Updated: February 2, 2015

NOTICE OF MEETING

REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING

REVISED AGENDA

DATE:	Tuesday, February 3, 2015
TIME:	9:30 am
PLACE:	Council Chamber Third Floor, City Hall

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PRINTABLE AGENDA

WELCOME

ROLL CALL

“IN CAMERA” MEETING Video Clip of this Item

THAT Council will go into meetings later this week which are closed to the public, pursuant to Section 165.2(1) of the Vancouver Charter, to discuss matters related to paragraphs:

(g) litigation or potential litigation affecting the city;

(i) the receipt of advice that is subject to solicitor-client privilege, including communications necessary for that purpose;

(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of an activity, work or facility that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the Council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the city if they were held in public.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES Video Clip of this Item

1. Regular Council – January 20, 2015

2. Regular Council (Planning, Transportation and Environment) – January 21, 2015

Added Item - January 30, 2015

3. Chauffeur's Permit Appeal Hearing - January 27, 2015

COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

MATTERS ADOPTED ON CONSENT Video Clip of this Item

REPORT REFERENCE

1. Actions to Support Transit Funding Plebiscite Video Clip of this Item

Jerry Dobrovolny, Director of Transportation, Engineering Services, Rena Kendall Craden, Director of Communications, and Mike Buda, Interim Executive Director of the Mayors’ Council on Regional Transportation, to present on this matter.

Staff Presentation

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

1. Review of the 2014 City of Vancouver Civic Election Video Clip of this Item

Vancouver City Council, at its Regular Council meeting on January 20, 2015, referred a Motion on Notice on the above-noted matter to the Standing Committee on Planning, Transportation and Environment meeting on January 21, 2015, in order to hear from a speaker. Subsequently, on January 21, 2015, Council referred consideration of the following to the Regular Council meeting on February 3, 2015, as Unfinished Business:

A. THAT staff report back to Council to provide analysis on what factors were considered most significant to the 26% increase in voter turnout between the 2011 and 2014 municipal elections.

B. THAT staff report back to Council to provide recommendations for the membership and terms of reference for an independent committee with a broad mandate to:

(i) survey candidates and parties as to their experience in the election;
(ii) review whether the allocation of resources from Council is sufficient to meet expectations in an election; and
(iii) create a plan for advancing previous Council directives to staff regarding electoral procedures including:

(a) Request to Province for ability to implement campaign finance reforms including limits to contributions and a ban on corporate and union donations;
(b) Request to Province for ability to use proportional voting systems;
(c) Request to Province to make anonymous balloting data available in open data format after an election;
(d) Request to Province to conduct an online voting pilot;
(e) Recommendations 14-18 from the Engaged City Task Force, and recommendation 07.2 from the Healthy City Strategy.

POLICY REPORTS

1. CD-1 Rezoning – 5080, 5060, 5040 and 5030 Quebec Street Video Clip of this Item

2. CD-1 Rezoning – 2095 West 43rd Avenue Video Clip of this Item

3. CD-1 Rezoning – 408-488 West King Edward Avenue Video Clip of this Item

4. CD-1 Rezoning – 1070 and 1090 West Pender Street Video Clip of this Item

5. CD-1 Rezoning – 1600, 1600A and 1620 West 6th Avenue Video Clip of this Item

6. CD-1 Rezoning – 450 Gore Avenue Video Clip of this Item

7. CD-1 Rezoning – 445 Southwest Marine Drive (Marine Gardens) Video Clip of this Item

RISE FROM COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

ADOPT REPORT OF COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE

BY-LAWS

Added Item – January 28, 2015

Video Clip of this Item

1. A By-law to amend Zoning and Development By-law No. 3575 to Rezone an area to CD-1 (960-968 Kingsway and 955 East 19th Avenue)

(Councillor De Genova not present for this item at the Public Hearing or the Regular Council meeting where the decision was made. Councillors Jang and Stevenson not present at the Regular Council meeting)

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