The new By-Law will require members of the public wishing to speak to an agenda item to submit a Deputation Form by 9 a.m. on the morning of the meeting.
Prior to this update, members of the public could submit their Request to Speak form to the Clerk up until the meeting began.
This change comes into force on January 1, 2025, to help ease the public into the new requirement.
Further amendments to Council’s Procedural By-Law can be found in Town Clerk Becky Jamieson’s presentation to Council, as well as the related Staff report.
Competitive procurement will see greater approval authority delegated to Staff for items and projects already approved by Council and within their granted budgets.
Low-value purchases, whose approvals have already been delegated to Staff, have seen their value threshold increased from $10,000 to $15,000.
Staff will also have approval authority for single and sole source procurement valued up to $100,000.
Council will be required to grant approval for procurement outside of approved budgets and any single or sole source procurement valued at more than $100,000.
Staff will also begin providing quarterly reports updating Council on the Town’s procurement activity, which will be made publicly available.
Correspondence from Loyalist Township was endorsed, which requests the Provincial Government amend their updated Blue Bin program to ensure companies producing recyclables are responsible for waste from all sources.
Current Provincial regulations consider businesses, municipal buildings, places of worship, daycares, commercial farms, campsites, food banks, and other non-profit organizations to be ineligible for the program.
Should municipal collection services be provided to ineligible sources, the municipality would be responsible for overseeing and funding the collection and processing of their recyclables.
