Vancouver City Council will meet on Wednesday, December 1st, 2021 to discuss the 2022 Capital and Operating Budget and hear from speakers. The meeting will start at 9:30 am. This is an important year for the budget. Finances are under pressure. Income is down, costs up. And there's an election on October 15, 2022.

As a side note, once upon a time, Vancouver City Council scheduled Special Meetings for Budgets in the evenings. This was a while back. The last time the December budget meeting happened in the evening was with a 6pm start back on December 10, 2013. After that, Vision Vancouver shifted the budget discussions to daytime meetings, convenient for staff and Council. But for the public? Not so much. The Special Meetings on the Budget have remained as weekday daytime meetings with a 9:30am start. The continuation of the daytime budget meeting is perhaps another example of the loss of institutional memory and demonstrates inertia. When one administration sets something (a policy or practice) in place, it stays there unless some effort is exerted to change it. Out of all of current members of Council, only Councillor Adriane Carr would have been in attendance in 2013, the last time a budget meeting was held in the evening.

Links to previous Budget meetings

https://council.vancouver.ca/20131210/cfsc20131210ag.htm  (6pm start, 2014 Budget)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20150224/spec20150224ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20151209/spec20151209ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20161207/spec20161207ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20171206/spec20171206ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20181211/spec20181211ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20191203/spec20191203ag.htm  (9:30am start)

https://council.vancouver.ca/20201201/spec20201201ag.htm (9:30am start)