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Regular Council Meeting Minutes of April 19, 2016 CITY OF QUESNEL AGENDA QUESNEL MUNICIPAL COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING NO. 16 COUNCIL CHAMBERS - CITY HALL April 26, 2016 7:00 P.M. Page A. CALL TO ORDER - Mayor Bob Simpson B. APPROVAL OF AGENDA: C. ADOPTION OF REGULAR MINUTES: 4 - 6 1) Adopt Public Hearing Meeting Minutes of April 19, 2016 7 - 14 2) Adopt Regular Council Meeting Minutes of April 19, 2016 D. PRESENTATION(S): 1) Miss Quesnel Banners Presentation E. DELEGATION(S): 15 - 27 1) BC Transit -Transit Review - Shilpa Panicker, Senior Transit Planner, and Chris Fudge, Senior Regional Transit Manager F. ITEMS ARISING FROM PREVIOUS SPECIAL CLOSED MEETINGS: G. UNFINISHED BUSINESS: H. COMMITTEE REPORTS: 28 - 29 1) Financial Sustainability and Audit Committee - March 29, 2016 (No Recommendations) I. COUNCIL REPORTS AND DISCUSSION ITEMS: 30 1) Council Report #C6C/16 - Special Meetings and Strategic Initiatives – May 2016 - Mayor Simpson to Report Page 1 of 72 REGULAR COUNCIL AGENDA APRIL 26, 2016 Page 31 2) Council Reports #C16/16 - Political Campaign Sign Regulations in City's Sign Bylaw - Mayor Simpson to Report 32 3) Proposed Resolution - Reinstate BC Ferry Services between Port Hardy and Bella Coola - Councillor Elliott to Discuss J. CITY STAFF REPORTS: 33 - 39 1) Administration Report #11G-16-Statement of Financial Information for 2015 - Director Bolton to Report 40 - 49 2) Administration Report #29B/16 - Community Transit Partnership Agreement - Nazko First Nation - Director Norburn to Report 50 - 52 3) Administration Report #29B/16 - Bylaw of the Month - Accessible/Disabled Parking Stalls - Director Turner to Report 53 - 59 4) Electronic Fund Transfers and Accounts Payable Reports 60 - 61 5) Administration Report #38/16 - Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Association Hotel Tax Initiative - Economic Officer Reid to Report [Addenda] K. COUNCIL INFORMATION PACKAGE: 62 1) Receive Council Information Package - Issue #12 L. CORRESPONDENCE: 63 - 64 1) Union of British Columbia Municipalities - Police Funding Model 65 2) Quesnel Child Care Resource & Referral - Request for Proclamation 66 3) Quesnel Downtown Association - Request to use Spirit Square 67 - 68 4) Cariboo Chilcotin Coast Tourism Association - Municipal Regional District Tax (Hotel Tax) Initiative [Addenda] M. BYLAWS: 69 1) Bylaw 1795 - Licensee Retail Stores - Final Adoption 70 - 72 2) Bylaw 1800 - Tax Rates for 2016 - Final Adoption N. NEW BUSINESS: O. INFORMATION AND QUESTION PERIOD: 1) Changes to Upcoming Meeting Schedule - Please See Agenda Item I.1 Page 2 of 72 REGULAR COUNCIL AGENDA APRIL 26, 2016 Page 2) Changes to Committee Appointments 3) Announcements/Future Events 4) Gallery Questions P. ADJOURNMENT: Page 3 of 72 PUBLIC HEARING CITY OF QUESNEL ZONING AMENDMENT BYLAW NO. 1795 of 2016 Council Present: Mayor Bob Simpson and Councillors John Brisco, Ed Coleman, Scott Elliott, Laurey-Anne Roodenburg and Sushil Thapar Council Regrets: Councillors Scott Elliott and Ron Paull Staff Members in Attendance: City Manager Byron Johnson, Deputy City Manager/Director of Corporate and Financial Services Kari Bolton, Director of Capital Works and Infrastructure Ken Coombs, Director of Community Services Jeff Norburn, Director of Development Services Tanya Turner, Director of Public Works Operations Matt Thomas and Deputy Corporate Administrator Gina Albers There were two members of the media in attendance and approximately three members present in the gallery for portions of the public hearing. PURSUANT to Section 464 of the Local Government Act, a Public Hearing was held at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, April 19, 2016 at City Hall Council Chambers concerning: City of Quesnel Zoning Amendment Bylaw No. 1795 of 2016 The proposed zoning amendment restricts Retail Licensee Stores from being within one kilometer from the next Retail Licensee Store within city limits. A OPENING REMARKS - STATEMENT FROM CHAIR - MAYOR SIMPSON B SUBJECT PROPERTY - BYLAW NUMBER 1795 (RETAIL LICENSEE STORES) B.1) Notice of Public Hearing - Friday, April 8, 2016 and Wednesday, April 13, 2016 Published in the Quesnel-Cariboo Observer (General Public Version) Deputy Corporate Administrator, Gina Albers, stated the Notice of Public Hearing, the general public version, was published in the Quesnel-Cariboo Observer newspaper on Friday, April 8, 2016 and Wednesday, April 13, 2016. B.2) Notice of Public Hearing - Friday, April 8, 2016 Posted in City Hall's Public Posting Areas (Both General Public Version and Detailed Grocery Store Version) Deputy Corporate Administrator, Gina Albers, stated the Notice of Public Hearing, both the general public version and the more detailed version for grocery stores over 10,000 square feet, were posted at City Hall's Public Posting areas on Friday, April 8, 2016 . B.3) Detailed Notice of Public Hearing - April 4, 2016 Mail Out for Bylaw No. 1795 - Grocery Stores over 10,000 sq. ft - (No Particular Order: Safeway, Save-on-Foods, Extra Foods, Walmart Supercentre) Deputy Corporate Administrator, Gina Albers, confirmed the Notice of Public