City Council Preview: Monday February 10, 2020

The third session for 2020 is looking a little familiar to that of the first of the year, one which didn't task the Council members too much and resulted in a meeting of less than seven minutes by the time they had prepared to turn off the lights for the night.

This evening there are two items on the Agenda, the first a Report from City Planner Zeno Krekic, that is related to a Development Variance Permit for a property on 8th Avenue East.

The other item listed, is a request for letters of support from a number of local organizations who are all seeking funding from the Port of Prince Rupert's Community Investment Fund.

That will be followed by an opportunity for commentary or questions from the City's Councillors,  at which point we will see if the Council members are in a chatty mood on the night, or if the evening makes for another short burst of public governance.

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

Tonight also features the second Closed Meeting for 2020, with tonight's 5PM session closed to public.

The City citing one section of the Community Charter as to why they will Close the doors tonight.

90.1  (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

and  (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; 

Last year Prince Rupert City Council hosted 18 such closed sessions.


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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.

Reports

Report from the City Planner, related to Development Variance Permit for a property on 8th Avenue East (see city attachment here)

Correspondences for Action 

Letters of Support for a number of local groups  (see pages 7 -13 of the Agenda)

Among those seeking the letters from City Council include: North Coast Regional District, Gitga'at First Nation, Fellowship Baptist Church and Pre-School, Transition Prince Rupert, Friendship House

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  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 February 10th session can be viewed here.

While our archive of all sessions for 2020 for Council is available here.


Cross posted from the North Coast Review.