Revised Agenda
The Blue Mountains, Council Meeting

Meeting #:
Date:
Time:
-
Location:
Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual Meeting
32 Mill Street, Thornbury, ON
Prepared by: Corrina Giles, Town Clerk

A.
Call to Order

 

A.1
Singing of the National Anthem

 

A.2
Traditional Territory Acknowledgement and Moment of Reflection

 

We would like to begin our meeting by recognizing the First Nations, Metis and Inuit peoples of Canada as traditional stewards of the land.  The municipality is located within the boundary of Treaty 18 region of 1818 which is the traditional land of the Anishnaabek, Haudenosaunee and Wendat-Wyandot-Wyandotte peoples.

A.3
Approval of Agenda

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT the Agenda of October 20, 2025, be approved as circulated, including any items added to the Agenda.

A.4
Declaration of Pecuniary Interest and general nature thereof

 

NOTE:  In accordance with the Municipal Conflict of Interest Act and the Town Procedural By-law 2023-62, Council Members must file a written statement of the interest and its general nature with the Clerk for inclusion on the Registry.

A.5
Previous Minutes

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT the Council minutes of September 29, 2025, Special Meeting of Council minutes of October 7, 2025, October 8, 2025, October 15, 2025 and October 16, 2025, be adopted as circulated, including any revisions to be made. 

B.
Deputation / Presentations

 

Under the authority of the Municipal Act, 2001 and in accordance with Ontario’s Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (MFIPPA), The Corporation of the Town of The Blue Mountains wishes to inform the public that all information including opinions, presentations, reports and documentation provided for or at a Public Meeting, Public Consultation, or other Public Process are considered part of the public record. This information may be posted on the Town’s website and/or made available to the public upon request. 

C.
Public Comment Period

 

NOTE: In accordance with the Town Procedural By-law 2023-62 any person may provide comments during the Public Comment Period at a Council Meeting, regarding Town matters. Each person providing comments during a Public Comment Period shall be limited to not more than three minutes. The Clerk or a countdown clock shall alert the speaker when they have one minute remaining to address Council. Each person shall provide their name and address, and is required to address their comments to the Chair. Comments shall not refer to personal, litigation or potential litigation matters, or be in response to matters that have been the subject of a Public Meeting, it being noted that the verbal commenting period has ended. Written correspondence may still be received in response to matters that have been the subject of a Public Meeting.  If a person is unable to personally attend the meeting, or during any period where an emergency has been declared to exist in the municipality, they shall provide their Public Comments in writing to the Clerk in advance of the meeting for the Clerk to read on behalf of the author during the Public Comment Period.

D.
Adoption of Consent Agenda

 

D.1
Correspondence

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT Council receives the correspondence listed as Agenda items D.1.1 to D.1.4, less any items requested for separate review and discussion, and further does support the Staff recommendation made with regard to the Correspondence items, including any additional direction given to Staff through discussion, with an appropriate Staff action or response awaited for report back to Committee or Council, where indicated.

D.1.1
Dr. Robert MacDairmid, Resident

This item has attachments. 
1.Robert-MacDairmid-Resident-correspondence-re-Traffic-Congestion_Redacted.pdf

Re: Traffic Congestion and Safety in Thornbury and along Highway 26
(For Council Consideration)

D.1.2
Jenny Carver, Youth Climate Action Conference 2025 Organizing Team

This item has attachments. 
1.Jenny-Carver-YCAC-re-response-to-Council-dated-October-3-2025_Redacted.pdf

Re: Confirmation of  Attendance of Students and Teachers from Beaver Valley Community School
(Receive For Information)

D.1.3
Susan Cassel, City Clerk, Pickering

This item has attachments. 
1.Susan-Cassel-City-Clerk-Pickering-Resolution-re-Elect-Respect_Redacted.pdf

Re: Elect Respect
(Receive For Information) 

D.1.4
Rick Tipping, Resident

This item has attachments. 
1.Rick-Tipping-resident-re-Electronic-Voting.pdf

Re: Electronic Voting
(Receive For Information)

D.2
Committee and Board Minutes

 

(Received for Information)

  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT Council of the Town of The Blue Mountains receives the Committee and Board minutes included on the October 20, 2025, Council Agenda, for information, less any items pulled for separate discussion.

D.3
Committee Reports

 

With the adoption of the Committee Reports included on the Consent Agenda, all Recommendations found within the Committee Report(s) are approved by Council, as recommended, less any items requested for separate review and discussion.

  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT the recommendations found within the Committee Reports included on the October 20, 2025, Council Agenda are approved by Council, as recommended, less any items requested for separate review and discussion.

E.
Motions and Staff Reports

 

E.1
2026 Proposed Budget Draft #2, CFS.25.056

This item has attachments. 
1.CFS.25.056 2026 Proposed Budget Draft 2.pdf
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT Council receive Staff Report CFS.25.056, entitled “2026 Proposed Budget Draft #2”;

    AND THAT Council direct staff to update the Youth Membership for the Tomahawk Golf Course to $75 per season and maintain the $5 per round green fee;

    AND THAT Council direct staff to proceed to the November 10, 2025 Public Meeting with the 2026 Proposed Budget Draft #2 and the Proposed 2026 Fees and Charges.

