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

1999-8-25

Timetrak Time And Attendance Solutions Inc.

1202614

1999-8-25

675920 Ontario Ltd.

675920

1999-10-6

Morbert Investments Inc.

463817

2000-1-14

312064 Ontario Limited

312064

2000-1-20

Heilongjiang Mishan City Kaisu Economic Trading (Canada) Inc.

1381769

2000-1-20

Richmond Bellwoods Inc.

1097950

2000-1-20

360528 Ontario Limited

360528

2000-1-20

941724 Ontario Inc.

941724

2000-1-20

943010 Ontario Ltd.

943010

2000-1-20

964987 Ontario Inc.

964987

2000-1-20

1079953 Ontario Inc.

1079953

2000-1-21

All Four Kids Ltd.

1129220

2000-1-24

Rogers Neighbourhood Country Market Ltd.

1177707

2000-1-24

Vledder Mechanical Limited

1291275

2000-1-24

853834 Ontario Limited

853834

2000-1-25

Alliston Electric Motors Limited

604513

2000-1-25

Ejk Tutorials Inc.

1250203

2000-1-25

Icon Media Systems Inc.

1110905

2000-1-25

Kin & E Co. Ltd.

1074223

2000-1-25

Stanley Chan Consulting Co. Ltd.

1203548

2000-1-25

397332 Ontario Limited

397332

2000-2-21

E & M Real Estate Holdings Corporation

1233987

2000-2-21

Professional System Management Inc.

1132591

2000-2-21

810192 Ontario Limited

810192

2000-2-22

James Howe Consulting Inc.

977503

2000-2-22

712627 Ontario Inc.

712627

2000-2-22

1196048 Ontario Inc.

1196048

2000-2-23

1219707 Ontario Inc.

1219707

2000-2-23

544059 Ontario Inc.

544059

2000-2-24

Bernard Garand Enterprises Ltd.

340154

2000-2-24

Knudson Painters & Decorators Limited

87425

2000-2-24

Regina Bay Marine Limited

436698

2000-2-24

Simpson Towing Limited

151040

2000-2-24

1213360 Ontario Ltd.

1213360

2000-2-25

Baknap Inc.

805697

2000-2-25

Eleven Jones (Ontario) Inc.

882190

2000-2-25

Rosewood Lawn Care Ltd.

744617

2000-2-25

Tranplan Associates Ltd.

480239

2000-2-28

Dynamo Hi-Tech Electric Motors Inc.

788907

2000-2-28

Locking Family Holdings Inc.

875109

2000-2-28

Success Skills International Inc.

995398

2000-2-28

450334 Ontario Limited

450334

2000-2-29

Clark’s Jewellers Tweed Limited

246626

2000-2-29

Cobean Painting & Decorating Ltd.

730477

2000-2-29

Herve, Rene, Maurice Company Limited

1039412

2000-2-29

North American Cruise Recruiters Inc.

1328390

2000-2-29

Penhale Travel Agency Ltd.

420621

2000-2-29

Scott & Fetzer (Canada) Ltd.

35895

2000-2-29

W.C. Eaket Insurance Brokers Inc.

823386

2000-2-29

Wellcom Technology Inc.

1245520

2000-2-29

1292527 Ontario Inc.

1292527

2000-3-1

Golden Boxwood Ltd.

1214430

2000-3-1

Magic Online Services International Inc.

1092415

2000-3-1

Marine Xyu Encounters Inc.

579691

2000-3-1

Reckon Direct Marketing Inc.

1231066

2000-3-1

Rudy’s Welding Ltd.

355267

2000-3-1

Stellar Resources Ltd.

559891

2000-3-2

Altannan Co. Ltd.

1302866

2000-3-2

Derby Terrazzo & Tile Co. Ltd.

222076

2000-3-2

International Children Education Centre (Toronto) Inc.

1334698

2000-3-2

Sai Sharan Solutions Inc.

1365880

2000-3-2

747264 Ontario Limited

747264

2000-3-2

901987 Ontario Inc.

901987

2000-3-2

1299042 Ontario Inc.

1299042

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
12/00

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

2000-3-3

Ci Expobac Inc.

1378336

2000-3-3

Hohmans’ Ultratec Incorporated

1086701

2000-3-3

M & T Custom Fabrication Inc.

1142815

2000-3-3

Rodney Construction (1992) Limited

980387

2000-3-3

Source 4 Leasing Inc.

1282801

2000-3-3

The Greenpark Products Ltd.

1097661

2000-3-3

Transcanadian Maintenance Ltd.

