Certificate of Dissolution

Notice Is Hereby Given that a certificate of dissolution under the Business Corporations Act, has been endorsed. The effective date of dissolution precedes the corporation listings.

Date

Name of Corporation

Ontario Corporation Number

1999-12-31

1171764 Ontario Ltd.

1171764

2000-1-7

Arvelin Enterprises Inc.

705551

2000-1-7

Century 21 Paulma Realty Limited

280248

2000-1-7

Forest Hills Centre (Calgary) Ltd.

339889

2000-1-7

Winter Garden Developments Inc.

713174

2000-1-10

Carling Bay General Store Inc.

1220569

2000-1-10

Seaway Hockey Inc.

1015417

2000-1-10

Yekol Ontario Inc.

924690

2000-1-11

Homecare 4 Kids Incorporated

1078710

2000-1-11

Matsuoka Investment Corp.

867312

2000-1-11

Northern Plantation Inc.

1176313

2000-1-11

Our Money Inc.

501775

2000-1-11

902892 Ontario Limited

902892

2000-1-12

W T Fruit Market Inc.

966831

2000-1-13

1200295 Ontario Limited

1200295

2000-1-13

1209574 Ontario Inc.

1209574

2000-2-1

Avl Temporary Help Inc.

1219162

2000-2-1

Weifa International Inc.

1203884

2000-2-1

456008 Ontario Limited

456008

2000-2-1

940664 Ontario Inc.

940664

2000-2-1

1276097 Ontario Inc.

1276097

2000-2-2

Ddrk Auto Limited

982711

2000-2-2

G. Ferrazzi & Associates Ltd.

1058736

2000-2-2

Knoop-Trans Consulting Ltd.

995705

2000-2-2

Wing Shun Enterprises Ltd.

1242464

2000-2-2

1068763 Ontario Inc.

1068763

2000-2-3

713601 Ontario Limited

713601

2000-2-3

921869 Ontario Inc.

921869

2000-2-4

Joan Bostrom Realty Inc.

698988

2000-2-4

Kitchener Textiles (Conestoga) Limited

383593

2000-2-4

Prudence Felicity Publishing Inc.

993797

2000-2-4

The Trump Group Inc.

789560

2000-2-4

1175182 Ontario Limited

1175182

2000-2-7

Can-King Consulting Inc.

1337589

2000-2-7

Far East Theatres Co. Ltd.

577099

2000-2-7

K. & A. Giddings Property Ltd.

817914

2000-2-7

King Wah Entertainment Ltd.

693282

2000-2-7

1238308 Ontario Inc.

1238308

2000-2-7

1285675 Ontario Inc.

1285675

2000-2-7

1294430 Ontario Inc.

1294430

2000-2-8

Bowley’s Limited

291317

2000-2-8

Catchmore Fishing & Camping Resort Inc.

970275

2000-2-8

Connect.Com Inc.

1147896

2000-2-8

Hamilton-Niagara Wines, Limited

29878

2000-2-8

Hilton Child & Youth Management Services Ltd.

1101470

2000-2-8

Leetech Systems Inc.

1099414

2000-2-8

Reiveco Future Inc.

1104536

2000-2-8

Rocket Computer Inc.

1214061

2000-2-8

Sanwa Electric (Canada) Co. Ltd.

864186

2000-2-8

Tibur Metals Ltd.

285029

2000-2-8

Uncia Incorporated

1197903

2000-2-8

Volan Holidays Inc.

1389397

2000-2-8

W. M. Rogers Custom Mobile Concrete Ltd.

313227

2000-2-8

814371 Ontario Inc.

814371

2000-2-8

834701 Ontario Limited

834701

2000-2-8

1107131 Ontario Inc.

1107131

2000-2-8

1154983 Ontario Inc.

1154983

2000-2-8

1226359 Ontario Ltd.

1226359

2000-2-9

E & A International Trading Group Inc.

1358157

2000-2-9

G. R. Plumbing Limited

274202

2000-2-9

Garson Bus Lines Inc.

510767

2000-2-9

Hua San Consultant Inc.

1061570

2000-2-9

Kromstar Limited

1093549

2000-2-9

Londero Construction Ltd.

381551

2000-2-9

Micrografx Canada Inc.

1006260

2000-2-9

Nse Consulting Group Inc.

1108033

2000-2-9

Rachel Rosenbaum Real Estate Inc.

667256

2000-2-9

Sodex Technology Inc.

1261473

2000-2-9

Solomon Trading International Inc.

1289868

2000-2-9

Voltarc Technologies Ltd.

973191

2000-2-9

683305 Ontario Inc.

683305

2000-2-9

917563 Ontario Limited

917563

2000-2-9

992456 Ontario Limited

992456

2000-2-9

1148072 Ontario Inc.

1148072

2000-2-9

1176088 Ontario Ltd.

1176088

2000-2-9

1176094 Ontario Inc.

1176094

2000-2-9

1304552 Ontario Ltd.

1304552

2000-2-10

Dainty Miss Frocks Limited

58953

2000-2-10

Wes Southern Excavating Ltd.

333479

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
9/00

Cancellation for Cause (Business Corporations Act)

Notice Is Hereby Given that by orders under section 240 of the Business Corporations Act, the certificates set out hereunder have been cancelled for cause and in the case of certificates of incorporation the corporations have been dissolved. The effective date of cancellation precedes the corporation listing.

Date

Name of Corporation

Ontario Corporation Number

2000-2-10

Aggregates Development Corporation

1363705

2000-2-10

Haleyco Limited

1357514

2000-2-10

Mira Mar Seafood Ltd.

1321995

2000-2-10

Royal Graphic Inc.

1249494

2000-2-10

Street Level Media Inc.

778958

2000-2-10

Watson Road Stables Inc.

1232112

2000-2-10

779572 Ontario Inc.

779572

2000-2-10

1072550 Ontario Limited

1072550

2000-2-10

1186004 Ontario Limited

1186004

2000-2-10

1186005 Ontario Limited

1186005

2000-2-10

1360674 Ontario Inc.

1360674

2000-2-10

1371590 Ontario Corporation

1371590

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
9/00

Cancellation of Certificate of Incorporation (Business Corporations Act)

Notice Is Hereby Given that by orders under subsection 241 (4) of the Business Corporations Act, the certificates of incorporation set out hereunder have been cancelled and corporation(s) have been dissolved. The effective date of cancellation precedes the corporation listing.

Date

Name of Corporation

Ontario Corporation Number

2000-2-10

Atlantic Trade And Distribution Ltd.

1079500

2000-2-10

1326014 Ontario Limited

1326014

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
9/00

Co-operative Corporations Act Certificate of Incorporation Issued

Notice Is Hereby Given that, under the Co-operative Corporations Act, a certificate of incorporation has been issued to:

Date

Name of Co-operative

Head Office

2000-2-4

Coopérative Horizon emploi Inc.

Ottawa

John M. Harper,
Director, Examination
Licensing and Enforcement Division
by delegated authority from
Dina Palozzi
Superintendant of Financial Services.
9/00

Co-operative Corporations Act Certificate of Dissolution Issued

Notice Is Hereby Given that, under the Co-operative Corporations Act, a certificate of dissolution has been issued to:

Date

Name of Corpotation

Date of Incorporation

2000-2-15

Barrie Consumers’ Co-operative Inc.

1981-6-24

John M. Harper,
Director, Examination
Licensing and Enforcement Division
by delegated authority from
Dina Palozzi
Superintendant of Financial Services.
9/00

Municipal Act

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990, c. M.45

County Of Renfrew
Township Of Bagot, Blythfield And Brougham
And The Township Of Griffith & Matawatchan

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Renfrew;

“former municipality” means the former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham or the former Township of Griffith & Matawatchan, as the context requires;

“former municipalities” means the former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham and the former Township of Griffith & Matawatchan;

“former Township of Bagot and Blythfield” means The Corporation of the Municipality of the Township of Bagot and Blythfield as it existed prior to January 1, 1998;

“former Township of Brougham” means The Corporation of the Municipality of the Township of Brougham as it existed prior to January 1, 1998;

“former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham” means The Corporation of the Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Griffith & Matawatchan” means The Corporation of the Township of Griffith & Matawatchan as it exists prior to January 1, 2001; and

“new Township” means The Corporation of the Township of Greater Madawaska established under section 2.

Municipal Restructuring

  1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham and The Corporation of the Township of Griffith & Matawatchan are amalgamated as a township municipality under the name of “The Corporation of the Township of Greater Madawaska”.

Wards

  1. On January 1, 2001, the new Township is divided into three wards to be named Ward one, Ward two and Ward three, which are described as follows:
    1. Ward one shall be composed of the area encompassed by the former Township of Bagot and Blythfield;
    2. Ward two shall be composed of the area encompassed by the former Township of Brougham;
    3. Ward three shall be composed of the area encompassed by the former Township of Griffith & Matawatchan.

Representation

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the council of the new Township shall be composed of five members consisting of:
      1. a head of council, to be known as the reeve, who shall be elected by general vote of the electors of the new Township;
      2. four members, two to be elected from Ward One, one to be elected from Ward Two and one to be elected from Ward Three, to be known as councillors.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.
    3. The reeve of the new Township shall sit on County council.

Elections

    1. The 2000 regular municipal election shall be conducted as if the wards under section 3 and the composition of the council of the new Township under section 4 had already been established.
    2. The clerk responsible for conducting the 2000 regular municipal election under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996 shall be the clerk of the former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham.
    3. The council of the former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham is deemed to be the council of the new Township for the purposes of holding the 2000 regular municipal election under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Terms of Office

    1. The terms of office of the members of the councils of the former municipalities shall be extended to and including December 31, 2000.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the new Township elected at the 2000 regular election shall commence on January 1, 2001.
    3. Despite subsection 6(2) of this Order, the reeve of the new Township shall assume office as a member of the council of the County on December 1, 2000, as if the new Township was already established.

