* COMMUNICATIONS HELD ON FILE WITH THE REGIONAL CLERK.

RESOLVED THAT Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee Report No. 19, Planning and Environment Committee Report No. 12 and Transportation Committee Report Nos. 17 and 18 be received and considered.

1. That the approach outlined in this report for managing telecommunication companies’ access to Regional rights-of way be adopted;
1. That the condition for interim approval approved by Council on 24 June 1998 relating to MetroNet Communication Inc. being permitted to install but not use plant pending negotiation of a Municipal Access Agreement be rescinded, and that the time frame for the expiration of the interim approval authority related to MetroNet Communications Inc. be extended from 15 November 1998 to 12 months from the date of Council approval of this report.

"CARRIED"

"RECEIVED"

"RECEIVED"

1. A request from Villa Marconi to maintain the Region’s funding commitment of $1,014,000 to the Villa Marconi Long Term Care Centre;

1. A capital grant request in the amount of $1,621,590 from Hillel Lodge for the construction of a new 100-bed Long Term Care Centre;

"CARRIED"

RESOLVED THAT Item 1 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 - Island Park Drive, Kirkwood, Churchill Area Traffic Calming Pilot Study be amended, so that the speed hump at Clare Avenue and Kirkwood be removed from Annex A and that recommendation 4 of the Committee Report No. 17 be deleted.

"CARRIED"

WHEREAS the Ottawa Fire Services has expressed concern about the number of speed humps on Lyon Street and Kirkwood Avenue, because they delay response times, cause mechanical damage to vehicles and personal injury to firefighters; and

WHEREAS the Ottawa-Carleton Regional Ambulance Service has concerns about the speed humps on Lyon Street on Kirkwood because they will have an adverse effect on response times, damage ambulances and pose the possibility of personal and third party injury; and

WHEREAS the Regional Police Service has concerns with vertical measures on Kirkwood Avenue because of public safety; and

WHEREAS the Regional Transportation Department does not support vertical measures such as speed humps on major arterials and have not had an opportunity to explore the impact of speed humps on primary response routes; and

WHEREAS public consultation to date has resulted in an unprecedented response with the overwhelming majority of residents of the affected area protesting these measures, and both the Somerset Heights BIA and the Westboro BIA opposed to traffic-calming;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT Vertical Traffic Calming Measures on Kirkwood and Lyon Street be deferred until the Department has worked with emergency services to review the potential impact on primary response routes, reporting back in the spring of 1999.

"LOST" on a division of 11 Nays to 7 Yeas as follows:

Items 1 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 as amended by Motion No. 215 was then put to Council "CARRIED" on a division of 13 Yeas to 6 Nays as follows:

Items 2 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 was then put to Council "CARRIED" on a division of 13 Yeas to 6 Nays as follows:

RESOLVED THAT Item No. 7 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 - Richmond Road and Stafford Centre Access - proposed connection to Northside Road, be referred back to Transportation Committee for further Public Consultation.

"LOST" on a division of 11 Nays to 8 Yeas as follows:

RESOLVED THAT the staff recommendations of Item 7 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 be carried and that staff be required to advertise for a public hearing on the road opening between Stafford Centre/Richmond Road and Northside Road, allowing full public input as is the normal way of doing things at the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton.

"LOST" on a division of 12 Nays to 6 Yeas as follows:

"That Council approve the initiation of the Public Hearing Process as required by Sections 297 and 300 of the Ontario Municipal Act and thereafter consider modification to the traffic control signals at Richmond Road and Stafford Centre Shopping Mall and the construction of associated changes on Richmond Road to provide a new link to Northside Road, subject to the City of Nepean funding the total cost of the Traffic Signal Modification and the proposed road works."

"LOST" on a division of 10 Nays to 9 Yeas as follows:

YEAS: Councillors Bellemare, Stewart, Byrne, Hill, van de Ham,

Cantin, Hunter, Loney and Chair Chiarelli….9

Item 7 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 was then put to Council and "CARRIED" on a division of 12 Yeas to 7 Nays as follows:

RESOLVED THAT Council consider a motion to reconsider Item No. 7 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17.

