Financial plan bylaw: City of Powell River council gave three readings to Five-Year Financial Plan Bylaw 2423 at its Thursday, December 3, meeting. The bylaw sets out the proposed expenses for the city’s operations for the years 2016 to 2020. The bylaw will be adopted at council’s next meeting, Thursday, December 17. The city’s tax rate bylaw, which sets out the annual property taxes, will be brought forward in the spring. An increase in property taxes for 2016 is not anticipated.
Sewer rate increase
Council gave three readings to its Sewer User Rates Bylaw 2424, Sewer Treatment and Disposal System Bylaw 2427 and the Sewer Collector System Bylaw 2428. The bylaws will be adopted at a future council meeting. The bylaws include establishing the tax rate for the sanitary sewer, setting 2016 frontage tax rates for the repayment of the construction and operation of the city’s sewage treatment and disposal system and setting the 2016 frontage tax for the sanitary and storm sewer collector system. Sewer rates will increase by one per cent in 2016. The bylaws will be adopted at a future council meeting.
Waterworks regulations
Council gave three readings to the Waterworks Regulations and Rates Bylaw, a bylaw that provides for the installation, operation and management of the city’s waterworks system and the collection of fees and charges for water. The bylaw will be adopted at a future council meeting.
Policy manual makeover
With an aim of cleaning up the city’s policy manual, each department has been earmarking out-of-date policies for removal. Council approved the rescinding of a number of historical infrastructure policies at its December 3 meeting. According to city staff, the process is nearly complete with only the planning department left.
Information exchange
Representatives from Powell River Regional District, Tla’amin (Sliammon) First Nation and the city met at the Powell River Outdoor Learning Centre on Powell Lake Tuesday, December 1. The meeting brought together the region’s three local government and takes place a few times a year. Topics discussed included presentations on the regional recreation initiative study, regional geographic information systems information sharing, bus service to Vancouver and an update on the Tla’amin community gathering structure at Shelter Point on Texada Island.
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