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Empowering You

Your Regional Councillor

Peter RodriguesRegional Councillor, Ward 3

905.420.4605

City Website: www.pickering.ca

Peter’s Website: www.YourVoicePickering.ca

E-mail: prodrigues@pickering.ca

What you will learn

• Maps – Pickering and Durham

• Who are your Pickering Councillors?

• Regional & City Councillors……. and what’s the difference?

• How to easily contact your Councillors.

• Pickering City and Durham Region – Committees, Meetings and

Schedules

• Speaking to Council

• General information – Resident Committees, Fact & Figures

• Major and Minor Issues

• Pickering vs. Durham – responsibilities

• Road Watch & Neighbourhood Watch

QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

1811 Township

1974 Town

2000 City

Pickering

Pickering CouncilWARD 3

WARD 1 WARD 2

Mayor Dave Ryan

Peter Rodrigues David Pickles

Jennifer O’Connell Kevin AsheBill McLean Doug Dickerson

Regional

RegionalRegional

City

CityCity

ContactMayor and Councillors

Mayor's OfficeTel.:     905.420.4600Email:  mayor@pickering.ca 

Councillors' OfficeTel.:     905.420.4605Email: 

council@pickering.ca  

Pickering – Facts & Figures

Population: 91,000• Voters: 65,000

Total number of businesses in Pickering: 3,000 +

Voters in Pickering

90,000 residents 64,000 eligible voters

20,500 voted 32% turnout

Ward 3 – Facts & Figures

Voters: 25,500 Homes: 11,600

18 kilometres (N to S) by 14 kilometres (W to E)

240 square kilometres = 92 square miles

Duffin Heights adding ~2,000 new homes

Duffin Heights

Duffin Heights

Specialized Services-- Application Form-- Using Specialized

Services

www.DurhamRegionTransit.com

Durham Region Transit

Advisory Committees

2013 Council & Committee Meetings Schedule Start Time

7:00 pm

Start Time 7:00 pm

2014 Meetings Schedule

Speaking to Council(delegations)

Every month there is one Council meetingand there are two Standing Committee meetings:

the Planning and Development Committee the Executive Committee

Members of the public who wish to speak to a Standing Committee and/or Council are called delegations. In order to appear before Council, delegations are encouraged to have first appeared before a Standing Committee. Delegations can speak for up to ten minutes. Afterwards, councillors may ask questions.

Speaking to Council(delegations)

If the matter is a statutory planning matter, no formal registration is required for the Planning & Development Committee.

Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on a Committee meeting agenda should register in writing by 12 noon on the day of the meeting.

Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on the Council meeting agenda should register in writing by 12 noon on the day of the meeting.

Request for delegation status are to be sent to the Committee Coordinator at lroberts@pickering.ca or by fax at 905.420.9685 or by dropping off the request at City Hall.

The 8 Municipalities of Durham

Durham Regionestablished 1974

Durham Council

Regional Chair and CEO Roger Anderson

AjaxSteve Parish, Shaun Collier, Colleen Jordan

BrockTerry Clayton, Debbie Bath

ClaringtonAdrian Foster, Mary Novak, Willie Woo

OshawaJohn Henry, John Aker, Bob Chapman, Nancy Diamond, Amy England, Tito-Dante Marimpietri, John Neal, Nester Pidwerbecki

PickeringDave Ryan, Bill McLean, Jennifer O'Connell, Peter Rodrigues

ScugogChuck Mercier, Bobbie Drew

UxbridgeGerri Lynn O'Connor, Jack Ballinger

WhitbyPat Perkins, Lorne Coe, Joe Drumm, Don Mitchell

AJAX

BROCK

CLARINGTON

OSHAWA

PICKERING

SCUGOG

UXBRIDGE

WHITBY

CHAIR

AJAX

BROCK

CLARINGTON

OSHAWA

PICKERING

SCUGOG

UXBRIDGE

WHITBY

3 councillors

2 councillors

3 councillors

8 councillors

4 councillors

2 councillors

84,550 residents

11,350 residents

149,600 residents

109,600 residents 88,700 residents

21,650 residents

20,600 residents

122,000 residents

2 councillors

4 councillors

608,100

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Region Committees

Finance & AdministrationCouncillor Mitchell – Chair

Councillor Chapman – Vice-Chair

Councillor CollierCouncillor DiamondCouncillor DrewCouncillor FosterCouncillor O'Connell

Health & Social ServicesCouncillor Coe – Chair

Councillor England – Vice-Chair

Councillor ClaytonCouncillor NealCouncillor ParishCouncillor RodriguesCouncillor Woo

Planning & Economic DevelopmentCouncillor O'Connor – Chair

Councillor Aker – Vice-Chair

Councillor BathCouncillor DrummCouncillor HenryCouncillor NovakCouncillor Ryan

WorksCouncillor Pidwerbecki – Chair

Councillor Mercier – Vice-Chair

Councillor BallingerCouncillor JordanCouncillor MarimpietriCouncillor McLeanCouncillor Perkins

3 week cycle

DURHAM REGIONmeetings

Durham Region – City of Pickering

• City roads

• Fire services

• Economic development

• Snow removal

• Parks

• Recreation (facilities and programs)

