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Good evening, members of the community and council. Welcome to this, the regular council meeting for August 17th, 2026, from the city of mission. I'd like to call our meeting to order and say that before we begin, I'd like to acknowledge that we are gathered this evening on the Anceted, ancestral and shared territory of the Stolo people. And specifically, mission is located on the traditional territories of the KC, Quantlin, McCammell, Mathquey, Samath, and Scallots, First Nations. I'd like to ask for a motion to adopt the agenda with

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one small change in it, and that's just the order of things. So item 9e will become d and d will

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become e, so we're going to put them in reverse order. I'll explain more when we get there.

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Councillor Plessis moves and it's seconded by Councillor Kille. Just I'll call the question on

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that first. Is there any other changes needed? All those in favor? Opposed? That's carried

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unanimously. I'll just acknowledge that Councillor Hamilton is ill this evening. Councillor

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Mr. Davis and Herr R are joining us online.

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Thanks very much for making that work because I know that some of you aren't feeling perfectly either.

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We move on to proclamations, so the first proclamation is National Forest Weekend.

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For September 20th, the 26th of 20th, 26th, moved by Councilor Elias, the second by Councilor Gill.

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Any comments or questions?

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All those in favour?

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Opposed?

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Carried unanimously.

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Next is literacy month from September 2026, moved by Councillor Harar, seconded by Councillor Davies, any comments?

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All those in favour? Opposed? Thank you very much. That's carried unanimously.

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We move on to item 4A, a public hearing, and I will start off for A, by reading the public hearing script.

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So this public hearing is being convened pursuant to section 464 of the Local Government Act in order to consider proposed by the laws listed on tonight's agenda.

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And copies of the relevant staff reports and related information respecting the subject amendment by lots have been available for public examination on the city of mission website as part of the public hearing agenda copies of written submissions for each application received by the submission deadline have been distributed to members of council and are available for public viewing on the city of mission website.

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At this public hearing, all persons who consider their interest in property affected by a proposed

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by-law, shall be given an opportunity to be heard on matters contained within that by-law.

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Speeding is being recorded and broadcast live on our website.

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The recording and the written minutes of the meeting will be posted later to the city's

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website as well.

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Speakers are able to provide comments and ask questions by in-person attendance or by Zoom,

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Either by using a webcam and speaker or by phone, using the instructions in a Zoom email invitation.

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If you're watching the meeting through our usual website link and are not participating by Zoom,

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please note there is a delay between the live meeting and the web broadcast.

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So I'll be allowing pauses between speakers to ensure everyone is heard.

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And I ask for everybody's patience in that regard.

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Each period of the carrying item will begin with a brief introduction by staff member followed by a summary of written submissions received.

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And then I'll open the floor to the public, first those online, and then people in the chamber.

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And once acknowledged, each speaker must give their name and civic address for

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the record, each speaker will be allocated five minutes to make comments.

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If you exceed that amount of time, you may be asked to conclude, or you may be muted.

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After all others have been heard, those that wish to speak for a second time will be afforded

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the opportunity to do so on their provisional that new information is being brought forward.

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So it'd be clear that means information that has not been shared by any other speaker members of council may ask clarification questions of the person after they've spoken but the main function of council members this evening is to listen to the views of the public and not to engage in debate.

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No presentations or submissions can be received by council on any application after the public hearing for that application has been closed.

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When a public hearing per item has been closed, the public hearing will continue to the next item on the agenda.

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Tonight there is only one public hearing.

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Council may consider third reading of any of the subject that bylaws later on this evening.

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With that, who is doing the presentation, Ms. Echaria?

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So we'll have Ms. Echaria come up and do the presentation for item 4B, official community planning ending by law 6427, 2026, 64051.

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One.

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Thank you for this opportunity.

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Good evening, everyone.

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I'm Permit Area Guidelines.

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The recommendation is that upon completing the public hearing, Council grant, consider

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granting third reading to the OCP amending by law 6427-2026-64051, which proposes to replace

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the existing appendix D, which is the DPA guidelines that exist within the OCP, as well as the

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maps, which are scheduled 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 within the OCP bylaw 6405, 2026.

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Little bit of the background. Project was commenced in October 2025. It was funded through the grant that

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Providence gave city. It is an OCP actionable item when the OCP was adopted in 2025.

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City Secure, a consultant, therefore planning and design from Victoria who helped staff

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and the technical working team which was inter-departmental team played an advisory role.

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In the phase one was completed internally to accomplish budget efficiency and all the

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gaps and issues with the existing DPA guidelines were identified by planners who actually use

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it on every day basis when they process development applications.

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And that formed the foundation for the consultant to go ahead and start the work in phase two and

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There were in-person stakeholder workshops and also committees like the DLC and other

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committees reviewed, provided feedback, this community engagement and open house for

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the community and some feedback was received then and the final review and revisions were

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added.

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and then now it's here for Council consideration. Council did give first reading and second reading

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and now public hearing which is today.

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Quick fact, so part 14 of the local government act

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comes under the planning and land use management. DPs required only when a property is located within

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a designated DPA development permit area and that's outlined in the OCP and has a triggering

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activity that's proposed on site. The OCP must specify the purpose guidelines and conditions

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for the DPAs. So you have mentioned DPAs identify locations requiring special treatment

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for certain purposes. Before subdivision of land, construction of or addition to or alteration

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of a building or structure, alteration of land example, grading, clearing, excavation, if specified

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in the OCP, all these would trigger a development permit application.

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So the DPA guidelines which were revised were basically for staff to work on making them

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more clear, easy, easy to follow, remove a prescriptive approach, have a performance-based

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approach, have a streamlined process and add graphics that explain some of the design guideline content.

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The form and character DPAs and the environmental DPAs, so the geotechnical and environmental

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DPAs all are under this and then the form and character DPAs are basically all kinds of

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development projects, commercial multi-family industrial.

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I said the highlight was highlights were to

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improve clarity and consistency and modernize the guidelines. A lot of other jurisdictions

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have gone through this process, reduced complexity. We also did the merging of DPAG and F,

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which is the geotechnical and Fraser River, which was to simplify for the applicant one process

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and not repetitive two separate processes, if the site triggered both. There's a hierarchical

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structure which is design principles as well as general design guidelines that apply across

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the city. It is now typology specific format which means there are guidelines that ensure

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better developments for ground-oriented residential development or apartment or mixed use or

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high-rise retail commercial industrial. So it's typology specific which is more simple

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to understand because it's form-based, includes relevant graphics and there's flexibility over

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rigid prescriptive rules. It's aligning with the OCP and zoning and building code requirements.

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It also includes the CNP Hillside DPA guidelines which were proposed and not formally adopted and

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And it's overall strengthening the environmental protection and hazard mitigation within the city.

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So DPA guidelines, the content page actually is very clear in terms of what's included

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in the DPA guidelines itself.

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It is streamlined, easy to understand, and it includes graphics as needed.

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If you look at the typologies, it's again distributed based on the form itself, like

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I mentioned before, the SSMUH are included in the ground-oriented residential.

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And these are allowed because of the bills that promise required to sort of have infill

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options for existing single-family neighborhoods.

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So retail commercial and industrial have all kinds of design guidelines that actually require,

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require consideration for landscaping, access and other things.

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It's easy to follow format, it shows a feature image that explains the various parts of

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buildings and also key guidelines that apply across a development.

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Design foundations consider the relationship between public and private spaces, especially

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for multi-family and mixed-use developments that comes into play.

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For any new developments, fit within an existing neighborhood or any areas that are in transition

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that are likely to change in the near future.

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It applies to all form and character DPA and it also has an overarching framework for evaluating

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the design, which is basically the checklists that are more generic in nature, but also

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geographic specific checklists that will help evaluate what's fit within certain neighborhoods.

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These are just examples of some graphic. There are many, many graphics in the document,

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which is included in the package. But essentially, if these were to be explained in words,

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it would get really complicated. They say a picture is often a thousand words. The graphics

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help bridge the gap between policy language and real-world application, making the guidelines

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more accessible and easy to understand for both applicants and decision-makers as well as staff.

