Attendees:

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Kathy Ablett (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Jim Bickford (City Councillor)
• Bob Spicer (City Planner)
• Andre Grushman (Quinterra/Riverwood Landings (west of Riverside))
• Brian Gifford
• Elizabeth Russell
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Pat Hitsman, The News

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Up-date – Bus bays on Riverside Drive
• Windmill Proposal for Mooney’s Bay Park
• 1999 Hydrant Testing Program
• Report in on Land Trusts
• Ottawa-Carleton Board of Trade on Local Governance
• Drinking Water Week
• International Year of Older Persons & 30 years of Regional Government
• A verbal update on Lansdowne Park negotiations: RMOC and City of Ottawa

Southern Corridor:

Fred Mclennan said that Jim Bickford promised to meet Ted Robinson, Commissioner of Urban Planning, City of Ottawa.

Jim Bickford met with Ted Robinson, and Bob Spicer is here to answer questions on behalf of the City.

Bob Spicer wants to get the Neighbourhood Study off the shelf, to keep as much value as possible from the work that was done. He presented three options: first is do nothing which is simply to ignore the Neighbourhood Study, the second is to zone the McCarthy Woods as an Environmentally Sensitive Area and the remainder of the southern corridor as L3-h Community Leisure, and the third is to zone the remainder as an Urban Reserve. Option two and three basically defer the planning of the land. Option 2 is a holding designation and option 3 says that the land is to be used for housing but that the planning is deferred. Until a new plan is approved, the land could only be used for very limited purposes such as a cemetery, a community centre, a municipal office or a retirement home.

Anne Brandel said that everybody wants to keep the southern corridor as it is. She asked if the NCC could appeal a City decision to preserve the southern corridor to the Ontario Municipal Board(OMB)?

Bob Spicer said that the NCC as the property owner could appeal a City decision to the OMB.

Shelley Parlow said that if the Neighbourhood Plan with the L3-h were approved, the holding designation basically means that the land is still up for grabs.

Kathy Ablett asked where does the community gain by options 2 and 3?

Bob Spicer answered that the threat of immediate zoning change would be removed but that the threat of eventual zoning change would remain. But even then the Neighbourhood Plan can establish criteria that any future plan should satisfy.

Kathy Ablett asked how the plans presented in the draft Neighbourhood Study could be abandoned?

Bob Spicer said that there was no consensus in the community and the NCC supports a deferral. The NCC was in the process of completing a Municipal Environmental Evaluation Report (MEER) but didn’t finish.

Brian Gifford asked what would it take in a legal sense to zone the entire southern corridor as environmentally sensitive?

Bob Spicer answered that not only would the City and Regional Councils have to pass the zoning but that the NCC would have to concur. The NCC could appeal any decision to the OMB and has done this in other cases.

Kathy Ablett asked Jim Bickford if the City Council has the political will to pass zoning that would totally preserve the southern corridor?

Jim Bickford replied that his sense from his first two weeks at City Councillor, is that the political will does not exist.

Kathy Ablett said that the Neighbourhood Study never adequately dealt with traffic concerns. Is there going to be any better traffic studies?

Bob Spicer said that there is nothing on the books for this year and that further studies would require the approval of City Council.

Andre Grushman said there should be a fourth option which would be to zone the entire southern corridor as environmentally sensitive.

Alan Asselstine asked: do we as a community continue with the Neighbourhood Study?

Shelley Parlow asked: what do we lose by dropping the Neighbourhood Study?

Bob Spicer said that the existing draft Neighbourhood Study does have value without touching the southern corridor and a revised Study could set out criteria which future plans for the southern corridor would have to satisfy.

Andre Grushman said that the Neighbourhood Study is an opportunity to look at the community as a whole.

Fred McLennan thanked Bob Spicer for his professional input.

Other issues:

April minutes were approved.

Wendy Stewart presented her report: Regional Staff have asked that their proposal to remove the bus bays on Riverside Drive be removed itself. There is a proposal to locate the Friendship Windmill in Mooney’s Bay Park. The proposed windmill is seven stories high and would cost at least $3 million. Comments at the meeting questioned its value. Lansdowne Park has been saved because the Region and the City have been able to save money by having the Region take over the operation of the City’s storm sewers.

Nancy Seaby attended the memorial service at the Corel Centre for the men killed at O/C Transpo.

Art Miskew said that May 29 would be the day for the annual cleanup of the southern corridor. He also raised the issue of cars illegally passing school buses on Paul Anka Drive.

Wendy Stewart took note and said that the police would check it out.

Next meeting: Mon 7 Jun 1999 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Jim Bickford (City Councillor)
• Elizabeth Russell
• Brian Gifford
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Pat Hitsman, The News

Motions: Victoria Day, Internet-based funding, Town of Hunt Club, Bus bays, Celebrate Southern Corridor

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Bus Bays – Riverside Drive
• Update – Garbage Collection
• Leaf & Yard Waste
• Airport Master Plan
• Additional Funding for Community Resources
• Hunt Club Neighbourhood Plan – Southern Corridor Update
• OC Transpo
• Trail Road Landfill – Asset Management and Landfill Optimization Study
• Restore the Rideau Workshop
• READY 2000 – Y2K and Community Safety
• Drop by for a Chat

March minutes were approved.

Lucy Corbin is coordinating the Victoria Day celebration at Pauline Vanier Park, Monday May 24, 1999; she sent us a letter to ask for a donation.

Motion: Kathy Ablett moved to give her $75. Seconded by Anne Brandel. Carried.

Anne Brandel described the work of the South Ottawa Gloucester Community Resource Action Team(SOGCRAT). SOGCRAT provides free services and activities to young people: organizers provide bus tours to the tulip festival and the YMCA, they sponsor a youth night every Friday. SOGCRAT has a budget of $50,000 a year.

Shelley Parlow took the course in media relations.

Peter Vasdi reported that our web site http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/hunt-club/ is being visited by an increasing number of people, and currently averages some 14 visits a week.

Motion: He moved that a committee be formed to canvas local businesses to support the HCCO in exchange for visibility on the community website. Contributions would be structured at $1/month from time mention is added to website to end of HCCO’s fiscal year (31 July). Seconded by Anne Brandel. Carried unanimously.

Peter Brimacombe offered to coordinate the sales effort.

Peter Vasdi raised the idea of a Town of Hunt Club.

Motion: He moved that the Organization explore new models for representation within a one-tier government. Seconded by Kathy Ablett. Carried. Kathy will take this matter forward.

Nancy Seaby reported that the Region proposes to eliminate the bus bays on Riverside Drive. She wrote to the Region, expressing her opposition.

