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[1. Opening Statement]
FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, IT HAS BEEN THE TRADITIONAL LAND OF THE YELLOWKNIFE DENE FIRST NATION.WE RESPECT THE HISTORIES, LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF ALL OTHER INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, INCLUDING THE NORTH SLAVE MÉTIS AND ALL FIRST NATIONS MÉTIS AND INUIT WHOSE PRESENCE CONTINUES TO ENRICH OUR VIBRANT COMMUNITY.
[2. Approval of the agenda.]
ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD TO THE AGENDA MS. BASSI-KELLETT? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.THANK YOU. NEXT, WE HAVE DISCLOSURE OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST IN THE GENERAL NATURE THEREOF.
[3. Disclosure of conflict of interest and the general nature thereof.]
COUNCILLOR PAYNE. THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.I HAVE A CONFLICT IN NUMBER SIX SAYS I'M ON THE BOARD OF HOME BASE.
ANYTHING FURTHER? SEEING NONE.
[4. A memorandum regarding whether to authorize the Mayor and Members of Council to attend various conferences in 2024.]
MS. BASSI-KELLETT ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD? THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.NOW TRAVEL BUDGETS ARE IN PLACE.
THEY WERE REDUCED DURING COVID, BUT THEY ARE STARTING TO REBOUND NOW.
WE SEE IN 2023 AND 2024 BECAUSE OF COURSE WE ARE SEEING A RETURN TO IN-PERSON MEETINGS.
I WILL SAY THAT WE ARE STILL VERY MINDFUL OF THE DIRECTION THAT COUNCIL HAS PROVIDED TO UPDATE THE COUNCIL TRAVEL POLICY, AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT ADMINISTRATION CURRENTLY IS WORKING ON AT THIS TIME.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, WE LOOK FORWARD TO COUNCIL'S DISCUSSION ON TRAVEL FOR 2024.
ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS DISCUSSION ON THIS.
WE WILL BRING THAT FORWARD FOR APPROVAL NEXT MONDAY, WHICH IS FEBRUARY 26TH AT 7 P.M..
[5. A memorandum regarding whether to amend the Terms of Reference for the Community Advisory Board on Homelessness.]
BASSI-KELLETT, IF YOU'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE ITEM.THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
SO THE CITY HAS BEEN DEEMED A COMMUNITY ENTITY BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IN WORKING TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS IN CANADA AND SPECIFICALLY FOR THE DELIVERY OF THE REACHING HOME INITIATIVE THAT'S PART OF CANADA'S HOMELESSNESS PARTNERING STRATEGY.
SINCE 2014, ESTABLISHING A COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD ON HOMELESSNESS IS A REQUIREMENT FOR EACH COMMUNITY ENTITY TO UNDERTAKE, AND THE CITY HAS BEEN PLEASED WITH THE COLLABORATION THAT'S TAKEN PLACE WITHIN OUR OWN CAB.
SO IT'S VERY TIMELY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR OUR OWN CAB.
ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILLOR HENDRICKSEN. THANKS.
AND I'VE ALREADY RUN THIS BY ADMIN AND GOT THAT IT WOULDN'T CAUSE ANY COMPLICATIONS.
SO JUST BUT FEEL FREE TO SPEAK IF YOU DISAGREE AT THIS POINT.
BUT I WOULD PROPOSE JUST STRIKING THE SECOND SENTENCE OF SECTION 38.
MY LOGIC IS SECTION SIX OF THE TERMS ALREADY SPEAKS TO THE ROLE OF CAB.
THERE'S ALREADY THE INFORMATION AROUND LIKE THE PURPOSE OF CAB IN SECTION SIX.
SO I THINK JUST STRIKING THAT DATE PIECE SIMPLIFIES IT AT THAT POINT.
NEVER HAS TO COME BACK TO COUNCIL AGAIN.
PROBABLY JUST DO A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT AND SAY THE CAB EXISTS TO COINCIDE WITH THE TERM OF THE REACHING HOME AGREEMENT, SINCE IT WOULD BE WE ONLY CARE ABOUT THE AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY BECAUSE THE CITY MAY NOT GET FUNDING WHEN REACHING HOME STRATEGY, BUT SEEING NODDING HEADS.
COUNCILLOR FEQUET. THANKS, MADAM CHAIR.
