Good morning everyone and welcome to the April 25th regular meeting of council, Madam Clerk, if we can have a roll call, please.
Thank you Mayor on the roll. Councillor Poupons.
Here. Councillor Sharp, here. Councillor Spencer.
Here. Councillor Walcott.
Here. Councillor Wong.
I'm here. Councillor Wynas.
Councillor Corraw.
I'm here.
Councillor Schibou.
Present.
Councillor Chu.
Here.
Councillor Domingue.
Here. Councillor Dolly Wall.
Here.
Councillor McLean.
Here. Councillor Mean.
Here. Councillor Panner.
Here. And American conduct.
I'm here. Thank you Mayor.
Thank you.
I'm going to turn it over to my colleague.
Councillor Dolly Wall for the land acknowledgement today.
Thank you Mayor.
As we come together from around the city, I would like to acknowledge that Calvary is a place of confluence.
The Calvary, where the Boe and Alburovers meet is a place of convergence, where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally come together.
I would like to take this opportunity to acknowledge that we are gathered on the traditional territory of the Blackfoot,
which includes the Cixica, the Piccani, the Canai, First Nations,
the Ithica, Stony Nakoda, including Chinakiperspa, and Good Stony First Nations, and Stutina First Nations.
The city of Calvary is also the traditional homeland of the historic Northwest Medi.
And as home to Medi Nation of Alberta Region 3, we also acknowledge all indigenous urban Calvaryans who call this place their home.
Thank you.
Thank you very much, Councillor.
And we have a couple of acknowledgments today.
We are first acknowledging that National Day of Morning is observed each year on April 28th to remember those who lost their lives,
or suffered an injury or illness due to their work.
In 1991, the Parliament of Canada passed the Workers' Morning Day Act, making April 28th an official day of morning.
Now observed internationally.
The day of morning began here right here in Canada.
The most recent statistics from the Association of the Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada,
tells us that in 2021, 1,081 workplace fatalities were recorded in the country.
1,099 were male workers and 72 were female workers.
And among those, 18 were young workers between the ages of 15 to 24.
As of December 6th of 2021, Alberta had the highest number of injury related fatalities in Canada at 85.
With each worker tragedy, there are loved ones, family members, friends and co-workers who are directly affected, left behind and impacted.
Their lives are changed forever.
We also remember those workers who have lost their lives to COVID-19 and we comfort people that were affected by these losses.
We encourage organizations, communities and individuals to hold or support an event or to simply observe a moment of silence at 11am on April 28th
to remember those lost or who have been injured.
And please, let's make sure that we are all striving for workplace safety.
Every worker has the right to return home safe and sound at the end of each work day.
Our second acknowledgement today recognizes that May 5th is Red Dress Day.
It's the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
In the Calgary area of this day is known as the National Day of Awareness of Missing Murdered and Exploded Indigenous People.
It's been four years since the release of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls' final report and it's calls to justice.
Yet, the violence and loss continues.
On this day, we remember the Indigenous victims, survivors and families who have suffered this ongoing national tragedy.
We must do everything we can to facilitate Indigenous and family-led solutions for healing and for justice.
Recent histories marked by Indian residential schools, structural racial discrimination and resulting intergenerational trauma have led to our current crises of missing, murdered and exploited Indigenous women and girls.
Because of the continuing effects of the Indian Act, Indigenous women face insecurities related to housing, health, employment and access to services both on and off the reserve, making them more vulnerable to violence.
Indigenous women are at a greater risk of being assaulted by an intimate partner and are equally at risk of being assaulted by a stranger.
This is a clear indication of the racist and sexist underpinnings of violence against Indigenous women.
This year, Calyze, the United Nations Special Repertoire on the Rights of Indigenous People's Visited Canada.
On his final day, he delivered remarks regarding what he had experienced.
He noted that, and I quote,
In spite of the reports of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples,
Truth and Reconciliation Commission calls to action and missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls calls for justice.
The number of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls continues to increase.
It is imperative that Canada worked to implement the missing and murdered women and girls final reports calls to justice.
We all must take action to address the systemic causes of violence and ensure that we increase the safety of Indigenous people.
On the 5th of May, please take some time to commemorate missing, murdered and exploited Indigenous people and their families.
And I would ask you now to take a moment with me to remember that this violence continues and we all must stand together to end all forms of violence against Indigenous women, girls and two spirit people and find justice.
Please take a moment with me.
Thank you very much, everyone.
With that, we are moving into question period and I have three folks at the top of the list.
It'll be Councilor Penner, followed by Councilor Wynis and then Councilor Mian.
Councilor Peter, please go ahead.
Well, good morning.
As many of you know, we've started sweeping the streets and we are getting questions from citizens about how long it is taking.
And so my question for administration is having launched the program on April 17.
How's the program plan for this year?
How does it compare to previous years with respect to budget duration of the program?
And how do we manage for equipment and community growth?
And how does that compare perhaps to other jurisdictions?
Thank you for the question.
Indeed, spring cleaning started April 17th.
We expect the plan this year to be about nine weeks.
That's pretty typical.
It can range from 8 to 11 weeks over the past 10 years.
That program is pretty popular with Calgaryens.
We have about a 90% citizen satisfaction rate.
We deliver that program with 10 million dollars of funding.
And we do inventive things like making sure we sweep the streets during regular hours.
So that when folks come home from work, they have their spot back.
And that they don't have to get up to early in order for us to do the street sweeping.
We also use the same equipment and workforce that we do for.
So an ice control, pot-hole repair and construction.
So they seamlessly flow between the different functions throughout the year.
As far as benchmarking, when we compare to Edmonton, the city of Edmonton does about 1,500 kilometres per week.
For Calgary, we're about at 1,830 kilometres per week.
So quite a bit more productivity.
And when we look at benchmarking over time, we do our street cleaning with 10 million dollars.
That's 1 million less than in 2016, even with City Grove.
So the team is really looking at innovations and how we provide the service and work hard to get it cleaned up.
As soon as possible, so we can get into summer.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
So transit operators are working in a trauma-confair belt, where we ask them to go to work every day, where they are experiencing violence threats
and second-hand smoke from drug use on our transit system.
This is leading to short and long-term disability of our transit operators.
Where we then just replace that person with another person to experience the same trauma that that
operator had to go on long-term or short-term disability with.
What are we doing to stop violence and trauma for our transit operators that they are experiencing
and do the current bylaws and laws to stop smoking in and around transit and public spaces
as well as businesses not apply to drug use?
Thank you for the question.
The safety of all of our staff is of utmost importance and even one of staff is off.
We do more than just replace them for service.
We have a lot of programs to help them with rehabilitation, but we can always do more.
So we are aware across Canada that this is an issue.
During the pandemic, we did some inventive things where we installed driver shields for operator
in about a year's time at about $800 per shield, so quite a bit of innovation.
But again, there's more to do and there's things happening on our system we're concerned with.
So we are opening a dialogue with the local ETU union to have that discussion and also constantly interact
with other employees to see what other things we can do.
We're also connected to the Canadian Urban Transit Association across Canada to make sure we understand
what other jurisdictions are doing to transfer best practices as well as discussions
with both federal and provincial governments on this issue and trying to push the issue forward.
But we continue to work on it and work with our security partners with additional resources
from peace officers to police officers to make sure we're serving not just our staff but customers safely.
Thank you very much.
Thank you Mayor.
Mr Morgan here, I'm a popular gentleman this morning, so Calgary is home to many dogs and dog lovers
who want to be responsible for their pet and the planet.
Despite citizen efforts to use compostable bags, many Calgaryens are confused.
Just about advertising for pet waste bags that say words like green or biodegradable, but aren't actually
compostable in the city system. And further to that, most city parks do not offer compost bins.
What can the city do to help Calgaryen's make better composting decisions in our parks?
Thank you for the question. Indeed, we've heard a lot from Calgaryens, and even from Councillors about
this issue. So we have a pilot that we rolled out this year at two parks, Tom Campbell's Hill,
and Queen's Park Village in Ward 4 and 9. To test out the bags that we get through that collection.
So modified green bins are at those parks, and we're asking Calgaryens to use them so we can evaluate
what bags we're getting and whether they can be composted. But that's not where it stops.
We're also engaged with some partners being the youth central youth volunteer organization to
head out to stores that sell bags and make sure we have tags on each of those bags to let Calgaryens know
what's compostable and what's biodegradable to see if we can change that behavior and actually
divert more of the pet waste from the green bins or from the black bins and into green bins
and into the compost. So we'll be distributing those as well as the parks and basters will be out in
the parks, a Roman and Calgaryens of which bags to use and how to make sure that we compost their waste.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. We will move on to confirmation of the agenda. Can I get a mover for the
agenda please? Councilor Me in seconder? Councillor Petter. Thank you. Madam Clerk I will go to you
because there's some changes on the agenda and let's clarify which item is coming in which order.
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. You're right. We do have a number of procedural amendments to today's
agenda. We'll put those up on the screen for members of council in just one moment. The first item
that is to be added to today's agenda are three individual items of urgent business. The first one
being the city of Calgary 2022 annual financial report and that item is to be dealt with following
item 12.2.3 meaning this will be after the closed session. The second item of urgent business is
item 11.2 and that is the external auditor 2022 year end report and that item is to be dealt with
following the annual financial report. The third item of urgent business to be added to today's
agenda is item 11.3 and that will be joint planning area context study in terms of reference for Calgary
Metropolitan Region Board. In addition to those items of urgent business, there's two more items to
be set as time specific. The first one is item 9.3.8 and that is a notice of motion enhancing investment
and mobility infrastructure through the seasonal operational savings and that item has been requested
to be dealt with following the dinner recess. The next time specific item is item 9.3.9 and a notice of
motion reinvest on street parking revenue for street services and that is to be dealt with following
item 9.3.2. And then lastly, there is a request to update item 10.2.1 which is the Calgary Airport
Authority Annual Presentation to be dealt with at 4 p.m. today as a time specific item. So those are
all the changes to today's agenda and mayer if you would like it be happy to go over the procedures
for the remaining items afterwards. Okay, and I will also clarify that item 12.2.2 and 12.2.3 will be the
first items that we go to after we get through consent. That's correct. And we will be suspending
procedure by law around breaks today to make sure that we can have breaks to the call of the
chair as we have many items to get through and we have special guests at lunch. So that is something
that we will do as we approach the break times. I also want to clarify that the urgent items of
business that are being added. The two financial reports as well as the one report from intergovernmental
affairs. Those are all time sensitive. I want to make a clarification that the items that are
being brought by CFO male. They come at this time every year. What happens every year, though, is we
have to call a special meeting of council because we miss that period of time between audit committee
and the approvals having to be done. This year we are fortunate that we can do it as part of the council
meeting. So that's why those are coming and there's appointments that must be made in relation to
the governmental affairs and that is something that we were granted an extension on and we need to get
through at this meeting. So that's the rationale. I see we have a question from councilor
Puppence. The move the item version. It's been moved on seconded councilor Puppence.
That was for the consent agenda. Does this second part added by Clarice need to be moved as well?
This would be the agenda as amended. Is that correct, Madam Clark or do we need an amendment?
Thank you, Mayor. We need an amendment for the agenda. Okay. So councilor Puppence will be moving
us who would like to second it. Councilor Demong. Thank you very much. I don't see anybody
wishing to debate. This, can I just do a voiceful, Madam Clark? Yes, please. Is there anyone
opposed to the amendment? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Going back to the agenda as
amended. We have a mover. We have a seconder. Madam Clark, do we need to do anything else on that?
Just a vote on that item, please. All right, was vote. Is there anyone opposed to the agenda as amended?
Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. We will go to confirmation of the minutes.
Councilor Shibou. Yeah, I happy to report your worship that my eyes have improved enough that I'm
able to read through things in detail and I saw no errors or missions and have to move
all four sets unless somebody saw something I did. Thank you very much. I would like to second that.
Councilor Shibou. Thank you very much. I'll just do a voice vote on the minutes. Is there anyone opposed to the
minutes? Seeing and hearing none, those are carried which brings us to the consent agenda. Can I get a mover,
please? Councilor Tallywell, seconded by Councillor Wong. Does anyone have anything on the consent agenda?
Councillor. Councillor Shibou, are you on the consent agenda? Yeah, please go ahead. I believe my self
and Councillor Claymore would like to pull the same item 7.4. 7.4? 7.4? Okay.
Can I go to Councillor McLean? Yeah, I should vote just to pull that out. I was going to pull so.
Good. Thank you. If I can ask, is it just to vote against or do you have questions?
Just to vote against. Just to vote against? Okay, great. That'll make it easy.
I will now go to Councillor Chu, please. Thank you, Councillor. The poll 7.9 to vote against. Thank you.
Perfect. So that's just to vote against. So when those items come up after regular item,
there's a section when they come up. These are just to be straight votes. There's no discussion on
these. Thank you for clarifying that everyone. So on the consent agenda as amended. Madam clerk,
can I just do a voice vote? Yes, please. All right. Is there anyone opposed to the consent agenda as amended?
Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Now, I have a very important job to do here to
introduce you to some special guests. We can see them in the audience with us. This is Buchanan School
everyone. Teachers name is Alex Gilbert. I had the pleasure of hanging out with these fine folks yesterday
for about 50 minutes. It's a great group of students, great volunteers, great teacher. And the big
question they're asking is what can we do to protect and promote urban nature in our city?
And I think you're going to be going out in about on a walk or two to get in touch with nature. Is that right?
Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Well, thank you for being here with us today. And please stand so we can
congratulate you for being here. Thank you very much for coming. You're representing your
school very well. All right. We can get to the regular items on the agenda now. Madam clerk is that correct?
The first items on today's agenda will be the motion to move into closed for items 12.2.2 and 12.2.3.
Excellent. If we can get that motion brought up, please.
Council's sharp is going to move that. Can I get a seconder? Councilor Mian, thank you very much.
Council, you have the motion before you to move into closed session for these two items.
I will ask you to go to eScribe to vote, please.
Thank you, Mayor Gondick. It's just been brought up.
