Public consultation

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Opposed? So moved.

Thank you, Commissioners.

We'll come down on opposite sides of the fence on that, probably.

But I do see your point about why it's not necessarily the best idea to try and do it by half measures, because the longer that public consultation processes drag on, uh the less the most affected people are uh are taking part in those discussions and the more the people who have the resources to do the long-term lobbying come in and in this case we've got a subsidy that is greatly benefiting wealthy people and they're going to be the ones who can show up to these public meetings you know month after month, year after year, especially if they're gaining a big financial benefit from it and they are already financially well off and their time isn't consumed with things like helping out with the younger generations of their family, like a lot of the more struggling households might be.

Have you ever gone to any community engagement or public consultation events?

no the the closest i've come is just live streaming it i don't think i could bear to go there in person

i challenge anybody if you can like if you're a young person like us well i'm 47 almost 48 so i'm not really young um that's young for a public hearing yeah yeah i went to a public consultation in the city of vancouver and it was i mean first of all it was two o'clock in the afternoon on tuesday So who's showing up to that? And I was the youngest person in the room by 20 years at least.

So there's this big push to have public consultations to drive the democratic process.

Those public consultations are not reflective of our community.

It's just a bunch of old people who don't want to build anything anywhere near anything.

Citizens may watch our meeting live on our website at qac.org slash live, or on our public access governmental television channel provided by Breeze Line Cable Services.

Citizens may also participate by joining the live Zoom meeting by going to qac.org slash public comment.

Citizens may also email comments to publiccomment at qac.org. All comments received will be summarized during the press and public comment period on this evening's agenda.

We acknowledge everyone's participation, and by attending, you acknowledge that this session is both recorded and aired.

Present public comment will be taken and is limited to three minutes per person.

If you do care to speak, please sign up at the information table in the lobby.

Comments longer than three minutes can be submitted in writing for the commissioner's review.

Okay, so we just held a closed session under the General Provisions Article Section 335B3 for land acquisition and Section 335B1 for personnel.