ADMINISTRATIVE REPORT

Date: February 11, 2000
Author/Local: CKinahan/7513
RTS No. 1274

CC File No. 2711-1

Council: February 22, 2000

TO:	Vancouver City Council
FROM:	Director of Legal Services and the City Clerk
SUBJECT:	Business License Hearing Panel for March 2000

RECOMMENDATION

THAT Council delegate the holding of a business license hearing, presently scheduled for March, 2000, to a panel of three Council Members, pursuant to Section 277.1 of the Vancouver Charter, as follows:

i. The business license hearing pursuant to Section 275 of the Vancouver Charter, regarding an application for a business license by Samad Ali Rassuli and Fatima Rassuli, doing business as Diamond Fast Foods Ltd., 165 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, and the power to make a Council decision in relation to that application, be delegated to:

Councillor Sam Sullivan
Councillor Fred Bass
Councillor Tim Louis

Should any of the above Members of Council be unable to attend the hearing, the hearing and the power to make a Council decision in relation to the application be delegated to the remaining two Councillors and Councillor Don Lee.

CITY MANAGER'S COMMENTS

The City Manager RECOMMENDS approval of the foregoing.

COUNCIL POLICY

Section 277.1 of the Vancouver Charter gives Council the power to delegate the holdingof a business license hearing under section 275 or section 278, or an appeal under section 277, by Resolution, to one or more Council Members. On November 30, 1999, Council adopted a procedure relating to business license hearings whereby the hearings will generally be conducted before a panel of three Members of Council, although Council may designate that a hearing be conducted before a panel comprised of a greater number of Members of Council.

BACKGROUND

One business license application has been referred to Council by the Chief License Inspector pursuant to section 4(2a) of the License By-law, for hearings pursuant to section 275 of the Vancouver Charter in the month of March, 2000. The application is as follows:

(a) an application for a year 2000 business license from Samad Ali Rasulli and Fatima Rassuli, doing business as Diamond Fast Foods Ltd., 165 East Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia.

The application by Samad Ali Rasulli and Fatima Rassuli, doing business as Diamond Fast Foods Ltd., is presently scheduled for hearing on March 7, 2000, from 9:30 to 12:30, and, if another hearing date is required, to be continued on March 27, 2000, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.

The new amendment to the Vancouver Charter confers on Council the power to delegate the holding of business license hearings to one or more Members of Council. Council must designate, by Resolution, Members of Council who will deal with each specific hearing. The attached Resolution will delegate the holding of the hearing in the month of March to three named Members of Council.

CONCLUSION

Staff recommend that Council pass the Resolutions contained in this report.

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