Jan 21 Tofino Council Agenda

Agenda

DISTRICT OF TOFINO REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING Council Chamber, Municipal Office January 21, 2014 at 10:00 AM AGENDA

1.

CALL MEETING TO ORDER

2.

ADOPTION OF AGENDA

3.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

3.1

Minutes of the Regular Council Meeting held December 10, 2013 Recommendation: THAT the minutes of the regular Council meeting held December 10, 2013 be adopted.  2013-12-10 Regular Minutes

4.

BUSINESS ARISING FROM THE MINUTES

		4.1	2014 Acting Mayor Schedule Recommendation: THAT Councillors be designated to serve as Acting Mayor during 2014 in accordance with the following schedule: January Councillor Anderson February Councillor Baert March Councillor Cameron April Councillor McMaster May Councillor Thicke June Councillor Thorogood July Councillor Anderson August Councillor Baert September Councillor Cameron October Councillor McMaster November Councillor Thicke December Councillor Thorogood
		4.2	2014 Meeting Schedules Recommendation: THAT the February 10, 2014 Committee of the Whole meeting be rescheduled to February 12, 2014 at 6 pm in the Council Chamber to accommodate Family Day.

5.

ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE MAYOR

6.

DELEGATIONS

		6.1	Rip Curl Pro Tofino - Myrosha Daley, Marketing Manager, Rip Curl Canada
		6.2	Pacific Rim Whale Festival 2014 - Gillian Nicol, Festival Coordinator 2014-01-06 Delegation Request from Pacific Rim Whale Festival Society
		6.3	Cedar Woman Homecoming - Michael Mullin & Eileen Floody 2014-01-13 Delegation Request - Cedar Woman Homecoming
		6.4	Council Grant and Arts Grant Application Review - Nyla Attiana, Director of Financial Services & Adrienne Mason, Clayoquot Bioshpere Trust Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Presentation

7.

CORRESPONDENCE FOR INFORMATION ONLY

8.

CORRESPONDENCE REQUIRING ACTION

8.1

Letter from Minister Coralee Oakes, Ministry of Community, Sport and Cultural Development regarding Local Government Elections Reform 2013-12-12 Letter from Minister Coralee Oakes - Local Government Elections Reform November 2013 - Expense Limits in Local Elections Discussion Paper

9.

TABLED ITEMS

10.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

11.

REPORTS

		11.1	Tofino Harbour Authority - Verbal Report from Councillor Thorogood
		11.2	Council Grant and Arts Grant Application Review (Report from Financial Services) Recommendation: THAT District of Tofino “Council Grant Program and Application Policy”, as amended, be repealed. Recommendation: THAT the draft 2014 Council Grant Policy attached to the staff report "Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review" dated January 21, 2014 be approved. Recommendation: THAT Council provide direction on the following policy elements and authorize staff to incorporate these into the draft 2014 Council Grant Policy: • Intent of the policy • Objectives of the policy • Setting a maximum grant amount • Whether to continue to fund capital projects RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 1 RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 2 RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 3 RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 4 RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 5 RTC 2014-01-21 Council Grant and Arts Grant Policy Review - Appendix 6
		11.3	Official Community Plan Amendment - Sign Control (Report from Community Sustainability) Recommendation: THAT staff be authorized to prepare an Official Community Plan (OCP) amendment bylaw for Council’s consideration that will exempt individuals with existing, valid sign permits from being required to apply for development permits for those signs; and THAT having given consideration to the requirements of section 879 of the Local Government Act, Council considers the proposed amendment related to sign control to be minor in nature and that consultation in addition to the statutory public hearing is not required.  2014-01-21 RTC OCP Amendment Sign Control
		11.4	Zoning Bylaw Review Update (Report from Community Sustainability) Recommendation: THAT the staff report “Zoning Bylaw Review Update - January” dated January 21, 2014 be received for information. 2014-01-21 RTC Zoning Bylaw Review Update - January
		11.5	Special Event Permit Application - Rip Curl Pro Tofino, May 31 & June 1, 2014 (Report from Resort Municipality Initiative Services) Recommendation: THAT staff be authorized to issue a special event permit to organizers of the Rip Curl Pro Tofino for use of District-owned parking lots Cox Bay north, Cox Bay south, and Cox Bay Visitor Centre for a surf competition on Cox Bay scheduled for May 31 & June 1, 2014, and that a refundable damage deposit of $1,000 be taken as security. 2014-01-21 RTC Special Event Permit
		11.6	Condition Assessment of District Roads (Report from Public Works and Building Inspection) Recommendation: THAT the ”Condition Assessment of District Roads Final Report” attached to the staff report "Condition Assessment of District Roads" dated January 21, 2014 be received for information and for inclusion in the development of the District’s Capital Asset Management Plan. 2014-01-21 RTC Condition Assessment of District Roads Condition Assessment of District Roads
		11.7	Audit Committee Minutes: THAT the minutes of the Audit Committee meeting held December 2, 2013 be received. Recommendation: THAT participatory budgeting be considered for the 2015 Council Grant Program and that an open house to gauge community support for this be conducted in early 2014. Recommendation: THAT the District of Tofino approach the Clayoquot Biosphere Trust for funding to help support development of a participatory budgeting process for the Council Grant Program. 2013-12-02 Audit Committee Minutes

