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Good afternoon. As I call this meeting to order, I respectfully acknowledge that we are on

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36 territory, traditional lands of the Cree, Gany. It's starting to go to Sue, the so-to, and the adjourned

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First Nations and the Mati people. The town of Mornville is dedicated to ensuring the spirit of 36 is honored and respected.

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With that, we will move on to two, which is the adoption of the agenda, and I want to make sure that we recognize that we will have a break between

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630 and 7 p.m. if needed. And with that, I will ask for adoption of the agenda as presented.

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Councillor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that Council approve the agenda as presented.

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Thank you. I don't need to open.

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Are there any questions of Council? Seeing none? I'll ask the question. All those in favor?

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All right. With that, we'll move to 2.3. I'll go to consent agenda.

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Have any councillors?

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, Mayor Burisma. I would like to pull 9.1.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3.

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All right, do we have any other ones?

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I'd like to pull 8.1.

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I can at least pull 8.2.1.

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Are there any others? If not, ask for motion. Councilor Defo, some move Mr. Mayor.

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All right. You don't want to open? You're good.

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Get no need to open or close. All right. I'll ask the question. All those in favor? All right.

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So with that, we will move to protocol items. Are there any protocol items? Councilor Defo?

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to point out that on December 19th, that's a Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

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At the Moranville Community Cultural Center, there will be the 44th edition of the Community Christmas Celebration.

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This was started by a teacher in town 44 years ago.

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And in recent years, it's been taken over by the Moranville Minsterals, a singing group here in town.

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And we wouldn't have it without their volunteer efforts. I encourage everyone to come out.

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Anyone who has gone knows what a great evening it is.

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Thank you. Are there any others?

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With that, I do want to note that December of Proclamation is today's Human Rights Day.

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Twenty twenty four marks the seventh thick anniversary of one of the world's most important groundbreaking global pledges.

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The University of the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by UN in 1948.

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

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Each person is entitled to fundamental rights, including the right to equality, the right to life, liberty and security of the person.

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It also recognized the right of freedom of religion and speech.

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And the right to participate in the cultural life of community.

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Also, like to speak a little bit about community spirit.

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And I hope that many of you were there at light up the night.

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It was an amazing event.

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And the Christmas festival in total between December 29th and December 1st.

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And I know it was real cold out. Some of us didn't notice because our hands were frozen.

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But it was an amazing night. Lots of candies handed out. Lots of kids were happy.

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And so it's great to see families out. And the wonderful fireworks that came with it.

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So again, thank you for everyone coming.

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And we also have the Giving Tree.

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It'll be up until December 13th. So please feel free to stop by at the MCC.

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And purchase a gift for a deserving senior.

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Those are important members of our community.

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I'm also want to recognize that on December 10th and 11th.

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Town Hall will be open until 6 p.m.

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So knowing that there's a postal strike on.

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They'll be able to pick up paper copies of the utility bills.

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So we'll be sure to bring a valid photo ID to confirm you are the account holder.

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So with that, we also wish everyone to have a great Christmas.

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And Councilor Defol, go ahead.

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Sorry, Mr. Mayor. I do have another one.

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More and little community high school does an annual drama production.

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And that starts tomorrow.

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There's a not name in the afternoon for students.

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But the first show is tomorrow night doors open at 6.30.

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Showtime is 7 p.m.

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It will be on Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night.

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This year they've gone with a comedy.

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It's called the Drowsy Shaperone.

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And it looks like it's going to be another great event.

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I have my tickets for Bonnie and I for tomorrow night.

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I encourage everybody to get out and see some good theater.

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Tickets are available 15 bucks at the door.

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They're 10 bucks in advance.

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And you can buy them through the school website.

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Right on.

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And they do an amazing job for sure.

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So anyone else got anything else?

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So good. Okay. So then we will move on to six delegation.

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So we will ask Sergeant to come forward.

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Thank you very much.

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Good afternoon, everyone.

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Thanks for inviting me this afternoon to present our second quarter update

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from the more of the RCMP detachment.

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Hopefully you have the right button here.

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So this update will provide our second quarter report,

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which covers the period of July 1st to September 30th.

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Activity at our detachment here in Mournville.

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Okay.

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Again, the purpose of these updates provide an update on two council on the operations of the Mournville RCMP detachment.

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And an overview of our jurisdiction and call volume.

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The Mournville RCMP detachment provides 20 for our policing services.

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Two several municipalities and communities including the Alexander First Nation,

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Sturgeon County, Towns of Bonnecourt, Gibbons, Legal, and of course Mournville.

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Human resource update.

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The Mournville RCMP detachment is comprised of 40 personnel,

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which includes 26 police officers,

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starting with one staff sergeant.

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We're a truly.

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We have one sergeant, five courperals,

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18 constables, in addition to that.

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We have one constable of the accident or school resource officer position.

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Four public service employees, four town of Mournville, full town employees,

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five town of Mournville, casual employees, one reserve is constable.

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Enter officers are also supported by what's now central burden regional victim services and five guards.

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Just a quick update on our human resource movement during this quarter.

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As you all know, and I reported at the last update.

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Sergeant Lou Sims moved on to Ladoop detachment by way of promotion in August.

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Happy to announce effective last month on November 12th.

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That Sergeant Mike Fibraro was identified as the successful promotional applicant.

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Sergeant Fibraro was actually joining me this afternoon.

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So he has taken the places our operations in CO for the Mournville detachment.

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Mike has been here for several years already.

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Very familiar with the Mournville detachment area.

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He is an excellent police officer and just a fantastic leader.

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And it was it was an easy choice.

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Just some further updates on our supervisor ranks.

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Corporal Ryan Lamay and Corporal Jonathan Corp.

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Both started out our detachment in September.

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Corporal Lamay came from the central burden district general investigation section.

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And Corp. John Corp came from the Fort Saskatchewan detachment.

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Both started in late September.

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We also welcomed a new supervisor to our detachment corporal Samantha Barrett.

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Was identified as a successful corporate applicant.

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She started at our detachment two weeks ago.

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She came from the same Albert detachment.

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She has several years of experience.

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And she's actually be a constable on the frontline here in Mournville several years ago.

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I can also update on the constable ranks.

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We have a constable Andrew Fontana, who has two years of service.

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It's going to be coming to our detachment brand new from Shateh detachment, which is up north near the northwest territory's border.

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He'll be starting with us just a few days after Christmas.

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And I'm sure he'll welcome the change.

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For departures we saw Constable Darren Ryan.

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Leave our detachment after several years.

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He was selected for a promotional opportunity in Evansburg.

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He left about three weeks ago now.

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And also, Constable Mary Ann Merron, who left on a lateral transfer to Masque cheese detachment both same time but two or three weeks ago.

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That will leave us at this point with two vacancies.

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One in the Constable ranks.

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And one in our corporal ranks that Sergeant Ferbaro just vacated.

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I expect to have some updates on those very shortly.

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We also have two police officers currently on sick leave and we have one on parental leave.

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The criminal statistics update for quarter two.

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Criminal code of traffic defenses have seen a general reaction from the previous year.

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Our criminal code occurrences include persons crimes which are down 25% this quarter compared to this time last year.

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Property crimes are up 19% which I'll get to in a moment.

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Other criminal codes are up 13% are total criminal code cases are up 6% of volume total from 189 to 211 this quarter compared to last.

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Looking at those numbers, that's pretty consistent where we're holding pretty steady with that.

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Our traffic defenses criminal code traffic defenses down from 3 to 2 and our provincial traffic defenses again very steady 113 to 120.

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Before I move on to this.

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Next slide I'll just touch on the property crime.

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I want to just mention that one.

