8 Jul 2024 Council meeting Economy

Criminal Record Checks & Fingerprinting Fees

Motion
That Council select Option 4 as outlined in the 2024-JUL-08 report by the Deputy Corporate Officer and direct Staff to bring forward a bylaw amendment to the Fees and Charges Bylaw 2021 No. 7336 to replace the existing criminal record check fee for employment purposes and replace it with the following: • Criminal Record Checks (includes fingerprinting fee, if required) - $55.00 • Fingerprinting Fee for private industry, records suspension, travel waiver or legal name change - $50.00 • Criminal Record Check for Volunteer or Non- Profit (includes fingerprinting fee, if required) - $10.00
Minutes, page 8
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda
Staff reportPage 1
Purpose
To present options for amending the criminal record checks fees to better reflect the costs associated with providing the service, including options for waiving the fingerprinting fee requirement when associated with a vulnerable records search once one’s identity has been confirmed.
Staff report, page 1
Staff recommendation
That Council select option 4 as outlined in the 2024-JUL-08 report by the Deputy Corporate Officer and direct staff to bring forward a bylaw amendment to the Fees and Charges Bylaw 2021 No. 7336 to replace the existing criminal record check fee for employment purposes and replace it with the following: Criminal Records Checks (includes fingerprinting fee, if required) $55.00 Fingerprinting Fee for private industry, records suspension, travel waiver or legal name change $50.00 Criminal Record Check for Volunteer or Non-Profit (includes fingerprinting fee, if required) $10.00
Staff report, page 1
DocumentsStaff report about Economic Development, Safety & Emergency Services (DISCUSSION:)

Janice Perrino Yes

However, a great option for a volunteer group to do at some point, especially for younger people who are starting out in the career, yeah, a little bit tougher, but I think it's time that we did bring the fees in and and I like what you've done, especially about about people who are their names are possibly mixed in in an issue that they avoid but it's criminally done so I appreciate that there's no cause for that.

Ian Thorpe Yes

then I would just comment your worship through you if I may that recently we did a review of our overall fees and fees and license thank you your worship because we had fallen way behind in what we charged and I think it's quite reasonable that we we do the same thing here and and bring us into a comparative with other cities so I will be looking at either option two or option four

Questions and answers

Councillor Sheryl Armstrong
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
Councillor Armstrong and Councillor Prino. Thank you. Would the provisions of the LEAP program apply for some of these? Because I know quite often, well this is a few years ago, mind you, we would have people come in that couldn't afford it and they would have to get loans or borrow to pay for this. Volunteers or non-profits? No, no, no. This is for employment. For employment? Yeah. Gosh, I'm not... there are a lot of people that require a fingerprint check for employment and they don't pay for it the employee has to pay for it and some of them are like the employee or the applicant some of them can't afford it so would would the LEAP provisions apply for them to get a reduced rate? That's not something I've
Karen Robertson
Speaker identificationConfident
answeredDeputy Corporate Officer
looked into I know that there are provisions for other grants or something but that's for nonprofit societies isn't it yeah so it's not something that that I looked into in terms of the LEAP program and what how
followed up
that's just a concern I have because especially for like an 18 or 19 year old starting out that doesn't have a lot of money or their family doesn't $50 can be a lot of money for them to you know get a job so just a concern thank you thank