[4:09] Thank you. Good evening, everyone. I
call to order this regular meeting of
[4:13] council for the 1st of September, 2026.
Time is now 5:00 p.m.
[4:19] In attendance for council today, we have
Deputy Mayor Lynn Bidney, councelor
[4:23] Sydney Galant, Counselor Timothy Larson,
Councelor Tanya May, and me mayor and
[4:28] chair Brian Holden. In attendance for
administration, we have Bill Rogers, CEO
[4:33] and
facilitating our live stream today, we
[4:37] have Jessica Spel, legislative services
and communication supervisor. So,
[4:41] welcome to those viewing this meeting on
YouTube. Please be advised that this
[4:46] meeting is being recorded for the
preparation of meeting minutes. We
[4:49] further advise everyone that personal
recording devices are not permitted and
[4:53] that we and we would ask that all cell
phones be turned off or raers muted.
[4:59] First off, we have adoption of the
agenda. Are there any amendments to the
[5:03] agenda?
>> Nothing. Administration, Mr. Mayor.
[5:09] » We have a motion, please.
>> Cindy,
[5:12] » I move that we adopt the agenda for the
September 1st, 2026 regular council as
[5:19] great. Thank you. All in favor? That is
carried.
[5:23] Proclamations.
We have two proclamations.
[5:29] First one is
on behalf of council. I, Mayor Brian
[5:34] Holden, do hereby proclaim September 1
through 30, 2026 as Alberta Culture
[5:40] Days, the town [clears throat] of Bonort
and encourage all citizens to recognize
[5:44] this month and celebrate arts, culture,
community, spirit, and diversity.
[5:52] The next is National Day for Truth and
Reconciliation.
[5:57] » [clears throat]
>> On behalf of council, I, Mayor Brian
[6:01] Holden, do hereby proclaim September 30,
2026 as the national day for truth and
[6:07] reconciliation in the town of Bonacord
and encourage all citizens to observe
[6:12] this day.
[6:17] Thank you.
[6:22] Uh, next adoption of the minutes for
July 22nd
[6:30] special council meeting.
Do we all have an opportunity to read
[6:35] them? Go through them. We have a motion,
please, to adopt that.
[6:41] Council may
>> hold move that we adopt the minutes for
[6:44] July 22nd, 2026 special council meeting.
Great.
[6:48] » Thank you.
All the favor that is carried.
[7:03] I'm sorry. I'll be with you in a moment.
We also 4.2 August 18th regular meeting
[7:11] of council.
Same thing. We all had a chance to read
[7:15] them. Any corrections?
We have a motion, please, to adopt them.
[7:20] Councelor Larson.
>> Mayor Holden. I'd like to make the
[7:23] motion that council adopts the minutes
of regular meeting of council August
[7:27] 18th, 2026 as presented.
>> Thank you. All in favor?
[7:32] That is carried.
[7:38] And 4.3 August 25th, 2026 committee the
whole meeting.
[7:44] Same thing. We all had a chance to read
that. We have a motion, please.
[7:49] Deputy mayor.
>> Uh, Mayor Holton, I move that we adopt
[7:53] the August the 25th, 2026 committee
level meeting minutes as presented.
[8:00] » Great. Thank you. All in favor
that is carried.
[8:04] Next, our delegation,
Sergeant Ferrero.
[8:13] Once again, welcome. Thank you for
having me, Mayor Council.
[8:19] So, I'm here to present the uh first
quarter of the new fiscal year for the
[8:26] uh town of Bonacord. Um, this time I did
switch it up a little bit. I did more
[8:31] dedicated Bonicore stats. So, it
actually represents a more uh detailed
[8:36] environment as to what's going on in
Bonicord
[8:39] than in what we did in the past.
Sometimes we did more of Sturgeon County
[8:42] look.
