Joe Horneck

"This motion speaks to having an aspirational goal, excluding paramedics and police, to have a net zero increase. In staff. But it allows the flexibility for people to come forward. With really critical presentations. And say, you know what? I hear you're net zero. In this particular aspect. I have an emergency case I need to deal with and council will look. At that individually as an amendment to the budget as opposed to being baked into the budget."

"I think the other thing you could say with this is, It will incent the province to make sure that whatever structure we adopt on the utility is something satisfactory to counsel, because this seems premised on the fact that we're going to be happy with that. In order to move forward."

"I didn't agree with this when we put it forward, but I guess what I would say is, if council wants to go forward with this, I would request. We flesh this out a bit more, because I see two very systematic problems with this. My background is finance, and I always think about how to operationalize regulations and rules. And so the first problem, I would say. Do we need to explicitly say that? The title alone, using the word counselor and using the word. Mayor is the part that we're regulating... The second one, I would say, is. Why I feel this is unworkable. How are we going to police this?"

"Adding some tools to our bylaws. That aren't. There would have limited usefulness. But perhaps it's something we should still look at. Even having something on the books is sometime better. Although I know we often don't like to put something on the books that. We have difficulty in forcing. But as I said. Privately when we were chatting. Sometimes the act of levying a charge. Is a deterrent in that factor."

"I really want to thank the staff again this year for working with me in the neighborhood around the elf Ruk mosque. One of the challenges we've seen in the past. Was overnight parking that people who were mistakenly there to worship in the middle of the night. Were being ticketed because people were thinking they're parking their cars overnight. And that was not the case."