1170631

2000-3-3

Wendell J. Smith Enterprises Limited

249007

2000-3-3

1264197 Ontario Limited

1264197

2000-3-3

1290487 Ontario Limited

1290487

2000-3-3

1363915 Ontario Ltd.

1363915

2000-3-3

1364573 Ontario Inc.

1364573

2000-3-3

1376817 Ontario Inc.

1376817

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
12/00

Notice of Default in Complying with the Corporations Tax Act

The Director has been notified by the Minister of Finance that the following corporations are in default in complying with the Corporations Tax Act.

Notice Is Hereby Given under subsection 241 (1) of the Business Corporations Act, that unless the corporations listed hereunder comply with the requirements of the Corporations Tax Act within 90 days of this notice, orders will be made dissolving the defaulting corporations. All enquiries concerning this notice are to be directed to Corporations Tax Branch, Ministry of Finance, 33 King Street West, Oshawa, Ontario L1H 8H6.

Number

Name of Corporation

Ontario Corporation Number

1

High Loch Investments Limited

257666

2

Jt Floorcraft Ltd.

933368

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
12/00

Cancellation of Certificate of Incorporation (Corporations Tax Act Defaulters)

Notice Is Hereby Given that, under subsection 241 (4) of the Business Corporations Act, the Certificates of Incorporation of the corporations named hereunder have been cancelled by an order dated 21st February, 2000 for default in complying with the provisions of the Corporations Tax Act, and the said corporations have been dissolved on that date.

Date

Name of Corporation

Ontario Corporation Number

2000-02-21

Morels Inc.

564386

2000-02-21

728795 Ontario Inc.

728795

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
12/00

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

2000-3-3

Iron Dukes Inc.

1343031

Carol D. Kirsh
Director, Companies Branch
12/00

Municipal Act

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

County Of Grey
Town Of Durham, Township Of West Grey (Township Of Bentinck, Township Of Glenelg Township Of Normanby, Village Of Neustadt)

Whereas the Corporation of the Township of Bentinck, The Corporation of the Township of Glenelg, The Corporation of the Township of Normanby and the Village of Neustadt were ordered amalgamated as The Corporation of Township of West Grey by Minister’s Order effective January 1, 2000;

And whereas the Corporation of the Township of Bentinck, The Corporation of the Township of Glenelg, The Corporation of the Township of Normanby, The Corporation of the Village of Neustadt and The Corporation of the Town of Durham submitted a proposal to the Minister in 1999 to amalgamate The Corporation of the Township of West Grey and The Corporation of The Town of Durham effective January 1, 2001.

Definitions

  1. “County” means The Corporation of the County of Grey;

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

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

“new municipality” means the municipality established under subsection 2(1);

“former Township of West Grey” means The Corporation of the Township of West Grey established by Minister’s Order on January 1, 2000 as it exists prior to January 1, 2001.

Municipal Restructuring

    1. On January 1, 2001, the former Township of West Grey and the former Town of Durham are amalgamated as a township municipality under the name of The Corporation of the Township of West Grey;
    2. The terms of office of the members of council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.

Representation

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the council of the new municipality shall be composed of nine members consisting of,
      1. a head of council, to be known as the mayor, and a deputy head of council to be known as the deputy mayor, both of whom shall be elected by a general vote of the electors of the new municipality; and
      2. seven additional members, to be elected by a general vote of the electors of the new municipality.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.
    3. The mayor and the deputy mayor shall sit on the council of the County.
    4. The number of votes that the head of council and the deputy mayor shall have on County council shall be determined in accordance with the County of Grey Act, 1993, as though the head of council were the reeve of the new municipality and the deputy mayor were the deputy reeve of the new municipality.
    5. Despite subsection 2(2), the mayor and deputy mayor shall assume office at County council on December 1, 2000 as if the new municipality was already established.

Elections

    1. The 2000 regular elections shall be conducted as if the amalgamation under subsection 2(1), and the composition of the council of the new municipality under section 3 were already established.
    2. The clerk and council of the former Township of West Grey shall be the clerk and council for the purposes of the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Hydro Electric Commission

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Durham Hydro Electric Commission, unless earlier dissolved, is dissolved and all assets, liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, and all by-laws and resolutions, of the commission become the assets, liabilities, rights and obligations, including employees, and by-laws and resolutions, of the new municipality.
    2. Nothing in this section has the effect of authorizing The Durham 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.
    3. If assets of The Durham Hydro Electric Commission are sold or if shares of a corporation, as defined in the Business Corporations Act, that provides hydro service to the former Town of Durham are sold, any proceeds of the sale that are received by the new municipality shall be paid into a special reserve to be established and maintained by the new municipality and, subject to subsection
    4. the reserve shall be used only for the benefit of the ratepayers in the geographic area of the former Town of Durham.
    5. Proceeds of a sale mentioned in subsection (3) that have been received and paid into a separate reserve by the former Town of Durham and that become the assets of the new municipality under section 11 shall be deemed to be proceeds received by the new municipality for the purpose of subsection (3).
    6. Liabilities of The Durham Hydro Electric Commission that become the liabilities of the new municipality shall be charged first against the reserve under subsection (3) established by the new municipality.

