Tuesday, August 24, 2010

WL Council Meeting Highlights - August 24th

Present:

Mayor Cook and Councillors Barr, Bourdon, Hebert, Rathor, Walters and Zacharias

Staff Present:

Brian Carruthers - Chief Administrator
Geoff Goodall - General Manager of Planning and Operations
Tom Chung - IT Manager
Annie McKitrick - Acting Social Development Manager

Council adopted the August 10th meeting minutes

Delegations:

1) Janice Breck from the Suicide/Sudden Death Committee – Cariboo-Chilcotin Canadian Mental Health Association appeared before Council to discuss World Suicide Prevention Day Events on September 10, 2010 in Boitanio Park

2) Imogen Thompson, the City’s Greenhouse Gas Planning Assistant, gave a presentation to Council on the local Greenhouse Gas Inventory. Council received this presentation for information

Business:

1) Council denied the written request of Shogun Martial Arts for financial sponsorship for a competition in Portugal in October 2010.

2) Council authorized the advertising, promotion and retailer information for the Toilet Incentive Rebate Program to be handled by the Cariboo Chilcotin Conservation Society.

3) Council awarded the contract for the Wastewater Lagoon De-watering Project to Lambourne Environmental Ltd. for the tendered price of $618,233, excluding HST rebate

4) DVP #5 (Mackay Electric Ltd – Parking Variance) and DVP #6 (Thompson Rivers University – Sign Variance) were received by Council and referred to the Advisory Planning Commission for review/recommendations to Council.

During consideration of DVP #6-2010, Mayor Cook declared a conflict of interest, due to TRU being Mayor Cook's employer and Acting Mayor (Councillor) Geoff Bourdon took the Chair at 6:36pm

Mayor Cook resumed the Chair at 6:37pm

5) Council proclaimed September 10, 2010 as "World Suicide Prevention Day" in the City of Williams Lake

6) Council proclaimed September 2010 as "Big Brothers & Big Sisters Month" in the City of Williams Lake

Council members gave oral reports on issues/events occurring in the City

Meeting adjourned at 6:50pm

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