March 27, 2025 Transportation Standing Committee

Date:

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Virtual Meeting

Agenda

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1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – February 27, 2025

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 
10.3.1 Ashleigh Boers, Ecology Action Centre – Ferry Options 
- Presentation Request [PDF]

11. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

12. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE

13. REPORTS – NONE

14. MOTIONS 
14.1 Councillor Cuttell
Motion: 
That the Transportation Standing Committee direct the Chief Administrative Officer to provide a staff information report on parking enforcement capacity to respond to after hours calls related to illegal parking on transit routes in residential neighbourhoods.

14.2 Councillor Cleary
Motion: 
That the Transportation Standing Committee direct the Chief Administrative Officer to provide a staff report on options for seasonal transit to a beach or beaches along the Eastern Shore.

15. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) – NONE

16. ADDED ITEMS

17. NOTICES OF MOTION

18. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – April 24, 2025

19. ADJOURNMENT


INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Memorandum from the Team Lead, Legislative Assistants dated March 17, 2025 re: Requests for Presentation to Transportation Standing Committee [PDF]

For further information regarding this meeting, please contact Simon Ross Siegel, Legislative Assistant, at rosssis@halifax.ca or 902-292-3962

To submit correspondence, email clerks@halifax.ca 
More information: https://www.halifax.ca/city-hall/regional-council/communicating-halifax-regional-council