Staff
Groups and organizations will receive shares this evening of the $55,000 the Town of Fort Frances has been granted by the Moffat Family Fund this year.
A call for applications was out in this spring, and clubs, groups, and organizations which help children, families, and the “less advantaged” had until March 23 to apply.
Mayor Roy Avis will hand out cheques to several successful applicants at tonight’s council meeting.
The recipients have been notified to be at the meeting but their names, and how much they’ve received, are not revealed publicly prior to tonight.
Meanwhile, Ian Simpson will make a presentation on behalf of the Age Friendly Community Committee this evening.
Over the past year, a committee of volunteers and stakeholders, under the co-ordination of Simpson, gathered information on what the public feels needs to be done if the town wants to be an “Age Friendly Community” and developed an action plan.
They recently received funding to move onto the next phase of the project.
The delegations are scheduled to begin at 6:30 p.m.
The committee of the whole will meet first at 5:30 p.m., but will go in-camera for an indefinite length of time to discuss three items.
Other business on the agenda includes:
•a proposed draft of a new fence bylaw. This bylaw combines the fence bylaw and the pool fence bylaw into one bylaw;
•a report re: future residential development;
•Minutes of Settlement for property located at 363 Church St.;
•a verbal update on capital projects;
•a request from the Watten Volunteer Fire Department re: Sunny Cove fish fry fundraiser on Aug. 25
•a request from D. Mihichuk to rename Colonization Road;
(referred to the Planning and Development executive committee for recommendation with input from the Operations and Facilities executive committee)
a request from Terry Ogden to recognize the Fort Frances Sports Hall of Fame induction ceremony here on Aug. 12 as a “municipally significant event”; and
a resolution re: council attendance at the Northwestern Ontario Municipal Association (NOMA) region conference on Sept. 20-22 in Thunder Bay.