Library Boards

    1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of West Grey Public Library Board and the Town of Durham Public Library Board are dissolved.
    2. On January 1, 2001, a public library board is established for the new municipality bearing the name “The Corporation of the Township of West Grey Public Library Board”.
    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).

Cemetery

  1. The Durham Cemetery Board is continued as a local board of the new municipality.

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.

Police Services Board

    1. The police services board of the former Town of Durham 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 Township of West Grey” 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 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 a police services board dissolved under subsection (1).

Area Rating

  1. The new municipality may provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of the former municipalities for the purpose of providing police services if those services were provided on December 31, 2000.

Assets and Liabilities

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

Municipal By-laws

    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 and resolutions of the new municipality and its local boards and are applicable to the same geographic area that they applied to on December 31, 2000.
    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 municipality.
    3. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to adopt an official plan or an amendment to an official plan under the Planning Act or to enact a by-law under the Planning Act, and the official plan, official plan amendment or the by-law is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures to adopt the official plan or the amendment to the official plan or to enact the by-law.

Employees

    1. An employee who held a non-bargaining unit position with a former municipality or one of its local boards and who will be employed by the new municipality or one of 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 at the former municipality or its local boards.
    2. An employee who held a bargaining unit position with a former municipality or one of its local boards and who will be employed by the new municipality or one of 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 at the former municipality or its local boards.

Taxes, Charges, 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 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.

Reserves

    1. Reserves and reserve funds and amounts owing to reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves shall become the 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. Prior to January 1, 2001, the former Town of Durham shall contribute to a working fund reserve for the new municipality in the amount of $1,400.00 per $1,000,000.00 of total weighted assessment in the former Town of Durham for the 2000 taxation year.

Transition Board

    1. On the date of this Order, a transition board is established and is constituted a body corporate.
    2. The transition board established under section (1) shall consist of three members of the interim council of the former Township of West Grey, two members of the council of the former Town of Durham, and one member of the council of the County who shall act as the Chair of the transition board.
    3. Each member of the transition board shall have one vote.
    4. As soon as practicable, the transition board shall adopt procedural rules and financial and administrative controls to govern its activities.
    5. The amount of any per diem rate to be paid to a member of the transition board shall be determined and paid by the former municipality or the County that appointed the member to the board.
    6. The transition board established under subsection (1) may exercise the following powers:
      1. allocate 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 the former municipalities according to each municipality’s share of the cost based on the total weighted assessment, except where the board determines that a cost has been incurred to benefit solely one, but not both of the former municipalities, in which case, the cost should be attributed on a proportional basis to the benefitting municipality;
      2. establish and adopt transition plans for 2000, including a budget for implementing those plans;
      3. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      4. require 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, policies, and adopt by-laws and budgets, and other documents for the new municipality;
      6. offer employment to permanent employees of the former municipalities and their local boards with the new municipality and its local boards, which may include inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or such other benefits as are necessary to fill the positions in the new municipality and its local boards, or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new municipality for 2001;
      7. in the absence of a suitable candidate among the permanent employees of the former municipalities and their local boards, offer employment with the new municipality and its local boards to persons other than those mentioned in clause (f);
      8. issue notices of layoff or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice or compensation as required;
      9. negotiate and enter into agreements where necessary with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new municipality;
      10. approve the negotiations of, and 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;
      11. determine and establish the locations of all work sites for the new municipality;
      12. 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;
      13. approve the financial expenditures of the former municipalities in excess of $10,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating or capital budgets for 2000, including non-cash transactions such as the exchange of assets with external parties.
    7. Notwithstanding the powers the transition board may exercise under subsection (6)(a) through (1), the powers of the transition board are restricted to advisory only to the new council from the date of the municipal elections to December 31, 2000.
    8. The transition board ceases to exist on December 31, 2000.

Dispute Resolution

    1. A dispute arising out of the interpretation of the Minister’s Order may be resolved through mediation.
    2. The mediator must be approved by a majority of the members of the transition board established under subsection 16(1).
    3. If the former municipalities are unable to select a mediator or to resolve the dispute through the mediation process, the matter shall be referred to an arbitrator, whose decision shall be final, and the appointment of the arbitrator and the conduct of the arbitration will be governed by the Arbitration Act, 1991.
    4. The costs associated with mediation or arbitration shall be shared equally between the two former municipalities.

Tony Clement,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Dated at Toronto this 21st day of February, 2000.

