Good afternoon everyone. Let's get started with the seventh meeting of the community and protective services committee. We'll start with a land acknowledgement. The city of London is situated on the traditional lands of Yiannabic, Hodneson, Lenapoek, and Adawandrin. We honor and respect the history, languages, and culture of the diverse indigenous people who call this territory home. The city of London is currently home to many First Nation matei in Inua today. As representatives of the people of the city of London, we are grateful to have the opportunity to work and live in this territory. In case anyone's looking for information on uh how to access this meeting, the City of London is committed to making every effort to provide alternate formats and communication support for meetings upon request. To make a request specific to this meeting, please contact CPSClondon.ca or 519-661-2489 extension2425. With that, we are on item one, the disclosures of pecunary interest. Okay, seeing none, uh we'll move on to our consent items. We have four. Uh I'll look to members of the committee to see if there's any requests to pull any items. Seeing none, motion to approve. Thank you. I have councelor Ferrer and a seconder, Councelor Traso. Thank you so much. And with that, we will open this for discussion. What would you Who would like to speak on these items? Councelor Trusso, I'll start with you. I just wanted to um briefly acknowledge the work that's been done on the contribution agreement uh the community action for prenatal and child health program. Um this is something that doesn't get a lot of council um attention or time. There's nothing there's there's nothing unusual or controversial here, but I just I just want to say um this is very important to the community and I just wanted to not pull it, but just say thank you for the work. So that's it. >> Thank you. I'll go to Councelor Ferrer, then councelor Hopkins. Councelor Ferrer. >> Thank you, Chair. And I'll just um I'll also I guess speak to the next item, the uh YMCA center branch and the aquatics program and city staff uh opening that up for everybody uh beyond uh YMCA members. So I just want to thank you for the great work there, too. I think it's going to be a great addition. It's definitely needed. So I appreciate the work. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'll go to Councelor Hopkins next. Yeah, thank you, Madam Chair. And maybe I'll start with 2.2, which is the YMCA center branch program services and access agreement. I um I love swimming in our pools and uh really pleased to um see that we've got 6,000 aquatic spaces. So, my question maybe through you, Madam Chair, to staff, is we're in a we do a five-year agreement. It's up for renewal. Have we seen do we know what those increases look like uh during the past number of years? >> Thank you. I'll go to Miss Smith. >> Thank you and through the chair. We're very excited about the 600 aquatic spaces. Um we will look at this annually. We'll see how it also it also allows some uh drop in passes too. So we'll see what the uptake is. There's always ways based on availability to increase those. As you know, we also partner and have some capacity currently in our aquatic programs, our city of London aquatic programs at both Stony Creek and start.com. So, this is our third YMCA, which is very exciting. And we continue to monitor monitor those and staff from both sides u meet quite regularly throughout the year to to discuss capacity opportunities and and potential challenges too. >> Councelor Hopkins. >> Yeah, thank you. And on top of that, it's quite affordable to go, uh, and do some lane swimming, which I enjoy. So, um, really good to see our pools being used. Uh, and many thanks to the federal government on 2.3. That money is very much appreciated on behalf of the municipality. So, thanks for the report. >> Thank you. I'll go to councelor Purple next. >> Thank you, sir. Chair to the staff. 2.2. I'll start with YMCA. um these individuals, they'll be signing up through our portal. How is it going to be in terms of the liability if something was to happen to these attendees at the YMCA premises? Thank you. And to the chair, this was work done very closely with our legal and risk department along with legal and risk department at the YMCA. So it follows the very same agreements and the responsibilities and as part of the agreement they have signed on to any uh provincial requirements through for example the Royal Life Saving society. So this is the same and similar agreements that we've been doing for a number of years both at StarTech and um at Stony Creek 2. So they are responsible as they are in in their facility and and those have been clearly articulated into the in the agreement that is before you today. Thank you. So just to reiterate it uh if something was to happen at their premises, city of London will not be reliable responsible for these. It will be the premises of YMCA, the organization of YMCA. Correct. >> Miss Smith, >> sorry to the chair. That is correct. >> Council, >> thank you very much. And I do have a question regarding the 2.4 for and if you could please uh there are uh recommendations A B C D I understand the A that's in front of us now but can you clarify for me kind of the timing B CD in terms of when it's in the process circulated province organizations and then when it actually comes back to us in D what what is going to be kind of our power I know you're coming just back with the implementation plan but BCD if you could please explain to me timeline and where will be able to adjust change. Thank you, >> Mr. Dickens. Go ahead. >> Uh thank you and through you, Madam Chair. So for um B, we will B and C uh pending council approval. Uh we will be submitting this to the province prior to the end of May. Uh so May 29th uh is our deadline to submit this to the province. So we'll be doing that. Uh, as far as D, we are in the provincial hands in terms of how long they take to do any review, any back and forth, questions, revisions, suggestions, things like that. Uh but once we hear back from the province, uh we will move as quick as we can to put together an implementation plan that's well thought out uh covers all the aspects of this 5-year plan and then uh we bring that back to committee and council uh for council to make decisions on what they want to see implemented. Again, when you look at this in entirety, you have various bylaws this council's passed um when it comes to housing stability and and uh supporting uh all tenants and residents in London, not just in social and health development, but through municipal compliance and others. Uh but you have a five-year plan and we also have before committee and will be coming again before committee is a procurement framework. So when you start to take the the multi-year plan, you take the procurement framework and you take the other