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These graphics help communicate concepts that can sometimes be difficult to convey

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through text alone, such as building orientation. Building orientation is very commonly used because

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it's the sun path and the entrance and the and how the heat is transferred into the building

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and things like that. But if that's explained through a graphic, then it's much easier to understand.

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The intent is to provide developers, applicants, architects, landscape architects, and staff with a

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The clearer, visual understanding of what the guidelines are trying to achieve, rather

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than having to interpret policy language on its own, users can use and see these examples

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of the design outcomes that are required through projects.

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This approach helps improve consistency in interpretation, reduces uncertainty, during

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the design and review process and can ultimately lead to better quality applications being submitted

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it from the outset. Sometimes we hear from applicants and developers that the application

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took too long. Well, if it's not a complete application or if it doesn't comply with

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many things, then there is a process that's involved and there's a lot of discussion

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and revisions that are needed and that takes time. Importantly, these illustrations are intended

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to be educational and illustrative rather than prescriptive, they demonstrate the principles

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and outcomes the city's seeking while still allowing flexibility for different site conditions

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and creative design solutions.

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The administrative process just quickly go through staff level design

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reviews when the application is submitted. There are various professional reports that are submitted

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as part of the process, there is inter-departmental referrals, sometimes there are outside agency

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referrals as well, there is DPs, DPs review.

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Council. Most of the multi-family commercial are all council dedicated. There's a landscape refundable deposit that's required. The DPs registered on title after it's approved and it's valid for 24 months. The building permit application usually is submitted after the DP is approved. Sometimes there are time lags because the property might change hands. Staff ensure that approval approved DP drawings actually matched the building permit drawings.

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drawings because they could be changes and they could be properties that change hands.

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And final planning inspections are carried out to address the form and character including

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landscaping because there's a refundable landscape deposit that's held and needs to be returned

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after the landscaping is implemented.

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Steps, today is the public hearing.

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If Council deems appropriate, they could give the third reading tonight.

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It will come back for consideration of final adoption for the next Council meeting.

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After it's adopted, it will be inserted into the OCP, published on the website and the DPA guidelines project page,

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which is the project page has been updated regularly, so the whole community,

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the committees and everybody is informed of all the council reports as well as findings

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of the committee engagement and that's the project page and staff will prepare a report

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and submit to the grantor to make them aware of that the project has been completed and

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the cost incurred.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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So I'll turn now to our corporate officer to summarize any correspondence received on this.

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We have not received any written correspondence.

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Perfect, thank you so much and we'll now go to our online participants and see if we have

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any.

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And if so, if you'd like to speak to this, please use the raise hand function and Ms. Cooper

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will let us know and promote you to present.

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We have no attendees at this time.

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Okay, thank you.

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I will come back to you one more time at the very end just if people do have a desire to

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sign on.

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They can do that. Otherwise, I'll be calling three times here in Chambers. The first time, is there anybody in Chambers this evening who would like to speak to this matter?

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For a second time, is there anybody who would like to speak on this matter?

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For a third and final time, is there anybody who would like to speak on this matter?

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Seeing none, I'll check one last time with the online.

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Do we have anybody?

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Still nobody there.

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Thank you.

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With that, then, I will close the public hearing.

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Council will have an opportunity to ask our questions and debate later on under the

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by-law's section of this.

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Thank you, Ms. Acharya.

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And we'll move on to ask for resolution resolved into committee of the whole moved by Councillor

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Plexus and seconded by Councillor Elias.

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Councillor Harar, I can see, but I cannot see Councillor Davis.

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Is he still with us?

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Okay, it just must be the way that the screen is set up, but I would love it if I can hear it.

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Okay, I'd just like to ask if we can try and set it up so I can see both of you at the same time that way I can see how you vote.

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There we go.

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Thank you.

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Excellent, so the resolution to move into committee of the whole has been made.

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Call the question, all those in favor?

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Opposed, that's carried unanimously.

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Next is item 6a, a holiday-ledding capital funding request.

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I see verbal. Is it Mr. Haney or Mr. Crow that we're going to have? Mr. Haney, come on up.

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I'm really just here for questions. The plan this year is to give the main, the grand tree, a bit of a facelift in an upgrade and utilize those lights near the playground.

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Great. Are there any questions for Mr. Haney? Councillor Davies has a question.

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I do have a question. Thank you very much, Mr. Haney, for your report.

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I know you've iterated and growing this event year over year, but I'm wondering if there is actual plan that where this event is going to be in five or 10 years, and how we're going to get there.

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That's going to be tied to the plan of developing the electrical through Centennial Park, but the goal is to eventually have at least two ends of the park lit up with the pathway connecting them.

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We'd really like to have a fully lit pathway five to seven years down the road.

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Great.

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Thank you.

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Anybody else with questions?

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Councillor Gil, and then Councillor Alas, is that a question?

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I was just going to add.

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Okay, I'll come to the motion now.

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I'll come to the motion now.

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Councillor Gil?

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I thank you through the chair.

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I know at the last one there was a tremendous amount of people that had come out, Mr. Haney.

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And is there plans?

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I know at that time I think there was only one hot chocolate stand and the lineup was huge,

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but is there plans to just bring you more things for folks to do after the tree is lit up?

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We're going to make it a bit bigger for sure. Last year, we didn't anticipate those numbers,

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so we're going to enhance things a bit. Yep. Excellent. Thank you.

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I have a motion for Councillor Elias. Any comments on the motion?

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Councillor Elias? I just want to say thank you. I really look forward to coming to Centennial Park

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every year and every year it gets better, so I look forward to what you're going to do this year.

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So thank you.

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Thanks.

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Thank you.

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I think we're ready for the question.

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All those in favor?

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Opposed?

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The matter is carried unanimously.

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Thank you, Mr. Haines.

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Thank you.

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Continue the good work.

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Moving on to the item 7a, the property tax collection.

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My cheat sheet says simply that the Mr. Stewart is here.

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If we have any questions, otherwise this is for information.

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Seeing none, I will move on to the next item.

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And I know we have something coming up about consent agendas.

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And if you ever wonder what a consent agenda is,

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This would have gone under it. Excellent. And that takes us to the next item. Item 8A and Ms. Hubbard will give us a walk through of the Council procedure changes she's proposing.

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All right. Good evening, Council. I'm happy to be here in my role as Acting Corporate Officer to give some background on the amendments I am recommending for your Council procedure of bylaw.

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I'll provide an overview of the proposed amendments to the by-law and share the goal of each of the key amendments and chart the path forward, and how we're going to implement this.

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So starting with why, why are we doing this? Why now?

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The overall goal of this by-law is to strengthen good governments.

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And the amendments that I have in here, they're based on feedback from yourselves during

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previous presentations with our CAO, Barkley-Pakethley, as well as staff, our recent efficiency

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review, and the municipal advisor who did his presentation in January.

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And we are looking for opportunities to simplify our meeting flow, improve decision-making processes

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for Council and Make and Gender does easier for the public to follow.

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All right, so for the proposed amendments, the main focuses are a revised agenda order,

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which I will go through in future slides.

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Introduction of the consent agenda, which Mayor Horne just mentioned, removal of the committee of the whole format for

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regular meetings, that's the format that we're in right now.

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And I'll talk a bit about that and update the notice and motion procedure.

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and some other housekeeping updates and additions of definitions.

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As I mentioned, these amendments are intended to create a clearer, more efficient council

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meeting process well maintained transparency and supporting informed decision-making while

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being aligned with the community charter.

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So I'll discuss each area now.

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A key change is a new agenda structure and what this is all about is adding some elements,

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such as a consent agenda, and removing the committee of the whole from regular meetings,

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which would mean removing the rising report from regular meetings.

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Now what is a consent agenda?

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We haven't had them at the City of Mission, I believe, or it's been a while.

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Since I was on council, the first time did it just then, yeah.

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Yep, they're common with other local governments, and what they do is they group together routine

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non-controversial items for approval at one time.

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So an example, they could be meeting minutes or information reports, things of that nature.

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But what they do is they allow for Council to get through those items and accept them.

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And if there is a desire for anybody on Council to pull it out and talk about it and make

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make a recommendation, they can do so before the chair calls the question.

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So that is-

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To be clear, meeting minutes, our meeting minutes would not be in a consent agenda, correct?