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

County Of Lambton
Township Of Sombra And The Township Of Moore

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

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

“former municipality” means The Corporation of the Township of Sombra as it exists prior to January 1, 2001 or The Corporation of the Township of Moore as it exists prior to January 1, 2001, as the context requires;

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

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

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

“new Township” means the municipality established under section 2.

Municipal Restructuring

  1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Sombra and The Corporation of the Township of Moore are amalgamated as a township municipality under the name of “The Corporation of the Township of St. Clair”.

Name Change

    1. The name of the new Township may be changed by order by the Minister upon a request to the Minister made by the transition board established under section 17 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 under this Order may be changed by order by the Minister, to reflect a change in the name of the new Township made under subsection (1), upon a request to the Minister made by the transition board established under section 17 following the adoption or a resolution by the transition board approving the name being requested.

Wards

  1. On January 1, 2001, the new Township is divided into two wards to be named Moore Ward and Sombra Ward, which are described as follows:
    1. Moore Ward shall be composed of the area encompassed by the former Township of Moore.
    2. Sombra Ward shall be composed of the area encompassed by the former Township of Sombra.

Representation

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the council of the new Township shall be composed of seven members consisting of:
      1. a head of council, to be known as the mayor, who shall be elected by general vote of the electors of the new Township;
      2. a deputy mayor, who shall be elected by general vote of the electors of the new Township;
      3. five members, three to be elected from Moore Ward and two to be elected from Sombra Ward.
    2. Each member of council shall have one vote.
    3. The mayor and the deputy mayor of the new Township shall sit on County council.
    4. The mayor shall have 3 votes and the deputy mayor shall have 2 votes on County council.

Elections

    1. The 2000 regular municipal election shall be conducted as if the wards under section 4 and the composition of the council of the new Township under section 5 had already been established.
    2. The clerk and the council of the former Township of Moore shall be the clerk and the council responsible for conducting the 2000 regular municipal election for the new Township under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Terms of Office

    1. The terms of office of the members of the current councils for the former Township of Moore and the former Township of Sombra and their local boards shall be extended to December 31, 2000.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the new Township elected at the 2000 regular municipal election shall commence on January 1, 2001.
    3. Despite subsection (2), the mayor and the deputy mayor of the new Township shall assume office as members of County council at its inaugural meeting following the 2000 regular municipal election as if the new Township was already established.

Community Recreation Centres

  1. On January 1, 2001, the Wilkesport Community Centre Board, the Port Lambton Memorial Hall Board, the Sombra Community Hall Board, the Sombra Athletic Field Board, the Wilkesport Park Board, the Port Lambton Parks Board, the Brigden Community Hall Board and the Courtright Community Hall Board are dissolved.

Police Services Board

    1. On January 1, 2001, the police services board for the former Township of Moore is dissolved.
    2. On January 1, 2001, a police services board for the new Township, to be known as the “Township of St. Clair Police Services Board”, is established.
    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 place of the police services board dissolved under subsection (1).
    5. The new Township 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 to which they applied 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).

Moore Cemetery Board

  1. On January 1, 2001, the “Township of Moore Cemetery Board” is continued.

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 and resolutions of the new Township and its local boards in respect of the area to which they apply.
    2. On January 1, 2001, an official plan or by-law of a former municipality approved under the Planning Act, or a predecessor of that Act, shall be deemed to be an official plan or by-law of the new Township 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 in the same manner as if they had been levied or imposed 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 procedures.

Assets and Liabilities etc

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

Employees

    1. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and who will be employed with the new Township 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 or its local boards.
    2. Employees who held non-bargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and who are offered employment with and will be employed with the new Township or its local boards in a bargaining unit position shall be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service with the former municipality or its local board as if the position held with the former municipality or its local boards had been a bargaining unit position with the new Township or its local boards.

Reserve and Reserve Funds

  1. The reserves and reserve funds, excluding working fund reserves, of a former municipality that are designated by the former municipality for specific purposes, upon being transferred to the new Township under section 13, shall be used only for the benefit of the ratepayers of the geographic area of the former municipality to which they relate and only for the purposes for which they were designated.

Special Rate Adjustments

  1. The new Township shall provide for a special tax rate adjustment upon the rateable property located in the area of a former municipality to pay for:
    1. any surplus or deficit, in an amount exceeding twenty thousand and one dollars ($20,001), attributable to the former municipality prior to January 1, 2001; and
    2. any debts created by the former municipality prior to January 1, 2001 until the debt is retired.

Transition Board

    1. On the date of this Order a transition board is established and is constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The transition board established under subsection (1) shall cease to exist on December 31, 2000.
    3. The transition board shall be composed of the mayors and all members of council of the former municipalities.
    4. The mayors of the former municipalities shall be cochairs of the transition board.
    5. The transition board established under subsection (1) shall adopt procedural rules and systems of controls to govern its activities.