"CARRIED" pursuant to subsection 60 (4) of the Procedure By-law on a division of 9 Yeas to 10 Nays as follows:

YEAS: Councillors Bellemare, Stewart, Hume, Hill, van den Ham,

Cantin, Hunter, Loney and Chair Chiarelli….9

NAYS: Councillors Doucet, Byrne, Legendre, Kreling, Meilleur,

Holmes, Davis, Beamish, McGoldrick-Larsen and Munter….10

RESOLVED THAT with reference to recommendation 5 of Transportation Committee Report No. 18, should there be a need to extend the pilot project beyond the 2 year period, that the matter be referred back to Council and that the contract so reflect. The contract provide that should Council decide to extend the project beyond the 2 year period, CP should be required to extend on the same terms.

Item 1 of Transportation Committee Report No. 18 as amended by Motion No. 221 was then put to Council and "CARRIED" on a division of 12 Yeas to 5 Nays as follows:

NAYS: Councillors Bellemare, van den Ham, Cantin, Beamish and

Hunter….5

RESOLVED THAT Corporate Services and Economic Development Committee Report No. 19; Planning and Environment Committee Report No. 12; and Transportation Committee Report Nos. 17 &18, be received and adopted as amended by Motion Nos. 215 and 221, with Item 7 of Transportation Committee Report No. 17 being subject to reconsideration. (see Motion No. 220)

"CARRIED" with dissents as recorded on various items.

By-law 68 of 1998 to authorize the issue of five year instalment debentures and the issue of twenty year term debentures in the aggregate amount of $30,000,000.00 for the purposes of The Regional Municipality of Ottawa- Carleton.

By-law 69 of 1998 to authorize the levy of sums required for the repayment of debenture number 98-8 issued in the amount of $20,000.00 to aid in the construction of tile drainage works in The Corporation of the Township of West Carleton.

By-law 70 of 1998 to approve area municipality by-laws regulating traffic on local streets as follows:

City of Gloucester 157 of 1998

City of Gloucester 225 of 1997

By-law 71 of 1998 to amend Part 4.1 of the Regional Regulatory Code relating to Water System Charges, Part 5.2 relating to Sewer System Charges, Part 5.3 relating to Solid Waste Rate changes and Part 5.6 relating to Solid Waste Management

By-law 72 of 1998 to provide tax relief to low-income seniors and low income persons with disabilities who own property in the residential/farm property class .

By-law 66 of 1998 to provide rebates for assessment-related tax increases.

By-law enacted and passed.

11. MOTIONS (OF WHICH NOTICE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY GIVEN)

WHEREAS the City of Ottawa has initiated a process for the residential, commercial, and other development of Lansdowne Park in order to avoid operating the facility at a financial loss;

WHEREAS planning related issues must eventually be approved by Regional Council;

WHEREAS Lansdowne Park is of broad importance economically, historically, and socially to residents across the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton;

WHEREAS the community associations most directly affected, such as the Glebe and Ottawa South Community Associations, have expressed serious concerns about the redevelopment of Lansdowne Park into private homes;

WHEREAS members of the community at large, including the public advisory group set up by the City of Ottawa as part of the current process, have stated that their input was restricted to choosing between two limited alternatives;

WHEREAS there is growing public sentiment that options for maintaining and improving Lansdowne Park as a public facility on a break-even basis, without continuing taxpayer support, have not been fully explored;

WHEREAS designating or removing a Major Community Facilities designation in the Official Plan is often controversial and may only be contemplated after extensive community consultation within the Official Planning Process in which RMOC is legally required to become involved;