• Sidewalks

• Building permits

• Property tax collection

• Libraries – governed separately

• Regional roads – 75 km

• Garbage – Miller Waste

• Economic development

• Health

• Social services

• Tourism

• Police

• Water supply

• Sewage treatment

• Public transit

Matters of Interest

Federal / Airport Lands

Seaton Development Lands

Greenwood Conservation Lands

Oak Ridges Moraine

Duffin Heights Developments

407ETR – highway extension

Property Taxes

Neighbourhood Watch

Road Watch

Libraries

Your Issues – Questions & Answers

York-Durham Sewer

York-Durham Incinerator

Brock Rd improvements

Land Over Landings

Pickering Downtown Intensification

Pickering Fire Services

Official Plans

Conservation Authorities

CLOCA/TRCA

Schools Boards

Federal Lands (Airport)

Important Meetings

Seaton

Notifications of

Seaton

Seaton Land Owners

407ETR extension

Brock Road Improvements

Oak Ridges Moraine

Rouge National Park

York-Durham Sewer System

York-Durham Sewer System

York-Durham Sewer Systems

ROPA 128Regional Official Plan Amendment 128

Property Taxes

Durham region tax:55%Pickering city tax:

28% School tax

17%

Who pays the Region’s tax proportionally?

  The Region expects to collect $533,496,000 in property taxes from all categories including residents and businesses in 2012.

According to the 2001 census, Durham has a population of 608,124. Property taxes are assessed at different rates for business, residential, farms and government institutions.

Pickering

Percentage of residents:14.6 per cent

Percentage of Regional tax paid: 16.7 per cent

Neighbourhood WatchA community crime prevention program designed to reduce the threat of crime to neighbours or property. This program encourages all residents to be alert to suspicious persons or vehicles and to get to know neighbours.

Lessons in crime prevention are given to participants and Operation Identification is addressed (marking belongings for identification by police).

Approximately 183 watches are currently running in the Durham Region with over 50,000 residents educated on security measures on an ongoing basis.

The DRPS has a Regional Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator who will assist neighbourhoods to form watches. Call 905-668-9893 or view our section on Safety Tips - Neighbourhood Watch, or you can email the Coordinator directly at neighwatch@drps.ca for more information.

Road WatchROAD WATCH is a community based program that is utilized in many towns and cities across Ontario. Its purpose is to make drivers more aware of their actions.

In conjunction with the Durham Regional Police Services, the program is run by community volunteers. The ROAD WATCH program is active in Oshawa, Whitby, Clarington, Scugog, Ajax, Pickering and Uxbridge.

ROAD WATCH gives residents an opportunity to report dangerous and aggressive driving throughout the Durham Region. If you observe aggressive or dangerous driving, fill out a PDF version of our Citizen’s Report Form and drop it off at one of our ROAD WATCH boxes (listed on the form) or report the incident online using our Online Citizen Report Form .

Aggressive driving may include: Excessive speeding, tailgating, failure to stop and any act that puts other drivers at a high risk of collision or injury.

Record as much information as possible. Even if you are unable to record the license number, submit the form so police have information on high-risk areas in the community. It is important that the form be signed to safeguard the system from abuse. Your personal information is used for statistical purposes only and is held in the strictest of confidence by us. If a driver is reported more than once, the police will contact that individual regarding the reports. Subsequent offences may result in enforcement action by the police depending on the severity of the incident.

www.drps.ca

Police not Emergency 905 579 1520

Pickering Fire Services

Medical  alarms – 2,003 (50%)  Motor vehicle Accident alarms – 683 (17%)  Alarms (no fire, false alarms, defect triggered, mischief) – 386

 (10%) Fire/Smoke – 307 alarms (8%) – Non-Structural fires such as

involving burning complaints, grass/bush fires, rubbish and vehicle fires  as well as structural fires such as commercial/industrial fires, residential fires, institution fires.

Other  alarms (9-1-1- unknowns, public assist, assist other agencies)  – 299 (8%) 

Carbon Monoxide alarms – 174 (4%)  Hazard alarms  (natural gas leaks, power lines, unknown odour) –

112 (3%) Rescue  (elevators, ice-water) – 14 (0%) Hazardous Material alarms  (spills and leaks) – 6 (0%)  Explosions – 0 alarms (0%)

Fire Alarm responses – 2011Total alarms in 2011 – 3,984

$ 5.4 Million from property taxes

Library Costs

Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

North 730 acres (300 hectares)South 240 acres (100 hectares)

Ajax – PickeringPickering – Scarborough East

A-P MP Chris AlexanderP-SE MP Corneliu Chisu

Federal

Provincial A-P MPP Joe DicksonP-SE MPP Tracy MacCharles

Ridings

Federal & Provincial Ridings

Customer Carefor almost all matters

• General questions• By-laws – parking, business, building permit• Report dead animals on road,• Illegal garbage dumping• snowploughing• sidewalks• neighbour problems (serious - police matter)

Pickering Customer Care

Office Hours: 8:30 – 4:30, Monday-Friday905.683.7575 (24-hour line)

1.877.420.4666TTY Service: 905.420.1739

Fax: 905.420.4610Email: customercare@pickering.ca

Program Cancellations, Service Disruptions, and Road & Facility Closures: 1.866.278.9993

Information Resources

www.Pickering.ca www.Durham.ca www.YourVoicePickering.ca

Contact

www.YourVoicePickering.ca

© 2010-2014 – Regional Councillor Peter Rodrigues