City Council Preview: Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Prince Rupert City Council settles in after the Thanksgiving Day weekend to host their final Council session for this collective, as the current council membership heads towards election day and the decision of the voters on October 20th.

Council has a short agenda for the night, set to review plans for the next refit cycle for the Digby Island/Airport Ferry as well as to how they will move forward on their plans related to the legalization of cannabis in Canada on October 17th.

The City's Financial Officer will also review the latest Financial variance report from June for Council members.

Council will also meet in a Closed Session at 5PM prior to Monday's Regular Session, the need to go behind the closed doors was explained through the Community Charter as follows:


(c) labour relations or other employee relations

 (k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

You can review the Full Agenda Packages for both the Regular Council Session and that of the Committee of the Whole from the City's website here.


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REGULAR SESSION OF CITY COUNCIL

Adoption of Agenda and Past minutes -- Mayor Brain will review the agenda for the evening and Council will adopt the minutes of past meetings.

Petitions and Delegations

Unfinished Business

Reports and Recommendations

Report from the Manager of Transportation and Economic Development --. Paul Venditelli will outline the process ahead for the refit of the Digby Island Airport Ferry, with a recommendation to award the work to a Victoria based shipyard, Point Hope Maritime.     (see page 6 of the Agenda)

Report from the Chief Financial Officer -- August 2018 Financial Variance Report -- Council will receive a report from the City's CFO Corinne Bomben making note of the city's financial snapshot as of August (see page 8 of the Agenda)

Correspondences for Action follows

Resolutions from Closed Meetings

Bylaws

Report from the City Manager Robert Long -- Re: Zoning amendment Bylaw to amend City of Prince Rupert Zoning Bylaw to permit Cannabis Retail Stores.  (see page 13 of the Agenda)

The evening will come to an end with any Additional Items as well as Reports, Questions and Inquiries from Members of Council.

Council members can also take advantage of the period to offer up any items or concerns that they have for consideration on the night.

The Live broadcast of the City Council session can be found here, a video archive of past sessions is available here.

Our items of note related to the October 9th session  can be found here.

While our archive of all sessions for 2018 for Council is available here.


Cross posted from the North Coast Review.