Agenda highlights COW MONDAY, JUNE 25, 2007 8:40 AM

Agenda Agenda Pkg 1

• LIBRARY AND CIVIC COMPLEX DESIGN (P. 7) $300,000 or 10% of 3,000,000 required for professional fees is to be authorized by council in 2007 financed by short term borrowing.
• “DRAFT” RESOLUTIONS – 2007 UNION OF BC MUNICIPALITIES :
• HOSPITAL CAPITAL COST FINANCING : THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Provincial Government assume 100% responsibility of capital hospital expenditures for all municipalities in British Columbia and eliminate the hospital property tax imposed on taxpayers outside the Greater Vancouver Regional District area.
• BUSINESS TAX EXEMPTION : THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Provincial Government review the Business Class exemption for Class 6 assessments and consider a significant increase in the statutory property exemption, in order to provide small businesses, in the Province of British Columbia, a fair exemption for their increased assessed property value.
• CANADIAN POLICE AND PEACE OFFICERS MEMORIAL :THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Province of British Columbia lobby, on behalf of all Auxiliary Police Officers in the Province of BC, who are appointed under the BC Police Act, status to qualify for recognition under the Canadian Police and Peace Officers Memorial in Ottawa.
• ANNUAL WAGES IN EXCESS OF $75,000 : WHEREAS all local governments must report annually on all wages paid in excess of $ 75,000.00; AND WHEREAS, this threshold has not changed in recent years and the amount no longer holds the significance once envisioned in the legislation; THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Section 4 (1) (a) of the Financial Information Regulation be amended to read $ 150,000.00.
• HOMELESSNESS : Councillor Cunningham to bring forward at the meeting.