Second Session, 42nd Parliament (2021)

Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services

Victoria

Monday, December 6, 2021

Issue No. 55

ISSN 1499-4178

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Membership

Chair:

Janet Routledge (Burnaby North, BC NDP)

Deputy Chair:

Ben Stewart (Kelowna West, BC Liberal Party)

Members:

Pam Alexis (Abbotsford-Mission, BC NDP)


Lorne Doerkson (Cariboo-Chilcotin, BC Liberal Party)


Megan Dykeman (Langley East, BC NDP)


Greg Kyllo (Shuswap, BC Liberal Party)


Grace Lore (Victoria–Beacon Hill, BC NDP)


Harwinder Sandhu (Vernon-Monashee, BC NDP)


Mike Starchuk (Surrey-Cloverdale, BC NDP)

Clerk:

Jennifer Arril



Minutes

Monday, December 6, 2021

9:00 a.m.

Douglas Fir Committee Room (Room 226)
Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

Present: Janet Routledge, MLA (Chair); Ben Stewart, MLA (Deputy Chair); Pam Alexis, MLA; Lorne Doerkson, MLA; Megan Dykeman, MLA; Grace Lore, MLA; Harwinder Sandhu, MLA; Mike Starchuk, MLA
Unavoidably Absent: Greg Kyllo, MLA
1.
The Chair called the Committee to order at 9:07 a.m.
2.
Resolved, that the Committee meet in camera to deliberate on its Budget 2022 Consultation. (Harwinder Sandhu, MLA)
3.
The Committee met in camera from 9:07 a.m. to 9:37 a.m.
4.
Resolved, that the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services approve and adopt the report entitled Annual Review of the Budgets of Statutory Offices as presented today and further, that the Committee authorize the Chair and Deputy Chair to work with committee staff to finalize any further editorial changes to complete the supporting text. (Megan Dykeman, MLA)
5.
Resolved, that the Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services deposit a copy of the report entitled Annual Review of the Budgets of Statutory Offices with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; and further, that upon resumption of the sittings of the House or at the next following session, the Chair present the report to the Legislative Assembly at the earliest available opportunity. (Ben Stewart, MLA)
6.
The Committee adjourned to the call of the Chair at 9:39 a.m.
Janet Routledge, MLA
Chair
Jennifer Arril
Clerk of Committees

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2021

The committee met at 9:07 a.m.

[J. Routledge in the chair.]

Deliberations

J. Routledge (Chair): I will call to order the meeting of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services.

I would like to acknowledge that I am joining you from the traditional unceded territory of the Lək̓ʷəŋin̓əŋ-speaking people, the Songhees and Esquimalt First Nations.

Our purpose today is to review the draft of our report on the budgets of the statutory officers.

With that, I will take a motion to move in camera.

Motion approved.

The committee continued in camera from 9:07 a.m. to 9:37 a.m.

[J. Routledge in the chair.]

Committee Report to the House

STATUTORY OFFICERS BUDGET REPORT

M. Dykeman: I move:

[That the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services approve and adopt the report entitled Annual Review of the Budgets of Statutory Offices as presented today and further, that the Committee authorize the Chair and Deputy Chair to work with committee staff to finalize any further editorial changes to complete the supporting text.]

Motion approved.

B. Stewart (Deputy Chair): I move:

[That the Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services deposit a copy of the report entitled Annual Review of the Budgets of Statutory Offices with the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; and further, that upon resumption of the sittings of the House or at the next following session, the Chair present the report to the Legislative Assembly at the earliest available opportunity.]

Motion approved.

J. Routledge (Chair): Good work, everybody — very efficient.

I will entertain a motion to adjourn.

Motion approved.

The committee adjourned at 9:39 a.m.