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WHEREAS the City of Timmins is a community that is home to various resource- based community partners which includes mining and forestry;

AND WHEREAS Timmins, as a resource-based community, faces many challenges resulting from having such resource- based industries located and operating within and in close proximity to the City such as localized heavy truck traffic which increases demands on local road infrastructure, traffic congestion and delays, and general safety concerns for pedestrians and other forms of active transportation users;

AND WHEREAS the demands caused by these resource-based industries have created additional costs on the City of Timmins to maintain the local infrastructure required to service these industries adequately;

AND WHEREAS the current assessment-based taxation system does not provide significant funding to the municipality to meet these demands and needs;

AND WHEREAS the Province of Ontario has adopted a critical minerals strategy in order to position Ontario as a global leader of responsibly source critical minerals which aims to see more resource extraction and processing in the north;

AND WHEREAS the future housing demand on the City of Timmins as mining is further developed in Northern Ontario will expand the current infrastructure funding gap locally as new housing and development- related infrastructure is required to support and facilitate future mining operations;

AND WHEREAS the resulting increased demands on the Timmins Victor M. Power airport will require expansion and terminal upgrades to meet these demands;

AND WHEREAS the City of Timmins acknowledges that it is a recipient of the Northern Ontario Resource Developments ( NORDS) Fund but maintains that the amount received is inadequate to support the demands on local infrastructure caused by the resources based industries in the area nor is it proportionate to the revenues being generated for the Province by said industries;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT the City of Timmins hereby petitions the Province on Ontario to create a Provincial funding model, in addition to the NORDS Fund which is set to expire in 2026-2027, to provide revenues to all resource- based communities in Northern Ontario that are proportionate to the revenues leaving our region in an effort to offset the additional burdens placed on resource- based communities to provide municipal services to these industries;

AND FURTHER THAT a copy of this resolution be circulated to The Honourable Premiere Doug Ford, The Honourable Paul Calandra, Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, The Honourable Greg Rickford, Minister of Northern Development and Timmins MPP, The Honourable George Pirie, Minister of Mines;

AND FURTHER THAT a copy of this resolution be circulated to FONOM and NOMA and their respective members for their support, and

AND FURTHER THAT a copy of this resolution be circulated to the municipalities of Dubreuilville, Kirkland Lake, and Red Lake, as they have been collaborators in this effort

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