Joint presentation by Wilmot ice pad user groups
Meeting: Council Meeting, February 13, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 10.2 (Presentation)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to complete a high-level investigation of the feasibility to operate ice facilities outside of the Township of Wilmot.
Status: Complete
Pre-budget approval award of contract - single axle (new) and tandem axle (replacement)
Meeting: Council Meeting, February 13, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Staff to incorporate $340,000 into the 2023 Capital budget and $439,000 into the 2024 Capital budget, for purchase of (1) new Single Axle Dump Truck with snowplow attachments, and one (1) replacement Tandem Axle Dump Truck with snowplow attachments.
Status: Complete
Prime Ministers Path
Meeting: Ad hoc Budget Advisory Committee Meeting, February 21, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 11.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Staff be directed to provide a report to Council regarding the Prime Ministers’ Path.
Status: Complete
Sidewalk Clearing Unit
Meeting: Ad hoc Budget Advisory Committee Meeting, February 21, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 11.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Replace Sidewalk Clearing Unit be deferred to the 2024 Municipal Budget.
Status: Complete
Mike Schout Wetlands entrance and bridge relocation
Meeting: Ad hoc Budget Advisory Committee Meeting, February 21, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 11.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: The Mike Schout Wetlands Entrance & Bridge Relocation be dependent on successful grant funding; and staff be directed to investigate an interim solution to the entrance to the wetlands.
Status: Complete
Nith River Promenade Project
Meeting: Ad hoc Budget Advisory Committee Meeting, February 21, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 11.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to review the scope of work and report back to Council on options for reducing overall costs related to the Nith River Promenade Project.
Status: Complete
Communications and Engagement Strategy Update
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 20, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Staff be directed to continue working with RedBrick Communications on the next steps to finalize the Township's Communications and Engagement Strategy.
Status: Complete
Special event process and subsidies
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 20, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.6 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to provide an update to Council prior to the 2024 special event season with detailed subsidy and in-kind staff costs related to 2023 events.
Status: In progress
Ice facilities outside the Township of Wilmot
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 20, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.7 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to bring a report back to Council, within three months, outlining costs associated with using the New Hamburg Community Centre as an ice-pad, including using Glice.
Status: Complete
Township of Wilmot user fees - room rentals
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 8, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.7 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff to research municipal best practices and report back to Council on a policy relating to Councillor access to municipal facilities to conduct constituency business.
Status: Complete
Waterloo Oxford students re: environmental issues
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 29, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 10.1 (Presentation)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to provide a report to deal with e-waste, which includes consultation with local affected agencies and bring forward a report to place benches, e-waste receptacles, and garbage cans in key areas in Wilmot Township.
Status: Complete
Report regarding regulating aggregate pit operations through Interim Control By-law and Site Plan Control
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 29, 2023
Agenda Item/Type:12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Staff to prepare an information report, in the next two to four weeks, that highlights potential uses of an Interim Control By-law and Site Plan Control and how existing Wilmot policies and by-laws can regulate the establishment of aggregate pit operations.
Status: In progress
Correspondence from Gord Mills, New Hamburg Firebirds, regarding request for support (addendum)
Meeting: Council Meeting, June 26, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 13.7 (Correspondence)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff to prepare a teport for the Regular Council Meeting to be held on July 24, 2023, with potential opportunities for financial support for the New Hamburg Firebirds.
Status: Complete
New Hamburg Firebirds financial and in-kind support update
Meeting: Council Meeting, July 24, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.3 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Council directs the Mayor to write a letter to the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario on Council and other provincial bodies advocating for amendments to the Lottery Licensing program to permit Junior Hockey organizations to run a charitable lottery license scheme.
Status: Complete
CMHC Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF) application
Meeting: Council Meeting, July 24, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.5 (Staff Report)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Staff to submit an application, on behalf of the Township of Wilmot, to the CMHC Housing Accelerator Fund that aligns with the initiatives outlined within Report DS-2023-15, to be further refined through collaboration with Regional and area municipal staff.
Status: Complete
Township-led Canada Day celebrations
Meeting: Council Meeting, July 24, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 15.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to conduct outreach to local organizations, groups and stakeholders for offering the Canada Day activities as a Township-operated special event, and report back to Council, in September 2023, on the costs and anticipated budget implications, staff capacity and level of community interest in hosting such an event.
Status: Complete
Off-Leash Dog Park at Sir Adam Beck Park, Baden
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 11, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to investigate and appropriate site, conditions and costing and report back to Council on a potential off-leash dog park in Sir Adam Beck Park.
