Present - Mayor Cook and Councillors Bonnell (entered meeting at 6:11pm), Bourdon, Hughes, Rathor, Walters and Zacharias
Staff present:
Darrell Garceau - City Manager (CAO)
Geoff Goodall - GM of Planning and Operations
Pat Higgins - Director of Finance
Kevin Goldfuss - Director of Municipal Services
Ashley Williston - Manager of Human Resources
Meeting called to order at 6:03pm by the Director of Finance
The Director of Finance provided welcoming comments to all and chaired the discussion around various Departmental Business Plans including:
a) Corporate Services
b) Finance
c) Municipal Services
d) Airport
e) Water and Sewer
f) Development Services
The meeting adjourned at 8:37pm
Steve's Observations:
1) Councillor Geoff Bourdon interrupted the meeting twice to raise objections to Council's discussions on the Business Plans as they were drifting away from the primary purpose of the meeting. I'm forced to agree with him. If you're there to discuss Business Plans, then discuss those and review the budget numbers once your Staff crunches the numbers and says "This is the money we need to implement the Business Plans for 2014"
2) I had the opportunity to review the meeting outcomes with City Manager Darrell Garceau after tonight's meeting and suggested regular meeting breaks during the Business Plan reviews could lead to a more effective meeting, rather than going from start to finish with no breaks. He has agreed to take my thoughts/suggestions into consideration and for that, I thank Mr Garceau for being open to constructive criticism.
3) Tomorrow night from 6-8pm in the Rick Hansen Boardroom, Council will finish their Business Plan Review off with reviewing the Business Plans for the local Fire Department and RCMP. If I get permission from City Manager Garceau, I will post the Business Plans for your review and comment. Any comments received on those Business Plans here, I will forward to City Hall for their consideration
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