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Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I
call to order this regular meeting of

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council for the 1st of September, 2026.
Time is now 5:00 p.m.

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In attendance for council today, we have
Deputy Mayor Lynn Bidney, councelor

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Sydney Galant, Counselor Timothy Larson,
Councelor Tanya May, and me mayor and

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chair Brian Holden. In attendance for
administration, we have Bill Rogers, CEO

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and
facilitating our live stream today, we

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have Jessica Spel, legislative services
and communication supervisor. So,

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welcome to those viewing this meeting on
YouTube. Please be advised that this

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meeting is being recorded for the
preparation of meeting minutes. We

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further advise everyone that personal
recording devices are not permitted and

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that we and we would ask that all cell
phones be turned off or raers muted.

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First off, we have adoption of the
agenda. Are there any amendments to the

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agenda?
>> Nothing. Administration, Mr. Mayor.

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» We have a motion, please.
>> Cindy,

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» I move that we adopt the agenda for the
September 1st, 2026 regular council as

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great. Thank you. All in favor? That is
carried.

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Proclamations.
We have two proclamations.

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First one is
on behalf of council. I, Mayor Brian

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Holden, do hereby proclaim September 1
through 30, 2026 as Alberta Culture

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Days, the town [clears throat] of Bonort
and encourage all citizens to recognize

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this month and celebrate arts, culture,
community, spirit, and diversity.

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The next is National Day for Truth and
Reconciliation.

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» [clears throat]
>> On behalf of council, I, Mayor Brian

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Holden, do hereby proclaim September 30,
2026 as the national day for truth and

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reconciliation in the town of Bonacord
and encourage all citizens to observe

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this day.

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Thank you.

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Uh, next adoption of the minutes for
July 22nd

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special council meeting.
Do we all have an opportunity to read

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them? Go through them. We have a motion,
please, to adopt that.

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Council may
>> hold move that we adopt the minutes for

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July 22nd, 2026 special council meeting.
Great.

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» Thank you.
All the favor that is carried.

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I'm sorry. I'll be with you in a moment.
We also 4.2 August 18th regular meeting

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of council.
Same thing. We all had a chance to read

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them. Any corrections?
We have a motion, please, to adopt them.

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Councelor Larson.
>> Mayor Holden. I'd like to make the

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motion that council adopts the minutes
of regular meeting of council August

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18th, 2026 as presented.
>> Thank you. All in favor?

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That is carried.

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And 4.3 August 25th, 2026 committee the
whole meeting.

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Same thing. We all had a chance to read
that. We have a motion, please.

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Deputy mayor.
>> Uh, Mayor Holton, I move that we adopt

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the August the 25th, 2026 committee
level meeting minutes as presented.

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» Great. Thank you. All in favor
that is carried.

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Next, our delegation,
Sergeant Ferrero.

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Once again, welcome. Thank you for
having me, Mayor Council.

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So, I'm here to present the uh first
quarter of the new fiscal year for the

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uh town of Bonacord. Um, this time I did
switch it up a little bit. I did more

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dedicated Bonicore stats. So, it
actually represents a more uh detailed

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environment as to what's going on in
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than in what we did in the past.
Sometimes we did more of Sturgeon County

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look.
>> Uh, but just a quarter at the glance. Uh

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for this quarter we actually had some an
error is 60 police files for the bon

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court addresses in quarter 1. uh we had
a overall total reduction in criminal

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code year after year 32% and for the
reduction reduction in property offenses

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year-over-year is 33 uh%
reduction

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through the community served we go uh
into town of Warville Alexander First

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Nation town of Gibbons Sturgeon County
town of Bon Court and town town of Lau

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and that is continuous 247 poling
for a personnel [clears throat]

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breakdown we We have one staff sergeant
which is currently vacant. Um, staff

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sergeant McDonald has officially retired
as of the beginning of August. Um, one

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sergeant. We have five corporals, 19
constipals and that's including the SRO

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position. We have four uh public service
employees, four town of Morville

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full-time employees, five town of
Morville casual and one reserve as

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console and he is uh currently actually
retired himself. Uh, we currently had

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console Valentine. He transferred out uh
this past week. He's going to Redard

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Detachment. Uh like I mentioned before,
Staff McGungle has now officially

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retired. We currently have four members
who are off duty sick. Uh one member

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just came back uh to graduate return to
work and we have one leave without one

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member on uh parental and she'll be
taking uh going on another LWP for 5

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years to do uh care and nurturing for
her family.

