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Good evening,

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everybody.

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We are back doing our community conversations and you're going to hear a bit of background

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noise as my wife's just coming in from work,

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but it's all good.

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We're keeping this real and authentic,

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nothing polished,

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just me in my living room and you at home on Facebook

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Live or wherever you're watching us from.

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So thank you for joining us.

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I'll take a second for people to join us in the chat here and then I want

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to get right into some of the topics,

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some of the announcements.

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and some of the themes for the day.

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For

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those of you who don't know who I am,

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my name is Martin Reed.

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I am your city counselor for the Mediville Business

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Park, Mediville and the Central Air Mills area.

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This is my first term and it has been a wonderful experience

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and I'm going old school.

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We're going to talk about different themes as we do these Facebook Lives.

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Today's topic will be the phrase upstream.

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like working upstream,

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which is a tenant in our community safety and well -being

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framework.

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Something I'm very passionate about from my background in social

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work, in fitness,

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just as a community advocate.

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I recognize that we could spend a lot of our time in intervention

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and work downstream,

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or we could spend our energy on prevention

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and things upstream.

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Like that phrase,

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an ounce of prevention is worth the pound of cure.

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This is where it applies.

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And the way that it applies is in the things that I do as a counselor,

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where I choose to spend my energy,

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where I choose to spend my time,

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and the things that are important to you as residents and

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things that I'm passionate about are where I'll spend time.

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I'll give you an example.

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The Dam is a drop -in center in Meadowville.

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It's connected to Erin Mills Connect,

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I believe it is.

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I think I'm saying it properly.

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And both of these organizations work with

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young people and they have an initiative called the Icelandic Model,

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Planet Youth.

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What they're looking at is addictions in young people,

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sleep habits,

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their behaviors through middle school and high school,

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and using that to predict how

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they could better support them with wraparound services,

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making sure that they have social workers and mental health supports,

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addictions, housing,

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employment, just all of those things in place.

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So if we spend a lot of time on the upstream work,

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then we don't have to spend a lot of time on the downstream stuff.

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So I'm going to use that phraseology a little bit as we talk through different topics

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today. And that being said,

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I want to point your attention to our Ward 9 website.

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Please go to ward9 .ca and that

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is where you'll always find out all the information that's happening within our community.

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On

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the Ward 9 website,

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we have all the events that are happening today and this week.

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I can tell you right off the top of my head,

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the one that is most important in front and center for my team

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is our seniors fair.

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The seniors fair is a much anticipated event,

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something that has been happening long before I was in this office and in this role.

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Just pulling it up here.

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Just as a side note,

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when you go on to the ward9 .ca website for the first time,

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you will see this.

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And what it is,

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is inviting you to join our newsletter.

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We just sent out the last newsletter for this cycle as we're in

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campaign season,

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so that there's no advantage.

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This is the last email that can be sent out.

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But adding yourself to that newsletter allows us to have that

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contact with you so you can know what's happening in your community.

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So put your email address in there and then you're on the list.

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And then on the first page,

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it scrolls through and it has all the events that are coming up.

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So the event that I want to focus

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on is our seniors fair.

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The Seniors Fair is happening this coming Friday from 9 a

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.m. to 11 a .m.

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at the Medeville Community Center.

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Medeville Community Center right across from the Medeville Town Center on Glen

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Aaron Drive, a huge building right at the corner of Glen Aaron and Aquitaine.

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And it will be on the lower level.

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We take over the entire lower level.

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We have over 40 vendors there.

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Everyone from Stacked Pancakes.

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We have mini pancakes that we're giving away.

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Great sponsors from one of the new businesses in the area.

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Columbus Coffee is donating coffee.

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We have sandwiches from Longos.

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And we're just trying to up our snack game,

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even though it's only a two -hour event.

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We know seniors love little snacks,

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so we want to have some stuff for you there.

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But the most important...

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is the education.

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And this is not just for seniors.

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This is for the ones you love,

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for your family,

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your friends.

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As I've been campaigning,

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knocking on doors and canvassing,

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we've had some conversations with people younger than me that are talking about their parents and

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are frustrated with how they won't leave the house or they

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want to make sure that they have enough support just in case something happens.

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And it's great to know that everyone

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can...

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come to the Ward 9 area and then have their table set up there and have all the information

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that you need.

