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2 Letter Ministry of Community Safety Introduction of new Minister 5

3 Letter Clean Air Council Member Feedback to Province of Ontario’s Climate Change Plan Consultation 8

4 Letter Ministry of Municipal Affairs & Housing Housing Supply Action Plan 18

5 Minutes Huronia Airport Commission November minutes 19

6 Newsletter AMO Watchfile Newsletter Dec 13 2018 22

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In This Issue- Consultation on Provincial Housing Supply Action Plan.- ROMA Conference Program at a Glance now available.- As a member of Council what you need to know!- Land Use Planning: Beyond the Basics.- Communications 101 for Elected Officials.- Countdown to Conference has begun.- Showcase at the AMO Conference - August 2019.- LAS Blog: Electric Trucks - 2018 update.- ONE Investment HISA holiday closure.- FCM scholarships deadline extended.- Green Municipal Fund capital project funding available: Apply today! - Careers with AMO, Simcoe County and Kingston.

Provincial MattersThe provincial government is consulting the public, including municipal governments, about how toincrease the supply of housing in Ontario. Visit Increasing Housing Supply in Ontario to learn more andparticipate. Submissions will be accepted until January 25, 2019. Ideas can also be provided to AMO whowill be formally responding to the consultation on behalf of its municipal members.

Eye on EventsRegistration for the 2019 ROMA Conference is still available - review the Program at a Glance for alleducational opportunities. Deadline to submit requests for delegations to the Ministry is Monday,December 10.

As a member of Council what do you need to know? The ABC’s of municipal government; limiting yourrisk; budgeting; planning; impacts of new legislation and so much more. Learn what it takes to be aneffective team member and a municipal leader at this full day session in 2019. Space is limited, registertoday.

The Land Use Planning: Beyond the Basics half day workshop will reinforce the central role thatmunicipalities play in implementing and managing the land use policy framework in Ontario. It will includea review of the relevant elements of the Ontario Planning Act as well as a run-down of the key planningtools and how they are applied in the municipal context. Register today and receive access to the newLand Use Planning: The Basics online course for free (launching January 2019).

Elected officials live in the spotlight. The rise of social media and decline of local news have changed thecommunications landscape. This half-day workshop will help you learn how to promote good news,manage issues professionally, and to leverage traditional and social media. Most of all, this session willhelp elected officials communicate effectively and sleep soundly. Click here for more details and to

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The 2019 AMO AGM and Annual Conference will be held in Ottawa from August 18 - 21, 2019. AMO hasnegotiated Conference rates at eight hotels. In order to ensure the booking process goes smoothly pleaseread the details in full and make note of all deposit and cancellation policies for the individual properties.Call-in numbers and online reservation links will be posted in late December, as reservations made beforeJanuary 9, 2019 will not be honoured.

Showcase your product or service at the 2019 AMO AGM and Annual Conference in August. Are you amunicipal supplier or vendor? Do you have a product or service that would benefit the municipal sector?Then register today for the AMO Annual Conference Exhibit Hall. Early bird offer available until January30, 2019 - download the exhibitor application today.

LAS The EV truck market has grown a lot in 2018. Check out the LAS Blog for an update on the modelscurrently available and coming soon.

To all ONE Investment HISA investors, please note that the last day to request HISA deposit orredemption transactions prior to year-end is noon on December 21st, 2018. Staff will be back in the officeon January 2, 2019.

Municipal Wire*FCM's Andrée P. Boucher Memorial Scholarship and Canadian Women in Municipal GovernmentScholarship aim to support young women who demonstrate leadership and interest in local government,and to encourage others to get involved in their community. The scholarships are part of an initiative toreach parity in municipal councils across Canada. To apply for any of the scholarships or to take a look atthe eligibility requirements, visit FCM’s website or reach out to Amanda Delorey. The deadline forapplications is extended to January 15, 2019.

The next deadline to apply for FCM’s Green Municipal Fund (GMF) capital project funding is March 1,2019. Loans of up to $5 million combined with grants for capital projects related to: energy efficiency andrecovery; water quality and conservation; transportation and fuel efficiency; waste management anddiversion. Contact an FCM advisor at 1-877-997-9926 or by email for more information.

CareersSpecial Events Coordinator - AMO. Reporting to the Director of the Membership Centre, the Coordinatorplays a key role in the delivery of conferences, member training events, workshops, seminars and e-learning opportunities for AMO’s members. The role involves extensive negotiation and liaison with a widevariety of suppliers and vendors, tradeshow exhibitors, sponsors and host communities. Responsibilitiesinclude graphic design and print/web communications and the promotion and marketing of events andmember services. Please apply in confidence to hr@amo.on.ca by December 14.