reports that are have been before you, uh you start to see the entire picture. Uh and that is where council directs. Where do we want to see the resources go? Where do we want to see the efforts go? And what are those outcomes we want to achieve? >> Councelor, >> perfect. Thank you very much for that. And just follow up and I I don't know if I missed it or not. where in the province May 29th where are the local organizations to the community partners in the in this timeline >> Mr. Dickens. >> Uh thank you through again when we submit to the uh ministry we'll also submit uh as C indicates uh we'll submit to our community partners as well. Um noting in the report uh that many organizations including the general public have been uh involved to the state already in shaping this plan. >> Councelor Pville, >> thank you very much for all the answers. No more questions or comments. >> Thank you. Any other speakers on consent? Councelor Traso. >> Um, thank you. I wanted to um I wanted to refer to 24 um the the report in part three, improving community safety and well-being. 3C, completing regular inspections to uphold health, safety, and maintenance standards. And I was hoping I could just get a little bit more detail about what the program is there and is is is going to do in light of the um very very poor ratings that London Middle Sex Housing Corporation has received in its asset management plan. >> Thank you. I'll go to Mr. Mathers >> and sorry I'll go to Mr. Felberg. >> Uh thank you inter madam chair. Uh so a big part of what we're doing in the social and community housing um work that we're doing, we're going out, we're doing building condition assessments as part of our transition from end of mortgage uh into our service agreements. So that's an opportunity for us to go in and look at the capital needs in the different uh properties and different projects around this around the city and into the county. Um, as far as uh specific and acute issues, those are those come through uh our municipal compliance folks and they'll be undertaking property standards reviews uh as necessary uh in order to uh identify where some of the challenges are and then provide support uh or identify what those challenges are to the the different uh nonprofits. As far as funding goes, we rely very heavily on the COCI program that we receive uh the the funding from the provincial government in order to make a number of those repairs. Uh so as we develop the implementation plan and as we work through the details uh following the provincial guidance that we received after we submit, we'll be able to refine that a little bit more and be able to bring something back uh a little more specific for council to consider. >> Um thank you. you and I I'll be um looking forward in anticipation of uh further details because as you know I've raised this I I raised this at the last shareholders meeting. I wanted to institute more proactive inspections at least in the uh very poor and poor buildings. I did not get support for that but I really hope that this is moving along because I think London Middle Sex Community Housing needs a little additional um what's the word? nudging to take care of these matters. Thank you. >> Thank you. I'll go to councelor Hopkins. >> Uh thank you, Madam Chair, and I uh just make want to make a quick comment and and maybe a question through you to staff on 2.44. Uh first of all, thanks for the update. Thanks to the 500 participants. It was really good to know that there's a lot of feedback coming from the community on this plan. So, uh maybe a question when we um talk about affordable housing, uh I know it's set up, we have different types of affordable housing, but will that be identified more when we get the plan back. I'm always wondering when I read the word affordable housing, what exactly are we referring to? we're referring to a townhouse or are we you know it's so broad and when I read sometimes these plans it's I'm always questioning what exactly do we mean >> thank you >> thank you Mr. Felberg. >> Uh thank you through you madam chair. So um as you dig into the plan and and you go into the create more housing stock section or the strategic area focus uh we do identify some of our goals and some of the results we'll be tracking uh through that and some of the outcomes that we're going to measure. So some of the things that we'll be looking to increase uh approval uh construction and occu uh occupied units would be for residential highly supportive and um affordable uh um affordable units. Uh we'll also be looking for how we can retain our below market units which are some of those RGI units that we talk about. Uh and then a big part of that also will be decreasing the number of individuals and families on the community weight list which is not uh really part of your question. Um what we can do when we come back is we can identify how uh the different unit types and the different target populations uh that we're looking to support. We can identify how we're looking to do that. That's big part of the road map and what we're doing uh uh with council's endorsement to build more affordable housing in the community. Uh, I think that would probably um allow us to connect it back to the housing needs assessment, which was something that we did as part of our housing accelerator fund in order to identify where in the city we needed different types of units and uh which families we needed to support. >> Councelor Hopkins. >> Yeah, I I really uh do look forward to the plan coming back and and with those definitions and understanding. I know it's very complex and how we understand the different types of housing in our community is something that I would appreciate. So, thank you. >> Thank you. I'll look for any other speakers on these items. Okay, seeing none, we'll open the vote. closing the vote. The motion carries 5 to zero. >> Thank you. Uh we have no scheduled items or items for direction. I've not been made aware of any deferred matters or additional business, but just looking to committee members to see if there's anything else just for number five right now. Um, and so that moves us to number six, which is our confidential item uh 6.1 and the reasons are listed in the agenda. Looking for a move on this item. Council Hopkins, councelor Ferrer. Thank you. We'll open the vote on that. >> Closing the vote. The motion carries 5 to zero. >> Thank you. And we'll just prepare the room. Thank you. I will ask councelor Privile to report out from in camera. >> Thank you, chair. And I would like to report at uh 6.1 under confidential agenda at today's committee and protective services committee. Progress has been made. Thank you. >> Thank you. With that, we're on item seven, adjournment. Looking for a motion to adjurnn. Councelor Hopkins, councelor Ferrer by hand. All in favor? Closing the vote. The motion carries. Six. Thanks everyone.