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You can walk around with your swag bag and just fill

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it with all the pamphlets and information and the handouts and the swag and all the different

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things that everyone will be giving to give you education on

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safety,

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on health,

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extended health,

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like those respite programs.

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Fire will be there for fire safety,

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all those things.

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So it's a great...

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initiative.

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I've got to thank Pat Sato for running this and we've just kept running that play because

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it is so well run,

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so well attended.

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Michelle and Monica are working so hard on this.

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I've said the word so multiple times.

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But this is upstream.

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This is working upstream.

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We are arming you with everything

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you need for the older adults in your life to have

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success.

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We even have Safe City Mississauga there talking about fraud.

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Over the last two years,

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we've been focusing on this a lot because I believe it was 2023.

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Ward and I led the city in terms of frauds that were happening towards our

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seniors.

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So we've upped our game.

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We've done more town halls.

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We've supported Safe City Mississauga and their seniors education.

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We've really doubled down on that to ensure that more people are aware

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and educated on it.

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And talking to some of my friends in Peel Police.

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They are saying that they are doing,

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they're early in their planning for a fraud symposium.

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So we'll see if that comes to pass.

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A lot of things have been happening.

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A lot of issues like human trafficking to auto theft.

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We've seen some great work done on that.

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And I think that fraud will be the next horizon.

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The next thing that we want to continue to work upstream on to address the

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downstream problems of people losing their money and their identity and things along those lines.

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So thank you for joining us in the chat here.

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I'm going to throw a question out to you just while we're waiting.

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And when I ask these questions,

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sometimes people answer them in the chat here,

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but others watch it later and then just type it in the chat in the comment section and we

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will answer it from there.

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What are some of the things that are important

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to you going into this election cycle?

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We can guess the affordable housing,

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crime.

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Things along those lines are always front to center.

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Taxes.

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But what's important to you?

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What's important in your household?

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Please put that in the chat.

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One

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of the things that has come up for me as

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we've been doing our community hours,

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our drop -ins where once a month we go into

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either Medova Community Center or Aaron Meadows Community Center and talk with

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people one -on -one.

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One of the things that came up multiple times was litter.

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They're talking about litter on the ground.

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They're talking about signage,

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hanging up the signs that are on the lampposts and the traffic lights

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and also the ones that are on the boulevard.

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That came up so many times and it

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was also my personal pet peeve as well.

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So I took control over that and I recruited all of

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the dog walkers and all the people that are on

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their walks every day and invited them to email me with a picture of

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the place where there is a sign.

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so that we can address it,

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get it taken down.

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So you've heard me talk about this before.

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I'm not going to go through the whole thing again of how we've got good uptake with it and we're seeing

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less signs and all that stuff's good.

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This is the latest update because it was some of the people

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on the Nextdoor app that were talking about the fact that there was a nuisance

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signage by law that empowered residents to

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take up signs if they saw them on the boulevard.

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Safely,

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not in traffic and stuff like that,

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but the ones that you can get to.

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So that was the law.

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So I was like,

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great, let's roll that out again.

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So as people started to enroll in it,

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the city sent an email back.

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saying that they don't do that anymore.

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And,

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you know,

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for Counselor Hornick,

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Counselor Tejal,

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Councillor McFadden,

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Councillor Daskal,

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we've all had a meeting with the city about the signage and what they're doing about

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it because it's been so frustrating.

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And then to find out that they don't even do this bylaw anymore,

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it's a bylaw that you look at every five years and then you either cancel it or recycle

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it and reinstate it.

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Anyone want to guess how many people

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actually registered for this program last time it was in play?

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Anyone want to put a number in the chat?

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I don't know how many people are watching right now.

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How many people do you think...

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registered for this program for nuisance bylaws so that they could take them out when

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they see signage on the lawns.

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In

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five years,

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two people.

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Two people signed up for it.

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Since we started our war on signs,

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there was two or three people on the first

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day once again asking.

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I see Alex's answer is eight.

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It is not eight.

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Good guess.

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So two people.

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So they saw,

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well, only two people want this,

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so we're not going to do it anymore.

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But now people start to ask,

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and there's a groundswell,

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and now we're in a place where we've already stopped running this bylaw,

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but there is a groundswell of people that want to do it.

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So we had a meeting on Monday.