Local Boards: Library Board

    1. On January 1, 2001, the public library board for the former Township of Bagot, Blythfield and Brougham is dissolved.
    2. On January 1, 2001, a public library board is established for the new Township and shall be known as “The Corporation of the Township of Greater Madawaska Public Library Board.”
    3. The operation and composition of the public library board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The assets and liabilities including employees of the public library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be assets and liabilities of the public library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the public library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the public library board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force until they are amended or repealed.

By-Laws and Resolutions

    1. On January 1, 2001, all by-laws and resolutions of the former municipalities and their local boards are continued and are deemed to be by-laws of the new Township and its local boards.
    2. On January 1, 2001, an official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act, or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be an official plan of the new Township in respect of the area to which it applied on December 31, 2000 and shall remain in force until amended or repealed.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or to adopt an official plan or an amendment to an official plan under the Planning Act, or a predecessor of that Act, and the by-law, official plan or official plan amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new Township may continue the procedures.

Taxes, Charges and Rates

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied or imposed by a former municipality under any general or special Act that are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new Township and may be collected by the new Township.
    2. If a former municipality has commenced procedures under the Municipal Tax Sales Act and the procedures are not completed by January 1, 2001, the new Township may continue the process.

Assets, Liabilities etc

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, of the former municipalities and their local boards become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, of the new Township and its local boards.

Reserves and Reserve Funds

  1. On January 1, 2001, the reserves and reserve funds of a former municipality that are designated for specific purposes shall, upon becoming reserve or reserve funds of the new Township under section 10, be maintained and used only for the purposes for which they were designated by the former municipality and only for the benefit of the ratepayers in the geographic area of the former municipality to which the reserves or reserve funds applied.

Requirement on New Council

  1. The council of the new Township shall review all the reserves and reserve funds of the new Township during its first term of office.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Brighton, Town Of Brighton

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Northumberland;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Town of Brighton and The Corporation of the Township of Brighton as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Town of Brighton” means The Corporation of the Town of Brighton as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of the Brighton” means The Corporation of the Township of Brighton as it exists prior to January 1, 2001; and

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Municipality of Brighton created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Town of Brighton and The Corporation of the Township of Brighton are amalgamated as a town under the name “The Corporation of the Municipality of Brighton” and forms part of the County for municipal purposes.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Name Change

    1. The name of the new municipality established under subsection 2(1), may be changed in 2001 by order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing upon a request made to the Minister by the council of the new municipality following the adoption of a resolution by council of the new municipality approving the new name.
    2. The names of a local board established or continued under this order may be changed by order by the Minister to reflect a change in the name of the new municipality made under subsection (1).

Council

    1. The council of the new municipality shall consist of seven members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the mayor to be elected by general vote; and
      2. six councillors to be elected by general vote.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The mayor shall sit on the council of the County and shall have four votes at County council.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the member of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1) had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk and the council of the former Town of Brighton shall be the clerk and the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Cemetery Board

    1. The Mount Hope Cemetery Board is continued.

Library Board

    1. The Brighton Public Union Library Board is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A library board for the new municipality bearing the name “The Corporation of the Municipality of Brighton Public Library Board” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the library board established in subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the library board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force until amended or repealed.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Public Utilities Commission

    1. If not dissolved earlier, The Public Utilities Commission of the Town of Brighton is dissolved on December 31, 2000.
    2. On January 1, 2001 all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of The Public Utilities Commission of the Town of Brighton related to the production, treatment, distribution and supply of water and the supply and distribution of electricity become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.
    3. Every by-law and resolution of The Public Utilities Commission of the Town of Brighton dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be a bylaw or resolution of the new municipality that is applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Town of Brighton.
    4. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing The Public Utilities Commission of the Town of Brighton or the new municipality to generate, transmit, distribute or retail electricity after November 7, 2000 in contravention of section 144 of the Electricity Act, 1998.

Police Services Board

    1. The Police Services Board of the former Town of Brighton and the Police Services Board of the former Township of Brighton are dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A new police services board for the new municipality to be known as the “The Police Services Board of the Municipality of Brighton” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the police services board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Police Services Act.
    4. On January 1, 2001, the police services board established under subsection (2) stands in the place of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    5. The new municipality stands in the place of the former municipalities for all purposes related to policing.
    6. The assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) become assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board established under the subsection (2).
    7. On January 1, 2001, all by-laws and resolutions of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be by-laws or resolutions of the police services board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they are amended or repealed.
    8. Nothing in this section repeals or authorizes the repeal of by-laws or regulations conferring rights, privileges, franchises, immunities or exemptions that could not have been lawfully repealed by the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.
    2. If a former municipality has commenced procedures under the Municipal Tax Sales Act and the procedures are not completed by January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Financial

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000 for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. On January 1, 2001 a working fund reserve of $200,000 shall be established for the new municipality, to be funded equally by the former municipalities.
    4. The proceeds of sale of any parkland acquired by a former municipality pursuant to the Planning Act prior to December 31, 2000, shall be paid into the parkland reserve and used only for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of the former municipality and for the purposes authorized by the Planning Act.

Assessment Roll

    1. For the purposes of the preparation of the assessment roll for the new municipality under the Assessment Act for the 2001 taxation year, the former municipalities shall be deemed to be one municipality.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board established under subsection (1) shall be composed of the members of council of each of the former municipalities.
    3. The transition board established under subsection (1) shall adopt procedural rules and systems of controls to govern their activities.
    4. The transition board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on January 1, 2001.
    5. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers,
      1. establish and adopt on behalf of the council of each of the former municipalities a transition plan;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. require production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      4. establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions and policies, and adopt By-laws and budgets and other documents for the new municipality;
      5. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall on January 1, 2001 become the new municipality;
      6. approve expenditures and execute contracts where necessary for transition purposes;
      7. purchase, lease or dispose of any assets of each former municipality where necessary for transition purposes;
      8. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for the operation of the transition board;
      9. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      10. retain employees and advisors for the purposes of the transition board and incur expenses on behalf of the transition board and its employees and advisors;
      11. establish a human resources transition protocol;
      12. identify, select and appoint employees to the new municipality and establish mechanisms for carrying out these functions;
      13. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment for positions in the new municipality or termination of employment and ensure their fair application;
      14. offer employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality, inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or such other benefits as are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      15. issue notices of layoff, or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice, or both notice and compensation, as required;
      16. negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new municipality;
      17. exercise the powers of the councils of the former municipalities in all employment and labour matters arising as a result of this order and the amalgamation of the former municipalities, including negotiations with trade unions and applications to the Ontario Labour Relations Board;
      18. establish protocol for any discussions with neighboring municipalities;
      19. execute on behalf of the former municipalities any agreements with other municipalities as they relate to amalgamation issues;
      20. review and approve all financial transactions of the former municipalities in excess of $50,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating budgets for 2000;
      21. approve all expenditures in 2000 that are necessary to establish new operations for the new municipality and apportion such costs equally between the former municipalities;
      22. apportion to each former municipality one half of the transition board’s costs associated with the exercise of the powers in this section; and
      23. establish committees as the transition board deems appropriate.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where a dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. The decision of the arbitrator shall be deemed to be final.
    5. Costs related to the arbitration shall be shared equally between the former municipalities.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Rear Of Yonge And Escott
Village Of Athens

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott and The Corporation of the Village of Athens as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott” means The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Village of Athens” means The Corporation of the Village of Athens as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Township of Athens and Rear of Yonge and Escott created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott and The Corporation of the Village of Athens are amalgamated as a township under the name “The Corporation of the Township of Athens and Rear of Yonge and Escott.”
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Name

    1. The name of the new municipality established under subsection 2(1) may be changed by order of the Minister upon a request to the Minister by the transition board established under section 14, following a plebiscite held during the regular municipal election in 2000 and the adoption of a resolution by the transition board approving the name being requested.
    2. The name of a local board established or continued by this order may be changed by order made by the Minister to effect a change in the name of the new municipality made under subsection (1).

Council

    1. The council of the new municipality shall be composed of seven members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the reeve, to be elected by general vote;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy reeve, who shall be appointed by council under subsection 69(3) of the Municipal Act from among the members of council elected under clause (c), or
      3. to act from time to time in the place of the head of council when the head of council is absent from the new municipality or absent through illness or when the office is vacant; and
      4. two councillors elected from each of the Athens Ward and Rear of Yonge and Escott Ward.
      5. two councillors elected at large.
      6. as a condition of appointment under clause (b) the deputy reeve must reside in the ward that the reeve does not reside in.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The reeve shall sit on the council of the County.
    2. Despite subjection 2(2), the member of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1) and the establishment of the wards under section 7 had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk of the former Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott, shall be the clerk, and the council of the former Village of Athens shall be the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall be divided into two wards as set out in this section.
    2. The Athens Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Village of Athens.
    3. The Rear of Yonge and Escott Ward shall be composed of land that comprised the former Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott.

Library Board

    1. The Athens Public Library Board is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A library board for the new municipality bearing the name “The Corporation of the Township of Athens and Rear of Yonge and Escott Public Library Board” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the library board established in subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the library board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the library board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force until amended or repealed.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and be deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law or amendment under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.
    2. If a former municipality has commenced procedures under the Municipal Tax Sales Act, and the procedures are not completed by January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Financial

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves, shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used until December 31, 2003, for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. On January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall establish a working fund reserve of $100,000.
    4. The former Village of Athens shall contribute $25,000 to the new municipality’s working fund reserve.
    5. The former Township of Rear of Yonge and Escott shall contribute $75,000 to the new municipality’s working fund reserve.
    6. The amount by which the working fund reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded in subsection (3) shall be used by the municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality.
    7. If the amount contributed by a former municipality towards the working fund reserve of the new municipality is less than the required amount, as defined by this order, the new municipality shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipality to pay the balance of the contribution amount.

