Prince Rupert Council sets increase of fees and charges for range of services and facility usage in 2022

On a night notable for the brevity for their City Council Session, the members of Prince Rupert council made quick work on providing for final approval on a schedule of fees and charges ahead for 2022,  using up just four minutes of their sixteen minute gathering on Monday evening towards that duty. 

As part of their work to put in motion the increases, Council approved the Waste Bylaw Changes and Charges for 2022, as well as the increase to Cemetery Fees for the year ahead. 

One other bylaw increase will also be finalized by years' end, as staff brought back the Recreation Fees and Charges Bylaw, the revisit required owing to some clerical and legal requirements that meant  for a redo for the vote on the Bylaws.

The revote offered up an opportunity for Councillor Gurvinder Randhawa to once again reinforce his concerns over some of the increases on Recreation items, however the bylaws proceeded forward anyways.

While the changes and new charges are not affected, the process of approval started over on Monday with First, Second and Third reading; the final approval to come at an upcoming meeting of Council, most likely one that was added to the calendar for December 13th.

None of the three items up for approval generate much in the way of discussion, other than Councillor Randhawa's thoughts on recreation fees.

You can review the full scope of all the changes for each of the Bylaws from the links below:

Solid Waste Management Bylaw (see page 11 of Agenda)

Recreation Fees and Charges (see page 42 of Agenda)

Cemetery Fees and Charges (see page 74 of Agenda)

The discussion on the items can be taken in from the City's Video Archive starting at the one minute mark, with the exception of the Cemetery bylaws which come along later in the session at the ten minute mark.

More notes on Monday's Council Session can be explored through our Council Timeline Feature.

Further items related to past Council Sessions can be found here.

For past notes on areas of Finances with the City see our archive page here.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.