Summary of Recorded Votes (161Kb)
Minutes for September 22, 2015 (58Kb)
1. INVOCATION / REFLECTION
2. SPECIAL COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
3. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – August 4, 2015 (91Kb)
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. PUBLIC HEARINGS – 6:00 P.M. – NONE
10. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
10.1 Correspondence
10.2 Petitions
11. REPORTS
11.1 CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER
11.1.1 Award – Tender 15-089 Graffiti Removal Services Peninsula Halifax (82 Kb)
11.1.2 First Reading, Proposed By-law S-441, an Amendment to By-law S-400 Respecting Charges for Street Improvement – New Paving Projects outside the Core Area – 2014 (427 Kb)
Motion – Councillor Whitman – Give First Reading
11.1.3 Request for permission to install Cenotaph, Uplands Park – Greater Hammonds Plains Lucasville Memorial Committee (3.1 Mb)
11.1.4 2015 Fall Debenture and Temporary Borrowing Resolution (151 Kb)
11.1.5 Case 20072 – Application to amend the Municipal Planning Strategy and Land Use By-law for Planning District 5 for 786 and 792 Old Sambro Road, Harrietsfield (474 Kb)
11.1.6 Green Municipal Fund Loan – Project 12028 Halifax Solar City Pilot Project (1.0 Mb)
11.1.7 Improving Access to the Macdonald Bridge Bikeway (3.3 Mb)
11.1.8 Appointment of Building Official (50 Kb)
11.2 GRANTS COMMITTEE
11.2.1 Community Grants Program 2015-16 - Referrals (1.4 Mb)
11.2.2 Business Improvement District (BID) Contributions Fund – 2015-2016 Recommended Awards (4.1 Mb)
11.3 MEMBERS OF COUNCIL
11.3.1 Councillor Karsten – Request for Staff Report re: Extension of Green Bin during the Month of September (22 Kb)
11.3.2 Councillor Hendsbee – Request for a Staff Report – Cemeteries (22 Kb)
12. MOTIONS
12.1 Councillor Hendsbee
That Halifax Regional Council request a staff report for the Municipality to develop policy and implement a process for the acceptance and adoption of old, abandoned or orphan cemeteries, and/or from any congregation and/or community groups that want to convey and transfer their cemeteries over to the Municipality for the purposes of ongoing maintenance and perpetual care.
12.2 Councillor Whitman
That Halifax Regional Council request a staff report that explores opportunities to provide financial/value-in-kind contributions of up to $40,000 annually to support the Province and the private sector in a successful bid to become home of the Women’s National Volleyball Team Training Centre starting in 2016/17.
12.3 Ratification of In Camera Motion from September 8, 2015
That Halifax Regional Council ratify the motion from the in camera session held on September 8, 2015 as contained in the August 21, 2015 private and confidential report.
That the private and confidential report dated August 21, 2015 not be released to the public until Union ratification votes are completed and a decision made by the HRMPP Committee regarding the July 2015 Pension Committee recommendation.
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 Personnel Matter
A matter pertaining to an identifiable individual or group.
13.1.1 Personnel Matter – Private and Confidential Report
Motion:
That Halifax Regional Council convene to in camera.
13.2 Contract Negotiations / Legal Advice
A matter pertaining to contract negotiations and legal advice eligible for solicitor-client privilege.
13.2.1 Otter Lake – Private and Confidential Report
Motion:
That Halifax Regional Council convene to in camera.
14. ADDED ITEMS
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:
Private and Confidential Information Item
1. Private and Confidential In Camera Information Report - re: Personnel Matter
Information Item
Item No. 7 – Proclamation – Halifax Senior’s Week – September 26 – October 2, 2015 (262 Kb)
15. NOTICES OF MOTION
16. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
September 22, 2015
1. Proclamation – Symphony Week – September 22-27, 2015 (291 Kb)
2. Proclamation – Bladder Cancer Awareness Day – September 27, 2015 (288 Kb)
3. Proclamation – International Right to Know Week – September 28 - October 3, 2015 (317 Kb)
