[0:06] Good evening everyone. Welcome to the town of Anuvic committee the whole

[0:09] meeting. I would just like to acknowledge the new falls within the

[0:13] Gwen settlement area adjacent to the Nubial settlement area home for the Gwen

[0:18] the Nubial Matei other indigenous people from throughout the Northwest

[0:23] Territories in Canada and other people that have made Anubic their home from

[0:28] Canada and throughout the world. All of this makes Anubic a great place to live.

[0:34] Item number two, adoption of the agenda. Any changes needed on the agenda?

[0:45] Seeing none. [clears throat] Okay. Item number three, decorational

[0:51] conflict of interest or precinary interest with any of the agenda items.

[0:57] Councelor Raymond.

[1:00] » I don't know. >> A23.

[1:03] » A283. All right. Thank you. Any further conflict or interest or precar interest

[1:12] being none public question period? I think we're probably safe on that one.

[1:20] Item number six, adoption of the minutes from the June 24th meeting.

[1:29] Any further changes, corrections needed on those minutes?

[1:38] Prime.

[1:42] Okay. Any update on any of the action items

[1:49] other than what is noted? Uh, nope. No other action on our community plan or

[1:55] anything associated with that. The bearware signs, we're looking at our

[1:59] inventory and looking to post them on Blue Lake Trails.

[2:04] Uh just a reminder, infrastructure is already aware of the watering of the

[2:09] plants and uh Hannah is currently doing inventory repair and planning on

[2:15] repeating.

[2:22] Item number eight, new business 81

[2:27] addition request for council decision 2026-050

[2:32] addition to the human rights policy HR012

[2:38] update on what? So we've taken your feedback into consideration and we have

[2:43] redone the policy on the student bary specifically. So it's student and it's

[2:51] returning students from the summer. So as uh directed by council last time.

[2:59] » Any further questions, comments on the student?

[3:06] Seeing none

[3:12] two conflict of interest

[3:18] request for council assuming this decision 2026

[3:24] 051 discretionary use of development permit 26-09

[3:43] Who wants to give an update on that? >> Peter online. So I will.

[3:49] So the Carmichael or sorry the new subdivision up top. Um what IRC is

[3:55] proposing in terms of their development requires a couple of uh varants. uh it

[4:01] only takes one vote for the variances. Um what we are looking at is

[4:07] uh some zoning questions with regard to how uh the setback is. Uh that's a a

[4:15] minor setback. So that's only 10 cmters. That's not going to be an issue. Uh it's

[4:20] well within Peter's discretion uh our development officer's discretion for

[4:25] that. The other two are a little more uh specific to the houses themselves. And

[4:32] one is that they are posing some of the houses to be manufactured building

[4:37] components. And similar to what just happened with GTC when they were

[4:42] building theirs, we are still having to work off of the 2015 bylaw, which

[4:48] doesn't uh recognize manufactured buildings uh other than trailers. So

[4:56] what we are proposing is that it is a discretionary use that it be included

[5:00] particularly in anticipation of further development and the fact that we've

[5:04] already set precedent uh by allowing the other manufactured homes to be present

[5:10] in that zone area. So that's the first one. The second one is more to do with

[5:16] the size of the homes. And uh again this is a a smaller home than [clears throat]

[5:21] you would would normally see in an R1. and uh recognizing that it would be a

[5:26] tiny home. Again, it is a discretionary use for that and um not all of the homes

[5:33] are going to be that. I believe there's only four in this

[5:37] uh subdivision that we would be talking about and we have already again set

[5:41] precedent for recognizing tiny homes when we've approved the uh tiny homes in

[5:48] the commercial area. Any

[5:53] further questions, comments from council on this?

[5:59] » We also have people representing that can answer any of those questions.

[6:04] Council me, >> perhaps we could just clarify the size

[6:09] of soal tiny home because they're not as small as you might think when you hear

[6:12] that name.

[6:18] » Go ahead. Just hit the mic there. That's the class.

[6:25] » Thanks, Rod. >> Thanks, Mayor. Um, only in question, the

[6:31] one that's being referred to is time owner homes. Um there also my

[6:37] understanding by that often

[6:43] 455

[6:48] will be the style of home.

[6:59] They're intended for a single occupant, right? Which is the greatest need for

[7:02] housing in town. That's correct. >> Thank you so much.

[7:08] » Any further questions, comments on 82? I guess that reached over to A3.

[7:18] Further questions any

[7:25] just on A2 now or we include A3 also there?

[7:30] Um A3 has a similar it's the reason why there's two different ones is um A3

[7:38] references the development permit 0 2609 and the

[7:48] 83 is development permit 2612. So we had to do them separately.

[7:54] » Okay. >> But it's similar content

[7:57] » content. Okay. Okay, then moving to A3. Any further

[8:02] questions on A3

[8:09] discretionary use and discretionary discretionary use?

[8:15] Yeah.

[8:19] No further questions from council. Thank you.

[8:24] Thanks. Feel

[8:27] free to stick around for these exciting meetings.

[8:32] That's get council Raymond back. Oh, >> I'm kind of done. Sorry.

[8:41] » Mr. Mayor, if I may. >> Yeah.

[8:45] » The procedure you vote on it on Wednesday.

