Halifax Regional Council
Agenda
February 21, 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 – NONE
Minutes for February 21, 2012 (74KB)
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 – February 14, 2012
8.1 Request for Fly Past – FIVB Beach Volleyball SWATCH Junior World Championships 2012 (756 Kb)
8.2 Budget Overview 2012/2013 (Staff Presentation) (Revised) (638 Kb)
8.3 Motion - Councillor Watts
“To request a staff report on key reserve funds that explains how funds are transferred into the specific accounts, what is the criteria for the dispersal of the funds and documentation that shows the funds received and disbursed for a 10 year period for the identified reserves.”
9. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
9.1 Correspondence
9.2 Petitions
10. REPORTS
10.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
10.1.1 Case 17446 – Amendments to the Various Planning
Documents – 1591 Granville Street, Halifax (2.4 Mb)
10.1.2 Case 16644 – Proposed Amendments to the
Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy and Halifax
Mainland Land Use By-Law to allow the Expansion
of Funeral Home Services Uses on Herring Cove Road
and to Allow Development of Crematoriums (1.1 Mb)
10.1.3 Case 17342 – Wind Energy Facilities byDevelopment Agreement
(i) Supplementary Staff Report dated January 20,
10.2 HERITAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
10.2.1 Case H00361 – Substantial Alteration to 5651
Inglis Street, Halifax, a Municipally Registered
Heritage Property
10.2.2 Case H00362 - Substantial Alteration to 85
Fairbanks Street, Dartmouth, a Municipally
Registered Heritage Property
11. MOTIONS
11.1 Councillor Hendsbee
“To amend Council's motion of Dec. 13th, 2011 with respect to Case #17342 - Wind Energy initiation to include the Turner property, the amended motion to read; that HRM 1) initiate the process to consider amending the RMPS and LUB for Cole Harbour / Westphal to enable wind turbine development on the portion of urban reserve lands owned by the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children and the Knox/Oxner and Turner parcels that are immediately adjacent to the transmission power line corridor .”
12. ADDED ITEMS
12.1 Councillor Barkhouse – Request for staff report re: Annual Posting of Salaries for all of the Halifax Regional Municipality Executive Management Team and Senior Management (36 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;
14.1 Personnel Matter
Citizen and Councillor appointments to boards and committees in keeping with the Public Appointment Policy adopted by Regional Council in August 2011, to be found at http://www.halifax.ca/boardscom/documents/Citizenrecruitmentpolicy.pdf
14.1.1 Citizen Appointments to Community Design Review Committee – Private and Confidential Report (deferred February 14, 2012)
Motion:
It is recommended that Halifax Regional Council:1. Adopt the recommendations of the Standing Committees regarding the Citizen Appointments as outlined in Attachment 1 of the February 10, 2012 Private & Confidential Report
2. That Halifax Regional Council, by way of this motion, expresses their appreciation to all residents who have put forward their names to serve on Boards and Committees of Council
3. It is further recommended that the list of citizen appointments be released to the public following Council ratification
14.2 Labour Relations
A matter pertaining to reports, advice and recommendations, instruction or direction to officers and employees of the Municipality concerning labour relations and employee negotiations arising out of the contract or contract negotiations with one of the Municipalities unions.
14.2.1 ATU Contract Negotiations Update - Oral
Motion:
To convene to In Camera in order to address matters related to the ATU contract negotiations.
15. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
February 21, 2012
1. Proclamation – Conductive Education Day – February 23, 2012 (82 Kb)
