Halton Regional Council meets November 4 in Oakville, with farewell remarks before the term ends

What happened on November 4

Update, November 9: The minutes of the November 4 meeting are now posted. Regional Council received the agenda's memoranda, including the basement-flooding outreach update, and the finance, public works and corporate services reports for information or approved them as presented, without amendments. There were no delegations and no by-laws beyond the one confirming the meeting's proceedings. After farewell remarks from members, Council adjourned at 10:37 a.m. to meet again at its inaugural meeting on Wednesday, December 9, 2026 at 10 a.m., or at the call of the Regional Chair.

The meeting

Halton Regional Council's Regular Meeting 08-26 is set for Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. in the Council Chambers at the Halton Regional Centre, 1151 Bronte Road in Oakville, and online. The agenda ends with farewell remarks before adjournment. A Regional report on the same agenda, CS-46-26, says the 2022–2026 term of Council ends on November 14, and the Region's agenda site lists no other Regional Council meeting before then.

The agenda lists Sameera Ali as Acting Regional Chair from November 1 to 14, under a by-law that rotates the role among members of Regional Council for times when the Regional Chair is unavailable.

Basement-flooding outreach

A memo from the Commissioner of Public Works updates Council on targeted outreach under the Region's Basement Flooding Mitigation Program in 11 priority areas. Since outreach began in September 2025, it says, 1,531 homes have been included, leading to direct conversations with 826 homeowners and 262 completed Household Drainage Surveys, or 17 per cent. The surveys found 117 private-side stormwater connections and 65 properties with significant lateral defects.

Field investigations have covered 106 kilometres of wastewater main and 5,800 properties in Burlington, Georgetown and Oakville, the memo says, and 824 properties showed evidence of inflow and infiltration and have been prioritized for outreach. The memo does not give separate figures for Oakville.

Since targeted outreach began, 349 subsidies totalling more than $1.1 million have been issued for homeowner basement-flooding mitigation, the memo says; 163 of them, 47 per cent, were in the priority areas, and eight were associated with the targeted outreach. Two community information sessions, in Georgetown and Burlington, drew nine households in all, so staff will focus on direct contact with homeowners. Field investigations and outreach in 2027 will focus on Burlington and Milton, and a full program update is due in March 2027.

Budget and other reports

Report FN-17-26 projects a favourable year-end variance of $500,000 for tax-supported Regional services and an unfavourable variance of $1.0 million for rate-supported services, mainly from higher hydro rates, diesel costs for biosolids haulage and contracted services. Combined, that is an unfavourable $500,000, or 0.1 per cent of $640.3 million in budgeted net expenditures, excluding police. The report also counts 893 approved capital projects with a combined Regional budget of $9.0 billion, of which 54.2 per cent remains to be spent.

Report CS-46-26 records each time the Chief Administrative Officer used delegated authority to approve spending or contracts between June 17, which it calls Council's last scheduled meeting, and October 22; the report says Regional Council has been in 'lame duck' status since Nomination Day on August 21. Other items include the Region's 2025 Annual Financial Report, a drinking-water quality management review, a tree-permit application for a property in Milton and an update on supportive housing at 89 Guelph Street in Halton Hills.