Regional Municipality of Waterloo
Strategic Planning and Budget Committee
Addendum Agenda

Meeting #:

Date:

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Closed Session:

6:00 P.m. - 9:00 P.m.

Location:

Council Chambers

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1.

Call to Order

2.

Land Acknowledgement

3.

Declarations of Pecuniary Interest under the “Municipal Conflict of Interest Act”

4.

Delegations

4.1

Barbara Hankins, Chair, KWS Players' Association, and Rebecca Diderrich, Player's Committee member

Re: the Future of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony

4.2

Victoria Baby, CEO, Humane Society of Kitchener Waterloo and Stratford Perth

Re: Request for Regional financial support for a capital build at the Humane Society 

4.3

Hardy and Renate Willms, Kitchener

Re: Property tax increases are too high 

4.4

Harald Drewitz, Chairperson, Kitchener Tax Watch Group

Re: Taxpayer’s Affordability

4.5

Kathy Ekert, Kitchener

Re: budget more rent to stop eviction 

4.6

Melissa Bowman, Kitchener

Re: 2024 Budget

4.7

David Alton, Lived Expertise Coordinator, Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Re: Plan to End Chronic Homelessness/Fee for Service 

4.8

Sara Escobar, Homelessness and Housed Justice Worker, and Jason Spencer, Program Director, Community Justice Inititatives

Re: Homelessness

4.9

Kevin Boutilier, Erbs Road Shelter

Re: Living Unsheltered/ Erbs Road/ Housing

4.10

Tim O'Brien, Erbs Road Shelter

Re: Living Unsheltered/ Erbs Road/ Housing

4.11

Jane Willoughby, Kitchener

Re: Emergency shelter at Edith MacIntosh Child Care center 

4.12

Mark Egers, President, Waterloo Regional Police Association

Re: The Association's perspective on the upcoming Regional budget.

4.13

Gina Georgiou, Kitchener

Re: Budget Funding for Chronic Homelessness

4.14

Nicholas Aboagye, Kitchener

Re: Increased transit funding for better ion service and public transit 

4.15

Howard Dyck, Citizens Supporting the KW Symphony

Re: The implications for Waterloo Region following the recent demise of the KW Symphony. Requesting that Waterloo Regional Council keep the current allocation of funds designated for the KWS for that purpose and not to put them into the general fund. 

4.16

Nicholas Olsen, Waterloo

Re: increased transit funding for better ion service 

4.17

Damian Mikhail, Waterloo

Re: in favour of the amendment to the transit budget which would maintain 15 minute headways during off peak hours petition 

4.18

Craig Sloss, Waterloo

Re: 2024 Budget priority feedback 

4.19

Kimberly Barber, Kitchener

Re: speaking in support of the KWS

4.20

Shiva Subramanian and Ashwin Annamalai , Waterloo

Re: Reduction of Ion service

4.21

Isabella Stefanescu, Waterloo

Re: Supporting a Renewed Kitchener Waterloo Symphony Orchestra

4.22

Joanne Bender, Piano Teacher, KW Symphony Players Association

with her students Anar and Thomas Moosa re: KW Symphony and its value especially for children

4.23

Julian Ichim, Kitchener

Re: Homelessness and police funding

4.24

Michelle Angkasa, Waterloo

Re: Proposed changes to ION schedule

4.25

Nigel Gordijk, Waterloo

Re: Transit service levels

4.26

Sam Goncalves-Horton, Waterloo

Re: proposed ION service changes and other issues with the current transportation budget

4.27

Remington Zhi, Waterloo

Re: off-peak ION service

4.28

Jack Dunne-Mucklow, Waterloo

Re: Transit and ION

4.29

Rodney Chan, Waterloo

Re: ION Amendment and Bus Lanes

4.30

Marinus de Groot, Kitchener

Re: Keeping support for the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony in the 2024-2025 budget in order to leave the door open to all possibilities

4.31

Brian Doucet, Kitchener

re: Proposed LRT service changes

4.32

Jonathan Lin, Waterloo

Re: ION service cuts to every 30 min during early morning and evening periods and in support of Councillor James' amendment to ION service to have 10 minute peak headways and 15 minute shoulder headways all year. 

4.33

Lori Mark, Kitchener

Re: Homelessness

I would like to ensure that a couple of items are accounted for in the Homeless Budget such as additional Mental Health and Addiction support.

4.34

David Scott, Cambridge

Re: The future of the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony 

5.

Call for Delegations

6.

Communications

6.1

Nathan Whalen, re: Expense Reduction Levers for Budget 2024

6.2

Zack Red, re: Police Budget Surpluses 

6.3

Stephanie Levac, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.4

Vincent Strickland, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.5

Greg Thornton, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.6

Evan Mitchell, re: KW Symphony

6.7

Sacha Geer, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.8

El Gillies, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.9

Moni Sadri, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.10

Kez Vicario-Robinson, re: Police Budget Surpluses

6.11

Ian Whitman, re: KW Symphony

6.12

Cory Albrecht, re: LRT service hours

7.

Adjourn

• Recommended Motion:

  That the meeting adjourn at x:xx x.m.