My attention that not all the external members that are being invited to this meeting have been
included in the motion. If I could please ask you to cancel that vote, we'll add the additional
names and we will recaster. Okay. I will declare that that vote is canceled. There are some
emissions in the names that must be included. We will remedy that right now. Thanks for catching that.
Mayor Gondick, the vote has been recast. Everyone, you can see what the changes are on screen before
you please go to eScribe to vote.
Councillor Putments, your vote, please. Thank you. Councillor Shabou, your vote, please.
Yes. Thank you.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in. Could you display the results, please?
That's carried unanimously. Madam Clerk, you have a request to speak. One last item, Mayor,
and just a reminder to look for general consent to modify the recestives. Okay.
Do I have general consent, as I mentioned earlier, to modify recestives, everyone? Is anyone
opposed to that? All right. Thank you very much. That is carried. We will go into close session
and we will rejoin you when we're ready to rise and report. Thank you, everyone. Please log out of
teams. This public teams, you will get a link for close session. Thank you.
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on the roll. Councilor Chu.
Councilor Dimon. Councilor Dollywell.
Councilor McLean. Councilor Mian.
Here. Councilor Panner. Councilor Pupens.
Here. Councilor Sharpe. Here. Councilor Spencer.
Here. Councilor Walcott. Councilor Wong.
I'm here. Councilor Wynas. Councilor Corraw.
I'm here. Councilor Shabo.
I'm here. Thank you, mair.
All right, everyone.
We are moving on to timed business.
That was brought to us as urgent business.
It will be CFO mail.
And her team presenting two items sort of concurrently.
11.1 is the annual financial report.
And 11.2 is the external auditor 2022 year and report.
So whenever you are ready, please go ahead.
Thank you.
I have a couple of opening comments and then
if council so wishes we can present the same presentation
that we made at audit committee.
So you have in your package the annual financial report.
And it is part of the city's commitment.
Sorry, I should be standing.
One second.
Part of the city's commitment to providing effective governance
increased accountability, transparency, and a well-run city.
This year's report provides a comprehensive view of the 2022
consolidated financial statements,
highlighting the city's commitment to prudent cost
management savings and positive operating cash flows.
The consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with
principles and standards established by the public sector accounting board
of chartered professional accountants of Canada.
The city expects to receive an unmodified audit opinion from the
external auditor Deloite LLP.
This means the consolidated 2022 financial statements are presented fairly
in all material respects.
In accordance with Canadian generally accepted accounting principles.
Throughout 2022, the city demonstrated resilience
and remained focused on supporting calgarians and its ongoing economic recovery.
The city continued assisting calgarians in need, ensuring delivery
of essential services without interruptions, making strategic
investment in infrastructure and supporting business opportunities
and financial sustainability.
I wish to thank our external auditor Deloite and especially Harman Gill, the partner,
and their field staff for their independent audit work.
I'd also like to thank Administration and the Finance staff for their
hard work and dedication required to produce this annual financial report.
Please note that the final published version of the 2022 annual financial report
may include very minor presentation changes that might be identified
subsequent to providing the version that you have that was the package
to audit committee and those are my opening remarks.
If you would like, we could offer the presentation that we made at audit committee.
Thank you. I look to Council just to see if there is a request for a presentation.
I'm not seeing any.
I will move to Councillor Putman's then to open unless there's any questions.
Is there any questions before that?
Just give a moment, misseeming there isn't.
Calgo to you, Councillor Putman's.
Thank you, Chair. I'd be honored to move this. Thank you very much.
If I may. At point of perhaps we've recognized the year so go about it to repeat
the award you won. Congratulations to the you and the Finance team.
I'm being awarded the Government Finance Officer's Association Canadian Award
for Financial Reporting.
I wish I could give you a big kind of applause.
And with that moved.
Thank you.
Do we are going to move them and second them together as one clerks?
I'll do it independently.
We'll start with a seven point or 11.1.
11.1.
And do you want to second that? Councillor Spencer?
Okay, great.
And then we'll move to E-Sprim.
E-Sprim.
Can the mayor vote?
Okay, she was just, she just was lingering in the background.
I wanted to clarify.
Clarefication.
Councillor Croyer, vote, please.
Thank you.
Councillor Penner, your vote, please.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That's carried unanimously.
That takes us to the next item, which is 11.2.
And it is the same mover and seconder as a correct.
Yes, please.
All right.
Thank you.
I don't see anybody in the queue.
So we can go to E-Sprim to vote.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried unanimously as well.
Thank you very much for those two reports.
All right.
Now we're going to go way back.
Madam Clerk, which item are we?
It is item 9.2.1, which is public member appointments to the Calgary Aboriginal Urban Affairs Committee.
We do not have a formal presentation, but Deputy City Clerk Jeremy Fraser is here to answer any questions that Council might have about the appointment.
Okay.
So Council, this is a pretty straightforward process.
Does anybody need to go into closed session on this item at all?
Okay.
With no need to do so, can I get a mover, please?
Councillor Shibhol, seconded by Councillor Spencer.
Thank you very much.
I don't see anybody in the queue.
Do you have anything you wish to add?
Councillor Shibhol, where are we going to go?
No.
I'm not really personally.
I think I'm happy to support the recommendation as before.
So what do I have to say?
Okay.
Thank you.
All right, everyone.
Eescribe to vote, please.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
That takes us to our next item of business, which is 9.2.2.
This is the same sort of situation, Madam Clerk.
Very similar, Mayor Gondick.
This is the 2023 Calgary Awards recipients for the WO Mitchell Book Prize.
12 out of the 13 Calgary Awards recipients were ratified by Council and March.
The final Calgary Award recipients to be ratified are presented with this report.
No formal presentation, but Deputy City Clerk Jeremy Fraser is here to answer any questions.
Fantastic.
Councillor Penner, you'd like to move this one.
Yeah, I'd love to move this item.
I have been reading my way through all of the books on this list.
So I am, be marginally open the attachment as a spoiler.
But I won't spell it all for you.
But as a lever of books and a lever of words, the, all of, I will just say this.
All of the books that were nominated.
I've, um, are absolutely fantastic and telemasing stories of Calgaryens.
Um, and I would encourage more people to pick them up and read them.
So with that moved.
Thank you.
Can I get a second or second or second for me?
Thank you very much.
I don't see anybody in the queue.
Do you have anything to add Mr Fraser?
I noticed you come up.
Mayor Gondick.
I just wanted to, if I may just indulge me for a moment.
I just wanted to just make a quick thank you to the writer's guild of Alberta for their
partnership on supporting this award.
And particularly, I want to thank the jury members, Christina Reynolds, Catherine of Bass,
and Ashley Allen for all the hard work they did to vet the finalists.
Thank you very much for that.
Um, and does anyone need to go into closed session on this one?
All right.
Seeing and hearing none.
Anything to close accounts for better?
Great.
Let's go to the vote on eScribe.
Please.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
We are on to item 9.2.3.
Thank you, Mayor Gondick.
On this item, amendments to the procedure by law and councillors budgets and expenses by law.
We do have a brief presentation for council.
If one would be suitable, due to the nature of the technical amendments that we have prepared
Thank you, Mayor and Council. I will just try to go through this presentation, understanding
is a busy day. I'll try to go through this as quickly as possible, but we did want to take a moment
to highlight some of the changes that are being brought forward. Next slide, please.
A recommendation is that Council amend the procedure bylaw and the Council's budgets and expenses bylaw
by giving three readings to the proposed by law 20m, 2023, set up an attachment one. Next slide, please.
So the proposed amendments that are before Council today are really spurred by a decision
that Council made on report CSC 2023-088, and that was really to direct administration to prepare
procedure bylaw amendments to delete a particular section of the Council Services Committee,
mandate, and powers with respect to award community of end fund applications, and report back to council
no later than April 25. We had some other amendments to the procedure bylaw that we were working on at that time
when we thought it had been stages to bring them forward together as one report for Council.
Those include, excuse me, improving the alignment of the procedure bylaw with the change
to the Municipal Government Act requirements for electronic meetings that were brought about last year
in Bill 21, and also to make some improvements to the standard order of business for some council meeting types.
As part of the overall changes to the work community event fund, also changes to the Council
budgets and expenses bylaw just to make Council's responsibilities for making funding decisions
on work community event fund applications clear in that bylaw. Next slide, please.
And so this is really just highlighting those two changes with respect to the work community event fund.
The Council Services Committee mandate would be changed to remove that, and then the Council
budgets and expenses bylaw would be amended to clarify the Council's responsibilities
for making those decisions. Next slide, please.
There are a number of technical amendments to the procedure bylaw that are coming to light.
The provincial government passed Bill 21, the Red Tape Reduction Statute to Member
Act last year, and that brought about changes in the Municipal Government Act that
determined how various procedure bylaws of various municipalities address electronic meetings.
So some of the changes that have had to be incorporated into the procedure bylaw include defining the
type or types of electronic means by which meetings are authorized to be held, for example,
Microsoft Teams or phone bridges and that type of technology. In the amendments, the procedure bylaw
we're proposing the city clerk becomes the responsible for determining the exact type or system
used for remote participation. Also, the procedure bylaw has now a
semines that allow for requiring the identity of each council or attending the meeting to be confirmed
by various methods. So there's always a role called by voice that the city clerk can do or in close
session, there's always the authority in the chair of the chair. Excuse me, through these
amendments to request that members participating in close session turn on their cameras to participate
in and identify themselves in the meeting. There are also a series of amendments of respecting
the way in which members of the public can access meetings and make submissions and find out
information about council meetings and those are we incorporated into the amendments,
requirements for pre-registration and for members of the public and also ensuring they have
access to phone throughout the dates that they can participate in council meetings. And of course,
we always have and we've reiterated now through these amendments. The availability of information
respecting council meetings on the city's website, whether that be noticing meetings or agendas.
And then there's the variety of housekeeping amendments that really just clean up some references
to the Municipal Government Act sections. Next slide, please. Excuse me. So there are also
finally some order of business changes. So we're making some proposed amendments or it's a
destined some proposed amendments to the procedure by law to allow for clear destinations for
items that are pulled from consent on the in the standard order of business for council meetings and also
allowing that where items are pulled from consent by members that they can be at the chair's discretion
dealt with immediately following the omnibus motion for the consent agenda. In terms of recognitions,
we are proposing the addition of erecting dissonance section to the public hearing standard order
of business. Of course, we're using this meeting type more this year than we did in previous years.
And we found that there have been a few isolated exceptions where having that section on the agenda
would be advantageous. And finally, with respect to urgent business, we certainly heard from council
that public hearing accessibility is a priority. And we of course continue to work on that in the
city clerk's office. However, we do always recognize that there are exceptional circumstances where
urgent business cannot wait. And so to avoid inconveniencing the public wherever possible,
urgent business is being proposed to be placed on the public hearing meetings of council standard order
of business after public hearings are concluded. Next slide, please. So that really wraps up the
presentation and I'm happy to answer any questions about the post amendments.
Thank you very much. I'm going to clarify a couple of things. I've got folks in the queue who
wish to move in second. Councillor Wong, do you also have questions?
Councillor Shabou, do you also have questions? Okay, thank you. Then I'm going to go to council
sharp first, please. Sorry, I don't have questions. I have just some debate to support.
My bad. Okay, don't worry. Councilor Spencer, is it debate or questions?
Debate. Okay. Then let's turn to councilor Shabou to move the item, please. Thank you.
Happy to introduce and move the recommendations. Thank you for those housekeeping amendments.
I don't think there's something we really had much of a chance to discuss in advance,
but all the other amendments we did get a chance to talk about, including the allocation of
ward budgets or ward community event funds. That was primary genesis for this. I do believe
council, ultimately, members of council make the decision. It should be them that makes final
decision and not this community committee, so I support the recommendations. Again, thank you, Mr. Fraser,
for all those additional textual amendments and happy to address any issues in my close.
Thank you. The item is being seconded by Councillor Wong. I'll go to council sharp for debate.
Thank you. I'm also very happy to support these. One of the things is that when you
drafted the original lowest emotion for the council service committee, we looked at including the
ward community event fund approvals because it's a function that previously belonged to the
coordinator committee of the council's office. The process hadn't been totally updated, but especially
that these are ward specific approvals. I think with the committee meeting orderly makes more
sense for those people to be made by individual counselors themselves, I would say I think we've
even kind of discussed this at committee was, we see issues. We can bring those forward, but right now,
I think this is the direction to go, so I have no issues supporting these and all the other amendments.
So, thank you so much. Thanks, Councillor Shibou for your leadership on this.
Thank you, Councillor Spencer, please.
Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted in a spirit of celebrate the things you want to see repeated. Thank you,
colleagues, for the way you are using this committee so far. I had some concerns about it turning into
something that would pull time out of our, this is great work. Thank you, thank you, Councillor Panner,
for keeping me updated on what's happening on this committee. Thank you, Councillor Shibou, for the
good work that you're spearheading. That's it. I'm happy to vote yes.
Thank you. I see no one else in the queue. I'll go to you to close, please. Councillor Shibou.
Thank you. It's open set. Close. Thank you. He described to vote everyone.
Councillor Chuyer, vote please. Yes. Thank you. Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please? That is carried unanimously. Kind of a theme today.
All right, let me go to the readings of the by-law. First reading of by-law, 20m, 2023, anyone opposed hearing
none that is carried, second reading of by-law, 20m, 2023, anyone opposed hearing none that is carried,
authorization for third reading of by-law, 20m, 2023, anyone opposed hearing none that's carried unanimously,
third reading of by-law, 20m, 2023, anyone opposed hearing none that is carried. Thank you very much.
We will move on to item 9.2.4, which is, I'm not missing anything, am I? No, okay good.
Which is a progress update on safe and inclusive access, GM Black, any time you're ready?
Well, thank you and good afternoon, Mayor Gondick and members of Council. I am Katie Black,
the general manager for community services and very pleased to be with you this afternoon,
just to provide a brief progress update on safe and inclusive access. This is, of course,
the commitment that we made coming out of a decision the Council took just last month,
about approving a new by-law, called safe and inclusive access by-law, and also an amendment to
the public behavior by-law, both of those enacted on March 14. I do want to acknowledge before I go further
that the subject matter that we are discussing includes disturbing content about lived experiences
of hate, transphobia, and homophobia that may be triggering and traumatic for some.
