Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Fred McLennan
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• Liz Russell

Motion: To accept the September 2009 minutes. Moved by Liz Russell, seconded by Fred McLennan, carried.

John Sankey: We have presented our objections to the traffic lights at 300 Hunt Club Road but they will be installed anyway. The traffic on Riverside Drive at Hunt Club Road is causing congestion and delays. In the afternoons, south-bound traffic on Riverside Drive, north of Hunt Club Road is so backed up that Quintera residents must wait in traffic to get home. Similarly, in the mornings north-bound traffic on Riverside Drive south of Hunt Club Road is backed up. In the short term, there wouldn’t be any improvement.

Peter Brimacombe: Prepared a written comment on the Lansdowne Partnership Plan. The City is talking with the Airport Authority about trade-show facilities on the airport land. The main advantage of the airport land is that you could put in a large parking lot. The trade show industry has suffered a small decline in total revenue in the last year. With the economic uncertainty, a big parking lot doesn’t seem to be much of an advantage.
Fred McLennan: Jeff Huntley is a sponsor of the Lansdowne Partnership Plan. Jeff said that there is 85% support for a sports facility at Lansdowne Park.

Liz Russell: The City should develop the land around the baseball stadium on Coventry Road and connect it to transportation.

Alan Asselstine: We presented our issues to the Hunt Club Road In-Service Review. We are concerned with the safety of bicyclists and pedestrians but the Review did not recognize any problems for them. The solution is the pathway over the Airport Parkway.
Motion: To ask Alan Asselstine to draft a letter to the City indicating that the In-Service Review did not address the serious concerns of pedestrian and cyclist safety. Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Alan Asselstine, carried.

Liz Russell: Regarding the pathway over the Airport Parkway, she distrusts the motivations for presenting longer, indirect routes. She believes that the best crossing point is at Cahill Drive.

John Sankey: Suggested that the Annual General Meeting be held at our regular meeting date, November 2, 2009. There was agreement and plans were made to distribute and put up posters.

Liz Russell: Metro shopping carts are all over the place. In one week she found 8 carts. She spoke with the Metro Office in Toronto. Its approach is to send a man with a truck to gather up the carts. This approach does not look after the carts. The carts litter the City. Her approach is to have the City collect the carts and fine the stores $50 a cart. This fine will provide a direct incentive to the stores to look after their carts. She will put this proposal to Maria.

Next meeting: Monday 2 November 19:30, Annual General Meeting

Note: Maria McRae’s report was distributed after the meeting.

Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Fred McLennan
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• Maria McRae, Councillor
• Nichole Hoover, Councillor’s Office
• Rachel Rowe, Councillors’s Office

Motion: To accept the June 2009 minutes. Moved by John Sankey, seconded by Peter Brimacombe, carried.

John Sankey: Jerry Beausoleil prepared and delivered a letter concerning the traffic lights at 300 Hunt Club Road. The letter said that the HCCO opposes the traffic lights because they will disrupt the flow of traffic on a major arterial road.

Maria McRae: Presented her report.

Peter Brimacombe: Mothers with young children sometimes feel threatened by dogs running in Owl Park.
Maria McRae: Dogs are not allowed within a certain distance of the play structure so the mothers should immediately call the City ( 311) to complain. Dogs are allowed off-leash in Owl Park but they are not allowed near the play-structure. She wants to keep the existing designation but supports complaints against owners who allow their dogs within the restricted zone.

Next meeting: October 5, 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey President
• Peter Brimacombe Secretary
• Jerry Beausoleil
• Fred McLennan
• Liz Russell
• Nichole Hoover Councillor’s Office
• Rachel Rowe Councillors’s Office
• Tim Koradi
• Cherylin Perkins
• Wade Wallace

Motion: To accept the April 2009 minutes. Moved by Jerry Beausoleil, seconded by John Sankey, carried.