Motion: Kathy Ablett moved to support Nancy’s letter: that is that the Hunt Club Community Organization is in favour of keeping the bus bays as they are now. Seconded by Anne Brandel. Carried.

Kathy Ablett proposed we send O/C Transpo a letter expressing our sympathy for the recent killings at O/C Transpo and our appreciation for their workers who returned to work as soon as possible to provide service to us.

Kathy raised the issue of the dangerous intersection at McCarthy and Hunt Club.

Wendy Stewart said that Regional staff is aware of the problem.

Southern Corridor:

Brian Gifford reported that Kathy Ablett, Shelley Parlow, and he met with John Manley (MP) on the issue of the southern corridor. John Manley advised the group to ask the City to stop the Neighbourhood Study.

Curry Wood of the NCC wrote that if the City wanted to defer the Neighbourhood Study then the NCC would not object.

Shelley and Brian sent a letter to the NCC saying that the NCC should put greater emphasis on preserving grassland and that the City and the Region should have greater involvement.

Brian made a video on the southern corridor including the Uplands meadow.

Brian met with Chief Robert Whiteduck. Chief Robert Whiteduck expressed support for the idea of a Site of Reconcilation.

Anne Brandel said the pressure on the southern corridor is immense so we must be prepared to work very hard to keep it.

Peter Brimacombe said that because the pressure is so great, we must be prepared to accept development.

Nancy Seaby said that some development is inevitable, she fears that friction within the Community could split it.

Alan Asselstine said that the Neighbourhood Study is for the whole community but it has been dominated by the southern corridor. Ten years ago, the Community went before the Ontario Municipal Board to oppose plans to develop the area west of Riverside at Uplands. Unfortunately we lost, but the experience shows us the importance of having a Neighbourhood Plan to give us legal status. He said that it is in our interest to have an approved and legal Neighbourhood Plan. “You ain’t seen nothing, real estate prices are going up, pressure is building.”

Jim Bickford said that he has not discussed the issue with City Council, but he would meet with Ted Robison, Commissioner of Urban Planning. He believes that the NCC was driving the process and that the City has an interest in extra tax revenue.

Brian Gifford said that the community needs a plan because it provides assurances. He and his family love the greenspace but the wishes of one family are not enough to preserve it, support for keeping the greenspace has to be inclusive, coming from the broader community. He is aware that unrestricted development poses a tremendous threat: new population brings with it more traffic , greater need for social and recreational services.

Wendy Stewart said that development could be an opportunity to bargain and that rezoning does not automatically include infrastructure.

Peter Vasdi said the problem with the existing Neighbourhood Study was that the City developed the concepts but didn’t really organize a team of community volunteers to help with the plan. He said that the City should coach the Community to develop its own plan.

Motion: Brian Gifford moved that an event be organized to celebrate and promote the greenspace of the southern corridor. Seconded by Alan Asselstine.

Next meeting: Mon 3 May 1999 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Peter Foulger, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Bill Royds
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Ken Donnelly
• Riley Brockington
• Mike Novak (Southern Corridor Group)
• Frances Tanner (Carlington Heights – candidate for City Council)
• Jim Bickford (candidate for City Council)
• Scott Paterson (candidate for City Council)
• David Biggs (Pres. Riverside Park)
• Jim Watson (Mayor, City of Ottawa)
• Gord Belyea
• Louise Benaud
• Lisa Czajkowski
• Mickey Douglas
• Erwin Dreessen
• Barbara Horger
• Paul Greer
• Andrei Grushman
• Joan Hearn
• Ann MacKenzie
• Brian McAdam
• Andy Porowski
• Norman Richter
• Patrick Richter
• Elizabeth Russell
• Daphne W. Sinclair
• David Stout
• Neil Stout
• Cliff Thompson
• Terrance Wills
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Jan Duncan, The News

Shelley Parlow: the Community Association needs more expertise in media relations and there is a course available for $90. Anne Brandel moved we spend $90 to send Shelley on the course on media relations. Seconded by Nancy Seaby. Voted. Passed.

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, to submit a report on the following:

• 1999 Budget Update
• Review of OC Transpo
• Follow-up – Request for Left-turn Lane, Hunt Club & McCarthy
• Update – Action on behalf of South Corridor Working Group
• Garbage Collection Day Could Change
• Airport Parkway & Hunt Club Ramps – Tree Planting
• Tree Removal at 4160 Riverside Drive
• Community Environmental Project Grants
• Free Income Tax Clinics
• Report on Office Budget 1998 Fiscal Year
• addendum

There were over 40 people at the meeting. Most of those present are listed.

Fred McLennan: there is an All Candidates Meeting at the Riverside Drive Churches at 7:30 PM on March 23, 1999.

Andrei Grushman: there is another All Candidates Meeting at the Cognos Building at 7:30 PM on March 9, 1999.

Wendy Stewart: there is a report underway on how well the emergency access road worked when the Tudor Inn caught fire.

Fred McLennan introduced the Mayor Jim Watson.

The Mayor briefly described the state of the City of Ottawa as it applies to the Hunt Club Community: There would be no City Councillor for Hunt Club until the election on April 6, 1999. The City budget is approved, important points:

• no tax increases
• no additional debt
• no layoffs of City staff
• no cuts in service

He noted that the City of Ottawa is $135 million in debt and that $30 million/year goes to reducing the debt, much of the debt is in bonds so it can be retired only according to the schedule. Despite the problem of the debt, the City was able to hire two new Property Standards Officers and added 3% to the purchase-of-service contracts. The Hunt Club /Riverside Community Centre is run through a purchase-of-service contract. Last year the City laid off 150 employees but none this year. The Mayor made the comment that this year, the budget was more stable and next year it should remain so. Compared with other municipalities in Canada, Ottawa has the second highest taxes.

Wendy Stewart gave her report of ten items: the Regional Budget was approved, important points:

• hold the line on taxes
• 81 jobs cut
• the Region has absorbed $100 million in reductions in transfer payments
• the Region strives to make its operations as good as possible
• the attempt to take $600,000 out of the budget for the Walkley Road ramp was narrowly defeated.
• Review of OC Transpo: changes to 60 routes, routes to be straighter, better service to Carleton University, tougher criteria: all routes must collect 25 for every $1 spent.

Nancy Seaby has been active in the OC Transpo Review. Wendy Stewart encouraged the community to participate in the review.

Brian Gifford took over as chair, he and Kathy Ablett are co-chair of the southern corridor working group. He welcomed the Mayor to the meeting.

Anne Brandel moved that the minutes of the previous meeting be accepted. Seconded by Shelley Parlow.

