Regular Council

That: Council approves the Consent Agenda Items as recommended save and except item 9.2.2 (c). (

That: Council approves Consent Agenda Item 9.2.2 (c) as recommended. (

That: Council appoints Shirley Stoppard to the Communities-in- Bloom Committee for the period ending November 30, 2018. (

That: Council amends Resolution No. 4 by adding at the end “and refers this to the Director of Planning & Development Services for a memo to Council for the September 6, 2016 Council-in-Committee meeting along with any other applications made to the Fund”. (

That: Council proclaims the month of September as "School Crossing Guard Awareness Month" in the Town of Fort Erie. (

That: Council dispenses with notice in accordance with section 14.1 a) of Council Rules of Procedure By-law No. 36-2016 to permit motions related to delegations. (

That: Council amends Resolution No. 8 requesting a staff report with respect to amending the zoning by-law to accommodate temporary storage of recreational vehicles on residential property to include permanent parking for residents with driveways less than the 4.5 metre setback. Resolution No. 9 was

That: Council sends a letter to the Minister of International Trade and local MPs stating that the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in its present form cannot be supported. (

That: Council calls upon the Government of Canada to consider the inclusion and/or consideration of Confederation in the evaluation of Canada 150 Fund grant applications, and further Page 7 of 14 Regular Council - 22 Aug 2016 Meeting Minutes That: a copy of this resolution be circulated to the Department of Canadian Heritage and the Honourable Peter Van Loan, MP for York-Simcoe. (

Whereas Canada welcomes approximately 30 million American visitors each year and many of them enter our country at one of Niagara’s four bridges located at Fort Erie, Niagara Falls and Niagara-on-the-Lake, and Whereas for some time, it has been apparent that there has been an inadequate allocation of Canada Border Services Agency officers manning the points of entry into Canada at the Peace Bridge, Rainbow Bridge, Queenston-Lewiston Bridge and the Whirlpool Bridge, and Page 8 of 14 Regular Council - 22 Aug 2016 Meeting Minutes Whereas this has resulted in the back-up of both passenger and commercial vehicles attempting to cross these bridges into Canada for as much as one and a half hours during June, July and early August and, on occasion, such delays have been experienced on busy weekends at other times during the year, and Whereas sitting in long lines of slow-moving traffic awaiting Customs clearance on hot summer days discourages visitors from attempting to come to Canada, hampers the movement of goods in both directions, negatively affects commercial enterprises on both sides of the border, clogs local streets and major highways and degrades the environment, and Whereas the continuation of this situation in which the local economies of communities on both sides of the border, the safety of our residents and workers at the bridge, the effective movement of commercial shipments and the proper management of our border crossings are all at the mercy of the Canada Border Ser

That: The by-law package containing: 93-2016: To Appoint Thomas Neufeld as Senior Building Inspector and Acting Chief Building Official for the Corporation of the Town of Fort Erie and to Repeal By-law No. 145-2015 Page 11 of 14 Regular Council - 22 Aug 2016 Meeting Minutes 94-2016: To Approve the Final Assessment Levy for the Winger Road Municipal Drain 95-2016: To Approve the Final Assessment Levy for the Black Creek Municipal Drain 96-2016: To Deem a Certain Registered Plan of Subdivision Not to be a Registered Plan of Subdivision - Brian Peltier and Margaret Breton (Northeast Corner of Dominion Road and Albert Street) 97-2016: To Re-Establish the Traffic Coordinating Committee and Approve its Terms of Reference 98-2016: To Authorize the Entry into an Agreement with The Corporation of the City of Niagara Falls for the Provision of Intermunicipal Transit Service 100-2016: To Authorize the Extension of the Business Banking Agreement with TD Commercial Banking for the Provision of Banking Services Is given first and second reading. (

That: By-laws: 93-2016 94-2016 95-2016 96-2016 97-2016 98-2016 100-2016 are given third and final reading to be signed by the Mayor and Clerk under the corporate seal. (

That: By-law No. 101-2016: To Confirm the Actions of Council at its Meeting Held on August 22, 2016 is given first and second reading. (

That: By-law No. 101-2016 is given third and final reading to be signed by the Mayor and Clerk under the corporate seal. (

That: Council does now go into closed session at 7:48 p.m. to discuss the following: Property Matter (Pursuant to Section 239 (2) (c) of the Municipal Act, 2001 - a proposed or pending acquisition or disposition of land by the municipality or local board) Re: Acceptance of Offer to Purchase - Part of the Princeton Avenue Unopened Road Allowance, Plan 447 (

That: Council does now rise and reconvene from closed session at 8:00 p.m. with the following report: That: Council authorizes the acceptance of an offer to purchase part of the Princeton Avenue unopened road allowance, Plan 447, Bertie, on the west side of Buffalo Road (formerly Princess Drive) to Daniel Trifonov and Aifei Wu, for the amount of $38,000.00 plus HST, and further That: Council authorizes and directs the Town Solicitor, and in his absence, the Chief Administrative Officer or his designate, to execute the Agreement of Purchase and Sale, and all other documents required to complete the transaction. (

That: Council adjourns at 8:01 p.m. to reconvene into a Regular Meeting of Council on September 12, 2016. (