Rachel Rowe: Presented the Councillor’s report. The Integrated Road Safety Program lead to a discussion about speeding tickets.
John Sankey: It used to be that the Province got the revenue from the speeding tickets, but now the City gets most of it and is passing it on directly to the police. Our police are spending too much time collecting speeding tickets rather than solving crimes.
Nichole Hoover: Council has passed a motion asking that the Province allow municipalities to assess speeding fines based on photo-radar.

Wade Wallace: He introduced Cherylin Perkins, Tim Koradi and himself. They have just moved to the Gilboa Apartments on Uplands Drive near Paul Anka Drive. They have been harassed by gangs – there have been swarmings and beatings in front of their houses.
Nichole Hoover: We had a community safety meeting two weeks ago at the Jim Durrell Centre.
Wade Wallace: We are looking for community recognition that gangs are a problem and for support in opposing them. His group wants to canvass the neighbourhood, knock on doors and set up a system of patrols.
John Sankey: You should set up a Neighbourhood Watch Program – it gives you official status and links to the police.
Everyone on the Board supported the group from the Gilboa Apartments.

John Sankey: Traffic lights are going in on Hunt Club Road, 220 metres to the east of Riverside Drive.
Motion: In view of the fact that no new traffic lights were described as part of the proposed zoning of 300 Hunt Club, that the proposed traffic lights on Hunt Club Road just east of Riverside Drive be disallowed because of the major disruption of traffic on Hunt Club. Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

John Sankey: Councillor Alex Cullen wants to eliminate election contributions from unions and corporations.

Liz Russell: Thanks to the IBM volunteers for their help with the pickup at Paul Landry Park on May 15, 2009. Thanks to John Sankey for his help with the pickup on McCarthy Road on May 9, 2009 and at Paul Landry Park on May 16 2009. Also thanks to P. McCann (City employee) for all his support with city clean-up projects and his assistance with my street and park adoptions. I have called the City again regarding the fencing along McCarthy Road. I have spoken to the City regarding ownership of Paul Landry Park and McCarthy Woods and the need for waste receptacles at Paul Landry Park and McCarthy Road. I have spoken with Linda Debois, President of the Shearwater Tenant Association regarding the need for a more proactive approach to maintaining Paul Landry Park, that is regular clean-ups May, June, July and September and also the possibility that the Tenant Association and IBM adopt Paul Landry Park.

Next meeting: Monday, September 14 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Jerry Beausoleil
• Fred McLennan
• Liz Russell
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• Maria McRae, Councillor
• Nichole Hoover, Councillor’s Office
• Rachel Rowe , Councillors’s Office
• Linda Poulsen, Hunt Club/Riverside Recreation Association

Motion: To approve the April minutes with the correction to Maria McRae’s name. Moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Maria McRae: Presented her report to the Hunt Club Community Organization May 4, 2009. She presented floor plans of the expanded Community Centre.

Alan Asselstine: said that he had sent out an e-mail by mistake and apologized for the confusion it had caused.

John Sankey: The HCCO is the community association. We expect to be kept informed and involved concerning services to our community. We need to make sure sure that the new expanded Community Centre meets the needs of the Recreation Association and the Services Centre. He sent a list of questions to Maria McRae. He consulted with several staff and board members of the Recreation Association and the Services Centre.
Maria McRae: Linda Poulsen is the President of the Recreation Association and she is here to report on the expanded Community Centre.
Linda Poulsen: She wanted more storage and a bathroom for the kids. This is what she wanted and she got it. She is confident that the expanded Community Centre will meet the needs of the Recreation Association.
Alan Asselstine: Based on the meeting from October at City Hall we had a list of questions and we wanted to follow up on them. He is glad that Linda showed up tonight to clear up her position and that we should move on from here.
Jerry Beausoleil: He is a recent member of the Board but feels that the details of the expansion are not the responsibility of the Board.
John Sankey: It is valid to ask if the concerns of the community are met.
Maria McRae: Lynda Barrett, President of the Services Centre and Linda Poulsen, President of the Recreation Association have to be the points of contact for their organizations. Any concerns must be addressed to them and if there are any outstanding concerns then they should be addressed to City staff. The list of questions will go to the two Presidents.
Motion: That discussion of the list of questions be closed. Moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Peter Brimacombe, carried.