With that, I'd ask that we go to the next slide, please. You'll see that we have two recommendations,
one is to receive this progress report for information. The other is to direct administration,
to monitor the utilization of the safe and inclusive access by-law, and come back to Council,
of course, with any recommended amendments that may be indicated. Next slide, please.
So in essence, the report describes three or sorry four themes that we have identified so far. We
have seen a decline in specified protests that are targeting the two SLGBTQIA plus community,
although I would acknowledge that protests at reading with royalty events have continued to occur.
We've seen a high level of voluntary compliance by most protesters. We've also heard about enhanced
sense of safety and reduced anxiety in staff working in wreck facilities and libraries.
And finally, we undertook an online survey. It was completed by over 460 members of
the 2 SLGBTQIA plus community and of group experiencing exclusion and discrimination over the course of
six days. So that's a pretty extraordinary response rate to have received in such a short period of time.
And of those that we heard from 32% of the survey participants reported feeling safer in public spaces.
62% reported that they didn't had an experience to change in their level of safety, at least not yet.
Next slide, please. We have a couple of graphs to show you protests in general are continuing
in similar numbers to what we have seen historically in Calgary. This graph, you'll recognize a
simplified version of something that's in attachment to shows the number of weekly protests
occurring in Calgary. And so the green line, the upper line, shows all protests that have occurred
on a wide range of subjects. And the red line shows the number of weekly specified protests occurring
at wreck centers in libraries. You can see that the green line, though it fluctuates from week to week,
has remained relatively consistent since the bylaws were passed. We can see that the red line
up and down. But the red line, lower down, shows the decline in the number of weekly specified protests
since the bylaw came into effect. So this tells us or suggests that the new bylaw is not preventing
protests from occurring, but instead has shifted the time, manner and location of specified protests.
And that was the intent. Next slide, please. So here's a different way of looking at the data that
we've gathered in this first month and a bit since we were operating with the new bylaw in place.
This is identifying, excuse me, sorry, the specified protests that we've seen again looking at what
changed at March 14th. So very similar story, but what the gray bars on the right-hand side are
describing is a forecast analysis. So they identified the number of protests that we could have anticipated
would have occurred if we had continued with the trend that we were seeing before March 14th.
After the safe and inclusive access bylaw was passed, the number of specified protests taking place at
libraries and wreck facilities dropped. Oops, if you can just go back, you can see that those red bars.
In the trend that we were seeing previously. Now on to the next slide.
This is where we knew a little bit of fancy footwork with the animations. We wanted to surface
a number of questions that we've heard over the last little while. So the first was how
many protesters have been attending specified protests, and you can see that the number
of protesters has varied. Sometimes, as few as one, sometimes as many as 20.
The second question to identify is that we've asked it, or we've heard
questions about how many violations or court challenges we've had. And click.
If we look at the answer to that one, there have been six safe and inclusive access violations
for street harassment violations. There have not been any court challenges to date.
We've been asked how is the new bylaw being applied to advocacy groups?
Oh, I love how we're doing this. Thanks. So in terms of response to advocacy groups,
the bylaw is applied equally to all groups engaging in a specified protest. So far, to date,
the messaging and protest and presence of individuals who support the 2SLGBTQIA
plus community have not met the definition of a specified protest under the bylaw. But the bylaw
would be applied consistently. The next question is about how intimidation in the public behavior
bylaw is being interpreted by enforcement teams. And what we can say about this is that adding intimidation
to the public behavior bylaw's definition of harassment or of harass makes intimidation
and explicit qualifier. So it just makes it clearer in determining whether an offense has occurred.
And finally, we've been asked how we will monitor this bylaw over time. And what I can assure you is that bylaws
utilization is regularly monitored by administration in all cases. So with any bylaw,
including these ones, but with other bylaws as well, if administration sees the need for changes,
we would make this recommendation to council. Next slide, please. So with that, we return to the 2 recommendations that you saw at
the beginning of this presentation first to receive this program update for the corporate record for information
and secondly, to direct administration to do as I was just describing in the previous slide
to monitor the utilization of the safe and inclusive access bylaw and as necessary, return to council with any recommended amendments.
With that, I will end my presentation and I have a team from across administration that has been tracking this and are standing by to answer your questions.
Thank you very much. I have a question from council. Why miss in the queue?
Thanks. With this bylaw, is there a lawyer on standby for peace officers to call before they issue a ticket?
I might ask a colleague from law to speak to this a little bit further, but what I know is that we have ongoing communication with law any time
that we have a new bylaw coming into effect or if there is complexity with a bylaw, so we always have law and stand by to make sure we're interpreting appropriately.
Would you like to expand?
Thank you. Yes, no exactly what GM Black said. Particularly we have something new. We have lawyers available to provide background and it's one of the nice things about having an in-house legal
department is that we are available to answer those questions.
How many of us in the past?
Okay, somebody needs to be pleased.
Is that better?
Everyone is in here.
We won't be judged.
Or someone online seems to be gone.
Councillor Wynis, please go ahead.
How many bylaws in council's history have ever had a lawyer live in a person before bylaws, for bylaw to call before issuing a ticket?
Perhaps I can speak to that. So we support our clients as best we can in the need and some of the matters that are bylaw enforcement officers deal with are very routine and very typical and some are not.
And so we are able to provide the support that they need in the map for the matters that require the support.
So I don't have a number. We've been enforcing bylaws for many, many years.
Yeah, so this is kind of the first one. The reason I'm asking this is.
Sorry, may I clarify this is not the first one at all.
Okay, well, when I asked it behind scenes, it was essentially that was the answer I thought.
Does that mean we need to do an amendment for the language to make it clear for enforcement to understand?
That's my question to ask you.
I want to go with the lawyer being on call.
And with working with them, police officers calling you, have you seen an opportunity to change a language for them to easily, more easily understand the line of enforcement with this bylaw?
I think that it's still early days.
We are at what I think it's six weeks.
I think that we have struck the right balance at this point.
And so I wouldn't suggest or recommend an amendment.
Certainly, it's about educating the public.
It's about educating our peace officers.
We have a very a great synergy with the peace officers.
And that they do feel that they can call if they have questions.
And that's what they've been doing.
And I would suggest we continue down that road at this point.
Okay.
And then of those six violations, what was the fine amount?
Was there any jail time for me to go?
Chief Plakitis will be able to explain this.
He was just explaining it to me.
And where we are in the process.
The short answer is we don't have the answer yet.
But Chief Plakitis, can you explain a little bit more about how to answer?
Thanks for the question.
So when we're issuing violations under this bylaw,
we're issuing a long-form summons.
Where the courts can impose a fine of up to $10,000 per offense.
So we do that for a number of reasons.
We've dealt with several individuals where they've received multiple violations.
And it's one way to include multiple charges on one form instead of issuing multiple tickets.
We want to ensure that we're avoiding bad actors who may just pay the
the specified fine and as it costs to do in business and continue to break the bylaw.
And it also because of the newness of the bylaw, as we were just speaking of,
it's an opportunity for us to have a pre-charge conference with law
just to make sure that the facts are present and they warrant the issuance of a ticket.
So if I may just to summarize the punchline that I took away from this is
that this will be decided by a judge and I don't think any of the issues have come before the court yet.
So then we're just waiting for those long-form summons to make it before a judge.
We anticipate that these charges will be contested in court and when that happens,
if found guilty, it's at the discretion of the courts to impose a penalty of up to $10,000.
So I think in the slides we were a little bit only said no court challenges, we're still
we should have articulated that a little differently considering what we've issued.
And then we said 62% feel they don't feel this has helped them in anyway.
And I can see why when the protesters have just removed their signs and then therefore they get to have that loophole
in their protest and yet most people going to reading rainbow, no people standing within that zone with no signs
that are protesting.
Do we have a privilege?
Yeah.
The program is not called reading rainbow.
It is called reading with royalty.
I think if we're going to...
Reading with royalty.
Okay.
Because I was confusing in different programs.
But when I drove by, I noticed that conflict and tension is still in the air for people attending.
And if we're getting a survey result from the community that say 60% or 62% feel they didn't get that
change or that support.
How can we get that amendment so that those 62% feel that we actually met their needs?
I would say that as Ms. Davies answered in answer to one of your previous questions.
These are early days.
We have made a change that we believe is a good change.
We've seen evidence of progress.
The fact that not everyone has experienced the change right away I think is reasonable in the period of time
that we've had to work with at this point.
So I don't think there's any indication that we need to change.
We do need to stay the course and continue to observe what's working and certainly continue to keep our ears open
and make sure that we are responding to community need.
Okay.
And so only your next update be able to guess if we're...
Well, it'll be after the summons make it through the courts or how will we communicate the success of that?
Well, as I said, the recommendation as it's written is that we would come back to you.
When we see that there's indication.
So if something has changed that makes us think, oh, this bylaws not working the way we had intended we'd certainly come back to you.
That's our recommendation.
Okay.
Thanks.
Councillor Wong, please.
Thank you, Mayor.
This is probably some of not sure if you can answer this one.
I understand, I understand of course.
I understand we've got the 100 meter separation.
I've been in places where there have been protests.
But the protests as much as they maintain 100 meters,
it's the fact that they're using megafones to, you know,
really blast across 100 meters to people walking back for it.
What did we do to enforce that?
Well, it would be very facts specific.
I mean, we would have to look at the volume of the noise it's being generated.
You know, we have decibel meter readers that can determine the decibel levels that are being emitted from those devices.
We have to look at the nature of the surrounding area and be at noise.
We're receiving any complaints.
So there have been some circumstances where we have been able to enforce our community standards bylaw
and the noise provisions that are captured within that bylaw.
And there's other situations when we assess it and it just doesn't meet the threshold for us to take enforcement action.
So you're talking about, again, the noise level.
I'm talking about the message that goes across.
You know, again, walking 100 meters away and when somebody makes derogatory statements,
calls out people, those messages are, I guess, where my concerns are.
Yes, especially to young ears.
Sorry, I misunderstood your question.
We do still have our public behavior bylaw that contains the harassment provisions.
As you know, last time we're here, we modified the definition to include intimidation.
So it's any humiliation, causing reasonable offense intimidation.
Based on those protected grounds, it's not limited to that, but that's explicit in the bylaw.
Then we can move forward with with charges under under that particular bylaw.
But it is up to us to prove beyond reasonable doubt that someone has committed the offense.
So I think just over the last five weeks, since the bylaws being in effect, you see a number of charges issued under the safe and inclusive access bylaw.
You also see a number of charges under the public behavior bylaw for offenses, as you've just described.
The presumption, though, is that a piece of officer is there to witness to take note and to try to check it.
But again, in situations, you are not always there.
So again, what can we say to the public within this bylaw that physical separations, one thing, the audio sort of messaging and interference with other people's,
you know, quiet enjoyment of their, how can we reinforce that, you know, please not blast in people's ears, your message.
Again, when, when you are not there, how do we let the people know that they, they shouldn't be doing that?
I get it, and it is, it comes with enforcement challenges, but we do encourage people to call through on one if they have been victims of harassment.
And, you know, if, if there's multiple individuals there that overheard the messaging that qualifies as harassment, that's helpful.
You know, multiple witness statements forms oftentimes people capture sound images on their mobile device, which is also can be used in prosecution.
So it's really just trying to capture what the person's experience, either on a witness statement form, or digitally, and then contacting three on one, so we can review that evidence and see if we can move forward with the charge.
Okay.
If we just aim on any enforcement side of the equation, I'm just saying, in the bylaw, is there something that we could really say to people?
You know, this is not acceptable behavior, this is not, you know, how can we, how can we get the public message out there, not to do it.
Regardless of whether you, you see it, whether regardless of what citizens report it, we just want them not to do it.
Yeah, yeah, so, so, so last fall we launched a campaign to encourage people to contact three one one.
This year we've been chatting with our anti-racism team about revamping that and needs to be more than just directing people to call the city.
It's, we need to really focus on behavioral change.
So we're looking at a number of strategies to revamp our public education campaign to really make sure that the public understands the issue and the seriousness of the issue and hopefully to encourage less of these types of incidents.
Or even if you're a bystander to also capture what you've observed and then reported.
If I may add to that, the one other thing that I think is worth taking us back to is a point that was early in my presentation, which is that voluntary compliance is high.
And so while we're talking about specific situations where enforcement may be indicated, the fact that we've seen the reductions that we have tells us that voluntary compliance is occurring.
And that's one of the fundamentals of all of our laws and by-laws, is that we don't count on enforcement to set the standard.
We count on people to understand that these are the rules that we've agreed on to create a safe and respectful community.
And as a general rule, people choose to follow those.
And I appreciate a general blocker.
Yes, I can say.
I'm sorry.
Add one more piece. Council all during the budget process has approved two community liaison officer positions. These are new for us.
A lot of their focus is going to be chatting with young people and high schools and engaging racialized and indigenous communities to listen and to find out how we can better tailor our services to support those communities as well.
And I think if we just rely solely on just ticket books and we're never going to move the needles.
So it has to be a comprehensive approach to addressing issues around hate.
We're looking at leveraging technology to be able to understand that a more granular level of different types of hate symbols that we're seeing across the city is another example.
We are working very closely with the anti racism team and putting together a comprehensive plan to be able to be more impactful and not just rely on peace officers to be able to take it somebody.
I think the answer is looking forward to more.
What you just as a previous which is education, culture change, orientation, you know what proper behavior should be sold.
That's I think the solution I was looking for. Thank you.
Councillor Sharp please.
Thank you. Thanks for bringing this back as a progress update. I'm happy to see this and to say have I have like literally one question or two questions in a question.
This file was put in place basically to respond to the specific ongoing concern.
It is something administration recommends we keep enforced permanently or is it something that we should review and if and when these particular protests aren't a longer taking place.
Will it is at the hope here.
Councillor Sharp we have a range of bylaws on the books and we aren't using all of them for enforcement every day or every week as a general rule.
If it makes sense for them to continue to remain on the books we would do that if there was some reason we thought we ought to take it.
Thank you.
I mean I'm just going to offer a little bit debate but it's good to hear that you know it's working and people are feeling more safe and more comfortable using the public facilities so we're happy to support this update.
