The Corporation of the City of St. Catharines
GENERAL COMMITTEE MINUTES
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Present:
Absent: | Mayor Walter Sendzik Councillors Sandie Bellows, Mike Britton, N. Carlos Garcia, Matt Harris, David A. Haywood, Bill Phillips, Mathew Siscoe, and Sal Sorrento
Councillors Mark Elliott, Joseph Kushner, Jennifer Stevens, and Bruce Williamson |
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Officials Present: | Dan Carnegie, Chief Administrative Officer Nicole Auty, Director of Legal and Clerks Services/City Solicitor Jim Riddell, Director of Planning and Building Services David Wood, Director of Fire and Emergency Management Services Steve Solski, Executive Director of FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre Brian York, Manager of Economic Development and Government Relations Bonnie Nistico-Dunk, City Clerk Rebecca Alfieri, Council and Committee Coordinator |
Mayor Sendzik was in the chair and called the meeting to order in Council Chambers |
Call for Reports to be Brought Forward from Consent |
There were none this evening.
2. | Motion to Move Reports on Consent |
That Council approve the Consent Agenda. FORTHWITH
Carried
Discussion Reports |
There were none this evening.
4. | Consent Reports |
Follow this link to view General Committee Agenda report of July 26, 2016
4.1. | Planning and Building Services, Planning Services Application to Remove Holding Provision from Zoning; Address: 6 and 10 Dalhousie Avenue; Applicant: Rockwell Development Corporation/WJS Environmental Consulting Inc. |
That Council approve an amendment to the City of St. Catharines Zoning By-law 2013-283, for the lands described as Part of Lot 35 Plan 7, St. Catharines, municipally known as 6 and 10 Dalhousie Avenue, as follows:
a) That Section 15.1, Schedule A (A7), Zoning Maps, be amended by rezoning the subject lands from Medium Density Residential Holding (R3 -74-H13) to Medium Density Residential (R3-74); and
b) That Section 14, ‘Holding Provisions’ be amended by deleting Holding Provision H13; and
That the City Solicitor be directed to prepare the necessary by-laws to give effect to Council’s decision; and
Further, that the City Clerk be directed to make the necessary notifications. FORTHWITH
Approved on Consent
5. | Report Requests and Directions for Staff |
5.1. | Webstreaming of Tragically Hip Concert, August 20, 2016 (Steve Solski, Executive Director, FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, will provide a verbal update) |
Steve Solski, Executive Director of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre provided a verbal update on the Broadcasting of the CBC & Tragically Hip Presentation of the "Tragically Hip National Celebration” taking place in St. Catharines, on Saturday, August 20, 2016. Mr. Solski explained the CBC's specifications required to Broadcast the Concert.
Details of the Broadcast in St. Catharines are as follows:
Saturday, August 20, 2016
Meridian Centre – screened on the jumbotron in centre ice
Doors open at 7:30 p.m.
Broadcast starts at 8:30 p.m.
This is a Free Ticketed event. People interested in attending the showing must have a ticket, which can be attained only at the Meridian Centre box office starting on Tuesday, July 27, 2016.
The Canadian Cancer Society will be on site to accept donations.
NOTE: Maximum of 4 tickets per person allowed
There will be no ‘event parking charge’ at City owned lots on that evening.
That Council receive the verbal update by Steve Solski, Executive Director of the FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre, on the broadcast of the CBC and Tragically Hip Presentation of the "Tragically Hip National Celebration" to take place at the Meridian Centre, on Saturday, August 20, 2016; and
That staff contact the Canadian Cancer Society to ask if the donations collected on the night of the broadcast be appropriated to patients in the Niagara Region receiving chemotherapy; and
That consideration also be given to patients travelling from Niagara to Hamilton for treatments; and
Further, that these monies assist in patient's parking fees. FORTHWITH
Carried
6. | In-Camera Session (General Committee) |
There was none this evening.
7. | Adjournment |
There being no further items of business, General Committee adjourned at 7:05 p.m. and City Council reconvened.
Certified Correct:Confirmed by:
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