The last Regular gathering was inauguration night of December 1st, and while they did meet twice in mid December in Special Session, December 15 and December 17, those sessions for most part provided opportunity to pass increases in recreation fees and land fill rates, as well as to make some preliminary planning for 2015.
The extended break through the holiday season, marked Prince Rupert as one of the last of the municipal council's in the province to get back to work, as the accounts of the Civic Info website highlight over the last ten days or so.
Tonight however it's back to work, with a first agenda for the new year that will mark the first full night of work since those December meetings.
For their return to the Council Chambers, Council will participate in a Presentation from Mayor Brain regarding the nomination of Mr. Adrian Liu for the 2014 Civic Merit Award.
As well Council will hear a presentation from BC Transit regarding Route Changes and recommendations. They will also receive a number of reports from both the City Planner, City Manager and Corporate Administrator.
Council will also review the recommendation of a Road Closure in the McCutcheon Avenue area.
The full review of the evening ahead can be found from the Agenda Package for January 11.
Below we'll highlight the different elements of this evenings work, for further background on each item, the page number from the Agenda is listed in red.
The session starts off with the regular adoption of agendas and minutes.
Petitions and Delegations come up next featuring the Presentation regarding the nomination of Mr. Liu for the Civic Merit Award as well as a presentation from Ms. Gina Curran, the Senior Regional Transit Manager for BC Transit, who will review proposed route changes and recommendations.
Any Unfinished Business is then up next on the Agenda.
Followed Reports and Recommendations , which provides for a number of topics on the evening.
Report from the City Planner - Re Development Variation Permit for a property on Immanuel Street (see Page 23 of the Agenda)
Report from the Corporate Administrator- Re: Appointment to the Regional Recycling Advisory Committee. (see page 31 of the Agenda)
Report from the City Manager -- Re: Municipal Insurance Association Executive Representative (page 37 of the Agenda)
Report from the Corporate Administrator -- Re: Council Committee Appointments (see page 38 of the Agenda)
Following those appointments Council then moves on to other business from the Agenda including:
Requests and Correspondences for Action, which will focus on requests for letters of support from the Prince Rupert Unemployment Centre Society (see page 45 of the Agenda) and from the Northwest Growth Conference (see page 47 of the Agenda)
Any resolutions from previous Closed Meetings of Council will then be provided.
Bylaws mark the next item of the Agenda on the night., with a focus on a recommendation for a road closure for a portion of McCutcheon Avenue (see page 55 of the Agenda)
The evening then wraps up with and Additional Items from Council members, Reports, Questions and inquiries from Members of Council.
The Live broadcast of the City Council session can be found here, a video archive of past sessions is available here.
Our Archive of the January 12th session can be found here.
While our archive of all sessions of 2015 for the newly installed council is available here.
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