Your Standing Committee on Municipal Affairs presents the following as its Second Report.

Your committee met on Monday, July 5, 1999, at 7 p.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Building to consider bills referred.

Your committee heard representation on bills as follows:

Bill 24–The Municipal Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur les municipalités

Wayne Motheral - President, Association of Manitoba Municipalities

Rolande Chernichan - Private Citizen

Grant Thorsteinson - President, Manitoba Municipal Administrators Association (MMAA)

David M. Sanders - Colliers Pratt McGarry

Written Submission:

Shirley Weidman - Private Citizen

Bill 25–The Municipal Assessment Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'évaluation municipale

Wayne Motheral - President, Association of Manitoba Municipalities

David M. Sanders - Colliers Pratt McGarry

Michael Mercury - Private Citizen

Rick Weind - CUPE Local 500

Councillor Clement - City of Winnipeg

Written Submissions:

James B. Furgale - Private Citizen

Kevin Chudd - Reeve, Rural Municipality of Gimli

Bill 31–The Association of Manitoba Municipalities Incorporation and Consequential Amendments Act; Loi constituant l'Association des municipalités du Manitoba et modification corrélatives

Wayne Motheral - President, Association of Manitoba Municipalities

It was agreed that clause-by-clause consideration of Bill 25, The Municipal Assessment Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur l'évaluation municipale, would be deferred to a future meeting.

Your committee has considered:

Bill 14–The Amusements Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur les divertissements

Bill 31–The Association of Manitoba Municipalities Incorporation and Consequential Amendments Act; Loi constituant l'Association des municipalités du Manitoba et modifications corrélatives

and has agreed to report the same without amendment.

Your committee has considered:

Bill 24–The Municipal Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi sur les municipalités

and has agreed to report the same with the following amendments:

THAT the following be added after section 10 of the Bill:

10.1 Clause 335(2) is amended by adding, "Le Collège de Saint-Boniface" after "The University of Winnipeg".

THAT Legislative Counsel be authorized to change all section numbers and internal references necessary to carry out the amendments adopted by this Committee.

Your Standing Committee on Public Accounts presents the following as its First Report.

Your committee met on Tuesday, July 6, 1999, at 10 a.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Building to consider the Public Accounts Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the years ended March 31, 1996, 1997, and 1998, Volume 1 of the March 31, 1996, Provincial Auditor's Report, Provincial Auditor's Report on Public Accounts and the Operations of the Office of the Provincial Auditor for the year ended March 31, 1996, Annual Report on the Operations of the Office of the Provincial Auditor for the year ended March 31, 1997, and the Annual Report on the Audit of the Public Accounts for the year ended March 31, 1998.

Your committee received all information desired by any member at the meeting from the Minister of Finance and from Mr. Jon Singleton, Provincial Auditor. Information was provided with respect to the receipts, expenditures and other matters pertaining to the business of the province.

Your committee finds that the receipts and expenditures of the monies have been carefully set forth and all monies properly accounted for.

At that meeting, your committee adopted the following motion:.

THAT the 5 reports cited by the Provincial Auditor be added to the agenda of the Public Accounts Committee.

Your committee has considered the Public Accounts Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4 for the year ended March 31, 1996, Volume 1 of the March 31, 1996, Provincial Auditor's Report, and Provincial Auditor's Reports on Public Accounts and the Operations of the Office of the Provincial Auditor for the year ended March 31, 1996, and has adopted the same as presented.

At that meeting, your Committee adopted the following motion:

THAT we establish a sub-committee of this committee for the purpose of bringing forward recommendations on ways in which we can reform our committee and that the said sub-committee report back to the Public Accounts Committee by the end of the year 1999.