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Empowering You
© 2010-2012 – Regional Councillor Peter Rodrigues
Your Regional Councillor
Peter RodriguesRegional Councillor, Ward 3
905.420.4605 ext. 4608
email & website
www.YourVoicePickering.ca
City’s website
Peter’s website
www.pickering.ca
Peter’s email
What you will learn.• Who are your Pickering Councillors? Who are your Regional Councillors?
• ……. and what’s the difference?
• How to easily contact your Councillors.
• Maps – Pickering and Durham
• City and Region – Committees, Meetings and Schedules
• Speaking to Council
• General information – Resident Committees, Fact & Figures
• Major Issues – Seaton, Federal Lands, Sewer Pipe, Rouge National Park, Property Taxes, urban sprawl,
speeding cars, and more.
• Pickering vs. Durham – responsibilities
• Road Watch & Neighbourhood Watch
• Customer Care
1811 township
1974 town
2000 city
Pickering
Pickering CouncilWARD 3
WARD 1 WARD 2
Mayor Dave Ryan
Peter Rodrigues David Pickles
Jennifer O’Connell Kevin Ashe Bill McLean Doug Dickerson
Regional
Regional Regional
City
City City
How to contact your Mayor and Councillors
Mayor's OfficeTel.: 905.420.4600Fax: 905.420.6064TTY: 905.420.1739Email: [email protected]
Councillors' OfficeTel.: 905.420.4605Fax: 905.420.6064TTY: 905.420.1739Email:
Pickering – Facts & Figures Population: 95,000 Voters: 65,000
Total number of businesses in Pickering: 3,000 +
Ward 3 – Facts & Figures
Voters: 25,500 Homes: 11,600
Duffin Heights adding 1,036 new homes.
18 kilometres (N to S) by 14 kilometres (W to E) 240 square kilometres = 92 square miles
Duffin Heights
Duffin Heights
Advisory Committees
2013 Council & Committee Meeting Schedule
Start Time 7:00 pm
now
Speaking to Council(delegations)
Every month there is one Council meetingand there are two Standing Committee meetings:
the Planning and Development Committee the Executive Committee
Members of the public who wish to speak to a Standing Committee and/or Council are called delegations. In order to appear before Council, delegations are encouraged to have first appeared before a Standing Committee. Delegations can speak for up to ten minutes. Afterwards, councillors may ask questions.
Speaking to Council(delegations)
If the matter is a statutory planning matter, no formal registration is required for the Planning & Development Committee.
Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on a Standing Committee meeting agenda should register in writing by 12 noon on the day of the meeting.
Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on the Council meeting agenda should register in writing by 12 noon on the day of the meeting.
Request for delegation status are to be sent to the Committee Coordinator at [email protected] or by fax at 905.420.9685 or by dropping off the request at City Hall.
The 8 Municipalities of Durham
Durham Regionestablished 1974
Durham Council
Regional Chair and CEO Roger Anderson
AjaxSteve Parish, Shaun Collier, Colleen Jordan
BrockTerry Clayton, Debbie Bath
ClaringtonAdrian Foster, Mary Novak, Willie Woo
OshawaJohn Henry, John Aker, Bob Chapman, Nancy Diamond, Amy England, Tito-Dante Marimpietri, John Neal, Nester Pidwerbecki
PickeringDave Ryan, Bill McLean, Jennifer O'Connell, Peter Rodrigues
ScugogChuck Mercier, Bobbie Drew
UxbridgeGerri Lynn O'Connor, Jack Ballinger
WhitbyPat Perkins, Lorne Coe, Joe Drumm, Don Mitchell
AJAX
BROCK
CLARINGTON
OSHAWA
PICKERING
SCUGOG
UXBRIDGE
WHITBY
CHAIR
AJAX
BROCK
CLARINGTON
OSHAWA
PICKERING
SCUGOG
UXBRIDGE
WHITBY
3 councillors
2 councillors
3 councillors
8 councillors
4 councillors
2 councillors
84,550
11,350
149,600
109,600 88,700
21,650
20,600
122,000
2 councillors
4 councillors
608,100
Durhampopulation
Standing CommitteesFinance & AdministrationCouncillor Mitchell – ChairCouncillor Chapman – Vice-ChairCouncillor CollierCouncillor DiamondCouncillor DrewCouncillor FosterCouncillor O'Connell
Health & Social ServicesCouncillor Coe – ChairCouncillor England – Vice-ChairCouncillor ClaytonCouncillor NealCouncillor ParishCouncillor RodriguesCouncillor Woo
Planning & Economic DevelopmentCouncillor O'Connor – ChairCouncillor Aker – Vice-ChairCouncillor BathCouncillor DrummCouncillor HenryCouncillor NovakCouncillor Ryan
WorksCouncillor Pidwerbecki – ChairCouncillor Mercier – Vice-ChairCouncillor BallingerCouncillor JordanCouncillor MarimpietriCouncillor McLeanCouncillor Perkins
MAY 2012
DURHAM
REGION
Durham Region – Pickering City
• city roads
• fire services
• economic development
• snow removal
• parks
• recreation (facilities and programs)
• sidewalks
• building permits
• property tax collection
• libraries – are governed separately
• regional roads – 75 kms
• garbage – Miller Waste
• economic development
• health
• social services
• tourism
• police
• water supply
• sewage treatment
• public transit
Issues In Pickering Federal Land Seaton Development York-Durham Sewer System ROPA 128 (north-east Pickering / Greenwood)
Property Taxes Neighbourhood Watch Road Watch Speeding Cars
Your Issues – Questions & Answers
Federal Land (airport land)
Seaton
Important Meeting
Seaton
Rouge National Park
York-Durham Sewer System
York-Durham Sewer System
ROPA 128Regional Official Plan Amendment 128
Property TaxesDurham region tax:54%Pickering city tax: 27% School tax
19%
Who pays the Region’s tax proportionally?
