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What landed on Clarington Council’s desk last week 

Council correspondence · Aug 28

Clarington’s Aug. 28 Electronic Council Communications Information Package is not a meeting. It is correspondence circulated for information. Councillors can still pull an item onto a future committee agenda. Residents can speak later as a delegation.

Liberty Street North — first closure

Prep: week of Aug. 31

First closure: Sept. 9 to December 2026

Expected finish: spring 2028

Where: Liberty Street North (Regional Road 14), Longworth Avenue to north of Concession Road 3, including a new roundabout at Concession 3

Contractor: KAPP Infrastructure Inc.

Access: through traffic and pedestrians out in phase one; local and emergency access stays open

Detour: Longworth Avenue, Bowmanville Avenue, Taunton Road

Durham: 311 or 1-800-372-1102 · Supervisor Sean Anderson 289-830-4227

What is being built

New road base and asphalt, curbs, sidewalks, storm sewers, lighting and signals, a multi-use path and cycle track, plus water and sewer upgrades.

WSIB fund warning

Trent Hills circulated a resolution asking Ontario and the WSIB to review plans to eliminate the Second Injury and Enhancement Fund. The fund has offset employer costs when a workplace injury involves a pre-existing condition. Trent Hills says dropping it would raise municipal insurance costs. Clarington has not voted on this.

Newcastle BIA

June 11 minutes report a $74,649.75 balance, waived 2026 fees for picnic tables, garbage cans and stage use, Harvest Festival and Shop Clarington on Oct. 3, and a decision not to take event donations or sponsorships from local politicians in the election year. Ganaraska Conservation’s 2027 preliminary budget is listed, but no attachment was posted.

Source: Clarington ECCIP, Aug. 28, 2026