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MINUTES

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Motion to adopt the minutes of the meeting of the General Purposes Committee held on Monday, May 17, 2010.

DELEGATION

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Richmond Caring Place Society regarding the Caring Place Expansion Project.

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

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FINAL REPORT OF THE RICHMOND AIRPORT NOISE CITIZENS ADVISORY TASK FORCE – REPORT BACK ON REFERRAL(File Ref. No.:  01-0100-20-RANC1-01/2010) (REDMS No. 2880934)

Designated Speaker: Victor Wei

STAFF RECOMMENDATION

(1)

That the final report of the Richmond Airport Noise Citizens Advisory Task Force, as presented in Attachment 1 of the attached report dated June 3, 2010, be endorsed with the following amendments:

(a)

That Recommendation 10 of the final report of the Richmond Airport Noise Citizens Advisory Task Force (Attachment 1) be revised as described in Option 3 of Section 1.3.3 of the attached report such that the Vancouver Airport Authority (VAA) may continue to grant exemptions for night-time arrivals and departures in order to avoid providing a competitive advantage to other international airports on the west coast of North America, but subject to a defined transition period to allow for the eventual phasing out of night-time movements of Chapter 3 aircraft;

(b)

That Recommendation 21 of the Task Force report be deferred at this time and the role of the City’s representatives to the YVR Aeronautical Noise Management Committee (ANMC) be strengthened as described in Option 1 of Section 2 of the attached report such that:

(i)

for the Advisory Committee on the Environment to establish the reporting to General Purposes Committee of the City’s representatives to the YVR ANMC at least twice per year;

(ii)

VAA be requested to modify the YVR ANMC meeting procedures and regularly report back to the YVR ANMC regarding how the deliberations of the Committee are considered by the VAA Board and/or senior VAA management as described in Sections 2.3.3 and 2.3.4 of Attachment 1;

(iii)

the Task Force be retained through to Fall 2010 to allow for the opportunity to provide comment on discussions of the Task Force report with the relevant federal agencies as per Recommendation 2 below;

(2)

That the final report of the Task Force, as amended per Recommendation 1 above, be endorsed for purposes of further consultation and forwarded to the relevant federal agencies including VAA, Transport Canada and NAV CANADA with a request to meet to discuss its implementation or the development of mutually acceptable alternative solutions that meet the intended objectives of each of the report recommendations;

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That Council reiterate its request to the VAA to incorporate the comments previously submitted by the City on the YVR 2009-2013 Noise Management Plan, along with the above Task Force recommendations, as amended, or alternatives to achieve their intended objectives, into its aeronautical noise management action plan to be developed later this year; and

(4)

Per Recommendation 2, that the relevant federal agencies be requested to provide formal responses by September 30, 2010 as to how each of the Task Force recommendations, as amended, was or will be addressed and that staff be directed to report back in Fall 2010 on the status of the implementation of the recommendations of the Task Force.

ADJOURNMENT