Halifax Regional Council
Agenda
March 22, 2011
Immediately following
Committee of the Whole
Reconvene 6:00 p.m.
If Required
Council Chamber
In Camera Session
10:00 a.m.
1. INVOCATION
2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – None
Minutes for March 22, 2011 (83KB)
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 – None
9.2 Petitions
10. REPORTS
10.1 HARBOUR EAST COMMUNITY COUNCIL
10.2 COMMUNITY PLANNING & ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
STANDING COMMITTEE
10.2.1 2011 – 2016 Economic Strategy
(i) Committee Report (2.5 Mb)
(ii) Staff Report (1.2 Mb)
10.3 ENVIRONMENT & SUSTAINABILITY STANDING COMMITTEE
10.4 AUDIT AND FINANCE STANDING COMMITTEE
10.5 GRANT COMMITTEE
11. MOTIONS
11.1 Councillor Watts
(i) “To request Regional Council to ask the Community Planning and Economic Development Standing Committee to clarify the definition and approach to developing HRM as an “entertainment centre” and how entertainment events will be developed in a transparent and sustainable way.”
(ii) “To ask for a staff report to clarify how motions by Community Councils are acted on by the Chief Administrative Office, with particular reference to the motions by the Peninsula Community Council on ‘Concerts on the Commons’ since 2009.”
12. ADDED ITEMS
13. NOTICES OF MOTION
14. ADJOURNMENT
In Camera Session – 10:00 a.m.
1. Approval of the Minutes – March 8 & 15, 2011
2. Approval of the Order of Business
3. Personnel Matter - Declassification of March 4, 2011 Halifax
Regional Fire Recruitment Report (Deferred Mar 15/11) (668 Kb)
4. Legal Matter – Barriers to Natural Gas Distribution System
Expansion
5. Personnel Matter – Citizen Appointments to Boards, Committees
& Commissions
(i) Community Planning & Economic Development Standing
Committee Report
(ii) Audit & Finance Standing Committee Report
(iii) Environment & Sustainability Standing Committee Report
INFORMATION ITEMS
March 22, 2011
1. Proclamation – Purple Day for Epilepsy – March 26, 2011 (579 Kb)
3. Memorandum from Director, Infrastructure & Asset Management
dated March 4, 2011 re: Bridge Expansion – Thomas Raddall
Drive, Mainland Common (246 Kb)
4. Memorandum from Director, Infrastructure & Asset Management
dated March 4, 2011 re: Petition – Take Back Halifax Common
5. Memorandum from Director, Infrastructure & Asset Management
dated March 4, 2011 re: Petition – Dartmouth Common Ball Field
