Regular Council

RESOLVED THAT the Monday September 19, 2022, Agenda be approved as presented.

RESOLVED THAT the Minutes of the Regular Council Meeting held Tuesday September 6, 2022 be approved as presented.

RESOLIVED THAT Council approves the CIBC Agreement that includes a new 5-year rate demand instalment loan agreement and that the appropriate bylaw be brought forward.

RESOLVED THAT Council approve the Payroll Register for July 2022 Pay Period 14 & 15 in the amount of $117,570. 46

RESOLVED THAT Council approve the Payroll Register for August 2022 Pay Period 16 & 174 in the amount of $115,041.68

WHEREAS the Federal Electoral Boundaries Commission for the Province of Ontario has proposed a new electoral map that would cut the number of federal election districts in northern Ontario from ten to nine; and WHEREAS the Constitution of Canada requires that the federal elector districts be reviewed every ten years; and WHEREAS the most significant change would see the two largest ridings in the far north, Kenora and Timmins-James Bay, amended and combined into one massive riding called KiiwetinoongMushkegowuk, spanning from the Manitoba border to Quebec, and Kenora’s current riding boundary readjusted dramatically and combined with Thunder Bay- Rainy River with further significant changes to the Thunder Bay-Superior North and Algoma-Manitoulin-Kapuskasing boundaries; and Page 3 of 6 Regular Council Meeting Minutes - September 19, 2022 WHEREAS the land mass size of the new Kenora-Thunder Bay-Rainy River riding would make it virtually ungovernable, and ultimately infringe on the democratic rights of northerners; and WHEREAS our region has diverse and unique interests which are quite different from one another and deserve adequate diverse representation in Ottawa; and WHEREAS the legislation would in fact support, according to the population quota to be applied by the Commission, a reduction of two, but the commission has recommended one; and WHEREAS the Kenora District was deemed an “extraordinary circumstance” in 2012 during the last boundary review, and because of which it

RESOLVED THAT RESOLVED THAT a by-law to enter into an agreement with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) for a load related to the purchase of a Bulldozer be read a first, second and third time and finally passed, signed by the Mayor and Clerk, sealed and numbered this 19th day of September 2022.

RESOLVED THAT the next Regular Council meeting will be held Monday October 3, 2022 at 6:30 in the Council Chamber.

RESOLVED THAT we do now adjourn at 6:43 p.m.