommendations of officers and employees of the Corporation, including communications necessary for that purpose and for the purpose of providing instructions and directions to officers and employees of the Corporation. (6.1/2/SPPC)

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

That Council convenes In Closed Session from 1:44 PM to 2:01 PM.

At 1:44 PM, Councillor S. Trosow leaves the meeting.

5.   Confirmation and Signing of the Minutes of the Previous Meeting(s)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by P. Van Meerbergen

That the Minutes of the 1st Meeting of the Municipal Council, held on December 17, 2024, BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (12 to 0)

6.   Communications and Petitions

At 2:07 PM, Councillor S. Trosow enters the meeting.

Motion made by E. Peloza

Seconded by S. Hillier

That the following communication BE RECEIVED, and BE REFERRED as noted on the Added Agenda:

6.2   430 First Street (Z-9809) 

1.     A. Johnson

Motion Passed (12 to 1)

6.1   Council Resourcing Review Task Force Memo - City Clerk

2025-01-21 Submission - Memo CRRTF-Clerk

Motion made by S. Lewis

Seconded by E. Peloza

That on the recommendation of the City Clerk, the following actions be taken with respect to the 2025 Council Resourcing Review Task Force;

a) the following individuals BE APPOINTED to the Council Resourcing Review Task Force:

i)   Dane Ferry;

ii)  Mariam Hamou;

iii) Martin Horak;

iv) Jennifer Slay; 

v) Jared Zaifman; and

b) the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to commence the 2025 Council Resourcing Review Task Force review based on the Terms of Reference as appended to the memo as Appendix ‘A’.

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

7.   Motions of Which Notice is Given

None.

8.   Reports

8.1   2nd Report of the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee

2025-01-13 ICSC Report 2

Motion made by C. Rahman

That the 2nd Report of the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee BE APPROVED with the exception of item 11 (2.6)

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

8.1.1   Disclosures of Pecuniary Interest

Motion made by C. Rahman

That it BE NOTED that Councillor C. Rahman disclosed a pecuniary interest in item 2.6, having to do with Contract Award: Tender No. RFT-2024-315 - East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements - Phase 4 - Oxford Street East, by indicating that Fanshawe College is her employer.

Motion Passed

8.1.2   (2.1) Argyle Business Improvement Association 2025 Proposed Budget – Municipal Special Levy (Relates to Bill No. 47)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the following actions be taken with respect to the Argyle Business Improvement Association:

a)    the Argyle Business Improvement Association proposed 2025 budget submission in the amount of $444,000 BE APPROVED as outlined in Schedule “A”, as appended to the staff report;

b)    the amount to be raised by The Corporation of the City of London for the 2025 fiscal year for the purposes of the Argyle Business Improvement Association and pursuant to subsection 208(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 BE FIXED at $330,000;

c)    a special charge BE ESTABLISHED for the amount referred to in part b), above, by a levy in accordance with By-law A.-6873-292 as amended; it being noted that the special charge shall have priority lien status and shall be added to the tax roll pursuant to subsection 208(7) of the Municipal Act, 2001; and

d)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Schedule “C”, with respect to Municipal Special Levy for the Argyle Business Improvement Association BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025.

Motion Passed

8.1.3   (2.2) Hamilton Road Business Improvement Area 2025 Proposed Budget – Municipal Special Levy (Relates to Bill No. 48)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the following actions be taken with respect to the Hamilton Road Business Improvement Area:

a)    the Hamilton Road Business Improvement Area proposed 2025 budget submission in the amount of $300,500 BE APPROVED as outlined in Schedule “A”, as appended to the staff report;

b)    the amount to be raised by The Corporation of the City of London for the 2025 fiscal year for the purposes of the Hamilton Road Business Improvement Area and pursuant to subsection 208(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 BE FIXED at $70,000;

c)    a special charge BE ESTABLISHED for the amount referred to in part b), above, by a levy in accordance with By-law C.P.-1528-486 as amended; it being noted that the special charge shall have priority lien status and shall be added to the tax roll pursuant to subsection 208(7) of the Municipal Act, 2001; and

d)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Schedule “C”, with respect to Municipal Special Levy for the Hamilton Road Business Improvement Area BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025.

Motion Passed

8.1.4   (2.3) Hyde Park Business Improvement Association 2025 Proposed Budget – Municipal Special Levy (Relates to Bill No. 49)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the following actions be taken with respect to the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association:

a)    the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association proposed 2025 budget submission in the amount of $864,868 BE APPROVED as outlined in Schedule “A” as appended to the staff report;

b)    the amount to be raised by The Corporation of the City of London for the 2025 fiscal year for the purposes of the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association and pursuant to subsection 208(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 BE FIXED at $706,085;

c)    a special charge BE ESTABLISHED for the amount referred to in part b), above, by a levy in accordance with By-law CP-1519-490 as amended; it being noted that the special charge shall have priority lien status and shall be added to the tax roll pursuant to subsection 208(7) of the Municipal Act, 2001; and

d)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Schedule “C”, with respect to Municipal Special Levy for the Hyde Park Business Improvement Association BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025.

Motion Passed

8.1.5   (2.4) London Downtown Business Association 2025 Proposed Budget – Municipal Special Levy (Relates to Bill No. 50)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the following actions be taken with respect to the London Downtown Business Association:

a)    the London Downtown Business Association proposed 2025 budget submission in the amount of $2,408,000 BE APPROVED as outlined in Schedule “A” as appended to the staff report;

b)    the amount to be raised by the Corporation of the City of London for the 2025 fiscal year for the purposes of the London Downtown Business Association and pursuant to subsection 208(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 BE FIXED at $2,081,000;

c)    a special charge BE ESTABLISHED for the amount referred to in part b), above, by a levy in accordance with By-law CP-2 as amended; it being noted that the special charge shall have priority lien status and shall be added to the tax roll pursuant to subsection 208(7) of the Municipal Act, 2001; and

d)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Schedule “C”, with respect to Municipal Special Levy for the London Downtown Business Association BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025.

Motion Passed

8.1.6   (2.5) Old East Village Business Improvement Area 2025 Proposed Budget – Municipal Special Levy (Relates to Bill No. 51)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the following actions be taken with respect to the Old East Village Business Improvement Area:

a)    the Old East Village Business Improvement Area proposed 2025 budget submission in the amount of $417,100 BE APPROVED as outlined in Schedule “A” as appended to the staff report;

b)    the amount to be raised by The Corporation of the City of London for the 2025 fiscal year for the purposes of the Old East Village Business Improvement Area and pursuant to subsection 208(1) of the Municipal Act, 2001 BE FIXED at $42,000;

c)    a special charge BE ESTABLISHED for the amount referred to in part b), above, by a levy in accordance with By-law CP-1 as amended; it being noted that the special charge shall have priority lien status and shall be added to the tax roll pursuant to subsection 208(7) of the Municipal Act, 2001; and

d)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Schedule “C”, with respect to Municipal Special Levy for the Old East Village Business Improvement Area BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025.

Motion Passed

8.1.7   (2.7) Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund - London Downtown Sewer Capacity Expansion - Transfer Payment Agreement By-law Introduction (Relates to Bill No. 53)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure, the following actions be taken with respect to the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund – London Downtown Sewer Capacity Expansion – Transfer Payment Agreement:

a)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Appendix “A” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025, to:

i)    approve the Ontario Transfer Payment Agreement for the Housing-Enabling Water Systems Fund: Intake 1 between His Majesty the King in right of Ontario as represented by the Minister of Infrastructure (the “Province”) and The Corporation of the City of London (the “Recipient”);

ii)    authorize the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute any contract or other documents, if required, to give effect to these recommendations;

iii)    authorize the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports or the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure to approve further Amending Agreements to the Agreement;

iv)   authorize the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute any amendments to the Agreement approved by the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports or Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure; and

v)    authorize the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports (or delegate) to execute any financial reports required under this Agreement;

b)    the Civic Administration BE AUTHORIZED to undertake all the administrative acts that are necessary in connection with this matter.

Motion Passed

8.1.8   (2.8) SS-2024-296 Single Source Mobility Contract (Relates to Bill No. 54)

Motion made by C. Rahman

That on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Enterprise Supports the following actions be taken, with respect to Enterprise Mobility Devices and Services:

a)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Appendix “A”, BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025 to:

i)    approve the Agreement between The Corporation of the City of London and Rogers Communications Canada Inc. through Vendor of Record (Tender # 18677), Province of Ontario Agreement, for a six (6) year term with two (2), two (2) year options for extension; 

ii)    authorize the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute the above-noted Agreement;

iii)    authorize the Deputy City Manager, Enterprise Supports, or their designate, to approve and execute any further amending agreements to the above-noted Agreement;

b)    the Civic Administration BE AUTHORIZED to undertake all the administrative acts necessary in connection with this matter; 

c)    the Civic Administration BE AUTHORIZED to adjust the quantity of devices, related supplies, and services as needed in accordance with the terms and conditions of the contract, to address departmental requirements resulting from changes in staff levels, work locations, or mobility needs, provided such adjustments remain within the approved budget; and 

d)    approval BE CONDITIONAL upon the City successfully negotiating satisfactory prices and terms and finalizing a formal contract, agreement or a purchase order related to this approval.

Motion Passed

8.1.9   (2.10) Declare Surplus - City-Owned Property Road Widening - Block 180, Plan 33M799

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, on the advice of the Director, Realty Services, with respect to City-owned property, the following actions be taken:

a)    the subject property Block 180, Registered Plan 33M799, designated as Parts 5 and 6, Plan 33R-21184, BE DECLARED SURPLUS; and

b)    the subject property (“Surplus Lands”) BE TRANSFERRED to the developer (abutting property owner) under the Sale and Other Disposition of Land Policy.

