Well, good afternoon. All right. Well, good afternoon, council, and uh welcome to the continuation of our meeting this afternoon. So, I just would like to start with a territorial acknowledgement. As we recognize the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on Wednesday, September 30th, I acknowledge the indigenous peoples who have cared for these lands since time in memorial. I honor the survivors of residential schools, the children who never returned home, and their families and communities. I recognize that reconciliation requires more than words. It calls for listening, learning, reflection, and meaningful action. I remain on a learning journey, and I'm committed to deepening my understanding, confronting the ongoing impacts of colonialism, and carrying what I learn into my actions and relationships. My own connection to the land has been shaped by living in Woodstock, Kitchener, and now Waterlue. I recognize Woodstock as being on the traditional territories of the Hodnoni, Lape and Anage Abbe and within lands covered by the upper Canada treaties. I also recognize Kitchener and Warloo as being on the Halddederman tract with traditional territory of the Chinatan Anesnab and Hodnon peoples. As I reflect on the places I have called home, I'm grateful for the land and waters that have sustained me and acknowledge my responsibility to learn about their histories, honor the enduring presence and contributions of indigenous peoples, and deepen my relationship with the land through respectful action. As a city, we encourage everyone to take time to deepen their understanding of the residential school system and its lasting impacts. Reconciliation is not a single day or action. It's an ongoing commitment to build respectful relationships, advancing understanding, and taking meaningful action. There are a number of events and activities that will take place in our community, and we encourage everyone to find the time to participate in some way. City services will remain open, but staff will spend time reflecting and learning. As a city, we reaffirm our commitment to reconciliation work and to supporting a community where future generations can thrive. Under our moment of reflection, the city of Waterlue would like to recognize the legacy of Dr. Ron Schlleggo. The city of Waterlue extends its condolences to the family, friends, and many colleagues of Dr. Ron Schlaggel, whose remarkable contributions as an entrepreneur, educator, philanthropist, and community builder have left a lasting impact in our community. As a professor at the University of Wateroo, Ron played an important role in the development of health studies and gerontology, helping to strengthen the connection between academic research and the well-being of our community. His dedication to improving the lives of older adults continued through his work with Schlaggo Villages and the Schlaggel University of Wateroo Research Institute for Aging. His entrepreneurial spirit, commitment to learning, and remarkable generosity extended across many sectors from agriculture and urban development to health care, including mental health and addiction care through Homeward Homewood Health Center. He will be remembered as a community builder who helped make Waterlue region a stronger and more connected place. Ron was a true barn raiser in Waterlue region and his legacy is one of innovation, compassion and commitment to community. His contributions to urban development, mental health and healthy aging continue to have an impact in water. On behalf of the city of Waterlue, we extend our heartfelt condolences to Ron's sons, their families, and all those who had the privilege of knowing and working with Ron. As many of you may know, the flags are at half mass in memory of Ron Schllegel and all that he has contributed to the city of Waterlue. Uh council disclosure of Canary interest and the general nature thereof. Seeing none, we are on to presentations and delegations. And our first presentation is the museum. Welcome, David. It's always lovely to see you here. Um, I'm here today to thank you for your ongoing support of the museum and to just give you an update. I had hoped to do this before our opening on Wednesday night, but um, working with the clerk, it was best that I did it today. Um so um just very quickly our our board has turned over 60% in the last 18 months. Uh but we still have a pretty stellar group of pe people uh leading leading our mission uh which is wonderful and represented representation from across the region. Um, we began, as many of you know, as a children's museum 23 years ago with the motto of art and technology at play. And I've tried to stay true to that as it was, um, such an important connection to this community, the art and technology. Um, we're doing well. Um, we've been working with the city of Kitchener for a couple of years now to get to that sustainable model that we all want. um while trying to meet uh the demands of a growing population. Um our numbers have been increasing gatewise. Um we're almost back to the pre-COVID numbers and uh some of our past uh March break we had the highest numbers of of the week sort of the highest single day um attendance and that type of thing. Um and um last year our fiscal ended June 30th last year uh year-over-year our date went up 20% and we achieved a surplus um and um it's the highest revenue ever for a number of categories um from membership education camps and so on. And this uh this summer we've uh beginning the new fiscal we're doing quite well. Um we've just finished Q well this week we will finish Q1 um and be have actually overachieved the targets there. Uh we have some great um speakers coming up in connection to the Da Vinci dialogues. Um we recently had uh Colonel Hatfield here in Waterlue uh to a thousand people at Lazariti Hall. Um we've got Bob McDonald from Corks and Corks and Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen who just went around the moon and We're bringing Margaret Atwood back. Um she was wonderful the last time we had her here. Um from Waterlue we have a good representation and we try our best to be Waterlue's museum as well. Um many of our board are from from the city. Um Da Vinci Dialogues both seven um from from universities and areas including the water cycling club who built um a Da Vinci bridge in the hydro cut. I did not know that, but they actually built a Da Vinci bridge, um, engineered it, which will be one of the dialogues. Um, there there's a number of things as you can see there. I'm sure you've had this deck for a couple of days. Um, lots of school groups and and different um categories that represent approximately 25% of our of our um attendees and guests that we have. U part of the the Da Vinci um evenings on Wednesday nights we will have be working with the button factory to do some painting uh workshops and so on. Um and I I've mentioned Da Vinci a couple of times now and I hope you've heard of it before now. Um coming out of Wednesday we had um a lot of media. I was very very pleased CBC and Kitchener did a five minute segment on the morning after which was picked up on fresh air uh CBC across the province. had some national um national exposure. Um bottom line is we've had heavy media earned media coverage for the show and this past weekend on a glorious days that we had weatherwise we had over,50 people come which is pretty large for our organization especially on lovely uh lovely days like we've had. Um we've reached out part of my role in this has been reaching out to the the Italian community. um here and abroad. Um we had the the ambassador open the event on uh on Wednesday evening and we worked with a number of of groups um that you see up there including uh the Hamilton in the G area um business professional groups um they have large Italian populations so we're we're spreading the word. The show is in partnership with the the Leonard Da Vinci Museum in Rome which is kind of fun. Um, and the core of it to me is is the festival that we that we put on. And um, we've done this several other times with Titanic and Boreh Hall and the Rolling Stones and so on, but I'm particularly pleased with how far we've uh we've reached in terms of partnerships and so