Regular Council

THAT the agenda for the December 10, 2025 Regular Council meeting be accepted with the addition of 1 item under "Items for Consideration".

THAT Council receive the presentation from Brad McNevin;

WHEREAS the Ministry of the Environment, Conservation and Parks has posted Environmental Registry Notice No. 025-1257 (Proposed Boundaries for the Regional Consolidation of Ontario’s Conservation Authorities), proposing to reduce Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities to 7 regional entities as part of a broader restructuring that would create a new Ontario Provincial Conservation Agency to provide centralized oversight and direction under the Conservation Authorities Act; and WHEREAS under this proposal, the Quinte Conservation Authority (QCA) would be merged into a new “Eastern Lake Ontario Conservation Authority” together with:  Central Lake Ontario CA  Kawartha Region CA  Otonobee Region CA  Ganaraska Region CA Page 2 of 5 Regular Council December 10, 2025  Lower Trent Region CA  Crowe Valley CA Forming a single organization stretching from Oshawa, Kawartha Lakes, Hastings County, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory and areas within Lennox & Addington. WHEREAS the Quinte Conservation Board and the Municipality of the Town of Deseronto acknowledges and supports the provincial goals of improved efficiency, consistency and fiscal prudence in conservation delivery; but find the proposed “Eastern Lake Ontario Regional Conservation Authority configuration would: 1. Create a geographically vast and administratively complex entity, joining northern, rural and fast-growing south-eastern municipalities through the province with little shared watershed connection or economic alignment;

THAT the Town Manager's report in item 6.3 be discussed under 7.1

THAT the minutes of the November 26, 2025 Regular meeting of Council be accepted; FURTHER THAT Schedule of Accounts numbered 19-2025 in the amount of $80,403.76 be approved for payment; FURTHER THAT the Building Inspection Services Board report for the month of November 2025 be received; FURTHER THAT the letter from the Hon. Robert J. Flack regarding Bill 17 be received; FURTHER THAT the Eastern Ontario Regional Network Cell Gap Report for November 2025 be received; AND FURTHER THAT the letter from Waste Management regarding sampling at the Richmond Landfill be received.

THAT Council receive the report entitled 2026 Auditing Services - Request for Proposal, as presented;

That Council defer the draft MOU to the January meeting of Council.

THAT Council receive the Town's Manager's verbal report of the Public Works vacancy; FURTHER THAT Council authorize the Town Manager to advertise an Open posting of the vacant position; AND FURTHER THAT the Town Manager be authorized to interview after one week and hire as soon as possible.

THAT By-law 65-2025, being a by-law to confirm the proceedings of the December 10, 2025 Regular Council meeting, having been read a first, second and third time, be assigned a number and finally passed this 10th day of December 2025.