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So if you go into the detailed report on crime statistics that was provided, you'll also notice that we had 14 vehicle thefts.

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This quarter and that's a comparison of pretty stark comparison to the five that we had over the same period last year.

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So we're getting to work on that we did make one arrest recently of one young offender who obviously won't be identified.

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We also have a continuing investigation and I am expecting further arrests shortly and making some progress on these.

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Other policing statistics common policing activities have seen increases in some areas and decreases in others.

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False alarm is pretty consistent 9 to 8 this year 911 calls have gone 1 to 2.

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Suspicious persons vehicles properties of suspicious activity complaints.

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We've seen a pretty good increase on that and that's good.

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That's one thing I've really been pushing the public for since I started here seven months ago was to try to get these reports up.

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No call to small when it comes to reporting suspicious activities.

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So we've seen a nice increase there from 29 to 42 compared to the summer previous.

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No persons reported missing this quarter compared to five last year.

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Case is where disposal abuse their disposal was an element of the complaint that we went to as stayed pretty much on par with last year and no mental health calls for this quarter.

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Also happy to report that the mournville detachment was selected in August as one of two new our pass locations in central Alberta district,

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Motley pilot aircraft system also known as drones the our pass has been in use at the mournville detachment since September of 2024 very very very excited about this one.

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This provides us with access to an our past system that is as I mentioned accessible and that's a big thing for us we have it right here locally at our detachment we don't have to go through different channels and go through red tape we don't have to reach out to Edmonton or district anything it's right here in house we need it it's in the air we have two locally trained pilots which I'll get to in the next slide.

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Again, look for anyone to come into our community to do it. We already have it right here. We have the people to use it right here. It's also cost effective. Obviously, we are able to put eyes in the sky and help us with investigative measures and with tactical needs and a very cost effective measure. It's safe. We don't have to put people in harm's way to see what we're going into if needed. We can use this our pastism. It's just a great thing. Some of the commonly, sorry, our past are commonly known as drones or UAVs.

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In fact, there are a lot of manual vehicles. They do provide, again, cost effective, aerial photos, HD imagery, 3D imagery, FLIR, video and photos, reserve, thermal imaging, infrared night vision, vegetation disturbance, patterns, and old burial sites, and real-time situational awareness.

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In our past views, some examples of use include traffic-related investigations, emergency or disaster response, search and rescue, major crime scenes, investigations and areas where no expectation of privacy exists, and when a warrant has been obtained.

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As I mentioned, we have two members at the Mornville Detachment currently trained as pilots. It's already been used on ten occasions since its arrival in cases of missing persons, vehicle thefts and suspect pursuits.

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That are neighboring detachments and our neighboring communities are also beneficiaries of us having it here in Mornville.

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We've assisted other detachments, such as sports, a schedule, and in nursing persons cases.

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And update on our community policing activities. Our school resource officer program has been up and running with Constable Tanner Wills since the start of the school year, and I'm beyond thrilled with the work that he's doing at Mornville Community High School and at Sturgeon Com.

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Among the many activities and the many initiatives that Tanner has taken charge of, one was distracted driving presentation.

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They prevented local year to several schools that came in and robust in from the area.

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And I attended myself, I was very impressed with that Tanner also spearheaded a November fundraiser.

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And he partnered with local students to grow what was intended to be mass dashes.

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And there raised $900 that they were able to donate to cancer research. She's just fantastic.

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A great opportunity to work with the kids.

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Coffee with the co-op sessions. Again, we continued attending a number of coffee with co-op sessions throughout our detachment area, which included one July second session here in Mornville.

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Our communication strategy, which we got running up to full speed in the summertime, positive ticketing campaign.

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We're in the early stages of this one. What I'd like to do is, right now, I'm working with community partners. What I'd like to do is have this up running by the end of this school year.

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Where we have a system in place throughout our detachment area, where we can go out and hand out positive behavior tickets with coupons or gifts or tickets to local kids.

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And we do have something like this running on a smaller scale here with municipal enforcement in Mornville.

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What we're looking at is rolling out something that's maybe a little bit bigger scale across our detachment area.

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Our members also attended, remember, stay ceremonies here in town. And we also attended the light up the night parade.

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Actually, myself and Sergeant Fubara were both present for that.

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And we'll be participating in the candy cane check stop later this week.

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We also had a capital project detachment capital project meeting last week with operational strategy branch out of K division.

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Where they provided some basic information to us on some of the restrictions and requirements when it comes to considerations for new detachment.

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That included issues and items on location space, uses and cost.

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I found it very informative. I expect this is going to lead to some further discussions in the new year as we move forward on that one to determine feasibility.

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And with that, I'll put to the group of questions.

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Thank you very much, Staff Sergeant.

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We're going to go and thanks for the update.

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And really impressed with your our past system that you showed off tonight.

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So, glad our community has it. So, are there any questions of staff Sergeant?

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Councillor Saintingy.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Thank you, Staff Sergeant, for the update.

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Would be remiss not to acknowledge, I really appreciate the human resources update and just using officers by name.

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It's not lost on me and everyone in this room that these folks wear a lot of different hats in our community or the communities that they're coming to us from.

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And so, with an understanding that turnover is a part of the job.

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But it's sad to see a lot of these families have to relocate.

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But with an understanding that there's some incredible officers and families that will be coming to our community, including the officer from the north.

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So, really appreciate the way that you framed all that.

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I do have one question. It's a bit of an outlier, but I wanted to ask in nonetheless.

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So, on page 70, there's this weird anomaly where municipal by-law infractions were significantly down in 2023.

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And then return to sort of a normal number in 2024.

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And I'm just curious, I know that you weren't here at that particular moment in time, but I'm just wondering if you have any sort of insight into why numbers were down so much.

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That job, though, at me as well.

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So, when it comes to the municipal by-law numbers coming and reported into our data.

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Obviously, it's not a primary mandate to investigate municipal by-law matters.

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At the same time, though, the nature of the complaints that come in through our dispatch center to the members that we have on the road.

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Can be of that nature, and sometimes we forward them, but we still gather those statistics.

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So, they will vary a little bit, as far as, you know, seeing a six-fold increase from one period in municipal by-law complaints to the other.

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I really don't have an explanation other than, will always forward that to municipal enforcement if we think that it's appropriate for them to follow up.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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And thank you for the report.

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The stuff with the drones is amazing.

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What a great tool to help with law enforcement in our community.

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The one question I have for you and I've asked you this before.

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Is there any update on the things I'll about to fire?

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Yeah, there is.

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So, that investigation is ongoing.

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We have spoken to witnesses recently, and we are going to be forwarding a media release shortly.

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Seeking the identification that confirmed the identification of three suspects on that matter.

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So, it is progressing.

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Thank you.

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I'll also mention two.

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I know it's somewhat related to that outside the community, though, but we did also make two arrests recently on a church fire on the Alexander First Nation.

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Suspects, I will say, are not believed to be related to the one here in Mornville.

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If you're Mayor, belong to them.

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Thank you.

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Staff Sergeant McGonagal for it's always robust.

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You bring lots of great energy into the room.

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So, thank you so much for being here for the presentation.

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Certainly echo my fellow counselors.

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Just the, you know, good stuff's happening.

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I noticed that the sexual assault complaints in 2022 were quite high.

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And I know that there was a number of media releases around that.

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About some, gentlemen, that was, I use the term loosely, was doing some internet stuff with some minor children.

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And I'm wondering if, I know that was part of it.

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There was a number of press releases that you guys had also sent out about this person.

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I'm wondering if that has now subsided just because we're seeing the numbers come down.

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And initially, there was concern that there might be more folks coming forward.

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And, you know, certainly parents had been asked to have those conversations with, with our kids.

