Council Highlights – April 13, 2021

Council Highlights provide a snapshot of public meetings to help residents, businesses and stakeholders understand the decisions that affect their community. For the official record of Council Meetings, please refer to the adopted minutes, which are posted for each meeting once approved at the next Regular Council Meeting. Consult this meeting's agenda to view files mentioned in the Council Highlights. 

Council Highlights - Regular Council Meeting – April 12, 2021

Adoption of the Minutes 

• Public Hearing/Regular Council Meeting - March 8, 2021
• Public Hearing/Committee of the Whole Meeting - March 22, 2021
• Special Council Meeting - March 22, 2021

Council Statements & Inquiries

• April is Parkinson's Awareness Month. Deputy Mayor Andrew LeBlanc congratulated Riverview’s Ralph Richardson - who lives with Parkinson’s disease – for walking daily driveway laps since the start of the pandemic. Ralph is raising funds and awareness to support Canadians living with Parkinson’s, and to help fund research into better treatments and, eventually, a cure. To date, he has raised more than $30,000.

Recommendations from Committee of the Whole

• Council approved the audited financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2020 prepared by AC Stevenson & Partners, Chartered Professional Accountants and presented on March 22, 2021.
• Council reappointed the firm AC Stevenson & Partners as auditors for the Town of Riverview for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021.
• Council authorized representatives of the 2021 Grad Class to conduct a parade through a portion of the Town of Riverview commencing at the Riverview Mall, right onto Coverdale, right onto Buckingham, right onto Whitepine, Right onto Trites Rd and then Right back into the Riverview Mall entrance off Trites on Monday, June 22, 2021 between the hour of 7 p.m. – 8 p.m.  Organizer of said parade must provide notification to the Riverview Fire & Rescue Department, the Engineering & Works Department, 911, Codiac RCMP and Codiac Transpo. It will be the responsibility of the parade organizer to ensure that all participants adhere to the social distancing protocols in place by the Province of New Brunswick and the Chief Medical Officer, and that an approved operational plan is in place for the event.  
• Council approved the Appreciation for Departing Elected Officials policy.

By-Laws  

New Business

Next Meeting 

Council will next meet for the Committee of the Whole on April 26 at 7 p.m. and live-streamed on our website. Visit www.townofriverview.ca/council to view the recording and find the agenda available on Thursday prior to the meeting. For more information contact clerk@townofriverview.ca; 506-387-2136.