on. Um, the the list on the left is what we normally do and we've kind of dainized it. And on the right is some of the rooms that you will see, the galleries that you will see when you come to the show. Um you can see the anatomy um drawings up on the top right. Some of some of the creations that were uh that he drew and didn't necessarily build uh on the right lower right and then the digital immersive gallery IPO on the bottom left. The dialogues are um outstanding and um it's not very humble of me to say but ranging from Atwood and Hansen all the way through six post university or sorry postsecary um institutions including Villanova in Pennsylvania and Carlton um and obviously the local the local universities here. So we're um we're very pleased to have brought that to the community. I want to thank you for your ongoing support of the museum. We're working hard to bring worldclass exhibits here and uh give a reason for people to to live and work here. So, thank you very very much. >> Thank you. Thank you very much, David, for joining us today. It's always great. I had to look up as you were talking the Dainci Bridge because I hadn't seen that design before. It has no um uh no nails, no nothing. It's all self-supporting. >> They would use they would use it um a lot for the military 500 years ago when they would >> uh harvest logs and build it to take things over the takeps and so on. Um as an engineer, you can come. You can actually try to build a miniature one at the museum as part of the display. >> There you go. That's very questions. So, thank you all very >> um well, I'll just double check with council um councelor Ray. >> Thank you through you, Chair. Um thanks again for this presentation. Um you did make reference to um you know the the sort of journey that you've been on over the last couple years and we know that key cultural institutions across the community have definitely you know um struggled with rebounding after the pandemic area closure. So I just was curious whether you could share a little bit with us about what's working and why. >> Um what is definitely happening for us is the attendees are coming back. the guests are coming back. It's about 80,000 of the 100,000 prior to COVID, which is is growing exponentially, as I mentioned, year-over-year. And then this summer was uh some of our largest numbers. The rentals, um there was some negative media about us, would we be a be afloat and so on. So, we we took a bit of a hit there for weddings and that type of corporate events, but they're starting to come back. Um and um this the third sort of um bucket of revenue if you will is around sponsorship and grants and so on and those have slowed not just with the museum but where we used to enjoy a sponsorship at 25,000. Now we're fortunate to get 10,000 and and definitely the upper levels of government provincial and federal grants are just not what they were certainly before co. So, we're working hard and and this particular exhibit allows us to to have something that will appeal to a very broad demographic age- wise to CBC listeners, university students, people in Toronto. We've got advertising in Hamilton, Toronto, Global Mail, Toronto Star, and so on. But we also have that family floor, and we don't want to, that's our core market. Uh, so we're we're working sort of two exhibits at the same time. So, Okay, thank you all. >> I should turn my microphone on. My apologies. Um, my next presentation is uh with Christopher Hodson with regard to the bike friendly communities awards. Uh good afternoon, Chair Freeman and members of council. Um so I wanted to share with council uh the exciting news that Waterloo has been designated a platinum uh level bicycle friendly community and also to acknowledge the level of effort in achieving this milestone as it's so much more than just an award or a sign. It's a significant commitment investment made to cycling, active transportation and road safety over a long period of time. It is also a significant achievement given decisions at the uh provincial level which add to our own challenges here in Waterloo of a growing population, an intensifying city, public expectation and the often competing needs of the of limited space within our roadways. And I want to recognize my team for all the effort and energy they bring each day. And I want to acknowledge the incredible support from teams teams across the corporation in all that we do. The bicycle friendly community program is administered by share the world coalition and essentially the program evaluates, ranks and awards communities on how well they support cycling as a mode of transportation for all ages and abilities. There are four levels of award and Waterloo started out as a silver silver level back in 2014. We progressed to gold in 2018 and we've retained that level in 2024 and now platinum. Waterloo along with the city of Ottawa are the only platinum level communities in Ontario. This program started out in the US in the mid '90s and the application was just four basic questions. Today's application is more than 300 questions requiring varying levels of information and data in the responses. And it doesn't just focus on cycling anymore. Active transportation, transit, and road safety all four major components of the application. The application is based on a framework of key criteria collectively known as the five E on the screen in front of you. Education, engineering, encouragement, evaluation and planning, and equity and accessibility. And communities that demonstrate strength and commitment across all these five dimensions and present a balanced comprehensive approach are best positioned to earn an award. The bicycle friendly community initiative is an important program for the city as many of the goals and objectives of the program align with the city's strategic plan and transportation master plan including objectives around sustainability, road safety, climate action, healthy living and accessibility. The application is extensive and it would be difficult to capture here the level of work and effort we applied. I was told it's not for the faint-hearted. And so I'll just touch on a a few key areas. And the share the road coalition provides feedback to municipalities on how they can improve moving forward. And a key takeaway uh message from our 2024 application was for Waterloo to tell its story, explain it. Don't just say what you're doing, but show how you're doing it and why. And so our recent application was prepared capturing work since 2024. And the following are just some examples from the web bas based application. I won't really pause because it's uh way too much to read but it just gives you a bit of a snapshot of some of the applications we had to complete. In all we created sorry um so some questions required short answers others were more detailed providing data statistics descriptions of programs and policies some requiring maps and links to reports and information on our website such such as our budget and some fields limited the number of words or characters you could use but they did provide the opportunity to add further context and content by attaching appendices. So we took advantage of that and developed appendices for each of the five criteria to help capture the finer grain details and provide waloo's examples of what we were doing and why. And these are just some of the examples of our programs outreach work and uh education efforts. In all we created more than 50 pages of appendicities to support our application. We also prepared a set of tables capturing and explaining more than 50 city and region projects and initiatives such as bikeways, pedestrian crossovers, and studies just to name a few that have been completed or currently in planning or design since 2024. And here are some examples. Again, I won't really pause on them, but it just bit of a reflection on the type of work we did. And the tables help explain what the project is, why are we doing it, how, when, and who is doing it. Essentially, we're trying to tell WL's story. And from a visual perspective, we added these into a map uh into the existing network to kind of show the relationship of the works that are ongoing and the works that are in