Policy Intern - AMO. Assisting senior advisors and the Director of Policy, the successful candidate willsupport AMO’s policy development process. The job will require research, analysis, report writing, projectplanning and coordination. The Intern will help identify issues of importance to municipal government andhelp demonstrate impacts of the issues and appropriate responses. Please apply in confidence to:hr@amo.on.ca by Friday, January 11, 2019, 12 noon.

Manager, 911 & Emergency Planning - County of Simcoe. Employment Status: Permanent Full-Time.Closing Date: December 14, 2018. Reports to: General Manager, Health & Emergency Services. To viewthe job description and submit your application, please visit County of Simcoe Jobs.

Manager, Development Approvals - City of Kingston. Reports to: Director of Planning, Building &Licensing Services. Job Type: Full Time. Closing Date: January 14, 2019. Please apply to CareerOpportunities at City of Kingston Careers. Your resumé must clearly demonstrate how you meet therequirements of the position.

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Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services Public Safety Division

Ministère de la Sécurité communautaire et des Services correctionnels Division de la sécurité publique

25 Grosvenor St. 12th Floor Toronto ON M7A 2H3 Telephone: (416) 314-3377 Facsimile: (416) 314-4037

25 rue Grosvenor 12e étage Toronto ON M7A 2H3 Téléphone: (416) 314-3377 Télécopieur: (416) 314-4037

MEMORANDUM TO: All Chiefs of Police and Interim Commissioner B.W. (Brad) Blair

Chairs, Police Services Boards FROM: Stephen Beckett Assistant Deputy Minister Public Safety Division and Public Safety Training Division SUBJECT: Letter from Minister Jones DATE OF ISSUE: December 3, 2018 CLASSIFICATION: General Information RETENTION: Indefinite INDEX NO.: 18-0080 PRIORITY: Normal Please find attached a letter from the Honourable Sylvia Jones, Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. Sincerely,

Stephen Beckett Assistant Deputy Minister Public Safety Division and Public Safety Training Division Attachment

Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

Office of the Minister

25 Grosvenor Street 1e Floor Toronto ON M7A 1Y6 Tel: 416-325-0408 MCSCS.Feedback@Ontario.ca

Ministere de la Securite communautaire et des Services correctionnels

Bureau du ministre

25, rue Grosvenor 18e etage Toronto ON M7A 1Y6 Tel: 416-325-0408 MCSCS.Feedback@Ontario.ca

Ontario

MC-2018-1463 By e-mail

December 3, 2018

Chiefs of Police Services Chairs of Police Services Boards

Dear Chiefs and Chairs:

I am writing to formally introduce myself as the new Minister of Community Safety and Correctional Services. I am thankful to the Honourable Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, for this opportunity and honoured to take on this new role.

We have already taken the first steps to ensure our police services have the tools they need to combat crime and keep our communities safe.

As you know, our government recently announced an amendment to Regulation 267/10 (Conduct and Duties of Police Officers Respecting Investigations by the Special Investigations Unit), under the Police Services Act, 2018, with regards to police administration of naloxone. The amendment removes the requirement for a chief of police to notify the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) when a police officer has administered naloxone or other emergency first aid to someone who later dies or is seriously injured, provided there was no other interaction that could have caused the death or serious injury.

Our government has also recently announced: • The Public Safety Radio Network project that will give our provincial frontline and

emergency responders the reliable and modern tools they need to provide Ontarians with vital emergency services;

• An investment of over $182 million to replace aging police facilities' infrastructure and develop nine new Ontario Provincial Police detachments so communities can continue to receive modern, cost-efficient and high-quality police services essential to public safety; and

• An investment of $25 million to support Toronto Police Service over the next four years and provide them with additional digital, investigative and analytical resources necessary for fighting drug gangs and gun criminals.

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I look forward to working with you and other ministry partners and stakeholders to continue to keep Ontario's communities safe. I appreciate your continued support.

Best wishes,

Sylvia Jones Minister

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RE: Clean Air Council Member Feedback to the Province of Ontario’s Climate Change

Plan Consultation

About the Clean Air Council The Clean Air Council (CAC) is a network of 28 municipalities and health units from across the Greater Toronto, Hamilton and Southwestern Ontario Area1 who collaboratively work on the development and implementation of clean air and climate change mitigation and adaptation actions. More information on the Clean Air Council is available here. CAC representatives are the municipal change agents within leading climate action municipalities and have been working collaboratively across the region for almost 20 years to support and enable progress on clean air and climate change actions. This consultation presents the consensus of recommendations and input to the Province for consideration in the development of the upcoming Climate Change Plan and was facilitated and is endorsed by the Clean Air Partnership, a charitable environmental organization that serves as the secretariat for the Clean Air Councili.