Status: Complete
Draft Corporate Communications Strategy 2024
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 25, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Staff to provide information to Council on the costs of mailing communication items to residents.
Status: Complete
Canada Day 2024
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 25, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 12.2 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff bring forward a Terms of Reference for the Canada Day Committee at the next Council meeting.
Status: Complete
Information on additional locations of an off-leash dog park in Baden
Meeting: Council Meeting, October 16, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff place funds for the Baden Dog Park in the 2024 Township of Wilmot budget.
Status: Complete
Oxford Road 5 Punkeydoodles Corner intersection control feasibility study and Oxford Road 5 rationalization
Meeting: Council Meeting, December 11, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 13.2 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Staff to explore further refinements with Oxford County, Perth County and the Region of Waterloo for further improvements including moving forward with a roundabout at Punkeydoodles Corner.
Status: Complete
Air quality study in Petersburg
Meeting: Council Meeting, December 11, 2023
Agenda Item/Type: 13.3 (Staff Report)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Staff to provide options for an air quality study in Petersburg and include it in the draft budget for Council's review.
Status: Complete
Schneider family land donation
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 8 (Correspondence)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Report back on status of the Schneider land donation, as well as concerns previously raised by Council including road safety, parking, safe access off Region Road.
Status: Complete
Special event and facility subsidies
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 10.2 (Staff Report)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Provide further analysis and breakdown with a comparison to neighbouring municipalities in the amounts and subsidies for the ice time, arena floor, community centres, pools including the Canada Day event.
Status: Complete
Wilmot Township road safety
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Include the cost of undertaking a study to develop a road safety and speed mitigation strategy in the 2024 budget.
Status: Complete
Prime Ministers Path statues next steps
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.2 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Report back on interim actions taken since the statues were placed in storage and prepare options on ways to proceed with a permanent plan for the Prime Ministers Path statues, including information relating to a potential referendum.
Status: Complete
Electronic Vehicle (EV) ChargeON
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.3 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Inclusion of two Level 3 chargers for the Township of Wilmot (New Hamburg and Baden) in the draft 2024 capital budget at an estimated cost of $50,000 each; and if recommended by the Budget and Finance Committee on January 27, 2024, apply to the Electronic Vehicle (EV) ChargeON Program for Provincial funding.
Status: Complete
2024 Capital Budget
Meeting: Finance and Budget Committee Meeting, January 27, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 8.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Obtain a legal opinion relating to the request for an Air Monitoring Study.
Status: Complete
Parking exemption agreement and surplus lands disposition, LYNC, 183 Mill Street, New Hamburg
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 29, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 10.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Declare portions of the Peel Street, Burns Street and Mill Street road allowances, described in report DS-2024-01, as surplus lands.
Status: Complete
2024 Operating Budget unfunded budget options for consideration
Meeting: Finance and Budget Committee Meeting, February 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 10.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Actions Required:
- Consideration of Option 9 - inclusion of the servicing costs of the recommended 2024 levy funded debentures
- Include $25,000 combined discretionary fund CAO and Council in the 2024 Operating Budget.
Status: Complete
Traffic Calming and Speed Mitigation Study
Meeting: Finance and Budget Committee Meeting, February 15, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 10.6 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Consideration of $150,000 for a Traffic Calming and Speed Mitigation Study be included in the 2024 Capital Budget.
Status: Complete
Prime Ministers Path - Options for next steps
Meeting: Council Meeting, February 26, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 11.2 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Report back on Option #2 with proposed implementation timelines.
Status: Complete
Hunsberger Drive and Stuckey Avenue/Michael Meyers Road intersection
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 4, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 16.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Implement four-way stop control.
Status: Complete
Traffic Calming and Speed Mitigation Study
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 4, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.6 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Traffic Calming and Speed Mitigation Study.
Status: Complete
Community Grants Program - Approval of 2024 grants
Meeting: Council Meeting, April 22, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 13.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Request for more information regarding the Community Grants Program applications.
Status: Complete
Ontario Energy Board New Home Subsidies
Meeting: Council Meeting, April 22, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Report back on Ontario Energy Board New Home Subsidies, within two months.
Status: Complete
2024 tax rates and due dates
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 6, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.3 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Report back on options to include a detailed breakdown of taxes in the final tax billing mail-out(including Region of Waterloo and education levy) as well as the feasibility of the adoption of digital billing.
