At its July 8, 2024 meeting, Council:

• Adopted Engineer’s Reports for:
  • Improvements to the Moroun Pumping Station.
  • Improvements to the 8th Concession Drain for the MTO’s Highway 3 Widening Project.
  • A culvert extension at the 9th Concession Drain for the MTO’s Highway 3 Widening Project
  • Improvements to the Cottam Sideroad Branch of the 7th Concession Drain for improvements on the drain for the MTO’s Highway 3 Widening Project.
  • The abandonment of an Extension Drain (Union Avenue Drain – Extending to Outlet).
• Approved consent application B-2024-15, to sever an existing dwelling, deemed surplus to the needs of the applicants’ farming operation known as 1738 Arner Townline, subject to certain conditions.
• Approved consent application B-2024-17, to sever an existing dwelling, deemed surplus to the needs of the applicants’ farming operation known as 4336 Graham Sideroad, subject to certain conditions.
• Approved a Redline Amendment of the approved Draft Plan of Subdivision (Heritage Estates) for a revised total of 29 lots and a mix of 15 single-family and 28 semi-detached dwellings (43 residential units total), subject to certain conditions; and further approved application ZBA 2024-12, to amend the current Lakeshore Residential West Exception 35 – holding (LR-35 (h)) zoning on the subject parcel, subject to certain conditions.
• Approved certain amendments to the Council and Committee – Conference, Travel and other Expense Policy.
• Re: Financial support for medical services or medical practitioners Council:
  • Approved a grant for the Essex County Nurse Practitioner-Led Clinic for the provision of Nurse Practitioner services out of the medical clinic located at 273 Main Street East Kingsville, in the total amount of $35,000.00 to be paid from the Town’s Health Care Reserve in monthly installments over a 1-year period, subject to certain conditions.
  • Approved a grant for the TMC Urgent Care Clinic – Kingsville, to assist in their efforts to recruit and retain physicians to practice out of the medical clinic located at 273 Main Street East, Kingsville, in the total amount of $30,000.00, to be paid from the Town’s Health Care Reserve in annual installments of $6000.00 over a 5-year period, subject to certain conditions; and
  • Approved a policy and practice of not bringing forward for consideration future requests for financial support for medical services or medical practitioners, with an understanding that health care is a provincial responsibility and should be funded and provided to residents without requiring financial support by municipalities which have limited resources and many competing priorities.
• Supported the restriction of a left turn out from a proposed development for the property known as 460 Main Street East.

Council Briefs are intended to be a quick summary following Council meetings. Council Briefs do not replace the official minutes, which are published following adoption at the next scheduled Council meeting. If you have any questions about the summary provided above, please email clerks@kingsville.ca.

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