Grappling with Short Term Rentals; Water Rates and Sewer Rates rising (like nearly everything else); how Rossland Yards affordable housing will be managed; a bylaw the City needs to pass every year but hasn’t used since 1999; Arts Centre Society progress; events at RED coming up in March …
Help coming for “deep retrofits” to save energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions; examining our biases and encouraging diversity in our community and in governance; tackling the issue of Short Term Rentals; dog ownership and changes to fees and fines; Rossland’s Curling Club gets proactive; how to best groom Centennial Trail? – and a brief RDKB report, inter alia Present:
Pickleball sometime maybe; how long is a block? stashing some money for policing costs; more progress on the North Jubilee Park; encouraging diversity in local government; more younger unvaccinated people in hospital with COVID . . . Present: Mayor Kathy Moore and Councillors Terry Miller, Andy Morel, Janice Nightingale, Chris Bowman and Dirk Lewis. Absent: Stewart Spooner.
by Sara Golling on Tuesday Dec 15 2020
Chicken coop question resolved! And, Council got through a lot of other business in its final meetings of 2020.
Present: Mayor Kathy Moore, and Councillors Terry Miller, Dirk Lewis, Chris Bowman, Janice Nightingale, Stewart Spooner, and Andy Morel. Staff: CAO Bryan Teasdale, DCO Cynthia Año Nuevo, CFO Elma Hamming, Manager of Special Projects Darrin Albo, Manager of Operations & Infrastructure Scott Lamont, Manager of Recreation & Events Kristi Calder, and probably others who were not visible on the Zoom meeting.
Committee-of-the-Whole, 4:00 pm – 5:47 pm
Council discussed the merits of the thirteen applications for Community Grant Funding. Decisions made at this meeting are only recommendations, and tentative ones at that; Teasdale pointed out to Council that some of the COVID Safe Restart funding might be applicable to some of the applications but City staff and Council will have to analyze the criter