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And obviously, if those numbers are coming down, you guys are doing your job.

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It, like, amazingly well.

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But wondering if that has somewhat wrapped up.

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Yeah, I certainly do attribute it to that.

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Again, not directly related to what we haven't done here.

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But we also had a case of kind of related to that in the Gibbons area recently that we, we were made an arrest on.

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And yeah, we're, I'll tell you right now, just kind of a sneak peek of the quarter update that I'll be presenting next.

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You'll see again that trend going in that direction of that decrease.

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Thank you again, just for the great work you're doing.

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And thank you for bringing some wonderful people into our audience here tonight.

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I appreciate that. Thank you.

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Anyone else?

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All right. Well, thank you very much.

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Staff Sergeant, so appreciate it.

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And again, we'll see you here in a couple of days with handing over the candies and stuff.

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But you guys are doing a great job and so appreciate it having a community.

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And just also want to put a hat off to Sergeant Willis for doing his job.

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Just getting a touch with those kids heard nothing but good things about that.

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So again, thank you very much.

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Thank you for being such cooperative partners.

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And we really appreciate it.

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

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All right, with that, we will have a delegation for Rose Ridge wastewater.

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So we'll ask Ms. Barry and Mr. Costa come forward.

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So should just sorry, should we go into closed session right now?

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Or is there speaking before that?

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So I will have to get someone to move to go.

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Councillor White.

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I would move that council move into closed session to discuss item 6.2.

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Percent to Section 23 and 24 of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act RSA 2000.

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CH.f.25.

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I don't need open.

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Thank you.

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I've seen none.

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I'll ask the question.

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All those in favor?

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So I know we have a big crowd here right now.

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So I'm just going to ask you just to go into the lobby.

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Until we're done.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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All right. So, with that, at this time, I don't see any public presentations. So, I will move on to business

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and 8.1. We'll move on to election by law number 20, 2020, 24. And I will have administration

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to speak to that Ms. Gilbert.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council. And happy holidays. The election by law is presented for

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second and final reading. As mentioned previously, this by-laws being brought forward

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due to changes from the municipal affairs statute amendment act. Effective October 31,

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24, also known as Bell 20. Additionally, it's always best practice to ensure the

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election by law is reviewed within each election cycle for any changes that it needs. In addition to

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mandatory provisions in the Local Authorities Election Act, there are a number of

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discretionary items. Council can consider such as nomination requirements for candidates.

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Any changes, though, related to nomination requirements, must be approved prior to

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December 31, 2024 as the nomination period begins January 25. This includes the number of

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required signatures, the candidate deposit amount, and whether to require criminal

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record check. Considerations for an implications of a criminal record check requirement were

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included in the report to Council. Council has the option to approve the by-law as presented

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or they could direct the criminal record check be added as listed in the options of the reports.

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Our recommended procedural process to ensure this by-law is approved within its legislative

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timeline while ensuring Council is confident in the by-law approved is listed under the

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alternative section of the report and includes draft motions. So for minimal

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amendments to candidate nomination requirements, that must be passed prior to December 31,

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with approval.

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Secondary Council could direct an amendment and then we could approve the reading of the by-law as amended. Both alternatives, one and two, outline that process.

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That being said, if council needs more information on items requiring approval prior December 31, Council could also call a special meeting to address this item before year end.

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And overall, our approach was to provide all updates to this by-law in one go.

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But if there's any amendments, as per council direction, we'll be happy to implement that.

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And we can also answer any questions.

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Thank you very much, Ms. Gilbert.

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Are there any questions of council on this by-law?

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Councilor and Halger.

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Thank you.

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I just had a question. In the briefing note, you highlighted the need to offer the electors assistance at home.

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And how was that done? Like, was it previously done with portable ballot boxes?

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Because that's not. My understanding was that bill 20 says that we're not allowed to use those any longer.

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So how do we facilitate the electors assistance at home?

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It's still a program under the local authorities election act that we can do. I do understand that amendment clause about.

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I believe it was a centralized collection point. So with special ballots, we can't have a ballot box anymore to collect special ballots.

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It has to be received by the returning officer directly.

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With voting assistance at home, two deputy election workers typically will go to the house.

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A system with voting and return with their ballots to bring to the elected assistant at home ballot boxes.

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So each voting station outside of the typical voting day will have a ballot box that's secured until we are counting center opens.

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So that's the same process for whether we're doing advance voting, institutional voting,

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electors assistant at home special ballots. They're all secured when those voting stations close.

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And they're all collected by election workers as allowed under the local service election act.

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So it's just specifying that we can't have a drop box. It has to be received by a person.

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Thank you very much. Anyone else have any questions?

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If not, someone would have forward the motion.

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Deputy Mayor.

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Thank you, Mayor. I'll move that council approve second reading of the election byla number 20-2024.

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And they don't need to open, but I definitely want to thank Miss Gilbert for her very hard work.

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Thank you.

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Can you debate, question?

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All right. Did you want to close?

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All right. I'll ask the question. All those in favor?

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All right. That's unanimous.

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And then I'll move on to is anyone want to put third reading on forward?

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Councillor White.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that council approve third reading of the election byla.

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Number 2-0-2-0-2-4.

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And just a bit of an opening here. I've wanted to thank Miss Gilbert for all the work that she did as well.

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Obviously, there was a lot of work created by the changes that came in 2020.

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And that's not always easy to implement without looking at the ramifications and implications that

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that could have to other parts of the election byla.

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And by my reading of this, you did a very thorough job of going through everything.

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So I support the way it is written and thank you for your work.

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Thank you very much.

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Is there any debate on this or questions? All right.

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That's the question. All those in favor? All right. And that is unanimous.

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And we will move on to 8.21.

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And I will turn that over to administration.

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Thank you, Mayor. It's my pleasure tonight to present the T2 report to council.

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As you recall, this is our reporting cadence for progress against council strategic plan and administration's

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Cascading corporate business plan.

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As usual, I will just pick the odd highlight from each school to cover and then certainly be willing to take any questions from there.

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With that, so goal one community building that the go to for me on the school is always the engagement that was a priority for council.

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And so in T2, I know council will have seen out and about the extensive engagement plan that we had put in place for the development of our municipal development plan.

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So in T2, that got off and running and I know that council saw that out in the community.

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We also around community safety and well-being.

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We are sorry in goal two. We implanted the 40 kilometer an hour speed limit across more andval supported by a comprehensive educational campaign to help raise awareness among residents.

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And we also constructed an emergency access route at Notre Dame Point Subdivision.

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This completed so enhanced accessibility and safety for that community.

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As well, the more villagers centers saw the introduction of the wellness and recreation access program, which there's an updating my CAO report later.

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And corporate memberships were added as of August 1st to promote well-being in the community.

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With respect to goal three, we am pleased to report that our advertising and sponsorship program continues to perform very well exceeding revenue productions and receiving very positive feedback.

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And in terms of what that looks like on the ground, we had the Pembena Activate Program was extended.

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So point was confirmed as a sponsor for the free skate.

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And we also were able to install a billboard in town that helped us with additional revenue generation.

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In terms of goal four environmental responsibility, we completed the waste audit in partnership with GFL and helps continue to inform our management strategy.

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And we've also had some discussions that are released renewal for the community gardens.

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With respect to goal five, we're on economic development.

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The more and more environmental campaign was actively promoted.

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This was when our successful developer block party was held to showcase development opportunities in the municipality.

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And as well, I'm very pleased to participate in the urban development institute luncheon.

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Strengthening those regional relationships and promoting more and more as an attractive destination for investment.

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We also, I'm happy to report received a request for information from Edmonton Global, which led to a site visit for a local business showcasing our potential as a desirable location for investment.