The Need for a Climate Change Plan

Slow action to address climate change will most certainly have higher costs in comparison to investments implemented today. Unless we act fast, we will have to pay an ever-increasing price in economic damages that are far in excess of the costs associated with GHG reduction. The US Council of Economic Advisors found that if delayed action causes the mean global temperature increase to stabilize at 3°C above preindustrial levels, instead of 2°C, that delay will induce annual additional damages of 0.9% of global output. To put this percentage in perspective, 0.9% of Ontario’s 2017 GDP is $7.5bn. An additional degree increase, from 3° to 4°, would incur greater additional annual costs of 1.2% of global output or almost $10 billion dollars from Ontario’s GDP. These costs are not one-off costs: they would be incurred year after year because of the permanent damage caused by additional climate change resulting from the delay.

It is also worthwhile to note, in light of the costs from extreme weather that Ontario and other jurisdictions have incurred, these estimates are likely to be significant underestimations. Climate change impacts are already costing everyday Ontarians significant financial and social costs through extreme weather; cleaning up flooded basements, fighting forest fires, and evacuating homes threatened by those fires, as well as suffering health impacts from polluted air and extreme heat. In recent years, Ontario has seen a rise in climate-related extreme weather events, which have brought

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to the forefront both climate and infrastructure vulnerabilities, through extreme rain, wind, freezing rain and ice, and flooding. As per the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), “the costliest insured severe weather event of all time for Ontario remains the 2013 Toronto floods, which alone caused almost $1bn in damage.” The year 2018 on its own has seen numerous extreme weather storms, resulting in the following insured losses (not including costs to governments):

January 2018: Winter storm damage in Toronto, London & southwestern Ontario of nearly $10m

February 2018: Water and winter storm damage in southern Ontario of over $40m

Early April 2018: Wind and rain storm damage in southern Ontario topping $79m

Mid-April 2018: Winter storm and ice storm in Toronto and southwestern Ontario of over $187m

May 2018: Wind and rain storm in Hamilton & the GTA of over $500m

August 2018: Extensive flooding due to rain storm in Toronto of over $80m

These impacts are on top of a number of recent extreme weather events that have already caused significant costs for municipalities, insurance companies and Ontarians.

In 2016 Windsor’s flooding caused $108m in insured losses and Windsor’s 2017 flooding caused $124m in insured losses. A survey of flooding victims found that an estimated 45% of the residents had insurance cover these losses. The rest used personal savings, cashed in RRSPs, remortgaged their property, and/or borrowed from family and friends. This survey also highlighted the emotional toll it has taken on those who have flooded (i.e. increased anxiety, fear).

Estimated insurance cost of the 2014 flood in Burlington was close to $90m.

The 2013 Ice Storm resulted in $65m in direct costs to the City of Toronto and $940m in insured losses.

The 2013 Flood in Toronto resulted in $103m in direct costs to the City of Toronto and almost $1bn in insured losses.

The 2005 Flooding resulted in $50m in direct costs to the City of Toronto and $500m in insured losses.

CAC member municipalities represent over half the population of the Province of Ontario and with over 55% of Ontario’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions coming from buildings, transportation and waste; enabling municipalities to reduce their community’s GHGs is key to achieving clean air and climate change goals. The actions that also address GHGs will also play a key role in ensuring Ontario advances towards a competitive position in the low carbon economy.

There are many reasons for Ontario to invest in a low carbon economy. Not only does it make good business sense (saving energy and reducing energy costs), but it is also necessary for addressing climate change. The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates we need $10.5 trillion in incremental investment globally in low-carbon energy technologies and energy efficiency by 2030. This estimate is across all sectors, including power, transport, residential and commercial building equipment, and industrial sectors, in order to limit global temperature increases to 2°C, the threshold that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has identified as necessary for “avoiding catastrophic climate change.” This transformation presents a significant growth opportunity to Ontario’s economy especially as it relates to electric and autonomous vehicles as well as building

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energy efficiency renovations (which create well-paying jobs that cannot be outsourced from Ontario). It also provides the opportunity for Ontario to participate as a player in the emerging low carbon economy while making our communities better places to live.

Clean Air Council Recommendations CAC member municipalities have taken a strong leadership position on actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. At this link, you will find the 2015 - 2018 Clean Air Council Declaration & Progress Report that outlines the commitments made and actions and targets achieved by CAC municipalities. In addition to the various community sustainability and mitigation actions outlined in the CAC Progress Report over the last decade, CAC members have allocated significant resources and efforts to developing Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Plans.

