STANDING COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL
ON CITY SERVICES AND BUDGETS

ACTIONS

DATE: Thursday, October 22, 1998

TIME: 9:30 a.m.

PLACE: Committee Room No. 1

Third Floor, City Hall

At its meeting immediately after the Standing Committee on City Services and Budgets meeting of October 22, 1998, Vancouver City Council approved the following actions of the Committee.

1. 1999 Operating Budget - Projections

A. (i) THAT Council instruct staff to develop the 1999 Operating Budget by working to a maximum increase in property taxes of 1.9%, reflecting a 1% increase related to increases in City expenditures and 0.9% related to growth in the requisition from the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District, with the exception of the Police and Fire Department Budgets.

A. (ii) THAT Council instruct staff to develop the 1999 Operating Budget for the Police and Fire Department Budgets by working to a maximum increase in property taxes of 1.9%, reflecting a 1% increase related to increases in City expenditures and 0.9% related to growth in the requisition from the Greater Vancouver Sewerage and Drainage District.

B. (i) THAT Council approve the revenue and expenditure adjustments to the 1999 Operating Budget proposed by the Corporate Management Team and outlined in the Administrative Report dated October 1, 1998 and summarized in Appendix 2, with the exception of the Police and Fire Department Budgets.

B. (ii) THAT Council approve the revenue and expenditure adjustments to the 1999 Operating Budget for the Police and Fire Department Budgets proposed by the Corporate Management Team and outlined in the Administrative Report dated October 1, 1998 and summarized in Appendix 2.

C. THAT Council approve City participation in the Downtown Eastside Police Beat Team proposal outlined in Attachment 1 of the Memorandum from the City Manager and the Chief Constable dated October 21, 1998 at a cost of $3.6 million, with funding from an additional 1.0% increase in property taxes in 1999, subject to the Police Board entering into the three year service and funding agreement.

D. THAT staff be directed to work with the Downtown Eastside Enforcement Strategy Management Team to ensure the problem is managed when and if it relocates.

2. Possible Withholding Action for 2596 Kitchener Street -

Clinton Park West RS-1S Interim Zoning Review Study Area

THAT Council instruct staff to process the Combined Building and Development Application for the proposed development at 2596 Kitchener Street in the normal manner.

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A Regular Council meeting was convened immediately following the Standing Committee meeting.

REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING

REPORTS OF COMMITTEES

I. Standing Committee of Council on City Services and Budgets

October 22, 1998

The recommendations of the Committee were approved.

ADMINISTRATIVE REPORTS

1. Councillor Nancy A. Chiavario: Attendance at APPROVED

Aboriginal Governance in Urban Settings
Conference in Winnipeg November 3-6, 1998
October 19, 1998

THAT Council grant leave of absence for Councillor Chiavario to attend the Aboriginal Governance in Urban Settings Conference in Winnipeg, November 3-6, 1998;

FURTHER THAT Council authorize the City to pay Councillor Chiavario’s per diem during her stay in Winnipeg for the Conference, at a cost of $200.

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(c) 1998 City of Vancouver