/10. September 23rd, 1974

satisfaction in dealing with a Committee Chairman, that the matter be mentioned

to him and he would bring it forcefully to the attention of the Committee
Chairman and perhaps the staff member involved in the particular question.
Failing satisfaction at this stage, then it would, of course, be quite proper
for the matter to be raised in Council, but with a warning to the particular
“ommittee Chairman and himself of that intention. In his report, the Mayor
further stated his opinion that the "New Business" section of the Council agenda
is being abused as some of the Aldermen are using it as a free-for-all discus-
sion period, and pointing out that items brought up under New Business should
only be those items that, in the opinion of the Aldermen, require Council
action on that particular evening and cannot possibly be reduced to writing
for submittal to the Clerk and placement on the Agenda in the normal way.

A brief discussion ensued concerning the above~stated report, and Alderman
Traboulay advised he was very much opposed to the suggestions that are stated
therein, as in his view they restricted his right to speak as an Alderman.

His Worship the Mayor then inquired whether or not the Council was in favour
of his proposal and the following motion was then proposed:

Moved by Alderman Keryluk:

Seconded by Alderman Ranger:

That members of Council accept the directive of His Worship the Mayor

as stated in his report dated September 9th, 1974, that item6) of new business

concerning the Committees be referred directly to the Committee Chairman invol-
ved, and failing to obtain satisfaction from the Committee Chairman, that the
Mayor then be requested to bring the item(s) forcefully to the attention of

the Committee Chairman, and should he also fail to obtain satisfaction, that
the Alderman then advise the Committee Chairman and the Mayor of his inten-

tion to submit the item(s) to an open Council meeting. Carried.
Alderman Traboulay voted against the resolution.

Ald.Traboulay re Alderman Traboulay commented on his attendance at the Union of British
UBCM Convention
Columbia Municipalities' Convention last week and advised that the most in-
formative part of it for him was a discussion on housing, and he requested
that the Mayor establish a Committee to deal with the provision of housing
in the Community and the Mayor said that he would do this during the coming

week,

Ald.Keryluk re Alderman Keryluk also commented on his attendance at the Union of British
UBCM Convention
Columbia Municipalities’ Convention last week and stated he found the sessions

on housing to be very informative and that the ideas he got were of sufficient

authority to cause him to do some re-thinking on the problem of providing