Area Rating

  1. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon taxable property located in the area of a former municipality, to pay for any debts created prior to January 1, 2001, by the former municipality.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board established under subsection (1) shall be composed of all the members of council from each of the former municipalities. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote. The head of council of each former municipality shall be the designated signing authority for the transition board.
    3. The costs of the transition board established under subsection (1) shall be paid by the former municipalities on a basis proportionate to the percentage each former municipality’s assessment is of the combined weighted taxable assessment of the former municipalities as delivered for the 1999 taxation year.
    4. The transition board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on December 31, 2000.
    5. The councils of the former municipalities shall not exercise the powers specified in clause 6(u), without the approval of the transition board established under subsection (1).
    6. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers:
      1. establish and adopt on behalf of the council of each of the former municipalities a transition plan for 2000 and a budget for implementing that plan;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      4. establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions and policies, and adopt by-laws and budgets and other documents for the new municipality;
      5. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall on January 1, 2001 become the new municipality;
      6. identify and establish the staff positions necessary for interim municipal administration during 2000;
      7. approve expenditures and execute contracts where necessary for transition purposes;
      8. purchase, lease or dispose of any assets of each former municipality where necessary for transition purposes;
      9. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for the operation of the transition board;
      10. establish and implement communications plans for employees and the public;
      11. retain employees and advisors for the purposes of the transition board and incur expenses on behalf of the transition board and their employees and advisors;
      12. establish a human resources transition protocol;
      13. identify, select and appoint employees to the new municipality and establish mechanisms for carrying out these functions;
      14. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment for positions in the new municipality or termination of employment and ensure their fair application;
      15. offer employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality, inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or such other benefits that are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      16. issue notices of layoff, or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice, or both notice and compensation, as required;
      17. negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new municipality;
      18. exercise the powers of the councils of the former municipalities in all employment and labour matters arising as a result of the proposal and the amalgamation of the former municipalities, including negotiations with trade unions and applications to the Ontario Labour Relations Board;
      19. establish protocol for any discussions with neighbouring municipalities;
      20. execute on behalf of the former municipalities agreements with other municipalities as they relate to amalgamation issues;
      21. review and approve all financial transactions for the former municipalities that are in excess of $10,000.00 and that are not included in the approved municipal operating budgets for 2000;
      22. approve all expenditures in 2000 that are necessary to establish new operations for the new municipality and apportion such costs equally between the former municipalities; and
      23. establish committees as the transition board deems appropriate.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred by four members of the councils of the former municipalities, to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, any four members of a council of the former municipalities may refer the matter to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. Despite subsections (2) and (3), the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Village Of Cardinal
Township Of Edwardsburgh

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“former municipality” means the former Township of Edwardsburgh or the former Village of Cardinal as the context requires;

“County” means The Corporation of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville;

“former Township of Edwardsburgh” means The Corporation of the Township of Edwardsburgh as it exists on December 31, 2000;

“former Village of Cardinal” means The Corporation of the Village of Cardinal as it exists on December 31, 2000;

“former municipalities” means the former Village of Cardinal and former Township of Edwardsburgh;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Village of Cardinal and The Corporation of the Township of Edwardsburgh are amalgamated as a township under the name “The Corporation of the Township of Edwardsburgh/Cardinal.”
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended to and including December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until to and including December 31, 2000.

Councils

    1. The council of the new municipality shall be composed of seven members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the mayor, who shall be elected by general vote of the electors of new municipality, and
      2. two members elected from each of the East Ward, the West Ward and the North Ward as described in section 6.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The mayor shall sit on the council of the County.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the member of the council described in subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1), the establishment of wards under section 6 and the dissolution of the Police Village of Spencerville under Section 7, had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk of the former Township of Edwardsburgh shall be the clerk and the transition board established under Section 16 shall be the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Following the 2000 regular municipal election, the new municipality shall be divided into three wards as set out in this section.
    2. East Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Village of Cardinal plus polls one and four of the former Township of Edwardsburgh.
    3. West Ward shall be composed of land that comprised polls two, three and five of the former Township of Edwardsburgh.
    4. North Ward shall be composed of land comprising polls six, seven, eight and nine of the former Township of Edwardsburgh.

Police Villages

    1. The terms of office for the trustees of the Police Village of Spencerville are extended to and including December 31, 2000.
    2. The Police Village of Spencerville is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    3. All of the assets and liabilities of the Police Village of Spencerville become those of the new municipality.
    4. By-laws and resolutions of the Police Village of Spencerville shall become the by-laws and resolutions of the new municipality applicable to the same geographical area they applied to on December 31, 2000 and shall remain in force until they expire or are amended or are repealed.

Local Boards

  1. On January 1, 2001 the North Channel Cemetery Board is continued under the name of the North Channel Cemetery Board.

Library Boards

    1. The Edwardsburgh Public Library Board and The Cardinal Public Library Board are dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A library board for the new municipality bearing the name “The Corporation of the Township of Edwardsburgh/ Cardinal Public Library Board” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the library board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The assets and liabilities of the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be assets and liabilities of the library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the library board established under subsection (2).

Community Recreation Centres

  1. The committees of management of the community recreation centres that exist on December 31, 2000, are continued on January 1, 2001, as committees of management of those recreation centres for the new municipality and members shall be appointed to the committees by the council of the new municipality in accordance with the Community Recreation Centres Act.

By-Laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until it expires or is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, of the new municipality.

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000 shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.
    2. If a former municipality has commenced procedures under the Municipal Tax Sales Act and the procedures are not completed by January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Area Rating

  1. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for any debts created by a former municipality prior to December 31, 2000.

Reserve Funds

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000 for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The new municipality shall establish a working fund reserve of $750,000 on January 1, 2001, and the working fund reserve will be funded by each of the former municipalities on a pro rata per household basis as most recently determined by the Ontario Property Assessment Corporation.
    3. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board shall be composed of all of the members of councils of the former municipalities. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote.
    3. The board established under subsection (1) shall choose a chair and a vice-chair who shall be the authorized signing officers for the board.
    4. The costs associated with the establishment of the new municipality including the cost of the transition board established under subsection (1) shall be funded based on the prorating of the weighted taxable assessment of the former municipalities.
    5. The transitional board established under subsection (1) shall cease to exist on December 31, 2000.
    6. The transition board established in subsection (1) may exercise the following powers:
      1. establish a budget for the board;
      2. establish procedures for staffing of the new municipality which will recognize all service of existing employees, provide for an appropriate selection process for available positions and establish early exit, early retirement inducement, or termination packages for employees;
      3. determine the appropriate responsibility for municipal services including, but not limited to:
        • Administration
        • Protection to persons and property
        • Transportation services
        • Environmental services
        • Health services
        • Social and family services
        • Recreation and cultural services
        • Planning and development;
      4. approval of expenditures related to the transition board or the new municipality; and
      5. approval of any agreements involving a former municipality which will extend beyond December 31, 2000.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the former municipalities.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991 and the costs associated with the arbitration shall be shared equally between the former municipalities.
    4. The decision of the arbitrator shall be final.
    5. Despite subsections (1) and (3), upon unanimous agreement of the parties the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing

Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Smith-Ennismore, Village Of Lakefield, Township Of Douro-Dummer
County Of Peterborough

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“annexed area” means that part of The Corporation of the Township of Douro-Dummer more particularly described in Schedule “A”;

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Peterborough;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore and The Corporation of the Village of Lakefield as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Smith-Ennismore” means The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Village of Lakefield” means The Corporation of the Village of Lakefield as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore and The Corporation of the Village of Lakefield are amalgamated as a township under the name “The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore- Lakefield.”
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    4. On January 1, 2001, the annexed area is annexed to the new municipality.

Name Change

    1. The name of the new municipality established under section 2(1) may be changed in 2001 by order of the Minister upon a request to the Minister by the council of the new municipality following the adoption of a resolution by the council of the new municipality approving the new name.
    2. The name of a local board established or continued by this order may be changed by order made by the Minister to reflect a change in the name of the new municipality made under subsection (1).

Council

    1. The council of the new municipality shall be composed of five members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the reeve, to be elected by general vote;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy reeve, to be elected by general vote; and
      3. one member elected from each of Smith Ward, Ennismore Ward and Lakefield Ward.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The reeve and the deputy reeve of the new municipality shall sit on the County council.
    2. The reeve shall have three votes as a member of County council.
    3. The deputy reeve shall have two votes as a member of County council.
    4. Despite subsection 2(2), the members of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1), the annexation under subsection 2(4) and the establishment of wards under section 7 had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk and the council of the former Township of Smith-Ennismore shall be the clerk and the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall be divided into three wards as set out in this section.
    2. The Smith Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised The Corporation of the Township of Smith, as it existed prior to January 1, 1998, except for those parts of The Corporation of the Township of Smith annexed to The Corporation of City of Peterborough by Minister’s Order under section 25.2 of the Municipal Act dated July 4, 1997.
    3. The Ennismore Ward shall be composed of land that comprised The Corporation of the Township of Ennismore as it existed prior to January 1, 1998.
    4. The Lakefield Ward shall be composed of land that comprised the former Village of Lakefield and the annexed area.

Library Board

    1. On January 1, 2001 the Smith-Ennismore Public Library and the Lakefield Public Library Boardare dissolved.
    2. On January 1, 2001, a library board for the new municipality to be known as The Corporation of the Township of Smith-Ennismore-Lakefield Public Library Board is established.
    3. The operation and composition of the library board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the library board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force until amended or repealed.

