City Council Preview: Monday, October 4, 2021

The members of Prince Rupert City Council will continue on with their shift back to a Zoom conference over the public gatherings at City Hall tonight; something which will also impact on this evening's Public hearing, which likewise is now an online gathering as opposed to the public one of August at the Lester Centre.

The notification of the change to remote Council activity  coming by way of the City Council Agenda page on the civic website.

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Tonight's focus mostly will be on what Council will decide when it comes to the rezoning required to move forward on plans to build a sixty unit apartment complex just off of 11th Avenue East at Edward Avenue.

Council will resume the suspended Public Hearing from August on the topic, with the session tonight shifting to the Zoom online format owing to the return of COVID protocols at City Hall. 

Later in the evening as part of their Regular Council Session, the city's council members will return to the topic for a decision on whether to provide Third Reading required towards the zoning change.

There are only two other items on the Agenda for the night, a request for a Development Variance Permit for a property on Prince Rupert Boulevard and a request for support from the Prince Rupert Amateur Swim Club related to the provincial COVID recovery funding.

Tonight's Public Hearing, which takes place by way of Zoom participation and the council session can viewed by way of the Live Feed from the City website, or on Cable Television from CityWest Cable Channel 10/310.

You can review the Regular Council Agenda for October 4 here

Council will also host a Special Session at 5PM, the meeting closed to public for the reasons cited below:

(a) personal information about an identifiable individual who holds or is being considered for a position as an officer, employee or agent of the municipality or another position appointed by the municipality; 

(c) labour relations or other employee relations; 

(i) the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communication necessary for that purpose; and, 

(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at the preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public.

The outline of Council's work ahead can be reviewed below:

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REGULAR SESSION OF CITY COUNCIL

Adoption of Agenda and Past minutes -- The Mayor will review the agenda for the evening and Council will adopt the minutes of past meetings.

Reports and Resolutions

Report from iPlan -- Development Permit for a property on Prince Rupert Boulevard -- The contract planners from iPlan will outline the background the permit request. 

Report from Corporate Administrator, Request for Support from Prince Rupert Amateur Swim Club --  Ms. Miller will outline the nature of the request of a letter of Support from Council from the club.  (see page 9 of the Agenda package)

BYLAWS

Report from iPlan -- City of Prince Rupert  Zoning Bylaw No. 3475, 2021 -- Council will review the report from their Contract planners and the comments from the Pubic Hearing related to the 11th Avenue housing proposal. Following the discussion they will decide whether to give third reading to the Bylaw required for development 

The evening will come to an end with any Additional Items as well as Reports, Questions and Inquiries from Members of Council.

Council members can  take advantage of the period to offer up any items or concerns that they have for consideration on the night. 

The Live broadcast of the City Council session can be found here, a video archive of past sessions is available here.

Our items of note related to the October 4th session can be reviewed here.  

While our archive of all sessions for 2021 for Council is available here.