ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY STANDING COMMITTEE
AGENDA
Monday, November 14, 2011
Dartmouth Chamber (Back Entrance)
90 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth
1 p.m. – 4 p.m.
1. CALL TO ORDER
2. ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – October 6, 2011
4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS
AND DELETIONS
Deletion:
8.1.3 Response Letter to Community Monitoring Committee
(To be circulated)
Additions:
10.1 Wastewater Functional Plan Update (staff presentation)
10.2 Councillor Watts - Request for Report and Presentation re:
Solar City Project
5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
5.1 Status Sheet Update
6. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS - NONE
7. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
7.1 Correspondence - None
7.2 Petitions - None
7.3 Presentations – None
8. REPORTS
8.1 STAFF REPORTS
8.1.1 Province of Nova Scotia: Draft Coastal Strategy
8.1.2 Partnership Agreement: Clean Nova Scotia
8.1.3 Response Letter to Community Monitoring Committee
(To be circulated)
9. MOTIONS
9.1 Councillor Watts
“That the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee direct staff to:
1. Conduct a more comprehensive best practices review of the Canadian Municipal Brownfield Incentive Programs, and return to the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee with a report; and
2. Specifically related to former gas stations: perform a financial analysis, and draft a potential policy for consideration, where HRM would offer a property owner tax holiday or reprieve to incent the prompt demolition/removal of gas station infrastructure and property remediation. This analysis should include the analysis of the cost of the tax holiday versus the future value of the potential increase in commercial or property tax from the reinvested and recapitalized property.”
10. ADDED ITEMS
10.1 Wastewater Functional Plan Update (staff presentation)
10.2 Councillor Watts - Request for Report and Presentation re:
Solar City Project
11. NOTICES OF MOTION
11.1 Councillor Lund
12. NEXT MEETING DATE – December 1, 2011
12.1 Proposed 2012 Meeting Schedule
13. ADJOURNMENT
IN CAMERA 12:30 p.m.
1. Approval of the Minutes – September 8, 2011
2. Approval of the Order of Business
3. Personnel Matter – Citizen Appointments to Halifax Watershed Advisory
Board and Halifax Water Commission
4. Personnel Matter - Appointment of Representative to New Community
Design Advisory Committee
5. Personnel Matter - Nomination of Representative to Halifax Water
Commission
INFORMATION ITEMS
1. Information Report dated September 19, 2011 re: Water Levels at
2. Information Report dated October 5, 2011 re: Update: Potential
Hazards to Development Functional Plan
3. Information Report dated October 12, 2011 re: Lighting Projects
4. Information Report from the Community Planning and Economic
Development Standing Committee dated October 14, 2011 re:
Functional Plans – Standing Committee Oversight
5. Briefing Note dated November 3, 2011 re: Project in Industrial/
Dalhousie Department of Industrial Engineering
