2026.06.25 – Regular meeting of the Executive Committee of the City of Gatineau held in the committee room of the Maison du citoyen, 25 Laurier Street, Gatineau, on Thursday, June 25, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. at which

CONSIDERING THAT by its resolution number CE-2025-601 of July 9, 2025, this committee awarded to the firm 6369472 Canada inc. / Equinoxe JMP, a mandate for the reconstruction of municipal services - Basin 70 – Rues de Notre-Dame-de-l'Île, Champlain and Marston;

CONSIDERING THAT the new municipal service networks to be installed on Rue Notre-Dame-de-l’Île must cross Boulevard Sacré-Cœur;

CONSIDERING THAT the contractor mandated to carry out the work proposes to perform, at an equivalent cost, this work during the day on weekends including Sunday;

CONSIDERING THAT this proposal will allow for the acceleration of the pace of work and, by the same token, significantly reduce the impacts on road traffic in the sector;

CONSIDERING THAT the contractor mandated to carry out the work also proposes to perform, at an equivalent cost, certain work during the day on weekends including Sunday;

CONSIDERING THAT this second proposal will allow for the acceleration of the pace of work and, by the same token, reduce the long-term impacts of the construction site on citizens residing nearby, such as the duration of water supply via a temporary network, detour routes, dust, etc.;

CONSIDERING THAT the work will be carried out during the day for a maximum of five Sundays, between mid-June and the end of October 2026;

0022378 CONSIDERING THAT Article 7 of Règlement 44-2003 concerning noise on the territory of the City of Gatineau stipulates that work carried out outside permitted hours, i.e., Monday to Saturday, between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m., must be authorized by the executive committee if a building used for accommodation is located less than 150 m from the work;

CONSIDERING THAT the work will be carried out outside the periods permitted by Règlement 44-2003:

PROPOSED AND UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT this committee authorizes a derogation to Règlement 44-2003 concerning noise on the territory of the City of Gatineau in order to allow the firm 6369472 Canada inc. / Equinoxe JMP, to carry out certain municipal services reconstruction work on Rue Notre-Dame-de-l’Île, in the Hull sector, outside permitted hours, over a maximum period of five Sundays between mid-June and the end of October 2026.

Adopted [VOTE: adopted]

CONSIDERING THAT since April 1, 2021, the Règlement sur le prélèvement des eaux et leur protection (RPEP) provides that municipalities responsible for a water withdrawal supplying more than 500 people must have produced their first vulnerability analysis report for their drinking water supply sources and that the City of Gatineau completed this exercise in 2021 for its four drinking water sources;

CONSIDERING THAT the development of a drinking water source protection plan constitutes the logical follow-up to the vulnerability analysis report and will allow for the identification and planning of the implementation of protection measures adapted to the threats;

CONSIDERING THAT the City's Water Management Plan (Plan de gestion de l’eau - PGE), adopted by the municipal council on December 5, 2023, by its resolution number CM-2023-983, provides in its measure 11.2 for the development of a protection plan for each raw water intake;

CONSIDERING THAT on March 3, 2026, the City of Gatineau signed a financial assistance agreement of $188,727 with the ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs (MELCCFP) as part of the Program for the development of drinking water source protection plans (Programme pour l’élaboration des plans de protection des sources d’eau potable - PEPPSEP);

CONSIDERING THAT the development of a protection plan requires, upstream, the realization of an external mandate aimed at the identification and analysis of threats to raw water quality, an essential preliminary step to the prioritization of actions and the preparation of the drinking water source protection plan, and that the financial assistance granted by the MELCCFP contributes to the realization of all this work;

CONSIDERING THAT Polytechnique Montréal, notably through the Centre de Recherche, de Développement et de Validation des technologies et Procédés en Traitement des Eaux (CREDEAU) and its Industrial Chair in Drinking Water, possesses recognized expertise in the matter of drinking water source protection, hydrodynamic modeling, and risk analysis;

CONSIDERING THAT this expertise justifies the use of Polytechnique Montréal as a technical partner for the realization of the mandate;

0022379 CONSIDERING THAT the City has the powers to conclude this agreement, by virtue of its competence under articles 4 (4°) of the Loi sur les compétences municipales:

PROPOSED AND UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT this committee:

• approve the maximum expenditure of $189,000 as part of the collaboration with Polytechnique Montréal for the assessment of risks to the raw water quality of the City of Gatineau's plants, the funds for which will be taken from the sums available for the implementation of the Water Management Plan in sub-project 10448.02;

• authorize the mayor or in her absence the acting mayor and the clerk or in her absence the deputy clerk or the assistant clerk to sign a memorandum of understanding between the City of Gatineau and Polytechnique Montréal for the assessment of risks to the raw water quality of the City of Gatineau's plants as part of the PEPPSEP.

A treasurer's certificate was issued on June 19, 2026.

Adopted [VOTE: adopted]

CONSIDERING THAT the City of Gatineau began a project in 2019 for the reconstruction of Chemin Eardley including the construction of a sidewalk at the intersection of Chemin Eardley and Rue Adélard-Sauvé;

CONSIDERING THAT the City of Gatineau has completed the reconstruction work on Chemin Eardley including the planned sidewalk;

CONSIDERING THAT the City of Gatineau had to regularize the street right-of-way at this intersection in view of the planned sidewalk development work;

CONSIDERING THAT the company 159315 Canada inc. is the owner of the property located at 9, Rue Adélard-Sauvé in Gatineau, known and designated as lot 2 885 099 of the cadastre du Québec;

CONSIDERING THAT the City of Gatineau and the owner concluded a promise of sale which was duly signed on August 8 and 13, 2019, and which provides that the owner promises to sell to the City of Gatineau a portion of lot 2 885 099 of the cadastre du Québec, Gatineau land registration division, having an exact area of 13.1 m²;

CONSIDERING THAT the owner committed to signing the deed of sale before a notary within 120 days from the date of establishment of a new cadastre;

CONSIDERING THAT it is necessary for the owner to sign the documents required by the City's land surveyor in order to obtain a new cadastre;

CONSIDERING THAT the Legal Affairs Department sent a formal notice to the owner to sign the documents required for obtaining a new cadastre;

0022383 CONSIDERING THAT as of this day, the documents necessary for obtaining a new cadastre have not been signed by the owner despite the sending of said formal notice;

CONSIDERING THAT it is necessary that procedures be taken to allow the transfer of ownership to the City of the lot parcel subject to the promise of sale concluded with the owner:

PROPOSED AND UNANIMOUSLY RESOLVED THAT this committee mandates the Legal Affairs Department to introduce any useful procedure to allow the transfer of ownership to the City of the lot parcel subject to the promise of sale concluded with the owner.

Adopted [VOTE: adopted]