Body: EOWC Type: Agenda Meeting: Regular Date: May 24, 2024 Collection: Council Agendas Municipality: Frontenac County
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EOWC CAOs’ Special Meeting Agenda Friday, May 24, 2024 – 9:00 a.m. Shire Hall Committee Room 332 Picton Main St. Picton, ON K0K 2T0
Agenda Page 1.
Call to Order/Welcome
Approval of Agenda 2.1 Agenda of the May 24, 2024 Eastern Ontario Wardens’ Caucus CAOs' Special Meeting Recommended Motion “That the Agenda of the May 24, 2024 Special Meeting be adopted as circulated.”
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New / Other Business 3.1 Housing for All in Eastern Ontario – All 7 in 7 Regional Housing Plan: Business Plan Advocacy strategy for AMO 2024 EORN’s role moving forward 3.2
AMO 2024 Delegation Meeting Requests – All Multi-Ministry Individual Ministry
Next Meeting Friday, June 21, 2024 County of Hastings
Adjournment Recommended Motion “That the EOWC CAOs’ Special Meeting be adjourned.”
EOWC
HOUSING FOR ALL In April 2024, the Eastern Ontario Wardens Caucus (EOWC) received the Business Plan for the EOWC 7 in 7+ Regional Housing Plan submitted by the Eastern Ontario Regional Network. At the April 26th meeting of the EOWC, the following motion was passed: That the 7 in 7 Regional Housing Plan: Business Plan developed by EORN as per the direction of the EOWC be brought forward to the EOWC in-advance of the meeting on April 26, 2024; That the EOWC receive the Business Plan with thanks to EORN; That the EOWC direct CAOs and EOWC staff to work on leveraging components of the Business Plan and bring recommendations to the caucus including an advocacy strategy for AMO; AND That the EOWC work with EORN to identify and solidify a role for EORN to support regional housing priorities. As next steps, a working group of EOWC CAOs was established and met with the mandate to recommend next steps on housing efforts within the EOWC to the CAO group as a whole. Through fulsome review of the Business Plan and through in-depth conversations, the working group has determined that the recommended avenue to move forward is to create two forums of focus within the housing discussion that run parallel to one another, while working towards an overarching theme of creating Housing for All in Eastern Ontario. These two forums of focus can be delineated when looking at the housing continuum.
FIRST FORUM OF FOCUS
SECOND FORUM OF FOCUS
The first forum of focus is based on the early stages of the housing continuum that includes the homelessness serving system and social housing, whereas the second forum of focus is based on the housing environment as a whole with the intent of the EOWC to create a culture of pro smart-development within Eastern Ontario.
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EOWC If supported in moving towards this direction, a list of actions that fit within each of these forums of focus will be finalized to be implemented by the EOWC. These actions, which include concrete advocacy measures, will feed into the overarching “EOWCs Housing for All” efforts. HOUSING FOR ALL GUIDING PRINCIPLES Eastern Ontario requires significant investment from our Federal and Provincial partners to create new housing Eastern Ontario municipalities will work as a region to streamline and improve the housing development process to demonstrate that municipalities are not a barrier to development Eastern Ontario will embrace innovative technology and solutions to bolster housing supply Eastern Ontario will support the creation of housing through the use of existing municipal lands while working alongside the Federal and Provinicial government to make their surplus lands available
FIRST FORUM OF FOCUS Utilize municipal lands for the development of intervention housing Advocate for a new funding model for operating costs of Social Housing Coordinate local By-Name Lists amongst EOWC Service Managers Advocate for Provincial support to municipalities in managing End of Operating Agreements Advocate for Rent Scales to be updated under the HSA Advocate for the Homelessness Prevention Program (HPP) to include rural component in funding formula Advocate for increased funding through COCHI/OPHI Allocations Advocate for the creation of a new funding pot, that is specific to the creation of new Community Housing units Advocate for Service Managers to be part of the bi-lateral agreement discussions with the Fed/Prov
SECOND FORUM OF FOCUS Implement regional delivery approach on issues such epermitting, land use planning and procurement of services Advocacy for increased funding for Infrastructure within Eastern Ontario Advocacy to permit private developers to receive OPHI funding Advocacy to solidify Build Faster Fund Rural Component EOWC members to pre-develop municipal land for housing development EOWC to incorporate an Economic Development Lens to Housing
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