Transition Board Powers

    1. The transition board established under section 17 may exercise the powers specified in subsection (3) that the former municipalities have on the date of this Order and that the new Township will have on January 1, 2001.
    2. The councils of the former municipalities shall not exercise the powers specified in clauses (3)(k), (n), (p), (t) and (u) without the approval of the transition board.
    3. The transition board may exercise the following powers:
      1. establish and adopt a transition plan for the period from the establishment of the board until and including December 31, 2000 including a budget for implementing that plan;
      2. allocate costs for transition activities, including direct and indirect costs for the operation of the transition board, the new Township, employee voluntary exit payments and severance payments made prior to January 1, 2001, to the former municipality’s share of the cost based on assessment except where the transition board determines that a cost has been incurred to benefit solely one of the former municipalities in which case the cost shall be allocated to the benefitting municipality;
      3. identify and establish the staff positions necessary for interim municipal administration during 2000;
      4. conduct studies, research and consultations regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      5. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      6. adopt and establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions, policies, and adopt by-laws and budgets and other documents for the new Township;
      7. establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new Township;
      8. appoint municipal employees from the former municipalities to positions with the new Township for the purpose of organizing and implementing a fully operational municipal organization;
      9. determine and establish the locations of all work sites for the new Township;
      10. approve those expenditures, execute such contracts and act as the employer for each of the former municipalities for transition purposes;
      11. 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 Township or termination of employment and ensure their fair application;
      12. negotiate, and enter into agreements where necessary, with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities and the new Township;
      13. identify, select and appoint employees to the new Township and establish mechanisms for carrying out these functions;
      14. offer employment or approve the offers of employment of permanent full time employees of the former municipalities with the new Township or offer inducements to terminate employment, severance allowances, training assistance or such other benefits as are necessary, to fill the positions in the new Township or to meet the requirements of the budget of the new Township for 2001;
      15. offer employment, where positions exist within the new Township 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. review and approve all financial expenditures of the former municipalities in excess of $25,000 that are not included in the approved municipal operating or capital budgets of 1999-2000, including non-cash transactions such as the exchange of assets with external parties;
      17. purchase, lease or dispose of any asset of a former municipality or, if time does not permit the board to purchase, lease or dispose of any asset of a former municipality, recommend the purchase, lease or disposal of any asset of a former municipality to the council of the new Township;
      18. establish an electronic or manual information system, records and books of accounts for the new Township and for the operation of the transition board;
      19. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      20. approve any debentures issued by a former municipality;
      21. approve the disposal or transfer of any reserves, reserve funds or working fund reserves of a former municipality which existed on the date of this Order;
      22. prepare a draft 2001 budget for the consideration of the council of the new Township;
      23. prepare a report for the consideration of the council of the new Township regarding the integration of all local boards and committees, either as independent boards or committees or merged with the new Township, 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 Township;
      24. retain employees, advisors and consultants for the purposes of the transition board and accrue expenses on behalf of the transition board and its employees, advisors and consultants; and
      25. request a change to the name of the new Township, or a local board of the new Township, in accordance with section 3.

Dispute Resolution

  1. Where a dispute arises with respect to any issue arising out of the interpretation of this Order, either of the former municipalities may,
    1. refer the matter in dispute to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991; or
    2. defer the matter to the council of the new Township subsequent to January 1, 2001, for resolution.

Tony Clement,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Dated at Toronto this 21st day of February, 2000.

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

County Of Huron
Township Of Morris, Township Of Turnberry

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

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

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

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

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

“new municipality” means the township municipality established under section 2.

Municipal Restructuring

  1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Morris and The Corporation of the Township of Turnberry are amalgamated as a township municipality under the name of “The Corporation of the Municipality of Morris-Turnberry”.

Wards

  1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality is divided into two wards which may be described as follows:
    1. Ward M consists of the former Township of Morris; and
    2. Ward T consists of the former Township of Turnberry.

Representation

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the council of the new municipality shall be composed of seven members, consisting of,
      1. a head of council, to be known as the mayor, who shall be elected by general vote of the electors of the new municipality; and
      2. six additional members:
        1. three of whom shall be elected from Ward T; and
        2. three of whom shall be elected from Ward M to be known as councillors.
      3. a deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy mayor, who shall hold the qualification as set out in subsection (5), and who shall be appointed by the council under subsection 69(3) of the Municipal Act from among the members of council elected under clause 4(1)(b)(i) or 4(1)(b)(ii).
  2. Each member of the council of the new municipality shall have one vote.
  3. The mayor and, subject to the provisions of the County council representation by- law, the deputy mayor and any additional members of council shall sit on County council.
  4. The qualifications that must be satisfied for a member of council to act in the place of the head of council are that:
    1. the member must not reside in the same ward in which the head of council resides; and
    2. the member shall be the one who polled the largest number of votes in the ward during the last regular municipal election.
  5. In the absence of the member qualified under subsection 4(2)(c), or where all candidates for the ward identified in subsection 4(5)(a) are acclaimed to office, the deputy mayor shall be appointed by the council under subsection 69(3) of the Municipal Act from among the members qualified under subsection 4(5)(a).

