Council Meeting highlights – June 4, 2024
Please note that this is an informal summary of selected items from the meeting and is not an official record of proceedings. For official records, including agendas, minutes and staff reports, please refer to Gibsons – Home (civicweb.net)
The full agenda and minutes can be viewed at Gibsons – Meeting Information (civicweb.net)
Smoke Control Bylaw No. 1321, 2024 – 1st, 2nd, 3rd Readings
Council gave 1st, 2nd and 3rd readings to the proposed Smoke Control Bylaw that would regulate heavy smoke or smoke with a noxious odour from indoor burning within the Town.
The reason for the Bylaw is the ongoing complaints from residents regarding a couple of properties in Town about the emission of smoke from an indoor chimney or stack. The complaints often pertain to impacting someone’s well-being, such as an offensive odour or the amount of smoke causing concerns about environmental contamination.
The Bylaw will be on the July 9th Council Meeting for adoption.
View the full report here: Staff Report Indoor Burning.pdf
Gibsons Residents Assembly Recommendations – Presented
Taking place over five Sundays between February and May 2024, the Residents Assembly saw 25 members of the Gibsons community come together to deliberate over the question: “How can Gibsons best plan for the future and meet the housing needs of our growing population?”.
The members who had been selected through a civic lottery process to represent the demographic diversity of Gibsons participated in a wide range of learning activities and heard from numerous experts on a range of topics. At the final session, the Assembly took part in a consensus voting process to finalize recommendations which are included in the report to Council to inform the Town’s OCP update. The six recommendations offer a set of values to guide the OCP, as well as recommendations on relationship-building and reconciliation with the Skwxwú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish Nation) and housing policy options.
The recommendations and the full report can be viewed here: Residents-Assembly-Report_2024_Final-Appendix-compressed.pdf
Participant quotes:
“This process left me feeling empowered, encouraged, and proud of our little town.”
“It made our difference feel not that different.”
Council Procedure Bylaw No. 1320, 2024 – Adopted
A Council Procedure Bylaw establishes the general procedures that Council follows in conducting its business. The reason for proposing these changes is to improve the efficiency in the conduct of meetings and to bring it in line with legislative changes.
Some of the key proposed amendments included in this Bylaw are:
- Remove sections already addressed by the Community Charter, Local
Government Act or Robert’s Rules of Order
- Provide readability and clarity
- Allow for meeting schedule changes without a bylaw amendment
- Update language to reflect legislative changes
- Align language with the Community Charter and Local Government Act
- Promote healthy discussion and manageable meeting length
- Include new content to provide clarity on presiding over meetings
- Conduct a general clean-up of grammar and content to allow the Corporate Officer to correct typographical errors
- Provide a reasonable period in a new year in which to schedule
meetings
The full Bylaw can be viewed at TOWN OF GIBSONS (civicweb.net)
