1 May 2023 Council meeting Other

Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project - Approval to Proceed

Motion
That Council: 1. direct Staff to proceed with the Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project and prepare a borrowing bylaw to begin an Alternative Approval Process in support of this project. 2. allocate $300,000 from the 2023 General Asset Management Reserve Fund to support the Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project until funds from borrowing become available.
Minutes, page 10
Sources
Agenda itemCity agenda
Staff reportPage 1
Purpose
To seek direction to proceed with the Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project and begin the borrowing processes necessary to support this project.
Staff report, page 1
Staff recommendation
That Council: 1. direct Staff to proceed with the Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project and prepare a borrowing bylaw to begin an Alternative Approval Process in support of this project. 2. allocate $300,000 from the 2023 General Asset Management Reserve Fund to support the Nanaimo Operations Centre Phase One Project until funds from borrowing become available.
Staff report, page 1
DocumentsStaff report about Economic Development

Ian Thorpe Yes

And thank you for your work, Mr Lonsdale and staff. . Um This is what the city is all about Being able to supply. . Um Basic needs to our citizens in terms of public works, and this facility is well beyond its best best by date. . So I think the sooner we get moving on its replacement, the better and I'm especially pleased that now we not only have a knick and knack and a knock, but we also have a mop which I had never never heard of until today. So thank you, But But I do recall regarding the Bevan Park. . Uh, , master plan that that Multi use pathway was very strongly supported by the community. So I'm glad that that has been recognized as part of this project. Thank you. Thank you.

Janice Perrino Yes

Councilor Thorp, Jack Cancer Pre, No, Nick and AG anyway, I You know, I'm really disappointed that it's not turf field just, you know, I I get why it's so important. And I mean, I just think to myself you've been operating out of this facility since the early 19 sixties. . It's as old as I am, so I'm like shocked. . That you haven't been able to do this until now, so obviously it is needed. And I also agree with Councilor Thorp as a walker that Bevan Park multi use pathway. That's a great idea, and I think I mean, there are lots of people that live in at work in that area, not live in that area, but work in the area that will make use of that, , and that's that's You know that's a good thing to and if we can't go through with it, I certainly appreciate that. We may have to review that in the coming years, but it's this is long overdue. But it's just not the turf fields that I was hoping for. . But that's okay. . Thank you.

Leonard Krog Yes

Have a decent, safe, secure place to work. . So unless I see someone else, all those in favor And any opposed none. Motion carries.

Questions and answers

Councillor Janice Perrino
Speaker identificationConfident
Yes

asked
More questions. If I might now is from what I'm reading. There is no work to be done in this phase one at Prudhoe. Is that correct at the Prado site, right? Okay. And I'm also reading that there are no feasible grant funding opportunities for a project like knock Nothing. No granting opportunities at all. We can't beg appropriately. There's no there's no opportunity to say.
City staff answered
Watch on all these grant opportunities to become available, and we haven't seen one that would for for as far as I can remember that would fit this criteria. Isn't that it's just not the kind of thing that the granting agencies are looking favorably on. So
followed up
You can't run a city without this, right? You can't do it and yet