NANAIMO REGIONAL HOSPITAL DISTRICT BOARD MEETING
AGENDA

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

9:30 A.m. - 11:00 A.m.

Board Chambers (Webstreamed)

This meeting will be recorded

 

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1.

CALL TO ORDER

2.

TERRITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

The Chair will respectfully acknowledge the Coast Salish Nations on whose traditional territory this meeting takes place.

3.

APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the agenda be approved as presented. 

4.

ADOPTION OF MINUTES

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the following minutes be adopted: 

4.1

Nanaimo Regional Hospital District Board Meeting - November 12, 2024

5.

CORRESPONDENCE

6.

REPORTS

6.1

Nanaimo Regional Hospital District 2025 Provisional Budget

• (All Directors - Weighted Vote)

  That the 2025 Nanaimo Regional Hospital District provisional budget be approved.

6.2

Regional Hospital District Taxation Rate Comparison

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District Board receive the report titled “Regional Hospital District Taxation Rate Comparison”, dated December 10, 2024, for information.

7.

BUSINESS ARISING FROM CORRESPONDENCE

8.

MOTIONS FOR WHICH NOTICE HAS BEEN GIVEN

8.1

Request for Report - Reserve Funds and Capital Priority Projects

Director Brown provided notice of the following motion to the Corporate Officer:

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District Board direct staff to provide a report that outlines options and considerations for reserve funds to be allocated to specific major capital priority projects, to be brought to the Board in February 2025.

8.2

Request for Report and Presentation - Options for Taxation Reduction

Director Armstrong provided notice of the following motion to the Corporate Officer:

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That staff provide to the Board by October 1, 2025, a report and presentation for the next five years outlining the capital plan, as well as all major projects and their annual tax implications including the hospital tower and cardiac catheterization lab and provide options for taxation reduction or deferral for Board consideration.

8.3

Request for Report - Effects of Reducing the Rate of Requisition Increases 

Director Stanley provided notice of the following motion to the Corporate Officer:

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the Nanaimo Regional Hospital District Board direct staff to provide a report on the effects of reducing the rate of requisition increases by ½ of the current Board policy of 28.2% to equal 14.1% in the coming years.

9.

NEW BUSINESS

10.

IN CAMERA

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That pursuant to the following sections of the Community Charter the Board proceed to an In Camera meeting:

  • 90(1)(k) negotiations and related discussions respecting the proposed provision of a municipal service that are at their preliminary stages and that, in the view of the council, could reasonably be expected to harm the interests of the municipality if they were held in public
  • 90(1)(m) a matter that, under another enactment, is such that the public may be excluded from the meeting

  • 90(2)(b) the consideration of information received and held in confidence relating to negotiations between the municipality and a provincial government or the federal government or both, or between a provincial government or the federal government or both and a third party

11.

ADJOURNMENT

• (All Directors - One Vote)

  That the meeting be adjourned.