planned. Essentially, we wanted to clearly demonstrate that these are tangible actions that have been either completed or being worked on and we wanted to show that we are not just talking about it, but we're doing it. Achieving platinum standard was a recommendation of the last transportation master plan and so achieving this status reflects the level of effort the city has put into this over many years. This award is truly a corporate effort not just a team effort not just in this application itself but the work that is done across the city by so many teams every day every week every year. And we must recognize the significant work the region and the GRT contribute toward loose transportation vision. The influence, dedication and work of many others over the years have contributed to where we are today, including former staff, the Grand River accessibility advisory committee, Woo's active transportation committee over many, many years to name a few, but most especially our city decision makers both past and present. None of this would be achievable without the support of council in having those tough discussions and making those tough decisions and for those tough discussions and tough decisions yet to come as we continue our work. The most common question I get asked by other municipalities is how does wloot do what it does? And it's because of the support at the top by our decision makers and our corporate leaders. We know there will be different perspectives and viewpoints within the community on Waterloo's platinum award and that has to be acknowledged and accepted and we know we need to be keep doing more but the important thing is that I believe we've just started to scratch the surface of what water can achieve and that's something to get really excited about as we continue our journey and progress our cycling active transportation and road safety programs. Thank you. Well, thank you so much for that presentation, Chris. And I think that this is just a small sampling on this window of the people at the city that have made this happen. Um, and I just I want I wanted to also put this in context for council. Um, there's 444 municipalities in Ontario. There's two that are bike friendly platinum just this year. It's the first time ever it's been awarded and in all of the United States of America, there are only five communities that are platinum. So, we're joining a really small elite list of municipalities in North America that have really worked hard to try to demonstrate that we want to be a community where people feel welcome to walk, roll, or ride. Um, I think that the work we've done around bike friendly communities has also made us a more accessible community. I always try to remind people that I am only temporarily able-bodied and there may come a time when I can't I don't have a driver's license or I will have to rely entirely on some kind of mobility device. And by building these kinds of corridors and and this thoughtfulness, we're building a community that's welcoming to many people. Um, so I really I really have to I know I said it in the when we were together in Toronto, but I really want to thank Chris and Chris and Louise and Ron like I know Rhonda's just joined the team, but Chris, Chris and Louise, um, CS squared L. um you have done a lot of heavy lifting for a long time and I just really appreciate all that you do. And I realize as I sit here that the award itself still resides in my house and I forgot to bring it with me. And so I I know that we will be receiving a large like we'll be receiving the road signs that say platinum and we'll be replacing all of our road signs. So I hope it's okay. Maybe we can do a picture when we get the road signs. Uh Elellanar McMahon, the president of Share the Road, will be coming back to council to make that presentation. So, yep. Questions? >> Yeah. >> Thank you very much, Diane. I actually just had a question about the presentation, but certainly echo uh what you just shared and thanks to staff for the for the this is this is a long journey. This isn't something that just happened over the last couple of years or even four years. So, thank you very much to everyone who contributed. Um I I cycle very very frequently. So I really appreciate all the the improvements in the in the in the structure and the connections particularly. So um and and I do hear from people who use mobility devices how how much more accessible it is. I know there's more we need to do but but that they it's really helpful uh from a variety of perspectives. And I was I was pleased to be able to go down last Wednesday and be on a panel and take the pre-dinner uh photo um but wasn't able to stay for the celebration in the evening. But I just actually my question about the slides that you had here was would you mind going back to the slide that had all the different um like seven point this and four point that. >> I'm just curious if you could explain that a little bit more what that actually means. Oh n you you were just there. It's the map. Yeah, this map. Could you just explain what these the different numerical values mean and and what the different color coding means? That would be really helpful. And my other question is just how remind me how many kilometers of bike trails or trails we have multi-use or is it 280 something like that? Is that in the in the ballpark? >> I would have to get back to you. I'm sorry through the chair. I'd have to get back to you on that. Exactly. Um we we We have I know we have almost 50 kilometers of multi-use paths. So those are the pathways that we run adjacent the road um many many more trails of kilometers um both on the active transportation side and within parks. So it's an extensive network for sure. >> Okay. Thank you. But yeah, if you could provide a bit more explanation of what we're looking at here that would be helpful. >> Yes. So for sure. So it actually speaks to the table the three tables and maybe I'll just back up to those. Um, so these these are just a snapshot of some of the tables we use to try and capture projects that have either been completed since 2024 or in motion. So that could be um linear projects um uh any kind of um road safety initiatives, traffic calming, the pedestrian crossovers, all the work that is being done across um the city and the region. And what we did, we created these series of tables and we kind of mapped out the journey of these each uh each one send using what it was, why, how, etc. And then we were thinking that um you know once we've got all this information it looks good but it's pretty daunting to the evaluators that they may they may not know water is very well. They they may not ever been to water because it's I don't even know who the evaluators are. It's most of them. So we we built this map to try and show what the work is that we've been doing and are going to be doing across the the city and the region. Um and each one of these numbers correlates to the table number. Um which is why it's also colorcoded. So if you had all the tables in front of you, you could see what that what what is going on in that particular um street. You know, what does that black dotted line mean? what does the um the blue line etc mean? Um and it gives the evaluators a sense um when we layered it over the existing network they can see how we are infilling you know those missing pieces and getting people across the road as well. It's not just the linear projects. Um so yeah it was a bit of a snapshot for them to look at it to say that this is what we're doing. We're not we're not just talking about it. It's not just a line on a map. These are actually all projects that have been completed or are in motion as of the time of the application. >> Thank you. That's it's really impressive when you see it when you see it laid out like that on the map. Thanks for that additional explanation. And I I I I also thought council might like to know that when the bike friendly communities program came to Canada from the League of American Cyclists, one of our former planners, Scott Nevin, who's part of the Waterlue Cycling Club. He worked with Share the Road to essentially Canadianize the applications. So there's hundreds of hours of city staff time that have gone into