[8:48] » Um, >> yeah. So, we will it'll be voted on on

[8:53] Wednesday. I don't see any based on what we saw

[8:57] tonight. I don't see any issues. There's slight

[9:00] » clarification.

[9:03] The actual vote will take and it just takes one vote. So that question I mean

[9:10] our new

[9:14] except this would >> the button on the side

[9:23] » we we this wouldn't be an issue >> correct the reason why we are doing it

[9:28] is because there is no definition of a tiny holding rule

[9:36] » okay thanks

[9:41] for a request for council decision 2026-27

[9:46] contribution agreement to build strong fund community stream funding.

[9:54] [clears throat] >> This is more of an administrative

[9:56] procedure every year. This is annual funding that comes in. Uh before it used

[10:02] to be called gas tax, then it was called CCDF. Now this iteration of it is the

[10:08] build community strong fund. We have already incorporated this 1.65 million

[10:14] into our operating or sorry into our capital budget planning. Uh this is more

[10:19] just a motion we need to give to Maka to say that yes we have accepted it

[10:28] and anything to do with the contribution in terms of reporting

[10:34] and this is again similar motion that we did with water sewer funding on M

[10:39] funding and CPI fun.

[10:45] Any questions, comments from council on this funding?

[10:50] It slowly ratchets up. This is some of the funding that uh we do get more each

[10:56] year. So, that's good to see that. Okay. 91 request for council decision.

[11:03] First reading of bylaw 2771G/26.

[11:10] This is the amendment to the street naming and this is coming out of the

[11:15] street naming committee. Do you want to give an update?

[11:20] » So the reason why this street naming is being proposed actually came from the

[11:24] emergency services side and it required clarification on two particular streets.

[11:30] We have upper bumpus and lower bumpus. And sometimes when we get a call, we

[11:34] don't know which way we're going. And 30 seconds trying to decide can have an

[11:38] impact on an emergency situation. And same with Carmichael East and Carmichael

[11:44] West. Again, they're the same numbers and trying to figure out which side of

[11:50] the street um the Carmichael subdivision that we need to go to is confusing. So

[11:57] the emergency services had requested this. We brought it to council and we uh

[12:04] discussed it. They agreed it would be a good idea. What they are recommending is

[12:09] because upper bumpus and that hill area has been referred to as tarmaggan hill.

[12:15] So they are proposing that upper bumpus now be called tarmaggan way. And in

[12:20] terms of centennial it was a little more complicated. Um, we want to keep the

[12:25] name and that's what the committee has recommended is to keep the name, but

[12:29] it's just going to be called Carmichael rather than East and West and we're

[12:34] going to have to reumber the houses. So, we're consolidating the

[12:40] name and the actual physical location is going to be reumbered.

[12:47] question comments from council and on either of that

[12:52] councelor bear >> uh were residents of upper upper bas

[12:57] consulted or spoken to with regards to the game that's being selected.

[13:02] » So this is actually going to be part of the consultation process when we have to

[13:06] go through this. So if it goes through first reading on Wednesday then we have

[13:10] 30 days we do a public consultation much like we did with Jack and then that will

[13:16] give people their input uh opportunity to have input uh into the name if they

[13:21] agree disagree what other alternatives there are and then once we if the public

[13:29] consultation there's no significant opposition to it then we proceed the

[13:33] second agreement. So yes, there is an option.

[13:39] » Any further questions, comments on the street renaming?

[13:44] Seeing none.

[13:49] Next item number 10, departmental updates. We have 10 one protective

[13:53] services. Mr. Armen missed with him to come to the

[13:58] last one and >> the birthday boy decided he could give

[14:04] it tonight. So >> everybody to give him a happy birthday.

[14:07] » Yeah, that's it. I actually didn't know when I requested this and I was like,

[14:11] "Oh no, what am I going to end to myself?" But

[14:13] » anyway, happy birthday. >> Thank you.

[14:15] » I'm here to give you a report. >> All right. Um,

[14:20] so yeah, I had to I had to run out uh last week just because we were doing

[14:23] Thank you for the approval on the movie guidelines and mutual aid agreement. Um,

[14:27] but uh we we had a big uh wildland interface exercise last week as well. Uh

[14:33] so just some updated stats. It was I don't want to say the ether I'm about to

[14:37] go on vacation but lower this past month. Uh we have a few highprofile uh

[14:42] incidents. uh there was an emergency out at the airport that we've worked with a

[14:46] number of different partners on uh that one. Um we just put out some guidances

[14:50] to businesses that they operate radio mass

[14:54] as well. Um it basically still kind of hangs out there mostly alarm calls. We

[15:01] seen a this distinct decrease in uh false alarms which has been great. Um

[15:08] we do want to find out if it's if it's just taking their alarms offline. I

[15:12] don't think that some of the bigger ones have, but it seems like it might be just

[15:14] based on some of the policies that people invoicing. That's what I'm

[15:17] hoping. That's what I'm trusting based on our discussions with some of the

[15:20] landlords. Um, so that's looking really good. Um, and then just the the usual

[15:25] kind of spread of incidents as well. So, um, any questions around fire responses?

[15:34] » All municipal enforcement. Uh, same thing, just regular call volumes.

