City Council Meeting
Monday May 12, 2014
7:00 PM Shaw Auditorium
Vancouver Island Conference Centre
- Mayor's Youth Advisory Council Announcement
- Supt. Mark Fisher Annual Policing Priorities
- Annual parking reserve fund report
- DCC reserve fund report
- DVP 1960 Boxwood Rd.
- DVP 1 - 1275 Island Hwy. South
- DVP 897 Howard Ave.
- DVP 3500 Osprey Lookout
- Rezoning Application 5220 Hammond Bay Rd.
- Proposed Road Exchange Adjacent 178 and 182 Westwood Road
- Proposed road closure and sale - Armins Place adjacent 6200 Doumont Rd.
- OCP amendment application Riparian Area Setback Policy
- Unresolved Building deficiencies 129 Lakeview Cres., 519 Rosehill Ave.
- Linley Valley Dr. extension tender
- Property maintenance bylaw - 543 Townsite Rd., 5254 Sherbourne Drive
- 2014 Community Service Grant Program
- Unauthorized construction 90 Machleary Street
- Sections 72, 73 & 74 Community Charter - 507 Milton Street
- Bylaws -Rezoning amendment
- Bylaw - OCP re: 1044 and 1048 Old Victoria Road
- Bylaw - Zoning amendment 1044 & 1048 Old Victoria Road
- Bylaw - Accommodation tax request bylaw
- Bylaw - Financial Plan Bylaw 2014 No. 7197 (to establish the 2014 - 2018 Financial Plan) be adopted
- That "Tax Rates Bylaw 2014 No. 7194 (To establish tax rates for 2014) be adopted
- That Municipal Solid Waste Collection Amendment Bylaw 2014 be adopted
Democracy Is Too Important To Leave To The Politicians
Do Your Civic Duty By Getting Informed and Getting Involved
If you say: " I'm too busy just trying to keep it together to get involved, consider that perhaps, if you were more involved you might not be having so much trouble keeping it together "!
You can view this Council Meeting Agenda here - - - Agenda .
The city just agreed to pay an outside firm nearly $25,000 to review the city website's content and set up a navigation structure. Our IT head gets paid about $150,000 a year and IT staff are paid at least $37.00/hr. and yet they can't properly set up the city website?
The city paid a consulting firm $75,000 for the purpose of reviewing and developing governance-related policy, structures and processes. (In other words to tell the city manager and mayor how to do their jobs). A recommendation that came out of this report was the hiring of Alison Habkirk (an associate of Jerry Berry) at a cost of $8500, again to tell city management and council how to do their jobs.
Council decided to spend $120,000 to install a public toilet at Diana Krall Plaza.
Council decided to spend at least $200,000 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??
If you can't attend council meetings in person (preferred) you can watch regular council meetings on Shaw cable channel #4. You can also watch the meetings live on the city website using this link.
The regular city council meetings are the only ones broadcast live on either Shaw Cable or streaming video from the city website. The Committee of the Whole meetings, while not broadcast live are recorded and can be viewed on the city website HERE.
Some Council Decisions You Might Want To Think About
The city just agreed to pay an outside firm nearly $25,000 to review the city website's content and set up a navigation structure. Our IT head gets paid about $150,000 a year and IT staff are paid at least $37.00/hr. and yet they can't properly set up the city website?
The city paid a consulting firm $75,000 for the purpose of reviewing and developing governance-related policy, structures and processes. (In other words to tell the city manager and mayor how to do their jobs). A recommendation that came out of this report was the hiring of Alison Habkirk (an associate of Jerry Berry) at a cost of $8500, again to tell city management and council how to do their jobs.
Council decided to spend $120,000 to install a public toilet at Diana Krall Plaza.
Council decided to spend at least $200,000 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!
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