>> Uh, but just a quarter at the glance. Uh
[8:46] for this quarter we actually had some an
error is 60 police files for the bon
[8:50] court addresses in quarter 1. uh we had
a overall total reduction in criminal
[8:56] code year after year 32% and for the
reduction reduction in property offenses
[9:02] year-over-year is 33 uh%
reduction
[9:08] through the community served we go uh
into town of Warville Alexander First
[9:12] Nation town of Gibbons Sturgeon County
town of Bon Court and town town of Lau
[9:16] and that is continuous 247 poling
for a personnel [clears throat]
[9:21] breakdown we We have one staff sergeant
which is currently vacant. Um, staff
[9:25] sergeant McDonald has officially retired
as of the beginning of August. Um, one
[9:29] sergeant. We have five corporals, 19
constipals and that's including the SRO
[9:34] position. We have four uh public service
employees, four town of Morville
[9:39] full-time employees, five town of
Morville casual and one reserve as
[9:44] console and he is uh currently actually
retired himself. Uh, we currently had
[9:49] console Valentine. He transferred out uh
this past week. He's going to Redard
[9:52] Detachment. Uh like I mentioned before,
Staff McGungle has now officially
[9:57] retired. We currently have four members
who are off duty sick. Uh one member
[10:02] just came back uh to graduate return to
work and we have one leave without one
[10:07] member on uh parental and she'll be
taking uh going on another LWP for 5
[10:13] years to do uh care and nurturing for
her family.
[10:17] for the policy priorities. Uh you guys
are probably well aware uh of these but
[10:22] uh we had selected crime reduction and
that's uh overall to reduce autotheft
[10:27] break and enter domestic assaults and
assaults committed by youths. We found
[10:31] the previous uh fiscal year we realized
that domestic assault was still uh
[10:35] increasing and it see it deemed to be a
pretty severe um
[10:41] u um just it's severe in in our area and
we want to actually try to uh bring
[10:49] better awareness um and obviously uh
charge those that are uh committing
[10:55] those those crimes and also the assaults
committed by youth. We found that in the
[11:00] schools uh our youth crimes were
actually going up slightly. Our second
[11:05] priority was traffic safety and that uh
was to reduce the collisions resulting
[11:10] in injuries and fatalities last year.
Weather is related uh whether it was
[11:14] weather related or not. We did see an
increase in our uh injury collisions as
[11:19] well as our fatal collisions. Uh so
we're going to obviously try to manage
[11:23] that uh for this upcoming fiscal year.
Our police visibility. So increased
[11:27] visible police presence and positive
community contact. And our fourth
[11:31] priority for the fiscal year is First
Nations policing and overall uh crime
[11:35] reduction on Alexander First Nation.
For the crime reduction like I said is
[11:40] to reduce uh reduction autotheft uh
breakers, domestic assaults and assaults
[11:45] committed by use. Uh the three
initiatives that we did um are taking
[11:50] place is targeted GIS investigations. So
that is ongoing targeted investigation
[11:54] into property crime, notable break-in
enters and vehicle thefts across the
[11:58] detachment area. Our prolific offender
management is uh documented offender
[12:03] checks with priority on property crime
offenders and we're seeking uh 12 of
[12:07] those checks. Um and for uh the other
initiative is partner in school
[12:12] engagement. So we're going to work with
family community services, the Jessica
[12:16] Martell Foundation and local schools on
domestic violence and youth uh crimes.
[12:24] for the priority two traffic safety are
we have four uh we actually just have
[12:29] sorry the two initiatives one is a joint
traffic project so quarterly projects
[12:33] with the Alberta sheriff's municipal
enforcement and military police as well
[12:36] as during county enforcement as well and
so far uh for that uh we have uh two
[12:42] joint traffic uh projects have been
completed with the county municipal
[12:46] enforcement and we were targeted uh
speed and distracted driving and the
[12:51] public safety. The other initiative is
the public safe driving messaging. Uh so
[12:56] uh I'm putting out monthly traffic
priorities with a minimum of one public
[13:01] bulletin issued each quarter. And so far
in quarter one actually issued two ra
[13:05] bulletins issued. Um one was dealing
with the summer child road safety and
[13:10] graduation safety for the town of
Warrenville.
