Today at City Council (Speculation)

There is no agenda item posted for Airport Appointments on Monday but the council may revert to their latest procedures and debate and vote on the appointments at their Morning In-Camera session and announce the appointees at the Open afternoon council meeting. Since their has been no advertisements for persons wishing to be appointed since the changeover from Corporation to Committee I assume they will be working from a list of those that applied from 2006 when they last advertised the openings. Perhaps this gives rays of hope for those persons who were not accepted for the Land Corps and presumably are now on the short list for those necessary appointments? (2 vacancies) Airport board members take off

Halfway Decision May 28 Despite the decision by Corrections Canada announced by their PR person I'm sure the Council will have some discussion about the halfway house either in the COW meeting in the morning or at the In-camera section of the meeting. Hopefully they will have the gonads to stand up and announce that since their fall of 2005 resolution not to revisit this issue until after the Abremenko inquiry was complete that any further discussion on this issue was moot until they at least revisited the recommendations of their own Community Advisory Board and had full public input on this important issue. Colin Mayes said it best (Put community first: Mayes ) when he said he would be the Council's advocate on this subject; Mayes said the most important thing is that the community is comfortable with the final decision. “I don‘t think my opinion on that is important,” he said. “I think the most important thing is what the community thinks on that.” Also see All Future Meetings must be open to the Public ! and Is the Council pissing into the Wind?

As explained in Another Sleight of Hand (Let's call a Spade a Shovel !) Council will pass the final tax rates at the afternoon session. Hopefully they will not get away with the idea of a small residential tax increase of 1.17% on the 'Average house". The real figures are a 4.95% INCREASE to the Residential Class and a 6.6 % DECREASE to the business class. Lot of beer changing hands. And there has yet been no discussion of the surplus from last year that could be used to offset the Residential Tax Increase !!