Other Local Boards

    1. On January 1, 2001, the Smith-Ennismore Park Recreation and Community Centre’s Committee and the Lakefield-Smith-Ennismore Community Centre Board of Management are dissolved.
    2. On January 1, 2001, a committee of management under the Community Recreation Centres Act is established for the new municipality to be known as the Smith- Ennismore-Lakefield Recreation Committee.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.
    4. By-laws of The Corporation of the Township of Douro- Dummer enacted under sections 34 or 41 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of those sections continue to remain in force in the annexed area until repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    5. The by-laws and resolutions of The Corporation of the Township of Douro-Dummer shall be continued and be deemed to be the by-laws and resolutions of the new municipality, applicable to geographic area of the annexed area, until they expire, or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.

Public Utilities/Hydro Commissions

    1. The Lakefield Hydro Electric Commission, if not dissolved earlier, is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. All assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the Lakefield Hydro Electric Commission become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.
    3. Every by-law and resolution of the Lakefield Hydro Electric Commission dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality that are applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Village of Lakefield.
    4. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing the Lakefield Hydro Electric Commission or the new municipality to generate, transmit, distribute or retail electricity after November 7, 2000, in contravention of section 144 of the Electricity Act, 1998.
    5. In the event of a sale of the Lakefield Hydro Electric Commission or if the shares of a corporation as defined in the Business Corporations Act, are sold the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in a reserve for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former Village of Lakefield.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. All assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality .

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality
    2. After March 1, 2001, the clerk of the Corporation of the Township of Douro-Dummer shall prepare and furnish to the clerk of the new municipality a special collector’s roll showing all arrears of real property taxes or special rates assessed against the land in the annexed area up to and including December 31, 2000, and the persons assessed therefor.
    3. If a former municipality or The Corporation of the Township of Douro-Dummer in respect of the annexed lands, has commenced procedures under the Municipal Tax Sales Act and the procedures are not completed by January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Phase In

  1. Any increase in the rates of taxes for municipal purposes for the new municipality which would occur solely as a result of this order, shall be completely phased in for the new municipality’s portion of the real property tax bill in 2001.

Reserve Funds

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves, shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for any debts created by a former municipality prior to December 31, 2000.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board shall be composed of all of the members of the councils of the former municipalities.
    3. The board may exercise the powers of the former municipalities and the new municipality that are specified in subsection (4).
    4. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers,
      1. establish and adopt on behalf of the council of each of the former municipalities a transition plan for 2000 and a budget for implementing that plan;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      4. establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions, policies, adopt by-laws and budgets and other documents for the new municipality;
      5. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new municipality;
      6. identify and establish the staff positions necessary for interim municipal administration during 2000;
      7. approve expenditures and execute contracts where necessary for transition purposes;
      8. purchase, lease or dispose of any assets of each former municipality where necessary for transition purposes;
      9. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for operation of the transition board;
      10. establish and implement communications plans for employees and the public;
      11. retain employees and advisors for the purposes of the board and incur expenses on behalf of the board and their employees and advisors;
      12. establish a human resources transition protocol;
      13. identify, select and appoint employees to the new municipality and establish mechanisms for carrying out these functions;
      14. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment for positions in the new municipality or termination of employment, and ensure their fair application;
      15. offer employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality, inducements to terminate employment, severance, allowances, training assistance or such other benefits as are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      16. issue notices of layoff, or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation, as required;
      17. negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new municipality;
      18. exercise the powers of the councils of the former municipalities in all employment and labour matters arising as a result of this order and the amalgamation of the municipalities, including negotiations with trade unions and applications to the Ontario Labour Relations Board;
      19. establish a protocol in any discussions with neighboring municipalities;
      20. execute on behalf of former municipalities any agreements with other municipalities as they relate to amalgamation issues;
      21. review and approve all financial transactions of the former municipalities in excess of $10,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating budgets for 2000;
      22. approve all expenditures in 2000 that are necessary to establish new operations for the new municipality and apportion such costs equally between the former municipalities;
      23. establish committees as the board deems appropriate;
      24. give all required notices under the respective agreements for municipal policing contracts or arrangements in order that the new municipality will have one police force in place by no later than January 1, 2003.
    5. The board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on January 1, 2001.
    6. The costs of the board established under subsection (1) shall be apportioned on an equal basis between the former municipalities.

Assessment

    1. For the purposes of the assessment roll to be prepared for the new municipality for the 2001 taxation year, the former municipalities shall be deemed to be one municipality.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. The costs of the arbitration shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Schedule “A”

That part of Lot 15 Concession 8, in the former Township of Douro, bounded by the road allowance between Concession 7 and 8 on the east, the Otonabee River on the west, the Village of Lakefield boundary on the north (County Road 33), and the lot line between Lots 14 and 15 on the south; and

All of Lot 15, Concession 7 in the former Township of Douro; and

That part of Lot 16, Concession 7 in the former Township of Douro bounded by the Village of Lakefield boundary on the west, Highway No. 134 on the east, the lot line between Lots 15 and 16 on the south and the lot line between Lots 16 and 17 on the north; and

That part of Lot 17, Concession 7, in the former Township of Douro bounded by the Village of Lakefield boundary on the west, Highway No. 134 on the east, the lot line between Lots 16 and 17 on the south and the lot line between Lots 17 and 18 (Strickland Street) on the north.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Rear Of Leeds And Lansdowne, Township Of Front Of Leeds And Lansdowne, And Township Of Front Of Escott

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne, The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne, and The Corporation of the Township of Front of Escott as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne” means The Corporation of the Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of the Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne” means The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Front of Escott” means The Corporation of Township of Front of Escott as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne, The Corporation of the Township of Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne and The Corporation of the Township of Front of Escott are amalgamated as a township under the name “The Corporation of the Township of Leeds and the Thousand Islands”.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Council

    1. The council of the new municipality shall consist of seven members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the reeve, to be elected by general vote;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy reeve, who shall be appointed by council under subsection 69(3) of the Municipal Act from among the members of council elected under clause (c), (d) or (e) to act from time to time in the place of the head of council when the head of council is absent from the new municipality or absent through illness or when the office is vacant;
      3. three councillors elected from Ward One;
      4. two councillors elected from Ward Two; and
      5. one councillor elected from Ward Three.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The reeve shall sit on the council of the County.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the member of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1) and the division of the new municipality into wards under section 6 had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk and the council of the former Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne shall be the clerk and the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall be divided into three wards as set out in this section.
    2. Ward One shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Township of Front of Leeds and Lansdowne.
    3. Ward Two shall be composed of land that comprised the former Township of Rear of Leeds and Lansdowne.
    4. Ward Three shall be composed of land that comprised the former Township of Front of Escott.

Library Board

    1. The Front of Leeds and Lansdowne Public Library Board and the Front of Escott Public Library Board are dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A library board for the new municipality bearing the name “The Corporation of the Township of Leeds and Thousand Islands Public Library Board” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the library board established in subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Public Libraries Act.
    4. The rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be rights and obligations, assets and liabilities including employees of the library board established under subsection (2).
    5. All by-laws, rules, regulations and fees passed or established by the library boards dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be by-laws, rules, regulations and fees of the library board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force until amended or repealed.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until the earlier of the date they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Phase In

    1. Any increase in the rates of taxes for municipal purposes for the new municipality which would occur solely as a result of this order, shall be phased in for the new municipality and shall be limited to a maximum of 3 percent per year of the local real property tax rate in each year from 2001 to 2006.
    2. If the full increase in the amount of local real property taxes referred to in subsection (1) has not been fully implemented by 2006, the full remaining amount shall be added to the 2007 local tax rates.
    3. The phase in for any increase in the rates of taxation for municipal purposes for the new municipality under subsection (1) shall be financed by an equivalent reduction in the rates of taxation that would occur solely as a result of this order.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.

Taxes

  1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000 shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.

Financial

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used until December 31, 2003 for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000 for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. The transition board established under section 14 shall establish a working fund reserve which shall be equally funded by each of the former municipalities.
    4. The amount by which the working fund reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded in subsection (3) shall be used by the new municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality.
    5. If the amount contributed by a former municipality towards the working fund reserve of the new municipality is less than the required amount, as defined by this order, the new municipality shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipality to pay the balance of the contribution amount.

Assessment Roll

    1. For the purposes of the preparation of the assessment roll for the new municipality under the Assessment Act for the 2001 taxation year, the former municipalities shall be deemed to be one municipality.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board established under subsection (1) shall be composed of two members of council from each of the former municipalities. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote. The board shall elect a Chair.
    3. The costs of the transition board established under subsection (1) shall be paid by the former municipalities on a basis proportionate to the percentage each former municipality’s assessment is of the combined taxable assessment of the former municipalities as delivered for the 1999 taxation year.
    4. The transition board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on January 1, 2001.
    5. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers,
      1. adopt a transition plan to be completed by January 1, 2001, including a preliminary budget, which will enable the board to establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall on January 1, 2001, become the new municipality;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. adopt and establish operational and capital budgets, organizational structures, administrative and management systems, staff positions, preliminary job descriptions, policies, by-laws, budgets and other documents for the new municipality;
      4. establish and implement a communication plan for employees and the public regarding the new municipality;
      5. determine the location of the public works and administrative sites for the operation of the new municipality;
      6. review and make decisions regarding contributions to the new municipality’s reserve for working funds by the former municipalities;
      7. prepare reports for the consideration of the council of the new municipality regarding the manner in which municipal services will be provided in the new municipality;
      8. establish a human resources protocol and procedures affecting all aspects of employment and movement of employees of the former municipalities and their local boards to the new municipality and its local boards;
      9. offer employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality and this may include appointments to the new municipality, inducement to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance, or such other benefits as are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      10. approve all hiring of employees by the former municipalities prior to January 1, 2001;
      11. give notices of layoffs or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation as required;
      12. establish mechanisms for identifying, selecting and appointing employees to positions with the new municipality and its local boards;
      13. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment or termination of employment, and ensure their fair application;
      14. retain employees and advisors for the purposes of the board and incur expenses on behalf of the board;
      15. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      16. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for the operation of the board;
      17. establish committees for the board as the board deems necessary;
      18. spend money for purposes related to transition matters;
      19. approve all agreements on behalf of the former municipalities that extend beyond December 31, 2000;
      20. apportion to each former municipality a share of the costs and expenditures for the transition activities specifically for the operation of the board and the exercise of its powers and for the establishment of new operations for the new municipality on the basis of former municipality’s 1999 taxable assessment.
    6. The board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on December 31, 2000.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where a dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. Despite subsections (1) and (3), subsequent to January 1, 2001, upon unanimous agreement of the parties, the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.
    5. Costs related to the mediation or arbitration shall be paid on a proportional basis based on the 1999 taxable assessment of the former municipalities.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 10th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Town Of Clinton, Township Of Goderich, Township Of Hullett

