3. What you will learn.
• Maps – Pickering and Durham
• Who are your Pickering Councillors?
• Regional & City Councillors……. and what’s the difference?
• How to easily contact your Councillors.
• Pickering City and Durham Region – Committees, Meetings and Schedules
• Speaking to Council
• General information – Resident Committees, Fact & Figures
• Major and Minor Issues
• Pickering vs. Durham – responsibilities
• Road Watch & Neighbourhood Watch
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QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
7. Pickering Council
Regional
WARD 3
Peter Rodrigues
City
David Pickles
Mayor Dave Ryan
Regional
WARD 1
Jennifer O’Connell
City
Regional
Kevin Ashe
Bill McLean
WARD 2
City
Doug Dickerson
8. How to contact your Mayor and Councillors
Mayor's Office
Tel.: 905.420.4600
Fax: 905.420.6064
TTY: 905.420.1739
Email: mayor@pickering.ca
Councillors' Office
Tel.: 905.420.4605
Fax: 905.420.6064
TTY: 905.420.1739
Email: council@pickering.ca
9. Pickering – Facts & Figures
Population: 95,000
Voters: 65,000
Total number of businesses in Pickering: 3,000 +
10. Ward 3 – Facts & Figures
Voters: 25,500
Homes: 11,600
Duffin Heights adding 1,036 new homes.
18 kilometres (N to S) by 14 kilometres (W to E)
240 square kilometres = 92 square miles
21. 2013 Council & Committee
Meeting Schedule
Start Time
7:00 pm
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23. Speaking to Council
(delegations)
Every month there is one Council meeting
and there are two Standing Committee meetings:
the Planning and Development Committee
the Executive Committee
Members of the public who wish to speak to a Standing
Committee and/or Council are called delegations.
In order to appear before Council, delegations are
encouraged to have first appeared before a Standing
Committee.
Delegations can speak for up to ten minutes.
Afterwards, councillors may ask questions.
24. Speaking to Council
(delegations)
If the matter is a statutory planning matter, no formal
registration is required for the Planning & Development
Committee.
Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on a Standing
Committee meeting agenda should register in writing by 12
noon on the day of the meeting.
Persons who wish to speak to an item that is on the Council
meeting agenda should register in writing by 12 noon on the
day of the meeting.
Request for delegation status are to be sent to the
Committee Coordinator at lroberts@pickering.ca or by fax at
905.420.9685 or by dropping off the request at City Hall.
28. Regional Chair and CEO
Roger Anderson
Ajax
Steve Parish, Shaun Collier, Colleen Jordan
Brock
Terry Clayton, Debbie Bath
Clarington
Adrian Foster, Mary Novak, Willie Woo
Oshawa
John Henry, John Aker, Bob Chapman, Nancy Diamond,
Amy England, Tito-Dante Marimpietri, John Neal, Nester Pidwerbecki
Pickering
Dave Ryan, Bill McLean, Jennifer O'Connell, Peter Rodrigues
Scugog
Chuck Mercier, Bobbie Drew
Uxbridge
Gerri Lynn O'Connor, Jack Ballinger
Whitby
Pat Perkins, Lorne Coe, Joe Drumm, Don Mitchell
30. 3 councillors
109,600 residents
2 councillors
11,350 residents
3 councillors
84,550 residents
8 councillors
149,600 residents
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21,650 residents
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20,600 residents
4 councillors
122,000 residents
35. Durham Region – Pickering City
• regional roads – 75 kms
• city roads
• garbage – Miller Waste
• fire services
• economic development
• economic development
• health
• snow removal
• social services
• parks
• tourism
• recreation (facilities and programs)
• police
• sidewalks
• water supply
• building permits
• sewage treatment
• property tax collection
• public transit
• libraries – are governed separately
36. Matters of Interest
Federal / Airport Lands
York-Durham Sewer
Seaton Development Lands
York-Durham Incinerator
Brock Rd improvements
Land Over Landings
Greenwood Conservation
Lands
Oak Ridges Moraine
Pickering Downtown Intensification
Duffin Heights Developments
Pickering Fire Services
407ETR – highway extension
Official Plans
Property Taxes
Conservation Authorities CLOCA/TRCA
Neighbourhood Watch
Schools Boards
Road Watch
Libraries
Your Issues – Questions & Answers
56. Who pays the Region’s tax proportionally?
The Region expects to collect $533,496,000 in property taxes
from all categories including residents and businesses in 2012.
According to the 2001 census, Durham has a population of 608,124.
Property taxes are assessed at different rates for business, residential,
farms and government institutions.
Pickering
Percentage of residents:
14.6 per cent
Percentage of Regional tax paid:
16.7 per cent
57. Neighbourhood Watch
A community crime prevention program designed to reduce the threat of
crime to neighbours or property. This program encourages all residents to
be alert to suspicious persons or vehicles and to get to know neighbours.
Lessons in crime prevention are given to participants and Operation
Identification is addressed (marking belongings for identification by
police).
Approximately 183 watches are currently running in the Durham Region
with over 50,000 residents educated on security measures on an ongoing
basis.
The DRPS has a Regional Neighbourhood Watch Coordinator who will
assist neighbourhoods to form watches. Call 905-668-9893 or view our
section on Safety Tips - Neighbourhood Watch, or you can email the
Coordinator directly at neighwatch@drps.ca for more information.
58. Road Watch
www.drps.ca
ROAD WATCH is a community based program that is utilized in many towns and cities in Ontario. It
is aimed at making drivers more aware of their actions.
The program is run by volunteers who live in our community, and in conjunction with the Durham
Regional Police Service. The ROAD WATCH program is active in
Oshawa, Whitby, Clarington, Scugog, Ajax, Pickering and Uxbridge.
ROAD WATCH provides residents an opportunity to report dangerous and aggressive driving
throughout the Durham Region. If you observe aggressive or dangerous driving, fill out a PDF
version of our Citizen’s Report Form and drop it off at one of our ROAD WATCH boxes (listed on the
form) or report the incident online using our Online Citizen Report Form .
Aggressive driving may include: Excessive speeding, Tailgating, Failure to stop and any act that puts
other drivers at a high risk of collision or injury.
Record as much information as possible. Even if you are unable to record the licence
number, submit the form so police have information on high-risk areas in the community. It is
important that the form be signed to safeguard the system from abuse. Your personal information is
used for statistical purposes only and is held in the strictest of confidence by us.
If a driver is reported more than once, the police will contact that individual regarding the reports.
Subsequent offences may result in enforcement action by the police depending on the severity of
the incident.
72. Customer Care
for almost all matters
• general questions
• By-laws – parking, business, building permit
• to report dead animals on road
• garbage dumping at the side of the road
• snowploughing
• sidewalks
• neighbour problems (police matter)
73. Pickering Customer Care
Office Hours: 8:30 – 4:30, Monday-Friday
905.683.7575 (24-hour line)
1.877.420.4666
TTY Service: 905.420.1739
Fax: 905.420.4610
Email: customercare@pickering.ca
Program Cancellations, Service Disruptions, and
Road & Facility Closures: 1.866.278.9993
74. Resources for more information.
www.Pickering.ca
www.Durham.ca
www.YourVoicePickering.ca