Council Condensed

The city has waved $725,000 in back taxes the Near North District School Board was levied for Vincent Massey Public School.

The board learned it was being taxed because the North Bay Mattawa Conservation Authority had run a part of Jack Pine Hill out of the 10 per cent of Vincent Massey it owned at the time.

Taxes for the same time period have also been waived for the authority.

City council has the discretion to waive the taxes under the Municipal Act, Mayor Vic Fedeli said following tonight's council meeting.
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City council has declared surplus the four-acre parcel of land the tourist information centre and Dionne Quints Museum sits on.

The land, at Seymour and the bypass, will be put up for sale.

Coun. Dave Mendicino said the city was able to declare the land surplus because the chamber of commerce, which runs the tourism information centre and the museum and has its headquarters on the site, agreed it will move early despite having a two-year lease on the property.

In anothe matter Mendicino said he will introduce a motion once again asking the province for a completion date for Hwy 11 four-laning.
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Coun. Tom Mason wants to know where North Bay fits in with the new Northern medical school, and whether any of the $30 million allocated for building costs will be available for North Bay.

Mason will introduce a motion on the matter at the next council meeting.

As well, Mason wants to sit down with people in the city who provide or adminster child care to get more information about how North Bay is doing on that front.

Mason will also introduce that as a motion at the next council meeting.

BayToday.ca will have more on these stories early Tuesday morning.