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Huron;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Town of Clinton, The Corporation of the Township of Goderich, and The Corporation of the Township of Hullett as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Town of Clinton” means The Corporation of the Town of Clinton as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Goderich” means The Corporation of the Township of Goderich as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Hullett” means The Corporation of the Township of Hullett as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Municipality of Central Huron created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1);

“Township of East Wawanosh” means The Corporation of the Township of East Wawanosh as it exists on the date of this Order;

“Township of West Wawanosh” means The Corporation of the Township of West Wawanosh as it exists on the date of this Order.

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Town of Clinton, The Corporation of the Township of Goderich and The Corporation of the Township of Hullett are amalgamated as a township under the name “The Corporation of the Municipality of Central Huron” and it forms part of the County of Huron for municipal purposes.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the councils of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Council

    1. The council of the new municipality shall consist of eight members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the reeve, to be elected by general vote;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy reeve, to be elected by general vote; and
      3. two members elected from each of Wards One, Two, and Three.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The following members of council shall sit on the council of the County;
      1. the reeve and
      2. subject to the provisions of the County council bylaw, the deputy head of council and any additional local council members as allowed for by the County council representation by-law.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the members of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office as members of the council of the County on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1), the division of the new municipality into wards under section 6, and the dissolution of the Police Village of Auburn under section 9, had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk of the former Township of Goderich shall be the clerk and the transition board established under section 17 shall be the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall be divided into three wards as set out in this section.
    2. Ward One shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Township of Goderich.
    3. Ward Two shall be composed of land that comprised the former Township of Hullett.
    4. Ward Three shall be composed of land that comprised the former Town of Clinton.

Local Boards

    1. The Clinton Cemetery Board is continued under the name of the Clinton Cemetery Board.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Police Village of Auburn

    1. The terms of office for the trustees of the Police Village of Auburn are extended until December 31, 2000.
    2. The Police Village of Auburn is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    3. All real property, including liabilities related to real property, in the Police Village of Auburn located in the Township of East Wawanosh become those of that municipality.
    4. All real property, including liabilities related to real property, in the Police Village of Auburn located in the former Township of Hullett become those of the new municipality.
    5. All real property, including liabilities related to real property, in the Police Village of Auburn located in the Township of West Wawanosh become those of that municipality.
    6. All assets and liabilities of the Police Village of Auburn not related to real property, shall be divided between the Township of East Wawanosh, the Township of West Wawanosh and the new municipality in the same manner that the levy is apportioned under Section 338 of the Municipal Act.
    7. By-laws and resolutions of the Police Village of Auburn shall become the by-laws and resolutions of the Township of West Wawanosh, the Township of East Wawanosh and the new municipality applicable to the same geographic area as they applied to on December 31, 2000 and shall remain in force until they expire or are amended or are repealed.

Hydro Electric Commission

    1. The Clinton Hydro Electric Commission, if not dissolved earlier, is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. All assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the Clinton Hydro Electric Commission become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.
    3. Every by-law and resolution of the Clinton Hydro Electric Commission dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality that is applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Town of Clinton.
    4. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing the Clinton Hydro Electric System or the new municipality to generate, transmit, distribute or retail electricity after November 7, 2000 in contravention of section 144 of the Electricity Act, 1998.
    5. In the event of a sale of the Clinton Hydro Electric Commission or if the shares of a corporation as defined in the Business Corporations Act, are sold the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in a reserve for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former Town of Clinton.

Police Services Board

    1. The police services board of the former Town of Clinton, if not dissolved earlier, is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A new police services board for the new municipality to be known as “The Police Services Board of the Municipality of Central Huron” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the police services board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Police Services Act.
    4. On January 1, 2001, the police services board established under subsection (2) stands in the place of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    5. The new municipality stands in the place of the former municipalities for all purposes related to policing.
    6. The assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) become assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board established under subsection (2).
    7. On January 1, 2001, all by-laws and resolutions of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be by-laws or resolutions of the police services board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they are amended or repealed.
    8. Nothing in this section repeals or authorizes the repeal of by-laws or resolutions conferring rights, privileges, franchises, immunities or exemptions that could not have been lawfully repealed by the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    9. This section shall be of no effect, if the County of Huron prior to December 31, 2000 establishes a Police Services Board and shall become responsible for providing police services in the County of Huron.

Phase In

    1. Any increase in the rates of taxes for municipal purposes for the new municipality which would occur solely as a result of this order, shall be phased in for the new municipality’s portion of the real property tax bill by one third each year over a period of three years.
    2. The phase in for any increase in the rates of taxation for municipal purposes for the new municipality under subsection (1) shall be financed by an equivalent reduction in the rates of taxation that would occur solely as a result of this order.

Area Rating

    1. The new municipality may provide for a special mill rate adjustment upon the rateable property in the area of the former Town of Clinton, the former Township of Goderich and the former Township of Hullett for the purpose of providing police services if those services were provided on December 31, 2000.
    2. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for any debts created by a former municipality prior to December 31, 2000.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. All assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.

Taxes

  1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000 shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.

Financial

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves, shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used on or before December 31, 2003 for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000 for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. The new municipality shall establish a working fund reserve of $600,000 on January 1, 2001 and the working fund reserve will be equally funded by each of the former municipalities.
    4. The amount by which the working fund reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded in (3) above, shall be used by the municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality.
    5. If the amount contributed by a former municipality towards the working fund reserve of the new municipality is less than the required amount, as defined by this order, the new municipality shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipality to pay the balance of the contribution amount.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board established under subsection (1) shall be composed of two members of council from each of the former municipalities. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote. The board shall elect a Chair.
    3. The board established under subsection (1) may adopt procedural rules and systems of control to govern its activities.
    4. The councils of the former municipalities shall not exercise the powers specified in clauses (6)(l) and (m) without the approval of the board.
    5. The transition board established under subsection (1) ceases to exist on January 1, 2001.
    6. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers,
      1. establish and adopt transition plans for the year 2000, including the establishment of the board’s budget and the apportionment of the board’s costs associated with the exercise of powers listed in this section to each local municipality, in accordance with its proportionate share of the weighted assessment to the total taxable weighted assessment of the local municipalities;
      2. select employees and advisors from the former municipalities and their local boards for the purposes of the board;
      3. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      4. establish operational and capital budgets, organizational structures, administrative and management systems, staff positions and job descriptions for the new municipality in order to ensure a fully operational municipal organization that shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new municipality and its administration;
      5. prepare a report for the consideration of the council of the new municipality regarding the integration of all local boards either as independent boards or merged with the new municipality, as the case may be, in order to ensure fully operational bodies which shall become the new local boards or part of the new municipality;
      6. prepare a report for the consideration of the council of the new municipality regarding the functions, location, size, facilities, staff complement and equipment needed for the primary and/or satellite municipal office(s) necessary for the efficient and effective administration of the new municipality;
      7. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and its local boards;
      8. establish a human resources transition protocol that provides for uniform policies and mechanisms relating to the procedures and placement of employees of the former municipalities or their local boards in positions with the new municipality or its local boards;
      9. offer employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality, as well as negotiate and enter into agreements with employees;
      10. negotiate with trade unions and pursue applications to the Ontario Labour Relations Board, as required, on matters arising out of those negotiations;
      11. complete a report on the proposed disposition of assets and liabilities of the former municipalities and their local boards for the consideration of the council of the new municipality;
      12. review and approve all financial expenditures of the former municipalities in excess of $10,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating or capital budgets for the year 2000, including non-cash transactions such as the exchange of assets with external parties;
      13. review and approve expenditures of the former municipalities from reserve and reserve funds, financial commitments that extend beyond December 31, 2000, and the acceleration of any project originally scheduled to commence after December 31, 2000;
      14. complete a report for the consideration of the council of the new municipality recommending whether the new municipality should retain reserves and reserve funds of the former municipalities for the purpose for which they were established and, if not, which reserves and reserve funds should be so treated;
      15. exercise the powers of a council for the purpose of holding the 2000 regular municipal election under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996;
      16. review the migration of services and service agreements that currently exist to or from the County of Huron.

Employees

    1. Employees of the former municipalities or their local boards as of December 31, 2000 shall become employees of the new municipality or its local boards.
    2. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a non-bargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service with the former municipality.
    3. Employees that held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a bargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service as if the position held with the former municipality or its local boards was a bargaining unit position with the new municipality.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. Despite subsections (2) and (3), upon unanimous agreement of the parties, the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 8th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Stephen, Town Of Exeter, Township Of Usborne, County Of Huron

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Huron;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Stephen, The Corporation of the Town of Exeter and The Corporation of the Township of Usborne as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Town of Exeter” means The Corporation of the Town of Exeter as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Stephen” means The Corporation of the Township of Stephen as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Usborne”means The Corporation of the Township of Usborne as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Municipality of South Huron created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1);

“Police Village of Centralia” means the Police Village of Centralia as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“Police Village of Crediton” means the Police Village of Crediton, as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“Police Village of Dashwood” means the Police Village of Dashwood, as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“Township of Hay” means The Corporation of the Township of Hay as it exists on the date of this order.

