COUNCIL MINUTES – JANUARY 29, 2002
Council met in regular session Tuesday, January 29, 2002 at the Council
Chambers, Sharbot
Lake at 9:00 a.m.
Present: Mayor Bill MacDonald
Councillors Bob Harvey, Marsden Kirk, Boyce Peters, Elva Price,
Faye R. Putnam, Frances Smith and Bill Snyder.
Absent: Deputy Mayor Jack Nicolson
Also in attendance Heather Fox, Clerk-Administrator, Bill Nicol Public Works
Manager,
Sandra Clow Clerical Assistant, Jeff Green Frontenac News and Ian Reid The
Gazette.
One member of the public attended other than those scheduled on the Agenda.
There were no disclosures of pecuniary interest.
Paul Lehman and George Braithwaite attended from the Mississippi Valley
Conservation
Authority to discuss the Groundwater study program with Council.
Ralph Gatfield, President of the Sharbot Lake & District Lions Club attended to
request Council
to waive the lottery license fee for the Club’s weekly bingo’s due to the loss
of revenue from the
decline in bingo players.
Detachment Commander Inspector Salisbury, Administrator Sergeant Landry,
Community
Sergeant Underhill, P.C. Chadwick, S/Constable Fennell of the Sharbot
Lake/Lanark O.P.P.
attended to update Council on policing issues and submit a report of
occurrences.
The following was received for information: (1) F.M.B. Minutes
The following resolutions were presented:
#27 Bill Snyder, Frances Smith
That the agenda be adopted as amended.
Carried
#28 Bill Snyder, Frances Smith
That the minutes of January 14, 2002 be adopted as circulated.
Carried
#29 Frances Smith, Bill Snyder
That the request from the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority in
conjunction with the
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority for approval of funding from the Township
of Central
Frontenac in the amount of $2,193.00 for the Ground Water Study be approved.
Carried
#30 Bill Snyder, Frances Smith
That the request from the Sharbot Lake and District Lions Club to waive the
lottery license fee
due to the decline of bingo participants be denied.
Carried
#31 Bill Snyder, Frances Smith
That the request from the Mississippi Valley Conservation Authority in
conjunction with the
Rideau Valley Conservation Authority to have a representative from the Township
of Central
Frontenac on the Ground Water Study project Steering Committee be approved and
Bob Harvey
appointed as the representative.
Carried
#32 Elva Price, Marsden Kirk
That the two Real Estate letters of opinion requested to determine a fair
selling price for a 202
acre parcel of land situated on part lot 14, concession 6 in Electoral District
3 (former Township
of Oso) be received and reviewed and that the property be listed with MLS Real
Estate at
$30,000.00.
Carried
#33 Marsden Kirk, Elva Price
That the following vouchers be approved: Batch #955 - $40,492.71; Batch #956 -
$27,535.20;
Batch #958 - $8,637.13; Batch #959 - $4,568.14; Batch #960 - $29,754.38; Batch
#961 -
$4,763.75; Batch #964 - $5,578.75; Batch #967 - $4,594.25; Batch #970 -
$113,742.97; Batch
#971 - $222,513.05; Batch #972 - $3,960.41; Batch #973 - $8,056.11; Batch #957
Debit
Adjustment – ($2,687.02).
Carried
#34 Marsden Kirk, Bob Harvey
Pursuant to By-Law #2001-89 Jack Nicolson be appointed as Deputy Mayor for the
Township of
Central Frontenac for the year 2002.
Carried
#35 Faye R. Putnam, Marsden Kirk
That the request from the Happy Travellers #698, Senior Citizens, Parham, for a
monetary
donation to help defray the cost of the Zone 36 Rally, June 8, 2002 at the
Frontenac Arena be
deferred and a budget submitted.
Carried
#36 Marsden Kirk, Faye R. Putnam
That the resolution of the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry to amend the Line
Fences Act be
endorsed and the appropriate letters sent.