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In the meeting on Monday,

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they explained to us the same thing I just said to you.

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But at the same time,

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they also have been reciprocating the fact that we've been putting so much energy

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into this, and that justified them getting more staff to do

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more sign removals.

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And I have noticed that when all of you send me emails with your

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pictures and request it,

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I get an email back from them very quickly within two to three days max that

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it's been done.

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And they'll say that even today's email said they've taken

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them away from this intersection and they did a sweep of the area and they picked up a few

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in the surrounding area.

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They have.

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giving themselves more resources.

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It justified putting more resources into removing signs.

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So on the bad news and the good news.

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The bad news is there's no more sign bylaw in terms of empowering

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residents to take away signs.

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The good news is we now have

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more resources dedicated to removing signs in the city.

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And for that,

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I have to thank you all because you all

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said, challenge accepted,

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and you all decided that you were going to be a part of this.

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And this has been my observation as your counselor.

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There are wonderful people in this city that

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have a great vision for an amazing city,

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a clean city,

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a fun city,

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an engaged city,

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and they gave it a try and no one followed

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them and they gave up on it.

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Or they rolled it out for a season and then it fizzled

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out.

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Or sometimes they rolled it out and someone got jealous

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of the fact that they were running on the idea and they roadblocked the idea so it

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didn't happen.

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So what has come up a couple of times,

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and I'm not saying I'm a guru or an expert on anything,

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but sometimes I will ask someone a question of what they used to

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do. We used to do a movie night.

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We used to do a garage sale.

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We used to do a street party.

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We used to do a food giveaway.

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And I'm like,

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well, let's do it again.

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And that was just enough momentum to start it going.

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Now they've restarted something they did before COVID or something that when everyone

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lived on the street and the kids were younger and now it's starting again.

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There's a momentum that happens just by inviting people to go back to

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what they used to do with more resources to

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come to success.

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So that's why I say thank you,

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because this is not an original idea.

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And I know there are people who have done clean sweeps,

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garbage cleanups,

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litter days,

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all these different things in the past.

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But there is some momentum now.

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And I am tenacious.

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I will keep the momentum going.

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I can keep this going as long as we need

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to keep it going until it's something that is just embedded in what

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we do.

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So I want to thank you once again for that.

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So once again,

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bad news,

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no sign bylaw for residents that fully signs.

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Good news,

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we have more bodies in the city that are doing this.

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And the other part too is that they are also setting up a

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text message system so that the operator doesn't have to use their phone

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or the work phone.

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It'll just be like operator one,

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operator two,

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operator three.

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that is calling all the numbers of the signs that they take down,

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notifying them that it was illegal.

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This is where we found it.

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Please not do it again.

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This is the next step.

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This is the next step.

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This is your fine.

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This is your whatever.

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And they're going to continue to escalate it.

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But at least everyone is going to get their first official warning from the city when

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the signs are there.

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And I think that is a fair approach because some

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people are not.

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malicious with it some people just pay like i've talked to people they live out in north york and

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they just paid someone to put a sign 10 000 signs up there um others

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um just put one up because they saw another sign up there and then there's others who are

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doing it in spite of and they've seen their sign go down and they come come back up and they've reinforced

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their sign and it gets taken down then they put their sign 16 feet in the air

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and then i get my hockey stick out and i take it down so

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Some people are fighting the battle and others are ignorant to the battle.

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And that being said,

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I think that this process of just take it down,

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give them a call,

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give them a warning is good.

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And then we go from there.

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Any thoughts on that?

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Any questions?

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S… Speaker 2 (MR1)

We're talking data center next.

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So it's taking a drink.

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Seniors

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Fair and now data center.

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You will see in

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your email today,

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tomorrow.

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maybe after the Seniors Fair,

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because I know my team is working very hard right now to make the Seniors Fair epic,

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information on the town

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hall. We have a data center,

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the Prologis Data Center Town Hall that is coming up on Thursday

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the 25th.

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It's all on the war9 .ca website.

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And the email is coming up as well.

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And we'd love you to do two things.

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One, register,

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please.

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S… Speaker 2 (MR1)

So we'd love to have your information.

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Make sure that we know how to follow up if you have any questions,

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how to support you with any of the things that come up in the ward.

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So register.

