2025.03.11 – Special meeting of the Gatineau City Council held in the committee room of the Maison du citoyen, 25 Laurier Street, Gatineau, on Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 2:30 p.m.

AGREEMENT AND REQUEST - MUNICIPAL SERVICES - STUDENT RESIDENCE PROJECT AT 259, BOULEVARD ALEXANDRE-TACHÉ - MANOIR-DES-TREMBLES-VAL-TÉTREAU ELECTORAL DISTRICT - JOCELYN BLONDIN

WHEREAS the Université du Québec en Outaouais has filed a request to proceed, at its own expense and in compliance with current regulations, with the installation of municipal services to serve the student residence project located at 259, boulevard Alexandre-Taché;

WHEREAS an agreement must be signed between the City of Gatineau and the Université du Québec en Outaouais to establish the guidelines governing the construction of municipal services in the student residence project located at 259, boulevard Alexandre-Taché:

IT IS PROPOSED BY COUNCILLOR JOCELYN BLONDIN, SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR STEVE MORAN, AND RESOLVED THAT, following the recommendation of the executive committee number CE-2025-110 of March 11, 2025, this council:

• Accepts the agreement to be entered into between the City of Gatineau and the Université du Québec en Outaouais concerning the student residence project located at 259, boulevard Alexandre-Taché, shown on the overall plans prepared by the firm GBI, bearing number G-2024-054-04;
• Ratifies the request presented by the Université du Québec en Outaouais to construct, at its own expense and in compliance with the current regulations of the City of Gatineau (Règlement 98-2003 and Règlement 99-2003 and their amendments), the municipal services for the project;
• Notifies the ministère de l’Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs that the City of Gatineau does not oppose the issuance of the authorization required for the installation of municipal services for this project;
• Attests that the existing water and sewer networks are capable of serving the aforementioned project and comply with the various infrastructure master plans;
• Authorizes the aforementioned Université du Québec en Outaouais to have the specifications and plans necessary for the execution of the aforementioned work prepared, also at its own expense, by the firm GBI;
• Endorses the request of the Université du Québec en Outaouais to entrust the supervision, with residency, of the aforementioned work to the firm GBI and that the resulting expense be assumed by the University;
• Accepts the recommendation of the aforementioned Université du Québec en Outaouais to retain the services of the firm Paterson Group to perform quality control of materials and that the resulting expense be assumed by the University;
• Requires that the Université du Québec en Outaouais, its successors and legal heirs, transfer to the City of Gatineau, free of charge, the municipal services and the easements required for this project;
• Authorizes the Mayor, or in her absence the Acting Mayor, and the City Clerk, or in her absence the Deputy City Clerk or Assistant City Clerk, to sign the agreement and the contract regarding the acquisition of the easements that are the subject of this resolution, all as they will appear on the final plans to be filed at the Bureau de la publicité des droits;
• Authorizes the Treasurer to reimburse, upon presentation of documents produced by the Service de la planification des actifs et des investissements, the City's share related to the extension and oversizing of the sanitary sewer as well as the extension of the water network, up to a maximum of $500,000 plus applicable taxes.

The funds provided for this purpose will be taken from the following budget items:

The Treasurer is authorized to make the accounting entries required to follow up on this agreement. A certificate from the Treasurer was issued on March 11, 2025. Adopted