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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2024-02-23Clar*wn Electronic Council Communications Information Package Date: February 23, 2024 Time: 12:00 PM Location: ECCIP is an information package and not a meeting. Description: An ECCIP is an electronic package containing correspondence received by Staff for Council's information. This is not a meeting of Council or Committee. Alternate Format: If this information is required in an alternate format, please contact the Accessibility Coordinator, at 905-623-3379 ext. 2131. Members of Council: In accordance with the Procedural By-law, please advise the Municipal Clerk at clerks@clarington.net, if you would like to include one of these items on the next regular agenda of the appropriate Standing Committee, along with the proposed resolution for disposition of the matter. Items will be added to the agenda if the Municipal Clerk is advised by Wednesday at noon the week prior to the appropriate meeting, otherwise the item will be included on the agenda for the next regularly scheduled meeting of the applicable Committee. Members of the Public: can speak to an ECCIP item as a delegation. If you would like to be a delegation at a meeting, please visit the Clarington website. Electronic Council Communications Information Package (ECCIP) February 23, 2024 Pages 1. Region of Durham Correspondence 1.1 Weight Restriction Season on Regional Roads begins March 1, 2024 - 3 February 21, 2024 2. Durham Municipalities Correspondence 3. Other Municipalities Correspondence 3.1 Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands - Waste and Waste Water 4 Systems - February 21, 2024 4. Provincial / Federal Government and their Agency Correspondence 5. Miscellaneous Correspondence Page 2 0 DURHAM REGION Weight restriction season on Regional roads begins March 1 Posted on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 Back to Search Whitby, Ontario - The Regional Municipality of Durham and local area municipalities restrict the operation of motor vehicles on designated roads during the spring weight restriction season, as per the Highway Traffic Act and Regional By-law 26-2018. This affects vehicles that are heavier than 5,000 kilograms or five tonnes per axle. When: March 1 to April 30. The final day may be adjusted following periodic reviews of road and weather conditions at the end of weight restriction season. Where: Signs will be erected on all Regional roads where motor vehicle weight restrictions apply. For more information, please refer to the Durham Region Weight Restriction Season web page ( en living -here weight-restriction-season.aspx). for a complete map and road listing. Why: Weight restrictions are needed to prevent damage to roads. In the spring, frozen roads start to thaw causing the pavement on some roads to temporarily lose strength and become unable to support vehicles heavier than 5,000 kilograms or five tonnes per axle. Note: Most public utility and emergency vehicles are exempt from the weight restrictions. For more information, visit durham.ca/WeightRestrictions (http://www.durham.ca/WeightRestrictions).. -30- For media requests, please contact CorporateCommunications@durham.ca .(mailto:CorporateCommunications@durham.ca). © 2024 Durham Region, 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario L1N 6A3, Canada, Telephone (within regional limits): 311, Telephone: 905-668-7711, Toll -Free: 1-800-372-1102 By GHD Digital Page 3 F`� : r%%.,Ooq I NORTHEASTERN MANITOIJLIN S. THE ISLANI3S Box 608, Little Current, Ontario, POP 1K0 705-368-3500 Please find below a motion of support for the recent motion shared by Renfrew County. We would also like to bring to everyone's attention a motion that we recently passed and forwarded on. This is an issue that seems to be affecting many small communities and in these tight economic times an important factor to keeping residents in their homes and our water systems safe. Resolution No. 38-02-2024 Moved by: D. Orr Seconded by: L. Cook RESOLVED THAT the Council of the Corporation of the Town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands supports the resolution put forth by the County of Renfrew to advocate to the provincial and federal levels of government to make them aware that rural and small urban water and wastewater systems are financially unsustainable; and advocate to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), the Rural Ontario Municipalities Association (ROMA) and the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) to examine of the unaffordability of water and wastewater system operational costs is systemic provincially and nationally. Carried Resolution No. 29-02-2024 Moved by: D. Orr Seconded by: M. Erskine where they do not have sufficient financial resources to meet the ongoing demands of everyday living. This has created a situation where residents who are struggling to pay their daily expenses lack the financial resources to maintain the critical infrastructure required to sustain the water and wastewater systems that service their homes. It is critically important that the other levels of government recognize this fact and provide funding assistance that can be accessed based on operational and financial need. Whereas the current housing accelerator fund provides financial support for small communities and water and distribution systems are considered eligible under the program guidelines, And whereas one of the primary criteria for this funding is the ability to prove that the funds will accelerate the development of housing stock on the water or distribution system, And whereas many smaller communities are not experiencing the level of growth necessary to meet the requirements of the program for growth in housing stock, And whereas the water and wastewater systems in those communities represents a higher cost to operate per capita than the systems in larger built-up areas, And whereas the cost of maintaining those systems on a user -pay basis is creating undo financial hardship for the limited number of residents on those systems Therefor be it resolved that the Council for the Town of Northeastern Manitoulin and the Islands requests that the Province of Ontario implement a funding stream for water and wastewater systems that primarily utilizes operational and financial need as a criteria. And furthermore that a copy of this motion be forwarded to Premier Ford, the Ministry of Housing, the Ministry of the Environment and Michael Mantha, MPP Carried Page 4