General
Issues Committee Agenda for September 5, 2013
City of Hamilton
Thursday,
September 5, 2013
9:30 a.m.
Council Chambers
City Hall
71 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario
Carolyn Biggs
Legislative Coordinator
(905) 546-2424 ext. 2604
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- CHANGES TO THE AGENDA
ADDED DELEGATION REQUEST
4.8 Request
from John McGreal to speak to Items 7.1(a) and (b) on the Agenda respecting
Memorandum of Agreement – City of Hamilton and Hamilton-Wentworth District
School Board for a New Secondary School and Community Centre in the Pan Am
Stadium Precinct
4.9 Request
from Larry Pattison on behalf of Friends of Jimmy Thompson Memorial Pool to
present signatures and comments from Change.org petition respecting the
future of Jimmy Thompson Pool
OUTSTANDING BUSINESS LIST
11.1 Items to be transferred to another Standing Committee:
(b) Item U: Expansion of Community Improvement
Initiatives – Piers 5, 20, 7 and 8
This item is to remain on the Outstanding Business
List of the General Issues Committee with the due date to be revised from
September 5, 2013 to December 4, 2013.
- DECLARATIONS OF INTEREST
- APPROVAL OF MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING
3.1 August
12, 2013
- DELEGATION REQUESTS
4.1 Request
from Jackie Stell-Buckingham, Director of Events, Project Director for the
2015 ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships, to attend the November 6,
2013 meeting of the General Issues Committee to provide an overview of plans
for the 2015 ISU Championships to be hosted at Copps Coliseum, Hamilton
4.2 Request
from Patrick Deane, McMaster University, to attend the October 16, 2013
meeting of the General Issues Committee to provide an update of McMaster’s
activities, its work related to community engagement and development in the
City
4.3 Request
from Tim Progosh, Canadian Comedy Experience/ Canadian Comedy Foundation,
respecting their 5-year strategy which includes bringing the Canadian Comedy
Awards Festival and the permanent home of the Canadian Comedy Hall of Fame to
Hamilton
4.4 Request
from Joe Accardi, The Green Smoothie Bar, respecting making Cannon Street a
complete street
4.5 Request
from Matt Patricelli, on behalf of Young Entrepreneurs and Professionals –
Hamilton Chamber of Commerce, to provide the Commerce’s young professional
viewpoint of Complete Streets and their impact the City’s economic and social
community
4.6 Request
from Denise O’Connor to speak with respect to Motion for bike lanes on Cannon
Street (Item 9.2)
4.7 Request
from Justin Jones, on behalf of “Yes We Cannon”, to present petition and to
speak in support of bike lanes on Cannon Street
- CONSENT ITEMS
5.1 Lease
Agreement – Stabling the Police Mounted Unit at Ancaster Fairgrounds (PSB13-073)
5.2 Locke
Street Business Improvement Area (B.I.A.) Expansion of Boundaries (PED13134)
(Ward 1)
5.3 Hamilton
Tax Increment Grant Program (HTIGP) – 149 Young Street – HTIGP 13/08
(PED13138) (Ward 2)
5.4 Request
for Extension of Building Covenents from The Green Method Inc. (Gaston
Minetti and Maria Gordillo), Owners of 958, 962, 970 and 974 Beach Boulevard,
Hamilton (PED13149) (Ward 5)
- PUBLIC HEARINGS/DELEGATIONS
6.1 John
D. Hall, Co-ordinator, Hamilton Harbour Remedial Action Plan, and Chris
McLaughlin, Executive Director, Bay Area Restoration Council, to provide an
update
(Request
approved by Committee on August 12, 2013)
6.2 Graham
McNally and Philip Toms, Tactical Urbanism Hamilton, respecting what Tactical
Urbanism is and how is can benefit the City
(Request
approved by Committee on August 12, 2013)
- PRESENTATIONS
7.1(a) Memorandum
of Agreement - City of Hamilton and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
for a New Secondary School and Community Centre in the Pan Am Stadium
Precinct - Update (CM13006(b)) (Ward 3)
7.1(b) Memorandum
of Agreement - City of Hamilton and Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board
for a New Secondary School and Community Centre in the Pan Am Stadium
Precinct - Update (CM13006(a)) (Ward 3)
(NOTE:
Tabled by Committee on July 11, 2013)
DISCUSSION ITEMS
8.1 Request
for Information (RFI) – Auchmar Estate (PED13151) (Ward 8)
8.2 Declaration
of Surplus and Sale of 241 Stuart Street, Hamilton, to Canadian National
Railway Company (PW13067/PED13158) (Wards 1 and 2)
8.3 Report
13-002 of the Business Improvement Area Advisory Committee – August 20, 2013
- MOTIONS
9.1 Financing
of Pan Am Stadium Precinct (Ward 3)
(Notice of
Motion at August12, 2013 GIC Meeting)
9.2 Bi-directional
Bike Lane Pilot Project – South Side of Cannon Street, from Sherman Avenue to
Bay Street
(Notice of
Motion at August 12, 2013 GIC Meeting)
- NOTICES OF MOTION
- GENERAL INFORMATION/OTHER BUSINESS
11.1 Outstanding Business List Items
(a) Revised Due
Dates
Item G: Removal of
Fill from Toxic Contaminated Site at Hamilton Airport
Due Date: September 5,
2013
Revised Due Date: ________________________
Item
U: Expansion of Community Improvement Initiatives – Piers 5, 20, 7 and 8
Due
Date: September 5, 2013
Revised
Due Date: _________________________
(b) Items to be
transferred to another Standing Committee
Item
N: Universal School Nutrition Program
Transfer
to Emergency and Community Services Committee
(c) Items to be
removed from Outstanding Business List:
Item U: Expansion of
Community Improvement Area for Mount Hope/Hamilton International Airport
Gate-way Area (GIC - August 12, 2013)
Item F: 2012 Ontario
Municipal Partnership Fund Alloca-tions (GIC – September 5, 2013)
- PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL
12.1 Closed Session Minutes – August 12, 2013
12.2 Chedoke Twin pad
Arena (LS13026) (City Wide)
Pursuant to Sub-sections
8.1(e)and (f) of the City of Hamilton Procedural By-law and Section 239.2 of
the Municipal Act as the subject matter pertains to: (e) litigation or
potential litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals
affecting the municipality or local board and (f) the receiving of advice
that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications
necessary for that purpose.
12.3 Occupational
Health and Safety Act Charges – April 9, 2013 – File 20686 (CS13025(a)) (City
Wide)
Pursuant to Sub-section
8.1(e) of the City of Hamilton Procedural By-law and Section 239.2 of the
Municipal Act as the subject matter pertains to litigation or potential
litigation, including matters before administrative tribunals affecting the
municipality or local board.
- ADJOURNMENT
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