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AGRICULTURAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AGENDA
THURSDAY,May 28, 2015,7:00 –9:00 pm
Blaney Room, Municipal Hall
The Committee will develop and implement educational and public awareness programs
related to agriculture in the City,support projects that promote local agriculture, make
recommendations on agricultural policies and advise Council on policy issues relating to
agricultural land and appropriate land uses in agricultural areas.
1.CALL TO ORDER & INTRODUCTIONS
2.AGENDA ADOPTION
3.MINUTES ADOPTION
Minutes of November 27, 2014 and Notes of March 5, 2015
4.PRESENTATIONS 7:10 –7:40 PM
4.1 Christian Cowley, CEED Centre Society –North Fraser Centre
4.2 Josh and Katie Baker –Young Farmers
5.NEW & UNFINISHED BUSINESS 7:40 –8:40 PM
5.1 2015 Chair and Vice-Chair Elections
5.2 Council Update –Councillor Craig Spiers
5.3 Committee Business Plan Review –Councillor Kiersten Duncan
5.4 Golden Harvest –Siobhan Murphy
5.5 Request for Support for Food Security Project –Candace Gordon
5.6 Agriculture and Real Estate –Al Kozak
5.7 Demo International –Councillor Craig Spiers
6.CORRESPONDENCE
7.ROUNDTABLE 8:40 –8:50 PM
8.COMMUNITY FORUM 8:50 –9:00 PM
9.ADJOURNMENT
NEXT MEETING:
Thursday, September 24, 2015
AGENDA ITEM SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Agenda -May 28, 2015
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COMMUNITY FORUM
The purpose of the Community Forum is to provide the public with an opportunity to ask
questions or make comments on subjects that are of concern to them.Each person will be
permitted 2 minutes to speak.(A second 2 minutes to speak may be granted at the discretion
of the Chair if no other member of the public is waiting to speak). Each speaker will be asked
to provide their name for the record.Questions or comments must be directed to the Chair of
the meeting and not to individual members of the Committee. The total time allotted for the
Community Forum is limited to 10 minutes.
No derogatory remarks will be tolerated.The Committee reserves the right to defer responding
to a question in order to obtain the information required to provide a complete and accurate
response.
For more information contact Sunny Schiller, Committee Clerk at 604-463-5221 ext. 5286 or
sschiller@mapleridge.ca.