Regular Council Meeting

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: The agenda be approved as circulated.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do hereby adopt the minutes of the Regular Council Meeting held on October 22, 2024, as circulated.

WHEREAS official statistics from the Government of Ontario confirm that rural roads are inherently more dangerous than other roads; AND WHEREAS, despite only having 17% of the population, 55% of the road fatalities occur on rural roads; AND WHEREAS, rural, northern, and remote municipalities are fiscally strained by maintaining extensive road networks on a smaller tax base; AND WHEREAS, preventing crashes reduces the burden on Ontario’s already strained rural strained health care system; AND WHEREAS, roadway collisions and associated lawsuits are significant factors in runaway municipal insurance premiums. Preventing crashes can have a significant impact in improving municipal risk profiles; THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Township of East Garafraxa requests that the Government of Ontario take action to implement the rural road safety program that Good Roads has committed to lead. It will allow Ontario's rural municipalities to make the critical investments needed to reduce the high number of people being killed and seriously injured on Ontario’s rural roads; and FURTHER THAT a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Premier Doug Ford, Hon. Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation, Hon. King Surma, Minister of Infrastructure, Hon. Rob Flack, Minister of Agriculture, Hon. Lisa Thompson, Minister of Rural Affairs, Hon. Trevor Jones, Associate Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Response, and Hon. Sylvia Jones, Minister of Health, and Good Roads; and FURTHER THAT this

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do hereby grant the Hillsburgh Snow Roamers Snowmobile Club permission to run a section of trail on sections of Township road allowance and/or Township owned property as indicated in Schedules A and B, as revised, in the Memorandum of Understanding, for the upcoming 2024/2025 winter season; And that staff be directed to execute the Memorandum of Understanding; And further that Hillsburgh Snow Roamers Snowmobile Club provide the Township with the necessary insurance.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Leave be given to introduce a by-Law, being a by-law to confirm the proceedings of the Council of the Corporation of the Township of East Garafraxa at its meeting held on November 13, 2024, and that it be given the necessary readings and be passed and numbered 41-2024.

BE IT RESOLVED THAT: Council do now adjourn to meet again for the Regular Council Meeting on Tuesday, November 26, 2024 at 4:00 p.m., or at the call of the Chair.