[15:40] animals continue to be one of our big ones. Uh we've done lots of

[15:44] interventions particularly around safety patrols um and helmets uh with kids on

[15:49] their bikes. I'll go more into that in my quality report as well. Um a little

[15:53] bit more granularity to the the types of responses. We try not to put too many

[15:57] details some positive ticket because we're not going to see results and we

[16:03] don't want uh is the important part in my opinion our quality update. Um so

[16:09] we've spent a lot of time over the last month on wildfire and emergency

[16:13] preparedness. Um as we see the other activity in the northwest territories

[16:16] right now um has potential to uh uh get up and and really really really serious

[16:21] really really quickly. Um so we spent a lot of time working on our pre-planning

[16:26] uh working with partners including the ECC uh regional hospital uh health and

[16:32] social services gas uh all sorts of different places just to make sure that

[16:36] critical infrastructure in particular is uh well protected uh and that all of our

[16:40] systems can be deployed all at once. Um so throughout the month we kind of

[16:44] scaled things up through June uh trained with engine operations critical

[16:48] infrastructure protection just to put the clea into place and then other

[16:51] spritler system setups and then last Wednesday we ran a an exercise on that

[16:56] but doing everything simultaneously uh it went really well uh as we were hoping

[17:02] um we had everything set up on our critical infrastructure uh which is the

[17:05] ones we've identified as the hospital the water uh reservoirs uh and the past

[17:10] like the the propane air storage system at on Navy Road. We had everything set

[17:14] up and running in about an hour and a half from

[17:18] go. So all the equipment collated in storage and then put out with our

[17:22] pre-plans in place. Um we acquired some new equipment. Uh you kind of see in the

[17:26] bottom right hand corner. Um that's through our buoy program for this year.

[17:30] One of the things we concentrated on is modulization and transportation so that

[17:33] we can get things out single location. We want to be able to

[17:38] divide and conquer and then put out a few skilled firefighters with different

[17:42] crews of varying levels of of skills and ability including uh businesses,

[17:47] governments, and other partners uh to be able to set up a lot of the systems. Um

[17:51] in the bottom right, that's kind of some of the equipment for palletization

[17:54] modularization. But we've been able to put together a package that's a type

[17:58] three sprinkler structural protection unit as it's called. uh it's palletized

[18:02] it onto uh small plane individual trucks all sorts of different permutations for

[18:07] invic and then elsewhere as well but mainly NIC um we've been expanding our

[18:12] capabilities on our sprinkler systems as well um just to ensure that we have

[18:15] enough sprinkler heads and we're relatively independent on that too um

[18:19] ECC has gotten a type two sprinkler trailer up here which is a bit bigger

[18:23] but uh we want to make sure that we are self-sufficient as well I think that's

[18:27] an important thing as a municipality especially a larger municipality where

[18:30] we're quite disconnected and from the other other regions. Um so that went

[18:34] really well. Our pre-plans are now entered into a number of different

[18:37] databases. Um right now all of our respondents can access it through our

[18:42] main uh catis. We'll go back to 911. It brings up specific locations and then

[18:47] they can click on each one. gives a detailed inventory list, all the

[18:50] specific items they need to set up uh a system at that location and then uh a

[18:55] further dialed down map in Google Earth um that just tells them where to put out

[19:00] everything as well. So, lots of good information there. We made sure that we

[19:04] had to run all the pumps simultaneously, everything is working

[19:08] so we can put something. So, we're happy about that. Uh it's a lot of work, a lot

[19:12] of preparation for that. Um but we're pretty confident in our plan. Um, we

[19:16] haven't finalized our wild interface plan. We're going to be revisiting the

[19:19] whole BCC in the fall. We have a draft one right now. It's basically just a

[19:23] living document, so it's always getting updated. Um, this our current plan

[19:27] effectively takes into consideration all our new plans. Um, it goes into Google

[19:31] Earth and then within our CAD system as well. So, basically everything is is

[19:35] included there including storage. You may notice in the back that we dropped

[19:38] some gravel in the back, made a pad there. We've brought in some CC cans

[19:41] from our training yard and that's going to have a lot of our storage for

[19:44] equipment too because it's getting we're getting more than we can put put into a

[19:47] single trailer. So just having more storage capacity is pretty big for us as

[19:50] well. We're going to kind of turn that to uh the fire department corner down

[19:53] there. Uh just store a trailer there. Other items so neat everything up and

[19:58] back basically. Um so that was pretty good. We're really happy with that. You

[20:03] can see in the the middle picture there that's just the preparation. Basically

[20:06] we pull the trailer up the cands and then everything gets offloaded

[20:09] palletized and sent into individual trusty board. Um on we we participate in

[20:15] emergency management tabletop exercise as well during AD. Um it was mainly

[20:19] discussions and review of our emergency plan itself. Uh going over some details

[20:23] with that working with other partners in a number of different scenarios that we

[20:26] could experience including mainly concentrating on weather events uh in

[20:30] the winter. Um we rolled out our emergency management app. It's been

[20:33] active and available uh but then now it's part directedly linked through the

[20:37] town of Anubic app which was just publicly rolled out in the past week. Um

[20:41] we we're going to use as an independent app where we can push out local

[20:44] messaging to uh residents uh in case of an emergency. We're not relying on GWT

[20:50] or other government partners to put out messaging and we can speak to citizens