The Clean Air Council is pleased that the Province of Ontario has committed to developing a new Climate Change Plan that will outline how it will advance climate mitigation and resilience actions. The CAC would like to recommend that the Province consider the below principles throughout the development of its Plan.

That Ontario’s GHG reduction targets are science-based, in line with the IPCC and Canada’s international commitment to limit warming to 1.5°C, while reducing Ontarians’ vulnerability to energy and carbon price increases, and fostering Ontario’s low carbon economy.

That the Plan place a strong emphasis on building on and leveraging existing programs and actions.

That the Plan include all Provincial ministries in its development and implementation and that the Province place a strong emphasis on collaborating with other sectors (especially municipalities and their community partners) to advance successful policies/programs, reduce duplication and achieve efficiencies of scale.

That the Plan ensures a high level of transparency associated with progress reports on program development, delivery, results and lessons learned that leads to continuous improvement.

The CAC thanks the Province for the opportunity to provide input into the below areas of focus.

Creating an understanding of the effects that climate change is having on our households, businesses, communities, and public infrastructure to better prepare and strengthen our resiliency.

In addition to the above impacts on our communities and infrastructure it is also extremely important that provincial messaging and efforts also speak to the significant health impacts of climate change. Climate change has the potential to affect human health by:

o increasing temperature-related morbidity and mortality; o exacerbating poor air quality and worsening respiratory and cardiovascular conditions; o increasing the risk of injuries and mortality resulting from extreme weather; o increasing food and water contamination with resulting increases in illness; o increasing the incidence of vector-borne illnesses, such as Lyme disease, associated with

the spread of vectors as Ontario’s climate become more favourable to their survival;

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o having effects on psychological health, including mental health and stress-related illnesses.

A number of public health climate change vulnerability assessment done by Ontario Health Units have identified that certain populations including seniors, children, those experiencing social isolation, individuals with chronic conditions, disabilities or both, and socially or economically marginalized individuals are at a higher risk of experiencing health effects from climate change. One of the largest concerns associated with climate change is its potential to worsen existing health inequity by increasing the health burden on already vulnerable groups, particularly among those with lower amounts of social support, education or economic resources. “Health equity means that all people can reach their full health potential and are not disadvantaged from attaining it because of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, social class, socioeconomic status or other socially determined circumstance” (Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care, Ontario Public Health Standards, 2018). We urge the Province to consider issues related to health equity when considering actions to address climate change.

It is essential to remember that actions that build capacity within sectors (including the municipal sector) and build the public’s access to information on climate change awareness and literacy and the need to mitigate and adapt to climate change, are worthy and in need of significant support. Educational and capacity building actions are needed in order to move Ontario towards a low carbon economy; ensure Ontario’s environmental, social and economic sustainability; and communicate the connection between extreme weather events and present and future climate change costs and impacts. Building Ontarians awareness and understanding of climate change needs to be advanced alongside opportunities for them to act on reducing their greenhouse gas emissions and increasing their resilience to climate change impacts.

Ensuring polluters are held accountable and creating dedicated measures that will efficiently reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

As was mentioned earlier, emissions from our communities accounts for over half of Ontario’s greenhouse gas emissions. While municipal operations themselves only account for only 2 – 5% of community greenhouse gas emissions, municipalities do play a role in indirectly influencing the energy use within their jurisdictions through their indirect influence and decision-making. Below are a summary of some of the possible areas of influence municipalities have available to them to help advance climate change mitigation and resilience actions. However, in order for municipalities to be able to act on the below opportunities they need to work in partnership with the Province in order to have the authority, capacity and efficiencies of scale needed to advance these efforts.

Smart Growth, Land Use & Transportation

How our communities are built plays an enormous role in how energy is used within that community. While smart growth principles and plans have often been highlighted for their environmental benefits, the role smart growth principles play in ensuring our community’s financial sustainability would benefit from increased communication and education. In addition, Ontario’s Climate Change Plan needs to protect and enhance opportunities to increase the transparency, efficiency and resilience of our infrastructure investments.

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Support and enable municipal efforts to more accurately calculate and account for growth costs. Development costs should be better aligned and associated with different land uses and growth areas within a municipality rather than averaged across a municipality and will provide increased transparency related to subsidization of specific land uses within the development fee structure.

Encourage and support municipal planning by increasing the municipality’s ability to better understand the greenhouse gas and financial sustainability implications associated with different land use archetypes. This can be achieved by the province undertaking modelling work that explores energy requirements, and the costs and revenue associated with different land type archetypes (ex. urban intensification, urban greenfield, rural greenfield, etc). Undertaking this work at the provincial level will save enormous financial and human resources by reducing the need for municipalities to undertake this expensive modelling work at the individual scale.