supporting share the road to even create the bike friendly communities wards. Um after which Scott then couldn't obviously read our application. So, uh, he was on the the committee for many years and, um, you know, Bob, you've you've got a great team and it started a long time and I ago and I remember when Phil Huittson started on this work, too. And so, we've had we've had a lot of leaders in the transportation department and I hope that uh I hope that you can share back with your team just how valued they are. Thank you so much. I apologize again for leaving the framed certificate at home. I kept thinking I gave it to Louise and then realized she was taking the train and so I agreed to bring it home and and then I forgot. >> Thank you. >> So, thank you. Yeah. Was there any other questions, council? No. Thank you so much, Chris. All right. So, um we are on to the consent agenda. Did we want to remove anything from consent? Uh there's only one item so I'll assume that we're re removing the one item 7A and um councelor or right sorry you had questions. Yeah thank you. Um so I just have a quick question regarding the honoraria and compensation policy update in the uh report uh shared. Uh first first off I just want to say how supportive I am of this approach that we've taken to um normalizing honoraria. Um I think this is a really great move in the right direction. Um and I'm really excited to see um the intent to integrate it across uh all divisions. And so that's actually the thing that popped up to me is to better understand how and how that will likely happen. And one of the reasons that that sort of um came forth for me is because um while we when we first initiated this practice um it was about $5,000 for a portion of the year. Um 2025 it jumps up to 15,000. Um, but then there's a a statement about it being in the range potentially of 50,000 annually. And I just wanted to better understand that. That works out to about a hundred different people contributing to things. I just want to understand what that looks like possibly in the future. Thanks. >> Thank you for the question through chair to the counselor. Um the main con contributing factor in the increase in the honorarium budget is the revised gr partnership that we have with the region. So moving forward under the proposed arrangement the city would contribute 40% of the overall costs and the region 60% and that includes honorarium costs. Uh the budget as it's been to this point we haven't always had a dedicated line item to track specifically. So a portion of honorarium or other reimbursement funding may have been coming out of project budgets. So it will also reflect some improved tracking of the numbers. >> So essentially it's a it's a centralization of this mechanism is what we're talking about. >> That's correct. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Thank you. Any other questions on this item, council? Uh do I have a mover? Moved by councelor Wright, seconded by councelor Row. All in favor? That's carried unanimously. Thank you. Um we are on to items or staff reports I should say item nine and the first is silly city facilities and it's a greenhouse gas emissions progress update and we have a presentation from Scott Post. Welcome Scott. How are you? >> Thank you. >> Is it on? There we go. Good afternoon everyone. I'm here to present an update on city- owned facilities GHG emissions. So, this will include progress and projects uh to date here. Uh the timer's not on. If someone wants to go, >> you're good now. We'll count you down. >> Yeah. Thank you. Um, so we'll we'll talk about the project strategies we've employed, completed projects, uh, in progress projects, review the grants and incentives we've been successful with to date, a summary of our GHG savings, and then we'll wrap it up and highlight a few next steps. So the green building policy for city-owned buildings really guides our design um and our strategy and approach. So we've got electrification of heating which is fuel switching. So converting our heating sources for air and water from natural gas to electricity heat and energy recovery. So when those two are paired we can receive very we can achieve very high efficiencies which is great. Our building controls. So we moved to a standardized building controls. We have a master specification that we issue. So, it really allows us to modify our building controls and take control of that. Uh, no pun intended. The building closure upgrades. So, when those opportunities present themselves, we're looking at uh higher performance envelopes, windows, roofing, uh we'll get into a little bit more of that. LED lighting retrofits, of course, that's a cost-saving measure. And they are phasing out uh fluorescent uh any mercury containing uh lamps. And then we're always looking to align our energy and GHG projects with our infrastructure renewal. So this AMCC phase A, so this was um uh we were successful with the grant for 2.4 million under the green inclusive community buildings. So it included electrification of the hot water system, heat recovery off of the refrigeration plant. Um we replace the skylight in the west rink with opaque roofing. You can see in that up uh the top left picture. And then we've got the electric hot water heater um serving the building and the ice reservicing water. Here we've got so we did uh install double glazed windows in the corridor and we installed where while we're in the process of installing dehumidifiers. The right hand picture shows the new duct work that'll serve the dehumidification. And then on the left, you can actually see here the uh condensation that is inside the arena on the uh rink glass, but there's no condensation on the on the corridor glasses, which is a positive. So once we install the dehumidifiers, we would expect the condensation to be removed from the arena. So there's no fogging on any of the uh surfaces. So this is the cold water ice resurfacing, the real ice technology. So, we ran this with uh uh between facilities and recreation services back in 2022 2023, we ran a pilot at Rim Park. And so, what this does is it uh eliminates or greatly reduces the need to heat up ice resurfacing water. So, when the ice resurfacers commonly referred to as Zambonis, they flood the rinks after each use, they use what's called flood water. Uh so, they scrape off the ice and put down this flood water to make a smooth surface. conventional practice would see that water that flood water heated uh to remove air. So this uh this um technology, this nozzle here, it actually mechanically removes air from the water. So you don't need to heat the water up. So it really reduces energy and GHG emissions associated with flooding the ice. And we were so we installed that at RIM uh AMCC and Moses. And uh you can see the GHG emission savings there, 136 tons. and we were successful with $58,000 of utility incentives. So these are just various uh decarbonization or electrification projects that we've undertaken. So the Dearbornne building adjacent to the service center. So when that was rened uh we installed airsource heat pumps with controls to reduce the amount of energy used in the building. Um and then we replaced windows. So that's uh 30 tons of emission savings. Gray silo electrification. So this included roofing and air source heat pumps, electrification of the uh water and ventilation system. So that was 38 tons of emission savings and we uh coupled that with control so they can operate the building as efficient as possible. And then various buildings in water park um we installed heat pumps there and in some buildings we um we made sure that they were winterized and then we removed the heating altogether so they didn't need to be heated throughout the winter and that had 26 tons of uh CO2 emissions. So those were the completed projects. Uh we've got pre-construction projects or projects that are in the final stages of design. We've got the AMCC uh water public library. So the McCormick branch. So this will be an all electric new design, high performance and you can see in the uh table there. Um it's not a huge uh emission emitter. It's not uh it's not very energy intensive. Libraries are not, but this will follow the green building