January 24th, 2008 MINUTES FROM TOWN HALL & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

ANGUS GLEN RATEPAYERS ASSOCIATION

MINUTES FROM TOWN HALL & ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

January 24^th, 2008, 7-9pm, Angus Glen Golf Course

Guests: Mayor Frank Scarpitti, Councillor Dan Horchik, Patrick O’Hanlon

Directors Present: Robert Morand, Bruce Hilliard, Ted Sheppard, Blake Reeves, Don Macintosh, Sara Sterling, Meg Stokes, Patrick Therrien, Paul Bourbonniere

Directors Absent: Ron Meiers, Rick Ballard

Town Hall

• Meeting called to order
• Welcome by Robert Morand, President of AGRA
• Introduction of AGRA Board of Directors
• Dan Horchik, Councillor Ward 6
  • Widening of Major Mackenzie Drive
    • The Region has advised the town that the widening will be completed by December 2008 from Woodbine to Kennedy.
    • There will be a sidewalk on the north side.
    • There will be a multi-use path on the south side.
  • Angus Glen School Site
    • The site is owned by the School Board.
    • They have advised that there are not enough children in the catchment area at this time to build the school.
    • They are monitoring the situation.
    • If York Downs G.C. proceeds to develop some or all of its land for residential purposes the Board would consider exchanging the site in Angus Glen for a site on the York Downs land.
  • Angus Glen Community Park
    • Is the site behind the Angus Glen C.C.
    • There will be a full size lit soccer field – to start construction in the spring 2008, ready for play in the spring 2009.
    • There was a community meeting last fall to discuss what to do with the rest of the park
    • The landscape architect hired by the Town will complete the detailed design this year and there will be another community meeting held to review the detailed design.
    • Subject to budget approval, construction to start spring 2009.
  • Shoppes at Angus Glen
    • The site plan for the Shoppes has not been approved yet
    • Another meeting will be held with residents to review the plan
  • East Village – West Village Bridge
    • The Town has stated that the bridge at the end of Angus Glen Blvd must be built at the same time as Phase 1 of the West Village and Kylemore has committed to this
  • Widening of 16^th Avenue
    • An environmental assessment has started on this
    • They are looking at building it to 6 lanes, with the 2 new lanes being HOV lanes
    • One public meeting has already been held, another will be held
• Patrick O’Hanlon, Kylemore Communities
  • Shoppes at Angus Glen – we’ve had one public meeting, we will hold another as Dan stated
  • West Village – we have started on some basements but we are late in general
  • Water – the Town was great in dealing with the water issue over Thanksgiving
  • Construction – we are committed to keeping the West Village as clean as possible during construction of all phases
  • School site – there just will never be enough kids to warrant a school in Angus Glen, York Downs would have to develop first. We are pushing the board to sell it back to us but they are not budging.
• Mayor Frank Scarpitti
  • Congratulated Robert Morand on his great work as President of AGRA
  • Was pleased the way everyone worked together on the water issue
  • Last year, Markham had the lowest tax increase of all urban municipalities in York Region, and one of the lowest in the GTA
  • Presented results from the Click with Markham online survey held in November 2007, you can get more details online at www.markham.ca