Special City Council Meeting Aug. 7, 2013 4:30PM

 

Nanaimo City Council Meeting

Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2013

4:30 PM Shaw Auditorium

Vancouver Island Conference Centre

"The purpose of the Special Council Meeting is to conduct Council business regarding Colliery Dams"

Council will be meeting to consider this Staff Recommendation

1. cancel Tender 1445 - Removal of Middle and Lower Chase
Dams;
2. direct staff to transfer the $2.5 million proposed to be used from
the 2012 surplus to a special Reserve to be used in the future
for work associated with the risk mitigation of Colliery Dams;
3. bring back a Short Term Risk Mitigation Plan at the first
available opportunity; and
4. continue to engage the Snuneymuxw First Nation (SFN) and the
public and return at the first opportunity to Council to adopt a
new strategy to deal with the long term mitigation of risks
associated with the dams.

Note: All people who registered to speak as a delegate at the July 8 council meeting are currently listed as a delegate to speak at this meeting. As this recommendation is to cancel the removal tender and bring back a short term risk mitigation plan, if you still wish to speak, it is presumed you would now be speaking in support of this recommendation, whereas at the past meeting which was to award the removal tender, you would have been speaking against the recommendation.

 

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You can view this week's Council Meeting Agenda here - - -  Agenda .

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 Some Council Decisions You Might Want To Think About

 Council decided to spend $120,000 to install a public toilet at Diana Krall Plaza.
 
Council decided to spend at least $160,000 on the old theatre on Victoria Rd. when a $20,000 solution would have done, until it is decided what is to be done with the building long term. Two engineers have raised questions about the seismic standard of the building, but staff seem content to ignore the concern.  

By deciding to bring downtown parking enforcement 'in-house' which was supposed to save tax dollars, we are now going to lose $140,000 in the first year.

We are paying over $60,000/yr. for downtown parking attendants (meter maids).

We gave a $300,000 tax exemption to the bar operating in the old train station. This exemption was originally thought to apply to the area of the train station used as a train station and not the area operating as a pub.   

Council decided to spend $170,000 on an electric Zamboni, when a propane fueled one costs $80,000 and does the same job.

Council decided to spend thousands of dollars to implement a policy of banning the sale of bottled water at civic facilities.

Council decided to add another $700,000 to the $844,000,000 financial plan to pay for a communications person (spin doctor), do you think that is a good use of YOUR tax dollar??

Two years ago they decided to spend $16,000,000.00 on a new staff office, an amount equal to YOUR tax increase for 5 years! 

Recently voted to spend $160,000 instead of $20,000 on old theatre at 25 Victoria Rd. even though it is not up to seismic standard. 

Attending these Council meetings in person is the best way to see your business being taken care of, second best is watching on Shaw Cable from the comfort of your easy chair, it is also available live online using this link, and last but not least is reading what the local press says went on.