Thanks for being here today.
Thank you very much. I don't see any other questions. I'll go to Councillor Walcott to move this please.
You know six weeks ago when we did this there was a lot to get through the discussion to really just thank you all for the work that you were doing.
I think the significance of this really follows into place with how flexible it's actually going to be.
For the most part when we look at what it means to have a specified protest on.
Protected grounds are some significant flexibility that even if we were to just extrapolate our understanding of the world a year and a half.
There have been several that have been arguably.
Violating the concept of the protected grounds but we didn't have anything in place to have that discussion unless it reached a criminal threshold.
I'm really grateful you know and I know that a lot of conversations have been had from for a while about the concept of like virtue signaling but I've always loved it.
Because of the idea that virtue is when you put out your sense of morality and what you believe to be right and if this is the kind of work that council does to tell people what we believe to be right.
We believe to be right and what we believe to be moral. I'm proud to stand behind it any day so signal away so with that I move.
Thank you seconded by Councillor Ketter.
We don't see anybody else in the queue to debate over to you to close councilor Walcott.
I'm closed.
Thank you. He's subscribed to vote everyone.
Councillor McLean your vote please.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in could you display the results please.
That's carried unanimously.
Thank you very much.
Now the next item 9.3.1 I believe has something happening with it and I'm going to go to councilor Shabo to tell us what that is.
Thank you, Mayor.
So I've been advised by administration that following our discussions at committee that they have been working on an amended policy to this by law.
As this by law, it's not exclusively limiting our ability to access funding for our expenditures.
This is by law applies to all employees and we are by association tied into this by law and they are in the process of reviewing it more comprehensively because they agree that what is what was approved may not necessarily meet their objectives.
And I think it deserves a little more rigorous first discussion as well.
Insofar as limitations that we may have wanted to impose on ourselves that would have the unintended consequence of also impacting our employees.
So my understanding is that administration is doing a comprehensive review of this in comparing us with other municipalities and other business units that will have an update sometime in.
And I do have an amendment proposed to the Madam Clerk as and I can't remember the exact date, but this can be a second.
I can get my eyes working again.
The proposed update would be coming back to the council services committee on December 7th.
Obviously they have a lot of work on our plates, but this is your list they believe they can come back with with some recommendations that will ultimately make this by law.
Better for all. So my recommendation is that we refer this back to administration to report back to the Council Services Committee by December 7th 2023.
This is being seconded by Councillor Sharp. It is on your screen.
Does anyone have any questions regarding this item?
Seeing and hearing none over to you to close Councillor Shabo.
Thank you. Members Council and looking forward to having further debate on December 7th.
Of course.
All right. You subscribe to vote everyone.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
If you can display the results please.
That is carried surprised unanimously.
That takes us to item 9.3.2, which is a proposed special tax by law.
Thank you, Mayor. This is a typical special tax by law that we do for enhanced maintenance.
We do not have a presentation. It is for 27 communities seeking support under this file.
I have the director of parks and open space here. Should there be any questions?
All right. I will leave it for questions for a minute here.
I see someone to move and someone to debate. I don't see questions so over to you, Councillor Panner.
I may be right now this procedure before.
I think there are questions about this program that a lot of Councillors have.
We will be happy to hear the debate.
This is a program that Council wants review.
I look forward to hearing that and some ideas of how we can move forward with this.
Thank you. Seconded by Councillor Demong.
I will go over to Councillor Shabo.
Well, not many of you have heard my debate on this, but some of the old members of Council have heard my debate on this matter.
Well, I appreciate the amount of rigor that went into getting approval from the individual communities to get this enhanced landscaping by law,
approved for their own individual communities.
I'm very much of the opinion as many of my residents that this type of service should be provided equally to all members of the city.
Our taxation system is structured in such a fashion that is designed to be based on ability to pay.
Well, some communities are maybe more affluent than others and have greater ability to pay for enhanced levels of service.
Those communities that don't have that same level of disposable income to pay for more enhanced service.
And don't get the benefit of this by law.
So I believe that this is a service that should be provided equally to all residents across the city.
And just because some communities may have a greater ability to pay than others.
They shouldn't be given an enhanced treatment because it certainly is not something that's easy to sell for my constituents.
Because of that, as I have in the past, I will be voting against this.
Councillor Demong, please.
And to simply counter that debate, this is no more different than a homeowner's association, a residence association,
where a group of people that live on the same street that decide to use the same landscaper.
This is about a group of people that want to embed their neighborhood and are willing to put a couple of dollars on the line for it.
No different than if you've actually got out and said, let's all hire the same landscaper.
What the heck?
So, no.
Please vote for this.
All right.
Over to you to close Councillor Petter.
Thanks, Councillor Demong.
Close.
All right.
All right, eScramped to vote, everyone.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried 14 to 1 with Councillor Shabo voting against.
I'll do the reading to the bylaw.
First reading of bylaw, 12M, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Councillor Shovos opposed?
That is carried.
Second reading of bylaw, 12M, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Councillor Shovos opposed?
That is carried.
Authorization for third reading of bylaw.
12M, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Hearing none.
That's carried unanimously.
Third reading of bylaw, 12M, 2023., Anyone opposed?
Councillor Shovos opposed?
And that is carried.
Moving on to 9.3 point 3.
It's a Calgary Exhibition and Stampede Credit Facility Update.
Good afternoon, Mayor.
We do have a presentation with Council Lakes, or we can go straight to questions.
I will ask.
This item did come to Executive Committee.
Does anyone need a presentation at this time?
All right, seeing none.
We will go just hang out there.
We'll go into questions.
So they wouldn't have any questions on this item.
Okay, I don't see any over to you to move this Councilor Penner.
Move.
I guess seconder.
Councilor McLean, thank you very much.
Don't see anybody in the queue to debate over to you to close Councilor Penner.
Close.
Thank you.
Councilor Corroyo, please.
I may ask for some reason.
It wasn't going.
No problem.
Thank you, Councilor Corraw noted.
And Councilor Poupments, your vote, please.
I'm sorry, Councilor Poupments.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display your results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
Councilor Poupes could use your mics when you're voting that way.
You can hear it.
Thank you very much.
First reading a by-law, 11 m, 20, 23, anyone opposed hearing none that is carried.
We are on to the next item, which is 9.3.4, which is a reconsideration of the Heritage Planning Fund.
Now, we have to do two things here.
Firstly, we have to do a reconsideration vote, and then we have to go back to this item.
Now, if I understand correctly.
Nope, I'm thinking of the wrong item.
Okay, so you would recommend that we call these two things separately, Madam.
Clerk, first we do the reconsideration vote. That is absolutely correct, Mayor.
Can I get someone to move the reconsideration vote, Councillor Wong?
Thank you very much. Seconded by Councillor Petter.
Thank you very much.
So would you like us to do this on eScribe Madam Clerk?
Yes, please, Mayor.
That question, first.
Oh, yep. Go ahead, Councillor Schwell.
Thank you. So question, on this reconsideration, was it more or less than six months ago?
That we made this decision.
Because it impacts the requirement to get the reconsideration motion approved.
Am I not correct?
If it's less than six months, I believe we need ten.
If it's more than six months, it's just majority.
But I could be mistaken.
If I could, the original decision, I believe, was part of the deliberations of the four year business plans and budgets, which happened the last week of November.
So if I count on my fingers, I think I get less than six months.
Go ahead, Madam Clerk.
Thank you, Mayor.
Go ahead, Madam Clerk.
Thank you, Mayor, contact.
Because the motion was adopted.
The current procedure by led does not provide that six month rule.
It's only four defeated motions.
So given that the motion was adopted, if full or partial reconsideration is adopted, two thirds of vote is required, but that is not subject to the timing.
Thanks for checking in though.
I appreciate that.
Is there anybody else on this reconsideration?
I can assume your closed councilor will.
Clerk.
Clerk, Supreme Clerk, are the reason we're reconsidering is that there's an amendment.
Correct.
Thanks for the question, Councillor Wong.
That would be a question for administration.
That prepared the report on the reconsideration.
Believe there is just a one technical amendment to put the letter I between the one and the F in recommendation one to refer to that to make sure it referred correctly to that particular line item in the budget documents.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Without we go to the eScribe vote.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you just play the results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
So we are reconsidering this item.
So it indicates after the amendment that council directed ministry administration to allocate the one time 2 million for heritage incentives to maximize support for a new historic resource designation and not offer the residential heritage tax incentive.
Councillor Wong before I go to you.
Does anybody have any questions on what we're doing?
Don't see any over to you to move Councillor Wong.
Thank you, Mayor.
As Jim Douglass indicated, this has come forward previously and there is a simple one character type.
It's a one for an eye and that's the only reason why this is being reposted.
Thank you.
Can I get a seconder on this please.
Councillor Putman.
Thank you very much.
Over to you to close Councillor Wong.
I'll close.
Thank you.
Okay.
Thank you.
Councillor Pennel, your vote please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Sharp, your vote please.
Yes.
Thank you.
And Mayor Gondick, your vote please.
I voted.
It was yes.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That is carried unanimously.
Let's move on to item number 9.3.5, which is secondary suite registry by law housing.
We buy law housekeeping amendment.
Hi.
Good afternoon.
Brenda Dejardin.
Here to discuss a small housekeeping amendment to the secondary suite by law.
I do have a presentation, but I'm happy to take questions if you like and invite the presentation
up to.
Let me see how everyone feels about this.
Does anyone need a presentation on this item?
I don't see anyone in need of a presentation.
So tell you what.
I will see if there are any questions.
I see movers and seconders.
Questions?
Anyone?
I will go over to you.
Councillor Shobal.
Thank you.
I'm happy to move the recommendations out.
I think this is something that we've had quite the debate on at committee about the need for this.
It's going to certainly enhance our ability on an enforcement side of things and maybe
encourage some folks to take advantage of this tremendous opportunity and the gifts for us.
Understanding is that we may be able to get the promise to allow us to continue on with our current
interpretation, which will hopefully bring more of our legal suites into compliance.
Thank you for bringing this forward and happy to support it and we'll answer any questions in my close if necessary.
Thank you.
It's seconded by Councillor Sharp.
I don't see anyone with any questions or debate over to you to close Councillor Shobal.
Thank you.
Councillor, please.
Thank you.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
Go to the readings of the bylaw now.
First reading of bylaw, 21m, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Hearing none.
That is carried second reading of bylaw, 21m, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Hearing none.
That is carried authorization for third reading of bylaw, 21m, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Hearing none.
That's carried unanimously.
Third reading of bylaw, 21m, 2023.
Anyone opposed?
Hearing none.
That is carried.
That brings us up to 9.3.6, which is Calgary Municipal Land Corporation, New
Borrowing and Lone by Laws.
Good afternoon.
We do have a presentation with Councillor Lakes or we can go straight to questions.
I think you may find yourself in the same shape so let me see.
Does anybody need a presentation that did come through executive committee?
I don't see anyone in need of a presentation so we will go to questions.
If there are any.
I have movers and seconders like last time.
I don't see any questions over to you Councillor Meand to move.
Yeah, this is really straight forward.
I know we had some questions from committee, but this is just to allow
CMLC to finance their costs for different projects they have through us.
And they will repay those through the remaining term of this yearl.
So it's quite straightforward.
We do this often.
So thank you and I hope you support it.
Thank you.
It's seconded by Councillor Walcott.
I don't see any questions for debate for you to close Councillor Meand.
Closed.
Thank you.
Escribe to vote everyone.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That is carried unanimously.
I'm going to do four first readings.
It's first readings only and it's four separate by us.
First reading a by-law, five B, twenty twenty three.
Anyone opposed hearing none, that's carried.
First reading a by-law, six B, twenty twenty three.
Anyone opposed hearing none, that is carried.
First reading a by-law, nine M, twenty twenty three.
Anyone opposed hearing none, that is carried.
Let's move it right along to item 9.3.7, which is a notice of motion,
addressing FOX tail.
Farley, Councillor Spencer, please go ahead.
Thank you, Mayor Gondick.
With throat, Calgary, we have an continuous relationship with a client called FOX tail.
That is unfortunately causing some havoc for a variety of pet owners in our city.
It's a situation in which where at its most folks will see this,
be able to identify once it's pulling to the out, but don't end up in a situation where it's causing
them any sort of grief on a daily basis.
But then there are these unfortunate extremes where particularly in edge communities when land
has been cleared for development, it's a pioneer, it's one of a variety of
pioneer species, so it can quickly propagate on an open field and create a lot of issues for
adjacent homeowners and folks.
It's also increasingly taking up residents in a ran around dog parks.
It's also going into wetlands.
It's unfortunately, it's a livability issue that the city is dealing with.
I want to say thank you to the Parks team that is assembled here today.
Thank you for the conversations that we've had the mobilization that you have done.
They've changed mowing patterns.
They've timed mows, one example in my neighborhood, along 52nd.
There's lots of this that will grow throughout the season, and I felt my anxiety growing and growing
and growing and then right before it went to seed, Tammy's crews were out there knocking
it down and it was gone before it was flying around the neighborhood.
So we're seeing some real efficacy around the city learning its impacts and being responsive
in how it interacts and attempts to mitigate it.
This is a species of plant that is native to our province.
It plays a role in our local ecology.
It takes care of sailing soils that other plants don't grow very well in.
It does a very good job of pulling salt out of the soil and creating an opportunity for other trips
stands to take root and grow.
But the focus of this notion is to address those real big stream of the way this works.
It's way up, which is that field where there's little control over it and you end up with
hordes of this on this barb that can end up causing health issues and concerns for pet owners.
So the idea here is to create a bylaw, increase the regulatory framework,
create a regulatory environment in which the city is able to move.
If there is a large landholder that is not moving, it's not following suit.
I have seen developers on a full scale and landowners.
Those that have gone so far to spend tens of thousands of dollars to make sure that it doesn't happen
year over year and those that just can return from cost.
So that's the hope is that we kind of fill this last gap in hole in addressing and mitigating
Fox tail bar that you hear locally.
Look forward to addressing anything in the close and I know we have very knowledgeable experts in the room
back in address questions.
