KEY ISSUES
DISCUSSED AT 6 MAR 2000 MEETING

ATTENDEES

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer (absent)
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary (absent)
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (memberships) (absent)
• Nancy Seaby, Director (transportation and editorial)
• Shelley Parlow (absent), Director (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Kathy Ablett (Resident, Hunt Club Estates)
• Fred Winters (absent)
• Brian Gifford
• Peter Foulger (representing the Hunt Club Corridor Protection Association)
• Wendy Stewart (absent), RMOC councillor
• Jim Bickford (absent), City councillor
• Derek Abma, The News
• Elizabeth Russell
• Zelda Garrett (HCRCC)
• Sarah Lowe (Algonquin College)

ACTION ITEMS

Motions:

(None)

KEY ISSUES

The following summarizes the issues presented at the 6 Mar 2000 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

1. Regional Councillor, Wendy Stewart, submitted a report (contact Wendy for a copy) on the following:
• Action Plan to Improve Ambulance Service (see report item).
• Housing Program for Mentally Ill (see report item).
• Update on Social Housing Devolution (see report item).
• 2000 Environmental Projects Grants Program (see report item).
• Are People of Ontario Healthy? (see report item).
• Traffic Light Coming at Prince of Wales and Fisher (see report item).
• Municipal Restructuring (see report item).
• Hogs Back Marina - Focus Group Report (see report item).
• Congratulations for Outstanding Community Service (see report item).
• Development and Proposals Underway in River Ward (March 2000) (see report item).

Call Wendy's office at 560-1223 to get involved or for more information.

2. Issues discussed:  /\

Zelda Garrett spoke on behalf of the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC). There are two separate organizations: the Hunt Club Community Organization deals with the municipal government whereas the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre deals with the organization of the Community Centre itself: programs, staff and budget. Zelda Garret invited members of the Hunt Club Community Organization to sit on the Community Centre Board of Directors and to help set up policies. Kathy Ablett said she would be interested finding out more about the current situation.

Nancy Seaby reported on the positions on the Board of Directors of the Community Centre. The following list was compiled from the March 2, 2000 issue of the Hunt Club Riverside News:

• Riley Brockington, President
• Linda Poulsen, Vice President
• Domingo Chavez, Treasurer
• Zelda Garrett
• Nikki Sinclair
• Barb Squire
• Carolyn Gauthier
• David Mitchell
• Steve Nason is the Centre's Director and he reports to the Board

Wendy Stewart prepared a written report.

Discussion on the Ottawa-Carleton School Board land on McCarthy Drive identified as 1a on the Draft Neighbourhood Plan:

The School Board must offer the land to the other school boards before it can sell it privately, it has and no other boards or other public institutions has expressed interest by the March 1 2000 deadline. The School Board is free to sell the land to a private developer but the land is presently zoned as I1 -Minor Institutional. A private developer would need to rezone the property for residential.

Peter Brimacombe: the community should develop its own plan which would zone the land for medium density but also provide for a seniors residence and protect the existing stand of cedars.

Kathy Ablett: We should send a letter to the Ottawa-Carleton School Board with copies to Wendy Stewart and Jim Bickford, expressing our interest in the land.

Nancy Seaby: construction continues at the Cognos site. Some residents have complained about the noise. The Christmas Lights on the cranes were a nice touch. There is concern about the traffic impact of the 750-car garage under construction.

Kathy Ablett: correction to the February minutes: the South Keys Shopping Plaza would be one of the best locations for the new Library Branch.

3. Next HCCO meeting:  /\
• To be held Mon 3 Apr 2000 at 7:30pm at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre at the corner of Paul Anka and McCarthy. Anyone is welcome.

For more information, call FredMcLennan at 521-0682/956-1384.

4. Submit any comments via computer (to PeterVasdi):  /\
• Freenet address huntclub@freenet.carleton.ca.
• To access information on the HCCO via computer, web address is http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/hunt-club/.

DISTRIBUTION

By email:

Dave Allston, Kevin Arnold, Alan Asselstine, Jim Bickford, David Biggs, Peter Brimacombe, Michael Cleary, Ken Donnelly, Erwin Dreessen, Peter Foulger, Brian Gifford, Andrei Grushman, Karin Howard, Rob McCulloch, Fred McLennan, Art Miskew, Mike Novak, Shelley Parlow, Andy Porowski, Ted Requard, Bill Royds, Nancy Seaby, Robert Staples, Wendy Stewart, Frances Tanner, Sue Taylor, The News, Fred Winters.

By fax:

Kathy Ablett (523-8015), Gord Aitken (521-9991), Donna Allen (733-3651), Riley Brockington (738-1570),