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for the policy priorities. Uh you guys
are probably well aware uh of these but

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uh we had selected crime reduction and
that's uh overall to reduce autotheft

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break and enter domestic assaults and
assaults committed by youths. We found

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the previous uh fiscal year we realized
that domestic assault was still uh

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increasing and it see it deemed to be a
pretty severe um

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u um just it's severe in in our area and
we want to actually try to uh bring

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better awareness um and obviously uh
charge those that are uh committing

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those those crimes and also the assaults
committed by youth. We found that in the

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schools uh our youth crimes were
actually going up slightly. Our second

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priority was traffic safety and that uh
was to reduce the collisions resulting

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in injuries and fatalities last year.
Weather is related uh whether it was

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weather related or not. We did see an
increase in our uh injury collisions as

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well as our fatal collisions. Uh so
we're going to obviously try to manage

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that uh for this upcoming fiscal year.
Our police visibility. So increased

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visible police presence and positive
community contact. And our fourth

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priority for the fiscal year is First
Nations policing and overall uh crime

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reduction on Alexander First Nation.
For the crime reduction like I said is

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to reduce uh reduction autotheft uh
breakers, domestic assaults and assaults

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committed by use. Uh the three
initiatives that we did um are taking

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place is targeted GIS investigations. So
that is ongoing targeted investigation

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into property crime, notable break-in
enters and vehicle thefts across the

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detachment area. Our prolific offender
management is uh documented offender

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checks with priority on property crime
offenders and we're seeking uh 12 of

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those checks. Um and for uh the other
initiative is partner in school

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engagement. So we're going to work with
family community services, the Jessica

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Martell Foundation and local schools on
domestic violence and youth uh crimes.

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for the priority two traffic safety are
we have four uh we actually just have

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sorry the two initiatives one is a joint
traffic project so quarterly projects

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with the Alberta sheriff's municipal
enforcement and military police as well

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as during county enforcement as well and
so far uh for that uh we have uh two

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joint traffic uh projects have been
completed with the county municipal

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enforcement and we were targeted uh
speed and distracted driving and the

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public safety. The other initiative is
the public safe driving messaging. Uh so

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uh I'm putting out monthly traffic
priorities with a minimum of one public

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bulletin issued each quarter. And so far
in quarter one actually issued two ra

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bulletins issued. Um one was dealing
with the summer child road safety and

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graduation safety for the town of
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the police visibility in action. Um we
had 107 uh for quarter one positive

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tickets issued. Um we also had coffee
with a cop. We had sessions held at

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Caloo Hall and the Mayo Hall during that
quarter. Uh I provided uh several

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municipal council updates. Uh that was
to search county given Bonic Court and

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Lal councils. Um we're starting back the
weekly activities uh summaries for on

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the raid program uh in notifications
going out and that uh made my commanders

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aware that we want to uh pro promote uh
better awareness for things going on in

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in everyone's community. uh and
obviously the monthly updates to

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municipalities.
uh the R Sturgeon rural crime crime

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watch. Uh we I've attended a few of the
crime watch board meetings and again

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like I said positive ticketing program
107 tickets have been issued

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for the safe communities collaboration
um that's working with the um surgeon

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county um and that's through touchpoint
meetings coffee with a cop rural crime

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watch monthly huddle meetings uh the
party program which was done in April

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And priority four is the First Nations
policing. Um long-term proactive

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investigations is going to be initiative
and regular communications. Um so far

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for the progress of Q1, we've had
long-term investigation concluded. Uh

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there was a search warrant executed and
charges laid on residents flagged by the

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community of Alexander First Nation. uh
we provide uh monthly updates uh to

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Alexander First Nation throughout the
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taken place on their reserve and that
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every week on Monday I actually send out
a weekly update as to what we've done on