Motion Passed

8.1.10   (2.11) Declare Surplus - City-Owned Property – RP 907 - Block H, G, J, I - Fairhaven Circle

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, on the advice of the Director, Realty Services, with respect to City-owned property, the following actions be taken:

a)    the subject properties Block H, G, J, I, Registered Plan 907, BE DECLARED SURPLUS; and

b)    the subject properties (“Surplus Lands”) BE TRANSFERRED to the abutting property owners under the Sale and Other Disposition of Land Policy.

Motion Passed

8.1.12   (2.9) Assessment Growth for 2025, Changes in Taxable Phase-In Values and Shifts in Taxation as a Result of Reassessments

Motion made by C. Rahman

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the report regarding Assessment Growth for 2025, Changes in Taxable Phase-in Values and Shifts in Taxation as a Result of Reassessments BE RECEIVED for information purposes; it being noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee received a communication dated January 9, 2025 and heard a verbal delegation from C. Butler with respect to this matter.

Motion Passed

8.1.13   (5.1) Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee Deferred Matters List

Motion made by C. Rahman

That the January 6, 2025 Deferred Matters List BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

8.1.11   (2.6) Contract Award: Tender No. RFT-2024-315 - East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements - Phase 4 - Oxford Street East (Relates to Bill No. 52)

Motion made by A. Hopkins

That on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Environment & Infrastructure, the following actions be taken with respect to the East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements Phase 4 project;

a)    the following actions BE TAKEN with respect to the award of the contract for the East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements Phase 4 project; it being noted that in accordance with Section 13.2 of the City of London’s Procurement of Goods and Services Policy Request for Tender (RFT) contract awards greater than $6,000,000 requires approval of City Council:

i)    the bid submitted by Bre-Ex Construction Inc. at its tendered price of $26,361,119.55 excluding HST, for the East London Link and Municipal Infrastructure Improvements Phase 4 project, BE ACCEPTED; it being noted that the bid submitted by Bre-Ex Construction Inc. was the lowest of 4 bids received and meets the City’s specifications and requirements in all areas;

ii)    AECOM Canada Ltd. BE AUTHORIZED to carry out the construction inspection and contract administration for the said project in accordance with the estimate, on file, at an upset amount of $2,488,871.00 excluding HST, in accordance with Section 15.2 (g) of the City of London’s Procurement of Goods and Services Policy;

iii)    the financing for this project BE APPROVED as set out in the Sources of Financing Report as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Appendix “A”;

iv)    the Civic Administration BE AUTHORIZED to undertake all administrative acts that are necessary in connection with this project;

v)    the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure or Director of Construction Infrastructure Services BE AUTHORIZED to approve Memorandums of Understanding between the Corporation of the City of London and public utilities and private service owners in relation to the cost-sharing of servicing works contained within this project;

vi)    the approval given, herein, BE CONDITIONAL upon the Corporation entering into a formal contract, or issuing a purchase order for the material to be supplied and the work to be done, relating to this project (Tender RFT-2024-315);

vii)    the Mayor and the City Clerk BE AUTHORIZED to execute any contract or other documents, if required, to give effect to these recommendations;

b)    the proposed by-law as appended to the staff report dated January 13, 2025 as Appendix “B” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025 to approve the Transportation Services Licence Agreement between the City of London, London Transit Commission and Fanshawe College regarding the construction, maintenance and operations of a transit facility on Fanshawe College Property and the following actions be taken;

i)    the Mayor and the City Clerk BE AUTHORIZED to execute the Transportation Services Licence Agreement included in the proposed by-law (Appendix “B”); and

ii)    the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure or written designate BE AUTHORIZED to approve and execute any further amendments to the Transportation Services Licence Agreement if the amendments are substantially in the form of the Agreement.

Motion Passed (12 to 0)

8.2   2nd Report of the Community and Protective Services Committee

2025-01-06 CPSC Report

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That the 2nd Report of the Community and Protective Services Committee BE APPROVED

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

8.2.1   Disclosures of Pecuniary Interest

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That it BE NOTED that no pecuniary interests were disclosed.

Motion Passed

8.2.2   (2.1) 6th Report of the Accessibility Community Advisory Committee

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That the 6th Report of the Accessibility Community Advisory Committee, from its meeting held on November 28, 2024, BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

8.2.3   (2.3) End of Mortgage/End of Agreement Strategic Framework and Funding Model for Social Housing

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Planning and Economic Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the staff report, dated January 6, 2025, related to the End of Mortgage/End of Agreement Strategic Framework and Funding Model for Social Housing:

a)    the End of Mortgage / End of Agreement Strategic Framework BE APPROVED including the funding model outlined in the above-noted report; and,

b)    the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to progress discussions and supporting bodies of work to support the terms of the Service Agreement. (2024-S11)

Motion Passed

8.2.4   (2.4) End of Mortgage/End of Agreement Service Agreement Template

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Planning and Economic Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the staff report, dated January 6, 2024, related to the End of Mortgage/End of Agreement Service Agreement Template:

a)    the Part VII.I Service Agreement template, as appended to the above-noted staff report, BE APPROVED; and,

b)    the Deputy City Manager, Planning and Economic Development, or their written designate, BE AUTHORIZED to enter into negotiations with eligible housing providers and bring forward proposed Service Agreements, including proposed funding levels, to Council for approval. (2024-S11)

Motion Passed

8.2.5   (2.5) 1958 Duluth Crescent, Block 5 - Approval of Contribution Agreement with Wastell Developments Inc. (Relates to Bill No. 46)

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Planning and Economic Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the revised staff report, dated January 6, 2024, related to 1958 Duluth Crescent, Block 5, Approval of Contribution Agreement with Wastell Developments Inc.:

a)    the proposed by-law, as appended to the above-noted revised staff report, BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting on January 21, 2025, to:

i)    approve the Contribution Agreement between The Corporation of the City of London and Wastell Developments Inc. (the “Agreement”), attached as Schedule “1”, to secure the municipal contribution for Block 5 and an Ontario Priorities Housing Initiative (OPHI) Year 6 funding contribution of $2,343,400.00 to construct 44 affordable housing units in Block 5, Building A;

ii)    authorize the Mayor and the City Clerk to execute the Agreement; and,

iii)    authorize the Deputy City Manager, Planning and Economic Development, or their written delegate, to approve and execute further amending agreements to the Agreement; and

b)    the above-noted staff report BE RECEIVED. (2024-L04A)

Motion Passed

8.2.6   (2.6) Employment Services Case Management Implementation Update

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Social and Health Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the staff report, dated January 6, 2024, related to an Employment Services Case Management Implementation Update:

a)    a single source procurement, in accordance with section 14.4 (3) of the Procurement Policy, BE APPROVED;

b)    the Civic Administration BE AUTHORIZED to undertake all administrative acts that are necessary in connection with this project; and,

c)    the above-noted staff report BE RECEIVED. (2024-C09)

Motion Passed

8.2.7   (2.2) 12th Report of the Environmental Stewardship and Action Community Advisory Committee

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That the 12th Report of the Environmental Stewardship and Action Community Advisory Committee, from the meeting held on December 4, 2024, BE RECEIVED; it being noted that a verbal delegation from B. Samuels, Chair, Environmental Stewardship and Action Community Advisory Committee, with respect to this matter, was received.

Motion Passed

8.2.8   (4.1) Dog Licensing and Control By-law PH-4

Motion made by D. Ferreira

That the communication dated January 6, 2025 from Councillor H. McAlister with respect to the Dog Licensing and Control By-law BE REFERRED to the Civic Administration for review;

it being noted that a communication, as appended to the agenda, and a verbal delegation from S. Karchut, with respect to this matter, were received. (2024-C09)

Motion Passed

8.3   2nd Report of the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee

2025-01-14 SPPC Report 2

Motion made by S. Lewis

That the 2nd Report of the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee BE APPROVED with the exception of item 5 (4.1)

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

8.3.1   Disclosures of Pecuniary Interest

Motion made by S. Lewis

That it BE NOTED that no pecuniary interests were disclosed.

Motion Passed

8.3.2   (2.1) 2024 Climate Emergency Action Plan Update Report

Motion made by S. Lewis

That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure, the following actions be taken:

a)    the staff report BE RECEIVED for information; 

b)    the Civic Administration BE DIRECTED to use the City of London’s Strategic Plan Performance Dashboard format for the 2024 Climate Emergency Action Plan (CEAP) Progress Report;

c)    Agencies, Boards and Commissions of the City BE REQUESTED to submit Climate Action Plans no later than May 31, 2026 that would be included in the 2025 CEAP Progress Report and to measure progress on their respective plans every year after starting with the 2027 CEAP Progress Report; and

d)    the list of active, proposed, and future potential projects to be or that could be submitted to the Federation of Canadian Municipalities Green Municipal Fund identified on Table 3 and described in Appendix “C” as appended to the staff report dated January 14, 2025 BE RECEIVED for information.

Motion Passed

8.3.3   (2.3) Update Regarding Service Review Training Sessions for Agencies, Boards and Commissions - Mayor J. Morgan

Motion made by S. Lewis

That the communication from Mayor J. Morgan regarding the recent service review training sessions conducted by KPMG for representatives of the City’s Agencies, Boards and Commissions BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

Motion made by S. Lewis

That, on the recommendation of the City Manager and with the concurrence of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, the Deputy City Manager, Legal Services, the Deputy City Manager, Neighbourhood and Community-Wide Services and the Deputy City Manager, Environment and Infrastructure, the report dated January 14, 2025 regarding the London Transit Commission Review Recommend Approach BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

8.3.6   (4.2) Covent Garden Market - Board Member Resignation

Motion made by S. Lewis

That the following actions be taken with respect to the Covent Garden Market Board of Directors:

a)  the communication dated December 18, 2024 from J. Fyfe-Millar, Board Chair, Covent Garden Market BE RECEIVED;

b)  the resignation of Zeba Hashmi from the Covent Garden Market Board of Directors BE ACCEPTED; and

c)  the City Clerk BE DIRECTED to advertise in the usual manner to solicit applications for appointment to the Covent Garden Market Board of Directors, with applications to be brought forward to a future meeting of the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee for consideration.