WHEREAS the RMOC is required to respond to Official Plan amendments within 90 days of application and therefore advance preparation is required;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT all efforts be made by RMOC to engage the City of Ottawa in cooperation and in partnership to resolve the future of Lansdowne Park;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT staff be directed to begin preparing detailed information on the community and economic impact of the loss of Lansdowne Park for consideration during deliberation surrounding the Official Plan amendment process;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT a working group be formed including members of Council, staff, residents of the surrounding neighbourhoods, community organizations and businesses to begin consultations aimed at examining and report to Council on alternatives which would preserve Lansdowne Park as a public space without ongoing financial support from the City of Ottawa;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the CAO and Regional Chair be directed to investigate the legal structures by which Lansdowne Park might be placed under community governance through the creation of an independent Lansdowne Park Community Authority operating as a public trust on a break-even basis. The Community Authority would reinvest all revenues into the enhancement and operation of Lansdowne Park as a public place;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the CAO report to Council on the potential financial exposure the Region might choose to assume if called upon to underwrite the operation of a Lansdowne Park Community Authority either alone or in partnership with the City of Ottawa.

"CARRIED"

WHEREAS Megaweek legislation changed the terms of reference on which both Ontario school boards and municipalities operate;

WHEREAS under Bill 160, the funding of local school boards is now controlled by the province;

WHEREAS municipalities find themselves with new discretionary powers to decide if new residential development should proceed or not proceed based on the adequate provision and distribution of educational facilities; and

WHEREAS Megaweek changes have resulted in a reduction of funding for many school boards and more responsibilities without an increase in tax revenues for municipalities, i.e., downloading;

BE IT RESOLVED that Regional Council of the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton approve the creation of a regional-school board task force comprised of 4 Regional Councillors and 4 school trustees from interested Boards to meet to develop ways in which the region and the school boards can co-operatively tackle some of the pressures they are jointly facing;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that areas of co-operation be focused on 5 issues:

1. OC Transpo and school transportation.

2. Health and social services.

3. Usage of school space

4. Joint delivery of services, for example, adult education.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that staff resources be made available to the Joint Task Force to undertake the research required.

RESOLVED THAT Motion No. 227 on to-day’s agenda be tabled.

"CARRIED"

RESOLVED THAT the rules of procedure be suspended so that Council may consider a motion with respect to additional debenture authority for OC Transpo bus acquisition.

"CARRIED" on a divison of 13 Yeas to 1 Nay as follows:

YEAS: Councillors Bellemare, Doucet, Hume, Hill, van den Ham, Cantin,

Kreling, Holmes, Davis, Beamish, McGoldrick-Larsen, Loney and

Chair Chiarelli....13

NAYS: Councillor Legendre....1

RESOLVED THAT Regional Council allocate additional debenture authority for OC Transpo for bus acquisition by $2.8 million, subject to a satisfactory recommendation by the Transit Commission to add air conditioning to it’s 1999 new bus acquisitions.

"CARRIED" on a division of 13 Yeas to 5 Nays as follows:

YEAS: Councillors Bellemare, Doucet, Byrne, Hume, Cantin, Meilleur,

Holmes, Davis, Hunter, McGoldrick-Larsen, Munter, Loney and

Chair Chiarelli....13

NAYS: Councillors Legendre, Hill, van den Ham, Kreling and Beamish....5

WHEREAS the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission is holding public hearings on future television broadcasting policy; and

WHEREAS numerous parties have provided input, including the municipalities of London, Windsor and Quebec City; and

WHEREAS the need to keep citizens informed about local issues and the importance of having a local perspective on television is becoming more important in an era of increasingly global communications; and

WHEREAS it is in the interest of a healthy local democracy for community groups, civic officials, business leaders and others to be able to have access to their community, and vice versa, through television; and

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council calls on the CRTC to defend and enhance local and regional television programming as a priority in its review of Canadian television policy.

RESOLVED THAT By-law 73 of 1998 to confirm the proceedings of Council be enacted and passed.

Council adjourned at 7:00 p.m.

CLERK CHAIR