Brian Gifford proposed that comments to the Mayor be centred around four main questions:

What does the deferral of the planning process mean? Is it simply a courtesy extended to the incoming Councillor, but the plan will proceed as is for Council’s approval, or is there a willingness on the part of the City to allow those involved a chance to revisit the plan? In short, is this a stay of execution or a chance to meaningfully amend and improve the neighbourhood plan?

What’s Council’s awareness of the concerns expressed by our community? And, from the Mayor’s perspective, where does Council stand on the merits of the plan or the process followed to date?

What would he suggest that we do to make Council more aware of our concerns and help them to appreciate the problems posed by the plan and the opportunities offered by alternative proposals?

What would it take for the City to allow for the revision of the plan as drafted? What parameters would the City be willing to entertain in the process to revise the plan and, what is the timeline for the finalizing of the neighbourhood plan & the reasons for this?

The Mayor said that he appreciated this chance to listen to the community.

Shelley Parlow noted that the Neighbourhood Plan was the least popular of all alternatives.

Brian Gifford outlined actions to oppose the Neighbourhood Plan: he had proposed a Site of Reconciliation. Anne Brandel had approached the Catholic School Board to enlist the aid of the children but the Board thought the project was too political, the Public Board said that Anne should approach each individual school.

Bill Royds said the meadow proposed for development had 350 species of plants and important animal species.

Andy Porowski said that the Mayor should walk through the corridor to appreciate its beauty, that the preservation of grassland was important and he asked if the Mayor would support its preservation.

Daphne Sinclair loves the open spaces, her kids play there. “I will move” if the open spaces are taken away.

Mike Novak supports the preservation of open spaces, the greenlands around Ottawa are precious.

Patrick Richter (a young boy) plays in the fields with his friends, they want to keep the fields. Commented on the impact of 40% increase in traffic that would result from the development of the corridor.

Joan Hearn wants to stop the proposed development, the open fields near Gillespie are important to the quality of life.

Anne Brandel, a member of SOGCRAT (South Ottawa Gloucester Community Resource Action Team), said that preserving the greenspace is a matter of common sense.

Liz Russell pointed out that houses on Plante Drive had suffered moderate to severe damage due to poor soil conditions and due to poor building materials used by the original builder Campeau. “Developers must know they will incur major costs”.

David Biggs (Riverside Park Association): the City choose the least desirable proposal, he questions the aims of the City Council but recognizes that NCC owns the land.

Scott Paterson: the NCC is unanswerable, preservation of greenspace is of concern to everyone not just the middle class.

Shelley Parlow: the City of Ottawa has very little park space and we use the NCC land as park space. There is very little park space at the west end of the corridor and we cannot of course walk on the Golf C ourse. We already have traffic problems, we don’t have the infrastructure to support more population and we just can’t cope with more traffic.

Terrance Wills: Other than the demand to keep green space, what other forces are in play?

Peter Foulger: politicians should walk in the corridor, there are diverse ecologies, there are partridges in the grass. City of Ottawa staff just took the side of the NCC.

Brian McAdam: knows what high density is: Hong Kong, air is yellow, 6.5 million people gasping for air. The existing open spaces are valuable.

David Stout(lives on Hackett): There are no official parks because the City took cash in lieu of parks.

Bill Royds: The Official Plan directs the City to purchase areas which are environmentally sensitive and important, why isn’t it doing so?

Ken Donnelly: The Neighbourhood Study should be an opportunity for residents to have an influence. The change in policy at the NCC comes as an unwelcome surprise! The public meetings have shown our disappointment.

Wendy Stewart: she has fought hard to protect green space, ecology of corridor must be considered as a whole, the raptors (owls and hawks) which live in the forest depend on the field mice. 30 metre buffer is not enough for the deer.

The Mayor: The Neighbourhood Plan has been deferred because of the letters and representations that he has received. He wrote a letter to Ted Robinson, the City’s Commissioner of Urban Planning and Public Works, asking that the Study be deferred because it was too important to be carried forward without adequate representation. If it takes a longer period of time then so be it, perhaps the fall of 1999 would be better. The time can be used to sit down and find out what is acceptable.

The Mayor asked those who are opposed to any development to raise their hands, the great majority of people at the meeting raised their hands.

The Mayor reported that City Council is aware of the Hunt Club Neighbourhood Plan because they approved the terms of reference in December 1996. Recently the NCC offered to sell McCarthy Woods for one dollar but it really was an offer to count McCarthy Woods as parkland against their proposed development.

The Mayor: The Draft Neighbourhood Plan is not a done deal, the Community should lobby members of Council, write individual letters not submit petitions, the Community could hold seminars at City Hall for new members of Council, invite councilors to walk through the southern corri dor and McCarthy Woods. It takes more than two or three hundred people at a meeting to get City Council on side.

The Mayor: City Planners are following a process. The Ontario Municipal Board (OMB) would rule on the Neighbourhood Plan if challenged by the NCC. There are major risks and challenges with going to the Ontario Municipal Board, the community must decide on its best strategy.

The Mayor: the NCC is frustrating to work with, secretive, it has the most direct and dramatic impact on our lives but is not accountable to the people. The community should get the Members of Parliament (MPs) on their side[Sheila Copps heads the NCC]. The City wants a win/win situation. We should evaluate our strategy : is it realistic? is it do-able? A challenge before the OMB puts the whole process outside our (the City and the community) control.

The Mayor: a tax levy to buy the land would be seen as providing an unfair advantage to a small percentage of voters, it would cause tremendous division within the community, it would present a major risk in case it were put to a vote.

The Mayor: The new councillor should be personally involved in an updated Neighbourhood Plan, he does not want to interfere with the process but he personally is not going to let the process roll out of control and waste more time and money! The City does not have the money to buy the land from the NCC. [the land is worth $7 million but the present value of the 1945 purchase price is only $.5 million.] He doubts the NCC would sell for $.5 million. He is not afraid of the NCC and could be persuaded to oppose its plans.

Patrick Richter: McCarthy Woods is beautiful!

Comments: NCC wants to build houses on 40 hectares out of a total area of 150 hectares.

Brian Gifford: the deferral of the Neighbourhood Plan allows the community to develop an alternate approach. What would happen if the City decided to support the retention of green space?

The Mayor: if City Council decides to keep the green space, it would hire outside planning staff to prepare a new plan and obviously the plan would be passed by Council. The NCC would challenge the Plan and it would go before a full OMB hearing. If you [the community] accept some development you put yourself in a stronger position, if you don’t accept any you set yourself up for failure. Your goal should be to protect as much green space as possible.

Next meeting: Mon 12 Apr 1999 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Ted Requard
• Elizabeth Russell
• Brian Gifford (Chair, Southern Corridor Group)
• Mike Novak (Southern Corridor Group)
• Andy Porowski
• Erwin Dreessen
• Frances Tanner (Carlington Heights)
• Bill Royds
• Jim Bickford
• Wayne Kennedy
• Pat Uguccini
• David Biggs (Pres. Riverside Park)
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Pat Hitsman, The News

Fred McLennan moved to proceed with the site of reconcilation, seconded by Liz Russell. Voted. Passed.

