Committee · Q3 2025
Governance & Priorities #02
Sep 2, 2025
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Committee reviewed the by-law index and requested active, obsolete and housekeeping lists.
- Administration was asked to return with a standing-committee evaluation framework.
- Several promised products had no confirmed delivery recorded in these minutes.
DOCUMENTED QUESTIONS · WRITTEN MINUTES
What was the next step for the by-law index?
- Answer recorded
- Administration said committee could direct the next step and staff could present active by-laws for review, potentially leading to searchable by-laws.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Did an original by-law remain active after another by-law repealed it?
- Answer recorded
- The committee chair and clerk said no; the repealing by-law controls and amendments to a repealed by-law also fall away.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Do amending by-laws keep all of the by-law information together?
- Answer recorded
- The clerk said council can amend an original or pass a replacement consolidating the material; amendment by-laws state the revisions explicitly.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Could the index be sorted to provide additional information to council?
- Answer recorded
- The clerk said it was an Excel file and staff could provide identified categories for review.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Could he receive a copy of the by-law-index spreadsheet?
- Answer recorded
- The minutes record the request but no direct response.
- Result or follow-up
- Provision of the spreadsheet was not confirmed in the minutes.
Could staff provide obsolete, housekeeping and active by-law lists for the November meeting?
- Answer recorded
- The minutes record the request without a direct answer.
- Result or follow-up
- Delivery by November was not confirmed in the minutes.
What process determines whether a by-law needs amendment?
- Answer recorded
- Administration said new by-laws going to council should first be presented to committee.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
What happens when a by-law arises from an ongoing council discussion without going to committee?
- Answer recorded
- Administration said new by-laws should be presented to committee before council.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Were obsolete by-laws still posted on the City website?
- Answer recorded
- The clerk said the prior posting process was unknown and repealed by-laws could be removed or archived after staff review.
- Result or follow-up
- Website cleanup required further staff review.
Would the standing-committee report be ready for the next meeting?
- Answer recorded
- Administration said the framework and report would return at the next meeting.
- Result or follow-up
- A next-meeting report was promised.
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