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And then in terms of goal six.

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And we continued to support our good neighbors at a Alexander first nation with attendance and support for their multitude of cultural events.

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But we also had a collaboration array practical way too, which was we had a member of our staff asked to support a recruitment process with the nation.

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And then on page 15 or 15 of the report and 146 of your agenda.

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So the developer block parties there, festival days, MDP, bike, rodeo and so forth.

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It also includes your financial update for T, T2, so both revenue and expenses were had positive variances.

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And the revenue variances were mostly due to higher than budgeted user fees.

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And the expense variances were driven by lower contracted services and salaries and benefits expenses.

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There's also a capital projects update and your ATE statistics are included.

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And there are staff on hand to help answer questions.

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Thank you very much, Miss Hayes.

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It's a great report to read and lots of information.

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So again, thank you very much for getting all this out to us and for the completions that we can see.

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Are there any questions of council on the T2 report?

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Okay, comment from the Premier.

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Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Miss Hayes.

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I'm really, quite pleased actually to see the in goal six around the collaboration with the county looking at similar purchasing opportunities.

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And I think that's a key thing.

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It's been a long running joke for Councillor White and I every time we see some of their councillors about the assault shed.

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So I'm so excited to see that there I feel like we should go celebrate.

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But really good stuff and a lot of completion.

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And it's really nice to see the movement through here because we're not always abreast of what's going on.

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So just my thanks and really pleased as well to see what's happening with our first nation's neighbors.

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Anyone else?

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Councillor Daveville.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Not a question, but a comment.

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I just want to thank staff for correcting the statement of operations where it relates to honorariums and prudiums.

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When I read through the agenda and saw that I was the highest paid and by a margin of 5,000.

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I knew that absolutely wasn't correct.

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So with the corrected numbers, I'm pleased to see that I'm under my budget allocation as I should be and that everybody is.

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A lot closer to where they should be.

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You're just testing you to keep your sharp.

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But in all honesty, thank you for allowing us the opportunity to rectify that.

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Yeah, no, I'm always looking at numbers.

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And thank you for catching that.

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Again, thank you for staff for helping along with that.

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Councillor Sintany.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Yeah, and thank you for the as always for the for the update and for shining a light on some of the progress that that that we see and often feel in our community.

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So it's nice to have a visual.

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I do have one question.

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I'm just wondering on the statement of operations on page 148.

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Under gain loss on Capitol ass at the disposal.

434
01:10:42,000 --> 01:10:47,000
I'm just curious what is what does the 31,676 represent?

435
01:10:51,000 --> 01:11:00,000
So generally speaking, gain or loss on asset disposal means when we advertise an asset a physical asset.

436
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:06,000
When you dispose of it, there is a certain amount of amortization that's been built up on that on that asset.

437
01:11:06,000 --> 01:11:15,000
So basically when you have the initial purchase value, what we call the book value is the purchase value less how much amortization we booked against that asset.

438
01:11:15,000 --> 01:11:22,000
When we go and sell an asset, depending on what we get in the at the at auction or what we're able to recover back on that.

439
01:11:22,000 --> 01:11:28,000
You would either recognize a gain or a loss depending on whether that amount was above or below what our book value is.

440
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:36,000
So if we're able to return a higher amount than what our book value is, we recognize a gain and then that flows through as income through our income statement.

441
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:42,000
And basically help support surplus that council can allocate at the end of the year or through our reserve policies.

442
01:11:42,000 --> 01:11:50,000
If we were to sell something and unfortunately not be able to get as much as what the book value was, the reverse happens and we have to book a loss against that.

443
01:11:50,000 --> 01:11:58,000
So I'm not familiar with off the top of my mind what the actual asset that was, it was disposed, but that's how gain and loss on tangible assets works.

444
01:11:58,000 --> 01:12:03,000
Yes, and this is a gain. So in this case, we were able to recover more than what we had on our book value.

445
01:12:03,000 --> 01:12:04,000
Okay, no one I appreciate that.

446
01:12:04,000 --> 01:12:10,000
Yeah, I was wondering if it was like one particular piece of infrastructure, but yeah, so thank you.

447
01:12:12,000 --> 01:12:14,000
Thank you, anyone else?

448
01:12:16,000 --> 01:12:17,000
All right, see none.

449
01:12:17,000 --> 01:12:21,000
Yeah, I need a motion for him. Okay, go ahead and dip your mayor.

450
01:12:21,000 --> 01:12:22,000
I'm blank.

451
01:12:22,000 --> 01:12:27,000
Thank you, Mayor. I will make the motion that council accept the town of Martinville, T.T.

452
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:31,000
Strategic Plan progress report 2024th information.

453
01:12:31,000 --> 01:12:33,000
No need to open or close.

454
01:12:33,000 --> 01:12:34,000
Thank you.

455
01:12:34,000 --> 01:12:37,000
All right, any debate or questions on that?

456
01:12:37,000 --> 01:12:40,000
If not, ask question all those in favor.

457
01:12:40,000 --> 01:12:43,000
All right, and that is unanimous.

458
01:12:43,000 --> 01:12:54,000
And with that, I have, I'll recommend that we need another motion to bring us into committee of a whole.

459
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:58,000
Councillor Daphoh, so move Mr. Mayor.

460
01:12:58,000 --> 01:13:01,000
All right, all those in favor?

461
01:13:01,000 --> 01:13:05,000
All right, so move the chair.

462
01:13:07,000 --> 01:13:09,000
Thank you, Mayor.

463
01:13:11,000 --> 01:13:18,000
Let's move on to business 9.1, 9.1, council reneumeration review committee report.

464
01:13:18,000 --> 01:13:22,000
I'll tear that over to Ms. Brush and administration.

465
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:34,000
All right, thank you, Deputy Mayor.

466
01:13:34,000 --> 01:13:39,000
So for those of you who don't know me, I'm the manager of Human Resources here at the town of Martinville.

467
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I'm going to do a brief introduction before we head into the council remuneration review committee report.

468
01:13:45,000 --> 01:13:54,000
So as you can recall from the February 27th, 2024 regular meeting of council council approve the establishment of a council remuneration review committee,

469
01:13:54,000 --> 01:14:06,000
which consisted of five more and more electors and myself as the administrative facilitator to review the council remuneration review results and the council remuneration review policy

470
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:10,000
and develop recommendations for council's consideration.

471
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:16,000
The committee was solely formed of more and more electors appointed by more and more and more chief administrative officer,

472
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:20,000
and this was to maintain the important principle of neutrality.

473
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:25,000
Their mandate was to ensure fair and equitable compensation for elected officials,

474
01:14:25,000 --> 01:14:31,000
to demonstrate with the responsibilities will also considering fiscal responsibility and transparency in the governance.

475
01:14:31,000 --> 01:14:39,000
The committee was focused on the accountability to the community, the ability to attract and retain qualified candidates for public office,

476
01:14:39,000 --> 01:14:49,000
aligning compensation with the demands and expectations of civic leadership and fostering public trust in the process through the involvement and independent members of the public.

477
01:14:49,000 --> 01:15:00,000
The updated or a updated red line draft policy has been attached to your agenda package that has been prepared by the committee for council's review and to contextualize the committee's recommendation.

478
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,000
It is important to note that the draft was prepared by the committee, not administration, and is therefore intended for information only. Following council's direction to bring back the remuneration policy for formal review, administration at that time can prepare a formal draft update for council that includes administrative updates, recommendations, the recommendations of the committee and any specific direction of council. At this time, I'd like to introduce the committee's chair, Brian Brost, to provide the committee's recommendations to council for consideration.

