Mayor Nenshi rose on a Question of Privilege with respect to the conduct of an individual Member of Council.
That with respect to Report C2019-0352, the following Motion Arising be adopted:
That Council Direct Administration to develop criteria and process for a Residential Property Tax Rebate Program to a maximum of $70.9 million of one-time funding for 2019 ($44 million from the Fiscal Stability reserve, and $26.9 million from the 2017 and 2018 Phased Tax Program funding not required due to appeal resolutions), returning to the Priorities and Finance Committee on 14 May 2019.
ROLL CALL VOTE
Final Motion as adopted:
Moved by Mayor Nenshi
Seconded by Councillor Jones
The with respect to Report C2019-0352, the following Recommendations 1,2,4,5,6,7,8 and 9 were adopted:
1. Direct Administration to prepare a 2019 property tax rate bylaw for Council’s consideration on 2019 April 08 – starting with the One Calgary approved budget, and applying tax room of $27 million to the municipal non-residential property tax in 2019 – effectively producing a residential municipal tax rate increase of 6.67% and a non-residential municipal tax rate decrease of 1.77% in 2019; and
2. Direct Administration to run the same scenario in Point 1 with a 49/51 residential to non-residential split, returning to the 2019 April 08 Combined Council Meeting with two property tax bylaw options.
3. Motion Lost.
4. Direct Administration to develop criteria and process for a Small Business Sustainment Grant to a maximum of $70.9 million of one-time funding ($44 million from the Fiscal Stability reserve, and $26.9 million from the 2017 and 2018 Phased Tax Program funding not required due to appeal resolutions), returning to the Priorities and Finance Committee on 14 May 2019;
5. Direct Administration to continue its work on maximizing value from our assets, returning to Priorities and Finance Committee with an update on 04 June 2019;
6. Direct Administration to explore the creation of a small business assessment class for implementation in 2021 reporting back to the Priorities and Finance Committee in 2019 June;
7. Direct Administration to further refine and update the proposed roles and responsibilities of the Financial Task Force and bring an updated Terms of Reference for the Financial Task Force for discussion and consideration of the Priorities and Finance Committee no later than June, 2019;
8. Direct Administration to report back to Special Council (One Calgary Adjustments) on November 12, 2019 with an update on the status of the Downtown Tax Redistribution in consideration of the 2020 Property Assessment Roll; and
9. Add the Tax Shift Response plan as a standing item to the Priorities and Finance Committee Agendas for the remainder of 2019.
10. Referred - "Establish a working group of the Priorities and Finance Committee to steward the work and report back to Council with updates on an as needed basis." to the 2019 April 02 Priorities and Finance Committee.