Langley City Council received two delegations at its Monday night meeting. The first delegation was from Adebola Ige, who is part of the Yoruba Social & Cultural Association of BC. The organization is hosting a Metro Vancouver Black Business EXPO at Surrey City Hall on October 18th. The expo helps promote Black and other minority-owned businesses. They were looking for Langley City to get involved, and the possibility of holding an event in our community. They asked what support the City could provide to help minority-owned businesses. We invited them to apply for a Langley City Community Grant and also promised to connect them with our Socio-Cultural and Economic Development Advisory Committee.
The next delegation was from Habitat for Humanity of Greater Vancouver, which operates ReStore. ReStore sells newly donated and used quality home goods, furniture, and building materials. They explained the good work they do in our community and requested a property tax exemption to help support their efforts. Council members expressed their gratitude for the work they do in our community, and directed them to our finance team to ensure they have all the required information to submit a property tax exemption request, which Council would consider along with other such requests at an upcoming meeting. If Council granted them a permissive property tax exemption in the 2025 tax year, the amount of the city-controlled property tax would be around $71,400, which would have required the City to raise property taxes for other property owners by about 0.15%.
Later in the meeting Council approved an update to our CO-74 minute-taking policy. This was a housekeeping change to ensure minute-taking follows best practices and to reduce ambiguity about what should and should not be included in meeting minutes. Council also updated our deputy mayor rotation. The deputy mayor acts as the mayor in the mayor's absence.
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