Motion Passed

8.3.7   (4.3) Eldon House Board of Directors Change of Governance Structure Request

Motion made by S. Lewis

That the request from the Board of Directors Eldon House BE REFERRED to the Civic Administration to draft a revised Eldon House by-law and report back to the February 4, 2025 meeting of Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee; it being noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee received a communication dated January 2, 2025 from Megan Halliday, Secretary, Eldon House Board of Directors with respect to this matter.

Motion Passed

8.3.8   (4.4) Confirmation of Appointment to the Hamilton Road BIA

Motion made by S. Lewis

That Jim Dean, of Jim Dean Law BE APPOINTED to the Hamilton Road BIA for the term ending November 14, 2026; it being noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee received a communication dated December 18, 2024 from C. Luistro, Executive Director, Hamilton Road BIA with respect to this matter.

Motion Passed

8.3.5   (4.1) 1st Report of the Integrated Transportation Community Advisory Committee

Motion made by S. Lewis

That the 1st Report of the Integrated Transportation Communication Advisory Committee from its meeting held on December 18, 2024 BE RECEIVED and NO FURTHER ACTION BE TAKEN; it being noted that the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee heard a verbal delegation from R. Buchal, Member, Integrated Transportation Community Advisory Committee and Chair of the Mobility Master Plan Subcommittee with respect to this matter.

Motion Passed (11 to 2)

8.4   2nd Report of the Planning and Environment Committee

2025-01-07 - PEC REPORT

Motion made by S. Lehman

That the 2nd Report of the Planning and Environment Committee BE APPROVED

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

8.4.1   Disclosures of Pecuniary Interests

Motion made by S. Lehman

That it BE NOTED that no pecuniary interests were disclosed.

Motion Passed

8.4.2   (2.1) 1st Report of the Community Advisory Committee on Planning

Motion made by S. Lehman

That the 1st Report of the Community Advisory Committee on Planning, from its meeting held on December 11, 2024, BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

8.4.3   (3.1) 629 Baseline Road East (OZ-9807) (Relates to Bills No. 56 and 69)

Motion made by S. Lehman

That, on the recommendation of the Director, Planning and Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the application of Dipesh Patel (c/o Siv-ik Planning and Design Inc.), relating to the property located at 629 Base Line Road East: 

a)    the proposed by-law appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “A” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025, to amend the Official Plan for the City of London, 2016, by ADDING a new policy in the Specific Policies for the Neighbourhoods Place Type and by ADDING the lands to Map 7 – Specific Policy Areas – of the Official Plan;

b)    the proposed by-law appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “B” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025 to amend Zoning By-law No. Z.-1, (in conformity with the Official Plan for the City of London, 2016), as amended in the above-noted part a), to change the zoning of the subject property FROM a Residential R3 (R3-1) Zone TO a Residential R3/Residential R8 Special Provision (R3-1/R8-3(_)) Zone;

it being noted that the Planning and Environment Committee received the following communication with respect to these matters:

-          a communication from A. Johnson;

it being pointed out that the following individual made a verbal presentation at the public participation meeting held in conjunction with these matters:

  •          D. Murphy, Siv-ik Planning and Design Inc.;

it being further noted that the Municipal Council approves this application for the following reasons:

  •     the recommended amendment is consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement, 2024 (PPS);

  •     the recommended amendment conforms to The London Plan, including but not limited to the Key Directions, City Building policies, and the Neighbourhoods Place Type policies; and

  •     the recommended amendment would permit residential intensification that is appropriate for the existing and planned context of the site and surrounding neighbourhood; 

it being acknowledged that any and all oral and written submissions from the public, related to this application have been, on balance, taken into consideration by Council as part of its deliberations and final decision regarding these matters.

Motion Passed

8.4.4   (3.2) 430 First Street (Z-9809) (Relates to Bill No. 70)

Motion made by S. Lehman

That, on the recommendation of the Director, Planning and Development, based on the application of 2741943 Ontario Inc., c/o Europa Foods, relating to the property located at 430 First Street, the proposed by-law appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “A” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025, to amend Zoning By-law No. Z.-1, (in conformity with the Official Plan for the City of London,2016), to change the zoning of the subject property FROM a Restricted Service Commercial (RSC1) Zone and Open Space (OS4) Zone TO a Restricted Service Commercial Special Provision (RSC1(_)) Zone and Open Space (OS4) Zone;

it being noted that the Planning and Environment Committee received the following communication with respect to these matters:

-      a communication from A. Johnson;

it being noted that no individuals spoke at the public participation meeting associated with these matters;

it being further noted that the Municipal Council approves this application for the following reasons:

  •    the recommended amendment is consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement, 2024 (PPS); 

  •    the recommended amendment conforms to The London Plan, including, but not limited to the Key Directions, City Design and Building        policies, and the Urban Corridor Place Type policies; and,

  •    the recommended amendment would permit a range of complementary uses within the existing building that are appropriate for the site and within the surrounding context;

it being acknowledged that any and all oral and written submissions from the public, related to this application have been, on balance, taken into consideration by Council as part of its deliberations and final decision regarding these matters.

Motion Passed

8.4.5   (3.3) Demolition Request for the Heritage Listed Property at 1361 Wilton Grove Road

Motion made by S. Lehman

That, on the recommendation of the Director, Planning and Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the demolition request for all of the buildings on the heritage listed property located at 1361 Wilton Grove Road:

a)    the demolition request for Buildings 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, excluding Building 1, as appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “A”, BE APPROVED;

b)    that notice BE GIVEN under the provisions of Section 29(3) of the Ontario Heritage Act, R.S.O. 1990, C.O. 18, of Municipal Council’s intention to designate Building 1 on the property at 1361 Wilton Grove Road to be of cultural heritage value or interest for the reasons outlined as appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix E; and, 

c)    should no objections be received to the Municipal Council’s notice of intention to designate, a by-law to designate the property located at 1361 Wilton Grove Road to be of cultural heritage value or interest for the reasons outlined as appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix E, BE INTRODUCED at a future meeting of the Municipal Council immediately following the end of the appeal period;

it being noted that should an appeal to the Municipal Council’s notice of intention to designate be received, the City Clerk will refer the appeal to the Ontario Land Tribunal;

it being noted that the Planning and Environment Committee received the following communication with respect to these matters:

  •    a communication from J. Reaney;

it being pointed out that the following individuals made verbal presentations at the public participation meeting held in conjunction with these matters:

  •    M. Whalley; 

  •    J.M. Metrailler; and,

  •    S. Bentley; 

it being acknowledged that any and all oral and written submissions from the public, related to this application have been, on balance, taken into consideration by Council as part of its deliberations and final decision regarding these matters.

Motion Passed

8.4.6   (3.4) 1958 Duluth Crescent (OZ-9814) (Relates to Bills No. 57 and 71)

Motion made by S. Lehman

That, on the recommendation of the Director, Planning and Development, the following actions be taken with respect to the application of the Housing Development Corporation, London (HDC) relating to the property located at 1958 Duluth Crescent:

a)    the proposed by-law appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “A” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025, to amend the Official Plan for the City of London, 2016, to amend Specific Policy 1057D_ in the Neighbourhoods Place Type to permit apartments with a maximum height of five (5) storeys;

b)    the proposed by-law appended to the staff report dated January 7, 2025, as Appendix “B” BE INTRODUCED at the Municipal Council meeting to be held on January 21, 2025, to amend Zoning By-law No. Z.-1, (in conformity with the Official Plan for the City of London, 2016, as amended in the above-noted part a)), to change the zoning of a portion of the subject property FROM a Holding Residential R5 Special Provision/Residential R6 Special Provision (hh-100R5-6(18)/R6-5(93)) Zone TO a Residential R5 Special Provision/Residential R6 Special Provision (R5-6(18)/R6-5(93)) Zone; and,

c)    the Site Plan Approval Authority BE REQUESTED to consider the following design issue through the site plan process:

 

i)    provide an all-season landscape buffer along the rear property line to screen the parking and minimize potential negative impacts on the adjacent low-rise residential uses to the west;

it being noted that the Planning and Environment Committee received the following communication with respect to these matters:

  •    a communication from A. Johnson;

it being pointed out that the following individual made a verbal presentations at the public participation meeting held in conjunction with these matters:

  •    L. Maitland, Senior Housing Development Coordinator, Housing and Community Growth;

it being further noted that the Municipal Council approves this application for the following reasons:

  •    the recommended amendment is consistent with the Provincial Planning Statement, 2024 (PPS);

  •    the recommended amendment conforms to The London Plan, including but not limited to the Key Directions, City Design Policies, Urban Corridor Place Type policies, and the Our Tools policies; and,

  •    the recommended amendment would permit an appropriate form of development at an intensity that is appropriate for the site and surrounding neighbourhood;

it being acknowledged that any and all oral and written submissions from the public, related to this application have been, on balance, taken into consideration by Council as part of its deliberations and final decision regarding these matters.

Motion Passed

8.4.7   (5.1) Deferred Matters List

Motion made by S. Lehman

That the Deferred List BE RECEIVED.

Motion Passed

9.   Added Reports

9.1   2nd Report of Council in Closed Session

At 2:28 PM, Councillor S. Franke enters the meeting.

