Staff
Town council is being asked to declare May 8-14 as “Emergency Preparedness Week” in Fort Frances.
Council will receive a letter from Fort Frances Fire Chief Frank Sheppard, requesting that mayor and council make the proclamation, at its regular meeting tonight.
Chief Sheppard noted the town will be hosting an emergency management and community safety event at Canadian Tire on Saturday, May 14 from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.
“Please feel free to join us during those hours of the day to discuss emergency management and community safety, and the important role that the mayor and council have in community planning and response,” he wrote.
The proclamation notice to the residents of Fort Frances also will be part of the community’s emergency management education component for the town’s compliance with the Emergency Management Act.
And it will be used as part of the compliance report for Emergency Management Ontario, Chief Sheppard noted.
The committee of the whole will meet first at 5:30 p.m., but will go in-camera for an indefinite amount of time to discuss six items (including firefighter negotiations, service agreement litigation, a personnel matter, CAO recruitment, succession planning, and disposition of Huffman subdivision lots) before being re-opened to the public.
Other business on tonight’s agenda includes:
•cellphone use, and health and safety enforcement and discipline policies, for town employees;
•a recommendation re: hockey camp rates;
•a report re: museum internships;
•a contract for a reputable telecommunications firm for the replacement of the telephone system in eight town facilities;
•a recommendation re: disposal of wastewater from the New Gold mine camp;
•a recommendation re: in-kind geographic information system (GIS) service for J.W. Walker School; and
•a letter from a resident requesting to build a garden suite at 1411 Colonization Rd. W.
