Boards, Committees & Commissions

ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY STANDING COMMITTEE

SPECIAL MEETING
AGENDA

Thursday, April 7, 2011

Media Room, City Hall

1 p.m. - 4 p.m.

1. CALL TO ORDER

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES - March 3, 2011 & March 9, 2011(special meeting)

3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS, ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

Additions:

6.1.8 Chris Benjamin, Healthy Lawns Coordinator, Ecology Action

Centre, on behalf of Members of Pesticide Free Nova Scotia,

dated April 6, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

6.1.9 Jim Bracken, President of Heritage Gas Limited, dated April 5, 2011

6.1.10 Graham Read, dated April 7, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

9.1 Councillor Watts - Disucssion re: Illegal Garbage Dumping and

Recycling

9.2 Councillor Watts - Discussion re: Status of HRM's Bottled Water

Policy at City Hall

9.3 Councillor Lund - Discussion re: Litter from News Flyers

9.4 Information Item 4 - Briefing Note dated April 7, 2011 re: Community

Monitoring Committee Letter

4. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINTUES - NONE

5. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS

5.1 Staff Report - Invasive Species (deferred March 9th)

5.2 Staff Report - Corporate Knights Sustainable Cities Rankings 2011

6. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS

6.1 Correspondence

6.1.1 Karen Stephenson, Director of Regulatory Affairs &

Stakeholders Relations, Scotts Canada Ltd., dated

March 11, 2011 re: Chelated Iron (FeHEDTA) be added

to HRM’s Pesticide By-Law permitted list

6.1.2 David Thompson, Chair of Landscape Nova Scotia

Environment Committee, dated March 11, 2011 re: Addition

of Chelated Iron to HRM Permitted Pesticides List

6.1.3 Diana Parker, Research Director of Eco-Care Technologies

Inc., dated March 14, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

6.1.4 Lauren Strachan of Neudorff North America, dated March 14,

2011 and March 21, 2011 re: Chelated iron and the HRM

Pesticide Bylaw

6.1.5 Submission from Lauren Strachan on behalf of Dr. Bernd

Nowack dated March 15, 2011 re: Statement about

comparison of EDTA and HEDTA

6.1.6 Nathan Boyd of Nova Scotia Agricultural College dated March

16, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

6.1.7 Ron Zimba dated March 20, 2011 re: HPR IDLE-FREE for our

kids – a plan to save $250,000 in fuel & clear the air for our

kids

6.1.8 Chris Benjamin, Healthy Lawns Coordinator, Ecology Action

Centre, on behalf of Members of Pesticide Free Nova Scotia,

dated April 6, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

6.1.9 Jim Bracken, President of Heritage Gas Limited, dated April 5,

2011

6.1.10 Graham Read, dated April 7, 2011 re: FeHEDTA

6.2 Petitions - None

6.3 Presentations - None

7. REPORTS

7.1 STAFF REPORTS

7.1.1 Administrative Order 23: Inclusion of FeHEDTA

7.1.2 Anti Idling By-Law

7.1.3 2020 Greenhouse Gas Corporate Reduction Target

7.1.4 Fair Trade Towns

8. MOTIONS

8.1 Councillor Lund

“That the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee recommend that Halifax Regional Council request staff to develop appropriate “Rural Road Standards” (through revisions to the “Red Book”) such that streets and Open Space Design Subdivisions are safe and functional but are also less environmentally damaging than the roads that are now required to be built under current regulations.”

8.2 Councillor Lund

“That the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee recommend that Halifax Regional Council request staff to work with the Province on amending the Provincial Erosion Sediment Control Guidelines to account for climate change and to review appropriate Provincial and Municipal policies and regulations relating to properly controlling drainage on new site developments, during and following development, in order to minimize impacts to receiving waters.”

9. ADDED ITEMS

9.1 Councillor Watts - Disucssion re: Illegal Garbage Dumping and

Recycling

9.2 Councillor Watts - Discussion re: Status of HRM's Bottled Water

Policy at City Hall

9.3 Councillor Lund - Discussion re: Litter from News Flyers

9.4 Information Item 4 - Briefing Note dated April 7, 2011 re:

Community Monitoring Committee Letter

10. NOTICES OF MOTION - NONE

11. NEXT MEETING DATE

12. ADJORNMENT

INFORMATION ITEMS