E.2
Correction to July 14, 2025 Council Meeting Minutes

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT, at the July 14, 2025 Council Meeting, Council received the June 19, 2025 correspondence from the CANN Group;

    AND THAT, in response to the correspondence received, Council passed the following two motions that, in error, included reference to “battery storage”;

    NOW THEREFORE, in order to correct the formal record of the July 14, 2025 Council Meeting minutes,  Council directs the Town Clerk to amend the July 14, 2025 Council Meeting minutes, to remove the words “battery storage” from the two resolutions, and to circulate the corrected resolution to all parties:

    D.1.2    Sally Leppard, Co-Lead, Climate Action Now Network TBM (CANN) Re: Bill 5, Special Economic Zones and T.C. Energy's Pumped Storage Proposal

    THAT Council of the Town of The Blue Mountains receives for information the June 19, 2025, correspondence from Sally Leppard, CANN regarding Bill 5, Special Economic Zones and T.C. Energy’s Pumped Storage Proposal;

    AND THAT Council communicate to the Province that the Town of The Blue Mountains requests that TC Energy's proposed battery storage project is excluded from designation as a Special Economic Zone under the regulations to be developed in Bill 5 - Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act 2025;

     

    THAT Council of the Town of The Blue Mountains receives for information the June 19, 2025, correspondence from Sally Leppard, CANN regarding Bill 5, Special Economic Zones and T.C. Energy’s Pumped Storage Proposal;

    AND THAT Council requests Grey County Council and the Municipality of Meaford to request the Province to exclude TC Energy's proposed battery storage project from designation as a Special Economic Zone under the regulations to be developed in Bill 5 - Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act, 2025;

    AND THAT the Town of The Blue Mountains welcomes enquiries from any municipalities or Indigenous Nations interested in making similar motions to the Town of The Blue Mountains

     

F.
By-laws

 

F.1
By-law to Appoint Municipal Law Enforcement Officers

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law No. 2025-59, being a By-law to Appoint Municipal Law Enforcement Officers, be hereby enacted as passed this 20th day of October 2025.

F.2
By-law to Amend By-law 2006-32, as amended, being a By-law to control dogs and Govern the Care of Animals with the Town of The Blue Mountains

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law No. 2025-60, being a By-law to Amend By-law 2006-32, as amended, being a By-law to Control Dogs and Govern the Care of Animals within the Town of The Blue Mountains be hereby enacted as passed this 20th day of October 2025

F.3
By-law for Fees Related to Planning Matters and Engineering Services

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law No. 2025-61, being a By-law for Fees related to Planning Matters and Engineering Services be hereby enacted as passed, this 20th day of October 2025

F.4
By-law to Amend Zoning By-law No. 2018-65

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law 2025-62, being a By-law to amending Zoning By-law 2018-65, to rezone certain lands from Open Space to the Residential 'R1-1 Zone', Open Space 'OS', Zone, and Hazard 'H' Zone - East Part Lot 156, Plan 529, is hereby enacted and passed on this 20th day of October 2025

F.5
By-law to Amend Zoning By-law 2018-65

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law No. 2025-63, being a By-law to Amend Zoning By-law 2018-65 rezoning A PORTION OF those lands known as Collingwood Con 9 Pt Lot 30 Plan 562 Lot 56 Pt Lots 54 and 57 from Development 'D' Zone to Residential One 'R1-1' Zone - also known as 224 Clark Street, be hereby enacted as passed this 20th day of October 2025

F.6
By-law to Remove Part Lot Control from Blue Vista Phase 1

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law 2025-64, being a By-law to remove lots 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67 of Registered Plan 16M-102 from Part-Lot Control for a temporary period of two (2) years, being hereby enacted as passed this 20th day of October 2025

G.
New and Unfinished Business

 

G.1
Grey County Council Update (Mayor, Deputy Mayor)

 

G.2
Notice of Motion (Council)

 

G.2.1
Councillor Maxwell Notice of Motion Re:  2026 Municipal Election

 

Councillor Maxwell provided the following Notice of Motion at the September 29, 2025 Council Meeting.  In accordance with the Procedural Bylaw, this Notice of Motion requires a mover and a seconder to be considered by Council.  