I SUPPORT WHAT COUNCILLOR HENDRICKSEN SAID, AND I HAD RAISED THAT CONCERN TO HIM.
ALSO, I GUESS I JUST WANTED TO EXPRESS MY DESIRE TO NOT DO THESE ONE OFF CHANGES AND DO THIS MORE FULSOMELY. THIS IS LIKE THE THIRD TIME NOW THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH ONE OFF TERMS OF REFERENCE CHANGES.
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AND I KNOW THAT SOME OF THEM ARE, YOU KNOW, FAIRLY UPDATED OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS, BUT THERE'S BEST PRACTICES THAT IF WE DO THIS SYSTEMATICALLY AND HOLISTICALLY, AND MAYBE IT'S COMING IN THE WORK PLAN OR MAYBE IT'S COMING IN A DIFFERENT, WAY.BUT JUST LIKE AN EXAMPLE, CLAUSE 36 OF CAB TALKS ABOUT HOW ADMINISTRATION SHALL PREPARE MEETINGS.
SO THAT'S JUST ONE LITTLE EXAMPLE.
BUT THERE'S ALL SORTS OF THESE EXAMPLES ALL THROUGHOUT THESE TERMS OF REFERENCE.
AND WHEN I WAS READING MY MATERIALS ON THE WEEKEND, I WAS WISHING THAT I KNEW THIS WAS COMING AND I COULD HAVE PRESENTED THOUGHTS ON THIS AGAIN, JUST LIKE LAST TIME IN ADVANCE, FOR CONSIDERATION TO BE INCLUDED AS PART OF THIS DISCUSSION.
I RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS OFTEN A NEED TO DEAL WITH THINGS IN A TIME SENSITIVE MANNER, AND MAYBE WE'LL BE DOING ONE TERMS OF REFERENCE AT A TIME, PRACTICALLY THAT JUST MAKES MORE SENSE. BUT IF WE HAVE THEM IN ADVANCE OR WE KNOW THEY'RE COMING, WE CAN REVIEW THEM AND AT LEAST THEY CAN BE, AS YOU KNOW MATCHED THE CURRENT BEST PRACTICE THAT WE WISH THEM TO MATCH. AND WE CAN HAVE THESE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT THOSE ARE.
AND THAT EACH ONE CAN CONTINUE TO BUILD ON THAT.
THANKS. YEAH. WAS THERE'S A POSSIBILITY THAT ADMIN COULD ADD REVIEWING ALL TERMS OF REFERENCE TO THEIR 2025 WORK PLAN, IF THAT'S DEEMED THE HIGHEST PRIORITY OF COUNCIL? THE CHALLENGE FOR THIS WOULD BE THERE'S NO COMMITTEE IN A MONTH AND A HALF, WHICH IS WHY IT DOES HAVE TO COME FORWARD.
SO THAT YOU ARE PREPARED IF ANOTHER TERMS OF REFERENCE COMES AHEAD.
SOME OF THE STUFF IN HERE IS REQUIRED BY LIKE THAT.
WE CAN'T, VOTE ON STUFF ELECTRONICALLY.
SO, YOU KNOW, MINUTES OF A COMMITTEE CAN ONLY COME FORWARD FOR APPROVAL AT THE NEXT COMMITTEE, WHICH MEANS FOR THE AUDIT COMMITTEE, THAT'S ONCE A QUARTER. SO YOU DO HAVE TO KIND OF SCRATCH YOUR HEAD AND REMEMBER, THERE'S A PRACTICE, THOUGH, THAT STUFF GENERALLY GETS SENT SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
BUT, THE LEGISLATION THAT WE HAVE TO WE HAVE TO REVIEW ALL TERMS OF REVIEW OF LEGISLATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITIES TOWNS AND VILLAGES ACT AS WELL AS BEST PRACTICES.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY, I'M NOT SUGGESTING THIS IS A HIGHER PRIORITY THAN ALL THE STUFF ON ADMINS PLATE.
AND I WOULD JUST SAY THAT STUFF COMES UP.
IT WASN'T PLANNED THE BETWEEN THE LAST TIME THAT YOU ASKED AND THIS TIME.
SO THAT'S WHERE IF COUNCIL WANTS TO GET AHEAD OF ANY TERMS OF REFERENCE, START REVIEWING THEM ALL RIGHT NOW IF YOU WANT TO BECAUSE WE CAN ONLY GIVE SO MUCH WHEN SOMETHING BECOMES, WHEN ADMIN BECOMES AWARE OF SOMETHING THAT HAS TO CHANGE, IT DOES HAPPEN PRETTY QUICK.
