On Council agenda for November 30 there is a report identifying dates for the Council meetings.  Usually this annual report is purely administrative.  This year there is one bigger change/news item.  Staff are proposing to introduce an additional meeting solely focussed on planning applications.  In last couple months we have had a couple like this and I for one find them to useful in this format.  I will be asking for agenda for these meetings to be published by the Tuesday prior to the planning meeting as there is often significant materials to be read…by both Council members and members of the public.   In addition the report indicates that the Advisory Committees will begin to meet again as the IT capacity to support the hosting of the virtual meetings is now available.  I am delighted to know that these committees can resume.