Regular Council

That: Council approves the Consent Agenda Items as recommended, save and except Report No. CAO-01- 2022. (

That: Council receives for information purposes Report No. CAO-01-2022 regarding an Ontario Living Wage Initiative, and further That: Council consider the financial implications of implementing the Initiative during the 2022 Operating Budget deliberations. (

That: The Town collaborate with the Committee from the Bert Miller Nature Club to look to complete a baseline assessment, ascertain the costs of moving forward with the Bird Friendly Certification initiative, and obtain information as to what other municipalities have been engaged in this and what their costs are. (

That: Council accepts the resignation of Sarah Chevalier from the Ridgeway Business Improvement Area Board of Management, and further That: Council directs staff to proceed with filling the vacancy in accordance with the Procedural By-law. (

Page 14 of 18 Regular Council - 24 Jan 2022 Meeting Minutes Whereas the Canada-United States border along the Niagara Frontier forms an integrated binational community bound by social, economic and cultural ties that has been detrimentally impacted by its unprecedented closure during the COVID-19 pandemic that began nearly two years ago, and Whereas the Omicron Variant is now the dominant COVID-19 variant in Canada, the United States and the rest of the world, and Whereas border measures continue to act as a barrier to the unification of families and economic recovery in our binational community that will do nothing to stop a virus that is circulating inside Canada just as much as it is outside our borders, and Whereas Canada and the United States both require eligible individuals to be fully vaccinated to enter their respective countries for discretionary travel, and Whereas vaccination continues to be our best tool to protect individuals and our community from the impacts of COVID-19, and Whereas millions of Canadians and Americans took up the call and did what they were asked by becoming vaccinated with the promise of returning to normal life including the reintegration of our binational community, and Whereas randomized molecular testing for screening purposes is still being performed by Canadian officials upon arrival at the Canadian land border; Now therefore be it resolved, That: The Municipal Council of the Town of Fort Erie requests that the Canadian Federal Governme

That: The by-law package containing: 1-2022: To Provide for Interim Taxes for the Year 2022 2-2022: To Authorize the Mayor or Acting Mayor and the Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer of The Corporation of the Town of Fort Erie to Borrow Certain Sums to Meet Expenses for the Year 2022 Page 16 of 18 Regular Council - 24 Jan 2022 Meeting Minutes 3-2022: To Adopt the 2022 Water and Wastewater Budget, to Adopt Rates and Fees for the Year 2022 4-2022: To Deem Part of a Certain Registered Plan of Subdivision Not to be a Registered Plan of Subdivision 57 Idylewylde Place P. Leigh Whyte – (Agent) David and Charlene Smith – (Owners) 5:2022: To Enact an Amendment to the Official Plan Adopted by By-law No. 150-06 for the Town of Fort Erie Planning Area - Amendment No. 57 - 321 Garrison Road - 1784550 Ontario Inc. (Peter Wangler) – Owner - Rakib Hassan – Applicant - Rob Russell Planning Consultants (Rob Russell) – Agent 6:2022: To Amend Zoning By-law No. 129-90, as amended 321 Garrison Road 1784550 Ontario Inc. (Peter Wangler) - Owner Rakib Hassan - Applicant Rob Russell Planning Consultants (Rob Russell) - Agent 7-2022: To Amend Fees and Charges By-law No. 40-09, as amended (2022 Review) 8-2022: To Accept and Declare a Daylighting Triangle as Public Highway at the Southeast Intersection of Rebstock Road and Beechwood Avenue (4165 Rebstock Road) Michael Atkins and Cindy Atkins – Owners is given first and second reading. (

That: By-laws: 1-2022 2-2022 3-2022 4-2022 5-2022 6-2022 7-2022 8-2022 are given third and final reading to be signed by the Mayor and Clerk under the corporate seal. (

That: By-law No. 9-2022: To Confirm the Actions of Council at its Council-in-Committee Meeting Held on January 10, 2022, and Special Council and Council Meetings Held on January 24, 2022 is given first and second reading. (

That: By-law No. 9-2022 is given third and final reading to be signed by the Mayor and Clerk under the corporate seal. (

That: Council adjourns at 7:53 p.m. to reconvene into a Regular Meeting of Council on February 28, 2022. (