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Stephen, The Corporation of the Town of Exeter and The Corporation of the Township of Usborne are amalgamated as a town under the name “The Corporation of the Municipality of South Huron”and it forms part of the County of Huron for municipal purposes.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Councils

    1. The council of the new municipality shall consist of seven members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the mayor, who shall be elected at large;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy mayor, who shall act in the place of the head of council in the event of illness, absence from the municipality or vacancy in the office of the head of council, who shall be elected at large;
      3. two members elected from each of Wards one and two; and
      4. one member elected from Ward three.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.

County Council

    1. The following persons shall sit on the council of the County:
      1. the mayor, and
      2. subject to the provisions of the County council representation by-law, the deputy head of council and any additional local council members as allowed for by the County council representation by-law.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the members of the council described in subsection (1) shall assume office as a member of the council of the County council on December 1, 2000, as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1), the dissolution of the Police Villages of Crediton, Centralia and Dashwood under Section 7 and the division of the new municipality into wards under section 6 had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk and the council of the former Town of Exeter shall be the clerk and the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Following the 2000 regular municipal election, the new municipality shall be divided into three wards as set out in this section.
    2. Ward one shall be comprised of the land that comprised the former Township of Stephen.
    3. Ward two shall be comprised of land that comprised the former Town of Exeter.
    4. Ward three shall be comprised of land that comprised the former Township of Usborne.

Police Villages

    1. The terms of office for the trustees of the Police Village of Dashwood, the Police Village of Crediton and the Police Village of Centralia are extended until December 31, 2000.
    2. The Police Village of Dashwood, the Police Village of Crediton and the Police Village of Centralia are dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    3. All of the assets and liabilities of the Police Villages of Crediton and Centralia become those of the new municipality.
    4. All real property including liabilities related to real property in the Police Village of Dashwood located in the former Township of Stephen become those of the new municipality.
    5. All real property including liabilities related to real property in the Police Village of Dashwood located in the Township of Hay become those of the Township of Hay or its successor.
    6. All assets and liabilities of the Police Village of Dashwood not related to real property, shall be divided between the Township of Hay and the new municipality in the same manner that the levy is apportioned under Section 338 of the Municipal Act.
    7. By-laws and resolutions of the Police Village of Dashwood shall become the bylaws and resolutions of the Township of Hay and the new municipality that are applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Police Village of Dashwood and shall remain in force until they expire or are amended or are repealed.
    8. By-laws and resolutions of the Police Villages of Crediton and Centralia shall become the bylaws and resolutions of the new municipality that are applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Police Village of Crediton and Centralia and shall remain in force until they expire or are amended or are repealed.

Local Boards

  1. On January 1, 2001 the Pinery Cemetery Board is continued under the name of the Pinery Cemetery Board.

Police Services Board

    1. The police services board of the former Town of Exeter, if not dissolved earlier, is dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. A new police services board for the new municipality to be known as the “The Police Services Board of the Municipality of South Huron” is established on January 1, 2001.
    3. The operation and composition of the police services board established under subsection (2) shall be in accordance with the Police Services Act.
    4. On January 1, 2001, the police services board established under subsection (2) stands in the place of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    5. The new municipality stands in the place of the former municipalities for all purposes related to policing.
    6. The assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) become assets and liabilities under the control and management of the police services board established under subsection (2).
    7. On January 1, 2001, all by-laws and resolutions of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1) shall be deemed to be by-laws or resolutions of the police services board established under subsection (2) and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they are amended or repealed.
    8. Nothing in this section repeals or authorizes the repeal of by-laws or resolutions conferring rights, privileges, franchises, immunities or exemptions that could not have ben lawfully repealed by a police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    9. This section shall be of no effect, if the County of Huron prior to December 31, 2000, establishes a police services board and shall become responsible for the providing police services in the County of Huron.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Hydro Commissions

    1. The Exeter Hydro Electric Commission and the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission, if not dissolved earlier, are dissolved on December 31, 2000.
    2. Subject to subsection (6), all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the Exeter Hydro Electric Commission and the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.
    3. Every by-law and resolution of the Exeter Hydro Electric Commission and the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality that are applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Town of Exeter or the former Police Village of Dashwood, as the case may be.
    4. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing the Exeter Hydro Electric Commission or the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission or the new municipality to generate, transmit, distribute or retail electricity after November 7, 2000, in contravention of section 144 of the Electricity Act, 1998.
    5. In the event of a sale of the Exeter Hydro Electric Commission or of the sale of the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission, or if the shares of a corporation as defined in the Business Corporations Act, are sold the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in a reserve for the benefit of the former Town of Exeter if the Exeter Hydro Electric Commission is sold or subject to subsection (6) placed in a reserve for the benefit of the former Police Village of Dashwood, if the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission is sold.
    6. Despite sections 7(6) and 11(2) of this order, the new municipality and the Township of Hay shall divide the sale proceeds of the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission described in subsection (5) in proportion to the number of customers in the part of the former Police Village of Dashwood located in each municipality.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality .

Taxes

  1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the Municipality of South Huron and may be collected by the new municipality.

Phase In

    1. Any increase in the rates of taxes for municipal purposes for the new municipality which would occur solely as a result of this order, shall be phased in for the new municipality’s portion of the real property tax bill by one third each year over a period of three years.
    2. The phase in for any increase in the rates of taxation for municipal purposes for the new municipality under (1) shall be financed by an equivalent reduction in the rates of taxation that would occur solely as a result of this order.

Area Rating

    1. The new municipality may provide for a special mill rate adjustment upon the rateable property in the area of the former Town of Exeter, the former Township of Stephen and the former Township of Usborne for the purpose of providing police services if those services were provided on December 31, 2000.
    2. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for any debts created by a former municipality prior to December 31, 2000.

Reserve Funds

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used until January 1, 2006, for the purpose for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of the former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. The new municipality shall establish a working fund reserve of $250,000 on January 1, 2001 and the working fund reserve will be funded by each of the former municipalities based on the percentage that their weighted taxable assessment forms the combined weighted taxable assessment for the new municipality as delivered for the 2001 taxation year.
    4. The amount by which the working fund reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded in subsection (3) shall be used by the municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality until December 31, 2005. Any excess reserves that remain on December 31, 2005, shall revert to the reserves of the new municipality or may be otherwise disposed of by the council of the new municipality.
    5. If the amount contributed by a former municipality towards the working fund reserve of the new municipality is less than the required amount, the new municipality shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipality to pay the balance of the contribution amount.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board shall be composed of six members, two members appointed by and from the council of each former municipality. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote.
    3. The costs associated with the establishment of the new municipality shall be funded based on the prorating of the weighted taxable assessment of the former municipalities.
    4. The transition board shall adopt procedural rules and administrative and financial controls.
    5. The transition board may exercise the following powers:
      1. allocate costs for transitional activities including direct and indirect costs for the operation of the board and the new municipality, employee voluntary exit payments and severance payments made prior to January 1, 2001, to the former municipalities according to each municipality’s share of the cost based on weighted assessment except where the board determines that a cost has been incurred to benefit solely one or more former municipalities in which case the cost shall be attributed on a proportional basis to the benefitting municipality or municipalities;
      2. establish and adopt a transition plan for 2000 including a budget for implementing that plan;
      3. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      4. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      5. adopt and establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions, and policies, and adopt by-laws, budgets and other documents for the new municipality;
      6. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall on January 1, 2001, become the new municipality;
      7. approve expenditures, execute contracts and act as the employer for each of the former municipalities for transitional purposes;
      8. purchase, lease, declare surplus prior to disposal or dispose of any assets of the former municipalities;
      9. approve the purchase, lease or disposal by a former municipality of any asset with a value in excess of $25,000 except where already provided for in the municipal budget, and approve any non budgeted debt exceeding $10,000;
      10. recommend the purchase, lease or disposal of any asset of a former municipality to the council of the new municipality, if time does not permit the board to purchase, lease or dispose of any asset of a former municipality;
      11. offer employment to employees of the former municipalities with the new municipality, including inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or such other benefits as are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      12. issue notices of lay-off or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation as required;
      13. identify, select and appoint employees to the new municipality and establish mechanism for carrying out these functions;
      14. negotiate and enter into agreements where necessary with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new municipality;
      15. approve the negotiations of any contracts of a former municipality with its employees or groups of employees and, with professional assistance from the human resources area, if necessary, establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment for positions in the new municipality or termination of employment and ensure their fair application; (p) offer employment where positions exist within the new municipality and its local boards to permanent employees of the former municipalities and their local boards who are currently employed by the former municipalities and their local boards;
      16. identify and establish the staff positions necessary for interim municipal administration during 2000;
      17. appoint employees from the former municipalities to positions with the new municipality for the purpose of organizing and implementing a fully operational municipal organization;
      18. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for the operation of the board;
      19. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      20. approve the 2000 budgets of the former municipalities, and approve any debenture issued by a former municipality;
      21. prepare a draft 2001 budget for the consideration of the council of the new municipality;
      22. determine and establish the locations of all work sites for the new municipality;
      23. retain employees, advisors and consultants for the purpose of the board and accrue expenses on behalf of the board and its employees, advisors and consultants;
      24. prepare a report for the consideration of the council of the new municipality regarding the integration of all local boards and committees, either as independent boards or committees or merged with the new municipality, as the case may be, in order to ensure fully operational bodies which shall become the new local boards or committees or part of the new municipality.
    6. The board ceases to exist on December 31, 2000.