[20:54] directly with that too. Um we've been spending a lot of time on seasonal

[20:58] maintenance. uh our annual hose test when we finished all our 4 in supply

[21:01] line. We've detected about we did about 3200 ft of that one length at a time. Uh

[21:06] moving on to our our attack lines. Um we've been starting hydrant flow

[21:11] testing. We're working with infrastructure like time infrastructure

[21:14] with that as well. Uh just getting some key data on some critical hydrants

[21:18] throughout uh town. Uh mainly kind of concentrating on industrial areas and

[21:22] kind of junction points right now just to know exactly what we're flowing at

[21:26] those different ones. Uh and then we have our EP, our emergency vehicle

[21:29] technician is going to be coming up from White Horse. Uh his ironically enough,

[21:33] his truck is in trouble. Uh so we're that to be repaired and then he'll be up

[21:37] and working with our staff to do our pump testing and our regular apparatus

[21:41] testing as well. Uh so it's been pretty busy. We've been involved with Canada

[21:45] Day as well. We ran a barbecue with that. You see the crew up at the top

[21:47] right there. Um and we put up the the giant Canada flag on Kenzie. Um and uh

[21:54] yeah, really good time doing that. Uh weather was maybe not the best, but it

[21:58] was it was great. We had a good time. Any questions about

[22:06] » um great. So we ran through the municipal enforcement. We ran our bike

[22:09] ready at the start of the month. Uh and then that segued into our helmet drive

[22:12] as well. Uh so we covered every single class within East 3 Elementary. Um they

[22:17] learned about bike safeties, hand signals, wearing their helmets, all

[22:20] sorts of things just around bicycles. We had the RCMP participate with us as well

[22:23] on that. Uh and it's another successful year of that. Um every single kid that

[22:28] participated in that got a bike helmet. Uh we ordered more because we ran out.

[22:31] Um so we got more and then we started a donation campaign as well. So we put it

[22:35] out on public Facebook groups for tourists coming up from driving the

[22:39] damster. But if they come by the fire hall, we can we'll trade them for a

[22:42] patch, a photo op, and if they give us a helmet. So our first people came in

[22:46] immediately after they see in the top right. Uh came by with a couple of

[22:49] helmets. Um and they got their photo op and they got some patches. So they were

[22:53] super friendly. We've had a few more roll in through that and we're just

[22:55] going to keep on doing that because it seems to be somewhat successful. Uh

[22:58] we've also started again our positive ticketing campaign. So you can see our

[23:01] first advertisement for that. We went and got ourselves some uh some slushies

[23:04] ourselves. Um we uh have been handing out whenever we can. We're making a

[23:09] point of pulling over every single kid we can see on the roads. We're doing our

[23:12] fire trucks. We're doing the municipal enforcement. Basically everybody has a

[23:15] stack of coupons to get. Um we started to get kids just coming into the the

[23:19] days. Uh but that's kind of not the direction we want to go with that. um

[23:22] you don't go to the RCMP asking for a medication. So um it's been pretty good.

[23:27] Kids are know knowing know about it. We're spreading the word as much as we

[23:31] can and really really push it. We're carrying around helmets in the trucks as

[23:34] well so we can give them out if we see kids on their own. Uh one of the obvious

[23:38] ones we we we try to target kids if there's one kid wearing a helmet. Um

[23:41] pull them over, give them a ticket in front of everybody else and then if they

[23:45] go to the fire hall to get more or they fit in one of the helmets we have.

[23:49] So, um, we've been having a lot of fun with that. Kids are really enjoying it.

[23:53] We just want to keep kids safe and wearing helmets everywhere. Um, we've

[23:57] also been doing a lot of enforcement around ATDs. Uh, so we've created a new

[24:00] like ATV intervention law specifically for ATDs, especially around helmets,

[24:04] safety, uh, and speeding. Um, different types of helmets that obviously we're

[24:08] not giving those ones up because they're a lot more expensive, but we're trying

[24:10] to get kids especially into them. Uh, provided they're following the law. We

[24:14] don't do licensing for ATVs. That's not the Department of Motor Vehicles. Um but

[24:19] uh so we're limited in terms of the access we can get in terms of licensing

[24:22] and things like that. Um but uh this has been one of our pushes. Um and again the

[24:27] candy bar all our staff participate in that municipal enforcement and they were

[24:30] there mainly running the route on this one as well. Fire trucks get all the

[24:34] glory going in the parade itself but enforcement makes it happen roadblocking

[24:40] around it. um along with all my stuff. Um any questions around?

[24:47] » Oh, one big thing, a huge thing, 20 plus dogs rehomed from last month. Um there's

[24:52] one place in particular we really concentrate enforcement on that. Um we

[24:56] didn't need to go under the dog act to do any seizures or anything else with

[25:01] that. Uh we were able to rehome 12 puppies all at once through artic which

[25:06] was really good. Um and they all left with the the red clinical as well. Um

[25:12] but it's been a quite a few uh animals done as well. Um but yeah, lots lots of

[25:19] really good work from our staff around that just because that's

[25:24] » just Brian on that. >> Yeah.

[25:26] » Will that household then not be producing more puppies?