Enable and ensure mechanisms that provide stable capital and operating funding for public and active transportation. Investments in public transit are necessary not only to address the greenhouse gas emissions coming from our transportation sector, but also instrumental in addressing our economic competitiveness and the productivity losses resulting from congestion.

Work with stakeholders to undertake research on environmental health that collects and analyzes indicators of environment and human health. Such a system can ideally enable public health cost-benefit analysis is taken into account in public and active transportation decision making.

There is the need for a marked increase in support for low emission vehicles and charging infrastructure to enable Ontario to best manage the technologies that have the ability to keep more energy dollars in Ontario all while reducing greenhouse gas emissions and public health care costs. A multi-stakeholder and regional approach to addressing these infrastructure challenges is recommended.

Work with municipalities and other stakeholders to enable open source transportation ownership and trip data be more widely accessible in order to identify opportunities to improve transportation opportunities.

Advance local food production in urban and suburban areas as a means to address climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation and other public health issues, as well as economic development. Local food production will help reduce the impact of climate change on Ontario’s food supply, reduce emissions from the transportation of food to processing plants and markets, create local jobs, enhance access to a dependable and affordable supply of nutritious food and improve the overall resilience of our cities. Urban agriculture is an important component of the province’s growth, health, climate change and economic development strategies.

Community Energy

Municipalities would like to provide support for the Ministry of Energy, Northern Development and Mines’ Municipal Energy Plan program that has enabled a number of the municipalities within the Clean Air Council network to undertake the development and adoption of Community Energy Plans. This program has been very effective in raising the level of engagement within municipalities, their stakeholders and the community on local energy

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savings and use opportunities. We would like to provide our support for the continuation of this program.

There is the need for the Province and its various Ministries to work with municipalities, utilities and other key stakeholders to support the implementation of these Community Energy Plans. There are significant regulatory, institutional and financial barriers associated with advancing community energy projects. Initial barriers identified by municipalities include, but are not limited to: a)The role that utilities can and cannot play in community energy within their regulated utility and the administration associated with setting up an unregulated arm to the utility. b) How community energy projects can be financed: Ontario’s centralized energy system investments can be paid for by the rate base while community energy projects are ineligible to mobilize capital through the same base, thereby placing it at a significant financial disadvantage. c) Advancing business models (such as de-risking/enabling smaller scale public/private partnerships and virtual third party net metering) will be key to enabling Ontario to best prepare for the energy transition that distributed energy opportunities will provide to best meet local energy needs with local energy solutions.

Improving ease of access to energy use data for municipalities to help them more easily undertake energy inventories so that they can better understand how energy is used within their community and advancing their ability to identify energy saving opportunities. Municipalities are very keen to work with the Province and utilities to streamline data access in order to reduce costs to all stakeholders associated with energy data access and analysis.

In order to better support the implementation of local energy opportunities where they best enable benefits at the local, regional and provincial level; there is the need to develop an Energy Transition Road Map and Decision Making Matrix. The province, municipalities and utilities need to work together to develop and navigate a road map for the transition to a more decentralized energy system. Suggestions that CAC members would like to work with provincial and utility partners to develop and test include analysis of the following: (1) Identify potential futures: Accessing ever deeper energy efficiency opportunities (Conservation First principle); business as usual generation (centralized system); decentralized generation (community with or without micro grid); individual generation (not connected up to any other grid simply at the building level) and how these scenarios impact or support each other. (2) Identification of the various pros and cons; costs and benefits associated with each of the scenarios, and development of a decision matrix to compare among them. (3) Review of the various scenarios from a variety of different lenses: provincial system, local/community system; resilience; climate; economics and economic development; social, short term, longer term, market transformation, etc.

Building Energy Use

No Climate Change Plan would be complete without speaking to how it will advance the enormous opportunities that exist within our building stock to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, increase our resilience to extreme weather events, reduce our vulnerability to energy and carbon prices over time, and create local economic development opportunities. One of the barriers associated with the above referenced energy efficiency retrofit opportunities relates to the up-front capital required to finance the actions that will lead to significant energy and greenhouse gas reduction savings and increased resilience over time. One opportunity to address the upfront capital costs barrier would be to use Local Improvement Charges (LICs) or On-Bill Financing in order to address the upfront capital costs and longer-term pay backs associated with building energy efficiency and resilience actions.

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The CAC would like to work with the Province to develop a comprehensive building energy climate change retrofit program that would enable the public and private sector to work together to finance and drive innovative climate mitigation and resilience solutions at the building scale. There are significant opportunities for the Province to play a key and necessary de-risking/aggregator/efficiency of scale role and work with municipal, utility and private sector stakeholders to develop a province-wide building energy retrofit program that enables the upfront capital costs associated with the retrofits to be paid back over time through energy and extreme weather protection savings. Building energy retrofits (especially of older buildings) play a key role in reducing people’s vulnerability to energy and carbon price increases over time and present an economic development opportunity in terms of local jobs that cannot be outsourced and keeping energy dollars local.