[13:16] the police visibility in action. Um we
had 107 uh for quarter one positive
[13:23] tickets issued. Um we also had coffee
with a cop. We had sessions held at
[13:27] Caloo Hall and the Mayo Hall during that
quarter. Uh I provided uh several
[13:32] municipal council updates. Uh that was
to search county given Bonic Court and
[13:36] Lal councils. Um we're starting back the
weekly activities uh summaries for on
[13:43] the raid program uh in notifications
going out and that uh made my commanders
[13:48] aware that we want to uh pro promote uh
better awareness for things going on in
[13:54] in everyone's community. uh and
obviously the monthly updates to
[13:57] municipalities.
uh the R Sturgeon rural crime crime
[14:02] watch. Uh we I've attended a few of the
crime watch board meetings and again
[14:07] like I said positive ticketing program
107 tickets have been issued
[14:12] for the safe communities collaboration
um that's working with the um surgeon
[14:18] county um and that's through touchpoint
meetings coffee with a cop rural crime
[14:23] watch monthly huddle meetings uh the
party program which was done in April
[14:32] And priority four is the First Nations
policing. Um long-term proactive
[14:38] investigations is going to be initiative
and regular communications. Um so far
[14:43] for the progress of Q1, we've had
long-term investigation concluded. Uh
[14:47] there was a search warrant executed and
charges laid on residents flagged by the
[14:51] community of Alexander First Nation. uh
we provide uh monthly updates uh to
[14:57] Alexander First Nation throughout the
quarter in regards to what is being uh
[15:01] taken place on their reserve and that
also encompasses weekly updates. So
[15:06] every week on Monday I actually send out
a weekly update as to what we've done on
[15:11] on the reserve.
So for the crime statistics for the
[15:16] Bonic Court, [snorts] uh total uh we had
was 60 files for Bonic Court. Uh 19 of
[15:23] them were criminal code offenses uh
compared to 36 [clears throat] the
[15:27] previous uh year. Uh so that's down
actually 47%
[15:32] of criminal code offenses. Uh personal
offenses, uh we've gone down to nine
[15:36] compared to 10. Property offenses, we
had gone down to nine compared to 17 in
[15:42] the first quarter of the previous year.
Again, that's 47% change. Depth of motor
[15:47] vehicle, we had one. We had zero break
and enters for the uh Q1. Frauds
[15:52] remained the same at four. Uh the mental
health and well-being, which we do see
[15:57] an increase majority of the time. Uh we
actually had six only for uh quarter 1.
[16:02] Uh so that's a reduction of 40% compared
to the year-over-year from the previous
[16:06] fiscal year. And traffic collisions, we
had nine compared to eight.
[16:14] What we see is uh some trend drivers uh
for the property crime. You see a
[16:19] reduction of 47%. Uh there were like I
said there were no breaking energy
[16:23] record in bon court this quarter against
uh two the year before. Uh no possession
[16:27] stolen property files either uh against
sport from the previous year. Um and
[16:32] mischief and theft files also were down
across this quarter. the mental health
[16:36] and well-being. Uh there was two mental
health uh act files and two well-being
[16:42] checks and two sudden deaths. Uh down
from seven mental health ax files and
[16:47] two missing persons from a year prior.
Uh no ARPACT or mobile crisis team
[16:52] operates in the response area. But when
we do have the ability, we do reach out
[16:57] to u there's uh ARPAC team at Sherwood
Park as well as uh Spruce Grove. So, uh,
[17:03] that consists of one member and one
actual mental health nurse. And when we
[17:08] can't necessarily determine or it's out
of our scope of the mental health act,
[17:13] uh, we do make those referrals and they
come in um when they have their time and
[17:18] ability to do some checks on some
individuals.
[17:21] » Are there any plans in the future for
more than that or back to
[17:25] » at this time? No.
Um and then the other trend driver we
[17:30] saw just plus two for the
[clears throat] traffic and bylaws. Uh
[17:32] so only two uh categories up
year-over-year and that's was nine
[17:37] traffic files and and five bylaw files.
Uh the bylaw calls that we were uh
[17:43] received were noise, nuisance and
property standard complaints.
[17:50] And like I said earlier, the the town of
Bonet Court for Calls for Service, there
[17:54] was 60. Uh the previous quarter in Q4
was 68. Uh from a year ago for the same
[18:00] quarter 1, we had 91. So we have seen a
reduction of 34.1
[18:05] uh calls alone. Um for quarter 1 and
hopefully moving throughout the year, we
[18:11] see that reduction as well.