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So committee minutes would be in there, but typically anything that requires adoption of its own wouldn't normally be in a consent agenda, is that accurate?

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This would require adoption as well, so what we're thinking about and what we will be doing with the consent agenda is having a cover report from the corporate officer explaining what each of the items are and whether it's received for information or accepting those minutes.

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So minutes is a common one that you see in consent agendas.

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I would suggest that we need to maybe just double check that I don't know whether or not the regional district.

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We don't typically see our minutes in the consent agenda, but I think it's just fine for the presentation this evening.

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I think that's a question that can be answered later on, so I'll let you continue on.

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Okay, all right, so that was the consent agenda.

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And now, removal of the committee of the whole from regular meetings.

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As you know, our current every meeting that we have in regular council meeting has the committee of the whole.

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And this is something that was recommended by our municipal advisor to remove.

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It delays formal decision making till after the rising report.

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So you'll notice on our agenda as we have our bylaws, they're often listed twice.

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It can be confusing for residents trying to follow along.

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So, removing this from our agenda will make things more streamlined and it reduces duplication.

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However, Council has committee of the whole if they ever want to do one.

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If there is a desire to do one for something that's more workshop, a special council meeting,

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town halls, you still have them at your disposal.

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And there is an amendment to the process for notice of motion.

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So, this would be introducing a two-part process where you notice a motion from a member of council would appear on the agenda, but it won't be until the next meeting under a new section called business arising where council will debate it, discuss it, introduce it, and make a decision on it.

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So on their first meeting, it's truly a notice.

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You're putting it on there, you're seeing it.

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The second meeting, the council member who came up with the notice emotion will introduce it.

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As well as there will be a short briefing note from staff with any important context to help with decision making.

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And other proposed amendments are more housekeeping ones, adding our new definitions,

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As well as clarifying delegations that are excluded from legislation that prohibits public input.

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We wouldn't be able to allow delegations on that anyways, but in case somebody wanted to propose a delegation that was related to Bill 44 covered under there, we wouldn't be able to allow them, this just allows transparency.

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And another aspect is formalizing a procedure that Council has already started doing since January,

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which is the practice of asking questions before debate is opened by the chair.

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So that will be in our Council procedure by-law.

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So timing and next steps, well, there will be some internal staff training,

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get in and want everyone up to date with what we're going to be doing,

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making some communication about that internally as well as

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administration to prepare for a smooth launch and timing, we're looking at

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November 9th to go live with this agenda or with this new council procedure

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by law and our new agenda order will be on November 9th at the very first meeting.

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So this new format will be introduced with the 2026-2030 City of Mission Council.

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And that is all I have for my presentation and do you have any questions?

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Thank you. I'll just wait until I see my colleagues on screen and then I'll look for questions.

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Okay. I've got anybody have any questions? Councillor Plexus to start us off.

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And Councillor Harara, who are you next?

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Okay. Thank you. Just curious. On page 86 it outlines what the agenda should look

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for the regular council meeting. I just want to know, should be instance item 9 division

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reports. No, that's not on the as was before, but what's the division reports? That's from

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the meeting department or what?

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Exactly, so right now, if you'll notice in our committee of the whole, it's organized into departments.

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So this is under corporate admin and finance, so it'd be the same idea that would be organized through their divisions.

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And the other question was, regardless of correspondence, that's not considered to be an item that would be consent part of agenda.

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That would be normal, just in case somebody asks questions, right?

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Exactly, so the correspondence is often an area where council is making a recommendation, pulling things out, discussing those items.

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It's handled the exact same way as consent agenda.

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Exactly.

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You can simply move past it and you don't have to actually.

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It's unusual. We don't normally have to adopt the consent agenda.

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I don't think at the ones I'm going to, but we'll ask staff to check that.

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But either way, it works similarly.

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And think further, councilor last you have a question?

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Um, not so much a question, but I do like the Cassantagendas.

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I've worked with Cassantagendas for many, many years, um, on the board, uh, boards I've represented.

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So I think it's, um, a smart move.

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Okay. So, we have a motion, and in the comments from members of council, council, I'm sorry, you were next, and I forgot to go to you. Councilor Herrard, then Councillor Gell. Thank you, Mayor Horn. I just got a couple of just a clarification on two points. When you meet delegations, does that also include people coming to the council meeting and presenting at all? It means that it's just putting in place the policy that

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that we already have that a person couldn't come, for example, and do a delegation on something

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for a closed public hearing, for example.

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Okay, all right, correct.

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And also this question, I have the stuff to be asleep as well.

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Are we still keeping question period?

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I'm sorry, could you say it again?

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Question period.

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Are we still keeping question period?

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That was discussed at, you know, at early stage on this.

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Yes, question period is still in the agenda order?

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It is number 14.

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Allegations in question periods were not changed after Council's feedback.

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Yes, that was taken clearly from Council.

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Councillor Gilles' question as well. So, yeah, those two things, I think, Council expressed

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that they did not want them removed and they haven't been removed.

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Thank you.

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Councillor Davies?

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Thank you. With regards to the question period, there was questions about whether or not there

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are options to improve or make question period more effective.

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Was there any changes done for that?

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This point, there wasn't any changes to question period.

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I would suggest that the next council will have opportunity to look at the mechanics

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of the rules of order and things like instructions before, but they wouldn't affect the act for procedure

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by law. Is that correct, Ms. Hubbard?

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Well, exactly. And the timing for this is great. So when the new council comes in, we will train

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them once on our agenda process and our council procedure by law.

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That answer your question, Councillor Davies?

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Yes, it is.

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All right. I think we're ready for the question.

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I'll say thank you to staff for navigating through this.

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I think the timing works well.

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And I like the fact that we won't have to approve the same thing 72 times in the meeting.

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I'll call the question. All those in favor?

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Opposed? The matter is carried unanimously.

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Thank you very much.

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And now we move on to, let's see here, item 9a, which is an introduction report

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for 3, 4, and 3, 9, 9, Perndale Avenue, and this is just if you have questions you'd like Mr.

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Pueblo to know, for the way that he comes and presents this, this would be the time to give him.

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Seeing them, we'll move on to item 9b, which is an introduction report for development application.

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3333, 12th Avenue, that's a really good hand, by the way, 5, 3, so I'd like to have that hand.

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It means I'm cheating if I have that many, but that's all right.

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Does anybody have any questions or comments that they'd like to incorporate?

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Ask Mr. Pueblo to incorporate in his presentation when this comes back.

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Seeing nine, we'll move on to item nine, C, which is 8977 Cedar Street as a recommendation on this one.

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But wait, first of all, we have Mr. Pueblo to do a presentation on this one.

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And then we'll go for council questions and motions.

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This

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presentation is for 8977 Cedar Street, an application that has been submitted by Dan Edgar to rezone the property from suburban 20 to the institutional education zone.

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The proposed IE zoning would eliminate the need for ongoing temporary use permits associated with the continued education use of this property.

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The rezoning would also support the expansion of educational uses related to the adjacent school site.

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The city has been receiving temporary use permits and approving them since 2003 to facilitate

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this use.

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So, this rezone is really a formalization of that ongoing use.

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Sorry, this just demonstrates the surrounding zone in the neighborhood.

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It is an area that's expanding with multiple higher density products coming in to this area.

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We have the OCP supports this.

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We have some neighbourhood centre to the north, and obviously the institutional use for the school and this property itself, and that's the ortho of the property.

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That's all we have, if you have any questions.

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Questions?

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Is there any questions for Mr. Pueblo?

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Councillor Gil?

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Thank you, Mr. Chair.

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I'm just going to put this out there.

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I know a little while ago there was questions about just traffic calming in the area and maybe

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just a note for engineering when they do come back with their updates for engineering projects

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that I will ask the question if there's any traffic calming being explored.

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but it's just because this application was there, I thought I'd bring it up.

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Thank you. Seeing no questions of motion, Councilor Elias moves. Any further comments?

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All those in favour? Opposed? Matters carried. Thank you very much, Mr. Puebel.

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Now, as I said, I'm going to move to 9D after 9E, and so let me introduce the rationale for this.

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And Mr. Public can answer questions as well.

