That with respect to Notice of Motion EC2024-0358, the following be adopted:
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Council direct Administration to prepare an amending Bylaw to amend Bylaw 35M2017 as follows:
1. Section 31 Subsection 4 be amended as follows:
a. Delete “To facilitate the efficiency of Council Committee meetings, the Chair in consultation with the City Clerk may direct that multiple speakers make their submissions in a single panel.”
b. Replace with the following: “To facilitate the efficiency of Council Committee meetings, the Chair in consultation with the City Clerk may direct that multiple speakers make their submissions in a single panel. The panels of speakers will rotate between those registered as “for”, “against,” and “neither.”
2. Section 86 Subsection 5 be amended as follows:
a. Delete: “To facilitate the efficiency of a public hearing, the Chair, in consultation with the City Clerk, may direct that multiple speakers make their submissions in a single panel. Each speaker in the panel will be permitted to speak for five minutes, and Council will not ask questions until the entire panel has made their submissions, at which time each Member will have five minutes to ask questions of the entire panel.”
b. Replace with the following: “To facilitate the efficiency of a public hearing, the Chair, in consultation with the City Clerk, may direct that multiple speakers make their submissions in a single panel. The panels of speakers will rotate between those registered as “for”, “against” and “neither”. Each speaker in the panel will be permitted to speak for five minutes, and Council will not ask questions until the entire panel has made their submissions, at which time each Member will have five minutes to ask questions of the entire panel.”
3. Section 90 Subsection 1 be amended as follows:
a. Delete: “The flow of each public hearing item must be the same as for Council and Council Committee meetings, except that members of the public will be called upon by the Chair in the following sequence:
i. the development proponent or applicant,
ii. those in favour,
iii. those against.”
b. Replace with the following: “The flow of each public hearing item must be the same as for Council and Council Committee meetings, except that members of the public will be called upon by the Chair in the following order:”
i. the development proponent or applicant first, and
ii. rotating the remaining registered speakers between those in favour, against and neither.
AND FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that Administration return directly to the 2024 April 09 Public Hearing Meeting of Council.