Alan Asselstine: Asked if there is an update on the Airport Parkway Services Study and the Bronson Avenue Review.
Maria McRae: City Council unanimously approved both the studies which are safety studies. On the Airport Parkway, there will be more police enforcement and better signage and on Bronson Avenue there will be improved lanes to get off onto Findlay Avenue. Next meeting she should have more information on 300 Hunt Club where there will be a new Asian Grocery Store.

Alan Asselstine: City staff will provide the Hunt Club In-Service Safety Review, one week before council meets, probably in August. This review deals with Hunt Club Road from the Airport Parkway to Albion Road. Councillor McRae’s Office will share the review the HCCO when it is available.
Motion: That Alan Asselstine be our representative on the Hunt Club Road In-Service Safety Review. Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Fred McLennan, carried.

John Sankey: Clean up of McCarthy Road starts this Saturday at 8:00 at Plante and McCarthy near the railroad.
Motion: That the HCCO be registered as the organization to clean up McCarthy Road and that Liz Russell be the leader. Moved by Liz Russell, seconded by Peter Brimacombe, carried.

Next meeting: Monday, June 1 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey President
• Alan Asselstine Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe Secretary
• Jerry Beausoleil
• Fred McLennan
• Liz Russell
• Maria McRae, Councillor
• Nichole Hoover, Councillor’s Office
• Rachel Rowe, Councillor’s Office

Maria McRae: Presented her report to the Hunt Club Community Organization April 6, 2009. She presented a drawing of the expansion of the Community Centre and said that the expansion should be completed before the end of the year.
John Sankey, Jerry Beausoleil and Fred McLennan asked her if there was more detailed information available concerning the expansion.
Maria McRae: She has only the one drawing and does not want to part with it. She is confident that management of the expansion is in place and does not want to interfere.

Alan Asselstine: The Hunt Club Riverside Recreational Association in the past provided programs at a lower cost than City-run programs in other Centres because of lower overhead cost.
Maria McRae: She thinks that this no longer holds. There are two organizations which will be using the expanded Community Centre: the Hunt Club Riverside Services Centre and the Hunt Club Riverside Recreation Association. There should be a single board composed of members from both organizations to manage the new Centre. On the matter of the pathway over the Airport Parkway, a contractor will be chosen to conduct the Environmental Assessment. This process is almost completed. Once underway, the Environmental Assessment will have public advisory meetings.

Alan Asselstine: Does the contractor get extra points if he promises to do it faster? Alan would like to get the Environmental Assessment done as soon as possible. He is knowledgeable with the area and has worked on the Managed Wetlands project. He would be available to work with the contractor.
Maria McRae: There are two studies: The Airport Parkway Services Study and the Bronson Avenue Review.
Peter Brimacombe: Presented his map “Population West of the Proposed Pathway“. The map is based on the 2006 Census data. The map shows that there are 15,054 people who cannot easily walk to the Greenboro or South Keys transit stations. Distribution Areas should be Dissemination Areas and there should be a scale bar.

Motion: To approve the March minutes. Moved by Fred McLennan, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Fred McLennan: Should we maintain our membership in The Federation of Community Associations (FCA)?
Alan Asselstine: There is no point in being a member unless you send a representative. It tends to be dominated by downtown groups.
Motion: Whereas we don’t have an active participant, to discontinue our membership in the FCA. Moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

John Sankey: People who live in Quinterra are delayed on their way home because of traffic on Riverside Drive. If they are driving south they have to join the queue of cars waiting to turn west over the Hunt Club Bridge. The traffic lights at the Bridge should be reprogrammed to reduce these delays. People cleaned up their yards last weekend but the first leaf-and-yard-waste collection is not until April 23!
Alan Asselstine: On streets around Plante Drive, we have the organic waste project. If you are in the project you can put out your yard waste with the organic waste.