Assessment

    1. For the purposes of the assessment roll to be prepared for the new municipality for the 2001 taxation year, the former municipalities shall be deemed to be one municipality.

Employees

    1. Employees of the former municipalities or their local boards as of December 31, 2000, shall become employees of the new municipality or its local boards.
    2. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a non-bargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service with the former municipality.
    3. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a bargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service as if the position held with the former municipality or its local boards was a bargaining unit position within the new municipality.
    4. The new municipality and the transition board shall ensure where possible that staff appointments to new positions with the new municipality are made from among those employees who have a been employed by the former municipalities since at least January 1, 1999.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. Despite subsections (2) and (3), upon unanimous agreement of the parties, the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 8th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
R.S.O 1990 c.M.45

Township Of Hay, Township Of Stanley, Village Of Bayfield, Village Of Hensall, Village Of Zurich, County Of Huron

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

“County” means The Corporation of the County of Huron;

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Hay, The Corporation of the Township of Stanley, The Corporation of the Village of Bayfield, The Corporation of the Village of Hensall, and The Corporation of the Village of Zurich as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Hay” means The Corporation of the Township of Hay as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Township of Stanley” means The Corporation of the Township of Stanley as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Village of Bayfield” means The Corporation of the Village of Bayfield as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Village of Hensall means The Corporation of the Village of Hensall as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“former Village of Zurich means The Corporation of the Village of Zurich as it exists prior to January 1, 2001;

“new municipality” means The Corporation of the Municipality of Bluewater created as a result of the amalgamation under subsection 2(1).

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Hay, The Corporation of the Township of Stanley, The Corporation of the Village of Bayfield, The Corporation of the Village of Hensall and The Corporation of the Village of Zurich are amalgamated as a town under the name “The Corporation of the Municipality of Bluewater”.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the councils of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. The terms of office of the members of the local boards and committees of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Name Change

    1. The name of the new municipality established under section 2(1) may be changed by order of the Minister upon a request to the Minster by the transition board established under section 14 following the adoption of a resolution by the transition board approving the name being requested.
    2. The name of a local board established or continued by this order may be changed by order made by the Minister to reflect a change in the name of the new municipality made under subsection (1) following the adoption of a resolution by the transition board approving the name being requested.

Councils

    1. The council of the new municipality shall consist of ten members consisting of,
      1. the head of council, to be known as the mayor to be elected by general vote;
      2. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy mayor to be elected by general vote;
      3. a councillor at large to be elected by general vote;
      4. two members elected from each of Hay Ward and Stanley Ward; and
      5. one member elected from each of Bayfield Ward, Hensall Ward and Zurich Ward.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.
    3. The council of the new municipality shall review the composition of council established by subsection (1) prior to November 1, 2003.

County Council

    1. The following members of council shall sit on the council of the County:
      1. the mayor; and
      2. subject to the provisions of the County council bylaw, the deputy head of council and any additional local council members as allowed for by the County council representation by-law.
    2. Despite subsection 2(2), the members of council specified by subsection (1) shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000, as if the new municipality was already established.

Municipal Election

    1. The 2000 regular municipal elections in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1) and the establishment of wards under Section 7 had already occurred.
    2. For the purposes of subsection (1), the clerk and the council of the former Township of Hay shall be the clerk and the council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Wards

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality shall be divided into five wards as set out in this section.
    2. The Bayfield Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Village of Bayfield.
    3. The Hay Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Township of Hay.
    4. The Hensall Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Village of Hensall.
    5. The Stanley Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Township of Stanley.
    6. The Zurich Ward shall be composed of the land that comprised the former Village of Zurich.

Local Boards

  1. The Bayfield Cemetery Board is continued under the name of the Bayfield Cemetery Board.

By-laws

    1. Every by-law and resolution of the former municipalities shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality and shall remain in force in the area of the former municipality until they expire or are amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    2. Any by-law of a former municipality passed under section 34 of the Planning Act or a predecessor of that section and any official plan of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be a by-law or official plan of the new municipality and shall remain in force until it is amended or repealed by the council of the new municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act, or adopt an official plan or amendment to it under the Planning Act and that by-law, official plan or amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Public Utilities/Hydro Commissions

    1. The Hensall Public Utilities Commission and the Zurich Hydro Electric System, if not dissolved earlier, are dissolved on January 1, 2001.
    2. All assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the Hensall Public Utilities Commission and the Zurich Hydro Electric System become assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality.
    3. Every by-law and resolution of the Hensall Public Utilities Commission and the Zurich Hydro Electric System dissolved under subsection (1) shall be continued and deemed to be a by-law or resolution of the new municipality that is applicable in respect of the geographic area of the former Village of Hensall or the former Village of Zurich.
    4. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing the Hensall Public Utilities Commission or the Zurich Hydro Electric System or the new municipality to generate, transmit, distribute or retail electricity after November 7, 2000 in contravention of section 144 of the Electricity Act, 1998.
    5. In the event of a sale of the Hensall Public Utilities Commission or of a sale of the Zurich Hydro Electric System, or if the shares of a corporation as defined in the Business Corporations Act, established under the Electricity Act, 1998, are sold the proceeds of such sale shall be placed in a reserve for the benefit of the former Village of Hensall if the Hensall Public Utilities Commission is sold or placed in a reserve for the benefit of the former Village of Zurich if the Zurich Hydro Electric System is sold.
    6. The new municipality and The Corporation of Township of Stephen shall divide the sale proceeds of the Dashwood Hydro Electric Commission in proportion to the number of customers in the part of the former Police Village of Dashwood located in each municipality.
    7. The new municipality’s portion of the hydro reserve of the former Police Village of Dashwood shall, upon becoming a reserve of the new municipality, be maintained and used for such purposes as the council of the new municipality considers appropriate as long as it is only used for the benefit of the ratepayers of the geographic area of that portion of the former Police Village of Dashwood now located in the new municipality.

Assets and Liabilities

  1. On January 1, 2001, all assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the former municipalities become the assets and liabilities, rights and obligations including employees of the new municipality .

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied under any general or special Act and uncollected in the former municipalities which are due and unpaid on December 31, 2000, shall be deemed to be taxes, charges and rates due and payable to the new municipality and may be collected by the new municipality.
    2. No former municipality shall reduce their portion of the 2000 municipal tax rate below their 1999 tax rate.

Financial Issues

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become reserves and reserve funds of the new municipality and shall be used for the purposes for which they were designated by the former municipality on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipality.
    2. The total amount of the working fund reserve of a former municipality as of December 31, 2000, shall be increased or decreased by the amount of any surplus or deficit of the former municipality for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2000.
    3. The new municipality shall establish a working fund reserve of $400,000 on January 1, 2001 and the working fund reserve will be funded by each of the former municipalities based on the apportionment of the transition costs as set out in clause 14(4)(u).
    4. The amount by which the working fund reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded in subsection (3) shall be used by the municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality.
    5. If the amount contributed by a former municipality towards the working fund reserve of the new municipality is less than the required amount, as defined by clause 14(4)(u), the new municipality shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipality to pay the balance of the contribution amount.
    6. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for any debts created by a former municipality prior to December 31, 2000.

Transition Board

    1. A transition board shall be established on the date of this order and shall be constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The board shall be composed of all of the members of the councils of the former municipalities. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote. The board shall elect a Chair.
    3. The board may exercise the powers of the former municipalities and the new municipality that are specified in subsection (4).
    4. The board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers,
      1. adopt transition plans including budgets;
      2. adopt organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, job descriptions and definitions, policies, budgets and resolutions recognizing that the total number of employees employed by the new municipality shall not be more than the total employees employed by the former municipalities;
      3. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new municipality;
      4. approve expenditures, execute contracts and act as the employer for each of the former municipalities which form part of the board, for transition purposes;
      5. review and approve all financial transactions of the former municipalities in excess of $10,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating or capital budgets for 1999 and 2000, including noncash transactions such as the exchange of assets with external parties;
      6. purchase, lease or declare surplus any assets of each former municipality which constitutes part of the board, or require the approval of the board before a former municipality purchases, leases or disposes of any asset with a value over $10,000 once declared surplus;
      7. apply to the Minister to change the name of the new municipality from “The Corporation of the Municipality of Bluewater” to another name following the approval of a resolution approving the name being requested;
      8. if times does not permit the purchase, lease or disposal of any assets, then the board shall make a recommendation to the council of the new municipality before January 1, 2001, for their action;
      9. before any asset is disposed of by the board, contact other transition boards, and municipalities and the County to determine if they have a need for such an asset;
      10. offer or require the approval of the board before a former municipality constituting part of the board offers employees of the former municipalities employment with the new municipality, inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or other benefits as are necessary to fill the position in the new municipality or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      11. may give notices of layoffs to take effect at the discretion of the transition board for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation as required if an employee wishes to leave prior to December 31, 2000;
      12. establish mechanisms for identifying, selecting and appointing employees to the new municipality;
      13. offer a full opportunity for positions with the new municipality and its local boards to those employees who have been employed by the former municipalities and their local boards since at least July 14, 1998, and in the situation of the absence of a suitable candidate or a vacancy, to consult with other boards within the County where there may be surplus employees prior to advertising at large;
      14. shall ensure, where possible, that staff appointments to positions with the new municipality are made from among those employees who have been employed by the former municipalities;
      15. may, where necessary, negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former and new municipality, or require the board’s approval before a former municipality negotiates and enters into a contract with its employees or groups of employees;
      16. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment or termination of employment, and ensure their fair application and if professional assistance in the human resources area is required, to seek assistance;
      17. if the board finds it necessary, establish the positions and offices necessary for transitional purposes of interim municipal administration;
      18. may appoint if necessary, in 2000, interim employees from the former municipalities to positions with the new municipality for a period not exceeding 6 months for the purpose of organizing and implementing the new municipality;
      19. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality;
      20. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      21. attribute costs for transition activities including direct and indirect costs for the operation of the board, the new municipality, employee voluntary exit payments and severance payments made in 2000 to former municipalities, according to each municipality’s share of the costs as follows:
        • The Corporation of the Village of Bayfield 15.55%
        • The Corporation of the Township of Hay 35.89%
        • The Corporation of the Village of Hensall 11.38%
        • The Corporation of the Township of Stanley 28.64%
        • The Corporation of the Village of Zurich 8.53%

        except where the board determines that a cost has been incurred to benefit solely one or more former municipalities, in which case, costs shall be attributed on a proportional basis to the benefitting municipality or municipalities;