The need to increase energy literacy and build the market for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction actions also requires the advancement of policies such as the Home Energy Labeling requirement upon home sale listing and Energy Disclosure for large buildings. There is also the need to enable policies that can address the challenge of the split incentive problem (where tenants can’t make upgrades to reduce their energy use but landlords have no incentive to invest in energy efficiency as they do not face the financial costs of energy use). For example, increased requirements on the part of landlords to publicly report on energy costs of their rental units may be able to increase the market for energy efficient rental units. In addition, policies and programs need to be aimed at ensuring a trained energy efficiency service sector is there to provide high quality energy efficiency retrofit services. The implementation of these policies will be a significant and necessary step in scaling up the market for energy efficiency and greenhouse gas reduction programs.

The Ontario Building Code plays a critical role in advancing efficiency and resilience opportunities within the new building sector. There is the need for the Province and Municipalities and other stakeholders to work together to advance the uptake of energy and water efficiency and climate change resilience standards within the Ontario Building Code.

However, it is also recognized that when the Province sets mandatory standards within the Ontario Building Code it has to take a very large geographical area with varying markets and capacity into consideration. As such, the Province is required to set the Building Code at a level that can be achieved across that very large geographical area. By providing municipalities with the authority to mandate above the base requirements within the Ontario Building Code, Ontario municipalities can serve as living laboratories for energy efficiency and climate change resilience innovation and thereby test and advance the market at a smaller scale. Successful adoption of standards at the municipal scale can then inform and be integrated into future updates to mandatory components of Ontario’s Building Code thereby increasing capacity of the wider market more quickly and effectively across Ontario. A similar approach is being advanced in British Columbia whereby municipalities are able to require a higher voluntary standard than the minimum standard set within the Provincial Building Code.

Waste

It will be important to be able to look at Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) and the role that anaerobic digestion of municipal sewage and organics can play in increasing RNG supply. There is a need for the province, utilities and municipalities to work together to further develop the

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business case for RNG. In addition, the province should set RNG targets and set up a mechanism for how to address the price differential between RNG and conventional natural gas can be addressed.

CAC municipalities are seeking guidance from the Province on the advancement of the Strategy Ontario’s Waste-Free Strategy implementation plan and timeframe.

Carbon Pricing

The CAC does not support the allocation of Ontario’s financial resources to challenge the

authority of the federal government’s ability to implement a carbon price. The issue of climate

change requires all orders of government to work together to ensure Ontario’s and Canada’s

long-term future. Climate change poses a significant risk to that future. Debate and discussion

on how best to meet our climate change challenges and opportunities is healthy and

encouraged, but commitment to the necessary GHG reduction targets should be supported by

all orders of government. Carbon pricing has been found to be a necessary and effective

avenue for encouraging and financing GHG reduction actions and the Nobel Prize for

economics was awarded to William Nordhaus for his work on the business case for the key role

carbon pricing should play as a means of cost effectively reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Increasing Ontario’s Resilience to Climate Change and Extreme Weather The CAC is pleased that the Province has committed to advancing a Plan that looks at both mitigation and adaptation to climate change. The CAC is pleased to provide the below recommendations but we would particularly welcome the opportunity to provide more detailed feedback through further discussion directly with Ministry staff.

The CAC has been calling for the need to create a one-window source for leading climate projection data and adaptation information like is the case in other Canadian provinces. However, what CAC members think is just as necessary is a service where this data is downscaled and interpreted for Ontario municipalities and public health units, presented in formats that are understandable and can be operationalized by municipal staff across a range of municipal service areas. We would also need to better understand how the Province will address the dearth of funding available for municipalities and public health units to implement the adaptation measures they are planning.

Recommendation # 1: Support the efforts of Ontario municipalities to integrate a mitigation and adaptation lens to funding, infrastructure processes and decision making, including technical support for municipalities in the development of climate change adaptation plans. In order to achieve this overarching goal the CAC recommends the following actions:

Create a one-window source for leading climate projection data and adaptation information like is the case in other Canadian provinces. This one-window should provide data that is downscaled and interpreted for Ontario municipalities and public health units, presented in

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formats that are understandable and can be operationalized by municipal staff across a range of municipal service areas.

Work with municipalities, conservation authorities and other key stakeholders to develop a framework for the consideration of future climate into municipal decision -making.

Ensure an accountable and transparent structure for reporting on how climate change considerations have been integrated into infrastructure funding and decision-making.

