Summary of Recorded Votes (107Kb)
Minutes for October 7, 2014 (79Kb)
1. INVOCATION
2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – September 9, 2014 (97Kb)
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
7.1 Councillor Johns – That Regional Council rescind its motion of September 10, 2013 accepting the Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee’s July 2, 2013 report recommending the Treatment of Halifax Regional Municipality’s compositing facilities wastewater at the Highway 101 Leachate Treatment Facility and direct staff to continue to investigate other treatment options that do not consider the Upper Sackville location which has been closed to any offsite material, solid or liquid, for 18 years.
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
9. PUBLIC HEARINGS – 6:00 P.M.
9.1 Cases 18288 and 18684 – Cole Harbour/Westphal Municipal Planning Strategy (MPS)
and Land Use By-Law (LUB) Amendments and Development Agreement for a Mixed
Residential Development Adjacent to Lake Loon, Westphal (Joint Public Hearing with
Harbour East and Marine Drive Community Council)
10. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
10.1 Correspondence
10.2 Petitions
11. REPORTS
11.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
11.1.1 Shakespeare by the Sea Building, Point Pleasant Park (3.3 Mb)
11.1.2 Case 19514 – Amendments to the Halifax Municipal Planning Strategy and Mainland Halifax Land Use By-Law – the Former Motherhouse Lands, Bedford Highway, Halifax (18.1 Mb)
11.1.3 Lease Agreement, the TDL Group Corporation, 88 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth (473 Kb)
11.2 HALIFAX AND WEST & NORTH WEST COMMUNITY COUNCILS
11.2.1 Case 18514 – Amendments to the Bedford South, Wentworth and Bedford West Secondary Planning Strategies for Sub Area 9 of Bedford West and Wentworth (Cresco Lands), Bedford and Halifax (10.5 Mb)
Motion – Give First Reading and Schedule a Joint Public Hearing
11.3 AUDIT AND FINANCE STANDING COMMITTEE
11.3.1 Request for Budget Increase and Tender Award, Bicentennial Theatre Renovation (1.3 Mb)
11.3.2 Additional Funding Requests for Legal Services File Management System (1.3 Mb)
11.3.3 Write-off of Provincial Cost Sharing – Bus Rapid Transit (2.4 Mb)
11.3.4 Write Off of Uncollectable Accounts (3.3 Mb)
11.3.5 6067 Quinpool Road, Halifax – Administrative Order Number 50 (2.7 Mb)
11.3.6 Public Water Access to Wright`s Lake (1.9 Mb)
11.4 HERITAGE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
11.4.1 Case H00398 – Application to Deregister Lot BH-2, a Subdivision of 99 Ochterloney Street (Henry Elliot House), Dartmouth, a Municipally Registered Heritage Property (412 Kb)
Motion – Schedule a Public Hearing
11.5. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
11.5.1 Councillor McCluskey – Halifax Transit Moving Together Plan-Update (2.0 Mb)
11.5.2 Councillor Adams – Requesting further consultation on the Solid Waste Strategy between The Halifax Waste Resource Society and HRM Staff (47 Kb)
12. MOTIONS
12.1 Councillor Mason
That Halifax Regional Council amend the existing Halifax Regional Municipality Sidewalk Café Policy, effective 1998, to permit the approval of the extension of the sidewalk café season by the Engineer until no later than 11:59 p.m. on November 21, 2014.
13. 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:
13.1 In Camera Minutes – September 9, 2014
Motion:
That the In Camera minutes of September 9, 2014 be approved as circulated.
13.2 Property Matter
A matter pertaining to providing instruction and direction to officers and employees of the Municipality pertaining to the acquisition / sale of land in regard to
13.2.1 Councillor Mosher – Potential to Augment Land for Parkland Use – Private and Confidential Report
Motion:
That Halifax Regional Council request a staff report assessing the feasibility of purchasing lands for the purpose of parkland use as outlined in the private and confidential Councillor request for consideration form.
Private and Confidential Information Item
1. Private and Confidential In Camera Information Report - re: Lease Agreement, The TDL Group Corporation, 88 Alderney Drive
14. ADDED ITEMS
14.1 Award 14-086 Winter Sidewalk Snow and Ice Control West (Routes SWP4, SWP5, SWP6, SWW8 and SWW13) (8.9 Mb)
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:
13.3 Contract Negotiations
A matter pertaining to contract negotiations and legal advice.13.3.1 Sackville Leachate Treatment Facility – Private and Confidential Report
Motion:
It is recommended that Halifax Regional Council:
1. Direct staff to consider alternatives for the treatment of leachate from Halifax’s two organic composting facilities and defer proceeding with the treatment of offsite leachate at the Highway 101 site pending consideration of options;
2. Report back to Council no later than April 1, 2015; and
3. It is further recommended that this report not be released to the public.
15. NOTICES OF MOTION
16. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
October 7, 2014
1. Proclamation – International Day for the Eradication of Poverty – October 17, 2014 (260 Kb)
2. Proclamation – Insurance Information Week – October 20, 2014 (234 Kb)
