Vancouver City Council

UPDATED: December 14, 2007

	NOTICE OF MEETING SPECIAL COUNCIL MEETING AGENDA
		DATE:	December 12, 13, and 19, 2007
			On December 12th Council heard from 25 of 113 speakers. The meeting will reconvene Thursday, December 13th at 7:30 p.m. On December 13th Council heard from additional speakers and will reconvene Wednesday, December 19th at 6:30 p.m. beginning with speaker number 62 . On December 19th Council concluded hearing from speakers. Council's decision can be viewed at the link below.
		TIME:	December 12 and 13, 2007 7:30 p.m. December 19, 2007 6:30 p.m.
		PLACE:	Council Chamber Third Floor, City Hall

PLEASE NOTE:

• A complete video stream of the meeting will be available the day following the meeting.

Video Clip from December 12, 2007

Video Clip from December 13, 2007 - Part 1

Video Clip from December 13, 2007 - Part 2

Audio Clip from December 19, 2007 (audio is of fairly poor quality)

NOTE FROM MEETING COORDINATOR: Due to technical difficulties, a video stream of the December 19, 2007, portion of the meeting is not available. Instead, a digitized audio clip has been posted.

• Minutes from the meeting. (These minutes will be adopted at the Regular Council Meeting on January 15, 2008)

For information please call Lori Isfeld at 604.871.6355, e-mail lori.isfeld@vancouver.ca.

or Laura Kazakoff at 604-871-6353, e-mail laura.kazakoff@vancouver.ca

 

ROLL CALL

 

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

 

1.       City/Province Social and Supportive Housing Partnership – Memorandum of Understanding

At its Regular Council meeting on November 13, 2007, Vancouver City Council approved the following motion, which includes a referral to a public meeting in order to hear from speakers.

A. THAT Council refer consideration of Recommendations B and C of the Administrative Report entitled City/Province Social and Supportive Housing Partnership dated November 6, 2007, to a public meeting to be held on the evening of December 12, 2007.

B. THAT Council approve the Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Province (BC Housing) attached as Appendix A to the Administrative Report City/Province Social and Supportive Housing Partnership, dated November 6, 2007, whereby 12 City-owned sites would be developed for social and supportive housing for the homeless and those at risk of homelessness such as the mentally ill, people with addictions, and residents of the City’s Single Room Occupancy (SRO) hotels, and whereby:

• the City would lease 12 sites to non-profit sponsors of social and supportive housing for 60 years with a nominal prepaid lease rent;
• the non-profit sponsors would not be required to pay property taxes; and
• the City would pay the cost of environmental remediation (removing hazardous materials from the buildings and soil remediation);

with the source of funding to be the Property Endowment Fund, Development Cost Levies allocated to replacement housing, and the Affordable Housing Fund as set out in the Administrative Report.

C.       THAT Council approve making two existing temporary Planner II positions in the Housing Centre permanent, subject to review by Human Resources.  Community Services will fund the positions for 2008, and for 2009 funding to be added to the 2009 Operating Budget without offset, as part of Community Services’ operating budget, subject to the 2009 Budget Process, at an estimated cost of $81,900 (2006 rates) for each position.

D.       THAT the scope and financial cost of these and the City’s other social housing investments be summarized and circulated to the Metro Vancouver Housing Committee and to other municipalities in Metro Vancouver with a request that they also report to the Metro Vancouver Housing Committee on their contributions to achieving regional housing strategy goals.

Administrative Report entitled City/Province Social and Supportive Housing Partnership dated November 6, 2007 refers.

Memorandum of Understanding between the City and the Province (BC Housing) as Appendix A, refers.

Memorandum dated December 11, 2007 re from the Director of the Housing Centre refers.

RISE FROM COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

ADOPT REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

Note from Clerk:  Recommendation B represents a grant and requires 8 affirmative votes.

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