Staff
Town administration will begin the process to hire a part-time parking enforcement officer for the summer months to work with current bylaw enforcement staff to address downtown parking issues.
Council will vote on a recommendation from the Planning and Development executive committee to do so at its regular meeting tonight.
In a written report from bylaw enforcement officer Patrick Briere, he noted the Planning and Development executive committee has reviewed the steps taken so far to tackle parking problems on Scott Street.
The committee discussed the matter “in a substantive manner” and has “formulated a recommendation regarding ‘next steps’ pertaining to this strategic initiative”—consider hiring a part-time parking enforcement officer for the summer months.
As previously reported, the majority of local stakeholders are against installing parking meters for downtown Fort Frances.
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 four items (including a doctor recruitment committee update, CUPE employee negotiations update, community investment opportunity, and an individual contract negotiation).
Other business on tonight’s agenda includes:
•a verbal report on construction activities from Operations and Facilities manager Doug Brown (this will be Brown’s final council meeting in that role as he’ll assume the role of Chief Administrative Officer as of July 4);
•a request for additional funds from Rick Wiedenhoeft, chair of the Multi-Use Tennis Court Committee;
•a donation request from Brian Angus of the Watten Volunteer Fire Department (this donation would cover the rental fee of Sunny Cove Camp for the fire department’s annual fish fry Aug. 26);
•a request from the Association des francophones du Nord-Ouest de l’Ontario to raise the Franco-Ontarian flag at the Civic Centre at 9 a.m. on Sept. 23, and that it remain raised for one month, as well as to officially proclaim Sept. 23 as “Franco-Ontarian Day” to emphasize the importance of the event;
•a request to declare the week of Nov. 20–26 as “English as a Second Language Week” in the Town of Fort Frances; and
•a bylaw designating and deeming a certain plan of subdivision, or part thereof, not to be a registered plan of subdivision (446 Third St. E.)