Motion made by C. Rahman

That the 2nd Report of the Council, In Closed Session BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 1)

That clause 1 of the 2nd Report of the Council, In Closed Session, read as follows:

Settlement Agreement – Property Acquisition – 1105 Wellington Road South – Wellington Gateway Project

1.    That, on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance Supports, with the concurrence of the Director, Construction and Infrastructure Services, on the advice of the Director, Realty Services, with respect to the property located at 1105 Wellington Road, further described as Part of Lot 25, Concessions 2, designated as Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, Expropriation Plan ER1545895, in the City of London, County of Middlesex, being part of PIN 08495-0273, as shown on the location map attached as Appendix “B”, for the purpose of future road improvements to accommodate the Wellington Gateway Project, the following actions be taken:

a)    the Settlement Agreement as to compensation and possession from White Oaks Shopping Centre Inc. to settle the outstanding expropriation compensation to the property owner, for the total sum of $325,000.00 BE ACCEPTED, subject to the terms and conditions as set out in the agreement attached as Appendix “C”; and

b)    the financing for this acquisition BE APPROVED as set out in the Source of Financing Report attached hereto as Appendix “A”.

That progress was made with respect to items 4.2, 4.3, and 4.4 as noted on the public agenda, (6.2/2/ICSC), (6.3/2/ICSC), (6.1/2/SPPC).

10.   Deferred Matters

None.

11.   Enquiries

Councillor S. Trosow enquires with respect to the status of the City of London’s warming centres. The City Manager provides a response.

Councillor P. Van Meerbergen enquires with respect to the impact of potential tariffs on the local manufacturing sector. Mayor Josh Morgan and the City Manager provide a response.

Motion made by S. Trosow

Seconded by A. Hopkins

That pursuant to section 18.4 of the Council Procedure By-law, leave BE GRANTED to permit Councillor S. Trosow to move a motion related to the City of London’s warming centres.

Motion Failed (7 to 7)

12.   Emergent Motions

None.

13.   By-laws

Motion made by C. Rahman

Seconded by P. Cuddy

That Introduction and First Reading of Bill No. 44 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed

Motion made by S. Hillier

Seconded by E. Peloza

That Second Reading of Bill No. 44 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by C. Rahman

That Third Reading and Enactment of Bill No. 44 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Hillier

That Introduction and First Reading of Bill No. 52 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Hillier

That Second Reading of Bill No. 52 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Hillier

That Third Reading and Enactment of Bill No. 52 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 0)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Trosow

That Introduction and First Reading of Bill No.’s 61, 64, 65, and Added Bill No. 72 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 1)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Trosow

That Second Reading of Bill No.’s 61, 64, 65, and Added Bill No. 72 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 1)

Motion made by P. Cuddy

Seconded by S. Trosow

That Third Reading and Enactment of Bill No.’s 61, 64, 65, and Added Bill No. 72 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (13 to 1)

Motion made by A. Hopkins

Seconded by S. Lehman

That Introduction and First Reading of Bill No.’s 43 to 71 excluding Bill No.’s 44, 52, 61, 64, and 65 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (14 to 0)

Motion made by A. Hopkins

Seconded by S. Lehman

That Second Reading of Bill No.’s 43 to 71 excluding Bill No.’s 44, 52, 61, 64, and 65 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (14 to 0)

Motion made by A. Hopkins

Seconded by S. Lehman

That Third Reading and Enactment of Bill No.’s 43 to 71 excluding Bill No.’s 44, 52, 61, 64, and 65 BE APPROVED.

Motion Passed (14 to 0)

14.   Adjournment

Motion made by P. Van Meerbergen

Seconded by P. Cuddy

That the meeting BE ADJOURNED.

Motion Passed

The meeting adjourned at 2:51 PM.

Appendix: New Bills

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Okay, thank you, please be seated. All right, welcome to the full meeting of city council. I’m gonna start with land acknowledgement. We acknowledge that we are gathered today on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabak, Haudenosaunee, Lene Peiwa, and Adawandran.

We honor and respect the history, languages, and culture of the duress, indigenous people who call this territory home. We acknowledge all of the treaties that are specific to this area. The two-row Wampum Belt Treaty of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Server Covenant Chain, the Beaver Hunting Grounds of the Haudenosaunee Nanfant Treaty of 1701, the McKee Treaty of 1790, the London Township Treaty of 1796, the current track treaty of 1827 with the Anishinaabak, and the Dish With One Spoon Covenant Wampum of the Anishinaabak and Haudenosaunee. Three indigenous nations that are neighbors to London are the Chippewas of the Thames First Nation, O’Nida Nation of the Thames, and the Muncie Delaware Nation, who all continue to live as sovereign nations with individual and unique languages, cultures, and customs.

City of London is also committed to making every effort to provide alternate formats and communication supports for meetings upon request. We need to make a request specific to this meeting. Please contact council agenda at London.ca, or 519-661-2489, extension 2425. It’s now my pleasure to introduce our national anthem performer.

The sweeping folk anthems of William James Cohen has been capturing ears across Eastern Canada since 2018. Across three releases of various singles, he has explored the uncharted corners of his soul and his sound sometimes alone with a guitar and sometimes backed by collective musicians known as the Friends of the Cove. The lush instrumentation of Cohen’s production is always in service of soft spoken truths and an eye to the future. Please rise and join me in welcoming Willem, who will now perform the national anthem for us.

All right, I’m looking now for a disclosures of pecuniary interest from council colleagues for today’s agenda. Council Raman. Thank you. I’ll be declaring a conflict, John.

Item 8.1, the second report of ICSC, item 11, East London, link, as Fanshawe College is my employer. Okay, thank you, others. Okay, seeing none, that brings us to recognitions. I’m going to move to the podium for 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list recognitions.

All right, I’m gonna call an audible. Councilor Trossa, thanks. There’s a recognition this should come first, so go ahead Councilor Trossa. Yes, thank you very much for taking me out of order.

I want to acknowledge in the gallery today, a group of students from University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Information and Media Studies, we have Journalism and Communications Studies people here under the leadership of Professor Ashunal. And if you could just raise your hands and identify yourself through the chair, yeah, they’re quite a few and they’re gonna wanna be, they’re gonna wanna come out of here today with some, I think, some interviews of our honorees and maybe some of the councilors. So I wanted you all to know that they’re here. So anyway, thank you very much.

All right, so great chance to be recognized and get interviewed by, I think, 27 different people at once, so that’ll be an exciting day. Okay, now I’m gonna move to the podium and do the Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list recognitions. And thank you Councilor Trossa for recognizing some of our guests today. We appreciate you being here and of course, doing some interviews and helping us out by spreading the good work that’s being done by Londoners in our community.

All right, thank you. So this is an exciting part of the year because each year at the start of the year at the first council meeting, we get to recognize some amazing Londoners doing amazing things. The Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list is an annual recognition of Londoners who have made outstanding contributions to this community. The categories that we recognize Londoners under include, accessibility, age-friendly, arts, distinguished Londoner, diversity and race relations, environment, heritage, and under distinguished Londoner, we actually recognize a number of individuals for various contributions in that category.

So it’s now my pleasure to go through and introduce the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list recipients and share a little bit about each of them for you today. And as I do this and as I recognize the individuals, what I’m gonna ask you to do is you can kind of come up when I introduce, when I say your name, you can kind of stamp aside me, I’m gonna say nice things about you. And then I want you to stay up at the front, ‘cause at the end, we’ll kind of have everyone gathered, we’ll do a group photo at the end of all the honorees, all the ones, so a little bit of logistics, and I’ll try to get it right too. So the first honoree is under the category of accessibility, and that’s Jacqueline Madden, one out Jacqueline.

Jacqui Madden has been a tireless champion and advocate for accessibility in our community for decades, both through her support and advocacy for her son, but also by extending that, by playing a key role in community advocacy and mobilizing efforts to improve the city’s supports. Over recent years, Jacqui has been a guiding force in the efforts to improve paratransit, to hold both council and LTC accountable for the funding and administration of paratransit, and in mobilizing advocates to be present at committee meetings and council meetings. She’s a strong voice in our community and has spent countless hours of her own attending meetings, advocating on transit riders behalf, liaising with the media to amplify the message, for these and many more reasons, Jacqui is named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of accessibility, congratulations. Next in the category for age-friendly, Diane McMillan.

Diane has contributed exceptionally as a lead volunteer at the free income tax clinics. Diane has been empowering older adults and low-income Londoners by helping them access vital financial resources over a 20-year period. Her dedication and expertise have made a significant impact on the financial stability and quality of life for countless community members, particularly older adults, through her leadership and volunteer work. Her tireless volunteerism and profound impact on the community embody the spirit of an age-friendly London.

Her work empowers older adults to lead to financial stability and independent lives, and her efforts have helped make London a more inclusive and supportive community for all ages. Her unwavering commitment to the community, especially to older adults, makes her a true advocate for the financial powerment and age-friendliness. For these reasons and more, Diane is named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of age-friendly. In the category of arts, I have Clark Bryan.

Clark Bryan is a remarkable Londoner whose contributions include being a gifted classical trained pianist, educator, community activist, and founder of the Aeolian Hall in London. There he developed and implemented a free after-school music program, which annually offers over 100 underserved youth an opportunity to experience the joy of a rich musical education, an opportunity they may not otherwise have. Clark has recorded 14 albums of piano music, including two Canadian Music Center Award-nominated CDs. Clark has not only demonstrated exceptional talent and dedication to his profession, but has also used his musical abilities to amplify and uplift others.

His performances are a unique blend of technical skill and emotional depth, earning him the admiration and respect from peers and audiences alike. Clark’s passion and dedication to education is truly inspirational. He taught all levels for 39 years, participated in writing curriculum for two national conservatories, and edited the new Millennium Piano Series for the Conservatory Canada. Some of his students have had exceptional accomplishments, including acceptance to music programs and universities, such as Yale and Juilliard.

Clark Bryan embodies the qualities of a true leader and a change maker through his unwavering commitment to music, education, and community. For these reasons and more, Clark has named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list in the category of arts. The next one is a posthumous award for Claire Crooks. So I have loved ones come out for this presentation.