Status: Complete
Departmental quarterly reporting
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 27, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Report back on departmental quarterly reporting specifically on staff resources required and timeline to implement the proposed reporting.
Status: Complete
Implementation of a Site Alteration By-law
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 27, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.2 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Report back on municipal best practices and the feasibility of the implementation of a by-law to regulate site alterations, placement of fill and removal of topsoil within the Township of Wilmot.
Status: Complete
Ban on single use plastics in municipal facilities
Meeting: Council Meeting, May 27, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.3 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Report back on municipal best practices and the feasibility of implementing a policy banning the purchase of single-use plastics by the Township of Wilmot, and the use of single-use plastics for Township business in municipal facilities by staff and Members of Council.
Status: Complete
Catch and release justice in Ontario
Meeting: Council Meeting, June 10, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 15.1 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Send a letter to the Rt. Hon. Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada; the Hon. Arif Virani, Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada; the Hon. Doug Ford, M.P.P., and Premier of Ontario; Hon. Doug Downey, M.P.P. and Attorney General of Ontario; and, the Hon. Michael Kerzner, M.P.P. and Ontario Solicitor General, advocating for meaningful improvements to the current state of “catch and release” justice in the Ontario legal system.
Status: Complete
Amendment to the Procedural By-law to increase opportunities to speak at Council meetings
Meeting: Council Meeting, June 10, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 15.3 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Report back on municipal best practices on municipal best practices and recommended changes to the Procedural By-law as it relates to permitting up to three registered delegates at each meeting to speak to any matter of public interest within the jurisdiction of the Township.
Status: Complete
Funding of Municipal EA for Mannheim Road
Meeting: Council Meeting, June 24, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 8 (Correspondence)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Staff to report back during the 2025 Budget process on the cost of including the Municipal EA for Mannheim Road.
Status: Complete
Call for support for the 2025 U18 OHF Championship coming to Wilmot
Meeting: Council Meeting, June 24, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 8 (Correspondence)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff to send a letter to the organizing committee regarding their endorsement of this event.
Status: Complete
Procedural By-law amendment relating to delegations
Meeting: Council Meeting, July 29, 2024
Agenda Item/Type:12.1 (Reports)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Clerk be directed to bring forward a by-law on the August 26, 2024 Regular Council Agenda to implement the changes outlined in this report and motion.
Status: Complete
Township Roads Needs Study
Meeting: Council Meeting, August 26, 2024
Agenda Item/Type:13.2 (Reports)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Staff to bring back budget scenario 2 and 3 for consideration in the 2025 capital budget process.
Status: Complete
Baden and New Hamburg Waste Water Servicing Report
Meeting: Council Meeting, August 26, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 13.4 (Reports)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Staff to include service improvements in the budget process for the following Waste Water Operational Programs:
- Increase Closed Circuit Television Sanitary Sewers ($75,000 annually)
- Increase Sanitary Flow Monitoring & Modeling ($125,000 annually)
- Staff to include the following capital projects within the budget process, with associated capital budget impacts:
- Sewer/Lateral Relining Program ($470,000)
- FM004 Huron Street & Grandview Ave area ($1,469,000)
- New Hamburg Sewer Rehabilitation ($2,042,000)
- Baden Sewer Rehabilitation ($1,472,000)
- Maintenance Hole Condition and Sealing ($190,000)
- Haysville Road District Meter Chamber ($150,000)
- Various Environmental Assessment Reports for Baden and New Hamburg (costs to be further refined)
Status: Complete
Council Discretionary Expenses Policy
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 9, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 11.3 (Notice of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Report back with more information on a process for members of Council to access and utilize the discretionary funds set aside in the 2024 budget.
Status: Complete
Agricultural Advisory Committee
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 23, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.3 (Staff Report)
Department: Development Services
Action Required: Report back on municipal best practices as it relates to the creation of an Agricultural Advisory Committee.
Status: Complete
Traffic Calming Policy and Implementation Plan
Meeting: Council Meeting, September 23, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.4 (Reports)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: The following budget items should be included for consideration in the 2024/25/26 Work Program and the 2025 Budget Process:
- Annual data collection consulting resources (+50,000 Operating Budget)
- Regional traffic calming program (one-time,+35,000)
- Capital Studies, RFP for Huron Road, Mannheim Road, Wilmot Line EA’s (capital budgeted, timelines adjusted)
- EA study Huron Road, Mannheim Road, Wilmot Line (capital budgeted, timelines adjusted)
- Intersection Safety Review (Huron Road, +40,000)
- Capital Studies, Speed Zone Review (+20,000 Capital Studies)
- Two additional locations for calming from list (unbudgeted, unknown)
Status: Complete
Official Plan Amendment Application and Zone Change Application, Schneider Family and Rare Charitable Research Reserve
Meeting: Council Meeting, October 7, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Report back on the on-road winter parking on Carmel-Koch.