Anne Brandel moved that all community representatives would withdraw from the Public Advisory Committee (PAC) and not participate in the Neighbourhood Study until our co ncerns are listened to and respected. Seconded by Peter Brimacombe. Passed unanimously.

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, to submit a report on the following:

• Adult Crossing Guard Program – 1999 Regional Police Service Budget
• New Water Billing System
• Drinking Water and Health Concerns
• OC Transpo – New Approach to Labour Relations
• Local Company to Expand
• NCC – A Capital in the Making
• Airport Parkway Traffic Counts Taken
• Sidewalk & Snow Clearing on Hunt Club Road
• Hunt Club Neighbourhood Plan – Transportation Analysis
• Revocation of Walkley Road Truck Route
• 1999 Regional Budget

Southern Corridor preservation effort: The southern corridor group presented their views and ideas concerning the proposed development of the NCC lands in the southern corridor. Brian Gifford lead the discussion.

• Brian Gifford presented the minutes of a meeting of the southern corridor group, a letter from Peter Foulger to the Mayor and a letter to Chief Robert Whiteduck. The letter from Peter Foulger to the Mayor, Jim Watson, dated January 31, 1999; made the point that the Hunt Club Neighbourhood Plan has no support from the community. The letter from Brian Gifford to Chief Robert Whiteduck, Algonquin First Nation, dated February 1, 1999 proposes a site of reconcilati on on the Uplands Meadow as an alternative to its development.
• Brian Gifford presented his proposal, a number of people spoke with comments and questions, Brian summed up the discussion saying that there was qualified support for it.
• The minutes of the southern corridor group were accepted.

For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Millenium Park? Kathy Ablett brought up the idea of a Millennial Park to preserve the southern corridor. For more information, contact Kathy Ablett at 523-3443.

Request to delay HC Neighborhood Plan study: Wendy Stewart said that our best strategy is to delay the Neighbourhood Plan. Call Wendy’s office at 560-1223 to get involved or for more information.

Ideas on saving the Corridor: A number of other ideas were presented:

• Kathy Ablett said the Mayor, Jim Watson, was available to meet with our group and that she would invite him to the next meeting in March. The City of Ottawa would not proceed with the Neighbourhood Plan before the byelection.
• Erwin Dreessen raised the idea of a question on the ballot, saying it is legally possible and it would require an effort to lobby the City Council.
• Andy Porowski offered to organize a “Save the Southern Corridor Day”. There would be a walk through the meadow , McCarthy Woods and across McCarthy Road.

For more information, contact Peter Brimacombe at 521-4423.

School children may help research value of Southern Corridor. Anne Brandel has doubts about buying the land, but she will proceed to enlist the support of the school children. The idea is that the school children would paint pictures and write stories that tell of the value of the southern corridor. For more information, contact Anne Brandel at 523-7888.

Diane Deans supports library in Southern Corridor. Shelley Parlow said that City Councillor, Diane Deans would support construction of a library on the southern corridor and make development conditional on the library. For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Unite community organizations to save Southern Corridor. Frances Tanner said we should form a coalition of community organizations, delay development until we had sufficient infrastructure and build support for green space. For more information, contact Frances Tanner at 728-8728.

Southern Corridor strategy session. Wendy Stewart would contact a woman to lead a strategy session to help develop our own vision of the southern corridor. For more information, contact Wendy’s office at 560-1223.

Motion to pay for Southern Corridor through taxes defeated by City. City Councillor, Karin Howard wrote a letter to Erwin Dreessen, dated February 1, 1999: she presented a motion to the Policy, Priorities and Budget Committee to put a question on the ballot that would levy a tax to buy a portion of the southern corridor. Her motion was defeated. For more information, contact Karin Howard’s office at 244-5365.

Wendy Stewart’s report: Wendy Stewart presented a report of eleven items: here are seven: The Region is concerned that the proposed development of the southern corridor would overload the road system. OC Regional Police have budgeted for adult crossing guards. Concerns that chlorine in the water could pose an elevated risk of cancer but that risk must be balanced against the proven risk of water-borne disease. IOGEN will build a demonstration plant to produce ethanol, use of ethanol can reduce greenhouse gases. A publication, NCC a Capital in the Making. Airport Parkway, traffic counts show that the new ramps allow substantially more cars to use the Parkway. Wendy is committed to holding the line on taxes. For more information, contact Wendy’s office at 560-1223.

Report on light rail pilot project: Nancy Seaby presented a report on the public meeting concerning the Light Rail Pilot Project, Jan 13, 1999: the Pilot would run trains every 15 minutes. For more information, contact Nancy Seaby at 736-0659.

Next meeting: Mon 1 Mar 1999 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Ted Requard
• Elizabeth Russell
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Pat Hitsman, The News

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart submitted a report.

Request to delay HC Neighborhood Plan study: Peter Foulger sent a letter to the Region asking that consideration of the Hunt Club Neighborhood Study be delayed until we have a new City of Ottawa councillor to replace Karin Howard and until the transportation issues could be resolved. The region said that consideration would be delayed until after February 1999. Steve Lion of the Region wrote that the 1500 new housing units proposed east of Riverside Drive would have serious implications for traffic on Riverside Drive. His reservations are noticeably absent from the NCC report “Southern Corridor Transportation Planning, October 1998”. For more information, contact Peter Foulger.

Changing OC Transpo bus routes: Nancy Seaby went to the OC Transpo meetings that looks at bus routes. Route 41 will be kept. OC Transpo wants to run buses on Colonel By. There will be a public meeting on January 13 at the Jim Durrell Arena to review bus routes. For more information, contact Nancy Seaby.

HCCO election of officers: Officers were elected as above. For more information, call Fred McLennan.

Share auditing costs with SEOCA: Anne Brandel will look at the possibility that the Hunt Club Community Organization and the South East Ottawa Community Association could use the same firm to reduce the costs of auditing their accounts. On the subject of the proposed housing development, Anne will approach our schools to have the children write on the development. For more information, contact Anne Brandel.

Karin Howard’s resignation question: Shelley Parlow asked when Karin Howard will resign , answer was by March 1999, Karin’s motion to Ottawa City Council for a special levy was rejected. Shelley looked at how the NCC orginally acquired the Southern Corridor, she looked at the deeds, dates and costs of each parcel. For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

New gas bar on Hunt Club Rd. Fred McLennan reported that Sunoco wants to build a gas bar at 700 Hunt Club Road. For more information, call Fred McLennan.