[18:15] Some notable quarter 1 files for
Bonacort. Uh on April 5th, there was an
[18:20] investment fraud. There's a $32,000
loss. So a Bonacord resident reported
[18:24] losing $32,000 to a fraudulent crypto
offering, then paying a further $6,000
[18:30] to a second company that promised to
recover the funds. No suspect could be
[18:34] identified and the complainant declined
to proceed. Uh that was referred to the
[18:38] anti-fraud center. On April 17th, uh
there was a child welfare report with a
[18:43] firearms check. Bonacord school
principal reported a student disclosed
[18:47] that a firearm was stored unsecured at a
relative's home. The members attended
[18:51] the residence the same day and confirmed
no firearm was present. Uh family
[18:55] services and school were updated. On May
12th, there was a domestic assault with
[19:00] a weapon. Uh charges laid. Members
responded to a domestic dispute dispute
[19:04] at Bonicord residence where the
complaintant was struck in the face with
[19:06] an object causing minor injury. An
arrest was made at scene and the accused
[19:11] released on undertaking. Victim services
was accepted and the charge was
[19:14] subsequently withdrawn at court.
May 31st that the motorcycle was
[19:20] recovered the same day. A motorcycle was
reported stolen overnight from a bon
[19:23] court address. It was uh recovered later
the same day by Port Saskatchewan RCMP
[19:28] following a flight from police in that
jurisdiction with [clears throat] minor
[19:31] damage. Uh no suspect was identified but
the owner was updated.
[19:38] On April 29th, uh sudden death corners
act members assisted EMS with sudden
[19:43] death at a Bonic Court residence. Uh it
would it was deemed to be noncriminal
[19:48] and uh the medical examiner order an
autopsy and arranged transport and next
[19:52] to him was notified
mental health act. On May 18th, a family
[19:58] member reported that a Bonor resident
was suicidal and had access or access to
[20:02] a means of self harm. Members attended
spoke to the person, arranged transport
[20:05] to the hospital with family member, nor
pack mobile crisis team operates in the
[20:09] area, so they were not able to attend to
assist.
[20:13] On June 12th, uh there was a fraud
attempt. Uh resident reported repeated
[20:17] calls from a person claiming to be uh to
represent a telecommunications provider.
[20:22] Members uh provided prevention advice on
securing that account and replacing the
[20:26] SIM and referred the matter to the
anti-fraud center as well. No money or
[20:30] property was exchanged. And on June
28th, there was license plate theft.
[20:34] Reds reported that the license plate had
been removed from the vehicle, parked at
[20:37] the Bonic Court address, and replaced
with a different plate. The replacement
[20:41] plate was arranged through registries,
and then substituted plate was flagged.
[20:46] Uh no suspect was identified in that as
well.
[20:52] And looking ahead for uh quarter two, um
again, we're going to be working with
[20:56] our safe communities partnerships, the
real crime
[21:00] uh property um joint traffic operations
in town and in the county. Uh we have
[21:06] fraud awareness campaign that we're
trying to um get going here and
[21:11] hopefully we'll have that up and running
and that's more or less just like kind
[21:14] of onware online awareness.
um prolific offender checks that's
[21:18] continuing our positive ticket knowing
that school is back. Uh and conserv
[21:24] SRO uh he's primarily looking after that
because he's in the schools most of his
[21:29] time. Uh Highway 28 traffic safety uh
highway 28 is uh we find we have a lot
[21:35] of collisions in that area. So, we're
going to be working um partnerships with
[21:40] sheriffs probably on that highway,
especially 28 and 28A knowing that data
[21:45] center and that traffic will be
increasing soon. Um and then uh the next
[21:50] one we'll be kind of focusing on again
is that mental health command and trying
[21:55] to get uh that awareness helped as well.
[22:00] » Any questions?