      22. issue debentures on behalf of the former municipalities or require the approval of the board before a former municipality issues debentures for some or all transition costs, for a period which shall not exceed ten years, excluding area rated debentures;
      23. issue debentures on behalf of the former municipalities or require the approval of the transition board before a former municipality issues debentures;
      24. prepare a draft 2001 budget for the consideration of the council of the new municipality;
      25. meet with other boards within the County to share ideas, solutions and linking issues and/or joint agreements and to consider the possible employment of any surplus employees in one board with any vacancies available with another board prior to advertising for new positions;
      26. meet with the Warden, Clerk/Treasurer and human resources person to discuss any possible vacancies becoming available in the County Administration prior to the County advertising for new positions;
      27. assemble all necessary costs for transition that can be assembled by the boards and the County, for addressing special needs that may meet the requirements for assistance from any of the separate funds being set up by the Provincial Government such as the Municipal Social Assistance Reserve, Municipal Capital and Operating Restructuring Fund and the Community Reinvestment Fund;
      28. establish the municipal building(s) for the new municipality and make all necessary alterations to the building(s) to house the staff and equipment, council chamber and committee rooms, moving arrangements and expenditures to prepare the building(s) for occupancy early in 2001;
      29. oversee the proper use and allocation of reserves and reserve funds and area rating procedures and taxes and charges as outlined in section 12 and 13;
      30. assure that existing fire services and agreements are maintained until such time as the council of the new municipality determines otherwise.
    5. The board established under subsection (1) shall cease to exist on January 1, 2001.

Assessment

    1. For the purposes of the assessment roll to be prepared for the new municipality for the 2001 taxation year, the former municipalities shall be deemed to be one municipality.

Employees

    1. Employees of the former municipalities or their local boards as of December 31, 2000, shall become employees of the new municipality or its local boards.
    2. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a non-bargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service with the former municipality.

Dispute Resolution

    1. Where a dispute arises with respect to the interpretation of this order on or before December 31, 2000, the matter in dispute may be referred to mediation for resolution.
    2. The mediator shall be selected through the mutual agreement of the former municipalities and the costs associated with the mediation shall be shared equally between the parties to the mediation.
    3. If the dispute is not resolved through mediation, the dispute may be referred to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. Despite subsections (2) and (3), upon unanimous agreement of the parties, the dispute may be referred to the council of the new municipality.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 8th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act

County Of Renfrew
Village Of Beachburg, Village Of Cobden, Township Of Ross, Township Of Westmeath

  1. Subsection 7(2) of the Order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing dated March 31, 1999, and published in The Ontario Gazette of April 17, 1999, that established The Corporation of the Township of Whitewater Region is hereby amended by deleting “July 1, 2000”, in the first line and substituting “January 1, 2001”.
  1. The Schedule attached to the Order is revoked and the following substituted:

Ward One:

Is comprised of the former Township of Westmeath, that portion of the former Village of Cobden and that portion of the former Village of Beachburg described as follows:

North Boundary – The southerly portion of the former Pembroke Township boundary to the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

East Boundary – The Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec south-westerly to and along Chaffey’s Trail to Westmeath Road, following the south-easterly direction of Westmeath Road to the intersection of Beachburg Road, along Beachburg Road through the centre of the former Village of Beachburg being Main Street and continuing to Foresters Falls Road.

South Boundary – From the intersection of Foresters Falls Road (County Road 7) and Beachburg Road westerly along County Road 21 to Highway 17 and continuing along to Cobden Road (County Road 8) to the former Township boundary of Bromley.

West Boundary - Snake River Line and the former Township boundary of Stafford.

Ward Two:

Is comprised of a portion of the former Township of Westmeath described as follows:

North Boundary – The Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

East Boundary – The Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

South Boundary – From the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec to the limit between Lots 14 and 15 in Concession East Front B, to the road allowance between Concessions 1X and X, continuing south-westerly along La Passe Road to the intersection of Concessions IV and V, then continuing south-westerly along the limit between Lots 10 and 11, Concession IV to the easterly limit of Concession III, then southerly along the limit between Concession III and IV to Beachburg Road.

West Boundary – Commencing at the limit between Concession III and IV and Beachburg Road then following Beachburg Road north-westerly to Westmeath Road, Chaffey’s Trail and north easterly to the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

Ward three:

Is comprised of that portion of the former Township of Westmeath, that portion of the former Village of Beachburg and that portion of the former Township of Ross described as follows:

North Boundary – From the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec to the limit between Lots 14 & 15 in Concession East Front B to the road allowance between Concessions IX and X, continuing south-westerly along La Passe Road to the intersection of Concession IV and V, then continuing south-westerly along the limit between Lots 10 and 11, Concession IV to the easterly limit of Concession III, then southerly along the limit between Concession III and IV to Beachburg Road.

West Boundary – Commencing at the limit between Concessions III and IV and Beachburg Road, then easterly following Beachburg Road through the centre of the former Village of Beachburg (Main Street) to where it meets Foresters Falls Road, then southerly along Queensline Road to the boundary of the former Ross Township.

South Boundary – Thence easterly along Highway 653 to the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

East Boundary – The Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.

Ward Four:

Is comprised of that portion of the former Township of Ross and that portion of the former Village of Cobden described as follows:

North Boundary – From the intersection of Forester Falls Road and Beachburg Road westerly along Foresters Falls Road to Highway 17 and continuing along Highway 17 through the former Village of Cobden to where it meets the Cobden Road (Main Street) and continuing westerly to Snake River Line also being the former Bromley and former Ross Township boundaries.

West Boundary – The Township line between the former Townships of Bromley and Ross.

South Boundary – The southerly limit of the former Township of Ross to the intersection of Queensline Road.

East Boundary – From the former Township of Ross Boundary along Queensline Road to the intersection of Queensline Road and Foresters Falls Road.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 7th day of February, 2000.

Order Made Under The Municipal Act
County Of Renfrew
Village Of Chalk River, Township Of Rolph, Buchanan, Wylie & Mckay

  1. The Order of the Minister dated March 31, 1999, and published in The Ontario Gazette of April 17, 1999, that amalgamated The Corporation of the Village of Chalk River and The Corporation of the Townships of Rolph, Buchanan, Wylie & McKay and that was amended by an order of the Minister dated November 23, 1999, is further amended by the addition of “Rolph Town Plot, Reserve Range B” to Schedule “A” of the Order.
  2. Schedule “E” of the Order is amended by striking out the first three lines of the Schedule and the following substituted: The land to be annexed to The Corporation of the Town of Petawawa under subsection 2(2) of the Order is the portion of Lot 1, Concession 8 lying north of the Barron River (South Branch Petawawa River), in McKay Township described as follows:
  3. The name of The Corporation of the Town of Chalk River/Rolph, Buchanan, Wylie & McKay established under clause 2 of the Order of the Minister is changed to “The Corporation of the Town of Laurentian Hills”.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 7th day of February, 2000.

Amending Order Made Under The Municipal Act
Township Of Alice & Fraser
Townships Of Stafford And Pembroke

and that portion of the Ottawa River adjoining the lots to the easterly limit of the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.
and that portion of the Ottawa River adjoining the lots to the easterly limit of the Provincial Boundary between Ontario and Quebec.
  1. Paragraph 3 under the heading Ward “B” of Schedule “A” of the Order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing that established The Corporation of the Township of Laurentian Valley and that was made March 31, 1999, and published in The Ontario Gazette of April 17, 1999, is amended by the addition of the following after the word Lake in the last line of the paragraph:
  2. Paragraph 3 under the heading Ward “C” of Schedule “A” of the Order is amended by the addition of the following after the word Four in the last line of the paragraph:

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 7th day of February, 2000.

Amending Order Made Under The Municipal Act
Township Of Admaston, Township Of Bromley

  1. Schedules C and D of the Order of the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing that established The Corporation of the Township of Admaston/Bromley and that was made March 31, 1999, and published in The Ontario Gazette of April 17, 1999, are revoked and the following substituted:

Schedule C

Ward Three shall be composed of the northwesterly portion of the former Township of Admaston - being all of the lands west of Kennelly Road commencing at the intersection of the northern boundary of the former Township and Kennelly Road, extending south on Kennelly Road to where it is intersected by Stone Road and then south easterly following Stone Road where it meets Hwy 132, then easterly on Hwy 132 to the easterly limit of the former Township then south to the south-east limits of the former Township, and west to the western limits of the former Township, and northerly along the Township line to the northern limit of the former Township and easterly along the northern limit to Kennelly Road.

Schedule D

Ward Four shall be composed of the north easterly portion of the former Township of Admaston - commencing at the northern boundary of the former Township and Kennelly Road, extending south on Kennelly Road to where it is intersected by Stone Road and then south easterly following Stone Road to where it meets Hwy 132, then easterly on Hwy 132 to the easterly limit of the former Township and north to the Northeast limit of the former Township and west along the northern limit of the former Township to Kennelly Road.

Tony Clement
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing
Dated this 7th day of February, 2000.
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