Carried
#37 Bob Harvey, Boyce Peters
WHEREAS the Township of Central Frontenac has agreed to acquire from Canadian
Pacific
Railway Company (CP) certain lands in the Township of Central Frontenac; AND
WHEREAS
the legal description of the lands to be conveyed do not comply with the
requirements of the
Registry Act and Regulations; AND WHEREAS the legal description will be accepted
for
registration only on the conveyance from CP to the municipality;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT:
1. The municipality is willing to accept a conveyance from Canadian Pacific
Railway Company
containing a description that does not comply with the Registration regulation:
2. The municipality understands that the description will be accepted by the
land registry office
for this conveyance only and that it will be stamped as not acceptable for
future use;
3. Any further conveyance from the municipality to the adjoining owners or any
other party will
require a reference plan description; and
4. That the municipality recognizes that the requirement to provide reference
plans for further
conveyances represents a potential financial liability.
Carried
#38 Faye R. Putnam, Bob Harvey
That the invoice from the County of Hastings for the purchase from CP
in the amount of #31,539.49 be paid.
Carried
#39 Bob Harvey, Elva Price
That the request from the Quinte Conservation Authority to pay 50% of the 2001
levy
apportionment in the amount of $5,448.50 by February 28, 2002 be approved.
Defeated
#40 Bob Harvey, Elva Price
That the letter from Horseshoe and Crotch Lakes Property Owners addressed to
Marsden Kirk
and copied to Mayor MacDonald be received and acknowledged.
Carried
#41 Elva Price, Bob Harvey
That the letter from Gord Goodberry dated January 9, 2002, addressed to Whom It
May Concern
regarding Echo Lake Road be received acknowledged and Mr. Goodberry be invited
to a council
meeting.
Carried
#42 Boyce Peters, Bob Harvey
That the letter from Randall and Charlene Hole, dated January 17, 2002,
addressed to the Central
Frontenac Council regarding Randall not being hired by the municipality be
received and
acknowledged.
Carried
#43 Boyce Peters, Elva Price
That the quotation for the provision of GIS services from CGIS Information
Systems be received
and the Clerk be authorized to enter into a contract with CGIS for the Slims
Bronze Service at
$1,250.00 per month and G.S.T.
Carried
#44 Boyce Peters, Bob Harvey
That the staff recommendation to hire a technical support staff person to be
shared equally with
the Township of North Frontenac be approved.
Carried
#45 Boyce Peters, Elva Price
That the invitation from the Ontario Provincial Police Strategic Services
Contract Policing
Bureau to a meeting on February 5, 2002 in Smith Falls be received and Marsden
Kirk to attend.
Carried
#46 Boyce Peters, Elva Price
That By-law #2002-113, being a by-law to exempt the Royal Canadian Legion,
Branch 425 and
Branch 334 from certain taxation be read a third and final time and passed.
Carried
#47 Marsden Kirk, Bob Harvey
That By-law #2002-115, as amended, to appoint a District Chief for District #2
of the Central
Frontenac Fire Department be read a third and final time and passed.
Carried
#48 Marsden Kirk, Bill Snyder
That the items listed on the agenda as 9 (a) be received for information and
filed.
Carried
#49 Bill Snyder, Bob Harvey
That Council rescinds motion #550-2001 as recorded in the minutes of
December 18th, 2001, and proceed, the township supply the planks and Ken
Shepherd complete
the work.
Carried
#50 Marsden Kirk, Faye R. Putnam
That the rules of the Procedural By-law be waived and the meeting continue until
12:30 p.m.
Carried
#51 Marsden Kirk, Faye R. Putnam
That the request from the Sharbot Lake District Snow Riders to use the
Edge of the roadway for approximately one-half mile into Crotch Lake,
from the tower, to complete the snowmobile trail from Clarendon to
Crotch Lake be approved.
Carried
#52 Faye R. Putnam, Bill Snyder
That the meeting regularly scheduled for Tuesday, February 26th, 2002 be
rescheduled to February 28, 2002 at 9:00 a.m.
Carried
#53 Marsden Kirk, Faye R. Putnam
That the meeting adjourn until Monday, February 11, 2002 at the Library
Building, Mountain Grove or the call of the Mayor.
Carried
Frances Smith excused herself from the meeting at 11:50 a.m.
The meeting adjourned at 12:20 p.m.
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Mayor Clerk