Status: Complete
Carmel-Koch on-road winter parking
Meeting: Council Meeting, October 7, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.1 (Reports)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required:
- Council endorse the proposed on-road parking plan on Carmel-Koch Road, including the realignment of its intersection with Wilmot Line, to support public use of the Schneider Lands Bush Trail and enhance safety measures for pedestrians, motorists, and road operations
- The capital and operating figures required to implement the plan be put forward in the 2025 budget for consideration
Status: Complete
Oxford Waterloo Road Bridge 37/B-OXF - Option 2 follow-up report
Meeting: Council Meeting, October 7, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 12.2 (Staff Report)
Department: Infrastructure Services
Action Required: Investigate further impacts, communicate with local residents, various stakeholders and report back to Council during the 2025 budget process related to anticipated costs needed for the endorsed Option 2 (Remain Open to Light Vehicle and Pedestrians Only).
Status: Complete
Proposed changes for the 2025 Council meeting schedule and notice provisions
Meeting: Council Meeting, November 25, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 9.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Bring back the Committee of the Whole Terms of Reference, 2025 Council Calendar, and Procedural By-law amendments at the November 25, 2024 Regular Council Meeting for adoption.
Status: Complete
Departmental operating budget reductions
Meeting: Special Council Meeting, November 25, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 9.1 (Staff Report)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff to identify and propose a 5% reduction to Departmental Tax Supported Operating Budgets as presented in the 2025 Budget.
Status: Complete
Council-Staff Relations Policy
Meeting: Council Meeting, November 25, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 10.1 (Reports)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff directed to bring back the Council-Staff Relations Policy
Status: Complete
Historical financial position of Wilmot Township
Meeting: Council Meeting, December 16, 2024
Agenda Item/Type: 14.1 (Notices of Motion)
Department: Corporate Services
Action Required: Staff directed to report back to Council on the Township's financials from 2011 forward.
Action: Staff Report June 2, 2025 Committee of the Whole Meeting
Status: Complete
Natural gas consumption
Meeting: Council Meeting, March 24, 2025
Agenda Item/Type: 13.1 (Notices of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Staff to report back within three (3) months outlining options and recommendations for actions the Township can take to reduce natural gas consumption within Township operations; incentivize or require reductions in natural gas consumption in new construction, including both residential and non-residential development; and support existing homeowners and businesses in reducing natural gas use, though education, partnerships, or other mechanisms.
Action: Staff Report June 2, 2025 Committee of the Whole
Status: Complete
LEAN government
Meeting: Council Meeting, February 24, 2025
Agenda Item/Type: 13.2 (Notices of Motion)
Department: Office of the CAO
Action Required: Staff to report back at the June Committee of the Whole Meeting with more information on the Lean Government Program.
Action: Staff Report COR-2025-26 - Lean Government - Update June 23 ,2025 Regular Council Meeting
Status: Complete
Special event and facilities subsidies/review of current subsidies and grants with a 5-year reduction plan
Meeting: Council Meeting, January 27, 2025
Agenda Item / Type: 10.2 (Reports) and 12.2 (Notices of Motion)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff to review the affiliation policy and report back to the Committee of the Whole in September with details including participation rates, residency and fees and charges.
Staff to conduct a comprehensive review of all current subsidies and grants provided by the Township of Wilmot and to plan and implement a phased five-year subsidy reduction starting in 2026.
Action: Staff Report CS-2025-12 - Affiliation Policy and Minor Sport Discounts
Status: Complete
Assessment of buildings and land
Meeting: Special Council Meeting, January 27, 2025
Agenda Item/Type: 7 (Notices of Motion)
Department: Community Services
Action Required: Staff report back to Council with the findings of the cost-benefit analysis, fair market valuation, third-party real estate market analysis, community engagement efforts, and a list of recommended actions, including potential third-party tenant opportunities, surplus declarations, and facility utilization optimization
Action: Staff Report CS-2025-13 - Assessment of Community Buildings and Land
Status: Complete