Special Council

That Council ratify the Memorandum of Settlement with Unifor Local 1256 dated January 31, 2014; recognizing the economic adjustment is within the approved 2014 Budget. 2. That the agreement be executed in accordance with By-law 2013-057.

WHEREAS Council has since 2008 explored opportunities to expand the Greenbelt within the Town of Oakville; WHEREAS the town and the Region of Halton had completed a study of the town’s natural area and natural heritage lands to determine whether the lands would meet the Growing the Greenbelt criteria; WHEREAS it was concluded that the existing Greenbelt plan would need to contain additional policies to reflect an urban context in order to provide the same level of protection as the regional and town policies; WHEREAS the Province of Ontario most recently, in 2012, responded to the town’s request and created the new urban river valley designations for publicly-owned lands and grew the greenbelt to include the Glenorchy lands as an urban river valley; and WHEREAS the Region of Halton has recently received approval of the Natural Heritage System within the Regional Official Plan through ROPA 38 which clearly identifies the Fourteen Mile Creek system south of Upper Middle Road, north of the QEW as natural heritage; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Council continue to pursue the growing of the Greenbelt and specifically request that the region endorse the addition of the publicly-owned natural heritage lands as well as publicly-owned valley lands and town parks, generally south of Upper Middle Road to QEW, as identified on the attached map, to the Greenbelt Plan, designated as Urban River Valley; THAT the region request the province to include these lands within the Greenbelt Plan; a

That the following by-law(s) be passed: 2014-034 A by-law to confirm the proceedings of a meeting of Council.