  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    WHEREAS Ontario currently has no provincial technical standards for internet and telephone municipal voting, and municipalities rely on the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 and clerk-established procedures;
    WHEREAS section 42 of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 allows Council to provide for alternative voting methods and the Clerk to establish the procedures and forms; and
    WHEREAS Council supports measures that enhance elector confidence, ballot secrecy, accessibility, and election integrity;
    NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council:

    1. Endorses in principle the inclusion of enhanced, multi-step elector verification for internet and telephone voting within the Clerk’s published procedures under section 42(3)–(4), including at minimum a unique elector credential, one additional verifier, and an elector declaration.
    2. Requests that the Clerk provide public notice of a pre-election system test (often referred to as Logic & Accuracy testing) and, when publishing procedures, include a short summary of the verification approach and the testing notice schedule.
    3. Requests that the Clerk describe scrutineer accommodations appropriate to alternative methods, including access to lists of electors who have voted and opportunities to observe close-out, tabulation, and any recounts.
    4. Requests that the Clerk publish a concise post-election integrity and accessibility report within 90 days of Voting Day.

G.2.2
Councillor Ardiel Notice of Motion Re: Blue Box Recycling

 

Councillor Ardiel provided the following Notice of Motion at the October 6, 2025, Committee of the Whole Meeting. In accordance with the Procedural By-law, this Notice of Motion requires a mover and a seconder to be considered by Council.

  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    WHEREAS Blue Box recycling in The Blue Mountains will change, on January 1st, 2026, a new province-wide Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) will take over Ontario’s Blue Box residential recycling collection and shifting responsibility from municipalities to the producers of plastic and packaging. The Blue Mountains need to focus on hiring the not-for- profit group called Circular Materials Ontario that take will over the handling of our Blue Bin recycling;

    WHEREAS the County of Simcoe has engaged the non-for-profit group called Circular Materials Ontario who run the program with Emterra handing pickup;

    WHEREAS Council should be involved in discussions now on how these changes will affect small businesses, not-for-profit businesses, and institutions such as our churches;

    WHEREAS Grey County should be involving all nine municipalities to speak about the broader picture in waste management and look towards consolidating waste in the bigger picture involving all nine municipalities in Grey County;

    THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT the Council of the Town of The Blue Mountains directs staff to forward this resolution to the eight other municipalities in Grey County and encourages the other eight municipalities with vested interests in Blue Box recycling to consider having the group Circular Materials Ontario pickup their Blue Box materials.

G.2.3
Councillor Porter Notice of Motion Re: Method of Voting

 

Councillor Porter provided the following Notice of Motion at the October 6, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting. In accordance with the Procedural Bylaw, this Notice of Motion requires a mover and a seconder to be considered by Council.    

  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    WHEREAS Ontario has not issued provincial technical standards for online municipal voting and municipalities rely on the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 and Clerk-established procedures;

    WHEREAS Council supports transparency to strengthen public confidence, ballot secrecy, accessibility, and election integrity;

    NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council requests that the Clerk provide, for Council’s information, a staff report that explains:

    1. How credentials are issued, what secondary check and elector declaration are used, and how lost or compromised credentials are replaced;
    2. How voter information letters (pin mailers) are delivered, how undeliverable mail is managed, and how related records are retained or destroyed;
    3. How voter identity and pins are kept separate from the cast ballot at all times;
    4. What pre-election testing is performed, how audits and incident response work, and how results are reconciled at close; and
    5. How unusual network activity is monitored in a privacy-protective way, including approaches for detecting abnormal patterns (e.g., rate limiting or aggregate network indicators without exposing personal data).

    BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT the report be provided before the 2026 election procedures are published.

G.3
Additions to Agenda

 

G.4
News and Celebrations

 

H.
Closed Session

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT with regard to subsection 239 of the Municipal Act, 2001, this Council does now move into closed session in order to address matters pertaining to:

    1. litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board, and the receiving of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, with regard to an Ontario Land Tribunal matter;
    2. litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board, and the receiving of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, and with regard to correspondence received;
    3. a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the municipality or local board, and with regard to a development;
    4. litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board, the receiving of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, and a position, plan, procedure, criteria or instruction to be applied to any negotiations carried on or to be carried on by or on behalf of the municipality or local board, and with regard to a development;
    5. information explicitly supplied in confidence to the municipality or local board by Canada, a province or territory or a Crown agency of any of them, and with regard to correspondence received;
    6. litigation or potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals, affecting the municipality or local board,  the receiving of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose, and with regard to a municipal plan

    Council moved into closed session at ____p.m.
    Council moved into public session at ____p.m.

I.
Notice of Meeting Dates

 

Committee of the Whole Meeting, Administration, Corporate & Financial Services, Strategic Initiatives, and Community Services, October 27, 2025
Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual


Committee of the Whole Meeting, Operations, and Planning & Building Services, October 28, 2025
Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual


Council, Public Meeting, November 4, 2025
Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual


Council Meeting, November 10, 2025
Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual 

J.
Confirmation By-law 

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT By-law No. 2025-65, being a By-law to confirm proceedings of the Council of The Corporation of the Town of The Blue Mountains on October 20, 2025, be hereby enacted as passed this 20th day of October, 2025.

K.
Adjournment

 
  • Recommended (Move, Second)

    THAT this Council does now adjourn at (time) p.m. to meet again November 10, 2025, Town Hall, Council Chambers and Virtual, or at the call of the Chair.

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