TO NOTE, CAB DID HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE NUMBER OF MEETINGS AND WHETHER TO BE SPECIFIC ABOUT HAVING FOUR OR TO LEAVE IT MORE BROAD OF AT THE CALL OF THE CHAIR.
THAT COULD BE SOMETHING COUNCIL CONSIDERS WHEN ALL TERMS OF REFERENCE COME FORWARD.
BUT JUST TO KIND OF CLOSE THE LOOP, WE'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT AMENDMENT AT THIS TIME.
SO YOU WON'T SEE THAT COMING BACK TO COUNCIL.
THANKS FOR THAT. AND THAT WAS KIND OF TOUCHING ON MY NEXT QUESTION.
I JUST WANTED TO CHECK IN WITH THE CHAIR OF CAB THAT, YOU WERE ABLE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT THE FREQUENCY AND ANYTHING ELSE THAT THE COMMITTEE SAW AS IMPORTANT TO THESE TERMS OF REFERENCE, AND THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE THAT THE COMMITTEE HAD SUGGESTED AT THIS TIME.
NOTHING ELSE AT THIS TIME, THE MAYOR COVERED IT.
AND THEY ONLY DISCUSSED, THE DATES.
THE NEXT ITEM, COUNCILLOR PAYNE IS IN CONFLICT.
[6. A memorandum regarding whether to approve recommendations to allocate Reaching Home funding for the 2024‐2025 fiscal year, 2025‐2026 fiscal year and 2023‐2024 Winter Emergency Funding.]
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SO YOU CAN GO TAKE YOUR MOMENT IN THE HALL.SO THE NEXT ITEM IS A MEMORANDUM REGARDING WHETHER TO APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS TO ALLOCATE REACHING HOME FUNDING FOR THE 2024 2025 FISCAL YEAR, THE 2025 2026 FISCAL YEAR AND 2023 2024 WINTER EMERGENCY FUNDING.
MS. BASSI-KELLETT WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING? NOT MUCH, MADAM CHAIR, BUT THANK YOU.
SO WE REALLY APPRECIATE THAT CAB SPENT SOME TIME IN LATE JANUARY AND EARLY FEBRUARY DELIBERATING OVER THE PROPOSALS THAT HAVE COME IN, AND THESE RECOMMENDATIONS NOW ARE BEFORE GPC FOR CONSIDERATION AND RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL FOR REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
AND I KNOW THE MEMO TALKS ABOUT IT, BUT YOU'LL SEE THAT 2025, 2026 THERE'S JUST A LITTLE BIT OF UNALLOCATED FUNDING THE 260 SO CAB WILL RECONVENE EARLY NEXT YEAR TO ALLOCATE THAT.
BUT THE RECOMMENDATION IS FOR COUNCIL TO APPROVE 2024 AND 2025 FUNDING.
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY GO OUT TO A TWO YEAR RFP.
AND THEN ORGANIZATIONS HAVE A BIT MORE STABILITY AND UNDERSTAND, AND IT'S ALSO A NICE ADMINISTRATION, ADMINISTRATIVE REDUCTION WORK FOR BOTH THE NGOS AND, AND CITY STAFF.
SO IT'S A QUICK TURNAROUND, BUT REALLY APPRECIATED.
COUNCILLOR HENDRICKSEN DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING? YEP. ANY QUESTIONS COUNCILLOR OR SORRY, COUNCILLOR DEPUTY MAYOR COCHRANE.
[LAUGHTER] THANK YOU, YOUR WORSHIP.
I SUPPORT ALL OF THAT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE MEMO HERE.
THANK YOU. COUNCILLOR WARBURTON.
YEAH, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S POSSIBLE AT THIS POINT, BUT IF WE DETAIL.
JUST CURIOUS WHAT THOSE ARE HIGH LEVEL TERMS. YEAH. SO WE'RE GOING TO GO TO AN RFP AND IT WILL BE FOR BOTH POTS TO COMBINE TOGETHER.
AND THEN A CAPITAL PROJECT JUST HAS TO, LIKE, FOLLOW THE GUIDELINES OF REACHING HOME.