Claire was a researcher, an academic leader, a champion for youth mental health, a devoted mother and wife. Claire was a groundbreaking clinical psychologist and researcher. She established the Center for School Mental Health at Western University in 2015 and co-founded The Fourth R, which targets violence such as bullying, as well as dating, peer, and group violence. Claire contributed to over 100 publications during her time as a Western faculty of education, in the Western faculty of education.

As well, she trained thousands of educators, nurses, mental health professional, and judges across Ontario on data-driven approaches to violence prevention and mental health. Her work earned her the World Discovery’s Vanguard Innovator of the Year award in 2022. She was named to the Order of Canada earlier this year. Her nomination acknowledged that Claire, quote, “inspired a national movement to address youth mental health.” For these reasons, Claire Crooks has been posthumously awarded and named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list in the category of distinguished Londoner.

Continuing in the distinguished Londoner category, George Kahulis. A lifelong Londoner, George Kahulis has always been a fierce advocate for the vitalization of our downtown. He has spent 40 years serving the London Business Community and is recognized by local developers, appraisers, and municipal officials as a leading authority on commercial real estate. George is also a committed and enthusiastic volunteer, having served on a number of local boards and commissions, such as Creative Cities, Architectural Conservatory, is the past chair of downtown London Business Association, a member of the Mayor’s Task Force on Downtown, a director of the Kevin Gardner Market, a past chair of the London Public Library, past chair of the Performing Arts Center Board, past chair of the London Health Sciences Foundation, and a member of Fanshawe College’s Board of Governors.

He presently serves as president of the Grand Theatre for his many contributions to the London community. George Kahulis is named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list in the category of distinguished Londoner. George is gonna be running for Mayor next term against because it’s the only thing he hasn’t done in the city yet. Continuing on in the distinguished Londoner category, Jim Chapman.

London-born Jim Chapman has enjoyed an inspiring 60-year music industry career, working as a musician, agent, manager, promoter, and founder of the area’s first professional recording studio. He helped guide and build the careers of many local performers and has presented a wide variety of musical concerts and events. Signed to Columbia Records in 1968, he later played, he later played, I was born in 1978, Jim. He later played with the legendary Ronnie Hawkins, toured extensively, and in the 1970s, created London’s first successful radio-oriented ad agency and jingle company.

He continues to perform a promotion concert today and was inducted into the London Music Hall of Fame in 2023. Jim served on several city hall advisory committees, and in his decade-long media career was the first Londoner to simultaneously host a daily radio and TV programs, while writing regular columns for the London Free Press and Business London Magazine. He also created his own publishing company, releasing works by several local authors, as well as nine books of his own, including the popular definitive history of London’s 1960s music scene, Battle of the Bands, and two recounts of his 1999 near-death experience. 2001’s best-selling heart and soul in 2006 come back to life, which continued to sell steadily 20 years after publication.

Jim was blessed to be able to use his high school media profile to aid in raising a large charitable, his high media profile, not high school. High media profile, maybe he did stuff in high school too. High media profile to raise money for charitable donations or charitable organizations, such as Easterseals, London Health Sciences Center, Child Reach, Jesse’s Journey, the Bethany Hope Foundation, Unity of London, and many other worthy causes over the years. He strongly believes that he has managed to have such a productive life because of advice his father gave him when he was young.

Quote, “Always remember what you receive “is never as important as what you give.” For all these reasons and more, Jim Chapman has been named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors list as a distinguished Londoner. Also, you guys can kind of come into the circle a little bit. You don’t have to be practically out the door. So slide back in, stand in front of my colleagues.

They’ll be here all meeting, it’s okay. They want to see you, not them, most of the time. I promise they won’t photobot me in the background, but my guests were out of order, but my pages were out of order, that’s my fault. Next, in the distinguished Londoner category, Mike, come on out.

Everybody knows Mike here at City Hall. In July of 2024, Mike displayed extraordinary courage during a routine visit to a grocery store in the City of London. While shopping, he witnessed a violent altercation between a 72-year-old store employee and a younger male attempting to steal items. Fearing for the safety of the elderly employee, Mike quickly intervened.

Without hesitation, he placed himself between the aggressor and the vulnerable staff member, preventing further harm to the employee. Mike managed to restrain the attacker, holding him in place while waiting for the police to arrive. However, the situation took a dangerous turn when the assailant, unbeknownst to Mike, pulled out a concealed knife and launched a vicious attack. Mike was stabbed multiple times in an effort to protect others, suffering serious injuries, including a collapsed lung.

Despite his injuries, Mike’s actions successfully safeguarded the employee from further harm and the attacker fled the scene. Mike’s selfless actions undoubtedly prevented a tragedy, protecting both the store employee and the public from further violence. His bravery in the face of danger is a testament, the power of ordinary citizens stepping up in extraordinary circumstances. For his selfless act of heroism, Mike is named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of distinguished Londoner.

Start on this side now. Also distinguished Londoner, Sheldon Carter. Sheldon Carter is the president of Digital Extremes, a London-based digital gaming company with 500 employees. It is the largest company of its kind in Southwestern Ontario, garnering dozens of awards for both its innovative games and its progressive studio culture.

As a co-creator of Epic Games’ multi-million dollar unit selling unreal franchise, including unreal and unreal tournament, and the award-winning Warframe amongst others, Digital Extremes is annually recognized as one of Canada’s top 100 best companies to work for. Under Sheldon’s leadership, community has remained a key pillar of digital extreme success, supporting and championing countless charitable and social equity causes. In addition, Digital Extremes hosts TerraCon, a yearly in-person digital convention. Most recently, TerraCon 2024 at RBC Place welcomed over 2,000 gamers for two days, in a series of panels where developers discussed their craft.

For as many contributions to the London business community, Sheldon Carter has been named to 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of distinguished Londoner. Final one for the category of the distinguished Londoner, Tyler Stewart. Tyler Stewart, also known as London’s Green Ranger, has made significant contributions to mental health awareness and community supports. In 2021, he was honored with the Forest City London Music Award contributor award for his contributions to mental health awareness initiatives.

His recognition continued when he was named the 2021 Champion of Mental Health by the Canadian Mental Health Association for his ongoing efforts to promote mental health awareness within the community. His tireless work has positively impacted many lives, making him a deserving candidate for this recognition. As a rapper and musician, Tyler uses his platform and personal experiences to inspire others to seek support, especially within the youth community. He’s an active fundraiser for Mind Your Mind and has a deep passion for ending the stigma around mental health.

As the London Green Ranger, Tyler regularly appears at charities, fundraisers, and events throughout the region, spreading positivity, joy, and pride in the City of London. His efforts extend to visits at the London Children’s Hospital, Ronald McDonald House, and the CMHA, where he shares messages of hope and support. A devoted father of three, Tyler’s personal journey includes watching his daughter battle brain cancer from the age of one. Now five in thriving, her fight has shaped Tyler’s mission to encourage others to reach out, talk about their struggles, and know that they are not alone.

Tyler’s dedication to spreading joy, raising awareness, and supporting others makes him a true bright light in our community for these reasons and more. Tyler is named to the 2025 Mayors New Year’s Honors List in the category of distinguished Londoner. In the category of diversity and race relations, Keitham Karke, come on out. Keitham migrated to Canada in 2019, ever since he has been an extremely active, he’s been extremely active in promoting diversity, inclusion, and anti-oppression values throughout his work and volunteerism.

Keitham seeks to understand what challenges newcomers are faced with and is determined to use resources effectively to provide solutions. Keitham established and is currently Executive Director of the Rights and Responsibilities Awareness Initiative, RRAI, which is a community initiative based in London, Ontario aimed at enhancing legal, financial, and cultural awareness amongst new Canadians through public education. RRAI was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in 2020 and it received its charitable status from the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. It is governed by a diverse board of directors and an advisory committee, a diverse committee of community facilitators representing different ethnic and cultural backgrounds.

Members of the advisory committee play a vital role in connecting RRAI with local communities, promoting RRAI’s activities and establishing connections within their community organization. Current members of the advisory committee are from the Francophone, Latino, Black, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, and LGBTQ+ communities. RRAI is currently working in partnership with the London Police and Western University on a project funded by the Government of Ontario that aims to reduce online hate crimes amongst London and Middlesex communities by educating the community to protect them against such crimes and ensuring individuals are safe when reporting them. Keitham has also volunteered with several boards and committees in London and for all these reasons and more, he’s named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of diversity and race relations.

In the category of environment, Shaquille Sealy. Keel is an outstanding leader in the city of London’s environmental sector whose work embodies our city’s commitment to protect and enhance the environment. In particular, Shaquille and the people who work with them make significant contributions to tree planting and public education about trees and are thus furthering nature-based solutions for climate change, migration and adaptation in the forest city. Since 2021, Shaquille has been working out of the Westminster Pond Centre with re-forest London on a variety of programs aimed at providing environmental education and opportunities for Londoners.

He currently acts as the co-executive director of operations and projects at re-forest London where he oversees a program delivery team that advances the organization’s strategic priorities while developing partnerships across sectors in London. Shaquille’s work is directly linked to the ongoing success in promoting tree planting and tree care throughout the city. He’s responsible for managing re-forest London’s community tree nursery as well as the operational development and community consultation of the West Minister Pond Centre social enterprise. For all of these reasons and more, Shaquille is named to the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of environment.

Congratulations. Finally, in the category of heritage, Marine Spencer Gola Chinko. Marine has been a longtime champion for London’s history, contributing to the awareness of the city of London’s heritage assets through her work to preserve and protect Elden House heritage site and gardens. Marine first became involved with the Elden House during the 175th anniversary in 2008 when she was part of the collective committee to organize a year-long celebration of that milestone anniversary.