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As you can see in report in the report that's on street naming it law to spillage, the development applicant and the city staff are hoping that tonight we will name some streets so that they can have building permits affixed they needed address so they're going to building permits affixed.

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Some of the names that were proposed were already in our list of approved names.

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One was not, and that's Sakura, so it actually needs to come first to be approved.

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Secondly, I spoke today with the proponent, and I asked him why they chose Lodgepole, given the fact that Lodgepole's not an indigenous species to our area.

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He said he didn't particularly love that, and he, in fact, I gave him some other names that were native plants.

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I'll give counsel an update and say I sent him quite a long list of names, as well as Mr. Pickett,

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We definitely would expect we're going to see some new names, including some pioneer names that will be vetted.

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Because that, as you may recall, from the Silverdale process, he's both the old one with GENSTAR many years ago.

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And the more recent one, people very clearly articulated they wanted the place names to relate to the foliage, the animals, and the people from that area.

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So with that in mind, I'm going to be moving the street naming policy,

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STR 28 amendments that are there in addition to three new names, and one of these names will

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replace something in the old 9D, all by the way. So those three names in addition are

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Blackberry, Salmonberry, and Cascara, all of which are native species that grow in the

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area. Cascara, Mr. Pitt-Cathley, I can see the look on your face. C-A-S, C-A-R-A, and

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It's a tree that was harvested by Italian settlers for medicine.

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All right, there you go.

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You wanted to get the bark, because it was slippery and it made the system work.

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All right, so I'll move that and item two is still the same to consult with people regarding the street to boulevard.

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And that's been moved, and if you have any questions, you can ask me or you can ask Mr. Pobl.

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Seeing none, I'll call the question.

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All those in favor?

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Opposed? That's carried unanimously. Thank you.

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Now going to item 9D, the motion will be amended from the staff report so that it now, instead of lodge poll avenue, this is blackberry avenue.

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Okay. So, otherwise the motion is there. I'll move that.

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Would it be the second or do you have a question?

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Okay. Are we ready? All those in favor? Opposed? Matters carried. Thank you.

420
00:38:15,770 --> 00:38:26,010
That moves us on to item 9f, temporary use permit at 7168 Ren Street, and Mr. Pueblo has PowerPoint on this one.

421
00:38:32,520 --> 00:38:47,080
The brief overview on the proposed temporary use permit here, so the purpose of this application is to permit a toll operation and accessory uses through temporary use permit for the property located at 7168 Ren Street.

422
00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:58,000
A toa yard is typically permitted in an industrial transportation use area, which is not permitted within the property's current CH2 zoning.

423
00:38:59,100 --> 00:39:03,780
This site was historically used as a toa yard previously.

424
00:39:04,480 --> 00:39:11,860
However, the use had ceased and the businesses had moved to other locations within the city for a period of more than six months.

425
00:39:12,420 --> 00:39:18,720
as such a temporary use permit is required to renew the ability to use this property for this use.

426
00:39:21,870 --> 00:39:42,250
So this is an ortho photo showing the subject property, so while there is a recognition that this use may not be compatible with the long term vision of this area, staff are recommending support for the proposed temporary use permit with the conditions noted in the report, and the understanding this use may need to find a permanent location in the future that's more suitable.

427
00:39:43,170 --> 00:39:44,650
That concludes the presentation.

428
00:39:45,010 --> 00:39:46,910
Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Pueblo?

429
00:39:47,810 --> 00:39:48,330
Move.

430
00:39:48,430 --> 00:39:51,030
Move by Councillor Plaques. Any comments on the motion?

431
00:39:52,070 --> 00:39:57,210
Seeing none, all those in favor? Opposed? That's carried unanimously. Thank you very much.

432
00:39:57,890 --> 00:40:02,930
Now, Mr. Pueblo, item G, I'm a bit confused. You and I had a real quick conversation beforehand.

433
00:40:03,570 --> 00:40:09,950
So you had indicated that it's for introduction, but the motion here suggests it's for first reading and referral

434
00:40:09,950 --> 00:40:12,590
because it's no CP amendment, which is it?

435
00:40:13,630 --> 00:40:16,490
It's first reading on the OCP change.

436
00:40:16,810 --> 00:40:22,910
Okay, so I'll let you give some introductory remarks, and then I'll see if anybody has any questions.

437
00:40:24,930 --> 00:40:31,010
So this property and the property directly south of it have historically been part of the

438
00:40:31,010 --> 00:40:38,250
tree farm license, TFL-26, starting in 2024, there was a process to rezone the property

439
00:40:38,250 --> 00:40:43,370
and subdivided the land to create this parcel as part of a land exchange with a developer.

440
00:40:45,110 --> 00:40:49,970
Now that this parcel is been transferred into private ownership,

441
00:40:50,830 --> 00:40:58,770
it may not be appropriate for it to be designated as forestry, as municipal forest.

442
00:40:59,110 --> 00:41:02,810
And so the request has come forward to redesign it.

443
00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:07,090
And that's why we're here tonight to look at first reading of this and

444
00:41:07,090 --> 00:41:08,110
and start the consultation.

445
00:41:10,030 --> 00:41:11,670
Seeing no questions, I'll move it.

446
00:41:12,010 --> 00:41:14,170
It's the good faith gesture that I think

447
00:41:14,170 --> 00:41:17,230
that led to this swap, so we ended

448
00:41:17,230 --> 00:41:19,090
up with more forest and more

449
00:41:21,230 --> 00:41:23,510
ability to harvest and more contiguous forest,

450
00:41:23,650 --> 00:41:25,430
so it was a better deal for the citizens.

451
00:41:26,930 --> 00:41:28,730
And so if there's no thing further,

452
00:41:29,450 --> 00:41:32,630
I'll call the question and see anybody else.

453
00:41:32,810 --> 00:41:33,530
All those in favor?

454
00:41:34,290 --> 00:41:35,670
Opposed? Thank you very much.

455
00:41:35,790 --> 00:41:36,330
That's carried.

456
00:41:38,410 --> 00:41:45,730
And we come to our last item, which is a wireless telecommunications tower temporary structure on 7th Avenue.

457
00:41:46,490 --> 00:41:51,550
Mr. Pablo is available for questions on this, seeing no questions.

458
00:41:51,830 --> 00:41:53,550
Oh, Councillor Davies, go ahead, the question.

459
00:41:54,170 --> 00:42:02,030
Thank you, as this is a replacement tower but on property, is this property tax exempt?

460
00:42:02,250 --> 00:42:06,150
Does it change anything in the usage of that property for the couple two years that would be there?

461
00:42:06,150 --> 00:42:17,670
There's probably a question, actually, for Mr. Stewart, because if I know as my mouth here, we actually charge a specific assessment for the portion where this is there, and it's 15x, if I'm not mistaken.

462
00:42:18,190 --> 00:42:19,970
That is correct, and we'll still continue to be touched.

463
00:42:20,170 --> 00:42:24,050
So, typically, it's the sorts of revenue for the place where it's cited and for the city.

464
00:42:25,350 --> 00:42:25,610
Thank you.

465
00:42:26,010 --> 00:42:26,330
Thank you.

466
00:42:27,550 --> 00:42:31,010
Councillor Harard, then, Councillor Gill and Councillor Plexus.

467
00:42:37,990 --> 00:42:42,550
Mr. Pueblo, I'm regretting that I told you we probably didn't need your PowerPoint.

468
00:42:43,390 --> 00:42:44,270
I apologize.

469
00:42:44,530 --> 00:42:44,830
Go ahead.

470
00:42:45,010 --> 00:42:50,130
No, I don't have any history off the top of my head about the former location other

471
00:42:50,130 --> 00:42:55,490
than it was located, as you've mentioned, on the top of the Chartwell building that recently

472
00:42:55,490 --> 00:42:59,970
suffered a fire as such, that service has been dislocated.

473
00:42:59,970 --> 00:43:05,410
and we need, they're looking for a temporary place with the hope that they're going to relocate

474
00:43:05,410 --> 00:43:07,450
there once that building has been reconstructed.