>> Thank you. Question. Go ahead. Um so the
[22:04] fraud awareness campaign that you guys
are looking at um bringing out does that
[22:09] kind of have [clears throat] some sort
of handout for the seniors. I know a lot
[22:11] of them there was something that was
done for the jewel box but I hear a lot
[22:16] of seniors talking about the and I get
the calls as well with the
[22:19] telecommunication especially if you
don't know the information of how to
[22:23] make sure it's your actual cell phone
company calling kind of thing. Are we
[22:27] going to be doing something like a
handout or anything like that?
[22:29] » At this point in time it's only going to
be like presentations. So, we're going
[22:32] to try to set up presentations. Um, I
know we looked at getting some handouts
[22:38] early on. Um, but that was kind of uh
shot down just based off of costs at at
[22:42] this moment. Uh, but that is something I
kind of re we could look at again and
[22:46] see because it would be nice for them to
actually have not only are we presenting
[22:50] and having something in front of them,
but just take home and that way they
[22:53] could actually refer to it uh later on
if they ever have to.
[22:57] » Cool. Excellent. Thank you.
That's what
[23:01] » Can we not actually put some of that
stuff onto our our website to do your
[23:06] presentation, whatever?
>> Yeah, there probably could be some
[23:08] slides or or things that you can
definitely put on.
[23:12] » Yeah, just just to have, right? Like we
unfortunately we don't have a website or
[23:16] our own Facebook. Uh so there'd be like
a little bulletin to prepare for the
[23:19] rave as well as then presentations when
we do go [clears throat] to um some
[23:24] seniors or or just with the
municipalities in that we speak with to
[23:28] actually set set up. Okay. Uh my other
question was was about um uh the schools
[23:34] are now into session. Um are you guys
going to be doing more patrolling in
[23:40] town, whatever? Like catching
>> trying to Yeah, that's the goal, right?
[23:45] And I already had a discussion with with
my members uh knowing school's back. Uh
[23:49] again, there's still nice weather, so
there's a lot of children with ebikes
[23:53] and their e- scooters out. And that
alone is in itself a problem. Um, so
[23:59] we're trying to just make sure that
everyone's safe, whether it's the
[24:01] motorists or actually the children, that
maybe not be looking both ways before
[24:06] they start crossing or anything like
that. Um, but yeah, I know like I've
[24:11] already uh told them like I want to have
a little bit more visibility. I know
[24:14] we're short on manpower, but that's no
excuse for us not to be out in some of
[24:18] those schools school zones.
>> Fair enough.
[24:21] » Deputy Mayor. Um, thank you very
ser
[24:28] um first of all um I just want to
mention that we do have a separate
[24:32] coming up at the end of the month about
fraud but rooted in wellness.
[24:37] [clears throat]
Um so I will call one of the seniors
[24:41] from the Golden Gems and let them know
about it. They might know already. Um
[24:48] more information the better. And I was
just curious why you would become
[24:52] involved in a bylaw complaint about
noise or something. Are you backing up
[24:56] the bylaw officer or
>> No, there's sometimes individuals just
[25:00] don't know proper numbers to call and
then we just get the 911 call saying hey
[25:04] the noise complaint or it depends on I
don't know exactly um what hours of day
[25:10] it was. It was like later on they we
mostly it's not just Bonacord
[25:14] most municipalities if it's dealing with
some of those matters they do contact us
[25:19] anyways.
>> Okay. I was just curious I I thought
[25:22] you'd be focusing on those hardc and we
do right at the same time there's no
[25:26] call too small that now obviously if if
there are ways that we could redirect.
[25:32] So like in for town involvement, uh we
know that we could actually redirect
[25:35] some of those municipal bylaws to them,
right? But if it's on a Friday or
[25:40] Saturday night at 1 in the morning and
they have a concern about something,
[25:43] whether it's property line or noise,
whatever it may be, uh they usually are
[25:47] calling calling us to kind of deal with
it.
[25:51] » Okay. Thank you. [clears throat]
>> For Sergeant Fero and administration, do
[25:57] we have or will we have a coffee with a
cop coming up sometime soon? I haven't
[26:02] seen him for a while.
>> No, it it has been a while. I know. I
[26:05] been talking to to Bill and I think we
were we were trying to just establish
[26:10] some dates
>> and then from there I know I was kind of
[26:12] a little busy in the summertime, but
like I said, I think we were discussing
[26:16] trying to hammer down some dates and
then I think moving forward would be
[26:19] nice to have them again.
