Council Meetings

Mayor & Council make significant decisions that impact the community at council meetings. See how meetings work and how you can get involved.

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2024 council meeting schedule

See the 2024 Regular Council meeting schedule.
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Meeting agendas

  • To participate in a committee meeting, see the agenda below for further instructions.
  • Meetings marked with a * are livestreamed.
  • Recordings of past meeting are available in the video archives.
  • All regular council and committee meetings are open to the public.

Day & date

Name

Location

Status (open or closed)
May 13
Monday
10:00 a.m.		 Special Council  Hybrid
Electronic and
1E - Community Room B
 		 Open
10:00 a.m. Special Closed Council  Hybrid
Electronic and
1E - Community Room B		 Closed
May 14
Tuesday
9:00 am		 Board of Variance 2E - Community Room B Open
6:00 pm Agricultural and Food Policy Committee Meeting Room 125A and 125B
Surrey Operations Centre (Works Yard)
6651 - 148 Street		 Open
May 16
Thursday
4:00 pm		 Advisory Design Panel  Electronic Meeting Open

 

Council meeting types

Regular Council – Land Use

Official community plan, zoning bylaw, or other land-use applications are first introduced at the Land Use meetings held on Monday afternoons. Council reviews and comments on the applications brought forward by the Planning Department and decides whether or not to proceed to resident input in a Public Hearing meeting.

Once the public has had the opportunity to provide input, the applications are reviewed again at a future Land Use meeting at which time they may be approved or denied.

Regular Council – Public Hearing

When an application for change to an official community plan or zoning bylaw is received, a public hearing is held in order for local residents to provide input that will assist Council in the decision-making process.

These open meetings are held on Monday evenings and are livestreamed on our website. Archived recordings of proceedings are also available for two years following the meeting.

Council-in-Committee

Open to the public, this less formal meeting of City Council is usually held on Monday afternoons. This meeting provides a forum for the public to bring concerns before Council to be heard.

These meetings also deal with reports and recommendations from City staff that generally require a presentation or a more lengthy discussion process.

Special Council

This is a brief meeting held in order to close the next meeting to the public and explain why. A Closed meeting is also called an 'In-Camera' meeting although the meeting is not filmed.

How to review council packages

Council packages are bookmarked for easy navigation.

View the package in your web browser
  1. To open the package, click on the Council package link.
  2. Navigate through the document by clicking on the bookmark tab on the left-hand side of the document. Select the bookmark for each item to view the associated appendices.
Download and save the package onto your computer

Check if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer. You can download Acrobat for free.

  1. To open the package, select the council package link.
  2. Save the document to your computer.
  3. Open the file and in the panel on the left-hand side of the document click on the bookmark tab to reveal the bookmarks for each item considered by council.
  4. Navigate through the document by clicking on the bookmark for each item and expanding the bookmark to view the associated appendices.