Since then, Marine has been a staunch and active volunteer at the museum and an eloquent advocate for heritage. She has contributed in countless ways in stabilizing Elden House. Marine was part of the inaugural board of directors in 2013 and assisted in numerous areas of governance, organizational policy, and hugely in assisting with special groups, projects, and initiatives. During that time, she acted as the museum’s inaugural chair of the board of directors and served for two terms in that role.

Marine represents the spirit of Elden House as someone who is passionate about the history of London focused on bringing the community together in our historic spaces. Her dedication to heritage preservation and education is important for the Elden House site and the growth of heritage awareness and tourism within our community. For all of these reasons and more, Maureen is named the 2025 Mayor’s New Year’s Honors List in the category of heritage. Okay, before we do just a group photo, let me just say it is quite humbling to stand with some amazing Londoners who are making amazing contributions to our community.

When we think about being an amazing, fast-growing city, a place where people want to come to, a place where people want to live, part of that is because of the amazing work that individual Londoners do each and every day to improve our quality of life, to make our community amazing, and to share and promote the types of things that happen in this community, whether it’s the promotion of heritage or diversity, or acts of bravery or contributions to business. These are a set of what are many amazing Londoners doing amazing things in our city and we’re honored to represent them today. Now, I notice that many of you have loved ones in the gallery, and I think it’s always important to recognize that when some people are doing amazing things, it’s because there is a team of people who are supporting them behind the scenes to make it happen, and so to everybody who came to support the amazing people before you today and everybody who’s played a role in their lives to free up time or support them for them to make contributions to our community, we also thank you for everything you’ve done to make this type of work possible. Thank you so much for being here to celebrate your loved ones, yes, let’s clap for them, yes, yes.

Thank you so much for celebrating your loved ones here today, but also recognize that you are part of their success and part of what makes our community great as well, thank you. Okay, so we’ll kind of line up in front of the podium. I just want to make one other short recognition beyond the ones we’ve made, because this is the closest council meeting to January 29th, in 2017 on January 29th, there was a shooting at a Quebec City mosque. Many of you will see council colleagues and staff wearing green squares.

The green squares recognize the color of the mosque carpet where individuals were simply gathering to pray before being attacked and murdered by a violent gunman. We certainly recognize the impact that this event has had not just on the community in Quebec City, but all communities across the country and globally. Attacks like this should not be taken lightly and have not since. The work that we have done at the City of London, which has known its own form of hate and attack and tragedy, the work done by the City of London to stomp out Islamophobia and hate in all of its forms is something that we continue to be absolutely committed to.

I wanted to take a short minute just to recognize the Quebec City mosque shooting and let you know that we wear a green square today and will on January 29th in recognition of that event and our commitment to stomp out hate in all of its forms in the future. Thank you. Three, review of confidential matters to be considered in public. We have none.

We have council in closed session. We have four items. I’ll look for a motion to move into camera for that. Moved by Councillor Hopkins, seconded by Councillor van Mirbergen.

We will open that for voting in the system. Closing the vote, the motion carries 13 to zero. Okay, and we’ll be headed to committee room five. So everybody else can stay here.

We’ll return when we’ve completed our in-camera session. Okay, thank you, please be seated. All right, that concludes closed session. We have the confirmation and signing of the minutes for previous meetings.

I have the first meeting held December 17th, 2024. I look for a mover and the seconder for that. Councillor Cuddy, seconded by Councillor van Mirberg and any discussion on the minutes? Seeing none, we’ll open that for voting.

Closing the vote, motion carries 12 to zero with Councillor Trossa on Mark Dabson. Okay, next communications and petitions. So we’re gonna deal with these two separate. 6.1 is memo from City Clerk.

That’ll be dealt with now. It doesn’t need to be referred to another part of the agenda ‘cause there’s nothing to attach it to. 6.2, when we get to that, we’ll refer it later. So with 6.1, you have a report or a memo from the City Clerk and recommendation listed in there.

I guess I’m looking to see if someone’s willing to put the recommendation on the floor and then we can have discussion. Deputy Mayor Lewis is willing to put it on the floor seconded by Councillor Palosa. Okay, so the clerk’s recommendation is on the floor as per the memo. I look for any discussion that people wanna have.

Go ahead, Deputy Mayor. Thank you, your worship and through you. I’m hoping that the clerk can just provide two pieces of information to us for those who may not have been part of the GWG discussions in forming this to begin with is first where the selection, how the selection process was done. Obviously, this was delegated out.

So if the clerk could speak to just the process that they went through on making these selections. And then the second piece is that I wanna assure, and I believe it’s reflected, but for clarification, because I’ve had somebody ask me about this directly. And it was certainly the intent, I think, of GWG and the direction from council to include that this resourcing task force would also be looking at things that would include supports for the councilors. For example, the staffing levels in the councilor’s offices access to technology resources and things like that.

So I just wanna hopefully have the clerk confirm that, in fact, the process and the scope of the work. Okay, and the city clerk is online. So I’ll go to him now. Your worship, speaking to the first point, in August of last year, the draft terms of reference were specifically amended by GWG to direct City 3rd to select the membership of the council resourcing review task force and then bring those candidates forward.

To a future meeting of council for ratification, that has been done after an extensive recruitment effort. The memo that’s attached to the council agenda page 72 outlines a bit of the scope of recruitment, along with the description being available on the city’s website. It was a significant outreach with our friends and people services along with our ARIO division, reaching a wide variety of individuals. We received 25 applications for the task force.

Those were all reviewed and the five before you today were selected by myself for your consideration. The task force terms of reference are contained as appendix A to the memo. That is the amended and council approved terms of reference. The scope of the task force is included under the guiding, sorry, the duties.

And the section is 1.6 talks about council policy based compensation, supplementary compensation and funding source for additional work, such as stipends and board and committee service. Councilor workload, including the minimum workload, bouncing the workload, councilor severance pay, council role description, the expense account policy, along with the role preview document. The piece that I believe the deputy mayor is talking about was discussed at GWG. And I believe there was a discussion there about the supports in the council’s office.

Now, the scope that is included in the terms of reference, those would fall under the councilor workload, those considerations. It’s specifically not indicated under 1.6, but that is part of the scope. But I think that it would be part of the consideration for the task force to consider that as part of their work and the workload and balancing the workloads across council. Perhaps if Ms.

Korman or Ms. Hunt can recall the discussion at GWG that may be of assistance. Through the chair, there was some discussion of looking at the ability of a council to perform their duties as a whole. So the intent of the terms of reference and modified by the governance working group in the summertime was to broaden the scope as compared to past past courses, which just focus on compensation.

Okay, back to you, Deputy Mayor. Yes, thank you. And I appreciate those answers because that was my interpretation as well, that 1.6D the councilor workload would allow the task force to also consider the staffing support ratio in the councilor’s office and the mechanism by which those staffing positions are currently allocated and filled. So hearing the clerk say that that would be their interpretation that 6.1D on councilor workload would allow the task force to consider how that workload is impacted by the staffing ratios.

That’s satisfactory to me. So happy to support this. Councillor ramen. Thank you and through you.

Just on that point, I think it would actually be helpful to better outlay those duties in 1.6 because I do believe that that item could be perhaps overlooked or missed in terms of the scope of what we’re looking to get back. I would like to not only understand the ratios, but what is that work that’s required? So if that isn’t in 1.6, I just wanna make sure there’s clarity so we know we have to take care of that governance working committee and what needs to be done on this and so that there’s enough definition so that we won’t be overlapping and that this gets addressed as needed. I’m not sure how to amend it at this point.

So I think what I’m hearing in terms of what was just shared is more around staffing ratios, whereas I think scope of work in defining that role, I think is now in my understanding is back to GWG. So maybe that can be clarified? Maybe I can go back to the clerk in some way on that clarification, whether that’s included in the scope here or whether that’s a separate discussion at GWG. Thank you, Your Worship.

This is specifically related to council resourcing review as settled in the terms of reference and the primary goal of this appointed task force is compensation related. And I would consider that the workload aspect and the resourcing is secondary. So I would suggest that perhaps a discussion at GWG, the terms of reference have been approved by council already. And that was back in September 24th, but that does not stop future direction or further direction being provided to the task force.

And perhaps a discussion at GWG would better delineate between those resourcing aspects. So ratio aspect and what would probably fall within the task force mandate. I would suggest that may be the cleaner path forward. I hope that’s helpful.

Okay, Councilor. Thank you, Barry. Great, any other comments? Councilor Hopkins.

Yeah, just following up on the clerk’s comments. When is the next GWG meeting? Just want to have an idea when we are going to be meeting again? I don’t think one’s been called yet.

So you could take that up with the chair after the meeting. Thank you. Any other comments on this? It’s moved and seconded.

Okay, seeing none. So this is the full recommendation as contained in the report that’s on the floor, we’ll open that for voting. Closing the vote in the motion carries 13 to zero. Okay, next we have an item of correspondence that’s related to an item in our agenda.

I just need a motion to refer that to the appropriate part of the agenda. Councillor Pluzza moved seconded by Councillor Hillier. Any discussion on that? All right, seeing none, we’ll open that for voting.

Closing the vote, motion carries 12 to one. Motion is to which notice is given. There are none. Courts were on to 8.1, which is the second report of the Infrastructure and Corporate Services Committee.

Turn it over to Chair Raman to present the report. Thank you and through you, Mayor. I will be looking to put items one through 10 and then 12 and 13 on the floor as I’ve haven’t been asked to pull anything else. And then Councillor Hopkins has offered to present item 11.

Okay, does anyone want anything else dealt with separately? Right now 11 separate, everything else is together. All right, so then the chair’s putting everything except 11 on the floor. Any discussion on those items?

Okay, seeing none, we’re going to open those for voting. Closing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero. All right, Councillor Hopkins, you’re going to rise and present. Yeah, I’d be pleased to put 11, which is a contract award for the East London Link and municipal infrastructure improvements on the floor.

Okay, that’s on the floor and moved. Any discussion on that? Okay, seeing none, we’ll open that for voting. Closing the vote, the motion carries 12 to zero with one recused.

