City Council Preview: Monday, October 7, 2019

After nearly one month away from their duties in Council Chambers, a fairly light Agenda will greet the returning Mayor and Council members tonight.

The First Council session for October makes for the first public meeting be held since the Mayor's extensive out of town travels to Alaska in September, as well as his attendance at the annual UBCM Convention in Vancouver.

The evening starts off with a number of reports from the City Planner, Chief Financial Officer and City Communications Manger.

Council will also review the Permissive Property Tax Exemption Bylaw and hear the details of a letter to be forwarded to CN Rail to outline the City's concerns over VIA rail scheduling difficulties for the Skeena Run into the city.

The evening wraps up with Council Members offered the opportunity to raise in public forum, any items of interest or concern that they may have.

That segment of the evening's session could provide the Mayor with a chance to recap his travels to Alaska on themes of the now discontinued AMHS service to the City.

Mr. Brain and the Council members will also have an opportunity to share some of their observations from the five day UBCM convention of of late September in Vancouver.

You can review the Full Agenda Packages for the Regular Council Session from the City Website here.

Tonight also brings a return of the Closed Council Meetings, with tonight's 5PM session closed to public with the City citing four sections of the Community Charter as to why they will Close the doors tonight.

90.1 (a) personal information about an identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or another position appointed by the municipality

(e) the acquisition, disposition or expropriation of land or improvements, if the council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality

(f) law enforcement, if the council considers that disclosure could reasonably be expected to harm the conduct of an investigation under or enforcement of an enactment

(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are 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 Notice of Closed Session 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 City Planner, related to an application for Development Variance Permit for a property on Kaien Road (4 Season Maintenance). (see page 9 of the Agenda)

Report from the City Planner, related to an application for a Development Permit for a property on 7th Avenue East. (see page 19 of the Agenda)

Report from the Chief Financial Officer   -- Council will hear a report from Ms. Corinne Bomben that outlines the details of the August 2019 Financial Variance Report (see page 28 of the Agenda)

Report from the Communication Officer   -- Approval of a Communication Policy for the City of Prince Rupert (see page 33 of the Agenda)

Correspondences for Action 

Resolutions from Closed Meetings

Bylaws

Permissive Property Tax Exemption Bylaw  (see page 78 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.

In that final segment, Mayor Lee Brain will outline the terms to a letter to be forwarded to CN Rail related to the VIA Rail schedule and service to Prince Rupert.

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 7th session can be found here.

While our archive of all sessions for 2019 for Council is available here.


Cross posted from the North Coast Review