Brant Heritage Committee

That the Brant Heritage Committee agenda of March 07, 2024, be approved.

That the Brant Heritage Committee minutes of January 25, 2024, be approved.

That the Heritage Committee request Council to authorize the Mayor to send a letter to Doug Ford, Premier of Ontario, and Michael Ford, Minister of Citizenship and Multiculturalism, requesting that Subsection 27(16) of the Ontario Heritage Act, which states that "In the case of a property included in the register under a predecessor of subsection (3), as of December 21, 2022, the council of a municipality shall remove the property from the register if the council of the municipality does not give a notice of intention to designate the property under subsection 29 (1) on or before January 1, 2025", be amended to extend the deadline from January 1, 2025 to January 1, 2030; And that the evaluation timeline requirement of two years be likewise extended to five years.

That the Brant Heritage Committee recommends that as part of the Council consideration of the Arts, Culture and Heritage Strategy, the County prioritize and increase the designations of heritage properties under the Ontario Heritage Act, and support both improved public communication/education about designations and the adjustments to staff workplans that will be required to undertake this work; And that a minimum standard for the 2024/2025 work plan include the undertaking of 5 heritage designations and 1 heritage conservation district as legislative action for the Committee and staff; And that the Heritage Committee evaluate the capacity for the Committee members to contribute resources towards the increased workload this recommendation will create.