Liz Russell: She has been out cleaning up on McCarthy Road. The fence is down in two places, she cleaned off graffiti in 10 spots, the signal box at the train tracks has been tagged (with graffiti). She will register for the Spring cleanup with the City and do the full length of McCarthy Road on the first week of May.

Next meeting: Monday, May 4, 2009 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Kimberley Dagenais
• Martina Francis
• Fred McLennan
• Liz Russell
• Nichole Hoover, Councillor’s Office
• Rachel Rowe, Councillors’s Office

John Sankey: Alan Asselstine, Gisèle Loiselle-Branch and Jerry Beausoleil send their regrets.

The environmental assessment of the Pedestrian Pathway across the Airport Parkway is underway. The Pathway will provide the Community with pedestrian access to the Transitway and the O-Train. It will improve the safety of pedestrians crossing the Airport Parkway. Right now, it is dangerous: One man was killed crossing the Airport Parkway on a footpath near Cahill Drive and another man was injured on the sidewalk on Hunt Club Road. The Pathway will provide access to the Managed Wetlands.

Kim Dagenais: Will there be a fight on the Council? There have been people killed or injured crossing the Airport Parkway. What can we do to push the process?
Nichole Hoover: You cannot push the Environmental Assessment because it is governed by provincial regulations.
John Sankey: There will be a fight because of the money. We can present the reasons for it: access to transit, safety and access to the managed wetlands.

Peter Brimacombe: Wants to do a mapping project that show the population that would use the Pedestrian Pathway – how many within 1 kilometre, how many within 2.

Nichole Hoover: Will help get the data from the City for Peter. She would like two amendments to the February minutes and will send them to John Sankey.
John Sankey: He will amend the minutes.

Motion: To accept the minutes subject to the two amendments.
Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Liz Russell. 4 in favour, 1 opposed, carried.

Nichole Hoover presented the Councillor’s report.

Road Resurfacing: Kim Dagenais said that Riverside Drive from Heron Road to Billings Bridge is in rough shape. John Sankey said that all the NCC roads were made so they cannot support trucks and when they are allowed on the NCC roads it wrecks them.

Block Parent Program Closed: John Sankey said that as a single parent he was not allowed to be a block parent. Kim Dagenais said that at her day-care centre, husbands and boy-friends are not allowed to be alone with the children for a moment.

Downtown Transit Tunnel Open House: John Sankey wanted to be involved but he didn’t know about it. Nichole Hoover will have someone from the City contact John.

John Sankey: The Neighbourhood Centre Improvement is our project to improve the area around Paul Anka Drive and McCarthy Road because it is the focal point of our Community. The area includes the A & P Shopping Centre on one side and the Community Centre on the other. As part of the expansion of the Community Centre, we have an option of adding public art. Here are some options:

• Surface treatments: murals, tile work, mosaics, graphics, bas-reliefs, text; interior or exterior. Tile and mosaics can be floor treatments as well as walls
• Free standing elements: materials concrete, stone, bronze, iron; role sculptural or architectural; interior or exterior
• Display: Flat screen slide display showing our community, history, service and recreational activities, city governance; passive or active; interior only

John has put together photographs of mural projects around the City and put them on his web site.

Motion: The Board notes the passing of Bill Royds and would like to offer its sympathy to Bill’s family and express its appreciation for his efforts in the Community Organization.
Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Next meeting: Monday April 6 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Jerry Beausoleil
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• Fred McLennan
• Liz Russell
• Maria McRae, Councillor
• Nichole Hoover, Councillor’s Office
• Peter Foulger

Regrets: Peter, Kimberly & Martina with the flu, Alan is in South America.

