Mary Sjostrom
2006
06-10-228 MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Paull and resolved:
THAT headstones purchased prior to 1994 be grandfathered and
headstones purchased after 1994 must follow policy.
DEFEATED 6 - 1
MAYOR
06-10-232
MOVED Mayor Bello, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved: THAT Council concurs
with the Committee recommendation that the $152,000 additional costs within the
2006 budget due to property tax re-assessment decreases be paid as a current
cost with the net 2006 property tax increase bumping from 6.2% to 7.7% per
residential home.
CARRIED 4
- 3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, PAULL AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Financial
Plan Bylaw
06-10-248 MOVED Councillor Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved:
1606
THAT a bylaw entitled “Financial Plan Bylaw No. 1606 of 2006” be
1st,2nd,
3rd
now introduced and read a first, second and third time.
CARRIED 4-3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, PAULL, AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Tax Rates
Bylaw
06-10-249 MOVED Councillor Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved:
1607
THAT a bylaw entitled “Tax Rates Bylaw No. 1607” be now introduced and read
1st,2nd,3rd
a first, second and third time.
CARRIED 4-3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, PAULL AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED
06-11-253 MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Craigmyle and resolved:
1606
THAT a bylaw entitled “Financial Plan Bylaw No. 1606 of 2006” be
Final
now adopted, signed by the Mayor and Corporate Administrator and numbered
1606.
CARRIED 4-3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, PAULL, AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Tax Rates Bylaw
06-11-254
MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Craigmyle and resolved:
1607 THAT a bylaw
entitled “Tax Rates Bylaw No. 1607” be now adopted, signed by
Final the Mayor and
Corporate Administrator, and numbered 1607.
CARRIED
4-3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, PAULL AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED
06-12-268 MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Paull and resolved: THAT
Council approves a 20-year debt repayment agreement with Leslie and Shelley
Johnston to cover the City’s construction costs to extend a water-line to the
property line of
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Redwing Road debt repayment bylaw
06-12-294 MOVED Councillor Couldwell, Seconded Councillor Paull and resolved:
THAT
1608
a bylaw entitled
“South Quesnel Water Phase I Specified Area Bylaw
Bylaw No. 1608 of 2006” have its third reading rescinded, an amending
re-do 3rd
clause added, and the third reading redone to the amended bylaw.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
06-13-300 MOVED Councillor Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Oakes and resolved:
THAT Fire Limits
Bylaw No. 1532, as amended, be repealed with Development Services Department to
rely on the BC Building Code to set limits on when sprinkler systems must be
installed.
CARRIED 5 - 2
COUNCILLORS SJOSTROM AND THAPAR OPPOSED.
06-13-309 MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Craigmyle and resolved:
THAT each secondary school graduating class receive $100 toward their dry grad
events, such funds to come from Council Projects account.
DEFEATED
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, OAKES, PAULL AND SJOSTROM
OPPOSED.
06-13-317 MOVED Councillor Thapar, Seconded Councillor Couldwell and resolved:
THAT permission be granted to
CARRIED 4 - 3
MAYOR
OPPOSED
Redwing Road debt repayment bylaw
06-13-320 MOVED Councillor Couldwell, Seconded Councillor Paull and resolved:
THAT
1608
a bylaw
entitled “South Quesnel Water Phase I Specified Area Bylaw Amendment Bylaw No.
1608 of 2006” be adopted, signed by the Mayor and Corporate Administrator and
numbered 1608.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
06-13-300 MOVED Councillor Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Oakes and resolved:
THAT Fire Limits
Bylaw No. 1532, as amended, be repealed with Development Services Department to
rely on the BC Building Code to set limits on when sprinkler systems must be
installed.
CARRIED 5 - 2
COUNCILLORS SJOSTROM AND THAPAR OPPOSED.
06-16-390 MOVED Councillor Paull, Seconded Councillor Craigmyle and resolved:
THAT staff be directed to proceed on completion of CD Hoy building business
analysis at a City cost of $2500 from the Council Projects’ account.
DEFEATED 4 - 3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, OAKES, SJOSTROM AND THAPAR
OPPOSED.
06-16-392 MOVED Councillor Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved:
THAT City form a task force composed of representatives of the Indo-Canadian
community led by Councillor Thapar, as well from the Quesnel Museum & Heritage
Commission, in order to propose a modest yet significant tribute to the
Indo-Canadian peoples of Quesnel.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
06-19-474
MOVED Councillor Paull, Seconded Councillor Craigmyle and resolved: THAT
request for economic initiative
priority be referred to Quesnel Community and Economic Development Corporation
and next
CARRIED
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
2007
Councillor Sjostrom
CARRIED
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
CRD
invasive plant management withdrawal
Manager reviewed his Administration Report 7/07 providing history on the events
around the City’s withdrawal from 2007 funding for this regional function. Also
provided was a letter from the Cariboo Regional District’s Chief Administrative
Officer advising that the CRD Board has denied the City’s request to withdraw
from this function. He advised that Director of Public Works estimated a 2007
cost of $15,000 for the City to handle weed control within the City limits.