Next meeting: Mon 1 Feb 1999 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (representing Sequoia Coop and Twyford-Cahill area)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Peter Brimacombe, (Resident, Western Community)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Francis Tanner, (potential alderman candidate))
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Jan Duncan, The News

MOTIONS

Motion by Alan Asselstine to to advertise the HCCO annual general meeting on 7 Dec. Seconded by Nancy Seaby; voted; passed.

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 2 Nov 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Update – Elevated Water Tank Replacement
• Update – Walkley Road Truck Route Status
• Truck Noise on Hunt Club Road
• Land Trusts in RMOC
• Plant for Tomorrow Program
• OC Transpo
• Studies Released on Trail Road and Nepean Landfill Sites
• Economic Development
• Outstanding Planning Award for 1997 RMOC Official Plan
• New Fish Discovered in the Rideau River

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• 1999 Budget
• Tax Arrears
• Riverside Park Neighbourhood Plan
• Hunt Club Neighborhood Plan
• NOSS Study
• Brookfield/Flannery Drive Intersection
• Mooney’s Bay Redevelopment
• Local Governance
• Lebanese Festival and H.O.P.E. Voleyball Tournament
• McCarthy Road Sidewalks
• Intended Resignation

Next meeting will be the Annual General Meeting, to be held Mon 7 Dec 1998 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred McLennan, President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Bill Royds, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Riley Brockington, Director (communications)
• Peter Brimacombe, (Resident, Western Community)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Karin Howard, City councillor
• Patricia Hitsman, The News

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 5 Oct 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Update – Waterfront Open Space in Northwest Southern Corridor
• Update – Walkley Road Truck Route Revocation
• Replacement of the Alta Vista Elevated Water Storage Tank
• Transit Passes from Employers – Tax Exempt Benefit
• Information – Non-Police Personnel to Enforce Red Light Running
• Information – Absence from HCCO A.G.M., October 19, 1998

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• Official Plan Amendment and Rezoning: 3735-55, 3860 Riverside Drive, 3750 Bowesville Road
• McCarthy Road Sidewalk Construction
• Proposed Microcell Connexions PCS Antenna Installation
• Iogen Site Plan
• 1999 Budget
• 1998 Tax Bill
• Ward 8 NCC Greenspace Designations for Dogs-in-Parks

Next meeting: Mon 2 Nov 1998 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred McLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Peter Vasdi, Secretary
• Fred Winters, Director (recreation/social)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (representing Sequoia Coop and Twyford-Cahill area)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Robert Staples, Director (representing Quinterra/Riverwood Landings (west of Riverside))
• Peter Brimacombe, (Resident, Western Community)
• Kathy Ablett, (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Jan Duncan, The News

MOTIONS

Motion by Peter Vasdi to ensure HCCO’s website for another year (until Sep 99) by having the HCCO contribute $100 to the National Capital Freenet. Seconded by Anne Brandel. Voted and carried.

Motion by Anne Brandel to have HCCO contribute $100 to the HCRCC Oct 98 Hallowe’en party. Seconded by Shelley Parlow. Voted and carried.

Motion by Shelley Parlow to write letter to help Quinterra modify the site plans for the proposed apartment buildings on west side of Riverside Dr.

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 8 Sep 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• McCarthy Road Sidewalks
• Property Assessment Appeal Deadline
• Third Set of Open Houses – Revitalization of Lansdowne Park
• Leisure, Arts and Heritage Programs and Facilities Study Meetings
• Central Experimental Farm
• Committee on Adjustment Hearing
• Congratulations to Cognos, Paul Greer and City Staff
• Saturn Playgrounds ’98
• Memo to John Moser re Hunt Club Transportation Issues

Schoolchildren crossing McCarthy illegally at Twyford:

• People should take a walk there between 8-9am weekdays, and observe what is happening, especially in winter when kids wait behind snowbanks to dash across the road.
• Pros and cons to putting a crosswalk across McCarthy there, or between Paul Anka and Cahill.
• Put flashing school children signs, perhaps flashing only in mornings and afternoons when children are going to/coming from school?
• Send letter to City; call first to explain issue, and let City respond with a solution.
• Educate parents.
• City policy is to wait until 3 accidents have happened before acting.
• For more information, contact Gisèle Loiselle-Branch.

Corner of Plante and McCarthy (northern):

• Light changes only if car is waiting to turn south (left) from Plante onto McCarthy.
• Cars turning north (right) usually must turn into oncoming hidden traffic going quite fast (80k or more).
• Peter Brimacombe to contact Wendy Stewart at 560-1223 to see if the Region can put the speed detection trailer on McCarthy.
• Innovative suggestion: Use electronic technology to transmit speeds immediately to car owner’s insurance company.
• For more information, contact Art Miskew or Peter Brimacombe.

HCCO memberships for the new fiscal year 98-99:

• Fred McLennan volunteered Bill Royds to sell HCCO memberships at the next HCRCC community festival on Sat 12 Sep 98.
• For more information, contact Bill Royds.

Public Advisory Committee meeting for the Hunt Club Neighborhood Plan held 2 Sep 98:

• One more meeting scheduled before an open house to the general public. Next meeting will be held once Bob Spicer has finalized the report that was presented in draft form to the PAC.
• Open house is to be a presentation from the City to the public:
• Invite Jim Watson, Diane Deans (City chair of planning), and CBC.
• Peter Hume and Bob Chiarelli made an election promise to pursue the land trust option of saving the Southern Corridor greenspace between Hunt Club and Riverside Park.
• Try to negotiate a location for the open house in Hunt Club, rather than Riverside Park where the City is proposing to hold it.
• Try and reserve the HCRCC for the week of 9 Dec, which is when HCRCC may have some openings.
• See if a school can give us the space.
• Last resort: Tudor Hall.
• Shelley had concerns about City’s sincerity:
  • Objective of zoning is to protect the community; however, Bob Spicer’s interpretation seemed to be “do what the developer wants”.
  • Lack of consultation with PAC members. No questions, motions, votes. All PAC members should write independent letters to the City, expressing opinions that were not heard at the PAC meeting.
  • Feeling that community’s needs were irrelevent to the Region’s.
  • Feeling that the City’s concept of the future was “tomorrow”, while Hunt Club’s is “next 10-15 years”.
  • Area’s need for institutional structures (schools, old age homes) was ignored.
  • City’s definition of “light residential” was actually “medium residential”.
  • If the NOSS rates a meadow area as “moderate” in importance, that means “not important”.
• A biologist has assessed the plants in the Southern Corridor. There are 159 species of ….
• Need to present City with an organized coherent plan that accepts reasonable proposals but insists that controls be established and implemented that protect the interests of Hunt Club residents into the future (their future).
• Other alternatives, such as creating a nature trail to link 4160 Riverside Dr. with Quinterra and the Southern Corridor, and/or convincing the federal government to adopt the Southern Corridor as a heritage site based on poets who lived in the area, and their poetry.
• For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Hunt Club Creek:

• Interpretive signs along the creek that show an aerial photo and describe the watershed, its usefulness, and how it can be maintained.
• For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Quinterra community association:

• Objective of Quinterra is to pursue issues that most directly affect themselves and not the Hunt Club community as a whole.
• The two organization could work together: HCCO supporting Quinterra when needed and people from Quinterra attending HCCO meetings to maintain contact and communication.
• Best way of associating Quinterra and the HCCO: as a subcommittee of the HCCO? as a separate organization?
• For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Traffic study scheduled for the proposed apartment buildings west of Riverside Dr. after the buildings are finished, not before.