policy and um we'll be looking at 24 tons of emission savings. So it's not a huge absolute value, but you can see the um the percent reduction there. There's an 81% reduction in emissions intensity. So coupled with that project that the rest of the arena will be replacing um rooftop units that are gas heated. Uh they have old refrigerant which is also being phased out. So we're relying that infrastructural renewal and so combined that'll um have a emission savings of around 45 tons. That's what we're modeling. So the Moses Springer energy and accessibility retrofit. So this is a similar project to AMCC where we're adding new dehumidification, adding space cooling. We are uh undertaking electrification of the building controls heat recovery. So this was also a successful application under the green and inclusive community building. So this is receiving federal funding of 2.4 million. So when this project is complete, there'll be approximately 73 tons of emission savings. And then you can see there in the the left hand picture that kind of wide red bar that's where the new um duct work will go and then the arrow is pointing to the existing dehumidifiers which will be replaced with electric dehumidifiers. So those two will work in uh conjunction when the winter time when the ice is in the duct work provides ventilation or provides ventilation and air circulation but then in the summertime it's going to activate that space for camps um same as AMCC uh because the new rooftop unit will have uh will have space cooling capabilities and on the right hand side you can see there so that the older looking unit there um that will be replaced and then there's a new unit which will be installed and penetrated and served serve the arena there. So that's an exciting project. Uh there's also some accessibility improvements we'll be which will be touched on uh later in the following uh report. So the rim park energy and accessibility retrofit. So this is uh this is our largest project. Um it is driven by uh by a lot of infrastructure renewal. So you can see the mechanical infrastructure and electrification. We have uh we are implementing near full scale refrigeration plant heat recovery which is somewhat of a novel approach, LED lighting. There'll be accessible washrooms. Um and then the infrastructure that we install will enable future electrification. So some of the units which are not at end of life when we convert they can take advantage of the existing infrastructure to lower costs. So right now we're modeling about 400 tons of emission savings from this project. Here you can see it. It really is an entire building encompassing project. Um, at the front there, we're going to be installing airsource heat pumps, uh, just packaged units. And then on the two large roofs, uh, one above the gymnasium, one above the banquet hall, those will be, um, units that are heated by hot water, which is, uh, the heat is recovered off of the refrigeration plant, and we're also replacing some of the original roof. So, there is still original roof from 2001 there. So once this is complete then all the roofing will have been replaced at rim park which will um improve conditions. So this is the refrigeration uh refrigeration plant heat pump strategy. So existing we have the heat from the compressors uh which you can see there the compressors send the cooling to the rink and then there's the evaporative condensers which are the pieces of equipment which reject heat. If you're ever around an arena in the winter time, you'll see the these units and there'll be steam coming off of the top. It's it's just it's water vapor that's coming off of that. So, that's where all the waste heat is. So, and you can see we've got these rooftop units which are simultaneously providing space heating. So, throughout this project, we are going to install a heat pump and heat exchanger which is going to be capable of capturing all of that heat and then it will send it first to the building space and water heating. And so it will reject as much as it possibly can to that it will be sized for the full uh heat recovery load and then certain times when the full heating load is not required in the building it will be rejected uh in the in the current uh current method. So we've got the project summary. So, the completed and then preconstruction. Uh, we've got 365 uh tons of completed uh emission savings. And then we do have a lot of projects um either in the pipeline or that are about to be implemented there. So, you can see that number 536 is greater uh than the completed project. We've got around 900 tons. The 200 uh the sorry the 2050 emission savings number. So, that is just these savings projected out to 2050. So these it's not our total savings that we'll achieve because we're still going to be implementing additional GHG uh reduction projects, but that's for this cohort of projects taken out to 2050. So being mindful of that net zero goal. So it's we're 42% of the way there. Um and then any differences from now to the 2030 and 2050 target, those are going to be influenced by the provincial grid emissions. Here's the grant and incentive summary. So, the two largest grants that we were successful with were for infrastructure projects at AMCC and Moses Springer. We've received some utility uh incentives through Save on Energy, which is um indirectly through Anova Power on the electricity side as well as Nbridge, some uh FCM grants for studies as well as the infrastructure for the emergency generator. Um and then we've got some metering and then various uh utility incentives there. So all in all um since 2022 we have been able to uh receive $6.2 million in incentives. So as I had mentioned the uh identified projects represent 42% of the emission savings required to achieve the 2030 target. We have been successful with provincial and federal funding. Um more support is needed. the Ontario electricity gr grid emissions are projected to inc uh decrease long term but in the short term they will increase. So any changes to that to the province's strategy about using natural gas generators to produce electricity and taking that into uh to a longer period that will uh that will impact our savings. um future projects that we've got um WMRC and uh the Harper branch which are our second and third largest GHG emitters within the building portfolio. Um so those we're kind of at tackling the the lowhanging fruit, the largest opportunity for GHG emission savings and we've also got some fire station projects lined up as well. So that uh that's a summary of our uh progress to date and I'd be happy to take any questions. >> Thank you. Um, council questions for Scott. Councelor Ray, >> thank you through you, Mayor. Um, this is encouraging. Um, it's great to see those grants coming forward and the the breadth of the projects. Um, I just have a couple of questions. So, one is um you know, a number of these facilities really require um the advanced building automation systems and um so I'm just wondering what our threat perception or our risk perception is there um as we deal with increased ransomware attacks and and that sort of thing. Do we have the um I guess the processes in place to to manage and mitigate that risk as a municipality? uh through the chair to councelor Wright. I would defer the full explanation to our IT department, but on our building automation side, we do have it on a separate server. So, it's not connected to the main city network. It's on its own network and anyone who requires access, there's a VPN uh which has to be set up and credentials and multiffactor authentication. So, we've moved existing automation systems over to that, but that is the dedicated I'm going to call it the silo for our uh building automation system and controls for our facilities. >> Okay, that that's helpful to know and I I will happily have a chat with it about some of the other um risks associated with that. The other question I have is um you you made reference a couple of times to being dependent on what the grid is made up, the electricity grid. And um we're also in a situation where we're applying for grants and we get to a point eventually where um you know we have smaller and smaller gaps to close in terms of our GHG