Capital planning for 2022 to be the theme for one more Prince Rupert City Council session in 2021!

Prince Rupert City Council's 2021 Calendar of Public meetings

According to the calendar of Council session posted a year ago, this past Monday was supposed to have been the last Public Session for members of Prince Rupert City Council, the early December date providing for an extensive respite from the burdens of office over the holiday period.

However, as Mayor Lee Brain noted towards the end of Monday's brief sixteen minute Council meeting of Monday, there will be one more session and that one set for Monday December 13th will be a twi-night double header.

As Mr. Brain explained it, the session this coming Monday will be focused on themes of the city's Capital budget, with the afternoon session set for a 3PM start to be held as a Committee of the Whole Format, one which will allow for the city's Department heads to outline their capital spending plans for the evening.

The 7 PM session one where the Councillors will review some of those notes and then seemingly make their decisions related to Capital spending for the year ahead.

"We're actually going to have another meeting next Monday, on the 13th. 

Our Capital budget will be televised and we're going to do it a Committee of the Whole Format at three o'clock and then we'll have our special Regular Council meeting a 7 o'clock

So folks can tune in and we'll have various folks from different departments outlining their capital budget requests and we usually approve that before the new year so that that money can be let for early in the new year to get the capital items moving forward"

Capital planning has already been a theme for a number of communities across the Northwest, as we outlined last week, the District of Port Edward has started it's Capital project review, noting of some of the projects and purchases that could come in 2022.

Likewise Terrace has been quite active in budget planning, though in the case of the Skeena Valley city, the Capital budget is just one element of larger budget planning.

The City of Terrace has been hosting a good portion of their financial planning for 2022 in recent weeks, including holding some consultations with their residents.

Prince Rupert City Council won't get to their work on the Budget process for 2022 until early in the New Year.

Towards that work and other themes of civic governance, the City has posted the calendar of Council Sessions for 2022.  

And it looks much the same as the one from this year with twenty public meetings scheduled, most to be held twice a month with the exception of the more relaxed summer schedule of July through September and the month of December.

You can hear more on what the City has planned for its Capital Project overview of this coming Monday, from the Video of the December 6th Council session, starting at just after the 14 minute mark.

More notes on the December 6th Council Session can be explored here.

A wider overview of financial themes from the City is available here.

For more items of interest on past Council Discussions see our archive page here.