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ADDING A DOCUMENT TO EDOCMAN

1. Navigate to Components -> Edocman
2. If the new document belongs to an existing Category, click on Documents (icon or menu item), or first create a new category for the document
3. Click the green New button in the top left corner
4. Enter the name of the document in the Title section, this is NOT the filename but a generic, descriptive name that will be used as the documents link.  
   This link needs to be somewhat generic, for example you would use "Animal Control By-law" and NOT "By-law No. 2019-024" because if the by-law gets updates the By-law number would change but not the text name  of the by-law
   If adding agendas or minutes, the naming convention needs to remain consistent so they continue to appear in the correct order,  YYYY-MM-DD Committee Name Agenda/Minutes
5. Click on the "Choose File" button to upload the file
6. In the right column, select the Category the document belongs to.
7. Save & Close

UPDATING A DOCUMENT IN EDOCMAN

1. Navigate to Components -> Edocman
2. Find the document that you wish to update and click on the title to open the document details
3. Click on the "Choose File" button to upload the new document.
4. DO NOT change the Title (if the document is only linked in a Category view then an updated Title would appear, but if the document has been linked as a single file, then updating the title will have no effect on the title that appears in the K2 Item and you would have to find all of the occurrences of the document in K2 and change the title name.
5. Save & Close

ADDING A SINGLE DOCUMENT TO A K2 ITEM

To add a document link to a K2 Item, simply click on the "Edocman" button below and select the desired file.

For example to link to the Stategic Plan, click on "Edocman", enter the word "strategic" in the Filter box and click on the Search button to quickly find the document, and finally, click on the title of the document.  The name of the document will appear as follows and will be linked to the document -  Strategic Plan 2019-2024

ADDING A DOCUMENT CATEGORY TO A K2 ITEM (List of all documents in a single category)

To a list of all documents in a single category, you need to know the ID of the category that you want to display.

1. First, navigate to Components -> Edocman  and click on Categories (either the icon or menu item)
2. Find the Category that you want to display and make a note of the category.  For example, to show the 8 documents in the "Financial Highlights" category, the ID is 5.
3. Navigate now to the K2 Item where the list of documents will appear and go to the place on the page where you want the list to appear.
4. Type the following : {edocmancategory ID_OF_CATEGORY} on a new line,
   for example 
   

   Financial Highlights

   	2017 Financial Highlights	View
   	2016 Financial Highlights	View
   	2015 Financial Highlights	View
   	2014 Financial Highlights	View
   	2013 Financial Highlights	View
   	2012 Financial Highlights	View
   	2011 Financial Highlights	View
   	2010 Financial Highlights	View

   
   will show all of the documents in the "Financial Highlights" category.

On Friday, May 15th, Valley Heartland CFDC will announce NEW Funding available through the Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF)

As our Chamber office has received many concerns from our businesses regarding the strict federal subsidy criteria and lack of funding for seasonal, small and sole-proprietor businesses. We are sending you this email to give you a jump start on the RRRF Program as it will be released on Friday, May 15^th through the Valley Heartland website.The Regional Relief and Recovery Fund (RRRF) provides financial contributions (interest-free loans) to help support fixed operating costs of SMEs, where business revenues have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

In southern Ontario, $252.4 million is available as follows:

• $213 million for SMEs facing financial pressure; and
• $39.4 million to provide rural businesses with access to capital and business support, delivered by southern Ontario’s Community Futures Development Corporations.

Valley Heartland CFDC is the lead for the counties Regional Relief and Recovery Funds (RRRF).The details that have been shared are:

• Max. loan amount of $40,000
• 25% which is forgivable (based on repayment terms)

Priority for:

• Businesses that DO NOT qualify for other funding sources
• Sole-proprietorship businesses
• Tourism businesses
• Downtown businesses
• Manufacturing businesses
• SME businesses
• Tech businesses

Again, we were just notified this morning by Valley Heartland with basic details. More program information on criteria and eligibility can be found by visiting FedDev Ontario, visiting Valley Heartlands website https://www.valleycfdc.com/covid19 or their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/valleycfdc/ tomorrow.
 
The Chamber will send out confirmed funding details tomorrow when more information is shared with us.

With the nicer weather here, it is tempting to head out to a cottage. It may seem like a great place to retreat to for COVID-19 self-isolation. But before heading out, the Leeds, Grenville & Lanark District Health Unit would like everyone to really think through their decision. 

“Consider the impact your decision has on your family and your neighbours,” says Dr. Paula Stewart, Medical Officer of Health for the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark Area. “Consider, as well, the demands on the local community and health care system.”

