Stratford City Council
Special Council Open Session
AGENDA

Meeting #:

4747th

Date:

Thursday, June 27, 2024

Time:

7:00 P.m. - 8:00 P.m.

Location:

Council Chamber, City Hall

Council Present:

• Mayor Ritsma - Chair Presiding, 
• Councillor Beatty, 
• Councillor Briscoe, 
• Councillor Henderson, 
• Councillor Nijjar, 
• Councillor Sebben, 
• and Councillor Wordofa 

Staff Present:

• Joan Thomson - Chief Administrative Officer, 
• Tatiana Dafoe - City Clerk, 
• Kim McElroy - Director of Social Services, 
• Taylor Crinklaw - Director of Infrastructure Services, 
• Karmen Krueger - Director of Corporate Services, 
• Tim Wolfe - Director of Community Services, 
• Adam Betteridge - Director of Building and Planning Services, 
• Danielle Clayton - Recording Secretary, 
• Audrey Pascual - Deputy Clerk, 
• and Alexander Burnett - Planner 

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.

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1.

Call to Order:

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

Councillor Burbach, Councillor Hunter, Councillor McCabe and Councillor Biehn provided regrets for this meeting. 

Land Acknowledgment

Moment of Silent Reflection

Respectful Workplace Policy 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 under the Planning Act:

• THAT the Council meeting adjourn to a public meeting under the Planning Act to hear from members of the public on Zone Change Application Z01-24, for 93 Trinity Street and 266 King Street and to reconvene at the conclusion of the public meeting.

4.

Reading of the By-laws:

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 June 27, 2024.

• THAT By-law 4.1 be read a First and Second Time.

• THAT By-law 4.1 be read a Third Time and Finally Passed. 

5.

Adjournment:

• ​THAT the June 27, 2024, Special Council Meeting adjourn.