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Halifax Regional Council

Agenda

April 17, 2012
1:00 p.m.
Reconvene 6:00 p.m. If Required
Council Chamber

1. INVOCATION

2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – March 20, 2012 (130KB)

    Minutes for April 17, 2012 (81KB)

4. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

5. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
6. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – NONE
7. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – NONE
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE

9. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
9.1 Correspondence

9.1.1 Request for Fly-Past – Battle of the Atlantic (149 Kb)

9.2 Petitions

10. REPORTS
10.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER

10.1.1 Tender 12-014, Security Services – Halifax,

           Dartmouth and Woodside Ferry Terminals (240 Kb)
10.1.2 Tender 12-228, Resurfacing, Sidewalk Renewal

           and Water Main Renewal, Lawnsdale Drive – East

           Region (477 Kb)
10.1.3 Tender 12-150, Stone Masonry Restoration Halifax

           City Hall – Phase 3 (203 Kb)
10.1.4 Starbucks Lease Proposal – Additional Storage,

           Halifax Ferry Terminal Building (197 Kb)
10.1.5 Initiation Proposed By-Law S-435, An Amendment

           to By-Law S-400, Respecting Charges for Street

           Improvements (455 Kb)
10.1.6 Initiation Case 17531 – Plan Amendment to

           Consider a Fraternal Centre at 40 Sandy Lake Road,

           Beaver Bank (521 Kb)

10.1.7 Initiation Case 17413 – Amendments to the

           Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-Law

           for Planning District 4 (Prospect) – 16 Mills Drive,

           Goodwood (846 Kb)
10.1.8 Second Reading Proposed By-Law S-500

           Respecting Charges for Solar City Program (365 Kb)
10.1.9 Second Reading By-Law A-500, By-Law to Amend

           By-Laws, By-Law A-102 and Administrative Order

           #30, and related Administrative Amendments to

           various By-Laws (629 Kb)
10.1.10 Federal and Provincial Area Rate Levies

(i) Supplementary Staff Report (482 Kb)
(ii) Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee Report dated September 19, 2011 re: 2011-12 Discretionary Funding for Business Improvement Districts (1.3 Mb)

10.1.11 Municipal Guarantee of Halifax Regional Water

             Commission (HRWC) Debt – Pre-Financing of

             Eastern Passage Wastewater Treatment Facility

             (198 Kb)

 

10.2 WESTERN REGION COMMUNITY COUNCIL

10.2.1 Jurisdiction of the Otter Lake Community Monitoring

           Committee and Contract with HRM (2.3 Mb)

10.3 AUDIT & FINANCE STANDING COMMITTEE

10.3.1 Marketing Levy Special Events Reserve Revisions

           (415 Kb)

10.4 TRANSPORATION STANDING COMMITTEE

10.4.1 Request to Province – HRM Traffic Authority Ability

           to Reduce Maximum Speed Limits (131 Kb)

10.5 MEMBERS OF COUNCIL

10.5.1 Councillor Lund – Request for staff report re:

           Hammonds Plains Community Centre (41 Kb)
10.5.2 Councillor Barkhouse – Request for staff report

           re: Eastern Passage High School (30 Kb) REVISED
10.5.3 Councillor Uteck – Request for Planning

           Amendment for Fenwick Towers Project (131 Kb)
10.5.4 Councillor Adams –Request for HRM Involvement

           in the East Port Energy’s District Project re:

           Downtown Alternative Energy Plan (41 Kb)


11. MOTIONS
11.1 Councillor Sloane

“To amend the process for public hearings to allow for a question period to be inserted into the process after the public hearing has been closed. This allows for clarification and allows the mover of the recommendation their full five (5) minutes and/or three (3) minutes during deliberations.”

12. ADDED ITEMS

12.1 Councillor Rankin – Request for staff report re: Acquisition of Surplus Federal Property and Public Access to Indian Harbour Lighthouse (32 Kb)

12.2 Councillor Nicoll – Request for staff report re: Planned Expansion of Cole Harbour High School (30 Kb)

13. NOTICES OF MOTION

14. IN CAMERA

Council may rise and go into a private In Camera session, in accordance with Section 19 of the Halifax Regional Municipality Charter, for the purpose of dealing with the following;

Private and Confidential Information Items

1. Private and Confidential In Camera Information Report re: Starbucks Lease Proposal – Additional Storage, Halifax Ferry Terminal Building

15. ADJOURNMENT


INFORMATION ITEMS
April 17, 2012

1. Proclamation – Records and Information Management Month – April 2012 (198 Kb)

2. Proclamation – Administrative Professionals Week – April 22-28, 2012 (390 Kb)

3. Memorandum from Chair, Audit and Finance Standing Committee dated March 22, 2012 Re: Investment Activities - Quarter Ending December 31, 2011 (1.0 Mb)

4. Memorandum from Director, Transportation and Public Works dated March 1, 2012 re: Petition Regarding Paving of Old Coach Road – Goodwood (250 Kb)

5. Memorandum from Director, Legal Services and Risk Management dated March 29, 2012 Re: Status of By-Law Prosecutions – December 1 – 31, 2011 (220 Kb)

6. Memorandum from the Municipal Clerk dated April 10, 2012
re: Requests for Presentation to Council - None (41 Kb)

 

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