Special Council

Good evening.

I'm gonna call this special council meeting of May 10th, 2022 to order.

I'm Councillor Gery Lemon and I'm acting in place of his worship Mayor Screech, who is going to be attending the meeting but remotely because he has a bug.

So I'm I'm I'm holding the fork in this room.

We're going to begin this evening with a short special meeting before moving back into the Committee of the Whole meeting.

This meeting is called to order and we recognize the Lekwungen speaking people known today as the Esquimalt Nation and Songhees Nation, and that their historic connections to these lands continues to this day.

Later this evening, we will hear from the public during the public participation portion of the agenda for the cat for the committee of the whole.

And there will be a question period as well.

If you wish to provide comments by telephone, call 778-402-9227.

And when prompted, enter conference ID 665-458-505-POUND.

And at the appropriate time in the agenda, I will then announce the last four digits of your phone number, ask you to mute the live webcast to avoid feedback, ask you to not use speakerphone to ensure sound quality, and ask that you unmute yourself by pressing star six.

And to begin, please indicate your name and address for the record.

Speakers will have five minutes each to speak during public participation and two minutes to ask a question during question period, and you will be timed.

Um, the meeting will be recorded, and by participating in the webcast, you're consenting to being recorded, and the recording will be available on the town's website for future access.

So for this special council meeting, um can I have a motion to approve the agenda, please?

Second all in favor, carried.

Um and we have no minutes.

Well, do we have any minutes?

I I see no minutes here.

Okay, I have no report.

Um, I do we have any petitions and delegation?

Okay.

Anybody here to speak to this?

No, we do not.

Um, no public participation for this portion of the meeting, I believe.

Correct.

Good.

All right.

So moving right down then to two bylaws.

Oh, the telephone.

Oh, right.

Staff, do we have anybody on the phone for this special council meeting?

We have no callers, uh chair.

Okay, thank you very much.

Um, we're gonna move down to bylaws.

Um tax rate bylaw number 1097 2022.

Move adoption.

Second, all in favor.

Motion is carried.

Fees and charges bylaw number 958.

We have a motion.

Second.

Is it 10 1098?

Oh, amendment bylaw 1098.

Okay, thank you.

So it's bylaw 958 2016, amendment bylaw 1098, 2022.

Thank you.

Uh we have a motion.

Yeah.

Who made it?

I did.

You did.

Okay.

Seconded.

Thanks very much.

Um, all those in favor.

Motion is carried.

Um moving right down.

I'm gonna guess we don't have any questions.

Do we do we have any questions online, staff?

That'd be no.

And the only thing you might want to do is just tell people that this is the budget we've approved and have been talking about for the last three months and we've correct this is had lots of discussion and it's not just a yeah this this this wasn't this wasn't just quick and quick and um what's the word?

We have been in budget discussions since February and uh we've had many, many, many meetings, and this just finalizes the budget for 2022.

So um motion to terminate this special council meeting.

Second.

All right.

Thank you very much.

In favor, motion is carried.