Maria McRae distributed her report for February. She noted in addition that at the public meeting on the rezoning of 3930 Riverside Drive, all comments were in favour; the Riverside Gate condo corporation is also in favour. All improvements at the intersection of Riverside and Hunt Club are on hold pending the Taggart development. RFPs have been issued for the environmental assessment for the pathway to South Keys and are due 19 February, that process will take 12 months. Center expansion is proceeding on schedule, the associated public art envelope is $86k.

Motion: that the minutes be approved as distributed. Moved by Jerry Beausoleil, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

The priorities of the HCCO for the coming year were discussed. Liz Russell will keep a watching brief on the Southern Corridor with the expectation it will be a priority for 2010.
Motion: that the major HCCO priorities for 2009 be the pathway to South Keys and traffic on Riverside Drive. Moved by Liz Russell, seconded by Jerry Beausoleil, carried
Motion: that the HCCO request Councillor McRae to continue her efforts to obtain improvements to the Hunt Club Riverside intersection. Moved by Jerry Beausoleil, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Motion: pursuant to requests made at the January meeting on behalf of that portion of the Hunt Club community west of Riverside Drive, the HCCO supports the request for rezoning as made by Taggart Realty. Moved by Jerry Beausoleil, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Next meeting: Monday 2 March 7:30 pm.

Attendees:

• John Sankey President
• Peter Brimacombe Secretary
• Fred McLennan
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• Jerry Beausoleil
• Liz Russell
• Wray Jaques
• Mike Storeshaw
• Jacklyn Burnett
• Tim Larock
• Wade Wallace
• Brian Walker
• Sue McDonald
• Andrew Plant

John Sankey: Described the Hunt Club Community Organization and its boundaries. The City has received an application to rezone property west of Riverside Drive between Hunt Club Road to the south and Uplands Riverside Park to the north. Currently the zoning allows four commercial towers, the application is to allow two commercial towers and two retirement residence towers. This meeting will provide a forum in which to discuss the rezoning application and present motions on the subject. There is already a heavy flow of traffic south-bound on Riverside Drive and any new development will further strain Riverside Drive as well as increase traffic interior to the Quinterra neighbourhood.
Wray Jaques: The office towers are no surprise but the retirement residences are. They are right on the flight path of the Airport. Is this allowed? Won’t residents complain about the noise? Traffic on Riverside is jammed and he doesn’t want it to be expanded. He would be in favour of light rail.
Sue McDonald: In terms of streets in the Quinterra neighbourhood where is the traffic actually going to go?
John Sankey: The retirement residents will have more sound-proofing than single houses. If the two office towers and two retirement residences were built, fire regulations would require two independent roads to Riverside Drive. It would be hard to put a road under the Hunt Club bridge because the land on the south side is on a steep slope and is very unstable.
Mike Storeshaw: Traffic is brutal. What would concern me is if it has to go on Kimberwick Crescent. It’s a catastrophe to turn left from Kimberwick onto Riverside Drive.
Motion: With respect to the proposed development at the north-west corner of Hunt Club Road and Riverside Drive, that there be no development until traffic considerations are fully addressed. Moved by Tim Larock, seconded by Andrew Plant, in favour 13, opposed 3, carried.
Fred McLennan: There is already such a heavy volume of traffic on Riverside Drive that the increase from this development would be very small.
John Sankey: The traffic engineer from the City said that there were two possible improvements to Riverside Drive: to add a traffic light for the right turn from Riverside south to Hunt Club west and to add an extra lane so that there would be two right turning lanes and two straight-through lanes.
Motion: With respect to the proposed development at the north-west corner of Hunt Club Road and Riverside Drive, that the existing Uplands Riverside Park be protected. Moved by Wray Jaques, seconded by Mike Storeshaw, carried unanimously.
Wade Wallace: Who’s to say that the developer would proceed with the office towers?
Sue McDonald: Is concerned with structural damage to homes from pile driving.
Wray Jaques: The only access to Uplands Riverside Park is via Riverside Drive and there is no sidewalk access to the Park or to the bus stops. There is an information meeting at the Church of Perfect Liberty, 1008 Hunt Club Road from 17:30 to 19:30.

