Committee · Q4 2025
Finance COW #02
Nov 12, 2025
Recorded present
Solomon Awa · Kimberly Smith · Methusalah Kunuk · Simon Nattaq · Kyle Sheppard · Romeyn Stevenson
Recorded absent
Harry Flaherty · Amber Aglukark · Samuel Tilley
DECISIONS AND ISSUES
- Committee recommended the 2026 operating budget.
- Committee recommended $35,658.30 in 2023–24 property-tax relief for the Islamic Society of Nunavut.
- Staff forecast a future waste-system budget amendment and possible 2027 sanitation-fee adjustment.
DOCUMENTED QUESTIONS · WRITTEN MINUTES
Could council create a separate tax class for religious properties soon enough to avoid raising the exemption cap?
- Answer recorded
- Finance said Class 14 had already been created for churches, but current applications would still exceed the $300,000 relief cap.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Was property-tax relief becoming more expensive?
- Answer recorded
- Finance said yes: more applications were being approved and the $300,000 cap was nearly depleted.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Had staff written to churches about assessment changes?
- Answer recorded
- Finance described PSAs, letters to previous recipients and email reminders, but could not confirm a 2023 communication.
- Result or follow-up
- Answered in the written minutes.
Would sanitation fees rise considerably once the waste-transfer station began operating?
- Answer recorded
- Staff said costs and fees still required review, expected a future budget amendment and anticipated sanitation-fee adjustment in 2027.
- Result or follow-up
- Budget amendment and 2027 fee review were forecast but not yet completed.
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.
PRIMARY RECORD
Read the City’s documents
This page is an index, not a substitute for the underlying record.
RECORD RULE
Unknown is not zero
A blank motion or question count means that layer has not been audited for this meeting. It does not mean no motions were moved or no questions were asked. Attendance names reproduce the City’s quarterly grids unless another basis is stated.