All right, thank you, that concludes that report. We’re on to the 8.2, which is the second report of Community Protective Services Committee. Turn that over to Chair Ferra to present the report. Thank you, Mayor.

Please put the second report of the Community Protective Services Committee on the floor. I have no requests for any polls, so I would move one through eight. Okay, does anybody want anything dealt with separately in that report? No, okay, the chair’s put the whole thing on the floor.

Any discussion on anything from that report? Go ahead, Deputy Mayor Lewis. Thank you, Your Worship. Through you, I just want to take this opportunity to thank Mr.

Mathers and his team and Mr. Felberg and his group in particular on the Duluth Crescent agreement with Wastell Homes to bring some affordable housing into that plan of subdivision that the city has led up to this point with the city led rezoning, acquiring the property as a surplus school site when it was made available to us through the London Catholic District School Board. This has been a bit of a process, happy to see the agreement coming into place for the first bills to start. And I’m sure that there’ll be a lot of conversation between Mr.

Mathers team and Ms. Sherry’s team as we get Duluth Crescent opened up to Admiral Drive and get that new road allowance opened as well, but getting this agreement in place so that we can create those affordable housing units is welcome in particular very, very happy that Wastell has chosen to focus on a building where there will be affordable units for seniors, a much needed opportunity in Ward 2 as we’ve got a fairly significant seniors population that’s looking to downsize from their single family homes. The last time we had a building become available, there were over 400 people seniors from the seniors association in the neighborhood that put their name on a waiting list for seniors units. That building itself is not even opened yet and now we will have a second opportunity to fulfill some of those requests.

So very happy and I just wanted to thank Mr. Mathers and his team for their work on this. Okay, any other speakers? Seeing none, we’ll open that for voting.

Posing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero. All right, we’re on to the second report of SPPC. I’ll turn it over to Deputy Mayor Lewis to present. Thank you, Your Worship.

I’ve not been made aware of any items that colleagues wish to be pulled, but I’m guessing that Councillor Trussle has his hand raised heat like an item to be pulled to be dealt with and voted on separately. So I’ll look to see if there’s any other items that colleagues want dealt with separately. Anything people would like dealt with separately? Do you want something separate?

Or do you just want to make comments? No, I would like item five with respect to 4.1, report of the integrated transportation, any advisory committee, discussed. I mean, I’m very sorry. Okay, yeah, we do that separate.

Okay, anything else? Let me make a motion. All right, then I’m prepared to put items one through four and six through eight on the floor from the SPPC agenda. Okay, those are on the floor.

Any discussion on those? Okay, seeing none, we’ll open those ones for voting. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero. And I will now put item five, the first report of the integrated transportation, community advisory committee on the floor, just trying to call his attention, the vote on that was 11 to three.

Okay, that’s on the floor, looking for any comments on that one. Councillor Trussle, I’ll go ahead. Yes, thank you. Thank you very much.

I’m going to be very brief, because we did discuss this at the, at the committee, so I’m not going to repeat everything that was said, but I think this is important enough that I want to call it out at a council meeting. I continue to feel as if the inclusion of the language, quote, and take no further action is not necessary. There is a, there is a desire of this council to proceed with this, that’s not an issue. There’s a, there’s a desire on the part of this council to proceed with this expeditiously, that is not an issue.

And I don’t believe removing the language and take no further action. And just to be clear, the clause take no further action is not on the mobility master plan as a whole. It’s on the particular advisory committee report that we received that had two recommendations in it. And the recommendation that I’m particularly interested in, and which I supported at the committee was the notion of having a carry forward working group of some sort that would outlive the expiry, the expiration date of the advisory committee itself.

Council will recall that the advisory committee was abolished, it will not continue past April. I understand that its last meeting is going to be in April, I’m sorry, is going to be in March as things are scheduled now, which means they really don’t have much of an opportunity to continue their wrap up work on this matter of public policy that they’ve given a lot of attention to. And I think that’s disrespectful. And I would like to at least give the individuals who participated in that committee the opportunity to continue on a working group.

I don’t think it will delay anything. And I just should just ask, just as a marker, I should ask the staff again, when do you think, now that you’re January 31st, is your closing date for this round of public participation, when do you think you’ll have your next version of the report to us? Go ahead. If I don’t know that button does, Mr.

Mayor, sorry about that, thank you very much. We expect to have the detailed maps with the revised changes from the public input process for this committee towards the end of Q1, maybe early Q2, and then the final report would come later in the summer. But the network maps, which seems to be the piece of discussion, should be expected towards the end of this quarter. Councilor Troso.

Thank you. So given that, just to wrap up, given that, I’d be very pleased that this council would extend the term for this advisory committee. But since the council has already decided contrary to that, we could just allow the interested members of that group to continue as a working group. They are not going to be able to have the opportunity to receive this next report as a constituted working group.

And I think that by removing, we don’t have to deal with this today in terms of exactly what we’re gonna do. We wanna keep that open, but if we take out the language, which I think is very prejudicial, if we take out the language and take no further action, we keep our options open. So I am once again going to appeal to my colleagues to vote no on this motion, and so far as it contains that language. Thank you very much.

Okay. Thanks, Councilor Troso. Any other speakers? All right, we’re gonna open the voting on this item.

Councilor Perbal. Thank you. Seeing the vote, motion. Closing the vote, motion carries 11 to two.

And that concludes the second report of the Strategic Priorities and Policy Committee. Great, thank you. We’re on to the second report of the Planning Environment Committee. I’ll turn it over to Chair Layman to present.

Thank you, Mayor. I’d like to present the second report of the Planning Environment Committee. I’ve had no requests for any items to be pulled. Would anybody like anything dealt with separately from this committee?

Seeing none, the entire report is on the floor. Any discussion by members of Council? Seeing none, we’ll open the report for voting. Closing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero.

Thank you, that concludes a rather short second report of Planning Environment Committee. I think the planning chair should be saying things like that. This is really in the year, but we appreciate you making this one fast. Onto number nine, added reports.

9.1 is the second report of Council enclosed session. Council Raman will present that report for the items that are coming out of closed session for consideration. Thank you, three. So the second report of Council enclosed session, your Council enclosed session report.

Item one is the Settlement Agreement, Property Acquisition 1105, Wellington Road, South Wellington Gateway Project, that on the recommendation of the Deputy City Manager, Finance supports with the concurrence of the Director Construction and Infrastructure Services on the advice of the Director Realty Services, with respect to the property located 1105, Wellington Road further described as part of law 25 concessions to just designate as parts one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10. Experts Recreation Plan ER1545895 in the City of London, Kenny Milisex, being part of pin 08495-0273 as shown on the location map as Appendix B for the purpose of future road improvements to accommodate the Wellington Gateway Project. The following actions be taken A, the Settlement Agreement as to compensation and possession from White Oaks Shopping Center, Inc. to settle the outstanding expropriation compensation to the property owner for the total sum of $325,000 be accepted, subject to the terms and conditions as set out in the agreement as Appendix C and B, the financing for this acquisition be approved as set out in the source of financing report here to as Appendix A, and that was B, and the progress was made with respect to items 4.2, 4.3 and 4.4 as noted on the public agenda.

Okay, thank you for that. That’s moved by Councilor Raman, any discussion on this? Seeing none, we’ll open this for voting. Councilor Van Mirbergen, Councillor Frank.

Might help if I say this is an item related to BRT. I just wanted to clarify, Mayor, are we— Councilor, we’re in the middle of a vote. We’re dealing with the item related to BRT. I would suggest you don’t ask about other items in camera because only one of them is coming out.

Just the entire, this is just six, one we’re voting on? Just the item related to the BRT. Closing the vote, motion carries, 13 to one. Great, thank you, Councilor Raman.

And my apologies for cautioning you there, Councilor Van Mirbergen, but there were a number of items we dealt with in camera. There was only one coming out when you held it up and we’re gonna ask a question. I just wanted to get ahead of you and make sure I could clarify what you needed. We’re onto BRT matters.

There are none inquiries. I have two Councillors who have inquiries. I’m gonna start with Councillor Trostau who I believe circulated is to members of Council. Thank you very much, Your Worship and through the chair.

I’m going to be very careful not to make any comments or anything that can be construed as arguments because I understand the inquiry section of our rules is very limited in terms of, Councillors may ask questions. So I’m going to frame my questions in terms of questions. And Councillor, I’m just gonna pause your time. It’s not intended to be a long back and forth question and answer, so my preference would be, ask all your questions, staff will give a response, then that’s how the inquiries are supposed to work.

It’s not meant to be a series of back and forth questions. I understand that and that’s what I plan to do. So this has been made available to staff and we have had some discussions about this. Okay, quote, what is the current status of warming centers in the city of London?

Given the current conditions is the provision of such services adequate in terms of the number and capacity of the facilities provided, the hours of operation and the threshold conditions for making such services available. Our additional warming center facilities being planned and I should add, and if so, how could they possibly be funded? That is my inquiry. I’m not sure if all that will be able to be answered today, but I’ll turn it over to the city manager to get started on that.

Thank you, Your Worship. Through you to the members of council, I certainly appreciate the question and wanna start by saying that we do have at least five identified warming centers in each of our community centers, Eastlines, North London Optimists, Canada Games Aquatic Center, South London Community Center, and Carling Heights. Those are posted on our city website. Those are available and accessible for anyone who wants to go there during the hours that they are open.

So they are arenas, community centers, they’re open periods of time in the morning through to late in the evening. Also, there are also warming centers across our community that look like malls, that look like libraries, that look like other areas as well. I think at this point in time, city staff have been working closely with our funded service providers in this community to provide as much support as we can to those who might be impacted by extreme weather. We’re having an extreme cold weather situation right now.