475
00:43:07,690 --> 00:43:11,390
Mr. Stewart, would you have any indication I know that would probably have been something

476
00:43:11,390 --> 00:43:14,950
that you could have dug out if we gave you enough time, but we don't know whether or not there's

477
00:43:14,950 --> 00:43:18,310
an assessment, how long that assessment of that property has been there I would imagine.

478
00:43:18,750 --> 00:43:19,310
Or I don't know.

479
00:43:19,510 --> 00:43:19,710
Okay.

480
00:43:20,050 --> 00:43:20,330
Thank you.

481
00:43:21,730 --> 00:43:23,150
Anything better to Councillor Hurrah?

482
00:43:23,850 --> 00:43:24,330
Ah, that's good.

483
00:43:24,430 --> 00:43:24,650
Thank you.

484
00:43:25,210 --> 00:43:25,850
Councillor Gill.

485
00:43:25,850 --> 00:43:31,070
So thank you to the Chair, was there any other locations explored?

486
00:43:33,380 --> 00:43:45,180
My understanding that the applicant did explore a number of other properties in the area, including the hydro property directly to the east of this site.

487
00:43:46,000 --> 00:43:53,720
And this was the only location that they could get agreement with the property owner that seemed to provide the level of service they were looking for.

488
00:43:55,500 --> 00:44:14,960
Councillor Plessis, just curious why they didn't require a temporary use permit, you know, and it indicated up to two years there's no indication through the report that they would be going back to Chartwell once the bill has been rebuilt, this indicates that they'll be looking for another site, so those are the two questions.

489
00:44:15,900 --> 00:44:19,040
So the first question is about the use here.

490
00:44:19,380 --> 00:44:22,220
So radio antennas like this are permitted everywhere.

491
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:27,100
And the only time that we're coming forward with the,

492
00:44:27,480 --> 00:44:33,500
the ask for consent is when they exceed the heights dictated in our policy.

493
00:44:33,940 --> 00:44:38,600
So in this case it's a 20 meter tall tower and that's stimulated the request for the consultation.

494
00:44:39,460 --> 00:44:43,260
Where towers like this are located on the top of buildings or existing towers.

495
00:44:43,260 --> 00:44:49,860
no consultation will be required. So the ask here is really about the 20 meter tall tower.

496
00:44:50,380 --> 00:44:54,780
In a nutshell, we don't have the power to extend zoning a TUP's or that here.

497
00:44:54,900 --> 00:44:56,920
Okay. I'll answer.

498
00:45:00,640 --> 00:45:28,480
So if they don't find a place to put it, they would still be in the same position a year for now, and they, as far as I understand, spoken to the property owner, but it on a temporary basis. Yeah, and that's why staff have sort of processed this as if it's a formal application and not really sort of gone down the temporary path, because we don't have any guarantees at this point what the term is. But knowing that as a trailer mounted antenna, we reasonably don't expect this to be a permanent installation.

499
00:45:29,040 --> 00:45:33,860
All right, thank you. Do we have a motion for the staff concurrence councilor Elias?

500
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:54,660
Any other comments? My quick comment is I know that people have written about this, but the structure that's been across the road has been there for some period of time. And I think it's going back. There's no question in my mind that this is a simple practical consideration for the fact that something was damaged into fire and neighbors are being good neighbors to make sure that we continue to have good cell connection in that area.

501
00:45:54,660 --> 00:46:00,860
All right. Ready for the question? I'll call the question then. All those in favour? Opposed?

502
00:46:01,540 --> 00:46:03,820
Councillor Davies, you voted in favour? Is that correct?

503
00:46:06,330 --> 00:46:07,230
Thank you. And Councillor

504
00:46:07,230 --> 00:46:13,030
Herrera and Councillor Gail voted contrary, but the matter is carried. And so that was the

505
00:46:13,030 --> 00:46:20,130
one exception in our report for Horizon Report. So we will, sorry?

506
00:46:20,130 --> 00:46:28,950
Right? Exactly. So a resolution to rise in report, please, moved by Councillor Elias,

507
00:46:29,110 --> 00:46:36,030
seconded by Councillor Herar. All those in favour? Opposed? It's carried. We have, I believe,

508
00:46:36,250 --> 00:46:41,490
unanimity on all except item H. So I'll ask for a motion on all of the items in the committee

509
00:46:41,490 --> 00:46:46,850
of the whole report. Councillor Elias, seconded by Councillor Plexus. All those in favour?

510
00:46:47,810 --> 00:46:55,010
Opposed? Thank you. On the last item, item H, with the wireless temporary tower, Councillor

511
00:46:55,010 --> 00:47:00,390
Fleckas moves it. Councillor Elias seconds it. I'll call the question. All those in favour?

512
00:47:02,270 --> 00:47:06,010
Opposed? Councillor Harar and Gil are opposed to the matter carries. Thank you. We'll move

513
00:47:06,010 --> 00:47:10,990
on to committee reports and minutes, four sets of those for questions from anybody from

514
00:47:10,990 --> 00:47:16,610
Council. Seeing none, we'll move on to Council meeting for approval, three sets of those

515
00:47:16,610 --> 00:47:20,570
for adoption, moved by Councilor Gill, and seconded by Councilor Elias, any errors or

516
00:47:20,570 --> 00:47:26,430
omissions. Seeing none, all those in favour? Opposed? Care unanimously. Now we'll move

517
00:47:26,430 --> 00:47:31,550
into bylaws. The Council procedure bylaw is the first one, the first, second, and third

518
00:47:31,550 --> 00:47:38,150
reading. This is item 4188, 223 on the agenda. Do you have a mover? Councilor Plexa, seconded

519
00:47:38,150 --> 00:47:46,750
by Councillor Davies. All those in favour? Opposed? Thank you. It's carried. Official community

520
00:47:46,750 --> 00:47:52,430
plan amending by law for first reading. This is the Ainsworth property on page 229. It's

521
00:47:52,430 --> 00:47:58,510
the unaddressed property. Do I have a mover? I'll look online. Councillor Herar seconded

522
00:47:58,510 --> 00:48:05,230
by Councillor Davies. Any comments? All those in favour? Opposed? That's carried. Thank

523
00:48:05,230 --> 00:48:06,330
Thank you, unanimously.

524
00:48:08,110 --> 00:48:17,350
14C is amended to Street Spruce Place, Blackberry Avenue, Sitkaway, and we had approved Sakura,

525
00:48:17,610 --> 00:48:20,410
so it should be in this by-law because we went out of order.

526
00:48:20,950 --> 00:48:24,050
So those four are here, so I'll get that for the staff again.

527
00:48:24,790 --> 00:48:30,170
Spruce Place, Blackberry Avenue, Sitkaway and Sakura, I can't remember whether it was

528
00:48:30,170 --> 00:48:32,990
a way or a street, but staff can amend accordingly.

529
00:48:32,990 --> 00:48:38,830
I'll move that. Do I have a seconder? Seconded by Councillor Laas. I'll call the question.

530
00:48:38,970 --> 00:48:43,530
All those in favour? Opposed? That's carried. Thank you.

531
00:48:43,670 --> 00:48:50,850
In item D, the person second reading 8977 Cedar Street as suburban 20 zone to institutional

532
00:48:50,850 --> 00:48:55,890
educational zone, moved by Councillor Gill and seconded by Councillor Herar.

533
00:49:01,750 --> 00:49:02,770
All those

534
00:49:17,950 --> 00:49:24,770
We move on to the official community plan. This is the item that was in our public hearing.

535
00:49:25,450 --> 00:49:29,290
So because we haven't dealt with it before, I'll slow down and see if any members of

536
00:49:29,290 --> 00:49:33,110
I'll have any questions on this before putting the motion on the table.

537
00:49:34,860 --> 00:49:39,110
Seeing nobody here with questions, Councillor Plycus has moved that, seconded by Councillor

538
00:49:39,110 --> 00:49:39,690
Elias.

539
00:49:40,210 --> 00:49:41,990
Comments or questions beginning with the mover?

540
00:49:42,850 --> 00:49:44,790
Yeah, I think very good.

541
00:49:44,910 --> 00:49:45,410
It's timely.

542
00:49:45,710 --> 00:49:48,730
I think that this is to modernize our guidelines.