Thank you, Councillor Do I have a second or for you?
Councillor Walker.
Thank you very much.
Councillor Shibou, you have a question?
Yeah, I'm not sure exactly how an administration would interpret this.
Is there an intent for us to create some rules around finding private entities?
From allowing something to grow in our private property?
What about naturalization areas that the city has?
How do we address those in relation to this being as this is a naturally occurring plant?
Thank you for the question.
Matt's Blaskey with community strategies policy and bi-law development.
And what I would say is in terms of rules to address this, we already have existing rules in the
Bi-law that allow us to address for example plants that are over certain grasses that are over a certain height.
And so the regulations would probably follow very similar to that.
But obviously we're going to spend the next couple of months before coming back, investigating exactly how that would work.
And what about zerry-scaping as we refer to it in some of our right of ways where we don't actually cut the grass?
Thank you for the question.
We've been able to incorporate different types of landscaping as my understanding through the existing bi-law regulations we have.
So I'd anticipate something very similar for this approach as well.
And so we don't apply this to Daniela and his doing?
I don't believe so. I'd have to follow up on you. I follow up with that on you.
Sorry, I don't know the answer to that.
That's not naturally occurring.
Anyways, I would be okay with supporting part of this.
I just can't support the whole thing because I really don't know what impact it might have.
Good to vote against it.
Question from Councilor Mian. Thank you. I took two questions. So if it's like a big industrial parcel, for example,
that's undeveloped and how do you track down the owner to have that conversation? Like is that going to be a challenge?
Thank you for the question. I don't Councillor Mian, I don't believe that there's going to be an issue with that. I think that existing we have the existing ability to pull from
help our registry who the registered owner on title is and get in contact with them directly.
Okay, and this is not necessarily specific to just this violent fraction, but in the event that you like mail them a ticket, they do
or don't pay, like what are the implications of that? Is there any, like, follow up that we can do from a property tax side or what does that look like?
I might look to achieve file officer to be able to answer that question.
Thank you for the question, Councillor Mian.
So yes, there are finding mechanisms under the community standards by already for longer asked and long herbaceous plants.
If it's to a corporation, we would send that ticket, the registered mail to the registered office.
And in terms of consequences, they do are required to pay those tickets, and just like an individual if they have any business with the registered office,
that that gets shut off until those finds are paid.
Perfect, thank you. And then my next question is just in relation to how it's actually you take care of lock sale barley.
I don't actually have a whole lot of concept on that. So is it enough for people to just cut it down?
Or if you send someone to ticket, would they maybe now start using pesticides, would we educate them about, you know, the appropriate use of those.
So this is the tricky part.
Unlike other long grasses and herbaceous plants, you do not want to cut it in the growing season because you're just going to make the problem worse.
And spread the seeds. So what we're probably looking for is some alternative methods of control.
Like if you are going to moe that you use a bag to capture the seeds and the plants.
So it stops the spread of the seeds, the neighboring properties.
You can hand pull it. There is a chemical application that you can use.
So it's just giving the city the ability to direct an alternative method of control.
I think is an important piece to this.
Okay, and just to follow up on that like we would educate folks about that so that they're not doing it incorrectly.
Yeah, for something like this, if it's especially new.
And that's part of the notice of motion that Councillor Spencer brought forward is to develop an education in awareness campaign.
It's important that dog owners know that the risks associated with this plant.
And they make sure that they keep their dog on a leash that is not running through fields of fox tail barley.
But it's also to bring awareness to landowners that, you know, this is a problem even though that this plant does have some value and some naturalized areas and wetlands.
It's just being able to identify it and address it if it is on your own property.
And then consistent with how we enforce almost all of our bylaws for compliance oriented.
We often give warnings and education before we resort to taking any type of formal enforcement action.
Okay, that's great.
And I did see the part about the awareness campaign for pet owners.
But I think the awareness campaign for folks who are going to have to take care of it is equally important.
It sounds like you've got that well underway.
Thank you.
Those are all my questions.
Thank you, Councillor Wong, please.
Thank you, Mayor.
Quite frankly, I'm pretty naive about this, so I'm just asking you two very quick questions.
Is the proliferation as fox tail barley more strongly outlined large field areas?
Or do we see a prolifering optimal category?
Please.
Good afternoon, Travis Shaw.
Urban conservation lead with Parks and Open Space.
Well, we do see we use a fox tail barley in a number of different areas.
But I think whereas most problematic is in those areas that have been stripped and greater for development.
They offer poor quality soils.
There's no, it's a bare soil condition and the fox tail propagates very, very successfully in those areas.
And I think those are the problematic areas that we're most concerned about.
And her reference to using herbicides is did I hear that correctly?
Through the chair that is one way of managing it, glyphosate is glyphosate application is a method.
It would be preferred to use a mechanical control mowing in advance of c-development or pulling.
So if we do use herbicides with a chemical base herbicides, is that right?
Did we not previously, maybe before your time, but did we not previously get away from using chemical base herbicides?
We like to use them in just in very selective situations.
It's certainly not our first option when it comes to the control of various plants.
There are some situations where it is the only effective method, but in this case it's not the only effective method.
There are other controls we can use.
My question is not so much about fostering more or so about herbicides only, because I'm getting complaints about us using too much of a chemical base herbicides, especially in the city communities, where we have pedestrian traffic and more, so then animal traffic and everything else.
Okay, thank you.
I don't see any other questions in the queue.
Over to you to close Councillor Spencer.
Thank you, Mayor Gondick.
To the bylaw that also, so for the length, one of the reasons why this came forward is for the typical height of Fox tail barley.
Once you get to the height that community standards can be engaged to come in and manage a field, that's right in around the time when these plants start to seat.
So it was inhabiting an awkward space within our current regulatory framework, so that's one of the reasons why this came forward the way that it did.
And one of the things that we hope to be able to fix with this.
To Councillor Shibou, comments about dandelions, dandelions to my best of my knowledge do not create the same stream with ability issues for pets.
So this is very specifically to address folks that have lost furry family members and pay $8,000 vet bills with an unfortunate interaction with this plant.
And then also on the chemical side of things I would just mention that it is absolutely and we have had lots and lots of interaction Councillor Wong with the city around not wanting to make this.
I'm not going full bore on this. There was an opportunity for where we could look at making this a noxious weed.
And then arming up to go after it.
But the only real way for us to be able to do so and actually bring it to a point where we rarely see it would be chemical, which would also have a whole host of unintended impacts and negate its role in our ecological world here in Calgary.
A long-term foxtail in healthy soil typically ends up getting out competed.
So one of the reasons why we're seeing as I understand it from interacting with the province and with parks is due to our precipitation, the amount of moisture and the soil, some of the climate impacts that we're dealing with right now.
The turf stands are not as healthy as they have been in the past and foxtails kind of coming in behind and taking up residents in places where it used to not be present.
So there's a cyclical nature to this and hopefully as the soils return to proper health, other grasses come back in and out compete.
It lowers in prominence. And this is apparently province wide I've seen videos in Grand Prairie and other places.
So I do hope you both for this. I believe there's an opportunity based whether it's on land size. There's a couple different ways we can come at drafting the community center by law on this. I think I've said enough. Please vote for this.
Close.
Thank you. You subscribe to vote everyone.
Mayor Gondick.
Councillor Sharp, your vote please. Yes. Thank you. Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That was carried 14 to 1. We can answer Shabo voting against. I am now going to recommend a couple of things. Council.
I believe that it would make sense now to go to the quick votes on the two consent items and then do the two bylaw tabulations which we can hopefully get through before we break it 3.
That's the intended time of the break. We will return from that break for 4 p.m.
At 4 p.m. we're going to hear from the Calgary Airport Authority.
Immediately following that, I would recommend that we hear Councillor Demong's two notices of motion rather than waiting to after dinner.
I think we can manage that between 4 and 6 having those items come forward. So what I need is general consent that instead of having those two notices of motion time stand
to be after the dinner break. Can I just have general consent that it's to the call of the chair?
Anyone opposed to that?
Seeing and hearing none, that is great. Let's go then to the two consent agenda items that were pulled and we are just doing a vote on these.
The first one was 7.4. Can I get a mover for that one please?
It is Y-Y-Y-C matters. Councillor Penner seconded by Councillor Mian. Thank you very much.
So Madam Clark is the vote ready to go or do you need a minute.
The vote is ready to go. All right, e-scribe everyone.
Councillor Putments your vote please?
Yes. Thank you. Councillor Chu your vote please?
No.
Thank you. Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That is carry 12-3 with Councillor Shibou McLean and Chu voting against.
The next item is 7.9 which is updates on climate calls to action.
Who would like to move that one? Councillor Colleewall seconded by Councillor Wong.
Thank you. Can we go to the vote please?
Councillor Putments your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That is carried 13-2 with Councillor McLean and Councillor Chu voting against.
We are on to item 10.1.1 which is a by-law tabulation for the Westbrook communities local area plan.
We are here to do second and third readings.
So I need a note that Councillor Sharpe was not present for the public hearing.
So Councillor Sharpe you won't be voting on this one.
You will be marked as absent simply because of the public hearing issue.
Can I get?
Sorry. Go ahead.
I'm just confirming.
Yep. I've got a note from clerk.
I want to let you know.
Thank you. Appreciate that.
Can I get a mover for this please?
Councillor Walcock can I get a seconder please?
Councillor Putments.
Thank you very much.
Could you go to eScribe to vote please?
Councillor Putments your vote please?
Yes.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That is carried 12 to 2 with Councillor McLean and Councillor Chu voting against.
So I'll move to the readings of the by-law.
Second reading of by-law 5p 2023 anyone opposed?
Councillor Chu and McLean are opposed that is carried.
Third reading of by-law 5p 2023 anyone opposed Councillor McLean and Chu are opposed and that is carried.
Next one. Second reading of by-law 6p 2023 anyone opposed?
Councillor McLean and Chu are opposed that is carried.
Third reading of by-law 6p 2023 anyone opposed?
Councillor McLean and Chu are opposed and that is carried.
We are moving on to item 10.1.2 which is another by-law tabulation.
This one is for attainable homes Calgary Corporation.
Again, we will be doing second and third readings.
I need a mover for this one please Councillor Walcock.
Can I get a seconder please Councillor Mean.
Thank you and could you go to the vote.
Councillor Putment's your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you, Mayor Gondick Aldevoltzer.
Thank you, could you display the results please?
That is carried unanimously.
Second reading of by-law 5m 2023 anyone opposed?
Hearing none that is carried third reading of by-law 5m 2023 anyone opposed?
Hearing none that is carried second reading of by-law 6m 2023 anyone opposed?
Hearing none that is carried third reading of by-law 6m 2023 anyone opposed?
Hearing none that is carried.
Well if you are okay with it Councillor Dumong.
Let's kick off your notes.
Thank you, Mayor. Just so that I'm perfectly clear, this is the first of three note, plant, three
plant, notices a motion with regards to roads that I've been in contact with or in connection
with general manager and the director of mobility. These first two noses of motion are basically asking for information.
To be included in reports that are coming back with a specific direction on the information coming back to us.
This very first one has to do with, as most of you already know, the snow and ice control budget.
And the fact that once the snow and ice control budget season is over, the excess is going goes to a reserve.
And if anything is over and above that, that goes into a completely different reserve to be brought back out at another time.
I'm simply saying that in this situation, once the reserve is full, that this surplus should go back to snow and ice.
Department control for either cleaning up hot holes, whether it be improving snow and ice depots or anything along those lines.
But basically to have the dedicated funding that we have set aside for snow and ice control to go towards snow and ice control and any of the impacts that snow and ice has on our roads and sea and streets.
So please vote in favor, very simplistic. You will have enough chance.
It's just going to be part of a report coming back to us.
Thank you. Can I get a second or on this one, please? Council.
Thank you. Over to you, Councillor Schibel.
Yeah, I'm just looking over the notice of motion.
It does say the report back, but it doesn't say to who and or when.
So any, and further, be it resolved, the administration report back on enhancements or amendments.
Where's it going and when do we have this administration?
I may any idea on how quickly they could report back on this.
Too many likes on.
There you go.
Here's work. Okay. We'll try this one.
So indeed, we have a snow and ice control policy that's coming back.
Quarter three of this year.
I believe it's the CDC. So we would need this direction into that report back on the snow and ice control policy.
So Q3. So that should be inserted into this.
Or you're saying this already a report coming back.
There's already a report coming back.
So then this begs the question, is this not redundant then?
Additional information would help us craft that report and make sure we consider every opportunity.
I always prefer to see some specific directions on when to come back and through what committee.
But I'll listen to consider along, I guess.
Thank you, Councillor Wong, please.
Thank you, Mayor. Just a point of clarification.
The excess dollars of snick is coming back to operations.
But is that specifically for roads, sidewalks, curves, or does also include pathways.
And perhaps, are you self-reconstant among cancer?
No one has control program.
If there is excess funds at the end of the year, it goes into reserve.
That covers road sidewalks, pathways, as well as transit snow clearing.
Once that reserve reaches its cap at 50 million, that's when that overflow would go into general reserves.
And the fiscal stability reserve at the end of the year.
I mean, the question to Councillor Demongon's close was the intention to have it re-deverted to take care of pathways.
Both roadway pathways, as well as park pathways, perhaps.
Councillor Demongon can answer in this close. Thank you.
Right, Councillor Mean, please.
Okay, sorry. My first question is the clarification, which is just you said that it goes up to that 50 million.
And then anything that would have gone into FSR is now going to come back if this is directed towards these mobility improvements.
Sorry, so the 50 million is the cap.
So the snow and ice control program, if we ever got over 50 million in the reserve,
currently it flows into the fiscal, fiscal sustainability reserve.
What is proposed here is to consider whether that money should be used for other sites,
so in ice control activities instead of going to that reserve.
Okay, just over the 15.
Okay, that's the clarification I needed.
And I guess in terms of, and this is more of a comment because I support this, I think it's a good idea.
It's just that.
And I also support mobility improvements, but I guess the question I do have is like we always hear about a desire for just more sneak improvements in general.
And so I'm not sure I have a good sense of like how much we are always having surpluses year over year over year.
