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West Orillia Sports Complex Click to enter the West Orillia Sports Complex web pages>>
	Municipal Election October 25, 2010>>

CITY OF ORILLIA - PARKS AND RECREATION 2010 "SPRING MADE FUN" BROCHURE

The 2010 Spring Made Fun Brochure is now available for viewing. Registration will begin  on February 12, 2010. Registrations can be done online, by touch-tone telephone, by fax, by mail or in person at the Parks and Recreation office. Registrations using the S.U.N. System (online or touch-tone telephone) will begin at 12:01 a.m. on Friday, February 12, 2010. Click here to view the brochure on this website>> Click here to go to the S.U.N. website>>

The Order of Orillia Award

This award recognizes persons, families, groups of people, and businesses who have enriched the lives of others and thus contributed to the well-being of our community by their lifelong or long-term achievements.

Submit a nomination for your 'unsung hero' for the 2010 Order of Orillia Award. The deadline for 2010 nominations is 4:00p.m. on February 22, 2010.

Who is "Q"?>>

Download the 2010 Nomination package>>

Update: Proposed Official Plan

City Council will consider adopting the City’s Proposed Official Plan on Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 7:00 p.m.  during a Special Meeting of Council which will be held in the Council Chamber (Orillia City Centre, 50 Andrew Street South). All written correspondence regarding the Proposed Official Plan must be received on or before Friday, February 12, 2010. Click Here for More Information>>

The following 2010 Budget material will be discussed during budget deliberations from February 9 – 11 (February 12 if required) please click here for more information >>

NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

2010 INTERIM TAX BILLS for the City of Orillia have been mailed.
Installment dates are: March 15, 2010 and May 15, 2010

If you have not received your bill please contact the Treasury Department at 329-7239. Failure to receive the tax bill does not relieve the property owner from payment of taxes or liability for penalty for late payment.

Payments can be made at most Financial Institutions.

DRINKING WATER SAMPLING FOR LEAD

The City of Orillia Public Works Department is requesting volunteers to be a part of the 2010 Lead Sampling Program.  This program is in compliance with new Provincial requirements and will provide a more detailed review of lead levels at the tap.  Our ongoing sampling and a pilot program in 2007 have not identified problems with lead in our water.

Older homes built prior to the mid-1950’s are more likely to have lead pipes and service lines.  Homes built between the mid-1950’s and mid-1980’s are likely to have lead solder or lead in some fixtures.

Anyone with a home built prior to 1980 who would like to volunteer their home as a sampling location, please call the Public Works Department at 329-7249 for details.

FREE Car Seat Clinics

City of Orillia Affordable Housing Action Plan – Community Consultation

Dear Community Member:
The City of Orillia Housing Committee has retained the services of SHS Consulting to develop a comprehensive “action plan” that will ultimately lead to an increase in affordable cost-effective housing opportunities.

While some initial work may be required to verify the specific needs of this community, as distinct from the County as a whole, this plan is not intended to be another needs study. Rather, it is designed to be an action plan containing solutions to the identified needs. Some of the issues to be studied are:

• Analysis of the barriers/challenges facing the providers of affordable housing in Orillia
• Analysis of specific sub-markets such as seniors and students
• Review of the merits of the City acting as a direct provider of housing or an indirect facilitator of solutions to meet the community’s housing needs
• Review of additional municipal financial incentives, including extension of the tax abatement program to entry-level home ownership providers; establishment of a reserve fund to cover development charges on eligible projects; waiver of building permit fees, planning application fees, and/or cash-in-lieu for eligible projects; and a policy on capital contributions
• Establishment of a housing-first policy for the disposal of surplus municipal lands
• Creation of either a Housing Coordinator staff position or the establishment of a community housing corporation to implement the resultant action plan.

If you are interested in this initiative please contact Debrah Rabbitts, Executive Assistant to the Mayor and Council at 326-1177 or

and your name/organization will be forwarded to the consultants for inclusion in the survey.

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ORILLIA ONE OF THE TOP CITIES TO INVEST IN - REIN

ORILLIA - The City of Orillia continues to be one of the best places in Ontario, and Canada, when it comes to real estate investment, according to the latest Top Ontario Towns to invest in report. For more information>

NOTICE OF NEW CITY OF ORILLIA PLANNING APPLICATION PROCESS

Council has adopted a new City of Orillia Planning Application Process effective July 1, 2009, which will only apply to Official Plan Amendments applications and Zoning By-law Amendments applications.

To learn more about the new City of Orillia Planning Application Process>

Notice of Garbage Tag Reduction In 2010

Effective July 1, 2010, residents and businesses of Orillia will be issued 30 garbage tags for the period July 1, 2010 to June 30, 2011. The reduction from 40 tags corresponds to recent improvements to the City’s diversion programs including the new Green Bin program and the Fibre Box program whereby residents can use one Recycling Box for containers and another Recycling Box for mixed paper. Fully utilizing the City’s new Green Bin program and the Recycling Box program can cut your waste by 45%! So save your tags.

You can still use your orange garbage tags as there is no expiry date on them. Additional garbage tags can be purchased in lots of 5 tags for $8.25. Questions? Call 325-3522 or visit the City’s website at www.city.orillia.on.ca and look under the Residents/Solid Waste Info. Tabs.>>

Look at the New Orillia Public Library

Take a look at the design update from Shore Tilbe Irwin & Partners, the library architects. This presentation is what was presented at City Council on March 30, 2009. In the presentation there are some lovely drawings of what the new library will look like. Please be patient as the images load.

Click here for the presentation>>

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