Staff
Following up on a strategic planning session held last month at Sunny Cove, town administration tonight will present mayor and council with a draft of the plan outlining their goals for the rest of their current term.
“This is the first draft of the action items. It’s a good portion of the strategic plan,” Fort Frances CAO Mark McCaig noted Friday.
“It doesn’t have all the other attachments that it’s going to have, but what it has is our listing of services, our goals, our action items that we plan to undertake,” he explained.
“If council approves that, then we’re going to go back and assign responsibility and put timelines to it.
“Then we’ll bring it back and if they [council] approve that, then we’ll pretty it up, put it in a new format, title it, then bring it back and it will be formally adopted,” McCaig added.
The in-camera portion of tonight’s meeting includes two items for discussion—security of the municipality and the disposition of property at 363 Church St. (the old Fort Frances Public Library).
McCaig said it is possible a decision will be made tonight regarding the future of the latter.
Back in May, the town received expressions of interest in the property from the Fort Frances Community Clinic and the local Evangelical Fellowship Church.
Since then, council has been reviewing the expressions as they were put forward, and how they fit into aspects of community needs.
The public portion of tonight’s meeting is slated to start at 5:35 p.m. at the Civic Centre.
The committee of the whole will meet first in-camera downstairs starting at 4:30 p.m.
Other business on the agenda includes:
•a report re: the 2010 final cost to install water and sanitary sewer services for four vacant lots along Fifth Street West;
•a report re: MTO authorized requester agreement 02726;
•a report re: the town’s travel policy;
•the 2010 Municipal Performance Measurement Program results;
•a report re: an amendment to an agreement with SkyPower (1003 Frog Creek Rd.);
•an agreement with 1578289 Ontario Ltd.;
•a per diem claim for Mayor Roy Avis, Coun. John Albanese, Coun. Andrew Hallikas, and Coun. Rick Wiedenhoeft;
•travel and per diem claims for Coun. Ken Perry;
•a report re: police escort for the Fort Frances Canadian Bass Championship boat parade;
•a presentation from BDO Canada LLP of the auditor’s report for the year ending Dec. 31, 2010;
•a request from the Northwestern Health Unit for support for its resolution, passed May 27, re: funding of the Small Drinking Water Systems Program;
•a financial request from the Fort Frances Aquanauts re: banner advertising renewal;
•a request from the Lupus Foundation of Ontario to proclaim October, 2011 as “October is Lupus Awareness Month” in the Town of Fort Frances;
•a bylaw to amend the Business Licensing Bylaw to eliminate the requirement for exclusive outside body paint colour for taxi cabs of a specific taxi company operating within the Town of Fort Frances;
•a bylaw to approve agreements with the Rainy River District School Board and the Northwest Catholic District School Board for space in certain schools for operation of extended day child care programs;
•a bylaw to authorize the entering into of a government-authorized requester agreement with the Ontario minister of transportation to allow for accessing of information under the Municipal Parking Tag Program;
•a bylaw to approve a municipal bear response agreement with the Ministry of Natural Resources with respect to black bear management in town;
•a bylaw to revise a system of progression pay for volunteer firefighters of the Fort Frances Fire and Rescue Service;
•a bylaw to approve an agreement with Rainy River District Social Services Administration Board for child care services; and
•a bylaw to approve an agreement with Stewardship Ontario for shared responsibility for municipal hazardous or special waste management.