[25:31] » That is the hope. Um, we can't control the dogs themselves, right? Um, we

[25:38] obviously make sure that they're within the confines. Three dogs, that's the

[25:40] maximum. So, um, that's what we're holding them to. Um, from my

[25:44] understanding, it's just males there right now. Um, I might be wrong, but

[25:49] it's just one. That's the idea. We offered to cover uh, neutering or I

[25:54] think it's feas. We offered to cover things. Uh, they

[25:59] elected not to take us up on that. we're still going to offer on the planet and

[26:03] we try to make that happen and we're going to stay on top of this particular

[26:06] location for enforcement action as well. Um it came down to a bit of negotiation,

[26:10] bit of leverage through fines and some of the directions we could go with this.

[26:15] It's a kind of a tricky territory to navigate as well. Um because if

[26:19] somebody's lying just number of dogs, we can't get into a building. We're limited

[26:22] in our powers to uh we can't go and get a search. It's very difficult for us to

[26:27] do that. We have to work within the Com Dog Act. Um, so there's a bit of a

[26:32] balance. We've had some neighbors that we have been working with all along that

[26:36] street, not just anyone in particular. Um, and they've been really good

[26:42] just expressing their concerns.

[26:46] We don't expect it to get out of control again, but we are going to be staying on

[26:50] pretty

[27:02] [laughter] >> comments.

[27:05] » Thanks for letting me ride the fire truck in Canada.

[27:10] » [laughter] >> I should say if you see the bay doors

[27:13] open, we're trying to keep the bay doors open as much as possible during the day,

[27:15] especially with good weather. Uh we want to encourage people come by, take a poke

[27:18] in and especially tourists, uh especially residents, everybody. Um it's

[27:22] been really good to do that because they get to use the staff. I guess they say

[27:25] running through the building and we're trying to we try to concentrate on

[27:27] Fridays in particular, uh open bait on Fridays. So just to keep that available

[27:33] [clears throat] big push res. >> Good. Thanks. Any further questions,

[27:38] comments for Brian? Councelor Gillis. >> Um, Brian, that fire break that was up

[27:43] there, like I think I remember reading that there was supposed to be some trees

[27:48] left or like >> Oh, we stopped. So, what happened on

[27:51] that one? Um, we have a number of different boundaries. So, we call them

[27:54] it's boundary A B CDE E F. Um, on Centennial, they had started to clear

[27:59] cut. We were we thought they had stopped uh while we were doing the inspection.

[28:04] Um, and then I noticed it grabbed a few more meters. So, we put a stopped to it

[28:08] right away. Um, it's not supposed to be clearcut in that spot. It's supposed to

[28:11] be crown spacing within there. So, we had a meeting with the contractor uh

[28:14] just to discuss it in detail about what the requirements are on that. So, the

[28:18] whole area uh in between founded by Bonus and the bypass and then uh uh

[28:24] Wolverine and the bypass or no sort of the other way. Um Bus and White pretty

[28:27] much um that whole area is just supposed to be ground spacing. They are well

[28:32] aware of that right now. Uh and that's all the crown space is basically just

[28:35] taking out the coniferous trees and they pick one and then five meters radius and

[28:40] then take out everything in between there and basically five meters crown

[28:44] space it >> I thought what I was seeing up there

[28:47] » they did now >> have they done it

[28:49] » yeah just in the last >> they start on that part

[28:52] » I just noticed it in one section so >> on some areas it's supposed to be

[28:55] clearcut like around long road rightways um that's specifically clear cutting so

[29:00] along the bypass itself around the reservoir for a certain section. They've

[29:04] done that. Um trying to think of the other areas that block we thought. So

[29:09] when I first saw it, I thought they were just creeping around the corner there

[29:12] and that's where we had it. We had to kind of redesign the map just to create

[29:15] so we didn't damage and like not damage take down community spaces. Um so yeah,

[29:21] as soon as we as soon as we realized what was happening there, we Daniel and

[29:23] I both intervened with the contract just to make sure. But 100% they are just

[29:28] doing trans spacing. That's all they're doing in behind there. And I we made

[29:31] sure that they're going to leave a buffer zone as well because I know that

[29:34] was one of the uh concerns from citizens around the the salt dust like the the

[29:39] solar farm there. Um but there's no trees in front of me to see everything.

[29:42] So we've asked them to create a good 10 meters at least and just leave all the

[29:47] the vegetation there. Um and with the crown space and they're not removing any

[29:50] deciduous trees with that as well get some of the undergrowth. But it's the

[29:54] commit versus what our concern is. Uh those are the ones that really fuel.

[29:58] So, um that's the the idea. But yeah, um they will be doing a bit of along the

[30:05] rightway like the uh the access like the utility rightway going into a reservoir

[30:10] because the one side has the road on it. And so we're going to get them to do

[30:12] similar clear cutting for 10 m space on the other side of that east side. Um and

[30:18] they'll go along there just to protect the main line

[30:23] infrastructure really really need

[30:30] questions comments. All right. Thanks Ryan. Enjoy the rest

[30:34] of your birthday.

[30:42] [clears throat] >> Item number 11 information items.

[30:47] got just a couple of information items. There's a meeting

[30:52] tomorrow at 1:30 with the McKenzie Valley

[30:58] um consultation Mackenzie Valley highway consultation team uh meeting in helpful

[31:04] chambers, right? >> Correct.

