Halfway House

At Monday's COW MEETING Oct. 23/06 , Coun. Cunningham gave a heads-up to Council via a verbal report on halfway houses. She noted that Council was halfway through a 2 year moratorium that would end in Oct. of 2007 that the previous Council had agreed to before another halfway house MIGHT be permitted to operate in Vernon. (The various reports as outlined at COW AGENDA are available online at COW AGENDA BACKUP (p.100-110) She indicated that Corrections Canada were talking to possible operators of such a facility in order to have operators etc in place to man such a facility if approved in late 2007.

Council should examine the minutes of the two meetings involved last year and the promise implicit in the resolution that was passed by the Council of that day not to go forward with any such discussions of a new halfway house until the Abramenko Inquiry that was being requested was complete and any recommendations from this inquiry are incorporated into new policy re the running of such a new facility in Vernon.

Naturally the Council of today has the right to rescind (sic) this resolution in open forum and allow the discussion of a new halfway house to proceed. A resolution remains in full force and effect until revoked or changed.

Oct 11/05 Council Minutes
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