Council meeting a brief one

North Bay City Council met on Monday evening for the shortest regular meeting to date.

Clocking in at under 6 minutes, the meeting was adjured for council to discuss matters in private, dealing with litigation issues.

The council meeting dealt with basic issues including the signing of an order to dissolving a former lane way on Greenwood Avenue, allowing the city to dissolving it's responsibility for maintaining the old paths behind some streets in the downtown.

The North Bay Ratepayers Association also submitted a report, although no presentation was given.

The report is requesting a ten percent reduction in city expenditures, namely, staff wages, to keep the city's books balanced from their working of the tax numbers.

A third and final reading of the Transit Coach Replacement program was also completed at the meeting.

This program sees monies from the provincial gas tax going to update buses for the city's fleet.

Other rezoning adjustments were presented for 750 Scollard Street, an address some might recognize as being the former hospital site.

The project plan, presented by the developer during previous council meetings, was fully adopted, despite area resident's concerns about intensification and smaller lot sizes.

Also passing it's readings was a by-law to impose sanitary sewer connection rates for the Lakeshore Drive and Pinewood Drive water and sewage extension.