Support for group handling violence among local teens?

Next annual general meeting tentatively scheduled for 19 Oct.

Shelley has copies of the results of the safety audit she organized.

HCCO motion to freeze development on areas of land that the NOSS still has to study was shot down by the City.

Support for group handling violence among local teens?

The Hunt Club area has more than fulfilled its part of the Regional plan to infill existing areas with development; so why should we continue to infill to our disadvantage?

Support for group handling violence among local teens?

Most recent APETIS meeting (re the Hunt Club Airport Parkway access ramps was held on 12 Aug 98.

IOGEN to expand its research facility SW of Hunt Club Rd. and Bowesville. Blueprints available from Fred McLennan.

Hunt Club Airport Parkway ramps due to open shortly; any chance of inviting past HCCO presidents to the opening?

For more information, call Peter Vasdi.

Next meeting: Mon 5 Oct 98 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred McLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Bill Royds, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Warren Munroe, Director
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (representing Sequoia Coop and Twyford-Cahill area)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Karin Howard, City councillor
• Jan Duncan, The News

MOTIONS

Motion by Bill Royds that the NOSS study area reports for neighborhood areas 28, 29 and 30 be made available to HCCO. Seconded by Anne Brandel. Voted and carried.

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 1 Jun 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• 1998 Regional Budget Finalized
• Bridge Rehabilitation Begins on May 6
• $4 Million Allocated to Reforest Ottawa-Carleton
• Central Experimental Farm
• 1998 Beach Recommendations – Mooney’s Bay
• Electro Radar Trailer
• Light Rail Pilot Project: Progress Report No. 2
• Community Environmental Project Grants Program
• Council Backs Conference Centre Plan
• Special Council Meeting to Debate Governance

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• City Budget
• Voting Record
• H.O.P.E. Volleyball Tournament
• Lansdowne Park: Second Series of Consultation Meetings
• Quinterra-Riverwood Party
• Proposed New Business Association
• Thanks to COGNOS
• Commemorative Tree Planting Programme
• Local Heroes Programme

1998 regional budget Finalized.

$4 Million allocated to reforest Ottawa-Carleton: Some discussion as to the damage in the Hunt Club area – McCarthy Woods possible problems re bush fires in woods – concerns about activity during the woods in the late evening – compliments to the region and city for cleanup programs- site on Antares to close June 6/98 – this had been established as a temporary site for disposal of brush and pickup of wood chips.

Experimental Farm: Report circulated various concerns re future plans of the experimental farm, it was felt that some buildings which have heritage value may not be retained, e.g., Weather station.

Mooney’s Bay Beach to remain open all summer: Exceeds provincial water quality standards – it is the only beach in the region to stay open without restrictions.

Electro radar trailer: Viewed as a positive means of speed control but some felt a requirement for police enforcement. Wendy stated that there had been an actual decrease of 5 km during the previous 12-month period due to regional enforcement.

Light rail Project

• Consultant KPMG has been retained.
• Public forum on June 18/98
• Updates available from Wendy Stewart’s office
• Reports are available on a regular basis if required simply contact her office, Fred will receive copies.

Community Environmental Project Grants Program: Funding is available for small-scale community based initiatives for environmental betterment – deadline June 22. Fred has copy of document and additional info. It was suggested that we should perhaps contact Warren Monroe.

Council Backs Conference Centre Plan:

• RMOC to negotiate with Feds and Cdn Sports Hall of Fame to ensure that there are no costs to the taxpayer and no cost or risk the federal government will lease for 40 years at $1.00 per year.
• Question of maintenance.

Special Council Meeting to Debate Governance: Several lengthy discussions ensued with respect to this topic – general agreement to items 1 to 8 with some modifications – however group was divided as to what we were actually agreeing to – unfortunately Wendy had just received report and could not confirm the details – therefore we spoke in general terms only too many questions remain – however item 8 needs further clarification: Environmental must also be included, there is no mention of greenspace or quality of life, which must be addressed

Quinterra-Riverwood Party:

• June 18/98 to name tot-lot.
• Area contains valuable marshland.
• Bill Royds requested strict enforcement to maintain area – no dumping should be allowed.

Sidewalks on west McCarthy Road: There is a possibility they could be built in the near future.

Karin is also requesting community support and assistance: “How to save as much as possible” of the Southern corridor.

Community garage sale received tremendous support from members of HCCO and was having difficulty moving within her home due to the amount of goods received. Fred Winters agreed to help transport items to centre Saturday morning For more information, call Anne Brandel.

 

Draft NOSS Study: problem the study sample was in June and therefore was somewhat skewed as the spectrum of species was very limited. For more information, call Peter Vasdi.

Next meeting: Tue 8 Sep 1998 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred McLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Bill Royds, Director (memberships)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Warren Munroe, Director
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (representing Sequoia Coop and Twyford-Cahill area)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Karin Howard, City councillor
• Pat Hitzman, The News
• Cindy Ross (softball)

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 4 May 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Governance Debate Goes On
• Bridge Rehabilitation Begins on May 6
• Airport Parkway Extended Traffic Impact Study
• Airport Parkway Ramp at Walkley Road
• OC Transpo Updates
• SOGCRAT Funding
• RADAR Trailer Kick-off
• Ottawa-Carleton Housing Annual Report and Housing Directory
• Free Computers Available for Needy Persons
• Environmental Health Advisory Group
• Woodchips Available from Ice Storm Clean-up
• Boy Scouts Plant Trees on Airport Parkway lands
• Bilingual Services Task Force Launched
• Ice Storm Disaster Relief Fundraising Week

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• Budget ’98
• Saudi Arabian Embassy Site Plan
• Hot Dog Vendors responsible for Market Violence?
• NOSS Study
• Parking Restrictions – McCarthy Road
• Ice Storm Tree Damage Update
• Mayor’s Award for Community Service
• OMB Decision 4160 Riverside Drive

Results of security survey:

• Found a lot of security problems.
• Lot of garbage and broken glass.
• Created an agenda for security for next year.
• 5 May meeting to consolidate Safety Audit results; 21 May meeting as well.
• For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Riley Brockington, Anne Brandel, Bill Royds, Shelley Parlow proposed a fundraising strategy – plan due in a few months. For more information, call Riley Brockington.