And like if we did, you know, add more money to the sneak budget to go from the seven days,
no plan to the six days, no plan.
And that was great, but one of the challenges is that's like, same, more or less same, but faster,
whereas residents somewhat want more that we didn't used to have not necessarily faster.
And so I guess the broader conversation I would want to have at some point
is just like, you know, do we redirect this money after?
Because it's safer the way this is the way it's structured, where do we really look at,
can we do more within the sneak budget that we have and should we be doing more?
Maybe I'll just add that to part of that sneak policy review.
Would be consider all of those things, speed coverage, the things we want to do.
And I have a full some review of that program.
Okay, well, I'll look forward to having that conversation a little bit more.
I'll just say, you know, thanks to Councillor Demung for thinking of this.
I think it's sensible.
Thank you, Councillor Wayne, please.
Thanks.
My question is kind of, if we have big snowiers, you use this all up, but we're also going to have big pot holders.
So we need still need access to that money, and does this not bury the problem where council might not adequately find what you need to truly fix the problem?
Thank you for the question.
Indeed, we have a pavement maintenance budget that we actively manage on whether it's pot-hole-filling or
pavement overlay.
So we look at highest and best use of those funds to make sure we're driving values.
So we would work that program as well.
So it's not like there's a currently deficit that we're very thoughtful of both the investments in pavement,
but we have seen over the long-term a slow degradation, which through the funding in the fall.
We've stemmed and have a certain level of pavement quality that we'll hold with those pavement management plans.
Yeah, like I was going to bring a motion arising off of this for pavement quality index where you guys are actually calculating and they're pretty good at figuring out how many falls.
We're going to have based on that initial investment.
I'll hold off and do it as a norm.
But I'm just very concerned that it's a good idea, but I just want to make sure we're not burying it in budgets and not adequately finding to truly get to the root of the problem.
And that's where I'm just kind of torn with this.
But thank you.
Thank you, Councillor.
I don't see anybody else in the queue over to you to close council or demand.
And yes, that is exactly the point of this is to not bury it in budgets, but to allow roads and mobility to actually use the budgets that have been set aside for them.
With regards to the report back.
In the original notice of motion that I had filed, it had a report back date.
I adjusted amended it at executive because we weren't entirely sure when the report back was specifically going to come.
It was originally in Q 2.
It's been moved to Q 3.
I'm trying my best to allow mobility to have the luxury of being able to determine what time frame they need for this report to come back.
Tensitably it is for at this moment, Q 3.
Two weeks ago it was Q 2.
So that's why I'm trying to give mobility as much leverage as possible for the report back date.
If you insist you want to report back date in the notice of motion, I'm certainly willing to accept that as a friendly amendment.
I don't particularly see that as requirement because we do know it is coming back to that committee.
With regards to the pathways, yes, absolutely.
This is going back into the overall budget for snick which is partially responsible for pathway clearing and pathway maintenance.
So yes, absolutely pathways would be would perform a part of this.
As I said before, this is notice of motion one with regards to roads.
There will be two more.
One is following this immediately.
The third one is going to be about payment quality index surprisingly enough.
But there has to be a great deal of conversation on that.
And I can talk about that another time.
Please vote for this. Thank you.
Point of procedure.
Do we not have to specify which committee it goes to because I don't believe it says that here.
I don't believe it has to be specified.
I don't think that's part of procedure.
I think there is an understanding where this would go to because it's called mobility infrastructure.
So I don't think that's necessary.
Madam clerk, could you clarify please.
There is no procedure by law requirement to specify which committee the item is directed to.
The mandates of each committee, however, are set out within the procedure by law.
So the mandate of for the work is guided.
But there's no specific requirement within the motion.
Thank you.
Let's go to the vote please in eScribe.
Thank you.
Councillor Putments, your vote please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Corraw, your vote please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick, all the votes are in.
Could you display the results please?
That is carried unanimously.
Council, we have just under 20 minutes.
I think we can get through the next one too.
Please go ahead.
I'll try and do this very quickly.
I don't know if I can do this.
Okay.
I'll actually slow down.
This is again with regards to parking revenue for street services.
The just of this notice of motion.
Well, backing up a little bit.
This notice of motion yet again is going to be tying in with the report that's coming back to council three committee.
So you will have another crack at this when that happens.
But what it's doing is it's asking for.
We're adding information with regards to the idea of using some of the parking revenue that we harvest so to speak and put it back into the community with regards to making the areas that are.
I had this way better at executive.
The idea is to actually use the the funds of parking control to actually improve the pedestrian realm and or the areas around it.
Whether that be even proofing the sidewalk where you park or whether being fixing this lamp post or the street lantern that that that is is situated nearby.
The entire idea is to actually make you and and and and and the public feel more comfortable and safe by using the proceeds of their own parking in order to.
Make a better realm to park in.
Thank you.
Seconded by council.
Yeah, this one is more interesting to me and in some ways, but I guess the.
The question I have is that there are some areas like the city obviously don't have on street parking revenue and so like I just want to make sure this isn't going to contribute to some areas like getting much more treatment and so is all the parking revenue still.
That would have lead distributed across the area or across the city or is it targeted to the area.
I think that's a piece of work we would would do certainly the revenue is generated in specific areas where we would have street lighting and sidewalks, but that's something we would explore with the.
The entire review of all the parking revenue.
And we would consider that whether we would focus it in those areas or be able to use it city wide and come back to council for approval.
Oh, there we go. Sorry to be a second to get my bike on there.
Okay, yeah, so that will be a decision for another day sort of what you're saying.
Okay, that's very interesting to me.
I think I might struggle to support it if it if it's only tailored to the one area.
I understand that there's like some great messaging there to say like your parking goes towards making this area beautiful but parking is one of those things that everyone in the city contributes to right you might come to an area and park in that area.
And so I think it's really important that we do share that wealth is broadly as possible.
So that's just my perspective, but I'm happy to support this today so we can have further discussion.
Thank you, Councillor Wong please.
Thank you, Mayor.
Mr. Morgan, you know, I've had a lot of conversations about parking in the last three months.
When we're talking about these parking revenue, are we talking about the parking revenue as somebody to possibly money in park plus or is it also including park permit fees.
It would be I think the vision was the the park plus revenues the on street that we have in the in the downtown and the outline was the focus but I don't think we're limited to looking at that.
Certainly the fees that we have another under the residential parking program or design for cost recovery for those programs.
So we set those fees to make sure it's cost recovery so I wouldn't see us taking that value out because it's already serving a purpose.
We also have the market market permit revenues which is new revenue, right, so there's a substantial remage generation there.
The concerns obviously you've heard from word seven constituents for the residential parking premises number one they are the increase of fees and also on top of that there are certain situations where residents are unable to pay for the fees.
We're getting a way to prohibited for them market demand ones again people who are living in condominium seniors and condominiums they're saying $100 a month $200 a year on top of our seniors income is just.
And an untenable and there are looking for a fair entry relief now. So again, I'd say they're wanting if this is the first party to look at or as opposed to taking care of our residents, our seniors who are challenged in compliance to pay papers of these parking programs.
No too far to the other. They lived in these residents of the corridors. That's a long time. And we had a new view on that. So I would like to thank we take care again there for a bit of a little bit of a question before we take care of.
you're using money for improvements.
The other thing is also around the notion that parking revenue
and access, some of it goes back to BIAs
and community associations for that same purpose
to be an improved public realm in public art and everything else.
So again, is this complimenting or replacing
or hurting the BIAs and CAs that added opportunity?
I think that would be all encompassing in the Ruby
with the returns of the Calgary parking
throwing in the business model that we use.
So certainly, the topics like the market areas
would be part of that as far as the residential parking
zone and market permits.
We are following council direction as far as those permit fees.
But certainly, we would have that discussion
when those policies come back as part
of the Calgary parking authority review.
Last thing is, you know, I've talked about expanding
part plus areas in certain areas.
And it's a capital cost for you to do that.
And the revenues they used offset the capital cost before,
we returned it back to other programs
or fee subsidies in it.
Again, I think that'd be part of that return review.
What is the business model when we do capital investments?
How do we have that money, whether it's through revenue
or some other means?
So we can certainly make sure we've got a flag
for looking at that as part of that review.
So this is just coming back to as a report back to council.
This is not a directive at the moment.
So I would love to work with yourself and Councilor Demong
to make sure that we're not hurting existing programs.
They're assisting residents who pay parking
that we allocate the dollars in a way.
So thank you.
Thank you.
I don't see anybody else in the queue, correct?
There is someone.
Oh, Councillor Crock, please go ahead.
Yeah, I felt the need to jump in,
because this is a very interesting conversation.
And I was unsure about whether I was supportive
of considering what Councilor Demong's notice emotion was looking at.
And I had a long conversation with Director McLeod
and he texted back and forth with General Manager Morgan
and talked with Chris Lasson.
Just to give a little bit of background,
Councilor and Parking Authority used to be sort of like a holy home
to city area.
It was a separate quasi-separate organization
that delivered a very healthy return to the city.
So there is a question now that it is being brought in house
as to where that money go.
I think when we think about parking funds,
it's important to understand that it's a fee for service.
It's a fee for service that's requested by local merchants
to generate the demand.
And it's a fee for service managing parking
that turns a profit.
And so I'm interested in Councilor Means argument
that it should be dispersed broadly and it used
to go into General Revenue.
But we also established parking benefit districts
to help support the areas that were actually generating
this revenue source for us.
And I think these are all very important conversations
that we need to have.
So I'm happy to support the notice emotion
that's before us.
I'd happy to consider these things holistically.
And I look forward to debating it,
you know, substantially when the best recommendations
of administration are before us.
OK, thank you for those comments, Councillor Croy.
I am not seeing anyone else in the queue.
So we'll head back over to you at Councilor Means.
Yes, in answer to a couple of the questions,
it is meant to be in complimentary
to the BIA situations.
It is not meant to be restrictive in any way that in any way
that to that direction.
And to Councillor Means, thank you
or forgot to mention that in my opening
that this is not specific to the area that you're actually parking.
It is designed to, or at least my impression and a way
to see what the administration impression is when they come back.
But my intention is to take a look at parking revenue in General
and look at what our pedestrian realm is looking like
and see if there's something that we can do to help improve that
whether at the lighting structures, concrete,
or any other pedestrian realm.
But no, it is not specific to the location
that you're actually parking.
I should have been more clear on that.
Thank you very much.
Close.
Great.
And there is a seconder on this.
Sorry, I'm just getting into the chair.
Councillor Croywell, brilliant.
OK, well, then with that, we will head over to East
Croywell.
Councillor Croywell, please.
I mean, yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Putments, you're both please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Chu, your vote, please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Deputy Mayor Me and all the votes are in.
Please display themselves.
And that is carried unanimously.
OK, well, with that.
Oh.
Councillor Demong.
Please go ahead.
I know this is terribly unusual.
I should have said it in my close.
I will be working on that third notice of motion with regards to PQI.
And if anybody is interested, just reach out to my office and or General Manager
Todd.
Yeah.
And we'll get that straight and don't.
Thank you.
No worries.
Thanks, Councillor Demong.
So the plan now, team, is that we are going to probably adjourn.
And then we will recess.
I want to adjourn, but we're not allowed.
We will recess.
And until 4 o'clock, when we come back with a concrete airport authority.
And then following that, if you haven't been able to keep along.
We've been blasting through.
We just have, I believe, three more items in close session.
So with that, we will recess to the call of the chair or till 4 o'clock.
Till 4 o'clock.
OK, till 4 o'clock.
Thank you.
Local government meeting.
All right, it's welcome back everyone, clerks can we get a roll call, please.
Thank you, Deputy Mayor, me and on the roll, Councillor Carrot.
I'm here. Thank you, Councillor Carrot, Councillor Shibou.
Councillor Shibou, Councillor Chu.
Here. Councillor Demong. Councillor Dolly Wall.
Here. Councillor McLean. Here. Councillor Me, Councillor Penner.
Here. Councillor Poupons. Here. Councillor Sharpe. Councillor Spencer.
Here. Councillor Walcott. I'm here. Councillor Wong. Councillor Wynas.
Here. Mayor Gondick. And Deputy Mayor Mean. I am here. Thank you.
Okay, and with that we are going to move on to item 10.2.1, which is a presentation from the Calgary Airport Authority.
So you'd like to join us at the podium? We'd love to hear from you.
Thank you, and if you could advance the slide, I would appreciate that.
Good afternoon, Mayor, and City of Calgary Councillors. We appreciate the opportunity to join you today
for our annual appointment and update meeting. My name is Matthew Heffranon. I'm the chair of the Board of Directors for the Calgary Airport Authority.
I'm pleased to be here, along with my fellow directors, and the authorities' executive team for our annual report to you.
It is a testament to the combined talent of the entire airport community, how far our airport has come over the course of one year.
From near shutdown to growth in nearly all areas of the business, it's clear that why why C success can be attributed to the grit of the airport's people
at the heart and center of it all? Our recovery expands beyond passenger statistics.
It's about so much more. Working hand in glove with our partners to build flourishing businesses,
paying down debts, and seeking solutions to incur less, and generate more.
Tirelessly caring for the safety, operations, maintenance, and restoration of the facility.
Notlessly advocating for the vital support of Canada's aviation sector.
Holding steady through the growing pains and showing up to support all of our partners.
Expanding our collective mindset to create a more diverse, more inclusive, welcoming, and authentic airport community.
Taking accountability to operate more sustainably, working towards our goal of net zero commitment.
Our planning for long-term prosperous future that will benefit our airport, city, and region,
in the citizens to whom we owe social responsibility.
Maintaining a steadfast commitment to delivering positive guest experiences,
while always prioritizing the safety and security of those who travel and work at YYC.
I would not like to take a moment to introduce you to the members of the Board of Directors of the Authority,
joining from the Calgary Chamber.
The appointees are myself, and joining virtually are David Blom,
Don Kormack, Heather Kennedy, James Midwinter, Manjit Minhoss, Craig Richmond,
Andrea Robertson, and Sheldon Trotter.
From Rockyview County, our appointee is Randy Shorong.
Our transport Canada appointees are Andrea Gertz, and Phil Schibel.
