Budget Review Committee of the Whole

That Correspondence Item BRC-C 5-2024, dated October 29, 2024, respecting Court Services 2025 Proposed Operating Budget, BE RECEIVED; and That the Court Services 2025 Proposed Operating Budget BE APPROVED in principle subject to consideration of the general levy for Niagara Region.

That Correspondence Item BRC-C 6-2024, dated November 6, 2024, respecting Proposed Niagara Regional Housing 2025 Operating Budget, BE RECEIVED; and That the Niagara Regional Housing 2025 Proposed Operating Budget BE APPROVED in principle subject to consideration of the general levy for Niagara Region.

That the motion BE AMENDED to include the following: 1. That Niagara Regional Council DIRECT the Regional Chair to write a letter to Premier Doug Ford and Solicitor General Michael Kerzner to request that the increase in the Niagara Regional Police Services operating budget of $10,323,969 (5.7%) as a result of the replacement of the Police Services Act with the Community Safety and Policing Act, be funded by the province, Budget Review Committee of the Whole Minutes BRCOTW 5-2024 November 14, 2024 Page 5 rather than through the tax levy funded by the property taxes of Niagara residents; and 2. That this motion and the letter written by the Regional Chair BE CIRCULATED to all 12 local area municipalities, Niagara’s four MPPs, the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO), Ontario’s Inspectorate of Policing, and the Niagara Regional Police Service Board.

That Regional Council EXTEND this meeting's curfew to 11:00 p.m.

That the budget submission BE AMENDED to remove 1.9% (due to staggered hiring) for a new proposed operating budget of $213,308,546 or 13.18%.

That consideration of the Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority 2025 Draft Budgets and Municipal Levies, BE