Prince Rupert City Council to host Special Regular meeting Wednesday

The members of Prince Rupert City Council will be putting their summer vacation on pause for a few hours tomorrow. 

Originally not scheduled to return to their desks until August 28th,  the Council membership is set to host a Special Regular Council meeting at City Hall Chambers Wednesday evening starting at 5:30 PM.

The Agenda for the evening's work, which will be open to the public, features a range of reports from the Director of Operations and Intergovernmental Relations. 

Included in the information flow from Director Richard Pucci are  updates on Capital and Major projects, a contract award for the civic paving program this summer and advice for area residents towards providing water for the McKay Street Community Garden.

Corporate Administrator Rosa Miller also has some reading material for Council members to review, that related to the two recent orders for removal of buildings on Third West and Second West.

When it comes to Mr. Pucci's Capital and Major project notes, the documents include a chart which notes most of the city's project are somewhere between 5 5o 15% percent complete, with only the SCADA System upgrade passing the 25% complete mark.

Motorists driving around town, have probably already figured out that Adventure Construction is the contractor for this summer's paving project, the City making the 1 million dollar and change contract award official with their announcement for tomorrow' session.

The Operations Director will also release some details towards a number of purchases that the city has made through to August.

As for the garden watering question for McKay Street, something which was raised by Council earlier this year. 

The Director notes that the City does not have the available equipment to provide the service required and what they do have would not be an effective use of staff time. The report one that recommends that the Garden operators seek out a local service provider.

And tomorrow evening's get together will also provide a glimpse into why the City's recent orders of demolition have not been acted on. 

As we noted last Friday, the structure that was once Rose's adjacent to the Belmont has yet to come down, as is the case of the Angus Apartments on Second West.

Ms. Miller's report to Council includes a response to the demolition order from the owner of Rose's who has requested additional time to address the situation.

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While not on the Agenda, tomorrow night may also provide Council with an opportunity to update the community on the results of the Alternate Approval process related to their two water infrastructure loan plans.

The deadline for responses arrived on Monday, but so far, the City has not provided any details as to the results from the public input to that initiative. Over 10 percent of the voters would have had to deliver a vote against the AAP plan to send the city back to the drawing board on their loan process.

You can review all of the elements for the Special Session here.

Those with an interest in Civic affairs can view the Council session live from the City's website, a follow up video archive of the session will be posted to the City's You Tube page later this week.

More notes on past civic themes can be reviewed from our Council Discussion archive.