[31:06] » Yeah. So, any counselors want to attend that meeting? Um we just got contacted

[31:13] by them last week. They're also, I think, doing a public meeting tomorrow

[31:17] night, but they uh did book a meeting with us at 1:30 tomorrow. They have uh a

[31:25] couple of presentations and it's all moving moving this Mackenzie Valley

[31:29] highway project um as quick as as quick as they can.

[31:35] We'll certainly be asking questions like are they starting from both ends? When

[31:40] when are we looking at starting that? you know when when will they have

[31:45] completed the environmental review just to get whatever information we can.

[31:49] Council me >> unfortunately I can't attend the meeting

[31:52] with council tomorrow but do you know where and when the public meeting is

[31:56] tomorrow evening? >> I haven't seen it advertised.

[31:59] » I saw it advertised in but I haven't seen uh I haven't seen yet. So I can

[32:05] send them an email and ask them. >> Thank you.

[32:09] » Yeah.

[32:14] Go ahead, >> Derek. Dingle at

[32:17] » Dingle Mo. >> Oh, you know what?

[32:20] » I think I did see that. Yeah. Five D hall. Okay. Thanks.

[32:28] And then the second information item, uh, July 14th, and I think now it's

[32:36] 5:30. >> 5:30 to 7.

[32:39] » 5:30 to 7. the parliamentary committee on Department of National Defense. Uh

[32:46] we're meeting with them and that will be in the community lounge at the complex

[32:52] upstairs and we're just trying to find out whether that'll be a dinner meeting

[32:57] given given the time that the meeting initially was 5 to 6:30. Now they've

[33:02] bumped it a half an hour so it'll be 5:30 to 7.

[33:06] And the parliamentary committee on DMD is I think it's all um regular members

[33:15] not or it's not the ministers and what they do is provide feedback. So Sydney

[33:23] and I will definitely be attending talking about the development of the FO

[33:28] site. uh the 5 billion DND is looking at spending and what we're doing in order

[33:34] to try to work with them on uh whether they want to do housing for

[33:41] housing um and things like the recreation and anything else that's you

[33:48] know town related. Um and then in the bigger picture looking at what what can

[33:56] be done to ensure that much employment is is local. We we understand that you

[34:02] know people building large steel hangers. Um probably have to come from

[34:06] the outside. We don't have skilled workers here sitting around looking for

[34:10] work but there's lots of other work civil work electrical work mechanical

[34:14] work that can be done by contractors. So we're hoping that they fill the 5%

[34:22] and more they have identified.

[34:27] Those are the two information items I have.

[34:31] [clears throat] Any further?

[34:37] » Okay. Council concerns councel.

[34:41] » So that it doesn't fall on us. It's definitely govern territories. Do we

[34:45] have any update on the Steel River Berry?

[34:48] » Well, they did rescue it yesterday and they

[34:51] got it back to the ferry landing. I don't know. Councelor Wayman, have you

[34:55] heard anything? >> No, I heard there's no cable. Maybe

[34:59] there's no confirmation on it. >> No cable.

[35:03] » I heard there is. So, be another day. At least it be tomorrow sometime. But but

[35:10] when the water levels are still high water levels high they can't go anywhere

[35:14] » right >> how far did it get on it journey to

[35:19] » almost almost

[35:24] had to pull it back luckily they had a boat there that could do it otherwise

[35:30] been in trouble

[35:34] » keep tourism high >> so combination of high water the table

[35:39] snapped and it got loose. I don't I don't know. I thought normally they had

[35:44] a break on there, but anyway, they got it back.

[35:49] Okay. Any further information or concerns? Councelor Barrett.

[35:56] » Um I can continue to hear uh comments from community members. We don't have

[36:00] our life jacket loaner stations out and operational yet, including a comment

[36:04] that I got even today. Such a priority to get that out there. We've got the

[36:08] supplies. We've got the the setup. Should be easy breezy. If we can just

[36:13] prioritize and have that out as soon as possible, that would be wonderful.

[36:19] » Yeah, I know. Daniel, do you have an update on that? I know they were working

[36:23] on the stand that had to be rebuilt. Anything further on the life jacket?

[36:29] » I can speak to that. I'll ask you about it. Um, so lifeguards are currently

[36:34] taking inventory of the jackets and one station is undergoing repairs. Uh,

[36:38] they're usually set to go first week of July and should be on track for that. So

[36:43] they're just completing the inventory.

[36:50] » So definitely should be out this week hopefully tomorrow.

[36:54] » Any further council concerns? Councelor Gillis. [clears throat]

[36:59] Um, those two dips on Main Street on McKenzie

[37:04] are how long do we have to live with them? Like that one in front of the

[37:08] church is brutal and then the one in front of the other church is brutal.