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We've extended registration to our Ward 10 friends as well.

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This is something that's going to deeply impact them as well since

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it's on our Ward 9 border.

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And so,

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and I say deeply in that it's significant and I think it's going to work well.

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I'm sorry,

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let me get here.

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So, Carol,

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I missed the beginning.

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Did you say the ad signs are no longer illegal?

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Okay, sorry.

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Yeah, let me clarify.

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No,

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so,

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Carol,

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what I was saying is there was a bylaw that

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gave residents permission to remove signs.

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And the reason why that's illegal right now is because we want to protect

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residents against getting into conflict with people.

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Say,

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for example, you see a sign and you take it up,

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but it's actually a contractor's sign that he has put on someone's personal property.

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And then they come out and argue with you and you say,

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no, here's my sheriff's badge.

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I'm going to take away your sign.

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And then a fight ensues and it goes sideways.

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So there was a time when there wasn't a lot of...

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interest in this,

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but there was people who were doing this well,

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and it was a small number,

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and they thought that this was a good idea.

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But now they consulted with legal again,

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and they thought that we were almost...

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Endangerings is the wrong word,

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but there was more concerns about it this time around,

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and they thought it would be...

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With the fact that they're getting so many calls,

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they thought it'd be better for them to just double down on getting more staff out there and working

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closely with roads and all those different things.

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So yeah, so that's the gist of it.

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The signs are definitely legal.

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And we're just trying to make sure that residents are just being safe

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out there while they're addressing this.

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So back to data center.

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So please register for the data center town hall.

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That is going to be at the Aaron Meadows Community Center.

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So seniors fair is in the north and

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town hall is in the south side of the Ward 9 community.

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We had some conversations with the data center people and

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I'm not throwing them under the bus by any means,

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but as we're trying to figure out what's the best way

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to do this.

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Some of you were upset that we took so long to do the

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status center town hall.

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And others are saying,

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well, we didn't know about it.

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And others are saying,

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well, why can't you do it another time?

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I have to tell you,

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our community centers are so well used and so

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busy that we booked this room six months ago for

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another function for our Ward 9 residents and chose to...

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pivot and make this the town hall because we thought it was

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that important and we wanted to give enough date runway to

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get you there,

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but not have it so far out that it's not relevant to the decision -making process.

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There's

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a lot of people on social media that are claiming that the

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city has already made our decision,

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that maybe Councilor Reed's getting paid off by this,

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that what they say has nothing to do with it.

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And I want to just refute all of those things and let you know that,

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as I've said on the very first time I brought this out,

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that the Planning and Development Committee meeting where ProLoges

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first brought their data center information to,

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at that point,

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we basically told them to go back to the drawing

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board, answer all the questions,

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environment,

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water,

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noise,

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traffic,

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zoning.

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Just the high level questions that everyone's asking.

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All those things have to be met at a planning stage

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before we can even approve it as a city.

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So we're at a meaningful stage of this process

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because they still have to come back with their resubmission.

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And that's why it was critical for us to have our town hall now

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because as was said in our town hall planning meeting yesterday with

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Prologis,

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the city and other parties.

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What you bring to the table at this town

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hall is going to be reflected in their

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submission.

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Planning will be recording it,

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and that's why I'm asking you to ask questions.

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I want you,

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residents of Ward 9 and Ward 10 who are

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deeply impacted by this,

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to do your homework.

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Just like Mayor Hazel used to say back in the day,

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do your homework,

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ask your questions.

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What is going to be the municipal water impact?

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What is going to be the electrical grid feel?

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Are the generators going to run all day?

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S… Speaker 1 (MR1)

How much energy is it actually going to use?

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What does it mean for jobs in our community?

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What does it mean for traffic?

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What is the building going to actually look like?

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Why are they using a farm?

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Why are they using that location?

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Is it going to be bigger in 10 years?

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How do we prevent them from scope creep,

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meaning making bigger and bigger?

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Are there going to be micro data processes there and making it smaller and smaller?

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All of these questions are questions we've seen come multiple

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times.

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I actually have the 20 questions here.

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And if anyone has any questions in the chat,

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I'm more than happy to answer them for you right now because I'm locked and loaded with

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all the questions that we have already sent to Prologis for them to answer for us.

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So come with your questions.

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Please send your questions to our office ahead of time.

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