Manager Hamilton agreed this could become a litigation issue, with higher costs,
or could become a problem while negotiating the Quesnel library site. He
reiterated that the CRD/City memorandum of understanding, which included the
weed control function, expired on
POSTPONED
CARRIED 4 - 3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, SJOSTROM AND THAPAR OPPOSED.
THAT the City cover the
cost of the annual liability insurance coverage
for the
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Budget
Committee ratifies the recommendation to agree in principle to apportion the tax
collection across all property tax classes based on the same proportionate share
as paid in 2006. New construction values in each class will add to the
proportion of the taxes paid by each tax class.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM, OAKES AND
COULDWELL OPPOSED
07-11-284 MOVED Councillor Paull, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved:
1632
THAT a bylaw entitled “Tax Rates Bylaw No. 1632 of 2007” be now introduced
1st,2nd,3rd
and read a first, second and third time.
CARRIED 4-3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, OAKES AND SJOSTROM OPPOSED
07-18-417 MOVED Councillor
Paull, Seconded Councillor Couldwell and resolved: THAT
a letter be forwarded to Cariboo
Ford and
AND THAT representatives of the
two dealerships be given an opportunity for a show cause hearing before Council;
AND THAT a copy of the letter
from Brenda Bye accompanies the letter from the City.
CARRIED 4 - 2
COUNCILLORS SJOSTROM AND COULDWELL
OPPOSED.
POSTPONED
CARRIED 4 - 3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, SJOSTROM AND THAPAR OPPOSED.
Quesnel Shelter and
Support Society (cont’d.)
THAT the City Planner undertakes
a review of land issues surrounding the proposed site;
THAT staff undertakes an
assessment of financial implications, if any, to the City of
THAT comments be sought from
relevant referral agencies;
AND THAT staff be requested to
provide a report at the regular Council meeting on October 15, 2007.
DEFEATED 4-3
COUNCILLORS SJOSTROM, OAKES, THAPAR
AND COULDWELL OPPOSED.
2008 Sjostrom
DEFEATED 4 - 2
MAYOR
MOVED Councillor Thapar,
Seconded Councillor Paull and resolved:
THAT the Ministry of
Transportation be called upon to ensure that contracted highways road and bridge
maintenance providers fulfill their contractual obligations through enhanced
monitoring and audits of work performance of contracts conducted by the Ministry
of Transportation; AND THAT the Ministry of Transportation provide regular
accident reports for the service area, conduct comprehensive contractor
performance assessments and report any findings semi-annually to key community
stakeholders such as local governments, school boards, emergency services,
chambers of commerce and other relevant stakeholders in the service area.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED
08-06-113 MOVED Councillor
Paull, Seconded Councillor Oakes and resolved: THAT
decision on above resolution be
deferred to March Council meeting with staff to present draft 2008 priorities to
the public via press release.
CARRIED
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM AND THAPAR
OPPOSED.
08-08-143 MOVED Councillor
Paull, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved: THAT
WHEREAS the Provincial
Government intends to pay its employees to “volunteer” for the 2010 Olympic
Winter Games;
AND WHEREAS this action
creates an “off the books” taxpayer-funded subsidy for the Games;
AND WHEREAS this action would
see government employed “volunteers” paid according to their prevailing pay
scale, rather than according the value of work performed;
AND WHEREAS this action is
detrimental to the spirit of volunteerism generally, and would be stressful for
unpaid volunteers working alongside paid “volunteers”;
AND WHEREAS this action
creates an unfair disadvantage for government employees that do not live and
work in the area of the Games;
AND WHEREAS this action
prejudices non-government employees and creates an expectation for local
governments and the private sector to pay their employees to “Volunteer”;
AND WHEREAS the Games’
Organizing Committee has secured nearly one-half of the required complement of
volunteers in the first two weeks of volunteer recruitment;
NOW THEREFORE
the Mayor and Council of the
City of
DEFEATED 5 – 1
MAYOR
08-10-189 MOVED Councillor Paull, Seconded
Councillor Thapar and resolved: THAT
Council approves cancelling the
Composting Pilot Program and proceeding with a waste reduction program of
chipping and land filling all wood and yard waste.
CARRIED 6 – 1
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED
08-16-316 MOVED Councillor Paull, Seconded
Councillor Thapar and resolved: THAT the withdrawal of the statutory service
review on recreation not take place until after the quashing period of the
recreation commission bylaw has expired.
DEFEATED 4 -3
MAYOR
08-16-322 MOVED Councillor
Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Thapar and resolved:
THAT Council approves the
capital purchase and installation of surveillance cameras and a security alarm
system for the main terminal at the
CARRIED 6 – 1
COUNCILLOR SJOSTROM OPPOSED.
Quesnel
08-17-372 MOVED Councillor
Craigmyle, Seconded Councillor Oakes and resolved: THAT
Council approves allocating
$500.00 from the Council Contingency Account for the purchase of a commemorative
tree in memory of Tyrone Clement;
AND THAT staff be directed to
discuss with the family a suitable location to place the tree within
CARRIED 4 – 3
COUNCILLORS COULDWELL, SJOSTROM AND
PAULL OPPOSED.