Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee

Meeting #:
Date:
Time:
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Location:
Council Chambers, Civic Centre, 2nd Floor
300 City Centre Drive, Mississauga, Ontario, L5B 3C1
and Online Video Conference
Members
  • Councillor Chris Fonseca, Ward 3 (Vice-chair)
  • Bill Johnston, Citizen Member
  • Barbara Leskovec, Citizen Member
  • Adrianne Szabo, Citizen Member
  • Vicki Tran, Citizen Member
  • Moaz Ahmad, Citizen Member
  • Mark Currie, Citizen Member
  • Juelene Stennett, Citizen Member
Members Absent
  • Councillor Alvin Tedjo, Ward 2 (Chair)
  • Ryan Donik, Citizen Member
Staff Present
  • Michelle Sanstra

City Staff/Agency Representatives

Sam Rogers, Director, Infrastructure Planning & Engineering Services

Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation

Raymond Lau, Project Manager, Engineering, Park Development

Catherine Nguyen-Pham, Communications Advisor

Michelle Sanstra, Legislative Coordinator

1.
CALL TO ORDER

 

Councillor Fonseca, Vice-Chair called the meeting to order at 6:03 PM.

2.
INDIGENOUS LAND STATEMENT

 

Councillor Fonseca, Vice-Chair cited the Indigenous Land Statement.

3.
APPROVAL OF AGENDA

 

Councillor Fonseca added an additional deputation: Item 6.3 Rahul Mehta, Founder, Sustainable Mississauga, Co-founder, Stop Sprawl Peel regarding Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Cycling Culture in Mississauga.

That the October 10, 2023 Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee Minutes be approved as amended.

Approved as amended (A. Szabo)

4.
DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST

 

Nil.

5.
MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING

 

5.1
Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee Draft Minutes - September 12, 2023

This item has attachments. 
1.Draft MCAC Minutes - September 12, 2023.pdf

That the September 12, 2023 Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee Minutes be approved.

Approved (V. Tran)

6.
DEPUTATIONS

 

6.1
Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation regarding the 2024 Cycling Program

This item has attachments. 
1.Item 6.1 2024 Cycling Programming.pdf

Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation spoke to the 2024 Cycling Program.

Members of the Committee engaged in discussion and enquired about:

  • Expanding support through new sponsorship, partnership, collaborations
  • Modifying the Tour de Mississauga to be included in the programs
  • Challenges 
  • Logistics & budgeting
  • Outcomes & Objectives 
  • Having a booth at the Toronto Bike Show & E-Bike Expo 2024

Mr. Sweet and Sam Rogers, Director, Infrastructure Planning & Engineering Services responded to the comments and enquiries from the Committee.

  • RECOMMENDATIONMCAC-0032-2023
    Moved ByBill Johnston

    That the deputation and associated presentation from Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation regarding the 2024 Cycling Program, be received.

    Received

6.2
Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation regarding the Cycling Master Plan Update - Project Overview

This item has attachments. 
1.Item 6.2 Cycling Master Plan Update - Project Overview.pdf

Sam Rogers, Director, Infrastructure Planning & Engineering Services provided a brief introduction regarding the Cycling Master Plan Update – Project Overview.

Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation spoke to the Cycling Master Plan Update - Project Overview.

Members of the Committee engaged in discussion and enquired about the following:

  • Interim intervention - measures & implementation
  • Consultant company - assignment for phase one & two
  • Interim invention framework - identify, processes and cycling gaps
  • Cycling Master Plan - achievements, transparency, new opportunities & strategies, and;
  • Committee & Public communication, engagement/consultations

Mr. Rogers and Mr. Sweet responded to the enquiries and comments from the Committee.

  • RECOMMENDATIONMCAC-0033-2023
    Moved ByBarbara Leskovec

    That the deputation and associated presentation from Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation regarding the Cycling Master Plan Update – Project Overview, be received.

    Received

6.3
Rahul Mehta, Founder, Sustainable Mississauga, Co-Founder, Stop Sprawl Peel regarding Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Cycling Culture in Mississauga

 

Rahul Mehta, Founder, Sustainable Mississauga, Co-Founder, Stop Sprawl Peel spoke to Building and Inclusive and Sustainable Cycling Culture in Mississauga.

Councillor Fonseca thanked Mr. Mehta for his deputation.

Members of the Committee engaged in discussion and enquired about the following:

  • Interim interventions
  • Cycling Infrastructure
  • Communications/messaging
  • Cultural Infrastructure - collaborations - community groups, sponsorship, partnerships
  • Winter Cycling Congress Conference 2024
  • Bike parking/theft
  • Subcommittee meetings

Councillor Fonseca and Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation responded to comments and enquiries from the Committee.

Action Item: For Michelle Sanstra, Legislative Coordinator to look into the costs of the conference and report back to the Committee at the next meeting.

  • RECOMMENDATIONMCAC-0034-2023
    Moved ByVicki Tran

    That the deputation from Rahul Mehta, Founder, Sustainable Mississauga, Co-Founder, Stop Sprawl Peel regarding Building an Inclusive and Sustainable Cycling Culture in Mississauga, be received.

    Received

7.
PUBLIC QUESTION PERIOD - 15 Minute Limit 

 

Glenn Voakes, Resident asked the following question(s):

1. For clarification are we going to keep going ahead with the Cycling Master Plan (CMP) and do this?

A. Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation responded that yes, several things will be happening concurrently, the work towards building out the ultimate network will continue concurrent to the updating of the CMP and creating the five year implementation plan and then subsequent to that continuing the ultimate network build out will add in a layer of interim interventions.

2. Clarification that the CMP was a 27 year build out from 2018, is that correct?

A. Matthew Sweet, Manager, Active Transportation responded that the 27 year build out represents the average annual investment based on the unit cost from the 2018 plan to build the required infrastructure to take the base network and build out to the ultimate network, which was projected for 27 years.

8.
CONSENT AGENDA

 
  • RECOMMENDATIONMCAC-0035-2023
    Moved ByBarbara Leskovec

    That the following item(s) were approved on the consent agenda:

    • 9.1 Mississauga Cycling Advisory Committee 2023 Action Item List
    Approved

9.
MATTERS CONSIDERED

 

10.
INFORMATION ITEMS - Nil

 

11.
OTHER BUSINESS - Nil

 

12.
DATE OF NEXT MEETING

 

Tuesday November 14, 2023 at 6 PM


Council Chambers, Civic Centre, 2nd Floor


and Online Video Conference

13.
ADJOURNMENT

 

7:48 PM (A. Szabo)

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