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on the reserve.
So for the crime statistics for the

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Bonic Court, [snorts] uh total uh we had
was 60 files for Bonic Court. Uh 19 of

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them were criminal code offenses uh
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previous uh year. Uh so that's down
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of criminal code offenses. Uh personal
offenses, uh we've gone down to nine

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compared to 10. Property offenses, we
had gone down to nine compared to 17 in

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the first quarter of the previous year.
Again, that's 47% change. Depth of motor

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vehicle, we had one. We had zero break
and enters for the uh Q1. Frauds

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remained the same at four. Uh the mental
health and well-being, which we do see

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an increase majority of the time. Uh we
actually had six only for uh quarter 1.

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Uh so that's a reduction of 40% compared
to the year-over-year from the previous

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fiscal year. And traffic collisions, we
had nine compared to eight.

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What we see is uh some trend drivers uh
for the property crime. You see a

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reduction of 47%. Uh there were like I
said there were no breaking energy

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record in bon court this quarter against
uh two the year before. Uh no possession

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stolen property files either uh against
sport from the previous year. Um and

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mischief and theft files also were down
across this quarter. the mental health

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and well-being. Uh there was two mental
health uh act files and two well-being

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checks and two sudden deaths. Uh down
from seven mental health ax files and

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two missing persons from a year prior.
Uh no ARPACT or mobile crisis team

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operates in the response area. But when
we do have the ability, we do reach out

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to u there's uh ARPAC team at Sherwood
Park as well as uh Spruce Grove. So, uh,

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that consists of one member and one
actual mental health nurse. And when we

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can't necessarily determine or it's out
of our scope of the mental health act,

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uh, we do make those referrals and they
come in um when they have their time and

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ability to do some checks on some
individuals.

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» Are there any plans in the future for
more than that or back to

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» at this time? No.
Um and then the other trend driver we

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saw just plus two for the
[clears throat] traffic and bylaws. Uh

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so only two uh categories up
year-over-year and that's was nine

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traffic files and and five bylaw files.
Uh the bylaw calls that we were uh

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received were noise, nuisance and
property standard complaints.

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And like I said earlier, the the town of
Bonet Court for Calls for Service, there

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was 60. Uh the previous quarter in Q4
was 68. Uh from a year ago for the same

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quarter 1, we had 91. So we have seen a
reduction of 34.1

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uh calls alone. Um for quarter 1 and
hopefully moving throughout the year, we

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see that reduction as well.

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Some notable quarter 1 files for
Bonacort. Uh on April 5th, there was an

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investment fraud. There's a $32,000
loss. So a Bonacord resident reported

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losing $32,000 to a fraudulent crypto
offering, then paying a further $6,000

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to a second company that promised to
recover the funds. No suspect could be

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identified and the complainant declined
to proceed. Uh that was referred to the

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anti-fraud center. On April 17th, uh
there was a child welfare report with a

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firearms check. Bonacord school
principal reported a student disclosed

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that a firearm was stored unsecured at a
relative's home. The members attended

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the residence the same day and confirmed
no firearm was present. Uh family

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services and school were updated. On May
12th, there was a domestic assault with

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a weapon. Uh charges laid. Members
responded to a domestic dispute dispute

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at Bonicord residence where the
complaintant was struck in the face with

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an object causing minor injury. An
arrest was made at scene and the accused

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released on undertaking. Victim services
was accepted and the charge was

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subsequently withdrawn at court.
May 31st that the motorcycle was

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recovered the same day. A motorcycle was
reported stolen overnight from a bon

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court address. It was uh recovered later
the same day by Port Saskatchewan RCMP

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following a flight from police in that
jurisdiction with [clears throat] minor

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damage. Uh no suspect was identified but
the owner was updated.

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On April 29th, uh sudden death corners
act members assisted EMS with sudden

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death at a Bonic Court residence. Uh it
would it was deemed to be noncriminal

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and uh the medical examiner order an
autopsy and arranged transport and next

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to him was notified
mental health act. On May 18th, a family

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member reported that a Bonor resident
was suicidal and had access or access to

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a means of self harm. Members attended
spoke to the person, arranged transport

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to the hospital with family member, nor
pack mobile crisis team operates in the

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area, so they were not able to attend to
assist.

