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Burlington, Ont. — Aug. 15, 2025 — City of Burlington’s Mayor Marianne Meed Ward, some councillors and employees will attend the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO) 2025 Annual General Meeting and Conference subsequent week in Ottawa. From Aug. 17 to twenty, 2025, the Mayor will lead a delegation from the City to advocate for Burlington’s priorities with authorities officers together with cupboard ministers, MPPs and business stakeholders.Key dialogue matters will embrace:
The Burlington delegation accompanying Mayor Marianne Meed Ward consists of Ward 3 Councillor Rory Nisan; Ward 5 Councillor Paul Sharman; Ward 6 Councillor Angelo Bentivegna; CAO Curt Benson; Head of Corporate Affairs, Leah Bortolotti and Corporate Strategic Leads of Government Relations, Jayson Doll and Paul Szachlewicz to have interaction in strategic discussions with members of the provincial authorities and different key municipal stakeholders.
As Chair of Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM), Mayor Meed Ward will even lead OBCM’s joint assembly with MARCO and maintain discussions with cupboard ministers and senior provincial officers in that position.
Burlington Mayor Marianne Meed Ward
“AMO 2025 is a vital platform to ensure Burlington’s priorities are front and centre with provincial decision-makers.We are actively advocating for the priorities that matter most to our community—from reducing traffic congestion on the Skyway Bridge to ensuring the infrastructure is in place to support future growth. This is a critical opportunity to work directly with provincial leaders and reinforce the need for coordinated support across all levels of government.”
The delegation has ready advocateations on key priorities for Burlington on the provincial stage:
Burlington Skyway Bridge – The City of Burlington advocates that the Ministry of Transportation enhance coordination and visitors mitigation ways throughout short-term deliberate lane closures on the Burlington Skyway Bridge to attenuate spillover impacts throughout obligatory upkeep by enhanced collaboration with municipal council and employees.
Mohawk College enlargement – The City of Burlington advocates that the Ministry of Colleges, Universities, Research Excellence and Security have interaction in dialogue with Mohawk College and the municipality to strategically take part within the planning course of for this transformative funding to advance abilities improvement and develop Ontario’s economic system.
Electricity Infrastructure – To make sure the profitable improvement of its MTSAs in the direction of reaching the province’s purpose of constructing 1.5 million houses by 2031, the City of Burlington respectfully requests that the Minister of Energy and Mines have interaction in conversations with City employees concerning the actions and investments required to help Burlington and its improvement companions in unlocking additional housing potential by electrical energy infrastructure.
Address housing affordability and homelessness
The PMTSA components of OPA are sheltered from enchantment by the Planning Act nevertheless, the enabling insurance policies for the CPPS will not be equally sheltered. To facilitate the implementation of a CPPS, the City requests that the Minister approve OPA 2, and in accordance with Section 70.2.2(1) of the Planning Act, order the City to arrange a CPP Bylaw for theCity’s three MTSAs.
The City of Burlington advocates that the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing ought to alter funding eligibility primarily based on housing approvals reasonably than housing begins, that are a lagging indicator in addition to out of municipal management.
The City of Burlington advocates that the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing have interaction in conversations with AMO and the municipal sector concerning the actions and investments required to stop, scale back and finally finish homelessness, beginning with encampments and continual homelessness.
Protecting native inexperienced areas – The City of Burlington requests that the province redesignate the lands at Mount Nemo as Escarpment Natural and Escarpment Protection to make sure the long-term viability of our native ecosystems.
Strengthening the Municipal-Provincial Fiscal Relationship to Protect Our Communities
The City of Burlington advocates that the provincial authorities work straight with municipalities to tell priorities underneath the newly introduced $5B Building Ontario Fund to maximise job creation, leverage current investments, and advance joint municipal-provincial infrastructure priorities, and to speak how these funds can be allotted in a well timed method to advertise municipal preparedness.
AMO is a non-profit group representingmost of Ontario’s municipal governments. AMO helps and enhances sturdy and efficient municipal authorities in Ontario and promotes the worth of municipal authorities as an important and important part of Ontario and Canada’s political techniques. Each yr, Burlington leads a delegation to the convention and arranges conferences with key ministries and Members of Cabinet, and opposition social gathering leaders to debate and advocate for the City’s high priorities.
Ontario’s Big City Mayors (OBCM) is a non-partisan group that features mayors of 29 single and lower-tier cities with a inhabitants of 100,000 or extra, who collectively symbolizealmost 70 p.c of Ontario’s inhabitants. OBCM advocates for points and insurance policies necessary to Ontario’s largest cities.
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