>> Yeah, I know you've been busy. A little
[26:23] change in your job. So,
>> no excuse though.
[26:27] » Always have time to come.
>> Yeah. [clears throat] Anybody else have
[26:30] comments or questions?
>> No.
[26:33] » Well, good.
>> Well, thank you so much for coming out.
[26:36] » No, thanks for having me.
[clears throat]
[26:38] » And uh we look forward to seeing you.
Will it be you still coming up for
[26:41] coffee?
>> Yeah.
[26:43] » Yeah. Regardless of my role, whatever
I'm doing, I'll unless I'm tied up with
[26:46] with another matter. Um but I'll when we
set [clears throat] the dates, I'll have
[26:50] it for my availability at that time.
you'll see me
[26:53] » does community services get involved
with the coffee with a cop because I
[26:58] know that uh Christina has
[clears throat] a very large list of
[27:02] people and and she seems to be able to
get the word out there for her events.
[27:08] » We can uh Mr. Mayor, we can certainly
include community services while we
[27:12] organize it and they can help get the
word out for sure.
[27:14] » Yeah,
>> I'll make a note of that.
[27:16] » Okay, thank you. Okay,
thanks again, Sergeant.
[27:20] » No, anytime. Thank you very much for
having
[27:23] » enjoy the rest of your summer.
[laughter]
[27:26] [clears throat]
>> Tomorrow.
[27:28] » Tomorrow.
>> Yeah, exactly.
[27:30] » Thanks.
>> All right. Thank you. Take care.
[27:31] » Take care. [snorts]
[27:35] » Have a motion, please, to accept
Sergeant Ferrero's presentation.
[27:42] Councelor Larson. Mayor Holden
[clears throat] like to make the motion
[27:44] to accept Sergeant Fero's quarterly
report as information.
[27:49] » Thank you. All in favor?
is carried.
[27:54] Okay. Next is 8.120605
[clears throat]
[27:58] fire services and bylaw.
[28:03] Get this right person.
[28:13] Okay. Jessica.
>> Thank you, Mayor Holden.
[28:18] Um, we brought this forward at the
August 25th committee of the whole
[28:22] meeting and at the time the committee
recommended bringing this bylaw forward
[28:27] to an upcoming regular council meeting
for first reading and it is attached.
[28:33] We've got two separate ones. We have a
redlinined bylaw showing all the changes
[28:37] and then the um updated version without
the red lines.
[28:45] Have there been any changes since our
committee the whole meeting or any
[28:49] adjustments on that by?
>> No.
[28:50] » So, we've all pretty well gone over it.
Any questions or comments or
[28:55] » No.
>> All right. [snorts] Be easy. We have a
[28:59] motion, please.
Councelor Glenn,
[29:02] » I move the council gives the 202605
fire services bylaw [clears throat]
[29:07] first reading as presented.
>> Thank you. All in favor? That is
[29:11] carried.
[29:16] Next 10.1 Go East Edmonton request for
letter of support.
[29:22] I can assist with that, Mr. Mayor. So,
as we're probably all aware, Go East of
[29:28] Edmonton is a nonprofit tourism and
marketing organization that's been
[29:32] serving our area for many years, of
which we are members. uh they're asking
[29:37] for a letter of support to secure status
as a designated marketing organization
[29:43] uh or DMO for our region. And the reason
is although they've been a DMO for uh
[29:48] tourism and marketing for many years,
the province recently passed the uh
[29:55] [clears throat and cough]
new traveler protection and destination
[29:59] development act. And now they need to
reapply to be a DMO through Alberta
[30:05] Sport and Tourism. And they need to have
uh their applications in by the end of
[30:09] the month. They're asking for council to
provide a letter of support for their
[30:13] application uh no later than September
the 25th if council wishes to
[30:18] participate.
>> Okay. Thank you. Does anybody have a
[30:22] problem with that?
>> Mayor Vinnie.
