Council · Q1 2025
Council Meeting #02
Feb 11, 2025
Recorded present
Solomon Awa · Kimberly Smith · Amber Aglukark · Methusalah Kunuk · Kyle Sheppard
Recorded absent
Harry Flaherty · Simon Nattaq · Romeyn Stevenson · Samuel Tilley
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Council completed the 2025 mill-rate by-law on a named 3–2 vote.
- RCMP staffing, traffic enforcement and call volume were questioned.
- Council created the Governance and Priorities Committee and was promised terms of reference at the next meeting.
DOCUMENTED QUESTIONS · WRITTEN MINUTES
What obligation did the RCMP have to enforce the Traffic Safety Act?
- Answer recorded
- The RCMP confirmed it was obligated to enforce traffic-safety offences.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
How many impaired-driving enforcement events did the RCMP initiate or join, rather than attend after a Municipal Enforcement request?
- Answer recorded
- The RCMP could not provide the detail at the meeting.
- Result or follow-up
- The requested breakdown was not provided in these minutes.
How many additional officers were effectively needed to enforce all statutes covered by the RCMP agreement?
- Answer recorded
- The RCMP could not give an exact number and said the detachment was routinely below complement and call volume limited proactive work.
- Result or follow-up
- An exact staffing requirement was not provided.
Could the RCMP publish a period-specific report showing officers available and calls triaged?
- Answer recorded
- The RCMP then described typical calls per shift and available officer numbers, but the minutes do not confirm publication of a report.
- Result or follow-up
- Publication was suggested but not confirmed.
What operating-cost increase would follow a ten-percent property-tax increase, and would it be passed to tenants?
- Answer recorded
- Nunastar said property taxes are passed to renters and itemized in rent-increase documents.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
How much of the City's prior 50-percent water-rate reduction was passed to tenants?
- Answer recorded
- Nunastar said all costs were considered when setting rental increases but did not quantify savings passed through.
- Result or follow-up
- No quantified pass-through was recorded.
How did reduced mixed-use property taxes and lower water rates affect rents?
- Answer recorded
- Nunastar said construction and operating costs were the dominant pressures but did not quantify the effect on rents.
- Result or follow-up
- No quantified rental effect was recorded.
Why were construction costs rising?
- Answer recorded
- Nunastar cited materials, shipping and a shortage of trades that increased labour and travel costs.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Which other operating costs had risen over the previous five years?
- Answer recorded
- Nunastar cited insurance increases of 130 percent with reduced coverage and trades salary increases of about 30 percent.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
When would the Governance and Priorities Committee terms of reference be presented?
- Answer recorded
- Administration said they would be presented at the next council meeting.
- Result or follow-up
- A next-meeting delivery was promised.
Would the appointed Board of Revision hear all property-assessment appeals?
- Answer recorded
- The board secretary confirmed that it would.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Each entry is a concise paraphrase of the written minutes, not an exact quotation. Distinct requests for information count separately; comments and routine procedural prompts do not.
FORMAL STATEMENTS AGENDA ITEM
Kimberly Smith
Set out her position on the 2025 mill-rate debate: the approved budget already depended on $2.7 million in additional tax revenue, and anyone proposing less revenue should identify the resulting cuts. She supported the proposed distribution of the tax burden and gave notice that she would seek debate on third reading.
Official written record ↗These are concise précis of elected-member remarks under agenda item 5, not every comment made in the meeting. May 26 was also checked against the complete recording; no extra formal speaker was found. Open the complete statements ledger →
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