Date:
Time: 10:00 a. m.
Location: Virtual Meeting
Minutes: August 6, 2025 Grants Committee Draft Minutes (PDF)
Agenda
1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – June 18, 2025
3. APPROVAL OF THE ORDER OF BUSINESS AND APPROVAL OF ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS
4. BUSINESS ARISING OUT OF THE MINUTES
5. CALL FOR DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTERESTS
6. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
7. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
7.1 Correspondence
7.2 Petitions
7.3 Presentations – None
8. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE
9. REPORTS/DISCUSSION
9.1 STAFF
9.1.1 Tax Relief for Non-Profit Organizations Program: Fiscal Year 2025/2026: Proposed Amendments to Program Schedules Administrative Order 2024-001-ADM [PDF]
Motion:
That the Grants Committee recommend that Halifax Regional Council:
1. Approve the addition of twenty-nine (29) properties to Administrative Order 2024-001-ADM as detailed in the Discussion section of the staff report dated July 4, 2025 at an estimated combined cost of $826,244 from Operating Account M311- 8006.
2. Approve an Operating Grant by resolution of the Council for up to two (2) consecutive years to transition five (5) organizations leasing commercial/private property removed from the tax relief program effective April 1, 2025, as itemized in Table 2 of the staff report dated July 4, 2025, at a combined cost of $24,232 from Operating Account M311-8006.
3. Adopt the amendments to Administrative Order 2024-001-ADM, the Tax Relief Administrative Order, as set out in Attachment 3 of the staff report dated July 4, 2025.
10. ADDED ITEMS
11. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – September 24, 2025
12. ADJOURNMENT
INFORMATION ITEMS
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