Last night, we were able to create additional 44 spaces in this community for people who might be impacted by the weather. While I can’t really respond to whether that’s sufficient or enough, I do know that there is information in this community that suggests that we should be providing more services. We’ll continue to work with those organizations to determine what supports they would like us to provide within the existing system of service they have currently. That’s what Rose said, okay, that’s it.

Pursuant to the rules in that section, I’d like to indicate that with leave of council, I would be permitted to bring an emergent motion with a two thirds vote, which is not debatable, and I would just like to have the clerk verify that that’s the case. I will verify the rules, Councilor, and we’ll just have you hold on first. Okay, so just colleagues said a refresher of how this works is if you ask an inquiry, you get an answer, there is a section of the procedure bylaw, which a member is allowed to make a motion as a result of an inquiry, but they have to seek leave in accordance with the leave section of the procedure bylaw. Leave is not debatable.

We basically decide on it right away, and leave requires two thirds of the members present to support to allow for leave to make a motion. So, okay, so Councilor Trossau is moving leave to allow himself to make a motion. I need a seconder for the leave point of order. Sure, yeah, you can always do a point of order.

You’re not for your microphone, Councilor. Sorry, thank you, Your Worship. I did not bring my council procedure bylaw with me. At which point procedurally is it acceptable as I did not see a thing circulated before here, like what this motion may or may not relate to, I would assume it has to relate to the information he just got, but having not seen the motion, when is it procedurally acceptable to know what we’d be hearing if we wanna take leave or not?

That’s after we grant leave. So, ‘cause if we’re not gonna grant leave, we’re not gonna hear motions here, or the motions we’ve been done at committee, so we don’t get into entertaining motions. Okay, Councilor Hopkins is willing to second the leave motion. There’s a mover and a seconder for the leave motion.

It requires two thirds of members present. There’s no debate, we just vote on this right away. And this is giving Councilor Trossow permission to introduce a motion based on his inquiry. Point of order, go ahead Councilor Trossow.

Would it be appropriate procedurally for the Councillors to hear the gist of my motion? Just give me a second on it. Leave is not debatable, leave is the motion on the floor. So, no, you can’t do that at this time, unfortunately.

So, we’re on the motion for leave. It’s moved and seconded, it’s not debatable. So we’re doing leave now, okay? So that’s not debatable, so we’re gonna open the vote on providing Councilor Trossow leave to introduce.

Closing the vote and the motion fails seven to seven on a tie. Actually, it was required two thirds, so it was not close. It was, it requires more than that, okay. Okay, so you don’t have leave to introduce the motion.

I’m gonna move on to Councilor Van Mirberg and inquiry then. Thank you, Mayor. As we all know, the very economic vibrancy of all of Canada, but certainly Southwestern Ontario, is at stake right now. We’re facing tectonic shifts in our trading patterns in how our local economy thrives.

The trading relationship to the United States. Just so you know how inquiries work, is you get to the question fairly quick and you don’t provide a lot of debate, opinion, you kind of just stick to what the inquiry is. So, if you get to what the inquiry is, we work. Yeah, I’m just giving some context.

This trading relationship was developed over decades and it’s the envy of the world. And as we know, it’s under threat. The national government, the Ontario government. My question to you, Mayor and/or staff, is what is London Ontario and the London region doing to have our voices heard by our neighbors to the South and indeed to our other levels of government about how important these sectors, such as manufacturing, are to our area.

You could just enlighten us with that, thank you. Yes, okay, so that is a question. Thank you, sorry for pushing along, but the rules are fairly specific and tight in this section. So, a big preamble is not really contemplated in the leave question.

I’m gonna start with the answer. I’ll have our staff add anything else with just some factual information. So, yes, municipalities, including the city of London, have offered support to a team Canada approach to the current tariffs being contemplated by the Trump administration. I currently serve as chair of the Federation of Canadian Sepalities, Big City Mayor’s Caucus.

And not only have I engaged in discussions with my mayoral colleagues and the FCM, I’ve had a personal conversation with Premier Ford directly on this topic, offering support of Canada’s major cities to the work that the premiers are doing through the Council of Federation. The Council of Federation met, which includes the prime minister in the premiers. They met last week, and they are determining a strategy and approach to this. My communication to Premier Ford was that cities are not looking to step on the toes of a strategy, but be a part of a team Canada approach.

And certainly, I myself would be involved in that approach as chair of the Big City Mayor’s Caucus. The FCM president is likely to be involved as well. The Big City Mayor’s have a meeting in person in Ottawa on February 6th, and the Premier of Ontario, as well as any other premiers who would like to come. In addition to representatives from the federal cabinet have been invited to present at that meeting of the mayors, and I have added this topic to the agenda that we have that day.

And so to go back to London’s involvement, London’s involvement at this point is through my involvement in the BCMC. And I would say it’s not one city or another, it’s all the cities are united in having a common Canadian strategy to addressing this, because although we will certainly feel it in some way here, we felt in other cities in many different ways. And so that is what we are doing. The engagements have also included engagements with local Chamber of Commerce, local businesses that I’ve spoken to who have significant supply chain connections, certainly not all of them, but some of the key ones who I’ve had the chance to reach out to, and all of that is being fed up.

One piece I’ll add to is the mayors through our organizations like FCM are actively reaching out to the equivalent mayoral associations and municipal associations within the US, like the National League of Cities, and other ones to create city-to-city connections so that we can be effective from a municipal sector across the border, and I can tell you from the engagements I’ve had, cities in the US are equally concerned about counter tariffs and any sort of trade war, because it will be felt on the ground within cities. So that’s the information that I have to share this time with respect to the inquiry, and I don’t know if the city manager has anything further. Thank you, Your Worship. I think the overview of what you provided is excellent.

I think in addition to that, those of us who sit as city managers and chief administrative officers across the province, we’ll be following up and supporting the work of mayors and heads of council. We also have many opportunities for many discussions with provincial stakeholders, federal counterparts, and also amongst ourselves. So I think in light of what we now know is some of the changes that are coming, we’ll be having some discussions about that. I’d also like to highlight the fact that we are in the midst of starting our own economic development strategy, and I think as challenging as this is, it might be timely in terms of us also looking at what it means for our community as we develop that strategy and how we build what we see as potential concerns into that strategy and how we move that forward in partnership with others as well.

All right, so that concludes that inquiry. I will, yep, you’re welcome. Onto emerging motions, there are none. We’re on to bylaws, so just give me one sec, I’ll tell you how we’re gonna divide the bylaw.

Okay, so we’re gonna do bylaws in four sections. The first, we’re gonna do the bylaw that I brought directly before council. This continues to be the bylaws that council has asked me and given me their support for bringing directly to council to speed up the process for items related to partnerships and RFPs related to affordable housing. So that’ll be bill 44, we’ll do that first.

That’ll be a hand vote, we do a hand vote for bills that I bring directly to council. The second one we’ll deal with is bill 52, which is the bill that council Raman declared a pecuniary interest on. Then we will deal with bills 61, 64, 65, and added bill 72, which are all the bills related to the BRT system. And then we will do all remaining bylaws after that, okay?

So that’s the plan. All right, so the first one will be the bylaw that I’ve brought before a committee. So I’m looking for a mover and a seconder for that. Council Raman, seconder by Councillor Cady.

And this is by hand. And so this is first reading of that bylaw, all those in favor, any opposed? Motion carries. All right, mover and seconder for second reading this bylaw, moved by Councillor Hillier, seconded by Councillor Palosa.

Any discussion on second reading? Seeing none, by hand, all those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries.

Okay, mover and seconder for third reading, Councillor Cady, Councillor Raman, will open third, we’re not gonna open it. We’re gonna do by hand, all those in favor by hand, and any opposed? Motion carries. Okay, yes, sorry, and I broke my rule of keeping them the same mover and seconder on that.

We’ll go back to that on this one. The next is bill 52, the one that Councillor Raman declared a pecuniary interest on. This is related to transportation services, licensing, agreement, transit commission, and Fanshawe College. The mover and seconder for this, Councillor Cady, seconded by Councillor Hillier, and we’ll use you for all three of these.

We’ll open first reading for voting. So vote yes. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero with one recuse. All right, second reading, same mover and seconder.

Any discussion on second reading? Seeing none, we’ll open that for voting. So vote yes. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero with one.

Okay, and same mover and seconder for third reading, and we’ll open that for voting as soon as it’s ready. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to zero with one recuse. All right, the next set of bills we deal with is bill 61, 64, 65, and added bill 72, which is out of our in-camera session. These are all bills related to the BRT system.

I’ll look for mover and seconder for that set of bills. Moved by Councillor Cady, seconded by Councillor Trossau, and we’ll use you for all three of these. I will open first reading for voting. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to one.

Second reading, same mover and seconder. Cady and Trossau, any discussion on second reading? Seeing none, we’ll open that for voting. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to one.

Third reading, same mover and seconder. We’ll open that for voting as soon as it’s ready. Opposing the vote, motion carries 13 to one. Okay, next we’re gonna do everything that’s left, which is bill number 43 to 71, excluding 44, 52, 61, 64, 65.

I’ll look for a mover and a seconder for that grouping. Moved by how about Councillor Hopkins and Councillor Layman this time. We’ll use you for all three. We’ll open first reading for voting.

Opposing the vote, motion carries 14 to zero. Okay, same mover and a seconder for second reading, any discussion on any of these bills. Seeing none, we’ll open this for voting. Opposing the vote, motion carries 14 to zero.

Okay, third and final reading for these sets of bills, same mover and seconder. We will open third reading for voting. Opposing the vote, motion carries 14 to zero. All right, that concludes the by-law section, which means we only have a adjournment left.

I’ll look for someone to move a motion to adjourn. Moved by Councillor van Mirberg and seconded by Councillor Cuddy. By hand, all of those in favor of adjournment? That motion carries.

All right, thank you, we are adjourned. Appreciate your time today.