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The Corporation of the City of St. Catharines

CITY COUNCIL AGENDA

Regular, Monday, December 11, 2017 

Council Chambers, City Hall, 6:30 PM

 

His Worship Mayor Walter Sendzik takes the Chair and opens the meeting

 

 

 

1.

Mayor's Report

 

 

 

2.

Adoption of the Agendas

 

 

 

3.

Adoption of the Minutes (Council and General Committee)

 

 

 

3.1

Regular Meeting of Council, Minutes of November 27, 2017

 

 

 

 

3.2

General Committee, Minutes of November 27, 2017

 

 

 

 

3.3

Budget Standing Committee, Minutes of November 15, 2017, November 20, 2017, and November 29, 2017

 

 

 

 

4.

Declarations of Interest

 

 

 

5.

Public Meetings Pursuant to Planning Act

 

 

 

6.

Delegations

 

 

 

6.1

Guy Yerama, Laker Baseball Properties

Re: Partnership Opportunity: Laker Baseball Proposal for George Taylor Field

(see General Committee Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 3.1)

 

 

 

 

6.2

Tanja Loeb, Gillian's Place Executive Director, and Jennifer Wallace, Gillian's Place Board President

Re: Gillian's Place and National Day of Action on Violence Against Women

(see Regular Council Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 9.1)

 

 

 

 

6.3

Madi Fuller

Re: Proposed St. Catharines Youth Committee and Terms of Reference

(see General Committee Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 4.5 Sub-item 1 and Council Agenda, December 11, 2017 Item 9.2)

 

 

 

 

6.4

Hope Tuff-Berg

Re: Proposed St. Catharines Youth Committee and Terms of Reference

(see General Committee Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 4.5 Sub-item 1 and Council Agenda, December 11, 2017 Item 9.2)

 

 

 

 

6.5

Nico Tripodi

Re: Proposed St. Catharines Youth Committee and Terms of Reference

(see General Committee Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 4.5 Sub-item 1 and Council Agenda, December 11, 2017 Item 9.2)

 

 

 

 

6.6

Amy D'Amboise

Re: Proposed St. Catharines Youth Committee and Terms of Reference(see General Committee Agenda, December 11, 2017, Item 4.5 Sub-item 1 and Council Agenda, December 11, 2017 Item 9.2)

 

 

 

 

7.

Presentations

 

 

 

8.

Call for Notices of Motion

 

 

 

8.1

Bottled Water in City Facilities

Mayor Sendzik will provide notice of motion for the consideration of Council at a future meeting.

 

 

 

 

9.

Motions

 

 

 

9.1

Gillian's Place and National Day of Action on Violence Against Women

Councillor Bellows will present the following motion for consideration of Council:

 

WHEREAS December 6 is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women in Canada, established by the Parliament of Canada in 1991 to mark the anniversary of the murders of 14 young women at l'École Polytechnique de Montréal in 1989; and

 

WHEREAS violence against women remains a plight on society in 2017, where ½ of all Canadian women have experienced physical or sexual violence by the age of 16; and

 

WHEREAS every 6 days a woman in Canada is killed by her intimate partner and since 2014 there have been at least 7 women and children in St. Catharines alone whose lives were lost from domestic violence; and

 

WHEREAS Gillian’s Place in St. Catharines, is one of Ontario’s first shelters for abused women and children, providing safe refuge and non-residential programs for women and children to break the cycle of violence for 40 years; and

 

WHEREAS more than 40,000 women and children have found safe emergency shelter and support services at Gillian’s Place since 1977 and the centre operates with funding from the Province of Ontario to support women who have already experienced violence, but with little to no increase in base funding for several years and no funding to address the root causes and therefore the prevention of gender-based violence; and

 

WHEREAS research shows that violence prevention programs are highly effective to prevent domestic violence and violence against women and to reduce the economic and social costs of violence, treatment and counselling for victims; and

 

WHEREAS Canadians spend $7.4 billion to deal with the aftermath of spousal violence each year;

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Council of the City of St. Catharines calls on the federal and provincial governments to increase funding to violence against women shelters to support the prevention of gender-based violence; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Council resolution be shared with St. Catharines’ Members of Provincial Parliament and Members of Parliament.

 

 

 

 

 

9.2

Youth Advisory Committee

Councillor Britton will present the following motion for the consideration of Council

 

WHEREAS the City of St. Catharines held their first Youth Forum in March 2017 with the goal “to get [Youth] engaged in the issues they are facing in their city”;

 

WHEREAS young people involved in the Forum have expressed a desire to more actively engage and voice their interests on city issues that affect them, their families, and communities on an ongoing basis;

 

WHEREAS those young people have drafted a Terms of Reference for a standing St Catharines Youth Committee because they believe that it would help give a voice to the youth of St. Catharines, encourage further youth involvement in our city, and allow for youth to actively help shape our community;

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council approve the creation of a St. Catharines Youth Committee; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Council approve – in principle – the Terms of Reference outlined in Correspondence Item “4.5-1 Madi Fuller-Youth Committee” to allow for the immediate posting of vacancies from the community  to fill the two ‘Community Liaisons’ positions; and

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that staff work with the proponents to review the Terms of Reference and bring back their recommendations and their recommended citizen appointees for the two Community Liaison positions to the January 15, 2018 Council meeting for Council’s approval.

 

 

 

 

 

9.3

NPCA Disclosure of Legal Costs

Councillor Kushner will present the following motion for consideration of Council:

 

WHEREAS on November 23, 2017, Judge James Ramsay dismissed the NPCA's $100,000 lawsuits against retired Air Force major Ed Smith and, in his ruling, Judge Ramsay stated the NPCA, as a government agency, had no right to sue a citizen for criticizing it; and

 

WHEREAS the NPCA, citing attorney-client privilege, has refused to disclose the amount incurred in legal costs for suing Ed Smith and for other related costs; and

 

WHEREAS although the details of legal invoices, accounts, dates and specific work performed is subject to solicitor-client privilege, the total amount is not privileged; and

 

WHEREAS with an annual contribution of approximately $1.7 million, the residents of the City of St. Catharines are the largest Niagara Region contributors of public funds to the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority’s funding;

 

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council request that the NPCA Board disclose the total amounts spent on the lawsuits.

 

 

 

 

10.

Resolve into General Committee

 

 

 

11.

Motion Arising from In-Camera Session

 

 

 

12.

Motion to Ratify Forthwith Recommendations

 

 

 

13.

By-laws

 

 

 

13.1

Reading of By-laws

By-law List

 

 

 

14.

Agencies, Boards, Committee Reports

 

 

 

14.1

Minutes to Receive:

         Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, November 7, 2017

         Cultural Sustainability Committee, November 2, 2017 Draft

         Heritage Advisory Committee, November 9, 2017

         Public Art Advisory Committee, October 25, 2017

 

 

 

 

14.2

Appoint Members to Museum Advisory Committee and to Public Art Advisory Committee

That, as recommended by the Cultural Sustainability Committee, the following be appointed:

         John Smith, Sarah Sheddon and Shane Johnston to the Museum Advisory Committee; and

         Susan Ashukian to the Public Art Advisory Committee

 

 

 

 

15.

Adjournment