Earlier council, separate coverage
This record predates the newly elected council's first sitting on November 14, 2023. Its members, attendance and decisions are not included in current-term comparisons. Minutes and registry have been reviewed; audio and distinct question counting remain pending.
Council · Q4 2020
Council Meeting #32
Nov 24, 2020
Recorded present
Kenny Bell · Janet Brewster · Romeyn Stevenson · Joanasie Akumalik · Sheila Flaherty · Kyle Sheppard · Solomon Awa · John Fawcett
Recorded absent
Simon Nattaq
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Twenty-one entries 20-371 to 20-391 include sixteen substantive items. Agenda, three minute approvals and adjournment are procedural.
- 20-375 reallocated $5,000 for City Hall art and 20-376 directed a draft home-food-sales by-law. 20-377 authorized reserve transfers, 20-378 approved the 2021 operating budget including a forecast $303,000 residential water subsidy through July 31, 2021, and 20-379 approved the capital budget.
- 20-380/381 approved three percent sanitation and one percent property-tax increases. 20-382 directed water call-out fee amendments of $350 residential and $450 commercial, 5–2: Sheppard, Stevenson, Fawcett, Flaherty and Awa for; Brewster and Akumalik opposed.
- 20-383 directed legal research into removing compound interest, 6–1, Brewster opposed; Sheppard, Stevenson, Fawcett, Flaherty, Awa and Akumalik for. This is research, not repeal of the interest provision.
- 20-384/386 gave first and second readings to mill-rate amendment 906. 20-385/387 gave first and second readings to fees amendment 907; the second reading was 5–2 with the same named positions as 20-382. 20-388 gave final reading to enforcement-officer amendment 905.
- 20-389 requested analysis and implementation costs for Black Lives Matter calls for action, reporting to SPED by March 31, 2021. 20-390 requested bulk-mask options, costs and funding research, rather than immediately purchasing masks.
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