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On June 12th, uh there was a fraud
attempt. Uh resident reported repeated

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calls from a person claiming to be uh to
represent a telecommunications provider.

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Members uh provided prevention advice on
securing that account and replacing the

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SIM and referred the matter to the
anti-fraud center as well. No money or

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property was exchanged. And on June
28th, there was license plate theft.

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Reds reported that the license plate had
been removed from the vehicle, parked at

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the Bonic Court address, and replaced
with a different plate. The replacement

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plate was arranged through registries,
and then substituted plate was flagged.

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Uh no suspect was identified in that as
well.

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And looking ahead for uh quarter two, um
again, we're going to be working with

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our safe communities partnerships, the
real crime

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uh property um joint traffic operations
in town and in the county. Uh we have

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fraud awareness campaign that we're
trying to um get going here and

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hopefully we'll have that up and running
and that's more or less just like kind

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of onware online awareness.
um prolific offender checks that's

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continuing our positive ticket knowing
that school is back. Uh and conserv

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SRO uh he's primarily looking after that
because he's in the schools most of his

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time. Uh Highway 28 traffic safety uh
highway 28 is uh we find we have a lot

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of collisions in that area. So, we're
going to be working um partnerships with

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sheriffs probably on that highway,
especially 28 and 28A knowing that data

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center and that traffic will be
increasing soon. Um and then uh the next

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one we'll be kind of focusing on again
is that mental health command and trying

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to get uh that awareness helped as well.

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» Any questions?
>> Thank you. Question. Go ahead. Um so the

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fraud awareness campaign that you guys
are looking at um bringing out does that

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kind of have [clears throat] some sort
of handout for the seniors. I know a lot

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of them there was something that was
done for the jewel box but I hear a lot

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of seniors talking about the and I get
the calls as well with the

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telecommunication especially if you
don't know the information of how to

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make sure it's your actual cell phone
company calling kind of thing. Are we

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going to be doing something like a
handout or anything like that?

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» At this point in time it's only going to
be like presentations. So, we're going

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to try to set up presentations. Um, I
know we looked at getting some handouts

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early on. Um, but that was kind of uh
shot down just based off of costs at at

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this moment. Uh, but that is something I
kind of re we could look at again and

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see because it would be nice for them to
actually have not only are we presenting

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and having something in front of them,
but just take home and that way they

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could actually refer to it uh later on
if they ever have to.

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» Cool. Excellent. Thank you.
That's what

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» Can we not actually put some of that
stuff onto our our website to do your

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presentation, whatever?
>> Yeah, there probably could be some

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slides or or things that you can
definitely put on.

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» Yeah, just just to have, right? Like we
unfortunately we don't have a website or

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our own Facebook. Uh so there'd be like
a little bulletin to prepare for the

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rave as well as then presentations when
we do go [clears throat] to um some

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seniors or or just with the
municipalities in that we speak with to

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actually set set up. Okay. Uh my other
question was was about um uh the schools

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are now into session. Um are you guys
going to be doing more patrolling in

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town, whatever? Like catching
>> trying to Yeah, that's the goal, right?

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And I already had a discussion with with
my members uh knowing school's back. Uh

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again, there's still nice weather, so
there's a lot of children with ebikes

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and their e- scooters out. And that
alone is in itself a problem. Um, so

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we're trying to just make sure that
everyone's safe, whether it's the

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motorists or actually the children, that
maybe not be looking both ways before

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they start crossing or anything like
that. Um, but yeah, I know like I've

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already uh told them like I want to have
a little bit more visibility. I know

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we're short on manpower, but that's no
excuse for us not to be out in some of

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those schools school zones.
>> Fair enough.

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» Deputy Mayor. Um, thank you very
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um first of all um I just want to
mention that we do have a separate

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coming up at the end of the month about
fraud but rooted in wellness.

