Council

That Council Agenda CL 4-2021, BE ADOPTED.

That Minutes CL 1-2021 being the Open and Closed Session minutes of the Regional Council meeting held on Thursday, January 21, 2021, and Minutes CL 2-2021 being the Open and Closed Session minutes of the Special Regional Council meeting held on Thursday, January 28, 2021, BE ADOPTED.

That Correspondence Item CL-C 11-2021 being Correspondence from Jeff Burch, MPP, respecting Ramsar Designation, BE RECEIVED.

That Correspondence Item CL-C 12-2021, being a letter from D. Reid, Executive Director, Niagara Regional Police Services Board, dated February 22, 2021, respecting Request for Capital Budget Adjustment from the Niagara Police Services Board respecting P25 Voice Radio System Expansion Capital Project, BE RECEIVED; and Regional Council Open Session Minutes CL 4-2021 February 25, 2021 Page 4 That a capital budget adjustment in the amount of $2,402,810 gross and $0 net BE APPROVED and INITIATED for the P25 Voice Radio System Expansion Project and that it be funded through Other External Funding in the amount of $2,402,810.

That Minutes BRCOTW 2-2021 being the Open Session minutes of the Budget Review Committee of the Whole meeting held on Thursday, January 21, 2021, BE ADOPTED.

That Minutes CAORC 2-2021 being the Open Session minutes of the Chief Administrative Officer Recruitment Committee meeting held on Tuesday, January 26, 2021, BE RECEIVED and the recommendations contained therein BE APPROVED.

That Minutes AC 1-2021 being the Open Session minutes of the Audit Committee meeting held on February 8, 2021, BE RECEIVED and the recommendations contained therein BE APPROVED.

That Minutes PWC 2-2021 being the Open Session minutes of the Public Works Committee meeting held on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, BE RECEIVED and the recommendations contained therein BE APPROVED.

That the motion BE AMENDED to add the following clause: That the motion BE CIRCULATED to all of the members of the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO).

That Minutes CSC 2-2021 being the Open Session minutes of the Corporate Services Committee meeting held on Wednesday, February 17, 2021, BE RECEIVED and the recommendations contained therein BE APPROVED.

That the amendment respecting the endorsement of the Ramsar designation BE

That the motion BE AMENDED to read as follows: 1. That Niagara Region CALLS on the Province of Ontario to create a level playing field and to provide Ontario’s entrepreneurial wine industry with opportunities to invest more into innovation and job creation while providing consumer choice and convenience for the purchase of Ontario wines; 2. That the Province BE URGED undertake the following:  Eliminate the 6.1% tax applied to VQA and 100% Ontario-grown wines on sales in the 2021 Budget;  Enable Ontario wines to offer direct delivery, with margin, to grocery stores;  Establish long-term VQA wine support programs at the LCBO that would increase shelf space for VQA wines;  Eliminate import taxes on 100% Ontario VQA wines; Regional Council Open Session Minutes CL 4-2021 February 25, 2021 Page 10  Continue working towards more equitable inter-provincial trade on wines; and 3. That this motion BE CIRCULATED to municipalities in Niagara, Prince Edward County and Lake Erie North Shore and to the Premier, Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, Grape Growers of Ontario, Wine Council of Ontario, the local MPs and MPPs.

That Minutes CAORC 3-2021 being the Open and Closed Session minutes of the Chief Administrative Officer Recruitment Committee meeting held on Tuesday, February 23, 2021, BE RECEIVED and the recommendations contained therein BE APPROVED.

WHEREAS Schedule 6 of Bill 197, COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act, 2020, considers amendments to the Environmental Assessment Act relating to municipal autonomy and the principle that municipalities can veto a development outside their municipal boundary in an adjacent municipality; WHEREAS Bill 197 empowers multiple municipalities to ‘veto’ development of a landfilling site within a 3.5 km zone inside the boundary of an adjacent municipality; WHEREAS Bill 197 establishes a dangerous precedent that could be expanded to other types of development; WHEREAS Bill 197 compromises municipal autonomy and the authority of municipal councils to make informed decisions in the best interest of their communities and municipal taxpayers; and WHEREAS amendments in Schedule 6 could cause conflict in the effective management of landfill sites, put significant pressure on existing landfill capacity, and threaten the economic activity associated with these sites. NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: 1. That while the Region of Niagara supports the Act’s open-for-business approach, the municipality CALLS upon the Government of Ontario (Ministry of the Environment, Conservation & Parks (MOECP) to amend Bill 197, COVID-19 Economic Recovery Act, 2020, to eliminate the development approval requirement provisions from adjacent municipalities and that the ‘host’ municipality be empowered to render final approval for landfills within their jurisdiction; 2. That a copy of this motion BE FORWARDED to Premier Doug

That this Council DO NOW MOVE into Closed Session for the purposes of receiving information of a confidential nature respecting: A Matter respecting Personal Matters about an Identifiable Individual under s. 239(2) of the Municipal Act, 2001 - Acting Chief Administrative Officer 2020 Performance Appraisal.

That Confidential CL-C 13-2021, being a memorandum from A.-M. Norio, Regional Clerk, dated February 25, 2021, respecting A Matter of a Proposed or Pending Acquisition or Disposition of Land by Niagara Region - Niagara Regional Housing Acquisition of Property (Confidential Report NRH 4-2021), BE RECEIVED and the recommendation contained therein BE APPROVED.

That the Acting Chief Administrative Officer 2020 Performance Appraisal BE APPROVED.

That the following Bills BE NOW READ and DO PASS: Bill 2021-12 A by-law to appoint by-law enforcement officers for the purpose of enforcing By- law No. 2020-79 being the Woodland Conservation By-law. Bill 2021-13 A by-law to amend By-law 89-2000 to provide for the regulation of traffic on Regional highways (speed limit reduction Regional Road 70 (Thorold Townline Road) in the City of Thorold). Bill 2021-14 A by-law to amend By-law 89-2000 to provide for the regulation of traffic on Regional highways (parking prohibition Regional Road 81 (King Street) in the Town of Lincoln). Bill 2021-15 A by-law to appoint by-law enforcement officers for the purpose of enforcing the Sewer Use By-law No. 27-2014 as amended, and to repeal By-law 2019-93. Bill 2021-16 A by-law to adopt, ratify and confirm the actions of Regional Council at its meeting held on February 25, 2021.