The study of Hunt Club heritage sites is complete and has been submitted to the city.

Bowesville Rd. to be closed at end of May 98.

Going to maintain softball league, but effective this year, HCRCC is taking over the league. Fee associated with storing equipment; if City takes it over then there would be no fee for storing equipment. For more information, call Peter Vasdi.

Next meeting: Mon 1 June 98 at 7:30pm

Attendees:

• Fred McLennan, President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Vasdi, Secretary
• Bill Royds, Director (memberships)
• Riley Brockington, Director (communications)
• Fred Winters, Director (recreation/social)
• Anne Brandel, Director (recreation/social)
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transit)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (representing Sequoia Coop and Twyford-Cahill area)
• Robert Staples, Director (representing Quinterra/Riverwood Landings (west of Riverside))
• Peter Foulger, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Wendy Stewart, RMOC councillor
• Rachel Moore, The News

MOTIONS

See “Casinos” below. Motion made to not have casinos in neighborhood. Motion seconded. Vote: 6 in favor; 4 opposed.

See “11 March open house” below. Motion made:

• Based on the results of the 11 Mar open house, that the HCCO endorse the result of the questionnaire, where the overwhelming majority of residents chose option 1, “to maintain the entire southern corridor as open space or parkland with no development for houseing or industrial use.”
• That the HCCO write a letter to our MP and the Minister responsible for the NCC, advising them of the result, and asking what they will do to ensure the preservation of the southern corridor.
• Motion seconded. All were in favor; none opposed.

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues discussed at the 6 Apr 98 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report on the following:

• Follow-up to Ward Budget Open House
• Final Phase of Ice Storm Clean-up
• Regional Chair creates Task Forces
• Regional Budget and Local Governance
• Region Turns Methane Gas into Dollars
• OC Transpo
• Airport Parkway Extended Traffic Impact Study – Update
• Appointment to Chair Task Force on Recycling & Waste Management Financing

City councillor, Karin Howard, submitted a newsletter reporting on the following:

• Budget Workshops
• Disbanding of Citizens’ Panel
• Billboard near McCarthy Woods
• Casinos
• Nike Corporate Sponsorship
• Tree Information Sessions
• Mayor’s Task Force on Re-Treeing Ottawa
• Stop Signs – Cahill Drive and Twyford Street
• Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
• Hunt Club Neighbourhood Plan
• Teen Committee – Coady Co-op
• Reassessment of Property Values

Casino:

• Has HCCO taken any stand re the casino?
• Charities taking a beating because movable casinos are no more.
• Revenue from casinos, in general: 80% to Ontario, 10% to City, 10% to owner.
• Ann Brandel moved to not have a casinos in neighborhood. Bill Royds seconded.
• Problems with concept of casinos, in general, but, it won’t cause more problems in our community than if casino is in another neighborhood (same detrimental facts there as here).
• Casinos are environmentally clean.
• Would there be a traffic problem?
• Proposed casino is much smaller than in Hull – more like the bingo hall on Hunt Club Rd.
• Gloucester is considering a casino that encompasses 60 card tables plus other stuff, and also hotels.
• Casinos provide a way of laundering money from drugs.
• According to City/Region plan, casino (or any large-scale public attraction) must be near a transit stop.
• Casinos attract wrong type of people. Lot of very poor people who can’t afford it, go to casino.
• Priorities: Our neighborhood doesn’t don’t have social services to help people in trouble; we may have a casino but it takes people at least 2 busses to get anywhere that could help them.
• Balance between advantages vs. problems. We don’t have the public transit for people; therefore, it will mean more traffic. No value to us to have the extra traffic. Revenue from casino won’t help us.
• New theatres and hotels will bring in more traffic than a casino.
• Moral objection to gambling in general; however, casino won’t have impact on people in the community.
• Cost of having a casino is too much for smaller charities because charity requires people/volunteers to man it 24hrs/day for 3 days; otherwise, they will replace people at $20/hour.
• Kids will go to casino anyway, and it may be preferable for local kids to go to a smaller casino closer to home.
• Vote: 6 in favor; 4 opposed.
• For more information, call Fred Winters.

Fundraising for HCCO:

• Riley is willing to organize a bottle drive it if there are people willing to ring doorbells. Scouts? Baseball teams?
• Give package of memberships to each HCCO member to sell. Bill will do this.
• Sell memberships for 1999 (bonus) at Anne’s garage sale.
• Prorate memberships ($4) for last part of this year plus all of next.
• Use computer and Maximizer software to keep track of members, and allow members to have a year memberships starting/ending at any time.
• Talk to Gord Aitken (HCRCC) for compatibility with HCRCC’s requirements.
• For more information, call Riley Brockington.

Hunt Club neighborhood plan in Karin’s newsletter:

• City has cut its funding to various services. Environmental management branch (down to 3 people) is going to be axed, meaning that there would be no environment assessment involved in any development plan, or it would have to be subcontracted, usually funded and managed by the development organization.
• Shelley Parlow moved to oppose the removal of the environmental protection branch. On principle, is there time before budget hearings to address this issue?
• Should study budget: what is being kept, funded, and what is in danger of not being funded and may disappear? Budget doesn’t say what is increasing/decreasing, just what services are going to be kept at same level.
• Ottawa took $12M from reserve funds to pay senior staff their pension.
• Risk was that senior staff would be transferred and the Region would have to pay the pension
• City may have legal obligation to pay the pension.