[37:17] » Probably the two people that are responsible for that are both sitting

[37:21] here. So we got a good answer on both accounts. Daniel

[37:30] So the one I actually don't know the one in front of church I feel I don't drive

[37:35] you don't you don't private >> yeah I don't drive that way I can't

[37:40] don't know the one on that but I'll take a look at it this evening um the one in

[37:45] front of the church though they have attempted repairing that uh

[37:51] right now well they installed the cold mix it failed they did it again with a

[37:58] heavier equipment. Same thing. So, right now, the current thought is that the

[38:02] cold mix is probably contaminated. Uh so, the the current conversation we're

[38:07] having with the contractor is to dig it all out. Um

[38:11] and we're going to put a little bit of

[38:14] gravel and then the coal mix again and and see where it goes from there. But

[38:18] yes, um we we definitely have that on the work plan. They did it, but it

[38:23] failed. So, and they're going to go back out there to dig it out and attempt the

[38:27] better repair. But I I really don't know about I don't know the talking about

[38:38] » what about right outside the IRC building where they

[38:44] » Yes, the bridge. Yes. Uh so we had that I had that conversation with the

[38:47] engineers um because it was part of that project. So they were working on the

[38:52] efficiencies to try to finish that off. Um

[38:57] the idea will be to have the concrete done first and then the and then the

[39:02] paving or the cold mix. I would say it's it's the same cold mix with material we

[39:05] have. We bought four truck loads last year. So if you failed with the small

[39:09] patch we just did. We need to figure out and see that we can actually use the

[39:13] material we have um before we then do a bigger a bigger repair. But in my my

[39:19] thoughts, I will probably go with the concrete sidewalk first um on that one

[39:24] for the bridge and then after afterwards we'll take a look at the the actual

[39:31] » contractor.

[39:36] The one in front of the church was really nice and it went 27 above and

[39:40] they laid the cold mix on and it was a little hot and then it rained torrential

[39:48] rains and it went a little soft. We got a leak somewhere there. It's as you see

[39:52] it's sinking again. >> Yeah.

[39:54] » I don't understand what's going on. Like really it was uh very solid, very set

[39:58] up. We'll strip it out again. um repack it and put a 2in lifted cold

[40:06] mix on it. Not sure if the contaminated cold mix is an issue. I think the heat

[40:11] had a bigger issue. It was 30 and above and it uh just brought the oils right to

[40:16] the top. Never seen that. So, I don't know if it's

[40:20] contaminated material or the new oil that they changed because of the vio

[40:24] stuff that's going on. I don't know. And the one at the church down there, I

[40:29] don't we'll go look at that. It is a dip is failing there too. So that could be a

[40:33] culprit issue again. And uh the one at the IRC I was waiting to hear if they're

[40:39] going to do the concrete and then we'll fix we graded up at the loaders a bit.

[40:44] But the one at the church is a big anomaly because it was 110%

[40:49] compactor. It's still failing right now. It's

[40:52] failing again. >> It stops going down. It almost seemed

[40:54] like it like once you had the top good for a day and it almost seemed like

[40:59] hours. We actually went through the collard again because we thought maybe

[41:02] separated but it's good. >> So we got

[41:08] the answer it out again and try it again. But it seems to me like the whole

[41:12] road sinking though. If you look at it, it used to be level. Now it looks like

[41:15] it's going like this. >> So

[41:19] I don't know course it again. Try it again and you guys can uh

[41:28] » that's frustrating. I mean, the good thing about it, it does slow traffic

[41:31] down. >> I I honestly think the heat was the

[41:33] biggest issue because it was so hot. It was really hot when we left it to set up

[41:37] and it just got worse.

[41:41] » I mean, I don't know much about it, but if you have it in weather temperature

[41:46] good, does it set better and then not feel in hot weather?

[41:49] » It's not as hot. It sets better. Yeah. Yeah. When it's hot, it brings up this

[41:54] I don't know if this new oil they got in there is really weird. We're used to

[41:57] cold mix being a little harder. This stuff's a lot softer.

[42:04] » So, does that like change the budget or does it increase the budget or what does

[42:09] that look like? Because whose fault is that?

[42:13] How does it work? >> So, that's it's not in the capital. This

[42:17] is not a capital project. It's in the O andM. Um, so we do have a budget line

[42:22] for gravel road repair and uh for road repairs generally. So that's where that

[42:28] would come out of. So they currently they worked three days out there right

[42:32] now to get that done and then if they so I I actually mentioned it to the

[42:37] contractor when I spoke to him on the weekend. I said we're going to have to

[42:40] account for the material that we've used and I mentioned it to the SEO as well.

[42:45] Um but he he did they did say we could potentially use that material for

[42:50] something else so it won't be waste uh in terms of that material but in terms

[42:55] of the actual work to get it done again we would have to speak to them and work

[42:59] out solution that works for everybody

[43:04] thanks Daniel any other council concerns >> you might want to stay there [laughter]

[43:11] » no I've heard there's certain rumors going on in the business community right

[43:15] now and I don't know enough about it I wanted to bring it and The first one is

[43:20] um there's an issue going on which we're doing

[43:24] as far as the material provided. So I had a detailed conversation with PS

[43:31] about this earlier today. Um the inventory was completed and

[43:36] everything was with all that was with all that was supplied. They wanted to

[43:40] start assembling and there was an issue with dimension. So um the

[43:49] so the dimension of the drawings that was sent to the contractor that supplied

[43:53] all the material asked for 6,000 mm right and that's what they supplied.

