Amendment to Amendment (Strike In-Kind Value)
Motion 4 · Special Park Board Meeting, April 7, 2026
Summary
- Struck the phrase "estimated in-kind value of $200 million" from the recreation facilities section on the grounds that it represented non-taxpayer-funded contributions rather than a direct capital commitment, and was inflating the headline total.
- Reduced the facilities subtotal from $1.28 billion to $1.08 billion and the overall total from $1.63 billion to $1.43 billion accordingly.
Vote
In favour 3
Abstained 1
Transcript
4 segments
Okay, yeah. Do we need a seconder?
Can we have a seconder for the amendment? Commissioner Bastiwanski, the amendment is seconded. And now I'm calling for an amendment to the amendment, which is at the end of line five, it says estimated in-kind value of $200 million. But that is not actually a taxpayer-funded amount. And in my opinion, that's an error in the initial calculation. So my amendment would be to strike out the phrase estimated in-kind value of $200 million. and then reduce the corresponding high-level numbers at the top to 1.08 billion instead of 1.28 billion.
and make a corresponding correction to the total number, which is on the part A of the further, which is said 1.63 and should be moved down to 1.43. We're saving money already.
So that is an amendment to the amendment. Are there any questions on the amendment to the amendment?
Seeing none.
I don't see any questions on the amendment to the amendment. Is there a seconder? I see Commissioner Jensen has seconded that motion. So we'll now vote on the amendment to the amendment. All those in favor, please raise your hand.
I see Commissioner Bastiwanski, Commissioner Jensen, Commissioner Digby. All those opposed, please raise your hand. All those abstaining, please raise your hand. Commissioner Christensen abstains. Thank you, Commissioners. The amendment to the amendment is adopted. Now moving to the overall amendment.
Is the clerk satisfied we're at the right stage? Yeah. Okay. So are there comments on the amendment to the motion? This is not your final comments. Comments on the amendment? Any questions? Comments?
Seeing no comments, we will call a vote on the amendments. All those in favor of the amendment, please raise your hand. I see Commissioner Basavansky, Commissioner Jensen, Commissioner Digby. All those abstaining, please raise your hand. I see Commissioner Christensen, and with none opposed, the motion passes.
Thank you, commissioners. We'll now vote on the motion as amended.
And looking around the room, we'll ask, are there any other amendments from commissioners?
Then we'll move to comments of the commissioners. We have an important motion before us. We've heard from over 60 members of the community, and we've received many letters, and we have an important mission as commissioners. I'd like to ask Commissioner Bastiwanski to speak first to the motion that he moved.