* COMMUNICATIONS HELD ON FILE WITH THE REGIONAL CLERK.

1. Being a By-law to requisition interim amounts for general regional purposes.

2. Being a By-law to requisition interim amounts for solid waste purposes.

3. Being a By-law to requisition interim amounts for child care purposes.

4. Being a By-law to requisition interim amounts for sanitary sewer capital purposes.

5. Being a By-law to requisition interim amounts for transit purposes.

6. Being a By-law to approve Area Municipality by-laws (regulating traffic and parking on local streets as follows):

City of Gloucester 43 of 1998

WHEREAS Ottawa-Carleton Regional Council believes it is important to make itself accessible and available to residents across the region; and

WHEREAS it is in the interests of democracy and participation that as many citizens as possible have an opportunity to monitor and participate in the democratic process;

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT Regional Council will, from time to time, move its meetings out of the Ottawa-Carleton Centre and into the community, in church halls, school gyms or other community venues; and

FURTHER THAT there be at least one meeting in each of the region's 11 municipalities over the course of this term of Council.

WHEREAS the Regional Municipality of Ottawa Carleton wishes to support the House of Commons in their initiative to recognize the contribution of our military;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT in recognition of the contribution of members of the Canadian Forces to the protection of Canadian sovereignty, United Nations peacekeeping missions, the NATO alliance, humanitarian assistance, disaster relief and search and rescue operations, the Regional Council wishes to communicate to the House of Commons its support of the motion to proclaim June 15 as "Canadian Forces Day".