11 March open house:

• Peter Foulger has a report summarizing the results of all the questionnairs distributed to the community.
• Who is managing the neighborhood plan at the City? Bob Spicer or Doug Bridgewater?
• NCC should get a copy of Peter Foulger’s letter to the City, and Peter will give them one.
• How do you go about getting a real response from the NCC?
• NCC doesn’t give out minutes of their meetings. Most of their responses are stock responses.
• Some 232 questionnaires filled out and obtained from Bob Spicer. Peter Foulger has some 10 others he hasn’t yet tabulated, but their contribution won’t affect the outcome.
• On 11 Mar there were 2 school functions that syphoned off a lot of parents, plus there was the weather (week of cold weather and snow storm). Yet the attendance was large. LI>Problem with NCC started when Mulroney changed their charter in 1988.
• Put pressure on higher-level politicians who control the NCC.
• NCC reports to Sheila Copps. Poetry and national heritage also reports to Sheila, and is funded from same budget.
• Kathy Ablett has talked to Joan O’Neill on the NCC.
• Review of historical sites will be available in a couple of weeks.
• Only a few buildings in area are older than 25 years.
• Peter Foulger moved that HCCO endorses the results of the open house as a good sample of public opinion. Based on results of open house.
• Peter’s motion: will be written down.
• Anne seconded motion. Bill – emphasize that it really is in the national interest. With development of airport, we lose official green space and SC is only thing left. Peter F will draft letter and pass it by Fred M for signature. All were in favor, none opposed.
• Airport is taking over Highlands Golf course but are not changing anything there.
• Not changing any flight paths.
• Paul Benoit (CEO of airport authority) offered to come to an HCCO meeting and give a presentation.
• Airport Authority is releasing whole master plan at their AGM in May. See Sunday’s Citizen.
• Invite Paul for June meeting?
• In order to emphasize an approach, write a letter to Mr. Manley.
• For more information, call Peter Foulger.

Safety audit:

• Audit walkabout moved to Tue 28 Apr, to allow 2 weeks after announcement in The News appearing in 15 Apr edition.
• Objective to make community safe for its weakest members: new people, handicapped, women, children.
• On Tue 5 May, a week after the walkabout, there will be a problem-solving session to come up with solution as to who can improve the safety problem and what can be done.
• Shelley Parlow has booked the room at the HCRCC.
• Meet 22 Apr to organize walkabout, select leaders (with some experience), etc. Shelley is looking for 2 more people as leaders, one for west end and one for east end.
• Doug Bridgewater is contact to pay for the ad in paper.
• Money could come from the City’s $20,000 budgetted to support neighborhood plan.
• Walkabout should be in the dark; to start probably 7pm. Should take 2 hours. All along Uplands, from shopping center to center…plus 5 other routes.
• Got some firebugs in community, and this year may be more fire hazardous than usual.
• Once you have people who have gone on a walkabout/audit, it’s easy to get more done.
• City will be pleased if we do Uplands.
• Inform residents that we’re not doing Owl Dr. (and other locations) because we don’t have resources.
• Do walkabout down Donna Allen’s area by river. They all have large dogs making it dangerous for other people to walk down there.
• We’ve got graffiti suggesting gang activity.
• Forward incident reports to Wendy Stewart and she’ll have more police cover areas.
• For more information, contact Shelley Parlow.

Recreation:

• HCCO has received claim from person who fell at rink, and sent it into City.
• There will be no life guards at Mooney’s Bay this summer.
• Last payment for rink due, and was given to Alan Asselstine.
• City gave HCCO an Icexcellence award for Owl Park rink.
• For more information, call Fred Winters.

Softball program:

• Chris has been paid.
• Parent-based set of volunteers are running the show.
• For more information, call Fred Winters.

Social:

• Need stuff for garage sale.
• Anne won’t do the garage sale unless people give her stuff.
• Sale is in June.
• Anne’s address is 1 2335 Uplands.
• Will be in her garden, if not at home.
• For more information, contact Anne Brandel.

Treasurer’s report:

• Cheque in for rink.
• Not too much revenue from memberships this year.
• Alan still to contact people to reserach audit of HCCO books.
• Someone must make motion to change way in which we manage our books, because membership must be consulted.
• Will regulators accept that we have unaudited books.
• HCCO must file an annual statement with province, and normally auditor files this statement for the organization. If someone else does this, then we don’t need an auditor.
• Audited statement virtually guarantees that province won’t criticize the statement.
• Alan will proceed with the least costly alternative, but one that leaves HCCO as a corporation.
• Stays on tickle list.
• For more information, contact Alan Asselstine.

Wendy Stewart’s notes:

• Region has received no proposals re building along Hunt Club Rd. No movie theatres?
• Clean-up of tree branches will start 20 Apr.
• Region may sell wood chips to public to fund cleanup.
• Region may be picking up wet kitchen waste for recycling soon.
• Adirondack’s Forever Wild land trust protects land in perpetuity. Result is lakes there are still clean.
• Canada is about only country that doesn’t have land trusts.
• Ontario has 38 conservation authorities but these can’t save this land forever.
• Methane: 2.43 MWatts a day, but can’t contribute this to the grid. Electricity generated is used to power the Pickard Center, meaning that the whole plant can pay for itself in 7 years.
• Transit: all Regional councillors are now also transit commissioners.
• Will OC Transpo’s minutes be available? Wendy: will be put on the web site as soon as they can be.
• Airport Parkway: Big issue is twinning the parkway. Persuade people downtown to support southern corridor open space in exchange for our support to stop twinning the parkway?
• Bowesville Rd. will be closed soon. Tudor Hall has asked not to close until after May wedding season. Closing is scheduled for June.
• Kathy Ablett was appointed to regional 911 advisory committee – only member of public that was appointed. Other members were fire chief, police, and representing other organizations.
• City Mayor and Dianne Deans has asked Wendy to participate in getting a library branch for south Ottawa. Karin doesn’t want to be involved because she thinks the city doesn’t have money and a survey she took indicated that local people don’t want one. Kathy Ablett is on the library board.
• Evidence of the need for a library in our area: Anne Brandel has reinstituted a conversation class for new Canadians. These new Canadians are serious immigrants who pay the $900 to get into the country and just sponge up any information and library material available. Nothing in our community that helps these kind of new Canadians who are eager to learn and absorb information.
• It takes 2-3 transfers from our area to nearest library branch.
• Talk of joint library with Gloucester, but Gloucester also doesn’t have money.
• Put library at a hub, such as South Keys.
• Can Wendy count on local people (HCCO members) to get involved? Some people volunteered.
• Why aren’t people not paying user fees? Why is it against the law? City let opportunity at South Keys fall through.

False alarm policy is coming back to council:

• $60 every time police come to house and it’s a false alarm.
• There is a false alarm reduction by-law.
• Government doesn’t have the legislation to go after companies that don’t take care of their customers and services.
• Millions of dollars wasted in false alarms.
• Result of comprehensive study.
• Region has come up with an algorithm that balances tax load and false alarm cost to come up with $60.
• For more information, call Wendy’s office.

Karin – 7 Apr meeting has been cancelled.

Alan was to send letter thanking everyone for work during storm. Anne wants to see letter before we send it.

Earth day cleanup: Add bottles found during earth day cleanup to Riley’s bottle drive.

Saw a beaver walking along Hunt Club Rd. They move this time of year. Calls to Wildlife Center are up this year because of trees being chopped down and falling down. For more information, call Peter Vasdi.

Next meeting: Mon 4 May 98 at 7:30pm