emissions and it gets more and more difficult because you can't do business as usual and it becomes the hunger games for grants. It's not um it's not as exciting to fund really small incremental changes. Um, and so I'm just wondering what are like obviously we still have lots of the big stuff to do like you you clearly uh show that rim park is you know the big thing that we need to tackle here. Um but what what will our strategy be basically to um figure out what that innovation cycle needs to look like when we're getting to that end game. >> Uh through the chair to councelor. Right. So for our smaller facilities uh once we go through the electrification process um and then the grid kind of cleans out the emissions there will go down to near zero for our larger facilities where it's not practical to install all electric systems. We'll have say the gas backup boiler. There's redundancy piece, there's resilience piece. So there to control kind of utility cost. We've got utility cost strategies about when the um the electric heating is placed on when that's turned on and and turned off. So that uh kind of heading down and then that coupled with renewable energy where it uh where we can install that. So on the solar side of things, but then we would be looking for um if if we're if we're only left with say building enclosure improvements, which are costly, then there would have to be some sort of discussion about where where this are the city's dollars best spent um to uh to achieve those remaining GHG emission reductions. >> Okay, thanks for that. And then I'm just looking at the the last sort of threat on the horizon is just regarding our natural gas supply um largely coming from the US and so understanding I suppose what what that looks like u for us going forward. Obviously we can't do anything about the uh provincial grid supply that's not within our our jurisdiction. Um but uh any ways that uh we can be less reliant on on natural gas and I I guess that's really just this process that we're going undergoing right now. >> Yes. And so as we we will rely less on natural gas in terms of absolute volume but I would say that we are not a huge uh consumer of natural gas. their larger institutions, universities, postsecary and healthcare, which which do require a larger volume. So when we hook up the utility doesn't really blink because we're relatively small. >> Um I'm not sure if that answers your question. >> It does. Yeah. Just just understanding what level of risk it presents for us going forward. Okay. Thanks. >> Any other questions, council? Uh, seeing none, there is a recommend. Oh, sorry, Mary McCabe. Yep. >> Thanks for your chair. I was just waiting to see if others had any questions. Um, thanks for the report. It's it's really encouraging to see. Um, and if I'm reading this right, we're so we're 8% away from our 2030 target. Correct. >> Through the chair to uh Mayor McCabe, we are we are 42% of the way to our 2030 target. Right. So the the 50% so that's I guess relative terms to the savings. So right now we basically have to double those emissions savings uh by 2030. So our goal is 50% reduction by 2030 uh relative to to the 2010 levels. So that 42% is measuring the amount of savings that we still need to achieve. >> Okay. Okay. >> Yeah. >> Got it. Um, so I'm just curious about there's a couple of of the buildings that you referenced like Grey Silo roof and the Albert McCormack Center which the roof was just redone and are they both like the Elbert McCormack one could support a solar array. Can the gray can the gray silo one supported as well >> uh through the chair? So gray silo possibly on the the barn structures. So on a flat roof you need a certain amount of space to make scale to make it financially feasible to do so. Um so we did have an engineering study at Albert McCormick uh on the west rink and the flat spaces and the east rink. Um and that building can support solar uh with the exception of the east rink. So when we replace that uh when we replace that arena roof, we would look at reinforcing the structure in there so that that can accept solar. So it depends on we look at it from when the roof needs to be replaced and the available space on the roof. So at Gray Silo, there's just not a lot of roof space, for example, to install solar. But at AMCC, there is there is more roof space. So AMCC would be viable in terms of just a practical and physical point of view. Um Moses Springer, we are looking to replace the arena roof. So when we do that, we would integrate and include a structural redesign and support of that arena space. Uh and then we would look after that has been completed, we would look to install solar on that. >> Okay. And and so just going back to the Elbert Mor the Albert McCormack Community Center um because the report said that we're not looking at doing it doing solar and a solar array at this time, but is that something that um either we might look at or we would partner with um like a local um solar company to do something like that? Like how feasible? What what would what would you recommend is the best route >> uh through the chair? Either route is possible and the reason why it's just staged is because a lot of these solar projects are uh more efficiently completed as engineering procurement construction. So they don't follow the typical it doesn't fit in well to the existing um design bid build stream that we are undertaking for AMCC phase A and phase B. So once that construction is completed then it's then you can go in and install the solar. So that's a cleaner separation between having a large general contractor carry a smaller solar sub because then you're paying the markups from the general contractor when it's more cost-effective to go just directly to the uh solar installer themselves. So it could be uh it could be city-owned or we could look at a um a power purchase agreement of PPA with a third party. Both would both would be viable. And when we are installing these we are considering um existing electrical infrastructure and how we would install it. So it's not, you know, kind of putting the shutters on and tunnel vision and then we say, "Hey, what about this?" We're looking at, "Okay, is there existing capacity? Where is it going to connect into the electrical infrastructure, the panels, and so uh other, you know, requirements for that?" >> Okay, thank you. That's really helpful and and good to know. And just could you ballpark approximately how much funding we need to complete the the rest of the identified future projects? I would have to get back to you on that. Um, we did apply for some uh grants at RIM and it was in the um to do the all the additional rooftop units and the it was combined with accessibility improvements inside but I think it was around 15 million that was the grant application. So obviously we had adjusted our scope accordingly but um we are just we look to you know reduce those capital costs by aligning it with infrastructure renewal. So that's um but we could definitely get back to you on that. >> Yeah, that would be helpful. Thank you so much. >> Any other questions, council? >> Great. Well, seeing none, uh there is a recommendation here and I'm hopeful moved by councelor Wright, seconded by councelor Roach. Uh all those in favor. That's carried unanimously. Thank you so much for the update. Um, the next item is uh RFT 2016-12 Moses Springer Community Center Energy Accessibility Renovation and Retrofit Project. And we have a presentation from um Matthew is it reggier or is it Reder? >> Reager. >> Ritter. Thank you. >> Thank you. Good afternoon councilors and chair. I'm pleased to present the Moses Springer energy accessibility renovation and retrofit project and and the updates um as as they are uh today. Um so kind of to tack on to everything Scott said regarding this project, I'll just give a more over um over high level oversight of of what it is from a renewal of critical building systems and focus more on the accessibility side of the scope. Um, but the main project focus for this was the renewal of critical building systems and dovetailing that into all the energy and sustainability objectives that Scott mentioned there. And and you can see the list on the slide