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[clears throat]
Um so I will call one of the seniors

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from the Golden Gems and let them know
about it. They might know already. Um

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more information the better. And I was
just curious why you would become

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involved in a bylaw complaint about
noise or something. Are you backing up

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the bylaw officer or
>> No, there's sometimes individuals just

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don't know proper numbers to call and
then we just get the 911 call saying hey

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the noise complaint or it depends on I
don't know exactly um what hours of day

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it was. It was like later on they we
mostly it's not just Bonacord

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most municipalities if it's dealing with
some of those matters they do contact us

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anyways.
>> Okay. I was just curious I I thought

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you'd be focusing on those hardc and we
do right at the same time there's no

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call too small that now obviously if if
there are ways that we could redirect.

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So like in for town involvement, uh we
know that we could actually redirect

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some of those municipal bylaws to them,
right? But if it's on a Friday or

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Saturday night at 1 in the morning and
they have a concern about something,

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whether it's property line or noise,
whatever it may be, uh they usually are

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calling calling us to kind of deal with
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» Okay. Thank you. [clears throat]
>> For Sergeant Fero and administration, do

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we have or will we have a coffee with a
cop coming up sometime soon? I haven't

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seen him for a while.
>> No, it it has been a while. I know. I

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been talking to to Bill and I think we
were we were trying to just establish

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some dates
>> and then from there I know I was kind of

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a little busy in the summertime, but
like I said, I think we were discussing

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trying to hammer down some dates and
then I think moving forward would be

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nice to have them again.
>> Yeah, I know you've been busy. A little

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change in your job. So,
>> no excuse though.

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» Always have time to come.
>> Yeah. [clears throat] Anybody else have

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comments or questions?
>> No.

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» Well, good.
>> Well, thank you so much for coming out.

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» No, thanks for having me.
[clears throat]

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» And uh we look forward to seeing you.
Will it be you still coming up for

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coffee?
>> Yeah.

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» Yeah. Regardless of my role, whatever
I'm doing, I'll unless I'm tied up with

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with another matter. Um but I'll when we
set [clears throat] the dates, I'll have

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it for my availability at that time.
you'll see me

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» does community services get involved
with the coffee with a cop because I

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know that uh Christina has
[clears throat] a very large list of

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people and and she seems to be able to
get the word out there for her events.

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» We can uh Mr. Mayor, we can certainly
include community services while we

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organize it and they can help get the
word out for sure.

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» Yeah,
>> I'll make a note of that.

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» Okay, thank you. Okay,
thanks again, Sergeant.

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» No, anytime. Thank you very much for
having

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» enjoy the rest of your summer.
[laughter]

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[clears throat]
>> Tomorrow.

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» Tomorrow.
>> Yeah, exactly.

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» Thanks.
>> All right. Thank you. Take care.

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» Take care. [snorts]

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» Have a motion, please, to accept
Sergeant Ferrero's presentation.

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Councelor Larson. Mayor Holden
[clears throat] like to make the motion

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to accept Sergeant Fero's quarterly
report as information.

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» Thank you. All in favor?
is carried.

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Okay. Next is 8.120605
[clears throat]

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fire services and bylaw.

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Get this right person.

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Okay. Jessica.
>> Thank you, Mayor Holden.

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Um, we brought this forward at the
August 25th committee of the whole

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meeting and at the time the committee
recommended bringing this bylaw forward

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to an upcoming regular council meeting
for first reading and it is attached.

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We've got two separate ones. We have a
redlinined bylaw showing all the changes

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and then the um updated version without
the red lines.

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Have there been any changes since our
committee the whole meeting or any

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adjustments on that by?
>> No.

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» So, we've all pretty well gone over it.
Any questions or comments or

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» No.
>> All right. [snorts] Be easy. We have a

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motion, please.
Councelor Glenn,

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» I move the council gives the 202605
fire services bylaw [clears throat]

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first reading as presented.
>> Thank you. All in favor? That is

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carried.

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Next 10.1 Go East Edmonton request for
letter of support.