Terms

    1. The terms of office of the members of the council of the new municipality elected at the 2000 regular election shall commence on January 1, 2001.
    2. The terms of office of the members of the former municipalities and their local boards are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. Despite subsections (1) and (2), for the sole purpose of representing the new municipality on County council, the terms of the members of council as set out in subsection 4(4) shall on commence on December 1, 2000.

Election

    1. The 2000 regular election in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the restructuring under section 2 and the division of the new municipality into wards under section 3 had already occurred.
    2. The clerk and the council of the former Township of Morris shall be the clerk and the council responsible for conducting the 2000 regular election for the new municipality under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Local Boards

    1. The Bluevale Cemetery Board and the Blyth Union Cemetery Board are continued as cemetery boards of the new municipality.
    2. The Belgrave Community Centre Board, the Belmore Arena Committee, the Bluevale Hall Board, the Bluevale Recreation Association, the Brussels, Morris and Grey Community Centre Board and the Blyth and District Community Centre Board are continued as local boards of the new municipality.

Fire Departments

  1. The new municipality may have more than one fire department and may have a fire chief for each department.

By-laws and Resolutions

    1. On January 1, 2001, subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), all by-laws and resolutions of the former municipalities and their local boards are continued and deemed to be by-laws and resolutions of the new municipality and unless earlier repealed or amended or unless they earlier expire.
    2. On January 1, 2001, zoning by-laws and official plans of the former municipalities approved under the Planning Act are deemed to be zoning by-laws and official plans of the new municipality and shall remain in force until amended or repealed under the Planning Act.
    3. Nothing in this section authorizes the amendment or repeal of a by-law or resolution that could not have been amended or repealed by the former municipality or local board that passed it.
    4. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act or adopt an official plan or amendment to an official plan under the Planning Act, and the by-law, official plan, or official plan amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Assets and Liabilities

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

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied, imposed or assessed under any 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 municipality and may be collected by the new municipality in the same manner as if they had been levied, imposed or assessed 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.

Reserves and Reserve Funds

    1. Reserves and reserve funds, excluding the working fund reserve, of the former municipalities 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 municipalities on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipalities.
    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 capital reserve of $300,000 shall be established for the new municipality, and will be funded by each of the former municipalities equally.
  2. The amount by which the working capital reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded, as defined in paragraph (3) above, shall be used by the municipality for the benefit of the ratepayers in the area of that former municipality.
  3. If the amount contributed by a former municipality toward the working capital reserve of the new municipality is less than that required in paragraph (3), 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. On the date of this Order a transition board is established and is constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The transition board shall cease to exist on December 31, 2000.
    3. The transition board shall be composed of ten members, being all the members of the councils of the former municipalities.
    4. The transition board may exercise the powers specified in subsection (6) that the former municipalities have and that the new municipality will have on and after January 1, 2001.
    5. The councils of the former municipalities shall not exercise the powers specified in clauses (h), (k) and (o) of subsection (6) without the approval of the transition board.
    6. The transition board may exercise the following powers:
      1. adopt transition plans for 2000, including preliminary budgets to establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new municipal organization;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultation regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions and policies, and adopt the necessary by-laws and other documents for the new municipality;
      4. approve expenditures, execute contracts and act as the employer for each of the former municipalities where necessary for transition purposes;
      5. establish the positions and offices necessary for transition purposes for municipal administration;
      6. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for its own operations;
      7. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      8. purchase, lease or dispose of any assets of a former municipality or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality where the asset has a value in excess of $5,000 except where provided for in the 1999 or 2000 municipal budget;
      9. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      10. retain employees, officers and advisors on behalf of the transition board and incur expenses in connection with the transition board’s operations and its employees’ and agents’ board-related employment duties and activities;
      11. issue debentures on behalf of the former municipalities or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality;
      12. attribute costs for transitional activities, including direct and indirect costs for the operation of the transition board and the new municipality, employee voluntary exit payments and severance payments made in 1999 and 2000, to the former municipalities in equal shares, except where the transition board determines that:
        1. a cost has been incurred to benefit one of the former municipalities solely, in which case costs shall be attributed, as determined by the transition board, to the benefitting municipality, or
        2. a cost has been incurred that is administrative in nature which shall be equally divided and equally paid by each former municipality.
      13. give notices to layoff, or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation, as required;
      14. establish mechanisms for identifying, selecting and appointing employees to the new municipality;
      15. negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities, or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality;
      16. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment or termination of employment and ensure their fair application by December 30, 2000, including ensuring that employees that held nonbargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a nonbargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service;
      17. ensure that employees of the former municipalities and their local boards as of December 30, 2000, shall become employees of the new municipality or its local boards.

