The first council meeting of the 2014-18 term will set the stage for the next four years at city hall.
Tonight, the new mayor and council will be sworn in for their term, taking the oath of office and invited to sign the council code of conduct.
Mayor-elect Lyn Hall will receive the chain of office at the largely ceremonial meeting in council chambers, which will be followed by a reception at the Civic Centre.
Previous swearing-in ceremonies have been used as an opportunity for the new mayor to lay out their plan of action.
For his penultimate inaugural address, Mayor Colin Kinsley expressed his support for a Vancouver 2003 Winter Olympics bid, the formation of a committee to return a militia to Prince George and the construction of a new span across the Nechako River to replace the old Cameron Street Bridge.
At the start of his final term in 2005, Kinsley announced the creation of new youth and senior council advisory committees to liaise with city hall on issues and projects.
Kinsley also followed through on a campaign promise to strike a task force on air quality improvement.
"This group will provide recommendations on what has been done to date, look at what other jurisdictions are doing, review the constraints we're dealing with here in Prince George and determine what actions are needed to reduce emission sources in order to improve our air quality," Kinsley said, during the Dec. 5, 2005, address.
In 2008, Mayor Dan Rogers outlined a wish list to improve the city's economic, environmental and social needs. He called for council to provide better direction to on the downtown improvement file, for more community-based policing and improved housing options.
"Our citizens are raising the bar for the incoming council, calling for bolder responses to long-standing challenges and greater grassroots participation," Rogers said, on Dec. 1, 2008. "How we achieve this is something we will discuss as a team in the coming weeks.
Outgoing Mayor Shari Green's inaugural address announced the creation of a select committee on business to make recommendations on having a more business-friendly city.
"As we move into this next decade with our eyes wide open to the realities of a fast-paced world, we are no longer traveling a long road. Our future is a long series of short ones," Green said, on Dec. 5, 2011. "Success in this decade belongs to those cities that are nimble, responsive and innovative."
Green also crystallized her intentions to follow through on her campaign platform of initiating a core services review.
The only real council business of the evening will be for the new group - consisting of incumbent councillors Frank Everitt, Garth Frizzell, Albert Koehler, Murry Krause and Brian Skakun and newcomers Jillian Merrick, Terri McConnachie and Susan Scott - to receive chief electoral officer Walter Babicz's official election results report and to approve the 2015 council meeting schedule and the four-year acting mayor rotation.