[30:25] » Uh Mayor Holton. Thank you. Through to
council and to
[30:29] the town manager. I'm confused exactly
what this I'm not arguing with the
[30:36] letter of support, but this
[clears throat] um
[30:40] whatever this new law was. What exactly
does that do? Doesn't that involve a tax
[30:46] somehow?
Well, I'm not aware that it involves a
[30:50] tax, but the the government of Alberta
introduced the legislation to help
[30:54] protect travelers from hidden or
misleading fees and also provide
[31:00] destinations with the tools to help
drive tourism and economic developments.
[31:04] At least that was the intent of it and
it came into effect in July.
[31:10] » Okay. So, there's no money involved in
this.
[31:13] » Yeah. It it establishes a framework for
the governance admin and administration
[31:18] of designated marketing fees allowing
eligible businesses to collect fees from
[31:23] consumers. So uh as you as you're
probably aware, Go East of Edmonton is
[31:29] one of those organizations and they do
collect a fee from their members and
[31:33] they want to be very much uh in
compliance with the new legislation and
[31:38] in order to do so they want to get their
DMO designation through the new act.
[31:43] Okay. So, they would want fees from the
town [clears throat] because we belong
[31:48] to that organization.
But if you're a tourist and you're going
[31:52] to visit the train station in
can't remember where it is
[31:57] [clears throat] now, Vergerville or
whatever,
[32:00] » you don't need it's there's no extra tax
that they collect from you at that
[32:04] destination.
>> Yeah. I don't I don't know about any
[32:06] extra costs at the train station, but I
can tell you that go east of Edmonton's
[32:10] history is that we pay to be members and
they produce free tourism materials
[32:15] available to me. [clears throat]
>> Okay. All right. Thank you. I I just
[32:18] when that came in this spring, I never
ever did understand exactly what it
[32:23] meant. [clears throat]
>> Back in the day, you know, 20 years ago,
[32:26] they were called Kina Country and you
could get these little color brochures
[32:30] in any gas station that was about the
size of the TV guide. And so that's
[32:34] they've evolved a lot since then and a
lot and changed their name, but it's
[32:39] still the same idea.
>> Okay.
[32:41] » All right.
>> We did it here.
[32:43] » Mhm.
>> Where we had a little pamphlet or book
[32:47] you [clears throat] get tickets or Yeah.
Go ahead.
[32:49] » Yeah. So I'm I brought this to council a
long time ago because where I work it
[32:53] up, they actually participate in it as
well. So what they do is they just put
[32:57] big booklets in all the different local
businesses and then they have their
[33:00] yearly game that comes up where every
town gets a sticker of some type to
[33:05] improve the tourism of those
communities. You go around all of
[33:09] Alberta and you collect these stickers
and enter to win prizes and different
[33:12] things like that. So yeah, it's it's a
great program. I see a lot of people
[33:17] that travel from near and far to collect
these stickers throughout the summer and
[33:22] complete these things. So, yeah, I'm
I've always been a big fan of this
[33:25] program. [clears throat]
>> Yeah.
[33:28] » Okay.
>> I think it's a good good thing.
[33:30] » So, assuming that we go ahead with this,
are we going to use the
[33:34] uh the letter that they give us and just
put our name in there?
[33:38] » Well, it'll save me some brain power,
but [laughter]
[33:41] we It'll save me some brain power, Mr.
Mayor. So, we can we can certainly use
[33:45] the sample letter in there if council's
okay with that and [clears throat] draft
[33:49] something for your signature.
>> Okay. I just want to make sure we're
[33:52] okay with that before we go ahead. Uh,
yes. Go ahead.
[33:56] » You want me to make the motion?
>> Sure. [clears throat]
[33:58] » Okay. Mayor Holden would like to make
the motion that council gives support
[34:01] for the go east of Edmonton regional
trans regional tourism application for
[34:06] designation and ask administration to
fill out the designated letter of
[34:10] support.
>> Awesome. All in favor? That is carried.
[34:16] » Thank you.
>> I need one more motion, please.
[34:19] Councelor May.
>> Mayor Holden, I will move that we
[34:22] adjourn at 5:30.
>> 5:30. Awesome. Thank you. Paper.
[34:28] » We are now ajourned.