Dispute Resolution

  1. If a dispute arises with respect to any issue arising out of the interpretation of this Order any of the parties may,
    1. refer the matter in dispute to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991; or
    2. defer the matter to the council of the new municipality subsequent to January 1, 2001, for resolution.

Tony Clement,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Dated at Toronto this 21st day of February, 2000.

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

County Of Huron
Township Of Ashfield
Township Of West Wawanosh
Township Of Colborne

Definitions

  1. In this Order,

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

“former municipalities” means The Corporation of the Township of Ashfield, The Corporation of the Township of West Wawanosh and The Corporation of The Township of Colborne as they exist prior to January 1, 2001;

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

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

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

“new municipality” means the township municipality established under section 2.

Municipal Restructuring

  1. On January 1, 2001, The Corporation of the Township of Ashfield, The Corporation of the Township of West Wawanosh and The Corporation of the Township of Colborne are amalgamated as a township municipality under the name of “The Corporation of the Township of Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh”

Wards

  1. Effective January 1, 2001, the new municipality is divided into three wards which may be described as follows:
    1. The Ashfield Ward consists of the former Township of Ashfield;
    2. The Colborne Ward consists of the former Township of Colborne; and
    3. The Wawanosh Ward consists of the former Township of West Wawanosh.

Representation

    1. Effective January 1, 2001, the council of the new municipality shall be composed of seven 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 municipality; and
      2. six additional members, two of whom shall be elected from each of the Ashfield, Colborne and Wawanosh Wards, to be known as councillors.
    2. A deputy head of council, to be known as the deputy reeve, shall be appointed by council under subsection 69(3) of the Municipal Act from among the members of council elected under clause 4(1)(b), to act from time to time in 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. Each member of the council of the new municipality shall have one vote.
    4. The reeve and, subject to the provisions of the County council representation by- law, the deputy reeve and any additional members of council shall sit on County council.

Terms

    1. The terms of office of the members of the council of the new municipality elected at the 2000 regular election shall commence on January 1, 2001.
    2. The terms of office of the members of council of the former municipalities are extended until December 31, 2000.
    3. Despite subsections (1) and (2), for the sole purpose of representing the new municipality on County council, the terms of office of the members of council as set out in subsection 4(4) shall on commence on December 1, 2000.

Election

    1. The 2000 regular election in the former municipalities shall be conducted as if the restructuring under section 2 and the division of the new municipality into wards under section 3 had already occurred.
    2. The clerk and the council of the former Township of Ashfield shall be the clerk and the council responsible for conducting the 2000 regular election for the new municipality under the Municipal Elections Act, 1996.

Local Boards

    1. The terms of office of members of local boards from the former municipalities are extended to December 31, 2000.
    2. The Colborne Cemetery Board is continued as a cemetery board of the new municipality.
    3. On January 1, 2001, the Dungannon Recreation Board, the Recreation Committee of the former Township of Ashfield and the Recreation Committee of the former Township of Colborne are dissolved.

Fire Departments

  1. The new municipality may have more than one fire department and may have a fire chief for each department.

By-laws and Resolutions

    1. On January 1, 2001, subject to subsections (2), (3) and (4), all by-laws and resolutions of the former municipalities and their local boards are continued and deemed to be by-laws and resolutions of the new municipality until repealed or amended by the council of the new municipality or until they expire.
    2. On January 1, 2001, zoning by-laws and official plans of the former municipalities approved under the Planning Act are deemed to be zoning by-laws and official plans of the new municipality and shall remain in force until amended or repealed under the Planning Act.
    3. Nothing in this section authorizes the amendment or repeal of a by-law or resolution that could not have been amended or repealed by the former municipality or local board that passed it.
    4. If a former municipality has commenced procedures to enact a by-law under any Act or adopt an official plan or amendment to an official plan under the Planning Act, and the by-law, official plan, or official plan amendment is not in force on January 1, 2001, the new municipality may continue the procedures.

Assets and Liabilities

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

Taxes

    1. All taxes, charges and rates levied, imposed or assessed under any 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 municipality and may be collected by the new municipality in the same manner as if they had been levied, imposed or assessed 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.

Tax Rate Adjustment

  1. The new municipality shall provide for a tax rate adjustment in respect of the rateable property located in the geographic area of a former municipality to pay for the debt of the former municipality that was assumed by the new municipality under section 10 if payment of the debt had been provided for out of the general local municipality levy of the former municipality or would have been provided for out of that levy if the restructuring had not occurred.