[43:59] Okay. >> So um when the contractor went to site

[44:04] it's about 5,000 it's about 600 mm short or off. So the drawings and the reality

[44:13] there's a basically this about 600 mm difference right? So uh and then we're

[44:18] just trying to work out okay so how do they build this structure it's going to

[44:21] be a little bit bigger than the existing foundation and what's the solution out

[44:24] there do we have to cut this material to fit or do we uh build something extra to

[44:32] make it fit at the size it's already been produced at. So, it's not uh

[44:36] there's no it's a breakout like every other

[44:41] construction. You get there, there's always something,

[44:44] you have an RFI, you deal with it, you move on. There's no issues. I wouldn't

[44:48] call it an issue. It's just like every other construction project we have out

[44:52] there. >> Yeah. Okay. No, that's clear on that. Um

[44:56] and and so the inventory was done and what was provided was spent.

[45:01] » Yeah. So then now the drawings come out and just something

[45:05] » yeah just yeah the dimension of that particular structural structural um

[45:09] member was a little bit off but the inventory was done by the contractor and

[45:14] the engineers in terms of all the materials that was provided and they

[45:17] were all happy but then they got to start building and then they noticed oh

[45:22] this this is 600 mm off and then we looked at I was here on Saturday I was

[45:27] here on Saturday I reviewed the drawing the shop drawing

[45:30] uh the the item list itself just look at where the error came from they provided

[45:35] what they were told to provide >> so where did the come from

[45:39] » the draw the drawings I I don't want to say the

[45:43] drawings but ultimately the dimension on the drawings uh was a little bit off

[45:48] that's >> so so the drawings were done by a

[45:52] » yes >> okay just to be clear 600 is here 60

[45:57] would be here right >> 600 mm is

[46:00] » yeah 600 mm >> is 2/3 of a meter.

[46:05] » Yeah, >> there's a thousand millimeters

[46:09] or 100 cm in a meter. >> So 600 millimeters would be

[46:15] » 2/3 of a meter. Yeah, >> not not this one. This one.

[46:20] » Yeah. Oh, this is okay. >> I just want to make clear that it was

[46:25] 600 and not six. Well, I guess in the end is the again the financials. What's

[46:31] going to happen? Yes, it's going to be RFI. Yes, you usually incur costs that

[46:38] come out and so I mean you got to just help if it's a

[46:44] big deal. If there's somebody down that ball or if you know what I mean,

[46:48] somebody could take some sort of of not blame but somebody's got to be

[46:56] costing the taxers a whole bunch of

[47:00] extra money then we don't just look the other way.

[47:03] Um I just want that slip though. People in the business community are talking

[47:09] right now. There's a couple of projects. Um, and I just want to say, look, before

[47:14] we do anything, let's just get the proper information.

[47:16] » Yeah. No, like I said, I was here on the weekend. I was here on Saturday. I

[47:19] discussed this in detail with the SEO earlier today. Um, printed out all the

[47:24] drawings, printed out all the shop drawings, all of that stuff. Sat down

[47:27] here trying to figure out where the miscommunication could have come from.

[47:32] Um, and it's just that I wasn't I mean, and that's not an excuse, but I wasn't

[47:36] here when the when this drawing was generated. This has been on the books

[47:40] four, five years ago. The drawings are already so I don't even know if the

[47:43] engineers may decide to visit or not. But the drawings were made. There was

[47:47] that dimension on the drawing and that was what was sent. That was what was

[47:51] standard >> and that was what the material was built

[47:54] to. >> So, but of course there's a little bit

[47:57] of a dimension error there. Um, we just need to figure out how to how to rectify

[48:03] that on site now that we're on site. It's construction.

[48:07] Daniel, can you by Wednesday let us know what the mitigation was on the 600

[48:13] millimeters and whether that is going to be an additional cost?

[48:16] » Right now the the I the last call I did I had before before the end of day today

[48:21] was with the contractor and he's currently thinking to just cut it. That

[48:24] that's the easier option to cut it and then they just have um a cold cold

[48:29] galvanized um cold galvanizing done on the cut edge.

[48:34] » Okay. and then he just installs it on on side. But yeah, we had discussed like

[48:38] three different options of how to which like I said it's

[48:42] » every construction project goes through RFIs and which like you guys are all

[48:47] aware of and and it's just a normal part of uh

[48:53] construction. Thank you.

[48:55] » Sorry if I can just so to clarify to answer your question,

[49:00] what was sent out in the tender and specs is what was delivered.

[49:04] » Yes. >> Correct.

[49:05] » Yes. >> Okay.

[49:07] » So hopefully that'll clarify. >> Yeah. No, I just there's a bridge

[49:10] somewhere. There's a gap somewhere in that. I mean, you know what I'm saying?

[49:14] And if it's not that big a deal, then that's just what I wanted to clarify by

[49:19] asking about it. If it's a minor inconvenience for the

[49:23] construction and there's money in the contingency, we'll also be it. But if

[49:27] it's a bigger deal and we're sugar coing it, then I don't

[49:32] this is actually I mean I showed I shared all the emails back and forth

[49:36] with the essay today um that was sent back and forth with the contractor with

[49:40] the engineers and all that. So um it's

[49:45] it's part of >> Okay, thanks Daniel.

[49:51] » Item number 13

[49:54] in camera item. We just need a motion to go to camera. Moved by councelor Romero,

[49:58] second by councelor Parent. All in favor?

Committee of the Whole Meeting, Town of Inuvik - July 6, 2026

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