Hearing, detailed version for grocery stores over 10,000 square feet, was mailed out on Monday, April 4, 2016, and in no particular order, to Safeway, Save-on-Foods, Extra Foods, and Walmart Supercentre. B.4) Bylaw No. 1795 - Full and Complete Copy Included in the April 19, 2016 Public Hearing Agenda Package Deputy Corporate Administrator, Gina Albers, confirmed a full and complete copy of Bylaw 1795 was included as part of the Tuesday, April 19, 2016 Public Hearing Agenda package. Adopt Public Hearing Meeting Minutes of April 19, 2016 Page 4 of 72 Public Hearing for Bylaw 1795 April 19, 2016 B.5) Bylaw 1795 - Written Submissions - Director Turner's Administration 1. Administration Report #12C/16 - March 29, 2016 Regular Council Meeting Director of Development Services, Tanya Turner, had no further written submissions to present, other than what was included and attached to the April 19, 2016 Public Hearing Agenda for Bylaw 1795. B.6) Bylaw 1795 - Public Written Submission (Available upon request and at the Public Hearing) Deputy Corporate Administrator Gina Albers confirmed there were no public written responses received for the April 19, 2016 Public Hearing regarding Bylaw 1795. B.7) Bylaw No. 1795 - Oral Submissions 1. Paul Eckersley, Manager of Save-on-Foods located in Quesnel, B.C. Mr.Eckersley advised of the following: - Save-on-Foods (aka Overwaitea) has been in Quesnel for 50 years. - Currently, Save-on-Foods has seven (7) stores that sell BC VQA wine in the province. - Save-on-Foods plans to have eight (8) more stores sell BC VQA wine in the province, but he is not sure if Quesnel will be included in one of those 8 stores? - Save-on-Foods has had zero (0) incidents in the stores that sell BC VQA wine and that audits are carried out by in-house staff and by provincial authorities. - Save-on-Foods has 80 to 100 trained staff, with Serving-itRight certification, regarding the sale of BC VQA wine. 2. Bill Bailey, Owner/Operator of the South Quesnel Liquor Store Mr. Bailey advised of the following: - The 1 kilometer does not affect his liquor store location, because all of the grocery stores are far enough away. - The grocery stores do adversely affect liquor stores that are not represented here today. - Eventually small liquor stores will close, adversely affecting the investments made by small liquor store owners. - With the existing regulation it allows the larger grocery stores to buy-out those smaller liquor stores with that 1 kilometer in mind. He thinks that is the process that we should proceed with. - Right now the auction is for BC VQA wines, you will eventually see that our trade agreements with other countries are going to be affected. Those people, say from Australia, are going to push to get their wines sold in those liquor stores to be on the same market. Eventually we will see the spirit department do exactly the same thing. Eventually those smaller stores that are within that 1 kilometer rule will go away at a major expense to all smaller liquor store owners. - He knows that the liquor store in West Quesnel spent almost $2 million dollars to get there, not counting the inventory or the time that people work there; who will all lose their jobs. - Eventually the big people will push the smaller people out. - We have more than enough liquor stores in this area. I know that we would all like to go to one store to shop for groceries and pick up our wine, but it is not that inconvenient to walk across the street from Safeway to the BC Government Liquor Store. If we all shop at WalMart, then there would be no shoe stores or clothing stores anywhere else. - Walking down the street from the grocery store is not all that inconvenient when you are talking about peoples livelihoods' and peoples' jobs. 3. Question from Councillor Thapar to Mr. Bailey - What would your answer be then, as you are now putting the larger grocery stores at an unfair advantage? Mr. Bailey replied - the different is that he paid $1.5 million for his business and now the grocery stores, under this new regulation where the BC Government is handing out licenses, can purchase his business license for $3,000 to $4,000 - that's the difference. Adopt Public Hearing Meeting Minutes of April 19, 2016 Page 5 of 72 Public Hearing for Bylaw 1795 April 19, 2016 4. Question from Councillor Roodenburg to Mayor Simpson - Is the email that was sent out to all of Council this afternoon, from the Wine Advocacy Group, not being included in this public hearing? Mayor Simpson replied that that email did not contain any new information, and in fact was included with and during the Policy and Bylaw Review Committee's deliberations so this is not new information being brought forward by the Wine Advocacy Group. Mayor Simpson asked Deputy Corporate Administrator Gina Albers when the deadline was for written correspondence to be included in a public hearing? Deputy Corporate Administrator Gina Albers confirmed that she would accept written correspondence up to the commencement of the Public Hearing and that she, nor did Director of Development Services Tanya Turner, receive this email from the Wine Advocacy Group.
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