Special Council Meeting Agenda

Monday, April 14, 2025 at 5:00 P.m. - 7:00 P.m.

Location: Essex Municipal Building, 33 Talbot Street South

Location: Essex Municipal Building, 33 Talbot Street South and by livestream at https://www.youtube.com/@EssexOntario​

 

Accessible formats or communication supports are available upon request.  Please contact the Clerk’s Office at [email protected] or 519-776-7336 extension 1100 or 1101.​​

 

This meeting is being held for the purpose of Council having a roundtable discussion on various departmental matters in the Town of Essex. As part of this meeting, it is expected that Council will move by resolution into a Committee of the Whole format which is the entire membership of Council but now sitting as a Committee in a less formal format without strict adherence to the usual procedural rules that govern Council meetings. While sitting as a Committee of the Whole no formal actions can be taken as the Committee can only make recommendations that would still need to be introduced, considered and adopted as part of a formal Council meeting.

 

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1.

Call to Order

2.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledge that this land is the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations (comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi Peoples), and of the Huron-Wendat Peoples. We value the significant historical and contemporary contributions of local and regional First Nations and all of the Original Peoples of Turtle Island who have been living and working on the land from time immemorial.

3.

Declarations of Conflict of Interest

4.

Adoption of Published Agenda

4.1

Special Council Meeting Agenda for April 14, 2025

• That the published agenda for the April 14, 2025 Special Council Meeting be adopted as presented / amended.

5.

Move into the Committee of the Whole

• That ________________ be appointed as presiding officer of the Committee of the Whole:

  That the presiding officer as appointed shall have the discretion and/or authority to modify, relax or amend any of the procedural rules currently governing Council proceedings except as may be otherwise herein by Council; and

  Further that upon the completion of the Committee of the Whole, the Special Council meeting shall reconvene and the presiding officer of the Committee of the Whole shall then Rise and Report to Council any Recommendations to Council that were made by resolution of the Committee of the Whole.

• That Council now move into Committee of the Whole for a period of time not to exceed 7:00 P.M. so as to consider the items identified in the Committee of the Whole Agenda dated April 14, 2025, and attached hereto as Schedule "A" with such items to be discussed based on the order of priorities identified by the Council Members.

6.

Matters arising from Committee of the Whole

• That Council receive the Report of the Presiding Officer of the Committee of the Whole and that Council adopt the noted recommendations of the Committee of the Whole.

7.

Adjournment

• That the meeting be adjourned at __________.