Council passed the third and final reading of the Organizational and Procedural by-law.

Changes to the by-law means City council will now have a new communications committee.

Deputy Mayor Penny Byer tells us more:

“The communications committee is going to look at policies and strategies for making sure communications with employees, with residents, with suppliers, other stakeholders like that, has a framework for success and that’s measurable, so if it’s not working we’ll say ‘ok this is what we have to change’”.

Byer says the Communications committee chair will be chosen during the organizational meeting of council, which will be in the first week of November.

The by-law will also allow council to form an aboriginal advisory committee.