Council Agenda In Brief

For November 24, 2014

8.3.1 City of Saskatoon’s Corporate Business Plan and Budget – the Roads Ahead – Update and Year-End Projections (p.4)

Council will be asked to:

*Receive the information

Additional Information:

*The key projects outlined in the 2014 Corporate Business Plan and Budget are on track with some projects completed and others progressing well.

*The 2014 budget projections to year-end is a net deficit of $1.169 million. The Administration has implemented a discretionary spending and hiring freeze to mitigate as much of this deficit as possible at year-end. 

8.5.1 Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools – By - Election – Returning Officer’s Declaration of Results (p.4)

Council will be asked to:

*Receive the information

8.6.3 Transport of Dogs and Cats in Truck Beds and Designation of Hyde Park Off-Lease Recreation Area (p.5)

City Council will be asked to:

*Consider Bylaw No. 9232, The Animal Control Amendment Bylaw, 2014 (No. 2)

Additional Information:

*Bylaw No. 9232, The Animal Control Amendment Bylaw, 2014 (No. 2) implements City Council’s decision to amend Bylaw No. 7860, The Animal Control Bylaw, 1999 to:

(a)  restrict the transportation of dogs and cats in truck beds and open top cargo areas within the City; and

(b) establish a new off-leash recreation area within Hyde Park located in the Rosewood Neighbourhood.

8.10.1 Automated Speed Enforcement – Photo Radar (p.5)

City Council will be asked to:

*Consider the report of the City Solicitor regarding jurisdiction be considered with this matter; and

*Approve the pilot project

 Additional Information:

 *The City Solicitor determined Council’s role in policing is quite limited:

(a) Under The Police Act, Council must provide policing, but it is limited to paying for it. Council approves the overall police budget, but it does not approve it line by line as it does its own; and

(b) Council also appoints a Board of Police Commissioners, which is a body independent of Council. The Board is responsible to appoint a chief, and to provide overall policy and direction of the Police Service. However, the discretion as to what laws and how to enforce those laws remains with the police.

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