of the various upgrades that Scott went through. And the second component of this project was renovating the spaces to meet the community's accessibility needs. So I'll be going into that into a bit greater detail in the following slides. um project teams that were engaged in this was heavily in recreational services. They aided us in uh how this relates uh from a construction standpoint and ensuring that we have an operable operating facility while construction takes place while also finding areas within the facility that we can adjust and make better for community members and staff. Um so multi-tered there. We also engage community programming and outreach services. As Scott alluded to before, the arena can now be used for summer camps uh w with air conditioning. So they they're heavily involved in in in items of of rework and remodeling and ready team was heavily used on this uh for all the accessible uh upgrades and Grand River accessibility advisory committee um reviewed and and aided us in the design as well as giving us an approval go ahead for the way it's designed. Um funding for this was a result of the successful $2.4 million grant from the green and inclusive building grant, the third intake and and then the city's contribution of 600,000 uh from the partial lease of KURF. Um so here this is the the highle slide that I want you to focus on the top just just for bearings. Lincoln Road is to the east of Moses Springer and you go down the embankment and there there is Moses Springer and that black outline I have for you is the area of of the majority of the work. Um to the left I have the existing floor plan and you can see the grayed out areas. Those are areas that will be reworked either remodeled or or demolished or or a mix thereof. So you can see that the concessions area in Moses will be reworked and remodeled. the front main foyer with the customer service desk will be remodeled and then the men's change room for the aquatic side will be remodeled to allow for these accessibility upgrades. And to the right is my color-coded legend of of what's going on there. And I'll I'll make that a bit bigger in this slide so you can see the green uh represents the accessibility upgrades. U the orange is the public space modifications uh which is a result of making room for the accessibility upgrades. And likewise the staff space modifications. Um we had to do that to again make room for accessibility upgrades. Other options were vetted out but these uh internal modifications of the of the existing space uh was the most feasible. So I can start with the uh accessibility upgrades. Um like many of of the other buildings that we're doing, we're adding a universal washroom to the facility which has a full nine yards. you have above code um accessibility standards applied like large turning radiuses um adult change tables, lifts for the shower, tactile markers, etc. So, it is a a fully full nine yards from an accessibility standpoint. We've also included a gender neutral washroom to the facility and specifically an accessible pathway to the pool deck. This was something that was that's been requested upon for for a long time now. Um to date, uh members of the community would have to go through the aquatics offices, which is just north of all that green, um markup that I have there. They would have to go through the staff space and exit through the office, which which wasn't ideal. And and now we've we have the opportunity to have a a clear uninhibited path to the pool deck for for those um members of the community. Uh, additionally to this uh, project, we have um, a lot more ADOS's, automatic door operators throughout the facility, not just the ones I've highlighted. There's more sliding doors at the entrance um, in various spaces for for better access accessibility to the remainder of the facility. Uh, and lastly, uh, there to the bottom left, you can see the um emergency accessible ramp. So, there was only really one form of egress for a member of the community that needs accessible um, components. So now there are two um forms of egress to safely exit the the building in the event of an emergency. Uh these orange spaces. So as I alluded to before, we had to accommodate the existing floor plan to fit in the accessible requirements. So we've renovated the men's change room to accommodate that universal washroom and and effectively there hasn't been an operational change here. Uh the the major reduction would be one shower that's been reduced. But this has all been vetted by recreational services that that this is satisfactory for for the amount of um amount of community that come in and out of here. The same amount of lockers, the same washroom, etc. And you can see that the orange men's change room actually aid into the customer service desk for the aquatics area. So, we reconfigured that front entrance um to allow for the men's change room and removed that customer service desk. So, there's a bit more room at the foyer area for people to line up and and um get all the um things from the customer service desk on the left, which I'll go to in the next slide. Um so where the existing customer uh sorry the existing concession area was is now going to be the staff um main staff room because the men's change room aid into the existing staff room. Uh without my laser point I can't really show you exactly where all these things are but I can ask answer questions after. effectively this this space in the middle of the screen that you have um it'll be a multi-purpose room for staff to have lunches for training. There's enough room for training. There's uh additional uh touchdown desks for people to put their laptop on and do work uh for public community programming. Um and then there's an additional smaller office to the bottom left that was requested by by programming department to um to have more uh one-on-one conversations, closed dooror conversations. So, it's just additional space for for staff to use uh in the summer when when this will be um more for summer camps, etc. And then where the existing uh facility attendant office is, that'll be shared with the customer service desk, which um was vetted by recreational service again and uh there's plenty of room for them to do their work there. And just to the north of this image, you can see we repurposed a few rooms. We've gotten creative so that the aquatic staff have adequate washrooms and change rooms as the universal um washroom that we've added uh took away a couple of their rooms. So, we've we've reconfigured and and got creative to make sure that they have the required room and space that they need to uh maintain existing operations. Um the tender submitted price came under that of the grant which which is encouraging news and um from from today's date uh barring the decision um of the award construction will start within uh two to three weeks from now and is slated to be completed by end of May next year which allows for time to open up and and um resume pool operations in the summer next year in 27. Recommendations are for council to approve this report uh approve the award to Jackman Construction and uh for mayor and clerk to be authorized to sign the agreement and I'm happy to field any any questions that you may have. >> Uh thank you for the presentation and for joining us today. Uh questions council councelor Basic. >> Uh thanks. Um I wasn't I I didn't This is great news. Uh it's a sort of a sub question from the presentation that wasn't in the report. Um so it's really great to see all of the um changes and proposed changes outlined. Um uh and they all look really great. My questions are about the concession area. Um and for those who haven't had a chance to go and look at the concession area at Moses Springer, it is truly needing to be changed. So that's that's good news. um the only comm and it's it's excellent to have the uh thoughtful space for staff very much needed. So I'm I'm supportive of that. I just want to highlight um a community need that has come up over and over again for space where people can gather and make food and share food and community spaces which were uh lacking in that area of the city. Um and so it's not as if people were using this concession area. So you're