12.

BYLAWS

13.

NEW BUSINESS

		13.1	Pacific Rim Visitor Centre Notice of motion from the Mayor: WHEREAS the Pacific Rim Visitor’s Centre is a regional visitors centre that benefits all the communities of the West Coast, and  WHEREAS the desire has been expressed to improve operation of the centre and representation of local businesses, organizations and communities in the centre;  THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Tofino Council support the on-going discussions between the District of Tofino and the District of Ucluelet, their respective Chambers of Commerce and Destination Marketing Organizations, Parks Canada and the region’s First Nations for an improved approach to operations at the Pacific Rim Visitors Centre, and THAT the Tofino Council encourage the negotiation of a new operational agreement between relevant parties to begin no later than January 1, 2015.
		13.2	Rural Veterinary Services Notice of motion from the Mayor: THAT Tofino Council send a letter to the College of Veterinarians of BC expressing the need for basic and emergency veterinary services on the West Coast of Vancouver Island and urging the college to develop bylaws or otherwise create the necessary conditions that would permit qualified people to undertake basic procedures that improve animal welfare in rural communities (e.g., neutering) and that reduce unnecessary pain and suffering (e.g., euthanasia or stabilization of injured animal for transport).

14.

15 MINUTE QUESTION PERIOD

15.

IN CAMERA THAT the meeting be closed to the public pursuant to Sections 90(1)(a)(c) & (e) of the Community Charter to discuss matters relating to: •         employee relations •         the acquisition, disposition or expropriation of land or improvements •         the personal information of individuals being considered for an award or honour

16.

RECONVENE FROM IN CAMERA MEETING

17.

ADJOURNMENT

Tofino Chamber of Commerce against Northern Gateway

http://www.timescolonist.com/business/tofino-chamber-slams-b-c-business-group-over-pipeline-1.773361

Tofino Chamber of Commerce received nation wide press coverage for its stance against the Northern Gateway pipeline.No mention was made of the continued discharge of raw sewage from Tofino and Esowista into local waters.

An Explanation

“”I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know.

—Plato, Apology (attributed to Socrates)

The Dunning-Kruger effect, named after David Dunning and Justin Kruger of Cornell University, occurs when incompetent people not only perform a task poorly or incompetently, but lack the competence to realize their own incompetence at a task and thus consider themselves much more competent than everyone else. Put more crudely, they're too stupid to realize they're stupid. (The inverse also applies: competent people tend to underestimate their ability compared to others.)

If you have no doubts whatsoever about your brilliance, you could just be that damn good. On the other hand...

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a slightly more specific case of the bias known as illusory superiority, where people tend to overestimate their good points in comparison to others around them. The effect has been shown by experiment in several ways, but in this case Dunning and Kruger tested students on a series of criteria such as humour, grammar, and logic and compared the actual test results with each student's own estimation of their performance.

Those who scored well on these tests were shown, consistently, to underestimate their performance. This is not terribly surprising and can be explained as a form of psychological projection: those who found the tasks easy (and thus scored highly) mistakenly thought that they would also be easy for others. This is similar to "impostor syndrome" — found notably in graduate students and high achieving women — whereby high achievers fail to recognise their talents as they think that others must be equally good.

More interestingly, those who scored lowest on the test, in the bottom quartile, were found to have "grossly overestimated" their scores. Conversely, those with the highest scores underestimated their performance in comparison to others. And what about the underachievers who overestimated their performance? In the words of Dunning and Kruger:

This overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it.

Priorities

One of the roads pictured below is scheduled for a million dollar upgrade.....if you thought it would be the one under water you'd be wrong......Council is planning to upgrade the section of Campbell between 3rd and 2nd streets........while it isn't pretty it actually functions......Hellesen Drive,the only public access to Mackenzie Beach is in terrible condition and often flooded........it has been in this condition for years......just like the firehall paintjob that never got finished some things are just left to fall apart.....