Motion: To approve the December 2008 minutes as amended. Moved by Fred McLennan, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Next meeting: Monday February 2 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey, President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Fred McLennan
• Kimberley Dagenais
• Martina Francis
• Liz Russell

Liz Russell presented Fred McLennan with a small gift and a card for his years of service.

Alan Asselstine described the meeting Oct 1, 2008 at City Hall that discussed the expansion of the Community Centre and the two organizations it would house: the Hunt Club/Riverside Community Services Centre (Services Centre) and the Hunt Club Riverside Recreation Association (Rec Association)
John Sankey: The Rec Association charges for its services but the Services Centre does not.
Alan Asselstine: Each organization has its own volunteer Board of Directors. The Hunt Club Community Organization and the Riverside Park Community Association started the Rec Association. The Services Centre arranged for the computers to be placed in the Community Centre.

John Sankey: Presented the agenda and asked for any additions. Liz Russell said she would like to speak later.

Motion: To approve the November minutes. Moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Liz Russell, carried.

Alan Asselstine: Letter to Transportation Committee about pathway over the Airport Parkway.
Liz Russell: The fact that the twinning of the Airport Parkway is cancelled may help with winning approval of the Pathway.
Kimberley Dagenais: When will the environmental study be done?
Alan Asselstine: It doesn’t need to wait to spring.
Peter Brimacombe: How should we approach the owners of South Keys Shopping Mall for support of the Pathway?
John Sankey: They should be approached through the South Keys/Greenboro Community Association.

Motion: To establish a priority list of items to present to the Councillor. Moved by Fred McLennan, seconded by Alan Asselstine, carried.
Alan Asselstine: Described the major issues of the HCCO:

• Southern Corridor
• Minto Development on McCarthy Road
• bus routes
• community safety

John Sankey led a discussion on how to enhance the area around the community centre and shopping centre as a social and visual centre of the Hunt Club community. Ideas discussed were:

• a garden with friendly seating in front of the new center
• encourage the owner of the shawarma shop to brighten up his interior and to always have at least one good coffee on tap
• community gateway features, marking the area as the center of the community
• a mural showing the history of our community
• street signs like on Preston Street
• develop Landry Park as a gateway to the Shopping Centre
• teen activities
• a wall on which youth can draw

Alan Asselstine: Paul Landry Park would be a good place to put up a mural.

Liz Russell: Has adopted McCarthy Road and has been out 20 times since April on various clean-up projects. She is trying to get the City to provide garbage receptacles along McCarthy Road. During the summer she provided her own garbage cans at Cahill and Fielding Drives. She has been out 12 times cleaning up graffiti – the big silver box at the CNR railway tracks is a favourite target. She contacted Mr Beauchamps of CNR to ask that it paint the box with special paint that makes it easier to remove graffiti. He told her that it was illegal for her to go and remove the graffiti but said that CNR would consider the special paint. Tim Hortons coffee cups are the single biggest item tossed on the Road. She contacted Bernie Horton of Metro Publications. He agreed that the people that deliver the newspapers to the bus shelters would pick up the old ones. On September 6, she was one of 10 that pulled shopping carts out of Sawmill Creek. There were no shopping carts from Giant Tiger and Independent Grocery Store because they have people assigned to managing them on their lots. Shopping carts migrate to the periphery and then get trashed by the youth. She contacted Mr Tate of the City on putting up concrete barriers along the stretch of McCarthy that runs through the NCC property. Cars run off the road on the corner and Liz wants to have concrete barriers to protect the pedestrians on the sidewalks. Mr Tate said no to the concrete barriers because last year no cars actually hit the fence. He did ask for a grading improvement on the Road. Liz plans to plant wildflowers up and down the Road.

