That Council approve the 2025 Annual Municipal Report.
To hear from the public on and receive Council’s approval of the 2025 Annual Municipal Report, as required by the Community Charter
Councillor Thorpe. Thank you, your worship. If I may through you a comment and a couple of questions, um, first of all, I look through this report this morning and I was very impressed with the format and how easily readable it is. Full of information. I know it's been on the city website. And I certainly encourage viewers to check it. And, uh, I'm sure they'll find the answer to a lot of things that they might not already know. Um, the section on taxation is interesting. We're tax dollars go to. And I especially appreciated the section on highlights of governance and corporate excellence. Um, my question is your worship. On page 76. Under Statistics at a glance development services. I was a little disappointed to see that the total number of new business licences issued was down in 2025 from 2024. 1, 237 down to 984. Those are new business licences. I take that literally. I'm wondering if we have any statistics on the number of business licences that we're not renewed. Which would indicate the business was either closing or moving. And it's possible. We don't have that information, but I would be curious. Um,
You. And if I may, or worship a second question, this is from page 130 expenses by object 2025 from our finance department. It indicates that 40 went to wages and benefits. But then it indicates that 32. Now, would that relate to physical services or would the technical advice that we get as we often do? Can somebody
Three of your worship. Yes. So contracted services would be engineering services, management consulting, flagging. Anything and everything that we contract others to do. That works. Studies, those kinds of things. Yeah. So highly specialized knowledge is required. Right. I
record, please. And you get to the mic. Jeff Ansley. How you guys doing tonight? Um, first question actually just came from Councillor Thorpe. He said there was a page 130, but in the actual report you gave to this us, it was only 122. What's the discrepancy on that? When you were quoting what you were saying, um, you said page 130, but and the reports that we were given, uh, just the public, I got. So I'm just
wondering what that described. Your worship. It's the agenda package. So Councillor Thorpe was looking at the whole agenda package for tonight. And it's page 130 of the whole agenda
population. Got it. Okay. Okay. Okay. Um, okay. Uh, my question was between 20, 21 and 2025, we have hired, actually I think exactly 103 new people. Which roughly a 15 percent increase. I'm just wondering if you with numbers could give me a breakdown on, on those 120 new
employees. Ms. Curry. That's not information. I think we would probably have offhand, but we could get back to Mr.