STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL

ON CITY SERVICES AND BUDGETS

A C T I O N S

DATE: Thursday, May 28, 1998

TIME: 2:00 p.m..

PLACE: Committee Room No. 1

Third Floor, City Hall

*FOR INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT TARJA TUOMINEN, 873-7191*

1. 1998 Grant Request - Vancouver Art Gallery Association File: 2201

A.THAT a 1998 operating grant of $1,831,400 be approved for the Vancouver Gallery Association; source of funds to be the ‘Other Grants - Major Facilities’ allocation in the 1998 grants budget.

B.THAT a grant of $47,250 be approved to the Vancouver Art Gallery Association to fund a Vancouver Art Gallery Master Plan as detailed in Appendix A of the Administrative Report, dated April 27, 1998; source of funds to be the 1998 Contingency Reserve, and contingent upon the Vancouver Art Gallery Association raising their share of the required funding.

C.THAT a grant of 38,500 be approved to the Vancouver Art Gallery Association to fund replacement of Gallery Flooring; source of funds to be the 1998 Contingency Reserve, and contingent upon the Vancouver Art Gallery Association raising their share of the required funding

2. Vancouver Museum - Annual Report and Operating Grant Request File: 4008

A.THAT Council receive the 1998 Annual Report from the Vancouver Museum Commission attached to the Administrative Report, dated May 19, 1998, as Appendix A.

B.THAT an operating grant of $630,800 be approved to the Vancouver Museum Commission; source of funds to be the 1998 "Other" Grants budget.

C.THAT a supplementary grant of $200,000 be approved to the Vancouver Museum Commission; source of funds to be the 1998 "Other" Grants budget.

3. Vancouver Maritime Museum File: 4002

This item has been referred to a Special Meeting of the Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets on June 2, 1998 at 9:30 a.m.

4. 1998 Basic Capital Budget File: 1602

A. THAT the 1997 - 1999 Capital Plan reduction of $700,000 be $350,000 in each of 1998 and 1999 respectively to be achieved through the elimination of the remaining 1997 - 1999 Capital Plan provision for Downtown South Park Acquisition ($968,400), and

THAT the balance of the funding remaining after elimination of this project ($268,400) be transferred to the 1998 Supplementary Capital Budget.

B. THAT the allocation of the 1998 Capital from Revenue funding of $10,650,000 to the 1998 Capital Budget be as follows:

Public Works $3,000,000

Parks & Recreation Facilities 2,400,000

Police Protection 420,000

Social and Cultural Facilities 1,822,000

Other 1,039,600

Supplementary Capital 1,968,400

Total $10,650,000

C. THAT the allocations to the Protection, Social & Cultural Facilities and Other components of the 1998 Basic Capital Budget, as summarized in the Administrative Report, dated May 19, 1998, and detailed in Appendix 2 of the report, be approved.

5. 1998 Supplementary Capital Budget File: 1602

A.THAT the Civic projects identified as RECOMMENDED in Appendix 1 of the Administrative Report, dated May 1, 1998, and totaling $2,363,700, be approved; source of funds to be:

·the 1998 Supplementary Capital Budget ($1,968,400); and,

·a $395,300 increase in the loan from the Property Endowment Fund related to the purchase of the West Annex.

B.THAT, in addition to those projects included in Recommendation A, the following projects included in Appendix 1 of the Administrative Report, dated May 1, 1998, and categorized as "Other Funding Recommended" be approved:

A 6 relocate Solid Waste Management $55,000

from the Solid Waste Capital Reserve

A-7 relocate Risk Management $82,000

from the Liability Insurance Reserve

A-21 relocate & equip Training Centre $250,000

from the Capital Reserve

B-1 upgrade BC AFIS $590,000

from the Systems Long Term Financing Plan

6. Status Report - Light Rapid Transit File: 5558

The Chair thanked Arthur Griffiths, Chief Negotiator and Public Consultation, of the Light Rapid Transit Project Team, for his verbal presentation.

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