479
01:15:30,000 --> 01:15:58,000
Thank you, Jennifer. I said this down here. Again, I'm Brian Brost. I am the appointed chair of the council remuneration committee, and it's a pleasure to be in front of you all today. And on behalf of the committee, I would like to express my thanks of the committee members and my family for your contributions to this community, as members of council. It's a noisy task and is one that is very important in establishing good governance for community and we do thank you for that.

480
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:01,000
So with that, go into our presentation.

481
01:16:01,000 --> 01:16:04,000
Let's look for the slide. Thank you.

482
01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:09,000
I'm going to touch on a few points here today for agenda. So the background is thought in establishment of the committee.

483
01:16:09,000 --> 01:16:16,000
The introduction of our committee members, our mandate, some foundational information that we want to share with you.

484
01:16:16,000 --> 01:16:22,000
Particularly recommendations for council consideration that are going to include updated policy and schedules.

485
01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:31,000
A change in comparative groups are recommended change, recommended target percentile of that council remuneration would be based on, and analytics supporting this information.

486
01:16:31,000 --> 01:16:42,000
As administration noted, a policy red line version is included in your agenda package that encompasses the changes or recommended changes to that policy and our rationale for that.

487
01:16:43,000 --> 01:16:45,000
So the background is established in the committee.

488
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:52,000
It's important to note that this is a voluntary group and one that is in part separate from anything of council.

489
01:16:52,000 --> 01:17:02,000
And we wish to acknowledge council's decision of past motions in 2024 for the approval of the by-law to have this independent council remuneration review committee.

490
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:14,000
There was work done by a report from the 2023 Hillcrest report that undertaken a complete review of all of the comparator municipalities by council policy.

491
01:17:14,000 --> 01:17:20,000
And that we are an independent group of citizens bringing forward recommendations for your consideration.

492
01:17:20,000 --> 01:17:25,000
We do recognize that it is truly recommendations and the authorities still rest with yourselves.

493
01:17:25,000 --> 01:17:30,000
And ultimately establishing what if any by-law or policy changes will be coming from that.

494
01:17:30,000 --> 01:17:47,000
Our appointment is been by the CAO of this past year in June and we have met seven times between June and November through establishment of our own terms of reference in alignment with the mandate per council by-law.

495
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:52,000
So this is actually for committee members. There were five of us appointed to it. My self is chair appointed by our committee.

496
01:17:52,000 --> 01:18:01,000
Mr. Kelvin Collier, who's with us today is Vice chair and members Fred Bar, Rainier and Greenier Kubis and Kelvin Kuzik is unfortunately unable to be with us today.

497
01:18:01,000 --> 01:18:06,000
So those gentlemen that are with us today. Thank you for attending and being in part with us here as well.

498
01:18:06,000 --> 01:18:11,000
And as well, I'd like to express our thanks on behalf of the committee for the administrative support through Ms. Jennifer Brush.

499
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:22,000
It has been very appreciative for the work that she's contributed to this and as she noted earlier on all the decisions and the information brought for you to the is by ourselves as a committee.

500
01:18:22,000 --> 01:18:34,000
So the mandate of this committee for by-law of council and this is no new information for yourselves is to review the remineration and benefits paid to more adults council.

501
01:18:34,000 --> 01:18:44,000
It is to provide a report to council with our recommendations for council's consideration regarding the remineration and benefits for more adults council, including the Honorary and Benefits, pensions,

502
01:18:44,000 --> 01:18:51,000
per deums and any other forms of remineration and to provide recommendations on revisions to more adults policies or that by-law.

503
01:18:51,000 --> 01:18:58,000
And to provide any methodology to be used to establish future justice to remineration, including comparators and frequency.

504
01:18:58,000 --> 01:19:02,000
For you today, this presentation is our report.

505
01:19:03,000 --> 01:19:12,000
So the foundational information that we've utilized for our determination and the ultimately recommendations for you today is based on the mournable's current council remineration policy.

506
01:19:12,000 --> 01:19:24,000
The 2023 Hillcrest Third Party Council remineration report corresponding current policy and comparative municipalities by the policy of council which are those comparative municipalities and their by-laws.

507
01:19:24,000 --> 01:19:29,000
As well as other municipal council remineration by-laws and policies within the direct comparator group.

508
01:19:29,000 --> 01:19:40,000
The direct comparator group is a group of other municipalities that mournable administration uses for their comparison for their staff, comparison in their respective wages and remineration.

509
01:19:40,000 --> 01:19:48,000
The committee is also researched populations of marginal mournable's regional comparison municipalities and those of the direct comparators.

510
01:19:49,000 --> 01:20:03,000
With that fundamentally we are bringing forward a recommendation which I'll provide further information on that in my presentation of a revised comparative group of municipalities which we believe mournable aligns most closely with.

511
01:20:03,000 --> 01:20:09,000
So council's remineration review committee beyond the by-law mandate of council.

512
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:18,000
We applied these additional lenses and that is accountability, fiscal responsibility, efficiencies, transparency and clarity.

513
01:20:18,000 --> 01:20:25,000
As well as alignment with other municipalities and government practices.

514
01:20:25,000 --> 01:20:31,000
So for our council remineration policy recommended amendments these include but they're not limited to the following key areas.

515
01:20:31,000 --> 01:20:35,000
3.1 council compensation was to include that compared to group.

516
01:20:35,000 --> 01:20:39,000
4.2 which includes a cost of living and absence.

517
01:20:39,000 --> 01:20:43,000
4.3 per deems including eligibility committee alternates.

518
01:20:43,000 --> 01:20:47,000
4.4 which is expenses which includes reimbursements for meals and travel.

519
01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:52,000
Professional development encompassing activities without a province travel.

520
01:20:52,000 --> 01:21:05,000
And then schedule B which is the council remineration rates including updated recommended honorarium per deem, mileage and meal allowance rates.

521
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:14,000
So for our current market comparators that's been established by mournable council encompasses the city of Beaumont, Devon, Fortress Gatchon, Locom,

522
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:18,000
Cochrane Hinton, White Court, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Surgeon County.

523
01:21:18,000 --> 01:21:22,000
We have reviewed that and the policies and Bala's other municipalities.

524
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:33,000
And in considering those we've viewed that there is a need for new market comparators that are more comparative to the civic functions and the demands of council for more and more.

525
01:21:33,000 --> 01:21:41,000
The comparative community populations as well as recognizing the geographic location that's in proximity to a large urban center.

526
01:21:41,000 --> 01:21:52,000
So one of those is recommended market comparators will include new recommended comparators where identified by an asterisk, including some of the other ones that remain on the recommended new grouping.

527
01:21:52,000 --> 01:22:03,000
Which includes the town of Blackfolds, Coldale, Town of Devon, Town of Hinton, Town of Innisfail, City of Locom, Town of Olds, Town of Stony Plain, Town of Tabor and the town of White Court.

528
01:22:03,000 --> 01:22:13,000
Those in themselves are following statistics, you'll see some of the population rationalization that we brought to it as well as what we view are the similarities of our community.

529
01:22:13,000 --> 01:22:25,000
Whether that be demographics of our community, whether that be civic functions of our community, the level of service or type in kinds of service that our community offers, we view this to be more aligned with mournable.

530
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:34,000
So of this recommended new compared to group, you can note on this table here, the municipality listed by name on the left.

531
01:22:34,000 --> 01:22:46,000
The population as at the 2021 federal census, the percentile population encompassing where mournville is at at 64% based on those population numbers.

532
01:22:46,000 --> 01:22:52,000
And then of course our percentage of that being at that 64th.

533
01:22:53,000 --> 01:23:02,000
So with this numbers in hand, mournville is residing out of approximately 65th percentile based on the population of this compared to group.