543
00:49:49,450 --> 00:49:51,470
I know there are a number of years we've been asking for this.

544
00:49:51,890 --> 00:49:53,670
I'm glad staff finally got through with it.

545
00:49:54,030 --> 00:49:57,470
It's a more from a prescriptive approach to a performance-based approach.

546
00:49:57,470 --> 00:50:03,150
I think it's simplified language, and it gives greater flexibility for more concise documents

547
00:50:03,150 --> 00:50:08,110
easier for the developers to read, and it aims to achieve the city's desire to develop

548
00:50:08,110 --> 00:50:10,250
an outcome, so I'm quite satisfied with it.

549
00:50:10,470 --> 00:50:10,730
Thank you.

550
00:50:12,330 --> 00:50:17,170
Seeing no other comments, I'll quickly say this is a gain echo accounts of Plexus and

551
00:50:17,170 --> 00:50:18,110
saying it's overdue.

552
00:50:18,450 --> 00:50:24,330
A couple of things I really like about it is it allows for creativity, whereas now when people

553
00:50:24,330 --> 00:50:32,530
people have come in and they had something that was creative, but staff might have thought it was creative and liked it, but they really did not have the ability to move beyond the prescriptive approach.

554
00:50:32,830 --> 00:50:37,910
Here we can now work with people and achieve a desired impact in the community.

555
00:50:38,290 --> 00:50:44,390
I love the fact that there's this thought about the human scale and also something that didn't get talked about tonight, but

556
00:50:44,390 --> 00:50:53,590
we talked about ensuring that properties have distinctive architectural and landscaping elements, so that people are not always building the same boxes.

557
00:50:53,590 --> 00:51:07,310
We heard this earlier today from somebody who hasn't been in their community for a little while and talked about how many different homes and different typologies of homes we're seeing on the sides of our hills and longer highways and I really like that.

558
00:51:07,470 --> 00:51:20,850
One of the things I don't like and I think this will also help is when people come in and they want to do the cheapest thing that's old mission and enough with the vinyl siding, enough with calling a rock, a piece of public art.

559
00:51:20,850 --> 00:51:25,430
I think it's time for us to build homes that have lasting value and

560
00:51:25,430 --> 00:51:29,290
contribute to our community fabric and not just homes but buildings in general and

561
00:51:29,290 --> 00:51:30,270
that's the other thing I love here.

562
00:51:30,850 --> 00:51:35,110
And this further embeds our development permit areas in the environmental areas.

563
00:51:35,290 --> 00:51:40,090
So I really like the fact that we're protecting our streams and trees more effectively than ever.

564
00:51:40,230 --> 00:51:41,030
So thank you for that.

565
00:51:41,310 --> 00:51:45,210
The Ms. Acharya and the whole department and to verify consulting for their work.

566
00:51:45,550 --> 00:51:48,810
And to the community members who participated, we ready for the question.

567
00:51:48,810 --> 00:51:50,290
All those in favor?

568
00:51:51,750 --> 00:51:52,270
Opposed?

569
00:51:52,930 --> 00:51:53,770
That's carried unanimously.

570
00:51:54,030 --> 00:51:54,810
Thank you very much.

571
00:51:56,150 --> 00:52:02,030
Now we go to item G, street naming Pearson way extension for third reading.

572
00:52:02,170 --> 00:52:05,390
Page 341, moved by Councillor Gill and seconded by Councillor Plexus.

573
00:52:05,530 --> 00:52:05,870
I think I heard.

574
00:52:06,970 --> 00:52:07,890
I'll call the question.

575
00:52:07,970 --> 00:52:08,650
All those in favor?

576
00:52:09,650 --> 00:52:10,170
Opposed?

577
00:52:10,290 --> 00:52:11,270
That's carried unanimously.

578
00:52:11,830 --> 00:52:16,510
Next is adoption at 621-1-2023-5949-129.

579
00:52:16,510 --> 00:52:21,650
And this is at 9124 Cedar Street to a multi-use townhouse.

580
00:52:21,890 --> 00:52:22,890
Who would like to move that?

581
00:52:22,970 --> 00:52:24,550
I'll watch my online colleague's first.

582
00:52:24,710 --> 00:52:25,770
Does she have anybody who wants to move that?

583
00:52:25,930 --> 00:52:27,610
Councillor Hurrah and Councillor Davey's seconds.

584
00:52:28,570 --> 00:52:29,630
I'll call the question on that.

585
00:52:29,950 --> 00:52:30,650
All those in favor?

586
00:52:32,470 --> 00:52:32,870
Opposed?

587
00:52:33,090 --> 00:52:33,930
That's carried unanimously.

588
00:52:34,930 --> 00:52:38,790
And then street naming, Brunton Court Hashimoto Street, why don't we do that the opposite

589
00:52:38,790 --> 00:52:39,050
way?

590
00:52:39,250 --> 00:52:40,710
Councillor Davey's and Councillor Hurrah?

591
00:52:40,930 --> 00:52:41,670
Is that sound okay?

592
00:52:42,530 --> 00:52:42,730
All right.

593
00:52:42,890 --> 00:52:43,630
Councillor Davey's moves.

594
00:52:43,850 --> 00:52:44,690
Councillor Hurrah seconds.

595
00:52:44,690 --> 00:52:46,550
We'll call the question on that.

596
00:52:47,130 --> 00:52:47,670
All those in favor?

597
00:52:48,370 --> 00:52:48,690
Opposed?

598
00:52:48,850 --> 00:52:49,610
That's carried unanimously.

599
00:52:50,310 --> 00:53:00,410
And then for adoption, this is item J, 6424, 2026, 5949, 215, at 34951, Burndale Avenue, moved by Councillor

600
00:53:00,410 --> 00:53:02,230
Plycus and seconded by Councillor Gill.

601
00:53:03,310 --> 00:53:04,470
Any questions or comments?

602
00:53:04,950 --> 00:53:05,710
All those in favor?

603
00:53:06,510 --> 00:53:07,010
Opposed?

604
00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:08,150
That is adopted.

605
00:53:08,450 --> 00:53:08,810
Thank you.

606
00:53:08,810 --> 00:53:19,770
And lastly, for adoption, is the item K, zoning amending bylaw, 6190, 2023, 5949, 119.

607
00:53:20,410 --> 00:53:27,270
And it's from Judith Street, from suburban 20, to multi-unit townhouse, moved by Councillor

608
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:29,510
Elias, seconded by Councillor Plexus.

609
00:53:30,210 --> 00:53:31,110
All those in favor?

610
00:53:31,710 --> 00:53:32,270
Opposed?

611
00:53:32,430 --> 00:53:33,070
That's carried you in.

612
00:53:33,710 --> 00:53:42,210
Now on to permits. The permit at 91-24 Cedar Street is page 464-15A. Do I have a motion on the permit?

613
00:53:43,490 --> 00:53:48,250
Councillor Herard, do you want to move that one? Councillor Davies, seconds. All those in favor?

614
00:53:49,410 --> 00:53:53,770
Opposed? I do not see hands from all members of council. All those in favor?

615
00:53:54,330 --> 00:53:54,530
Yes.

616
00:53:54,650 --> 00:53:59,770
Thank you. Opposed? That matter carries. 15B, Judith Street, 84-51.

617
00:53:59,770 --> 00:54:04,750
One, for the development permit on that property, counts for a lie, seconded by Councilor Peckas.

618
00:54:05,150 --> 00:54:06,270
All those in favor?

619
00:54:07,270 --> 00:54:08,810
Opposed? That's carried unanimously.

620
00:54:09,290 --> 00:54:14,270
And then the temporary use permit, 71-68, rent, street, moved by Councilor Davies and

621
00:54:14,270 --> 00:54:15,510
seconded by Councilor Gill.

622
00:54:16,550 --> 00:54:17,350
All those in favor?

623
00:54:18,790 --> 00:54:19,310
Opposed?

624
00:54:19,430 --> 00:54:20,710
Councilor Peckas, you were in favor?

625
00:54:21,070 --> 00:54:21,910
That is carried.

626
00:54:22,730 --> 00:54:24,990
Unanimously, move on to correspondence.

