Council Meeting

THAT the Middlesex County local council update 2025 presentation be received for information.

THAT the regular council meeting minutes of August 5, 2025 and special meeting minutes of August 15, 2025 be approved as circulated.

THAT Consent items 9.1 through 9.14 listed on the September 2, 2025 agenda be received for information.

THAT Council receive and file correspondence items 10.1 through 10.8.

THAT Report No. CAO-19-2025 be received for information; AND FURTHER THAT the Council of the Township of Lucan Biddulph authorize staff to proceed with the hiring of a Director of Emergency Services/Fire Chief, under a one-year contract, to oversee the dissolution of both the Lucan Biddulph Fire Area Board and the Biddulph-Blanshard Fire Area Board; AND FURTHER THAT the new Director of Emergency Services/Fire Chief bring forward recommendations regarding:  New Establishing and Regulating By-law;  Levels of service;  Staffing complement;  Equipment complement;  Training; and  Health & Safety.

THAT report no. CAO-20-2025 regarding disposal of surplus lands be received for information; AND FURTHER THAT Council instruct staff to retain that portion of the deemed surplus lands that contain trees planted in 2021 under the ABCA.

THAT report # CL-05-2025 be received for information; AND FURTHER that Council repeals the following policies:  200-01 Participation in Grants  200-11 Mechanism for By-law approval  200-12 Lottery Licensing  300-02 Street Upgrading Program  300-03 Restoration of Property by outside utilities  300-11 Use of Township Equipment and Staff  300-12 Inspection of Playground Equipment  300-13 Inspection of Maintenance of all public buildings  300-14 Inspection of Signs, Sidewalks and roads  300-15 Municipal Road Name sign replacement  300-16 Tile Drain Loan Applications  300-22 Replacement of Blue Boxes  300-24 Stump Removal  400-01 Water Meter installation multiple residents  400-05 Requests for Water Shut-Off  400-06 Sanitary Sewer Contamination  400-09 Tenant Water-Sewer Deposits  400-11 Plowing and parked vehicles on roadway  400-12 mailbox replacement  400-13 snow removal priority - roads and sidewalks  400-15 tenant water account  500-01 Township crest policy  500-02 Township pin policy  500-04 Township office key policy  500-06 Animal Control  500-07 By-law Enforcement Officer

THAT report no. FIN-09-2025 be received for information.

THAT the Council of the Township of Lucan Biddulph confirms acceptance of the following resolution passed by the County of Middlesex on July 8, 2025: THAT the County Road and Bridge Assumption Study report be received for information; AND THAT a by-law be introduced to authorize the transfer of the roads identified in Appendix “A” of the 2025 County Road & Bridge Assumption Study to the County of Middlesex, upon receipt of resolutions passed by the Council of each affected local municipality: a. authorizing the transfer of the highway; b. confirming there is no debt on the highway, or agreeing to pay all amounts due in respect of the highway that would otherwise become the County’s obligation pursuant to section 53(b) the Municipal Act, 2001; and c. agreeing to pay the County for the capital and maintenance costs of the highway as outlined in Appendix “A” of the 2025 County Road & Bridge Assumption Study. (For Lucan Biddulph, $37,620.00 to be invoiced in 2026.)

THAT By-law 32-2025 be read a first, second and third and final time and BE ADOPTED.

RESOLVED that the Council meeting be adjourned at 6:45 p.m.