Brockville council to vote on spending for downtown washrooms

Brockville council is to vote Tuesday on a recommendation to spend $400,000 or more on a washroom facility at the foot of Market Street West.

Council’s general committee this week recommended the full council approve the spending ahead of the 2026 budget process, allowing for a prefabricated toilet facility to be placed at the downtown location.

The site at the corner of Market Street West and Water Street has remained vacant, with a few parking spaces, since the city opted to demolish the buildings there in late 2022; the location is now considered a small park.

Last year, council approved plans to install public washrooms at the site.

A report from city staff, discussed at Tuesday’s general committee meeting, looked at two options: a traditional building, slab on grade, budgeted at