Stratford City Council
Special Council Open Session
AGENDA

Meeting #:
4762nd
Date:
Time:
-
Location:
Council Chamber, City Hall
Council Present:
  • Mayor Ritsma - Chair Presiding, 
  • Councillor Beatty, 
  • Councillor Biehn, 
  • Councillor Briscoe, 
  • Councillor Burbach, 
  • Councillor Henderson, 
  • Councillor Hunter, 
  • Councillor McCabe, 
  • Councillor Nijjar, 
  • Councillor Sebben, 
  • and Councillor Wordofa 
Staff Present:
  • Joan Thomson - Chief Administrative Officer, 
  • Tatiana Dafoe - City Clerk, 
  • Audrey Pascual - Deputy Clerk, 
  • Taylor Crinklaw - Director of Infrastructure Services, 
  • Karmen Krueger - Director of Corporate Services, 
  • Tim Wolfe - Director of Community Services, 
  • and Adam Betteridge - Director of Building and Planning Services 

To watch the Special Council and Public Meeting live, please click the following link: https://video.isilive.ca/stratford/live.html

A video recording of the meeting will also be available through a link on the City's website https://calendar.stratford.ca/meetings following the meeting.

1.
Call to Order:

 

​​Mayor Ritsma, Chair presiding, to call the Council meeting to order.


Land Acknowledgment


Moment of Silent Reflection


Respectful Conduct Statement

2.
Declarations of Pecuniary Interest and the General Nature Thereof:

 

​The Municipal Conflict of Interest Act requires any member of Council declaring a pecuniary interest and the general nature thereof, where the interest of a member of Council has not been disclosed by reason of the member’s absence from the meeting, to disclose the interest at the first open meeting attended by the member of Council and to otherwise comply with the Act.


Name, Item and General Nature Thereof


 

3.
Adjournment to a Public Meeting:

This item has attachments. 
1.Public Meeting - Consideration of Intent to Declare as Surplus - 270 Water Street (COU25-007).pdf
2.By-law 2-2002(1).pdf
3.City Clerk submission re Normal School_Stratford Festival_Jan 7 2025.pdf
4.G. Mennie_ comments_ January 2, 2025_Redacted.pdf

  • THAT the Special Council Meeting adjourn to a Public Meeting to hear from members of the public and receive correspondence regarding the possible disposal of the Discovery Centre property at 270 Water Street, excluding the eastern portion, and to reconvene following the Public Meeting.

4.
Reading of the By-laws:

This item has attachments. 
1.Confirmatory.pdf

The following By-law requires First and Second Readings and Third and Final Readings:

4.1 Confirmatory By-law

To confirm the proceedings of Council of The Corporation of the City of Stratford at its meeting held on January 16, 2025.

5.
Adjournment:

 

  • ​THAT the January 16, 2025, Special Council Meeting adjourn.

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