If deciding to go to your cottage, think about the following:

• If you have to check on your property for insurance purposes, try to make it a day trip.
• Opening a cottage may involve hiring services. Is this essential work right now?
• Going to a cottage may involve a long car ride with multiple stops for gas or food. This could put you in contact with more surfaces and people along the way. Reduce your risk by packing your own snacks and drinks for the trip, and practicing physical distancing and good hand hygiene at stops.
• If your cottage takes you away from your usual stores, this may create tension on the retail supply in a smaller rural community and make it difficult to maintain a physical distance at the store. Bring enough food from your own grocery store to eliminate the need to shop.
• Determine a plan if you or a family member becomes ill. You may think you can drive to your own hospital or health care provider for care, but COVID-19 symptoms may come on abruptly and you could be severely ill. Is there adequate cell phone service to call for help? Could emergency services access your road and get to you in a timely manner?
• Cottage life may encourage riskier activities like climbing ladders, water sports, and driving ATVs. These may lead to hospital visits or the use of local first responders; services that may already be stretched. Avoid risks or take smart ones. Check out these safety tips.
• Be prepared for ticks; they prefer to live in humid, wooded areas. Bring along insect repellent containing DEET or Icaridin, tweezers to remove a tick, and proper clothing and footwear.
• If you have to access your cottage by boat, ensure this can happen. At this time, marinas are not open to the public and can only let people use their boats to go to their primary place of residence. Check in with your local municipality to see if you can launch your boat there.
• Socializing and cottages often go hand in hand. Remember, gatherings of more than 5 people are still not permitted.
• Comply with other Provincial orders as well; avoid recreation facilities and amenities that are identified as closed.

Don’t forget to bring along all the public health measures you’ve been doing so far. Limit contact with others, practice physical distancing, and hand hygiene. If you are ill, stay at home and don’t go to the cottage! We are all giving up a lot right now to protect ourselves and others. By staying at your primary residence you could be saving lives, including your own!

The Health Unit has staff answering COVID-19 related questions and concerns for the public from 8:30am to 4:30pm every day at 1-800-660-5853 extension 2499. Public Health Inspectors are also available to discuss environmental health concerns. You can also get more information about COVID-19 by visiting www.healthunit.org/coronavirus or by connecting with LGLHealthUnit on Facebook and Twitter.

New legislation will allow for more virtual or remote transactions during COVID-19

TORONTO — The Ontario government is extending the Declaration of Emergency under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act. This additional time will ensure the province has the necessary tools and health care capacity to contain COVID-19, while gradually reopening businesses, services, and amenities safely.

Passed during a special sitting of the Ontario Legislature today, the Declaration of Emergency has been extended until June 2. The declaration will allow Ontario to continue to enforce current emergency orders, such as restricting retirement and long-term care home employees from working in more than one facility and prohibiting events and gatherings of more than five people. Since the emergency was first declared on March 17, the government has taken over 150 actions to help protect individuals, families, and businesses from the impacts of COVID-19.

A full list of emergency orders can be found on the e-Laws website, under the Emergency Management and Civil Protection Act.

"We are making steady progress to flatten the curve and get more people back to work safely, including our legislators, but we still have far to go in defeating COVID-19," said Premier Ford. "Extending the declaration of emergency will allow us to continue to take action to protect Ontarians, while carefully and cautiously reopening more parts of our economy."

The House also passed the COVID-19 Response and Reforms to Modernize Ontario Act, 2020, which will help people conduct business while practising physical distancing by:

• Providing authority to address in-person attendance rules for school board trustees' meetings in regulation. This would provide the flexibility in certain emergency situations to allow trustees to meet virtually during school closures;
• Enabling corporations to call and hold meetings virtually, as applicable, and extending the time period in which annual meetings must be held in specific circumstances;
• Allowing designations of a beneficiary to be provided electronically for Retirement Savings Plans, Retirement Income Funds, Locked-in Retirement Accounts, Life Income Funds and Tax-Free Savings Accounts;
• Allowing electronic filing of business registration documents, and the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services to accept copies of business registration documents and e-signatures;
• Allowing for regulations to set out the parameters for remotely commissioning or notarizing a document;
• Extending, on a one-time basis for 2020, the legislated four-year period during which a Métis Nation of Ontario (MNO) election is mandated to be held to give more time to support remote voting.

The Expenditure Estimates for the 2020-21 fiscal year were also tabled in the Legislature. This includes program spending to support the $17 billion announced as part of Ontario's Action Plan 2020: Responding to COVID-19 to ensure the province's health care system, communities, and economy are better positioned to weather challenges posed by the pandemic.

"Today's legislation is just one step further in the fight against COVID-19," said Government House Leader Paul Calandra. "We are all eager to reopen the economy and return to work, while physical distancing remains an important reality. Today's legislation helps to modernize some of our economic and community activity and make many necessary interactions that much easier and safer."

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Learn more about A Framework for Reopening our Province.
• See how your organization can help fight COVID-19.
• Information and advice to help your business navigate the economy during COVID-19.
• Visit Ontario’s website to learn more about how the province continues to protect Ontarians from COVID-19.

CONTACTS

Ivana Yelich
Premier’s Office
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Office of the Premier
http://www.ontario.ca/premier

Animal Control By-law being a by-law with respect to the regulation and control, protection and identification of dogs and for prohibiting the keeping of animals of any class thereof.