Next meeting: Monday 5 January 2009 at 19:30

Councillor Maria McRae’s report was delivered the day after the meeting by email.

Attendees:

• John Sankey President
• Alan Asselstine Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe Secretary
• André Nichol Councillor’s Office
• Bonnie Conlon Councillor’s Office
• Phurn Ball Services Centre
• Sheena Bolton The News EMC

Phurn Ball: is the Executive Director of the Hunt Club/Riverside Community Services Centre (Services Centre). Phurn has a Masters in Social Work. She has worked in the Federal Civil Service, particularly the Coast Guard. She presented her report, Justification for Expansion of Space. The basic model of the Services Centre is to provide programs at no cost to its clients. Examples of programs are Crisis Intervention, Emergency Baby Supply Cupboard, Play Group for children 0-6 years old and Youth Drop-in. The Services Centre currently is renting a store-front at the A & P Plaza but will be moving to the Community Centre once it is expanded. The Board asked her questions and got a good understanding of the operations and space requirements of the Services Centre.

André Nichol: presented the Councillor’s report for September and October. The Transportation Master Plan recommends that the Airport Parkway be twinned. The City has prepared a draft strategy Diversion 2015 which seeks ways to recycle the waste from businesses and institutions. The City has published its Fall 2008/Winter 2009 Recreation Guide which is a catalogue of courses, programs and activities.

Alan Asselstine: The modal split is the ratio of trips in public transit to trips in private cars. The current modal split is 14% (for public transit) and the goal is to increase it to 30%. Even though the policy is to encourage more public transportation, the City has identified two roads that can be upgraded at a reasonable cost: extension of Hunt Club Road to the 417 Highway and the twinning of the Airport Parkway. For many years we have looked for a way to build a pedestrian pathway across the Airport Parkway and now the City has approved an environmental assessment. The pedestrian pathway has to have right-of-way access. It can go along the existing CN railway line or further south at Plante and Cahill. There should be more consideration for bicycle paths – right now the bike path along the Rideau River ends at Mooney’s Bay.

Peter Brimacombe: The City should have authority over waste from businesses and institutions. This would allow it to effectively manage this kind of waste.

Motion: To approve the September minutes. Moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Peter Brimacombe, carried.

John Sankey: Last Wednesday, four members of the Board attended the meeting at City Hall on the expansion of the Community Centre. Shelley Parlow has resigned from the Board and we need to plan for the Annual General Meeting. The tennis courts at Uplands Park need to be resurfaced.

Alan Asselstine: The tennis courts on Owl Drive are in better shape even though they are older and are used for a skating rink in winter.

Annual General Meeting: Monday November 3 at 19:30

Attendees:

• John Sankey President
• Alan Asselstine Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe Secretary
• Fred McLennan
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch
• John Reid
• Sheena Bolton The News EMC

John Sankey: During the LPGA held at the Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club, Chatsworth Crescent was jammed with cars parked along the street despite the fact that the Club provided ample parking south of Hunt Club Road and a shuttle bus. The parked cars in some cases blocked the driveways of the residents. After a resident called him, John called 311 but the City refused to send its bylaw enforcement officers to ticket the parked cars. John contacted Maria’s office, he sent an e-mail expressing his frustration to the members of the Board and at the end of the week sent it to the Ottawa Sun.
Fred McLennan: This event happens only once so why get upset about it?
Peter Brimacombe: Felt that the event was a real plus for the City despite the problems with parking.
John Reid: Noticed that temporary parking restrictions were out in place on the residential streets behind the Hellenic Centre during Greek Fest.
Alan Asselstine: He saw John’s e-mail and Art Miskew’s comments but didn’t think that John would send an e-mail to the Ottawa Sun. He noted that due to previous problems, that all external communications from the HCCO require board approval. In his view if the City was selectively refusing to enforce its bylaws that was a serious problem.