A financing mechanism is required to ensure no one level of government is unduly burdened with financing resilience.

Recommendation # 2: Recognize and support the significant value of a more formal and better resourced Regional Climate Change Adaptation Collaborative as a mechanism to advance progress and capacity in Ontario communities. While informal collaboration and information sharing networks already exist across Greater Toronto, Hamilton and into Southern Ontario as a result of the efforts of municipalities, Clean Air Partnership, the Ontario Climate Consortium, as well as many others; there is a significant opportunity to augment the of that collaboration through the establishment of a more formal and better resourced regional resilience effort. This would:

Increase efficiency and outcomes, accelerating progress toward community resiliency;

Reduce the duplication of effort, saving time and money;

Streamline municipal and sectoral implementation of resilience opportunities;

Serve community members enabling prosperity within and across jurisdictional boundaries; and

Provide a much more effective mechanism for addressing interdependencies between sectors that cross local municipal boundaries.

Recommendation # 3: Work with and learn from other regional collaboratives taking place in other jurisdictions. There has been significant effort in developing Regional Resilience Networks in the United States, Australia and the European Union that can serve as guidance for Ontario Regional Resilience Collaboratives. For example, the Lessons on Regional Resilience Report on best practices from the United States found that, while still respecting roles and decision making in each jurisdiction involved, regional collaboratives:

increase overall synergies;

reduce duplication of effort;

enable entities to leverage scarce financial resources and staff time;

raise the bar for collective assessment of climate change risks;

facilitate data sharing and analysis; and

support the development of regional strategies for responding to the threats posed by climate change.

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The Clean Air Council municipal members are keenly interested in developing a long-term collaborative process that brings together Clean Air Council member municipalities with the various Province of Ontario ministries to empower Ontario municipalities to be able to act on the climate change mitigation and resilience opportunities within their communities.

Significant experience and expertise exists within the Clean Air Council network and we look forward to working with the Province of Ontario to reduce our risks from the impacts of climate change and advance our low carbon transformation. It is only by increasing the communication and alignment between the province and municipalities that we will be able to create the livable, resilient and economically competitive communities Ontarian’s desire. We share the desire to see Ontario’s economy grow and thrive. Helping businesses, municipalities, organizations, workers and individuals transition to clean, lower-cost, energy-efficient solutions can make our province more competitive and healthy, create new jobs in many industries, increase Ontario’s energy independence, and reduce carbon pollution all while cutting energy costs.

The Clean Air Council looks forward to ensuring a collaborative and engaged relationship between Provincial Ministries and the Clean Air Council network. Please contact Gabriella Kalapos for more information on the Clean Air Council networks as well as any additional information on any of the above input.

Gabriella Kalapos Executive Director Clean Air Partnership and Co-Chair of the Clean Air Council gkalapos@cleanairpartnership.org Tel: 416-948-7125

i CAC Municipal and Public Health Unit members include: Ajax, Aurora, Brampton, Burlington, Caledon, Clarington, Durham Region, Guelph, Halton Region, Halton Hills, Hamilton, King, London, Markham, Mississauga, Newmarket, Oakville, Oshawa, Peel Region, Pickering, Richmond Hill, Simcoe-Muskoka District Health Unit, Toronto, Vaughan, Region of Waterloo, Whitby, Windsor, York Region.

i Municipal staff representatives on the Clean Air Council (CAC) were consulted in the preparation of this submission to reflect the feedback of member municipalities but direct endorsement of this submission by municipal councils was not sought due to the short time frame for this consultation which does not allow for adequate time to seek council endorsement and also doesn’t allow for municipalities to submit their own submissions.

HURONIA AIRPORT COMMISSION

Minutes of the November Regular Meeting

November 22, 2018 7:00P.M.

At the Huronia Airport Administration Building

In Attendance: Don Cooper, Chair

Roy Ellis

Dan Larose

Gibb Wishart

Robert Gow

George Macdonald

Adam Rigden, Airport Manager

Jackie Maurice, Minute Taker

Regrets: Steffen Walma

Agenda:

Motion: Moved by Commissioner Macdonald and seconded by Commissioner Wishart that

the agenda be approved

Carried

Guests: Midland District Railway Club- John Harrison, Lease Agreement approval, Signed.

Minutes:

Motion: Moved by Commissioner Ellis and seconded by Commissioner Larose that

the minutes for the October meeting be accepted

Carried

Correspondence:

From: Re:

Paul Norris, Ont. Street Outlaws Race Event

Interest in trying to hold event next year at Huronia Airport, Insurance must be Awarded 30 days prior

to event, Must have township approval.