SO IT COULD BE SOMETHING LIKE A RENOVATION OR ACQUISITION OF LAND OR A BUILDING.
SO, IT WILL BE GOING OUT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO GET ORGANIZATIONS TO PUT IN THEIR IDEAS ON IF THEY HAVE A CAPITAL PROJECT AND THEN DETERMINE WHICH ONE TO GO WITH.
MS. BASSI-KELLETT OR COUNCILLOR HENDRICKSEN DID YOU WANT TO ADD? MS. BASSI-KELLETT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
I'LL ASK MR. WHITE IF HE'D LIKE TO ADD ANYTHING.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH. JUST RECOGNIZING THE TIME FRAME ON THIS, WE WILL ENDEAVOR TO GET THE RFP OUT AS QUICK AS WE CAN SO THAT THE 260 CAN BE, ALLOCATED AND SPENT BY THE REQUIRED DEADLINE.
THANKS. ANYTHING FURTHER? COUNCILLOR FEQUET. THANKS, MADAM CHAIR.
YEAH, JUST ON THE SAME QUESTION.
IS THIS HOW DOES THIS NUMBER 661 COMPARE? OR MAYBE JUST THE FOUR THAT'S NOT THE EMERGENCY FUNDING, COMPARED TO PREVIOUS YEARS CAPITAL PROJECTS FOR THIS COMMITTEE.
CAPITAL PROJECTS IS THE FLUCTUATING ONE.
SO THERE'S ALWAYS SUPPORT FOR HOUSING FIRST IN THE THREE CATEGORIES.
IT USED TO BE JUST ONE PREVENTION AND SHELTER DIVERSION.
AND WHOEVER GOT THAT CONTRACT, WOULD PROVIDE SUPPORT TO YOUTH, ADULTS, FAMILIES OR SENIORS.
BUT LAST YEAR, THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED THAT THEY WANTED SEPARATE POTS FOR EACH GROUP.
AND SO KIND OF REMAINING FUNDING WILL GO TO CAPITAL PROJECTS SOME YEARS IT'S BEEN AS HIGH AS $1 MILLION WHEN WE HAD LIKE THE DOUBLING DURING COVID AND THEN OTHER YEARS IT'S BEEN $0.
THANKS FOR THAT. SO, YEAH, I'M JUST CURIOUS, JUST BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE'S A BIG CHUNK OF MONEY IN THAT CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT'S PART OF THAT EMERGENCY FUNDING THAT'S DUE OR NEEDS TO BE SPENT APRIL 30TH.
AND THAT COULD OTHERWISE GO TO PROGRAMING.
DO WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME IDEAS FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT PEOPLE ARE READY TO SPEND THAT MONEY? EVEN THOUGH I RECOGNIZE IT'S GOING UP FOR RFP.
WE WILL BRING THAT FORWARD FOR APPROVAL NEXT MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26TH AT 7 P.M..
WELL, WE WILL JUST WAIT FOR COUNCILLOR PAYNE TO COME BACK.
[7. A memorandum regarding the Minutes of the Community Advisory Board on Homelessness meeting of January 25, 2024 and February 8, 2024.]
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AND NEXT ON THE AGENDA IS MEMORANDUM REGARDING THE MINUTES OF THE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD ON HOMELESSNESS MEETING OF JANUARY 25TH, 2024 AND FEBRUARY 8TH, 2024.SO BASICALLY MINUTES OF WHAT WE JUST DISCUSSED.
SO, ANY QUESTIONS? SEEING NONE. THOSE WERE JUST FOR INFORMATION.
THE NEXT TWO ITEMS ARE IN CAMERA LEGAL MATTERS.
[IN CAMERA]
IF I CAN GET A MOTION TO MOVE IN CAMERA.MOVED BY COUNCILLOR ARDEN-SMITH, SECONDED BY DEPUTY MAYOR COCHRANE.
ANYBODY OPPOSED? SEEING NONE, WE CAN GO IN CAMERA.
AND WE HAVE NO BUSINESS ARISING FROM IN CAMERA.
IF I CAN GET A MOTION TO ADJOURN.
MOVED BY DEPUTY MAYOR COCHRANE, SECONDED BY COUNCILLOR WARBURTON.
ANYBODY OPPOSED? SEEING NONE. WE CAN BE ADJOURNED AND WE'LL SEE EVERYBODY NEXT MONDAY AT 12:05.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.