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I can assist with that, Mr. Mayor. So,
as we're probably all aware, Go East of

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Edmonton is a nonprofit tourism and
marketing organization that's been

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serving our area for many years, of
which we are members. uh they're asking

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for a letter of support to secure status
as a designated marketing organization

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uh or DMO for our region. And the reason
is although they've been a DMO for uh

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tourism and marketing for many years,
the province recently passed the uh

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[clears throat and cough]
new traveler protection and destination

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development act. And now they need to
reapply to be a DMO through Alberta

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Sport and Tourism. And they need to have
uh their applications in by the end of

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the month. They're asking for council to
provide a letter of support for their

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application uh no later than September
the 25th if council wishes to

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participate.
>> Okay. Thank you. Does anybody have a

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problem with that?
>> Mayor Vinnie.

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» Uh Mayor Holton. Thank you. Through to
council and to

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the town manager. I'm confused exactly
what this I'm not arguing with the

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letter of support, but this
[clears throat] um

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whatever this new law was. What exactly
does that do? Doesn't that involve a tax

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somehow?
Well, I'm not aware that it involves a

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tax, but the the government of Alberta
introduced the legislation to help

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protect travelers from hidden or
misleading fees and also provide

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destinations with the tools to help
drive tourism and economic developments.

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At least that was the intent of it and
it came into effect in July.

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» Okay. So, there's no money involved in
this.

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» Yeah. It it establishes a framework for
the governance admin and administration

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of designated marketing fees allowing
eligible businesses to collect fees from

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consumers. So uh as you as you're
probably aware, Go East of Edmonton is

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one of those organizations and they do
collect a fee from their members and

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they want to be very much uh in
compliance with the new legislation and

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in order to do so they want to get their
DMO designation through the new act.

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Okay. So, they would want fees from the
town [clears throat] because we belong

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to that organization.
But if you're a tourist and you're going

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to visit the train station in
can't remember where it is

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[clears throat] now, Vergerville or
whatever,

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» you don't need it's there's no extra tax
that they collect from you at that

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destination.
>> Yeah. I don't I don't know about any

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extra costs at the train station, but I
can tell you that go east of Edmonton's

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history is that we pay to be members and
they produce free tourism materials

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available to me. [clears throat]
>> Okay. All right. Thank you. I I just

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when that came in this spring, I never
ever did understand exactly what it

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meant. [clears throat]
>> Back in the day, you know, 20 years ago,

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they were called Kina Country and you
could get these little color brochures

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in any gas station that was about the
size of the TV guide. And so that's

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they've evolved a lot since then and a
lot and changed their name, but it's

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still the same idea.
>> Okay.

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» All right.
>> We did it here.

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» Mhm.
>> Where we had a little pamphlet or book

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you [clears throat] get tickets or Yeah.
Go ahead.

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» Yeah. So I'm I brought this to council a
long time ago because where I work it

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up, they actually participate in it as
well. So what they do is they just put

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big booklets in all the different local
businesses and then they have their

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yearly game that comes up where every
town gets a sticker of some type to

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improve the tourism of those
communities. You go around all of

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Alberta and you collect these stickers
and enter to win prizes and different

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things like that. So yeah, it's it's a
great program. I see a lot of people

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that travel from near and far to collect
these stickers throughout the summer and

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complete these things. So, yeah, I'm
I've always been a big fan of this

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program. [clears throat]
>> Yeah.

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» Okay.
>> I think it's a good good thing.

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» So, assuming that we go ahead with this,
are we going to use the

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uh the letter that they give us and just
put our name in there?

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» Well, it'll save me some brain power,
but [laughter]

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we It'll save me some brain power, Mr.
Mayor. So, we can we can certainly use

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the sample letter in there if council's
okay with that and [clears throat] draft

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something for your signature.
>> Okay. I just want to make sure we're

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okay with that before we go ahead. Uh,
yes. Go ahead.

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» You want me to make the motion?
>> Sure. [clears throat]

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» Okay. Mayor Holden would like to make
the motion that council gives support

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for the go east of Edmonton regional
trans regional tourism application for

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designation and ask administration to
fill out the designated letter of

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support.
>> Awesome. All in favor? That is carried.

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» Thank you.
>> I need one more motion, please.

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Councelor May.
>> Mayor Holden, I will move that we

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adjourn at 5:30.
>> 5:30. Awesome. Thank you. Paper.

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» We are now ajourned.