627
00:54:24,990 --> 00:54:34,490
Once I'm going to speak myself, after giving others a chance to speak to items, I'm going to speak to 16A, C, and E.

628
00:54:35,150 --> 00:54:39,330
Is there anything anybody would like to speak to outside of those, or including those?

629
00:54:41,170 --> 00:54:48,770
Item 16A, just following up, I have spoken with Ms, my crash, what's Emily's last name having?

630
00:54:48,770 --> 00:55:18,590
I mean, Shepherd, thank you about the, there are life jackets and signs at Stave Lake and we really would encourage people to use those, we cannot have these types of tragedies in our community, we thank Mr. Forester for writing, but it really it's up to us to share these messages, I'm going to come back to 16, see the second last I should say, just an update to council, I'll be speaking to the minister of housing tomorrow and asking her on

631
00:55:18,590 --> 00:55:22,930
For an update, there are some things in this letter that are good news, some things that are unclear,

632
00:55:22,930 --> 00:55:25,810
such as what's intended for that property down the line.

633
00:55:25,950 --> 00:55:30,410
So I'll be conveying Council's desire to see the property continue to be used for

634
00:55:30,410 --> 00:55:35,770
the purpose that we were encouraged, was likely to, what we were told was going to happen in the first place.

635
00:55:35,770 --> 00:55:38,370
They're namely to support women and families.

636
00:55:39,610 --> 00:55:47,290
Next is item 16c and I'll actually suggest to Council they turn to that piece of correspondence on page 477.

637
00:55:48,550 --> 00:56:01,290
The town of Lake Cowachan has adopted this election pledge and I did the research and went online.

638
00:56:01,290 --> 00:56:07,770
There's a website, this campaign, and quite frankly, I thought it was simple and brilliant and worth doing.

639
00:56:08,150 --> 00:56:13,590
And I can either move that we adopted ourselves now or make a notice of motion.

640
00:56:13,590 --> 00:56:15,790
And this is on page 477.

641
00:56:15,950 --> 00:56:17,830
Let me read it out while you look for it, Counselor.

642
00:56:18,910 --> 00:56:24,870
The elect respect pledge states that we will treat others with respect in all spaces,

643
00:56:25,130 --> 00:56:29,290
public, private, and online, reject, and call out harassment, abuse, and personal attacks,

644
00:56:29,990 --> 00:56:34,930
focus debated on ideas and policies, not personal attacks, help build a supportive culture

645
00:56:34,930 --> 00:56:37,990
where people of all backgrounds feel safe to run for and hold to office,

646
00:56:38,490 --> 00:56:42,130
call on relevant authorities to ensure the protection of elected officials who face

647
00:56:42,130 --> 00:56:47,030
of use or threats and model integrity and respect by holding one another to the highest standards

648
00:56:47,030 --> 00:56:51,330
of conduct, which is really, I think, something we all craved in the last election.

649
00:56:51,850 --> 00:56:54,630
So I'm going to move that we take that same pledge.

650
00:56:55,590 --> 00:56:58,950
Even though I'm not running, I think it would be good to encourage the whole community to

651
00:56:58,950 --> 00:56:59,270
do that.

652
00:56:59,830 --> 00:57:01,510
I have a seconder, Councillor Gill.

653
00:57:01,690 --> 00:57:02,290
Thank you for that.

654
00:57:02,650 --> 00:57:03,130
Any comments?

655
00:57:04,430 --> 00:57:05,710
I'll call the question then.

656
00:57:05,870 --> 00:57:07,070
I can't see my colleagues.

657
00:57:07,750 --> 00:57:08,870
I'll get, thank you very much.

658
00:57:08,870 --> 00:57:12,970
Councillor Hurrah and Councillor Davies, I didn't see whether you had your hand up when I asked

659
00:57:12,970 --> 00:57:13,690
if there was any comments.

660
00:57:14,890 --> 00:57:22,390
I just wanted to completely agree. This is a, I think, a fantastic message to send.

661
00:57:22,670 --> 00:57:27,390
It's, you know, I wish I, I wish and hope that everybody would operate in the same way.

662
00:57:27,950 --> 00:57:33,910
Thank you. The, um, electrospect.ca is the website and I would encourage you to go there and it gives

663
00:57:33,910 --> 00:57:38,630
you resources to use in your social media and I would encourage any candidate to also state

664
00:57:38,630 --> 00:57:41,230
that they themselves are taking this same approach.

665
00:57:41,250 --> 00:57:46,590
I think it separates the people who are coming into the public space for a meaningful debate,

666
00:57:46,850 --> 00:57:52,630
and a one that's serving the community versus things that are perhaps about hurting others, or self-serving.

667
00:57:52,830 --> 00:57:54,350
And we don't need that in our community.

668
00:57:54,710 --> 00:57:56,030
It's been a tough time as it is.

669
00:57:56,390 --> 00:57:59,870
Let's make this a refreshing, positive, constructive election.

670
00:58:00,850 --> 00:58:02,250
I'll call the question then, all in favor?

671
00:58:03,350 --> 00:58:03,770
Opposed?

672
00:58:04,130 --> 00:58:04,950
That's carried unanimously.

673
00:58:05,150 --> 00:58:06,610
Thanks to all for the support there.

674
00:58:07,890 --> 00:58:19,530
We'll now move on to new business and what I'm going to start with my online colleagues and start with Councillor Davies just because I see he's got his microphone on and then I'll go to Councillor Harar and I'll start with Councillor Plexus and look my way across after that.

675
00:58:20,190 --> 00:58:21,330
I have no update. Thank you.

676
00:58:21,850 --> 00:58:24,290
Thank you. Councillor Harar.

677
00:58:24,990 --> 00:58:25,650
No update, Mayor.

678
00:58:26,150 --> 00:58:27,590
Thank you. Councillor Plexus.

679
00:58:27,590 --> 00:58:32,590
Yes, just been a long time, like three weeks, you have to go back and remember, what did it, four weeks ago?

680
00:58:32,950 --> 00:58:33,470
Four weeks ago.

681
00:58:33,710 --> 00:58:44,830
Yeah, I attended a joint share of services, a meeting in Abbotsford, the Water Insurer Commission, and we're now in the process of looking at our Water Insurer master plans for the regional district.

682
00:58:45,150 --> 00:58:48,590
The regional between Abbotsford and us, I attended the Mission and Healthy Community Meeting.

683
00:58:49,110 --> 00:58:56,850
Two weeks ago, it was a very good meeting, the committee is trying to formalize its strategic priorities.

684
00:58:56,850 --> 00:59:03,710
At least starting in September, I think mayor wants to see opportunity for a candidate to attend that as well, so it's a very important meeting.

685
00:59:04,210 --> 00:59:11,410
There's some good points that were shared from the hospital as well as from June to three, and I'll leave it for them to share that publicly.

686
00:59:12,210 --> 00:59:13,450
I don't know, let's open information.

687
00:59:13,870 --> 00:59:21,610
Also attended the wetlands, the young lady here in mission that did, through the Parks and Recreation, did an audio walk?

688
00:59:21,610 --> 00:59:28,330
Yeah, audio walk, audio walk and they attended that and went on the walk and listened to the storyline was very good

689
00:59:28,330 --> 00:59:34,670
And they also attended the under 18 baseball thing on behalf of the mayor and fortunately didn't get an opportunity to do a presentation

690
00:59:34,670 --> 00:59:38,730
Because they had got off to a late start that morning, so I was there for that

691
00:59:39,330 --> 00:59:44,490
Thank you so much, and glad your pitching arm is still a good shape for the over 18s next year

692
00:59:46,270 --> 00:59:47,070
Councillor Gil

693
00:59:47,810 --> 00:59:49,010
Thank you through the chair

694
00:59:50,030 --> 00:59:54,590
Thank you, Councillor Placquez. I'm touching on the audio walk. I actually had a chance

695
00:59:54,590 --> 00:59:57,130
to attend it. I want to thank Community Futures.

696
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:27,880
A chance to attend the downtown business association meeting, and I know council has received a letter regarding their concerns about a temporary use permit for a potential shelter, but it's something I know council has an application council hasn't seen, but I think they're just being proactive there. And then also on September 9th, the downtown business association will also be holding their AGM at the Copper Hall.