534
01:23:02,000 --> 01:23:06,000
So I go back comparison and I don't have this as a table.

535
01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:16,000
mournville is currently established by policy by remuneration to be at the 50th percentile for honorariums and prettyms alike of what the current compared to group is.

536
01:23:16,000 --> 01:23:26,000
So we are bringing forward a recommendation to not necessarily be at 50 but to be at 65th of the of the new compared to group and I'll explain later.

537
01:23:27,000 --> 01:23:45,000
So for that, the recommended policy updates include number 3.1.4 the console honorarium prettyms will be reviewed and adjusted accordingly by annually to the equivalent population percentile of the compared to group specified 3.1.3.

538
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:50,000
The rationale and I'm going to jump back and forth on a couple slides here for that.

539
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,000
I should go back to that one.

540
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:59,000
The rationale I'll explain later on that one and as well recognizing that there was a motion put forward by Councillor White in 2024.

541
01:23:59,000 --> 01:24:03,000
The council directed administration to bring forward the council remuneration policy.

542
01:24:03,000 --> 01:24:05,000
That's a tongue twister.

543
01:24:05,000 --> 01:24:14,000
Cp194-22 with an amendment to clause 4.2.1 to allow council to vote on whether or not they received the cost of living adjustment.

544
01:24:14,000 --> 01:24:21,000
Now we weren't present in the when that motion was put forward but in considering the context of what that does.

545
01:24:21,000 --> 01:24:30,000
It brings the decision of whether or not council would it would normally be automatically as a cost of living adjustment.

546
01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:39,000
By motion of this, this brings it to the table that council has to vote on that on an annual basis and not be an automated cost of living adjustment.

547
01:24:39,000 --> 01:24:44,000
We view that the committee in terms of reviewing the above motion.

548
01:24:44,000 --> 01:24:55,000
We don't support council eligibility for COLA and the recommended policy updated achieves reasonable honorarium and per deimagesment potential in alignment with being at that 65th percentile every 2 years.

549
01:24:56,000 --> 01:25:09,000
If more inville council supports this, being at the 65th percentile of that compared to group and the 65th percentile of those respective honorariums or per deimages of those other councils.

550
01:25:09,000 --> 01:25:22,000
That would be an adjustment by annually so every 2 years there would be an eligibility for adjustment and where more inville resides that in that population and in commensory with that population.

551
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:26,000
Honorariums with respect to cost of living and absence.

552
01:25:26,000 --> 01:25:36,000
The recommended policy updates include under 4.2.1.1, Mayor and council honorariums are not eligible for that cost of living adjustment during their term.

553
01:25:36,000 --> 01:25:43,000
And that council honorarium should be reviewed adjust accordingly again as a state editor by annually to the equivalent population percentile of the compared to group.

554
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:55,000
So we are recommending that the honorariums are commensurate again with that population percentile being at that 65th percentile.

555
01:25:55,000 --> 01:26:09,000
Item 4.2.3.1, notwithstanding policy section 4.2.3, members of council will be excused for up to 2 meeting absences per year without approval by council resolution.

556
01:26:09,000 --> 01:26:13,000
Currently it is up to 4 meeting absences per year.

557
01:26:13,000 --> 01:26:25,000
And the rationale for that is relative to the accountability of council of a councillor member whether one is either absent or not and reducing that from 4 to 2.

558
01:26:25,000 --> 01:26:30,000
We view that there is a greater importance for a member of council theory to be absent.

559
01:26:30,000 --> 01:26:35,000
It is to be by council resolution as an approved absence.

560
01:26:35,000 --> 01:26:43,000
4.2.3.2, in cases where it is determined that honorarium will not be retained due to an unapproved absence for meetings.

561
01:26:43,000 --> 01:26:46,000
deductions will be applied in the amount of $250.

562
01:26:46,000 --> 01:26:50,000
That is the same equivalent amount for the pridium for that of a council meeting.

563
01:26:50,000 --> 01:26:57,000
So if a member is unapproved or exceeds that two absences per year for those absences is there that they are an exceedance of.

564
01:26:57,000 --> 01:27:04,000
They will have a deduction of their honorarium based on that author honorarium but their pridium for that equivalent amount.

565
01:27:05,000 --> 01:27:08,000
So going back again for the rationale for our committee.

566
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:15,000
For 4.2.1.1 and 4.2.1.2 combined, the coal is not deemed applicable for council.

567
01:27:15,000 --> 01:27:19,000
Whereas the honorariums are reviewed and adjusted every two years.

568
01:27:19,000 --> 01:27:23,000
Equivalent to the population percent of the new recommended comparative group.

569
01:27:23,000 --> 01:27:28,000
And the committee deems this frequency and method for potential adjustment to be reasonable.

570
01:27:28,000 --> 01:27:32,000
And it's highlighted in a highly but identifies as a potential adjustment.

571
01:27:32,000 --> 01:27:38,000
It's commensurate with our population or more bills population with out of that comparative group.

572
01:27:38,000 --> 01:27:47,000
So in the example where if more and will would be increasing to the 70th percentile of that comparative group.

573
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:56,000
More and bills honorarium, where therefore be at the 70th percentile of the amounts compared to those comparative groups.

574
01:27:57,000 --> 01:28:05,000
Conversely, if more and will was to start decreasing in terms of its population state on that comparative group.

575
01:28:05,000 --> 01:28:10,000
Council's honorarium would be equivalent to that same percentile as a reduction.

576
01:28:10,000 --> 01:28:20,000
So it's very much tied to where more and will rest in terms of its growth and comparison with that new recommended comparative group.

577
01:28:20,000 --> 01:28:28,000
Again, as I stated previously in capturing it for your presentation, with respect to the number of approved absences per year.

578
01:28:28,000 --> 01:28:35,000
Going from four to two demonstrates an increase of accountability and commitment to the responsibilities as a council member.

579
01:28:35,000 --> 01:28:47,000
Increasing the honorarium penalty from $100 to $250 as a more significant financial consequence in the event of unapproved absences.

580
01:28:48,000 --> 01:28:55,000
Next, with respect to 4.3 per deum, including the eligibility for per deum, the committee alternates and values.

581
01:28:55,000 --> 01:29:01,000
It's recommended policy updates include 4.3.9.2.1.1.

582
01:29:01,000 --> 01:29:16,000
The appointed alternate attendees are allotted per deum to a maximum of three meetings per year per committee in which they are the designated alternate when accompanying the main board member.

583
01:29:16,000 --> 01:29:31,000
And removal of 4.3.9.2.1.4, where non-appointed alternate shall be paid at the mournful per deum rates per section 4.3 of this policy to a maximum of three meetings per year.

584
01:29:31,000 --> 01:29:36,000
The rationale for those two respective recommendations.

585
01:29:36,000 --> 01:29:48,000
Although the committee recognizes the importance of upholding alternate members for boards and committees of council, including functional continuity and sharing and transferring the information between that of council and council members.

586
01:29:48,000 --> 01:29:50,000
And representation of our council.

587
01:29:50,000 --> 01:29:57,000
The committee deems that attendance of an alternate at a board or committee meetings when the main designated board members present.

588
01:29:57,000 --> 01:30:00,000
Capping the eligibility for per deum to a maximum of three meetings per year.

