SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
2014 Legislative Session: Third Session, 40th Parliament
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES
SELECT STANDING COMMITTEE ON FINANCE AND GOVERNMENT SERVICES | |
Friday, December 12, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Douglas Fir Committee Room
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.
Present: Dan Ashton, MLA (Chair); Carole James, MLA (Deputy Chair); Eric Foster, MLA; Simon Gibson, MLA; Wm. Scott Hamilton, MLA; George Heyman, MLA; Gary Holman, MLA; Mike Morris, MLA; Jane Jae Kyung Shin, MLA; John Yap, MLA
1. The Deputy Chair called the Committee to order at 9:04 a.m.
2. Resolved, that the Committee meet in-camera to deliberate on its draft report to the House. (George Heyman, MLA)
3. The Committee met in-camera from 9:06 a.m. to 9:27 a.m.
4. Resolved, that the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services adopt its report on the 2015 Annual Review of Budgets of Statutory Officers as amended today, and further that the Chair and Deputy Chair work together to approve any final editorial corrections and that the Chair deposit a copy of the report at the earliest opportunity. (George Heyman, MLA)
5. The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 9:29 a.m.
| Dan Ashton, MLA Chair | Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014
Issue No. 58
ISSN 1499-416X (Print)
ISSN 1499-4178 (Online)
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Committee Report to the House | 1355 |
Chair: | Dan Ashton (Penticton BC Liberal) |
Deputy Chair: | Carole James (Victoria–Beacon Hill NDP) |
Members: | Eric Foster (Vernon-Monashee BC Liberal) |
Simon Gibson (Abbotsford-Mission BC Liberal) | |
Wm. Scott Hamilton (Delta North BC Liberal) | |
George Heyman (Vancouver-Fairview NDP) | |
Gary Holman (Saanich North and the Islands NDP) | |
Mike Morris (Prince George–Mackenzie BC Liberal) | |
Jane Jae Kyung Shin (Burnaby-Lougheed NDP) | |
John Yap (Richmond-Steveston BC Liberal) | |
Clerk: | Kate Ryan-Lloyd |
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2014
The committee met at 9:04 a.m.
[C. James in the chair.]
C. James (Deputy Chair): Good morning, Members. I’ll call to order the meeting of the Finance and Government Services Committee. We have a number of people on the phone and a couple of us here in person. Maybe we can just do a quick roll call. I’ll ask Kate just to read through the names and see who’s here.
Welcome, everyone. Perhaps before I start, I could just get a motion. Dan, as Chair, has asked me to step in as acting Chair because I’m here in person. If we could have a motion to approve my role as acting Chair.
Moved by George, seconded by Dan.
Motion approved.
C. James (Deputy Chair): Now we’ll just do a quick roll call to see who’s here with us. Gary, Scott, Eric, George, Jane, Dan, John Yap, Mike Morris and Simon and myself. Great, we’ve got full attendance. Thank you, committee members.
We’re going to be discussing this morning our report on the budgets of statutory offices, so we’ll move in camera for a portion of this discussion. If I could have a motion to move in camera.
G. Heyman: So moved.
C. James (Deputy Chair): George moved. Eric seconded.
The committee continued in camera from 9:06 a.m. to 9:27 a.m.
[C. James in the chair.]
C. James (Deputy Chair): Members, we’re now back in order, and we have a motion coming out of our discussion. I’ll ask for a mover.
George Heyman is going to move that.
Committee Report to the House
G. Heyman: I move that the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services adopt its report on the 2015 annual review of budgets of statutory officers, as amended today, and further that the Chair and Deputy Chair work together to approve any final editorial corrections and that the Chair deposit the report of the committee at the earliest opportunity.
C. James (Deputy Chair): Discussion. Members have any discussion on the motion?
S. Hamilton: Will we require to get back together again and do any more ratification after those edits? Who’s going to make the determination the edits are, let’s say, insignificant enough to move the report forward?
C. James (Deputy Chair): In the motion it says that the Chair and Deputy Chair will work together to approve any final editorial corrections.
S. Hamilton: Right, but I guess on that my question is: if it goes beyond an editorial correction, if we modify the language in such a way somebody makes a determination that this really should go past the committee, would we be required to meet again?
C. James (Deputy Chair): I think certainly I, as Deputy Chair, would want it to come back to the committee if there was anything substantial, but the comments thus far have just been around editorial comments.
S. Hamilton: All right. But as long as it doesn’t go beyond that.
C. James (Deputy Chair): Dan, do you want to add anything?
D. Ashton (Chair): No, I concur, Carole.
C. James (Deputy Chair): So yes, it would come back if there was anything, Scott, that was material within the changes.
Any other discussion on the motion?
Motion approved.
C. James (Deputy Chair): Thank you. Thank you, Kate, and thank you, Byron, as always, for the good work in helping us get to a final report.
Thank you, Dan, and committee members. Everyone have a good holiday.
Motion to adjourn?
The committee adjourned at 9:29 a.m.
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