September 4, 2025 Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee

Agenda

Updated September 2/2025 with staff report for agenda item 13.1.1 Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management Plan

1. CALL TO ORDER AND LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

2. APPROVAL OF MINUTES – August 6, 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. MOTIONS OF RECONSIDERATION – NONE
7. MOTIONS OF RESCISSION – NONE
8. CONSIDERATION OF DEFERRED BUSINESS – NONE
9. NOTICES OF TABLED MATTERS – NONE

10. CORRESPONDENCE, PETITIONS & DELEGATIONS
10.1 Correspondence
10.2 Petitions

10.3 Presentations
10.3.1 Shelda Cochrane - Assisting HRM in Diverting Textiles and Other Goods from Landfill [PDF]
- Presentation [PDF]

10.3.2 Kelly Schnare – The Natural Edge Program [PDF]
- Presentation [PDF]

11. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION

12. INFORMATION ITEMS BROUGHT FORWARD – NONE

13. REPORTS
13.1.1 Hemlock Woolly Adelgid Management Plan [PDF]
- Presentation [PDF]
Motion: 
That Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee recommend that Halifax Regional Council:

1. Approve the Hemlock Woolly Adelgid (HWA) Treatment and Management Plan, as set out in Attachment A of the staff report dated July 30, 2025;

2. Direct the Chief Administrative Officer to direct staff to initiate treatment of eastern hemlocks with a focus on the 15 priority parks identified within the HWA Treatment and Management Plan; and

3. Direct the Chief Administrative Officer to carry out the actions contained in the HWA Treatment and Management Plan as part of the multi-year budgeting and business planning process.

14. MOTIONS – NONE

15. IN CAMERA (IN PRIVATE) – NONE

16. ADDED ITEMS

17. NOTICES OF MOTION

18. DATE OF NEXT MEETING – October 2, 2025

19. ADJOURNMENT

INFORMATION ITEMS

1. Memorandum from the Legislative Assistant dated August 27, 2025 re: Requests for Presentation to Environment and Sustainability Standing Committee [PDF]

For further information regarding this meeting, please contact Dorothy Maponga at dorothy.maponga@halifax.ca or 902.478.2408. To submit correspondence, email clerks@halifax.ca

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