January 15, 2025 Audit and Finance Standing Committee

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1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – December 11, 2024

3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

4. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES

5. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

6. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – NONE
7. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – NONE
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
9. NOTICES OF TABLED MATTERS – NONE

10. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
10.1 Correspondence 
10.2 Petitions
10.3 Presentations - None

11. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

12. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD - NONE

13. REPORTS
13.1 STAFF
13.1.1 Councillor Appointments to the Special Events Advisory Committee [PDF]
Motion:
That Audit and Finance Standing Committee:

1. Appoint Deputy Mayor Mancini as the Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council representative to the Special Events Advisory Committee for a term to November 2026;

2. Appoint Councillor White as the Halifax and West Community Council representative to the Special Events Advisory Committee for a term to November 2026;

3. After the appointments of the representatives for Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council and Halifax and West Community Council, appoint one (1) Councillor, from the three (3) representatives appointed to the Special Events Advisory Committee from the Community Councils, to serve as the Chair of the Special Events Advisory Committee, for a term to November 2026; and

4. After the appointments of the representatives for Harbour East-Marine Drive Community Council and Halifax and West Community Council, appoint one (1) Councillor, from the three (3) representatives appointed to the Special Events Advisory Committee from the Community Councils, to serve as the Vice Chair of the Special Events Advisory Committee, for a term to November 2026.

13.1.2 Halifax Transit Ferry Craig Blake – Urgent Repair VOITH Propulsion Unit [PDF]
Motion:
That the Audit and Finance Standing Committee recommend to Regional Council:

1. the approval of the transfer of funds from Options Reserve Q421 to facilitate the urgent repair work to the Craig Blake VOITH Propulsion unit;

2. to bring forward funding originally set forth in the 2025/26 budget for regular maintenance for the Craig Blake so that this regular maintenance work takes place at the same time as the urgent repair work, to avoid having a disruption to service later in this fiscal year; and

3. the approval of funds of no more than $2 million from Q421-Options reserve (as set forth in the Financial Implications section of the staff report dated December 17, 2024) to provide the funding for the work set forth in Recommendations 1 and 2.

13.1.3 Investment Activities – Quarter ending September 30, 2024 [PDF]
Motion:
That the Audit and Finance Standing Committee forward the staff report dated December 18, 2024 to Halifax Regional Council as an information item.

14. MOTIONS – NONE

15. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) – NONE

16. ADDED ITEMS

17. NOTICES OF MOTION

18. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – February 18, 2025

19. ADJOURNMENT

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Memorandum from the Legislative Assistant dated January 10, 2025 re: Requests for Presentation to Audit and Finance Standing Committee – None [PDF] 
2. Memorandum from the Chief Administrative Officer dated January 6, 2025 re: CAO Contract Amendment Reporting [PDF]

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