Laura Russell, Township of Tiny Race Event

Motion from township stating approval if Airport Commission approves

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Minutes of the November Regular Meeting

November 22, 2018 7:00P.M.

At the Huronia Airport Administration Building

Financial Reports:

Motion: Moved by Commissioner Gow and seconded by Commissioner Ellis that

the accounts for November 2018 be paid as per the attached invoices

1 Hydro One

528.73 direct debit

2 Hydro One

42.66 direct debit

3 RBC VISA

3,475.28 direct debit

4 Telizon

142.33 direct debit

5 Sage Accounting

16.50 direct debit

6 Cash from Till

330.87 Cash

7 Adam Rigden Cell

36.00 Cash

8 TD Investment

150.00 Cx#514

4,722.37 Total

Motion: To approve revised 2019 Budget.

Moved by Commissioner Gow, Seconded by Commissioner Ellis

Carried

Managers Report

Stats to the end of July 2018 - Traffic Movements and Fuel Sales

Surplus snow blower Town of Midland

o Picked up Nov. 13.

o Completed short training session with Midland Town staff,

Staff Training – on going

o On-line training to be completed

o Modify document received from Tiny Township to reflect Airport operations

New Diesel Tank (generator/Equipment)

o Installation Dec. 3

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Minutes of the November Regular Meeting

November 22, 2018 7:00P.M.

At the Huronia Airport Administration Building

Commissioner’s Reports:

Financial planning Meeting with the Owner`s – Commissioner Cooper/Ellis-Business

Plan review , Project deliverables , RFP review committee Commissioners Ellis, Gow

and Adam Rigden Terms of reference to be completed by Kim Crewson by Nov 7th ,

1/3 payable by each municipality for Economic Impact Study

Next Meeting-Holiday Meeting December 10th, 2018, Capitan Ken’s Penteng, 6 PM

Motion to adjourn at 8:45

Chairman Secretary Treasurer

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In This Issue- Updated telecommunications and rights-of-way handbook for municipalities.- As a member of Council what you need to know!- Land Use Planning: Beyond the Basics.- Communications 101 for Elected Officials.- Countdown to AMO Conference has begun.- Showcase at the AMO Conference - August 2019.- LAS Blog: Canada's Federal Carbon Pricing System. - ONE Investment principal protected notes webinar video recording.- ONE Investment HISA holiday closure.- Career with AMO.

Federal MattersFCM has published the second edition of its Telecommunications and rights-of-way: A handbook formunicipalities. It is a significant update to the one first released in 2009. Share this tool with yourengineers, technical experts and lawyers—especially those working in the areas of rights-of-way, utilities,land or transportation.

Eye on EventsAs a member of Council what do you need to know? The ABC’s of municipal government; limiting yourrisk; budgeting; planning; impacts of new legislation and much more. Learn what it takes to be an effectiveteam member and a municipal leader at this full day session in 2019. Space is limited, register today.

The Land Use Planning: Beyond the Basics workshop will reinforce the central role that municipalities playin implementing and managing the land use policy framework in Ontario. It will include a review of therelevant elements of the Ontario Planning Act as well as a run-down of key planning tools and how theyare applied in the municipal context. Register today and receive access to the new Land Use Planning:The Basics online course for free (launching January 2019).

Elected officials live in the spotlight. The rise of social media and decline of local news have changed thecommunications landscape. This workshop will help you learn how to promote good news, manage issuesprofessionally, and leverage traditional and social media. Most of all, this session will help elected officialscommunicate effectively and sleep soundly. Click here for more details and to register.

The 2019 AMO AGM and Annual Conference will be held in Ottawa from August 18 - 21, 2019. AMO hasnegotiated Conference rates at eight hotels. In order to ensure the booking process goes smoothly pleaseread the details in full and make note of all deposit and cancellation policies for the individual properties.Call-in numbers and online reservation links will be posted in late December, as reservations made beforeJanuary 9, 2019 will not be honoured.

Showcase your product or service at the 2019 AMO AGM and Annual Conference in August. Are you amunicipal supplier or vendor? Do you have a product or service that would benefit the municipal sector?Then register today for the AMO Annual Conference Exhibit Hall. Early bird offer available until January30, 2019 - download the exhibitor application today.

LAS LAS Blog: Carbon pricing in Ontario is changing. Check out the LAS Blog to learn how this will impact yourmunicipal energy costs.

Last week, ONE Investment hosted a webinar on the subject of principal protected notes and demystifiedthe complexities behind it. If you missed it or want to review the concepts, you can now watch the videorecording on our website.

To all ONE Investment HISA investors, please note that the last day to request HISA deposit orredemption transactions prior to year-end is noon on December 21st, 2018. Staff will be back in the officeon January 2, 2019.

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