589
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:05,480
Here, demonstrate some fiscal prudence. Or more fiscal prudence than what could be in place right now. And

590
01:30:05,480 --> 01:30:10,880
it's not by any means suggesting that any particular member of this council would be purposely

591
01:30:10,880 --> 01:30:16,480
attending more meetings that what they need to be or when the alternate is the main

592
01:30:16,480 --> 01:30:21,760
debt board member is there. By bringing this into policy, it demonstrates that openly and

593
01:30:21,760 --> 01:30:26,920
transparent that it removes that particular opportunity for financial gain just by sitting

594
01:30:26,920 --> 01:30:39,160
on board committee meetings. 4.3.9, 1.4, excuse me. Again, very similar to the above one,

595
01:30:39,160 --> 01:30:43,000
it removes by removing this policy article and eliminates the potential for financial

596
01:30:43,000 --> 01:30:53,440
motivated meeting attendance by a non-appointed member of council. So in the area of expense reimbursement

597
01:30:53,440 --> 01:30:58,960
for meals and travel, the recommended policy and schedule updates includes the area

598
01:30:58,960 --> 01:31:04,600
of 4.4, which meal reimbursement will be set equivalent to the Canada Revenue Agency

599
01:31:04,600 --> 01:31:10,480
simplified reimbursement method at current public rates. That will be included in your package

600
01:31:10,480 --> 01:31:15,240
under schedule B for further information. And when breakfast lunch or dinner is provided

601
01:31:15,240 --> 01:31:21,880
a conference seminar workshop or meeting, then meal lances or received meals will not be reimbursed

602
01:31:21,880 --> 01:31:28,880
without council approval. By applying the Canada Revenue Agency simplified rate, it is

603
01:31:28,880 --> 01:31:34,880
essentially eliminates the need for the policy amendments, perhaps on an annual basement,

604
01:31:34,880 --> 01:31:42,560
basis, or the frequency of policy changes where council yourselves or future councils will determine

605
01:31:42,560 --> 01:31:47,560
what that rate should be at. It is more efficient for administration and it is consistent with

606
01:31:47,640 --> 01:31:54,320
those CR rates that is applicable in other jurisdictions. As for the standard mileage, it will

607
01:31:54,320 --> 01:31:59,600
be reimbursed at the current Canada Revenue Agency mileage rate, where again, similar to that

608
01:31:59,600 --> 01:32:06,200
of the meals, it isn't a need for council to make a decision on how much cost per kilometer

609
01:32:06,200 --> 01:32:11,640
a councilor should be reimbursed for mileage or what the current rates shall be for breakfast

610
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:17,120
lunch or dinner. Those are established for fixed rates that are updated annually by the

611
01:32:17,120 --> 01:32:24,240
CRA. So with that, members of council may claim for, sorry, that was that one. The next one we have

612
01:32:24,240 --> 01:32:33,240
is 4.4.6.2.1. Members of council may claim for disposal or guest expenses in circumstances where it

613
01:32:33,240 --> 01:32:38,840
is expected that they be accompanied by their spouse or guests to a maximum of $200 per year. And that

614
01:32:38,840 --> 01:32:45,840
was, uh, including, but not limited to the FCM conference gala. We are recommended that that be removed.

615
01:32:45,840 --> 01:32:51,280
And the rationale for that is that the committee views that is not expected for a member of council to

616
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have a spouse or guest a company of them at events, nor shall shut to a company meant be eligible for

617
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expense reimbursement. Removing this policy article demonstrates fiscal responsibility and prudence

618
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and should a guest attend an event, the respective members of the council shall be personally responsible for

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the expenses of their guests and attendance. In modern day, as much as some view may view in the past where

620
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one need to have a spouse or a partner attend a gala or event, the committee had discussed this and again,

621
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reinforcing the view that our, or yourselves as council members are the elected representative of our community.

622
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And it is the elected member of the committee that is supporting our community any spouses, again, is at

623
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your personal discretion or future council's discretion, whether you want to be there or not.

624
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I need not explain further again for why we have brought forward the, the meal reimbursement change.

625
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But again, we view as it demonstrates alignment with the national standard, other jurisdictions,

626
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and enables updates to the respective reimbursement values without the need for undertaking council policy

627
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amendments of those noted values.

628
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With regard to 4.6 professional development activities, including out of up province travel,

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the recommendation of the committee is that only two members of council may attend the same out of province conference,

630
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convention, seminar, workshop, or course. The attendance of two members of council, she shall be by resolution.

631
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The rationale for this from our committee is that the committee views that attending professional development and representation of council

632
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through attendance at conference, convention, seminar, workshops. Yes, it is an important aspect of your roles or future members,

633
01:34:32,880 --> 01:34:38,520
roles of council and a function of governance. However, establishing the only two members of council shall attend the same

634
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out of province event, yet upholds reasonable and appropriate representation of our council at those events and demonstrates fiscal prudence for more

635
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and build. Looking at conferences such as the FCM conference in particular, depending upon where it may be,

636
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our committee has done an evaluation of the cost of what that could be, and if we were to support what is currently in place

637
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where all members of council attend FCM, the cost for that would be near exceeding, depending upon where is in Canada,

638
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upwards of 40 to 50 thousand dollars for all members of council to attend that conference. I recognize what in the committee recognizes

639
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that it is important work what council does, and being there and being present at those type of events, whether it be hold or in part,

640
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is an investment that may not be to the betterment or the benefit of our committee, whereas two members of council could attain the same representation

641
01:35:36,640 --> 01:35:39,920
of our community and information for council to bring back.

642
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So looking at more details what would be scheduled be the Honorary and Comparative Group being at the 65th percentile as a target.

643
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The numbers in front of you show the 2021 and again, the municipalities on the left are what the committee is bringing forward as the recommended new

644
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Comparative Group. The 2021 federal census is what the values are based on placing more of what the 64th percentile. The annual mayor honorarium at 65,000. Again, this is based on the 2023 rates that are in place, not including any

645
01:36:18,920 --> 01:36:30,920
cold adjustments subsequent to that, or that of the rates per those other respective communities. The annual council honorarium being at 35,280.

646
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And if you look and apply that same numbers against the 50th or the 50th percentile of the new Comparative Group, it would land at 54,576 dollars, annual honorarium for the mayor and 25,331 dollars for that

647
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of councilors for the honorarium. Applying the 65th percentile value to the new Comparative Group brings the honorarium for the mayor's position at 59,880 dollars and the council honorarium at 27,594. Again, these numbers are based on the 2023 numbers that we had from the Hillcrest report and there is still a potential for changes in each of these respective values.

648
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Should any of those other members represent of municipalities change their respective honorariums?

649
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Schedule B, Perdem Expansory Investment, the committee has reviewed this. In adjusting these values, there are quite a range of Perdem values across those recommended new Comparators for the hours of Expansory Investment for time and attendance of council or members of

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committees, so zero to two hours from 50 to 62,50 per Dem rate, two to four hours, changing from 100 to 125, a four hour to eight hour event from 200 to 250, a daily maximum of 300, and recognizing that conference daily maximum, increasing from 200 to 250 dollars.

651
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So in closing comments, the committee, excuse me, we have undertaken a review of the current mortal policies and that of other

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competitors in alignment with the council by law mandate. The information that we have reviewed and the decisions and the recommendations that are being brought free today are all through consensus of our committee members, as well as the proposed policy and schedule amendments.

653
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We understand that council is not bound by our recommendations, and, ultimately, we do respect and appreciate the deliberation that council will take going through this, and that those decisions won't be made today, and they are not going to be easy decisions of council.

654
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We also view that the purpose and function of the council remunation review committee to be an important aspect of demonstrating responsible civic function for the betterment of mournville.

655
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In our recommendations, the council accept the council remunation review committee report is presented for information and your DMR work complete.

656
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The council direct administration to bring forward a revised council remuneration policy and encompassing the recommendations that we brought forward further in final review and as administration at indicate earlier.

657
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Any other views and expressed opinion by council for your consideration at a future meeting.

