General Committee Pre-Meeting Highlights – July 24, 2024

This month, General Committee is hearing on various issues including Municipal Alcohol Policy Update, 2024 Q2 Financial Forecast, Media Relations Policy – Revision, and 2025/2026 Community & User Group Budget Requests. Here are some of this month’s topics:

• Town Staff will present a report on a Municipal Alcohol Policy Update. This report outlines a small change to the Town's Municipal Alcohol Policy to include Kent Park as one of the approved locations to host an event with alcohol.
• General Committee will receive a 2024 Q2 Financial Forecast report. The Town's Q2 consolidated forecast shows an overall forecasted surplus of $175,543.  As it is still early in the year, staff will continue to monitor budgets and report any variances that cannot be covered operationally within each division.  Details of Q2 budget deviations are also included in the report.
• General Committee will receive from staff a report on a Media Relations Policy – Revision. The purpose of the proposed Media Relations Policy is to follow best practices of municipal communications and seek to improve transparency and professionalism in the Town’s working relationship with local media outlets. As directed by General Committee at the last meeting, staff have come back with a revised Media Relations Policy in order to provide clarity on how the policy would affect elected officials and media outlets.
• Committee will receive a report on 2025/2026 Community & User Group Budget Requests that includes an overview of the community & user group requests, as presented at the June 2024 General Committee meeting; additional information regarding each community & user group request; and recommendations on which specific community & user group requests to include for consideration in the upcoming 2025/2026 budgets.

Want to learn more? Join us in person or livestream the meeting at Huntsville.ca on July 24, 2024. For the full list of topics and more information, visit the meeting agenda on Huntsville.ca.