Motion: To accept the minutes of June 2008, moved by Alan Asselstine, seconded by Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, carried.

John Sankey: John sent letters asking to be included in the planning of the library kiosk which is included in the expansion of Community Centre. He sent a letter to the Ottawa Public Library Board which did not reply. He sent a letter to Jan Harder President of Library Board. She acknowledged his letter but did not address his concerns. John feels that we have a legitimate need to be included in a major community project such as the expansion of the Community Centre. There are some matters such as personnel which should not be brought before the Hunt Club Community Organization.
John Reid: referenced a copy of the Draft Capital Budget of the Ottawa Public Library which says that a library kiosk will be part of the expanded Community Centre. It will be a pilot project which would be evaluated.
It was agreed that Alan would help John Sankey and John Reid draft an email to the Chair of the Library Board to express the HCCO’s approval of the Kiosk and to reaffirm our willingness to assist in this project.
Fred McLennan: Why should we be involved in the governance of the Community Centre? We should have a public meeting so that the City and the Ottawa Public Library can explain their plans.
Alan Asselstine: Maria McRea advised us in June that she has been working with the two organizations involved with the Centre’s expansion: the Hunt Club Riverside Services Centre and the the Hunt Club Riverside Recreation Association. Alan feels that it is too soon for a public meeting. He is active but pragmatic which means in this case that it is best to wait.
Gisèle Loiselle-Branch: What about the idea of a library kiosk at the old Bayview Public School?
John Reid: Thinks that a library kiosk at the old Bayview School is unlikely.

John Sankey: The City plans to expand the Green Box Program to the rest of the City. The Green Box Program is the collection of organic waste such as potato peelings. To be successful, residents must separate the organic waste from the regular garbage which goes to landfill. The City plans to collect the Green Boxes every week but plans to reduce collection of the landfill garbage from every week to once every two weeks. The City thinks that 30% of the regular garbage should be diverted to the Green Box Program. On his street (Uplands Drive) there is only the regular garbage collection and no Green Box Program. John personally inspected the garbage on his street and found that only 10% of the garbage could be diverted to the Green Box Program. John feels that it is unrealistic to reduce the collection of the regular garbage.
Alan Asselstine: On his street there is a Green Box Program and it is working and effective.
Gisèle Loiselle-Branch: What about the idea of sending in all the garbage which is then sorted by paid employees at the dump?
John Reid: Something has to be done – the move to collect landfill waste once every two weeks is the motivation so that people will spend more time sorting the organic waste.
Gisèle Loiselle-Branch: Educate, educate, educate. People need to be educated and receive the message in many ways and formats. For example La Presse encourages sorting of garbage in Quebec. Gisèle recently returned from New Zealand where she was impressed with the sorting and collection of garbage.
Motion: The Board supports extension of the green box program throughout the City but feels that bi-weekly collection of landfill is unrealistic without further education. Moved by Peter Brimacombe, seconded by Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, carried.

Peter Brimacombe: has followed the mortgage crisis in the United States for three years. Mortgage default and foreclosures have a direct bearing on community safety and health. Financial stress leads to mental health problems which affect families. Foreclosures and evictions cause families to abandon their houses which become hangouts for gangs. It is in our direct interest in the Hunt Club Community that lending standards be tightened so that only people that can afford houses be given a mortgage.
John Sankey remembers when lending standards were much stricter and that you had to have a 10% down payment to get an insured mortgage (CMHC) and to get an uninsured mortgage you had to have a 25% downpayment. Lending standards have become lax.

Gisèle Loiselle-Branch: Reminds the residents of the parking by-laws in her co-op. When she spoke to a man in her co-op about parking in visitors’ parking instead of in his own spot, he swore at her.
The Board felt that she was right in reminding him of the parking by-laws and felt that the co-op should hire a private company to enforce them.

Next meeting: Monday Oct 6 at 19:30
Annual General Meeting: Monday November 3