And from the city of Calgary, our appointees who are here in person with us today,
are Gina Bell and Morrisett, Lisa Oldridge, and Tracy Ziel.
The Authority's Auditor, Pricewater House Coopers, is also represented virtually.
The Authority benefits from having an extremely talented and dedicated group of individual on its Board of Directors.
We are a Board that is rooted in this community with extensive business experience.
Our Board is diligent in our governance and oversight of the Calgary Airport Authority.
I am grateful to be serving alongside this group.
And with that, I would like to turn it over to Bob Sartor, our President and CEO.
Bob will take you through the highlights of 2022, and then we'll close with any questions and answers.
And I would ask that you advance the slide to Bob.
Thank you.
Thank you Mr. Chair and good afternoon to all of you here today, and those who are virtual.
I'm very pleased to have this opportunity today to talk about the highlights and the achievements,
the financial situation of the Authority over the past year, focusing on three key themes.
Item number one or theme number one is celebrating our recovery.
Theme number two is growth faster than we ever could have foretold.
And theme number three is the importance of working closely with our government and industry partners to succeed.
After years of resilience, it's time for a renaissance at YYC.
In 2022, we didn't just rebuild and return to where we were.
We went above and beyond to go further.
From what I can see today, YYC is posed not only for a strong year of growth ahead, but for many strong years ahead.
Several of our airline partners have already announced and launched additional routes for 2023, and there are more to come.
WestJet's move to make YYC its global connecting hub is anticipated to increase passengers to YYC by more than 20% this year.
Roads flown by WestJet and our 14 other airline partners will provide guests flying out of YYC, nonstop access to over 90 destinations in Canada,
the United States and across the globe.
The stronger we are at YYC, the greater our contributions are to the city, the region, and the community that we serve.
With a strong foundation.
Beneath us, I am confident that we have the team, the governance structure, and the strategy to successfully navigate the future.
Before I get into an overview of our highlights and by the way, if we could advance this slide, please.
Thank you.
Before I get into an overview of our highlights from 2022 and forecast for 2023, I wanted to provide some background about the authority to set the stage for the update to come.
The authority is a not-for-profit, non-share-capital corporation incorporated under the province of Alberta's regional airports authorities act.
We are responsible for the operation, management and development of YYC, Calgary International Airport, and Springbank Airport under a long-term lease agreement with the Government of Canada.
We are governed by a community-based board of directors, which are appointed by four organizations, the Chamber of Commerce Long Range Planning Committee,
the Federal Government has represented by Transport Canada, Rocky View, County, and the City of Calgary.
Next slide, please.
Our revenue is generated through three diversified streams if you could go back when I'd appreciate that.
No, back to slide, number 11.
There you go.
We have three diversified revenue streams.
Aeronautical revenues, which includes airline landing fees, apron parking fees, usage fees, for terminals and gates.
Non-Aeronautical revenues, which includes rental of terminal space, counter-engate space, training facilities, retail and food space, and car parks.
And finally, airport improvement fees, which are set fees collected from passengers that are used to fund infrastructure improvements.
And if we could go to the, I think we are quite a ways away from there.
Slide 12, please.
I think we have the numbers wrong.
So I think we should have been on slide four, and I assume we're advancing by one.
So this is slide, like, this is way far in a van.
Yeah, quite a ways.
It's a slide with the...
Let it get it right for you before you continue.
Yeah, it's a slide with a three-ballding gentleman on it.
There it is.
There we go.
There it is.
The authority's small, but mighty leadership team currently includes myself and Chris Miles,
our Vice President Operations and Infrastructure was here,
and Rob Palmer, our Vice President Commercial Strategy and Chief Financial Officer, who is also here.
Next slide please.
It worked.
Our ability to not only recover in 2022, but the way we were able to position why why see for the growth to come is a direct result of our comprehensive planning,
careful strategic investments, and putting guests at the heart of every decision we make.
You'll see here an overview of our strategic plan.
Supporting and developing our employees as well as ensuring the health and safety of our workforce is an important pillar in our strategic plan.
We are committed to facilitating and supporting the success of our partners from airlines to retailers to cargo to the businesses based on our campus.
At our core, we're committed to maintaining the highest standards of corporate governance in serving our community and our customers.
We're also working diligently towards sustainability, which I'll come to later, and developing strategic long-term partnerships.
Next slide please.
Over the past six years, our strategic plan has guided our operations, our investments, and our priorities.
As a former chair of the Canadian Airports Council, large airport caucus, I can tell you that why why see plays a significant role advocating for Calgary on a national level.
As one of the largest airports in Canada, why why see is home to WestJet's global connecting hub and exclusive hub for their wide-body service to Europe and Asia.
We served 88 nonstop destinations in 2022.
We had the highest domestic passenger percentage of the four busiest airports in Canada at 73% in 2022.
Our strong domestic passenger profile was a crucial factor in our ability to recover as quickly as we did.
We also had the highest percentage of connecting flights in Canada at 37% of our total volume in 2022.
And we are one of the top connecting airports in the world as a percentage of our total passenger volume.
I'll also highlight that why why see is one of the lowest cost major airports in the country.
Our position as a low cost airport is an important way we maintain our competitive advantage in the industry, attracting airlines to do business in our city.
Next slide, please.
In 2022, we did what we do best.
We focused on the connections between people, places and the experiences that make us all better.
We did say goodbye to the pandemic and hello to a much brighter future.
Our airport transition to a near full recovery way beyond what we could have predicted.
Next slide, please.
By continuing to work closely with our partners, both new and returning, to provide memorable and exceptional experiences we became the most recovered large Canadian airport in 2022.
In the fall of 2022, WestJet announced plans to make why why see Calgary International Airport is global connecting hub, its sole global connecting hub.
Consolidating all its intercontinental 787 wide-body dreamlander flights in Calgary, this move will create new routes between North America, Europe and Asia to and from Calgary.
In addition to expanding its 787 fleet, WestJet announced plans to enhance its mid-range aircraft and bolster its North American services with a goal of doubling its capacity and why why see by the end of the decade.
Next slide, please.
Growing why why see commercial offerings and increasing non-Arenautical revenue has always been a key focus for us and it was no difference last year.
Here are some of the major initiatives that we embarked on last year.
We implemented a multi-year sponsorship agreement with RBC, part of the authorities plan to secure major partnerships that will help shape the future of why why see.
We partnered with Coca-Cola to create a one-of-a-kind mural installation that depicts scenes from Calgary's iconic bowl river.
We developed a why-why see partner parking program where participating businesses in Calgary and the surrounding area will benefit from their employees receiving discounts on parking when traveling both for business and leisure.
We signed a multi-year agreement with Uber and a new agreement with taxi operators.
And late last year we were thrilled to support one of our longest airport partners Delta Hotel Calgary internal hotel as they welcome guests back.
We also welcome Calgary's newest casino to our airport campus Ace Casino featuring 72,000 fleet of entertainment just minutes from the terminal.
Next slide, please.
I think we might have skipped. Next one, please. Perfect.
We expanded our why-why see Express, which is the virtual Cueing Technology solution developed and led by Calgary Airport Authority.
The service provides certainty and minimizes time spent in security screening line by allowing guests to pre-book their spot in security when traveling during our peak times.
In 2022 more than 83,000 guests made reservations for why-why see Express and we're happy to say that virtually all major airports have adopted our technology.
Next slide, please. Why-why see is committed to becoming a barrier-free inclusive airport for people of all ages and all abilities.
We are continually looking at ways to create a more accessible experience by ensuring everyone can fully participate in and enjoy the airport experience.
Last year we implemented a quiet terminal providing a more relaxing and calmer airport experience with reduced noise from standard public address announcements.
We reviewed why-why see is way finding best practice recommendations and started making immediate changes while setting the groundwork for a long-term plan to declutter signage and use more consistent verbiage and nomenclature.
To meet and exceed regulatory compliance for accessible transportation at why-why see we partnered with changing paces.
A disability awareness training for them to develop accessibility training customized to why-why see's guests.
Their team of experts supported us by training our people to deliver the material for airports staff and volunteers who interact with the traveling public each and every day.
Next slide, please.
The West Runway Rehabilitation Project is going to be one of the biggest projects for the airport authority in the next several years and it's a critical one.
Once complete, the West Runway will reinforce airports safety and capacity for passengers, air crews and airport workers for decades to come.
In 2022, the key focus areas of the project were planning, design, development and procurement of long lead times items.
The runway design, which included environmental, sustainability and innovation options, was also completed in 2022.
Looking ahead, construction phasing analysis and stakeholder engagement and it will be an intense stakeholder engagement will continue throughout 2023.
Groundbreaking for the rehabilitation phase is expected to take place in the spring of 2024 with construction completed in 2025.
Up next slide, please.
Operating and capital costs have increased since the initial West Runway Rehabilitation Project budget was created in 2021.
As a result, the authority is seeking additional airport critical infrastructure program funding from the government of Canada.
Throughout the year, we remain focused on our vision of a strong future for why-why-see.
Our airport is a powerful economic driver for the province and surrounding area, and we are proud to be a part of the city's regions and aviation industries growth.
In 2022, why-why-see saw unprecedented growth in the number of new airlines and routes. Next slide, please.
In addition to designing, designating why-why-see as its intercontinental wide-body 787 Dreamliner hub, which will increase global connectivity and tourism options for the reason.
West just also restarted routes to Nassau, Bahamas, Belize City, and Terrace BC.
West Jet also announced 2023 plans to add nonstop flights to from why-why-see to Tokyo, Barcelona, Edinburgh, Austin, Detroit, Chicago, O'Hare, and Washington, Dallas.
Air Canada started two new destinations from why-why-see with Quebec City in Fort San John.
Links air service started in 2022, with why-why-see as their primary airport.
In September of 2022, links announced the U.S. expansion with addition of three popular routes from why-why-see to Phoenix, Las Vegas, and Los Angeles.
Links now serves 13 destinations from Calgary.
Porter Airlines shared its plans to enter the western market with twice-dale service between Calgary and Terrondo.
That route commenced in February 2023. Canadian North announced it was joining the team-wide-wide-see community in winter 2023, with daily flights linking treaties 7 and 11, or Calgary and Yellowknife.
This service also commenced this past February.
Eurowings discover launch service in August 2022 with seasonal service to Frankfurt, four times weekly, which they are expanding to five times weekly this May.
Flair Air continued to be a growing airline partner throughout the year and announced it's 2023 expansion plans to increase its road options from why-why-see throughout Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.
Next slide, please.
2022 was a year of recovery for the travel and aviation industries around the world.
We saw the removal of travel restrictions, quarantine periods, and testing requirements during the year.
But as restrictions were lifted, there was a significant spike in demand for air travel.
Toward the second half of 2022, we began to see a stabilization in demand at approximately 90% of pre-pandemic levels.
You'll see here the changes in our financial position between 2020, 2021, and 2022.
In 2022, total revenue was 415.9 million and increased of 92% compared to 2021.
This is just 16 million below the revenue generated pre-pandemic.
Expenses for 2022 were 223.2 million, a 45% increase over 2021, driven primarily by the airport returning to its full operational footprint.
Our earnings before interest taxes depreciation and amortization was $192.7 million, which is approaching 2019 levels.
We continued our discipline approach to investing in capital projects in 2022.
After significantly reducing capital spending in 2020 to only $18 million, investment has now been purposefully expanded to grow with available cash flow.
Capital spending in 2022 was 42 million, and we are expecting to invest approximately 70 million in capital projects in 2023.
Capital projects are investments not only in our future, but in the city's future.
Maintenance and growth projects are an essential part of what we do, and an essential part of preserving the safety and longevity of our assets.
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We ended 2022 by welcoming 14.5 million passengers despite a very weak first quarter due to Omicron.
That was an increase of 8.2 million or 128% from 6.3 million passengers in the same period of 2021.
By the end of 2023, we anticipate serving close to or slightly in excess of 17.5 million passengers.
By 2028, we forecast 23 million people coming through our doors.
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By the end of 2022, we had 88 nonstop destinations.
We had reached 186 daily departures.
We grew commercial service with offerings from 15 passenger airlines, which was a significant increase.
We maintained valuable relationships with our 7 cargo partners.
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As I mentioned earlier, growing our non-Arenautical revenue was a key focus.
Last December, we saw a 91% increase in non-Arenautical revenue from 2021.
We had 96 total shopping, dining, and retail options, and as we speak, we are busy building more.
And we had 124% increase in car parking revenue in 2022 compared to 2021.
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We remained proud of why YC's role in the transportation of critical goods through our state-of-the-art cargo facilities.
We are a critical part of the supply chain for our region, supporting important shipments and creating well-paying jobs.
In 2022, after two years of significant surges of growth during the pandemic, YYC's cargo business stabilized as was the case with most airports around the globe.
Not to be forgotten of course, next slide please.
Spring Bank Airport is also an important part of who we are.
Spring Bank Airport is a 24-7 operation that generates approximately 135 million in both direct and indirect GDP to the area.
Spring Bank is the regional hub for aircraft and helicopter flight training and other aircraft operations.
It facilitates recreational flying, corporate and air charter activity, and aircraft maintenance, manufacturing and support operations, including serving as a base for air tank or fire suppression aircraft during the fire season.
Situated on more 1,000 acres of land, the airport is home to more than 30 businesses and 400 aircraft.
Spring Bank is the second busiest general aviation airport and is the fifth busiest airport in Canada when measuring total aircraft movements.
That is quite remarkable.
And long anticipated by the community, the Spring Bank Air Show was a real hit with 18,000 visitors this past summer.
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Fostering positive relationships and 2-way conversations with all levels of government and stakeholders is a key focus to the work we do.
We pride ourselves.
Being open and accessible, bringing our experience and expertise to the table, in every conversation for the benefit of the city and region.
Bital partnerships with governments as well as travel, tourism, community and business leaders enable the authority to provide the best possible guest experience and to preserve our role as a vital economic generator for Calgary and the region.
The Calgary Airport authority continues to work with our counterparts at other airports and the Canadian airports council to advocate for investments into government-owned technology, funding streams for the national trade quarter fund and modernized lease agreements.
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We, as well as other airports, call on the federal government to invest in its own technology to assist in the guest experience.