697
01:00:28,420 --> 01:00:30,400
Thank you very much, Councilor Elias.

698
01:00:31,040 --> 01:00:36,700
Yeah, thank you very much. Unfortunately, our Accessibility Committee meeting was counseled

699
01:00:36,700 --> 01:00:43,080
due to no quorum, which was unfortunate. But it was a great few weeks off, got to really

700
01:00:43,080 --> 01:00:49,280
enjoy everything in the community. But I do just want to give say something in regards

701
01:00:49,280 --> 01:00:53,120
to my heart being out with everybody and all the communities that are affected due to the

702
01:00:53,120 --> 01:00:57,860
wildfires. I just want to remind our community as well, because we've done some patrols

703
01:00:57,860 --> 01:01:01,780
And we're still finding people having fires in our backyard and in stave.

704
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:06,660
And I just want to ask people not to, I just don't have a fire.

705
01:01:07,460 --> 01:01:11,140
But my heart does go out to those communities that are being faced with all the evacuations.

706
01:01:11,660 --> 01:01:12,480
Thank you very much.

707
01:01:13,060 --> 01:01:16,000
Thank you that prompts me to speak to myself or

708
01:01:16,000 --> 01:01:24,360
one of my colleagues and council typically attend a weekly briefing held by the Ministry of Forest and EMCR and

709
01:01:24,360 --> 01:01:26,500
Waterland and Resource Stewardship.

710
01:01:27,860 --> 01:01:36,820
And it's really, we are in dire straits, I don't think anybody has to see beyond the outside the window right now to see how terrible things are.

711
01:01:37,820 --> 01:01:45,440
We had a fire just about 6K north of Dixon Lake, which is a major water source for mission in Abbotsford.

712
01:01:45,700 --> 01:01:51,200
Luckily, it was just under 14 hectares and did not do worse than they've got it held under control.

713
01:01:51,200 --> 01:02:18,040
was listed on BC wildfire as twin lakes. I think that might have been a misprint was should have been twin bridges is the name of the area, but in any event, we want to think BC wildfire service and I want to really, really encourage people to make sure not only that they're doing what Councillor Elias said and minding the fire regulations, but also really understanding how they can make sure that they don't spread risk of fire in the back country.

714
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:24,020
A lot of communities in this most recent update are asking the province for the power to close

715
01:02:24,020 --> 01:02:26,300
their backcountry and not just to forest fires.

716
01:02:26,740 --> 01:02:31,000
One of the biggest issues that we have are people using off-road vehicles without spark

717
01:02:31,000 --> 01:02:34,220
arrestors or taking poorly tuned cars.

718
01:02:34,480 --> 01:02:38,900
If you, for example, have brakes that are metal on metal, you are what they mean by a human

719
01:02:38,900 --> 01:02:39,580
cause fire.

720
01:02:39,680 --> 01:02:44,800
Very small number of these fires are caused by people who are reckless with cigarettes or

721
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:48,940
or arson or campfires, all of those are causes.

722
01:02:49,560 --> 01:02:54,620
But by far, I asked about this, the bigger issue are people using machines,

723
01:02:54,900 --> 01:03:02,020
including the average family vehicle in the country without thinking about the management of that mechanical device.

724
01:03:02,700 --> 01:03:08,320
You should also make sure if you have it, I was asked by a citizen what app do we use?

725
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:16,080
we use alert, and you can download it for free, and it will alert you to fire flood traffic

726
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:21,860
issues in your area. So both the ZAPs, BC wildfire, and alert, alert a bull, I should say,

727
01:03:22,120 --> 01:03:25,720
are both available for free online, and I would recommend you use them.

728
01:03:28,160 --> 01:03:33,080
The Mission Healthy Community Council has Councilor Plexus, NET, and has narrowed down the

729
01:03:33,080 --> 01:03:36,940
last year of their planned five priorities, three of which are particularly going to take

730
01:03:36,940 --> 01:03:44,000
action. The fourth one, excitingly, is about car 67. We're waiting for our new OIC to come and

731
01:03:44,000 --> 01:03:48,640
we'll chat with him about that. And the next one is about working in partnership with First

732
01:03:48,640 --> 01:03:53,520
Nations. We have to check and see what their appetite is to do that right now. But Council

733
01:03:53,520 --> 01:03:58,280
Plexus is right. We want all members of Council and community who are interested in what this

734
01:03:58,280 --> 01:04:02,400
committee is doing to come to the next meeting. I don't have the date in front of me right now,

735
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:09,440
but I have emailed staff to let all of Council know, and if you are interested, you can email me and I'll get that information.

736
01:04:09,680 --> 01:04:14,760
They're always public, but in particular, it's a good time when we have so many people that are interested in our Council.

737
01:04:15,120 --> 01:04:22,300
This is probably our biggest committee, and it really represents all of our cross-section of health and human services in our community.

738
01:04:22,980 --> 01:04:28,760
Mission food coalition is also narrowed down their strategic plan to three priorities, and I'll ask them to present.

739
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:35,060
The Stone Soup Committee is working hard, and we have secured somebody to do the Stone Soup website update.

740
01:04:35,420 --> 01:04:39,920
If you're familiar with the green card, that's the written version of the resources in our community.

741
01:04:40,440 --> 01:04:43,140
The vision with the website is to create a web-based directory.

742
01:04:43,520 --> 01:04:48,680
If you operate a not-for-profit or even an informal organization in the community that helps people,

743
01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:56,880
whether it's with mentorship, employment, housing, food, helping people to get their financial affairs in order,

744
01:04:56,880 --> 01:05:03,180
You can email me at the city at pho-r-n-atmission.ca, and I'll show you how to enter that information into this database.

745
01:05:03,980 --> 01:05:11,820
And I'll remind people that we are actively going through the rollout of our automated garbage collection or waste collection,

746
01:05:12,060 --> 01:05:19,180
solid waste collection, and under the tutelage of this is how we roll, and really great opportunity for people to get out and

747
01:05:19,180 --> 01:05:26,100
actually see the containers and decide which ones they want themselves and understand more about it.

748
01:05:26,100 --> 01:05:51,300
I think the key message for people to understand is that not only will this make it easier for people to get their garbage out to the road every day because these are wheeled totes, but it turns out it was actually the less expensive option and the more reliable option than having human powered collection as we have for so many years, so please learn more about that by going to mission.ca And with that, we'll go to notices of motion.

749
01:05:52,060 --> 01:05:54,640
I just will give council a bit of notice right now.

750
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:59,380
I haven't got a formal motion, but I'm working with Mr. Pitt-Kethley right now, and Mr.

751
01:05:59,460 --> 01:06:06,340
Payne, similar to the aid committee, we've had struggles with quorum at the Sustainable Housing Committee.

752
01:06:07,060 --> 01:06:10,800
So at the most recent community wellness, or sorry, I'm just going to have the community table,

753
01:06:10,900 --> 01:06:14,500
we talked about whether or not that work really is more social in nature and should

754
01:06:14,500 --> 01:06:15,860
do dealt with there.

755
01:06:15,980 --> 01:06:18,100
So Mr. Pitt-Kethley and I will work.

756
01:06:18,100 --> 01:06:23,360
We may have something on that next agenda about that or it may come to the subsequent council

757
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:24,920
But that's still where we are right now

758
01:06:24,920 --> 01:06:29,120
But I think the structure needs to be looked at and it may be the same with yours, okay?

759
01:06:29,260 --> 01:06:31,820
So by all means have a conversation with me about that and

760
01:06:32,620 --> 01:06:38,180
With that we'll go to question period if you have a matter a question for any matter other than the public hearing this evening

761
01:06:38,180 --> 01:06:43,820
Please come to the microphone. It should be from the agenda, but again, it cannot be the one item that was in the public hearing

762
01:06:44,460 --> 01:06:45,360
please come forward.

763
01:06:48,180 --> 01:06:51,280
Seeing nobody coming forward, a motion to adjourn will be in order.

764
01:06:52,080 --> 01:06:55,900
The by-counters rely us and seconded by Councillor Harar. All those in favour?

765
01:06:56,700 --> 01:06:57,980
Opposed? We're adjourned. Thanks.