KEY ISSUES
DISCUSSED AT 5 JUN 2006 MEETING

ATTENDEES

• Fred MacLennan, President
• Art Miskew, Vice-President (absent)
• Alan Asselstine, Treasurer
• Peter Brimacombe, Secretary
• Gisèle Loiselle-Branch, Director (absent)
• Shelley Parlow, Director (absent)
• Fred Winters, Director
• John Sankey, Director
• Pat Murphy, Councillor's Office
• Maria McRae, City councillor (City website - email at maria.mcrae@ottawa.ca).

ACTION ITEMS

Motions:

To thank Maria and City Council for their initiative with respect to the Firefighters and Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. Moved by Shelley Parlow; seconded by John Sankey. Carried.

To approve the April minutes. Moved by Fred McLennan; seconded by Fred Winters. Carried.

Key Issues:

The following summarizes the issues presented at the 5 June 2006 meeting of the Hunt Club Community Organization (HCCO) at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre (HCRCC).

1. City Councillor, Maria McRae, submitted a report (contact Maria for a copy) on the following:
• Annual Strawberry Social for Seniors (see report).
• McCarthy Woods (see report).
• Southern Corridor Birding Study (see report).
• Hunt Club Parks (see report).
• Uplands Park and Owl Park Swings (see report).
• Rivergate Way Cul de Sac (see report).
• Airport Parkway Bridge (see report).
• Michael Sheflin (Hunt Club) Bridge Rehabilitation (see report).
• Hunt Club Plaza Tenants Safety and Security Committee (see report).
• Lawn Care Seminars (see report).
• Light Rail Maintenance Yard (see report).
• South Central District Library (see report).
• Spring Campaign: Smoke Alarms (see report).
• Spring Cleaning the Capital 2006 (see report).
• City Launches New Environmental Website (see report).
• National Environment Week (see report).
• Rethink Garbage (see report).
• Integrated Road Safety Program (see report).
• Ottawa Police Survey of Neighbourhood Concerns (see report).
• Light Rail Open Houses (see report).
• Emergency Preparedness Program – Are you ready? (see report).
• Auditor General’s report (see report).
• Ottawa’s Economy Prospers (see report).

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

2. Issues discussed:  /\

Fred McLennan: Lead the discussion on Ottawa’s LRT system: http://ottawa.ca/residents/lrt/index_en.shtml There are two lines: north-south and east-west.

Alan Asselstine: Walkley Road is the preferred route for the east-west route from St Laurent to the Airport Parkway. At the parkway it will go south to the hydro right of way. It will follow the hydro right of way behind the South Riverside residents to Riverside Drive. It has the two advantages - it is already developed and would have a higher ridership and would preserve the existing CNR route for important freight traffic. Alan feels that West of the Airport Parkway the line should continue along Walkley until Riverside Drive and then turn south to the existing CNR bridge over the Rideau River.

Maria McRae: tabled her June report and reviewed it in detail. John Sankey said that he is mapping the paths through McCarthy Woods.

John Sankey: Bus stops are too close together - the constant pressure to add bus stops is slowing down the whole system! The guidelines are routinely ignored: bus stops should not be closer than 250 meters and 90% of the population near bus routes should not have to walk more than 450 meters. A group will formulate questions to OC Transpo so that it will give greater weight to this issue.

Fred Winters: The snow-removal operation last winter took out a section of the curb on Sparrow Way. He asked about the constructed-wetlands near the O-Train line.

Maria McRae: Took note of the damage to the curb. The constructed-wetlands reduce pollution and erosion along Sawmill Creek. http://ottawa.ca/city_services/major_projects/sawmill/sawmill_en.shtml

3. Next HCCO meeting:  /\
• To be held Tue 5 Sep 2006 at 7:30pm at the Hunt Club Riverside Community Centre at the corner of Paul Anka and McCarthy.
4. For more information, call FredMcLennan at 521-0682 or email huntclub@niva.com.