There are so many ways in which we can enhance airport processes through technology and policy improvements on the part of the federal government, instead of having to resort to continuously build out and create additional infrastructure and take on additional debt.
Examples of such investments include improved screening equipment such as facial biometrics for security, self-boarding and customs. Next slide, please.
We continue to advocate for assurances that infrastructure projects at Canada's airports, the eligible for funding through a national trade quarter fund stream dedicated to airport infrastructure.
This is particularly critical for the four hub airports, Montreal, Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver, because the sheer volume of throughput that we have really degrades our capital investments much faster than spoke airports.
This is also critical to supporting the significant growth in Canadian air cargo capacity.
We'll continue to advocate for government support to complete our vital infrastructure improvements to further expand our cargo capacity, support our airline partners, and deliver better experiences for our guests.
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The Calgary airport authority has a vested interest in working closely with stakeholders to develop our robust solution for transit rail at connectivity to YYC.
By the end of next year, we will be the only hub airport that does not have connectivity to the city.
We will continue to work with city administration and the province of Alberta to advance various transportation options for our guests.
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In December of last year, we implemented a four-year sustainability strategy that focuses on six action areas and aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development goals and tactics.
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They are as follows, climate action, material and resource management, land and ecosystem management, healthy people and communities protecting our water and supporting actions to achieve them.
This strategy is available online at www.YYCSustainability.com, and allows us to report environmental key performance indicators in near real time.
And finally, before we go to questions, as announced in March, the Board of Directors has identified Chris Dinsdale as my successor as the authorities next president and CEO.
We look forward to welcoming Chris when his term as president and CEO commences this August.
Until I move on to new adventures when Chris takes the helm, I look forward to our continued interactions and time together.
With that, I will now turn it over to any questions that you may have.
And thank you for listening to the presentation.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much. It was very compelling presentation.
We do have some questions for you. I'm starting with Councillor Pattern. Please go ahead.
Thank you so much. One question I have in that comes to mind is, as we continue to welcome both refugees and immigrants at record numbers into our airport.
Has there been any consideration given to partnering with some of the community serving organizations to support individuals upon their arrival?
We actually do have in airport. I think we're the only airport that actually has those organizations in airport providing immediate support.
The moment these people get through customs.
Thanks. That is a pleasant answer. I'm surprised to learn and I'm so glad that that's already there. That was actually my only question. Thank you.
Thank you Councillor Pattern. We'll go to Councillor Walcott, please.
I had a similar question, so that solves one thing.
But I had a second question actually as well too. I think the future of the airport is so bright right now.
When we start looking at just the way the announcements have gone with the connector in the near future as we seek that to plan that out.
And then to be honest, just looking at the growth right beside you.
So what I was keen on and I was curious if that all it was related was some of the success of the airport authority and the return to work.
And also the developments that have been finishing up around you including new hotels, casino.
And I'm curious if there's, when you use the language of industry partners, I'm curious if there's a direct relationship with the developing developments that are going on around you.
And if that's kind of contributing to some of the successes that we're seeing with regard to even like parking revenue, but also just giving people something cool to do on their stay overnight.
Yeah, there's a couple of things to that. The first of all, we focus ourselves on our 5,300 acre campus.
And so if you look at hotels, there's quite a few of them that are not on our campus, but immediately adjacent.
And that's not unusual to have quite a few businesses set up shop surrounding the airport because face it with over 50,000 people coming in there.
Every day it'll work. It's a small city within a city. So it's its only ecosystem.
And it thrives on the growth that really is driven by our ability to generate more new routes through the air carriers by things I talked about before, which is our lower costs.
Our customer service level, I would say, is probably at a very, very high level compared to other airports.
We don't treat, you know, airlines like they're paying in the rear end.
We basically say, you're a customer. We value you. How can we work together to make it profitable?
And we also take a different approach. If we wanted to start a road, for example, we will first of all do the homework to say this can be sustained.
We will then pitch it to the air carrier and we will go to that airport and say, work with us to make this successful.
And that's how we continue to get that growth.
Well, it's very short. People are piggybacking off of your success. I see good to know. All right. Thank you, Chair.
Thanks, Councillor Walcott. With that we'll go to Councillor Spencer.
Thank you, Chair. Just wondering in terms of commentary around the opportunity, we were talking about coverage being more of an inline port.
We don't have water.
But when you think of the future and strategically aligning the pieces to attract some of that, can you point to a few things that you've seen recently that would indicate that everything's kind of set up in that direction?
Sure. We have a few things going for us. One of the first ones is we are immediately adjacent to both the north-south and east-west, you know, highways. It's extremely important.
We deliberately set up our cargo operations, for example, to be the easiest to operate for air carriers, cargo carriers. So we have, we have the kinds of investments we've made, which most cargo facilities don't have.
And I could get into a lot of detail on this, but it makes a difference to them.
We also understand that every minute they sit on the ground, they're not making money. So our turnaround times are very fast.
And we continue to look for ways to improve with them.
A prime example of that is, is most of our buildings, our cargo buildings are not full.
And we are actually working with a third party to look to build new cargo facilities to continue to expand, because every year they're looking for more space.
Because increasingly what's happening is, tonnage cargo is important, but what's really important is all those little packages that are coming in every day on Amazon Plains.
It's stunning the growth of that. And for that, you need sorting facilities. So what happens is we take the existing cargo ecosystem and we say we need to develop further, to be able to modify what we do to satisfy what is going on.
So nothing stays static forever in any business, and our business is the same, and particularly in cargo with the changes we've seen.
The other issue we look at is, we are looking at, we always look at trying to get industries that are related to aviation or actually in aviation in some way shape or form.
And that's one of the things we've been successful in doing in the past few years, and we continue to continuously pitch aviation related organizations to set up shop here.
What's happened, for example, in aviation, especially in companies that are in aerospace, a lot of them set up in Eastern Canada years and years and years ago, but there's a lot of growth in Western Canada.
So what we're basically pitching is, you need a spot here.
So you can't just sit on your on your hind legs and say, we'll wait for business to come to us, you've got to go get it.
Awesome, that's encouraging you here. I may have to follow up and find out a little bit more of what you know in terms of those connected pieces that are feeding each other.
Appreciate it. Thank you. Great work.
Thanks.
Okay, you know what that will head over to you, council.
Please. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Mr. Sarder, for getting us through COVID.
I'm still here.
It wasn't all fun and games. I'll tell you that.
Our business dropped 95% in the span of a week.
Thank you.
I just got to pursue a line of questioning over the West Runway.
How much capacity would that add in terms of passage volume?
I know that might not be the most appropriate metric, but it's less about the capacity.
Then it is about simply replacing an asset whose time has come to an end.
That runway is, I forget how many years old, but I'm sure my, my.
Yeah, parts of it are an excess of 60 years old.
Well, the served us well, now what this runway will do, it will likely have more modernized lighting and things like that.
So we'll enable us to do more landings and takeoffs in inclement weather and fog conditions.
Those kind of things, but the principle reason we're redoing it is we don't want to go backwards.
We need to replenish that asset.
What sort of cost are you looking at?
All in probably in the $200 million range anywhere with the funding come from.
Some of it from cash flow, some of it from the federal government, and some of it from debt.
Can you share more details?
Is that premature?
No, not at all.
The federal government is is contributing 57.5 million dollars to the project.
Thank you very much, thank you chair.
Thank you and we'll go to Council Crop please.
Hi, yeah, great presentation.
I'm glad we're coming out of a COVID every year.
I ask you about primary transit connections to the airport.
There has been increased conversation about inner city rail and how it might or might not connect to the airport.
Extension of the green of the blue line into the airport.
The people mover the provincial government in their provincial budget set money aside to sort of solve once and for all.
The best way to serve the airport.
How are you guys preparing to collaborate with that over the coming year?
Sure, we have been in in constant communication with city transportation group.
And our our view, Council Crop is that realistically it's not the airports decision to make.
This is a very important decision that will impact the city and the region and really the city and the province need to come to the table and say,
This is what's best for Alberta and best for Calgary.
We had planned for rail a long time ago airports tend to have a 20 year 30 year horizon of thinking.
And so if you are effectively standing between our two parcades you'd see a gap.
And if you look through that gap, that's exactly where the trains would come in eventually.
So we are prepared for that eventuality.
And obviously we had also we also have land west of deer foot immediately, immediately west of deer foot.
And that land is freehold land that could be used as a multimodal station for buses, for cars, for train.
So that's what we would want to bring to the table is our pre planning that we've already done and the fact that we have the space for multimodal station that could benefit not only the airport.
And train but also some of the traffic that comes in, for example, from air degree every day.
Yeah, I love to hear it.
I'll be very frank with you.
I think I was part of the council that fought to build the airport tunnel to create better connectivity to the airport.
I have witnessed a sort of an evolution in the thinking of the airport as sort of being in the business of parking cars,
to being in the business of being in multimodal aeratopolis.
And I appreciate your leadership in that regard.
And I'm really enthusiastic about where a primary transit and or inner city transit train connections will place count in the calorie airport in terms of a best possible future.
I'm glad you guys are supportive and excited about that.
Thank you.
All right, if I'm correct, is it's counterweightest next?
Perfect, go ahead, counterweightest.
Thank you.
The airport is, I think, one of them better organized airports around.
But I've been reading a lot of passenger issues pop up about the time it's taking to get their bags.
Has there something changed for that to be one of the really the few negatives that are coming out about the airport?
Yeah, I'd be happy to talk to you about that.
What a lot of people don't realize is we as airport operators, not just Calgary, any airport operator.
We are not allowed to touch the...
That is done by the air carrier staff or the people they contract. So the challenge is have been basically staffing what we call below the wing.
And it's a problem that air carriers are having in all major airports. And unfortunately, you know, two passengers, they say it's an airport problem.
It is an airport problem, because the air carriers can't simply get the bags inducted into our baggage system quickly enough.
And there's not a lot we can do about that until they fix their problem.
Thanks, do I think Hungarians are happy to hear that answer?
Is that it for you, Councillor?
Yep. Okay, Councillor me and please.
Well, thank you so much for that presentation. There's really a lot in there.
And I have so many things to potentially comment on, but I'll try and just say, you know, I think what's special about our role is that we represent Calgaryens.
And I think I would speak for Calgaryens or at least the folks in my word when I say it's very impressive to hear what you've been through over the last couple years and what you've been able to do and turn around.
And I think people would be really proud of the story that you've just told there.
I do have a couple questions and they're pretty minor.
The first is you mentioned something about why I see express on the technology to get sort of priority sort of signed in and get your place in the security line.
And I was actually just traveling in the US recently and they had that technology.
And so did I understand you correctly that that's Calgary technology and that's being used elsewhere or you just can you just explain a little bit more about that?
We developed our own technology.
And the airports that are using it now under the YVR Express, YYZ Express, they're using our technology.
Okay, so can other Canadian airports? Okay. Wow, that's really very cool.
The other question I had was I see you have 127% increase in parking revenue.
Can you explain that?
I wish I could.
It's interesting because we have obviously we have right share, we have taxis, we have buses and we really did expect more of a downturn.
One of the things we have done is we've really employed technology and dynamic pricing to effectively lower the cost of parking at the airport.
And I think people have noticed and said, yeah, you know what, it's worth my while to park there.
And we've really looked at longer term parking within our park aids and really reduced those prices as well.
Oh, that's interesting because one of my questions was has the parking prices increases that why the revenue is higher but you're saying it's actually the opposite.
Yeah.
Wow, okay, that's quite fascinating.
I think that's all my questions, but thanks for being here and thanks for your presentation. I really enjoyed it.
Thank you.
Thank you very much. I don't see any other questions in the key. I want to thank you for being here. Your organization is a very valued partner. I'm sorry some of us were a bit late.
Getting to the show, but we appreciate you being here and sharing this with us today.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Do we have a mover and secondary yet?
Okay, councilor, me and to move, councilor.
Putments, that's your name to second it.
Thank you.
I don't see anybody else with any debate, so if you could go to eScribe to vote, please.
Councilor, putments, your vote, please.
Thank you.
Councilor, do you want your vote, please?
Yes.
Thank you. Councilor McLean, your vote, please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor, Mayor, conduct all the votes are in.
Could you display the results, please?
That's carried unanimously.
Madam Clerk, if I'm not mistaken, we need to go into closed session now for the final three items.
That's correct.
All right.
If we could get the motion to go into closed session, thank you very much.
Take it a mover for this, please.
Councilor, pen or seconded by councilor Wong.
If I could get you to go to eScribe to vote on this, please.
Councilor, putments, your vote, please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Councilor, do you want your vote, please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Councilor McLean, your vote, please.
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor, conduct all the votes are in.
Thank you very much.
Could you display the results, please?
Thank you.
That's carried unanimously.
Councilor, we will be going to the back to discuss items.
12.2.1, 12.2.4, and 11.3.
We will then come back and rise in report.
So, please log out of this public meeting and you will get a link to the closed session meeting.
Thank you.
Local government meeting.
The regular meeting of council will reconvene in public meetings shortly. Please make your way back to council chamber.
Thank you.
I do believe this will be moved by Councillor Shivou and seconded by Councillor Putmans.
Can I ask you to go to eScribe to vote please?
Councillor Putmans, your vote please?
There it is.
Please go to eScribe to vote.
Councillor Putmans, your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Tui your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Thank you. Could you just play the results please?
That is carried unanimously.
That takes us on to item 12.2.4.
I believe this will be moved by Councillor Putmans and seconded by Councillor Spencer.
Please go to eScribe to vote.
Councillor Putmans, your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Councillor Walcott your vote please?
Yes.
Thank you.
Mayor Gondick all the votes are in.
Could you just play the results please?
That is carried unanimously.
Madam clerk, do we have anything else?
There are no further items on today's agenda there.
All right.
Before we look for someone to move to adjourn, I just want to thank you council for being so committed and disciplined today.
We got through a very busy agenda and very good time.
So, congratulations to all of you.
How will the job team who would like to move to adjourn?
Councillor Shabo, seconded by Councillor Putmans.
Anyone opposed to adjourning?
Seeing and hearing none, that is carried.
Job well done.
Thank you.