not taking anything away. So, I'm not suggesting any changes here. I'm just saying it out loud to be mindful as I'm leaving council uh that we keep it top of mind to have community spaces. And in particular, at Le Armon, they have a community garden and so sometimes it's well used and taken care of and other times it's not as well taken care of as all community gardens are because it it depends on how available people are. Um but there is a really nice sort of um uh uh connection between that community garden uh the housing in the area and the and the community center where there could be community gatherings around food. Um, and so, uh, I'm just mindful that these are important changes and we need them in the interim and I really love the work we've done at Rim Park and at AMCC and all of those things are needed, but there still remains work to be done at um, Moses Springer and I don't know when that will happen in um, uh, facilities and and recreation services. Um, but it's it's a it's a gap uh in some ways, even though I understand that it's meeting important needs around the pool uh and the ice and the um outdoor public spaces as well and the accessibility upgrades which are obviously extremely important and the GHG ones. But it's still a little sad to be leaving council seeing that the community needs that are uh uh essential aren't being met there. And it's not to be upset about it because we need to prioritize all of the wards. Um but I'm just sharing that for consideration. No response needed. Just pontificating. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, councelor Basic. Uh any other questions or comments? >> Uh seeing none, did you want to move the motion? Moved by councelor Basic, seconded by councelor Row. All those in favor? Uh that's carried unanimously. Thank you. >> Thank you. And the next item is the Grand River Accessibility Advisory Committee terms of reference refresh. And I guess I don't see a presentation. So it's just if there's any questions. Um Amy's joining us. Welcome Amy. Was there any questions for Amy? There is. So maybe we'll just take a minute and we can lower the podium for Amy so that she's can answer questions. >> That's great. Welcome Amy. Um councelor Hanmer. >> Uh thank you chair through through you. Amy, thank you very much for joining us today. And and I just want to I I do have a question, but I at first I want to acknowledge all the hard work that you've done through it's been a a whole year of reviewing and taking a look at what the terms of reference for GRA needs to needs to be or can be moving forward. And I think as council's aware, there have been some changes that have happened, not uh by the nature of uh GRA itself wanting to do it, but just some changes in how it's going to be supported and yet still kept at a regional at a regional level. So I'm pleased that we are still at that regional regional approach with the city also taking a very integrated approach and I think all the work that you've done in trying to encourage everyone to be part of it has really gone uh a long way and I hope will continue as we move forward because we've made great strides, no question, in making sure that our new renovations and buildings that we're putting in the city um are getting better at meeting the standards and making it easier for people to get around and use the facilities that the city has. So, thank you for all of that. My question though is can you share with us a little a little bit uh the terms of reference that we have for the newly revamped GRA will include residents who live anywhere within the region and are uh having with any kind of a disability and I like the nature and and breadth of how we're going to have involvement. Maybe my concern is um some of these residents may come not from the city of Waterlue and with the way the new structure is going, we don't have at the table all of the uh municipalities anymore because they are choosing to go in other directions. What's been built in or is it still something to be thought about if something is happening in the township and a resident from the township is a member of GRA? How are we going to make sure that things are communicated uh actioned? I'm just I'm kind of stuck on how that whole process might be working. >> Some of it will be a work in process. Uh there are some um pieces to be designed in terms of how the committees communicate with each other. So Kitner's accessibility advisory committee and then the existing Brack will uh have some hopefully overflow uh where there may be members that are part of Kitchener accessibility advisory committee who also are part of GRA. We are open to that uh but it will be a bit of a work in progress for a little while. There will be members from the townships as long as we can source those members then they're absolutely welcome to be on the committee but they may be more interested in the regional projects that come forward than in particular to the city of Wateroo's projects. Okay. And a second question if if I might along those lines then if there were something happening in the townships. There's nothing preventing in this structure staff from the townships being invited to present or be part of it. So we can still try to do that that communication as well. >> We intentionally left the offer open. We didn't preclude anything. the current members are who they are, but we can always add to that with a review process and coming back to council >> and coming back forward. I think, you know, great strides have been made to try to be consistent across the entire region in um the formats that we're using, the standards that we're using, the ease of transportation and ease of movement for everyone throughout the region. I hope that we don't lose any of that and that we're able to continue if we have to create a new way of communicating, we create a new way of communicating. Thank you. >> Thank you for your questions. Any other questions for Amy? >> Seeing none, thank you very much. I appreciate your willingness to be here. Um, so we have recommendations here. Council, moved by councelor Hanmer, seconded by councelor Row. All those in favor, that is carried unanimously. So we're on to item 10, consideration of notice of motion given at a previous meeting. There's none. Notice of motion. None. Communications and correspondence. None. Unfinished business. None. And questions. Council. Um, seeing none. New business. I I do have to say that I was thrilled to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Butterfly Learning Center on the weekend. Um, it was a really special space. I was thankful to be joined by the mayor and MPP Fe and it was an extraordinary event, great weather and of course there was the pow-wow this weekend which was amazing and it looked like it was um just a really great community event and um and the hospice um had their hike on Sunday to raise money for hospice water reason and Uh it was again a beautiful day and it started with the Fergus pipe band walking through the memory gardens and um it's always a really special place um to spend time and we're I I realize it's in my ward and I'm thankful it's there but it serves all of Waterl region certainly. Um, so yeah, there's there's a lot there's been a lot going on since we last met. And I think the other thing that happened in my ward was the fox hunt um party in the park. It wasn't not this past weekend, but the weekend before, but we didn't have a council meeting. So, and if we start going back in time, then we're going to unpack everything, right? So, so yeah, that there was a lot happening. Was there anything else, councelor Wright? just just in terms of going back in time just acknowledging that um we did celebrate Lumen and so um that's always a massive heavy lift from the city um on on all fronts and so just applauds to uh applauding staff um for all your effort on that. It was very well attended. Thanks. >> Great point. Thank you for that. So, we're into the enactment of bylaws. Moved by uh councelor Row, seconded by councelor Hanmer. All those in favor is carried unanimously. And I need a motion to adjurnn. Moved by councelor Bodley, seconded by councelor Roach. All those in favor? That's carried. Thank you.