Reserves and Reserve Funds

    1. Reserves and reserve funds, excluding the working fund reserve, of the former municipalities 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 municipalities on or before December 31, 2000, for the benefit of the ratepayers of the former municipalities.
    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 capital reserve of $645,000 shall be established for the new municipality, and will be funded by the former municipalities based on the percentage of their weighted taxable assessment for the 2001 taxation year.
    4. The amount by which the working capital reserve for each of the former municipalities exceeds the amount to be funded, as defined in subsection (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 toward the working capital reserve of the new municipality is less than that required in paragraph (3), 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. On the date of this order a transition board is established and is constituted as a body corporate.
    2. The transition board shall cease to exist on December 31, 2000.
    3. The transition board shall be composed of six members, being the reeve of each of the former municipalities and one member from the council of each of the former municipalities appointed by the council of that municipality.
    4. The transition board may exercise the powers specified in subsection (6) that the former municipalities have and that the new municipality will have on and after January 1, 2001.
    5. The councils of the former municipalities shall not exercise the powers specified in clauses (h), (k) and (o) of subsection (6) without the approval of the transition board.
    6. The transition board may exercise the following powers:
      1. adopt transition plans for 2000, including preliminary budgets to establish a fully operational municipal organization which shall, on January 1, 2001, become the new municipal organization;
      2. conduct studies, research and consultation regarding municipal functions, organizations, staffing, standards and performance;
      3. establish organizational structures, administrative and management systems, positions, preliminary job definitions, job descriptions and policies, and adopt the necessary by-laws and other documents for the new municipality;
      4. approve expenditures, execute contracts and act as the employer for each of the former municipalities where necessary for transition purposes;
      5. establish the positions and offices necessary for transition purposes for municipal administration;
      6. establish electronic or manual information systems, records and books of accounts for the new municipality and for its own operations;
      7. establish and implement communication plans for employees and the public;
      8. purchase, lease or dispose of any assets of a former municipality or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality where the asset has a value in excess of $25,000, except where provided for in the 1999 or 2000 municipal budget;
      9. require the production of financial and other data, information and statistics from each of the former municipalities and their local boards;
      10. retain employees, officers and advisors on behalf of the transition board and incur expenses in connection with the transition board’s operations and its employees’ and agents’ board related employment duties and activities;
      11. issue debentures on behalf of the former municipalities or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality including approval of any non budgeted debt exceeding $10,000. Debentures issued for tile drainage loans shall not need the approval of the board.
      12. attribute costs for transition activities, including direct and indirect costs for the operation of the transition board and the new municipality, employee voluntary exit payments and severance payments made in 2000, to the former municipalities based on the percentage of their weighted taxable assessment for the 2000 taxation year, except where the transition board determines that:
        1. a cost has been incurred to benefit one of the former municipalities solely, in which case costs shall be attributed, as determined by the transition board, to the benefitting municipality, or
        2. a cost has been incurred to benefit more than one but not all of the former municipalities, in which case costs as determined by the transition board shall be attributed in equal shares to the benefitting municipalities, or
        3. a cost has been incurred that is administrative in nature which shall be equally divided and equally paid by each former municipality.
      13. give notices to layoff, or provide for severance or compensation in lieu of notice or both notice and compensation, as required;
      14. establish mechanisms for identifying, selecting and appointing employees to the new municipality including ensuring that employees that held nonbargaining unit positions with a former municipality or its local boards and will be employed by the new municipality or its local boards, in a nonbargaining unit position, will be credited with seniority at a rate of one hundred percent of the employee’s length of service;
      15. negotiate and enter into agreements with employees and groups of employees of the former municipalities, or approve the exercise of this power by a former municipality;
      16. establish uniform policies relating to offers of employment or termination of employment and ensure their fair application by December 31, 2000;
      17. ensure that employees of the former municipalities and their local boards as of December 31, 2000 shall become employees of the new municipality or its local boards.
      18. appoint all senior staff of the new municipality. A senior staff appointment requires a majority vote of the transition board plus one vote. In the absence of a majority plus one decision, the transition board shall engage the services of a neutral party(s) from outside the County, with sufficient knowledge of the position(s) to assist in the evaluation of the best qualified candidate and shall make the appropriate recommendations to the board.

Dispute Resolution

  1. If a dispute arises with respect to any issue arising out of the interpretation of this order any of the parties may,
    1. refer the matter in dispute to arbitration in accordance with the provisions of the Arbitration Act, 1991; or
    2. defer the matter to the council of the new municipality subsequent to January 1, 2001, for resolution.

Tony Clement,
Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing.
Dated at Toronto this 21st day of February, 2000.
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