The Region expects to collect $533,496,000 in property taxes from all categories including residents and businesses in 2012.
According to the 2001 census, Durham has a population of 608,124. Property taxes are assessed at different rates for business, residential, farms and government institutions.
Pickering
Percentage of residents:14.6 per cent
Percentage of Regional tax paid: 16.7 per cent
Neighbourhood WatchA community crime prevention program designed to reduce the threat of crime to neighbours or property. This program encourages all residents to be alert to suspicious persons or vehicles and to get to know neighbours.
Lessons in crime prevention are given to participants and Operation Identification is addressed (marking belongings for identification by police).
Approximately 183 watches are currently running in the Durham Region with over 50,000 residents educated on security measures on an ongoing basis.
The DRPS has a Regional Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator who will assist neighbourhoods to form watches. Call 905-668-9893 or view our section on Safety Tips - Neighbourhood Watch, or you can email the Coordinator directly at [email protected] for more information.
Road WatchROAD WATCH is a community based program that is utilized in many towns and cities in Ontario. It is aimed at making drivers more aware of their actions.
The program is run by volunteers who live in our community, and in conjunction with the Durham Regional Police Service. The ROAD WATCH program is active in Oshawa, Whitby, Clarington, Scugog, Ajax, Pickering and Uxbridge.
ROAD WATCH provides residents an opportunity to report dangerous and aggressive driving throughout the Durham Region. If you observe aggressive or dangerous driving, fill out a PDF version of our Citizen’s Report Form and drop it off at one of our ROAD WATCH boxes (listed on the form) or report the incident online using our Online Citizen Report Form .
Aggressive driving may include: Excessive speeding, Tailgating, Failure to stop and any act that puts other drivers at a high risk of collision or injury.
Record as much information as possible. Even if you are unable to record the licence number, submit the form so police have information on high-risk areas in the community. It is important that the form be signed to safeguard the system from abuse. Your personal information is used for statistical purposes only and is held in the strictest of confidence by us.
If a driver is reported more than once, the police will contact that individual regarding the reports. Subsequent offences may result in enforcement action by the police depending on the severity of the incident.
www.drps.ca
Police not Emergency 905 579 1520
Pickering Fire Services
Medical alarms – 2,003 (50%)
Motor vehicle Accident alarms – 683 (17%)
Alarms (no fire, false alarms, defect triggered, mischief) – 386 (10%)
Fire/Smoke – 307 alarms (8%) – Non-Structural fires such as involving burning complaints, grass/bush fires, rubbish and vehicle fires as well as structural fires such as
commercial/industrial fires, residential fires, institution fires.
Other alarms (9-1-1- unknowns, public assist, assist other agencies) – 299 (8%)
Carbon Monoxide alarms – 174 (4%)
Hazard alarms (natural gas leaks, power lines, unknown odour) – 112 (3%)
Rescue (elevators, ice-water) – 14 (0%)
Hazardous Material alarms (spills and leaks) – 6 (0%)
Explosions – 0 alarms (0%)
Fire Alarms responses – 2011
Total alarms in 2011 – 3,984
Customer Carefor almost all matters
• general questions
• By-laws – parking, business, building permit
• to report dead animals on road
• garbage dumping at the side of the road
• snowploughing
• sidewalks
• neighbour problems (police matter)
Pickering Customer Care
Office Hours: 8:30 – 4:30, Monday-Friday905.683.7575 (24-hour line)1.877.420.4666TTY Service: 905.420.1739Fax: 905.420.4610Email: [email protected]
Program Cancellations, Service Disruptions, and Road & Facility Closures: 1.866.278.9993
Resources for more information.
www.Pickering.cawww.Durham.ca
www.YourVoicePickering.ca
Contact
www.YourVoicePickering.ca
© 2010-2012 – Regional Councillor Peter Rodrigues