News Notices and Announcements

There will be a meeting of Essex County Council on Wednesday, November 5, 2025, which is scheduled to commence at 6:00 PM. The agenda has been published, and members of the public may view or download the County Council Agenda on the County website.

The meeting will take place in accordance with By-Law 2024-26, being a by-law to provide rules governing the order and proceedings of the Council of the Corporation of the County of Essex, adopted on June 5, 2024.

Essex County Council meetings are open to the public, and limited seating is available within the Council Chambers for visitors. If you wish to attend the County Council meeting, please use the Registration Form to expedite the check-in procedure at the door. On the meeting day, registered visitors will be admitted to the Council Chambers beginning at 5:30 PM. Seats will be held for registered attendees until 5:45 PM after which time, seating will be allocated to walk-in visitors on a first come, first served basis and until capacity in the Council Chambers is reached. One registration per person is allowed. There will be no standing room or overflow seating. Once the capacity limit is reached, no further visitors will be admitted to the Council Chambers until occupied seats are vacated.

Members of the public may also access and view the County Council Meeting proceedings in other ways; by watching on YourTV Cogeco cable television or via the County Livestream (Note that the livestream will only be active once the meeting is started.)

Everyone attending County facilities or County Council meetings agrees to abide by all County of Essex policies and procedures. Review the policies and procedures here: County of Essex Policies

The County of Essex will host a Public Information Centre for its Transportation Master Plan study on Nov, 13, 2025 at the County of Essex Administration Building.

Construction and road closure updates for the County of Essex, October 24, 2025.

Thanks to a generous $30,000 grant from Enbridge Gas, each municipality in the County of Essex, plus the City of Windsor and Township of Pelee, is in the process of having a life-saving Automated External Defibrillator made permanently available outdoors – for public use at any time, on any day, year-round.

Essex-Windsor EMS is recruiting an interim Manager, Human Resources and Administration.

Did you miss last night's meeting of Essex County Council? Check out the highlights!

Construction and road closure updates for the County of Essex, October 10, 2025.

There will be a meeting of Essex County Council on Wednesday, October 15, 2025, which is scheduled to commence at 6:00 PM. The agenda has been published, and members of the public may view or download the County Council Agenda on the County website.

The Province of Ontario is providing up to $3.61 million more this year to Essex-Windsor Emergency Medical Services, to help free up paramedics faster from hospital offloading, and to help cover extra operating expenses.

The County of Essex’s Official Plan has won another prestigious award, this time as the Ontario municipal Project of the Year for 2025. It is the highest honour bestowed by the Ontario Professional Planners Institute (OPPI), and was presented at its annual PlanOn Gala recently in Kitchener.