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By-law No.7475/16
Being .a by-law to authorize the Pool Deck
Repairs at Dunbarton Indoor Pool project in
the City of Pickering and the issuance of
debentures in the amount of$899,000.00.
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Whereas Section 11 of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended, provides that a lower-tier
municipality may pass by-laws respecting matters within the spheres of jurisdiction
described in that Section; and, •
Whereas Subsection 401(1)of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended, provides that a
municipality may incur a debt for municipal purposes, whether by borrowing money or in
any other way; and,
Whereas Subsection 401(3) of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended, provides that a
lower-tier municipality in a regional municipality does not have the power to issue
debentures; and,
Whereas The Regional Municipality of Durham has the sole authority to issue
debentures for the purposes of its lower-tier municipalities including The Corporation of
the City of Pickering (the "City"); and,
Whereas the Council of the City wishes to proceed with debenture financing for the Pool
Deck Repairs at Dunbarton Indoor Pool project; and
Whereas before authorizing the construction in respect of the Pool Deck Repairs at
Dunbarton Indoor.Pool project, the Council of the City had the Treasurer update the
City's Annual Repayment Limit, the Treasurer calculated_the estimated annual amount •
payable in respect of such project and determined that such annual amount would not
cause the City to exceed the updated limit and therefore, Ontario Municipal Board
approval is not required as per Section 401 of the Municipal Act, 2001, as amended,
and the regulations made thereunder;
And whereas after determining that Ontario Municipal Board approval is not required,
the Council of the City approved report CR 04-16 on the date hereof and awarded
Tender No. T-2-2016 for the Pool Deck Repairs at Dunbarton Indoor Pool project;
By-law No. 7475/16 Page 2
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Now therefore the Council of The Corporation of the City of Pickering hereby enacts as
follows:
1. That the City proceed with the project referred to as "Pool Deck Repairs at
Dunbarton Indoor Pool";
2. That the estimated costs of the project in the amount of$899,340.00 be financed as
follows:
a) That the sum of$899,000.00 be financed by the issue of debentures by The
Regional Municipality of Durham over a period not to exceed ten years.;
b) That the sum of$340.00 be funded from property taxes;
3. That the funds to repay the principal and interest of the debentures be provided for
in the annual Current Budget for the City commencing in 2016 or such subsequent
year in which the debentures are issued and continuing thereafter until the
debenture financing is repaid.
By-law passed this 29th day of March, 2016 "
David Ryan, o
Debbie Shields, City Clerk%:40, `
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