658
01:39:25,880 --> 01:39:31,880
With that, I welcome any questions of council. Thank you very much, Mr. Rose, and certainly.

659
01:39:31,880 --> 01:39:39,880
That's all right. That's all good. Thank you, Mr. Rose, for this presentation.

660
01:39:39,880 --> 01:39:49,880
I certainly can appreciate the robust work and not an easy task as well to take all of this on. At this time, I'm going to open it up to the rest of my council.

661
01:39:49,880 --> 01:39:56,880
I know the mayor is chomping at the bit to have a conversation about this too. No, I'm joking. No kidding.

662
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But I will open it up right now to the rest of council. If there's some questions or comments.

663
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Councillor Steyney, we'll start.

664
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Sure. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Rose, for the presentation and to the committee members for obviously a tremendous amount of work.

665
01:40:14,880 --> 01:40:22,880
That's gone into it, seven meetings and obviously lots of work between July and now.

666
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So, my first question, it's really just a curiosity.

667
01:40:28,880 --> 01:40:41,880
So, I'm wondering why the committee chose not to interview or consult Mayor of council to better understand our local civic duties and council demands, which you referenced in the presentation.

668
01:40:41,880 --> 01:40:50,880
I only asked this because I did a little bit of digging, because I have really only seen ours, our previous iteration.

669
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And the 12 council runeration or council compensation committee reports that the first 12 that I found from 12 different municipalities and regions in the province that have come forward since 2022.

670
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Every one of those, there was a touch point with Mayor and council to gather information.

671
01:41:11,880 --> 01:41:15,880
Yeah, too. You're Deputy Mayor.

672
01:41:15,880 --> 01:41:21,880
Councillor Dany, that is a very important question and one that is and was discussed amongst her committee.

673
01:41:21,880 --> 01:41:33,880
We did consider it and in considering the, what we believe to be the impartiality of what we are bringing forward should Mayor and council wish to bring forward any other

674
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changes than what we have recommended that would be leaving that to yourselves to bring forward in your own respective debate and consideration of those policy changes before council and in the front of council.

675
01:41:46,880 --> 01:41:54,880
Okay, no, I appreciate that yet. Like to me, it just felt like that was a big omission with an understanding, I guess, of the rationale.

676
01:41:54,880 --> 01:41:58,880
So, okay, thank you.

677
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Councillor White.

678
01:42:00,880 --> 01:42:13,880
Yeah, just a bit of a clarification on my, my motion. So, the reason the motion was put forward was we were getting their color increases without voting on them.

679
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I thought it was right for us to each vote on them without getting them automatically.

680
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The motion was never put on the floor and never debated and never passed. So, this motion was delayed, depending the outcome of of this and the outcome of the actual council relation policy that will be voting on it sometime in the future.

681
01:42:36,880 --> 01:42:38,880
Just I just wanted to clarify that.

682
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And if I made Wallyco.

683
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Thank you for the clarification and that is what the committee had viewed the rationale for that motion being brought forward.

684
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We realize and through our information from administration that it was an automatic cold adjustment to council.

685
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And that that it being said being that is automatic.

686
01:43:03,880 --> 01:43:08,880
That in your motion was the fact that you want to bring that forward with a council actually does accept that or not.

687
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Or consider an increase or a decrease to what that cold motion is.

688
01:43:12,880 --> 01:43:18,880
We did review that motion and again from our presentation.

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In composing that any adjustments would be by based on a biennial basis for the percent of the comparative group or we'd be at would eliminate the need for contemplation of what the coldest specific would be for an adjustment.

690
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But cold it could be counted for without of any other honorary and values that other comparative groups established for their respective honorariums.

691
01:43:40,880 --> 01:43:48,880
So it basically takes the cola as an individual item to adjust annually, but that of a biennial review.

692
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:56,880
Okay, thank you and I guess if the recommendation is to remove the cola then my motion would no longer be pertinent.

693
01:43:56,880 --> 01:44:06,880
And that is clear yes our recommendation is to remove the the cola adjustment on an automated annual basis for council.

694
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Council day for.

695
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Thank you deputy mayor a couple of things.

696
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First of all I was I was pleased to see the number of permitted meetings without permission reduced to to.

697
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My first term when we did a remuneration review a game with the public committee and they did consult council.

698
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One of the concerns I had was the number of absence in an individual was missing 25% of my memory serves that resulted in that being added to the council compensation originally had lobbied for two.

699
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It got increased before I'm happy to see it go back to to.

700
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So that's my comment my question in line with council or saint denny in the absence of interviewing council.

701
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:08,560
When I respect that you wanted to remain impartial, what did you use, you and the committee, to understand

702
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the work that this council does? I mean, certainly we have some population numbers and I understand

703
01:45:15,280 --> 01:45:21,520
getting us closer to populations like Hinton, which is very similar to us, some little below,

704
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some little above. But beyond population, what was used to determine the respect of workloads,

705
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because two communities of 10,000, mournville has EMRB, Edmonton, Global, Hinton doesn't, but

706
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at the same token Hinton probably would have some regional boards that we don't. So I

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hope we understand the rationale and all of that. Councillor Defo, and three of you Madam Deputy

708
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Mayor should say first, the response to that is that although we did not consult specifically with

709
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yourselves as current members of council, and indeed that was to remain impartial to our

710
01:45:58,560 --> 01:46:03,120
decision so that it couldn't be viewed by your input. That was influencing what we were bringing

711
01:46:03,120 --> 01:46:08,000
forward. That was one of the primary reasons. In terms of the information that we reviewed,

712
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we're bylaws, we're pile up policies of those respective compared to groups. The committee also examined

713
01:46:17,360 --> 01:46:22,080
the types and kinds of those communities, as I noted, close to our large urban centers,

714
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recognize that there is other urban committees of council. We could see in the schedules of

715
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all those respective compared to groups, the type and kinds of committees that would be similar to

716
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that of mournville, and recognizing that each one of those isn't exactly or similarity aligned with

717
01:46:40,160 --> 01:46:47,040
mournville, but compared to that of the current compared to group, we viewed that it was not in alignment

718
01:46:47,120 --> 01:46:53,520
as near as much as mournville is as a community. Recognizing population, recognizing the

719
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services that are offered by the community, also recognizing that the members of council of some of

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those committees are either full time or part time or mayors or full time or part time. Those were a

721
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number of the rationale and the information that we had reviewed for bringing forward the recommendations

722
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that we did. Thank you for that.

723
01:47:12,400 --> 01:47:18,400
Okay, anybody else? Councilor Inaeliger, and then followed up by Mayor Borshma.

724
01:47:20,720 --> 01:47:25,840
Yeah, I just have a question actually in regards to the changes that you'd recommended regarding

725
01:47:25,840 --> 01:47:32,720
the mileage rates in that. Why the change to government of Alberta? Sorry, the federal, the federal

726
01:47:32,720 --> 01:47:37,360
mileage rate over the provincial mileage rate, because I believe and this question's sort of

727
01:47:37,360 --> 01:47:42,720
for administration also, is that the same rate that staff is applied for staff for mileage, the

728
01:47:42,720 --> 01:47:48,400
government of Alberta rate also? Sorry, two-part question.

729
01:47:50,320 --> 01:47:59,600
So the mileage rate is for staff is CRI rates, the per DM rate for meals is based on the government of Alberta.

730
01:47:59,680 --> 01:48:09,280
So I wasn't, excuse me, you're self actually councilor and held your, we did not have or look at

731
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what the staff reimbursement rates were. We were looking at the type and kind of reimbursement rates

732
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that were applicable for mileage or meals with that of the current compared to groups, as well as

733
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the recommended new compared to groups. And many of those are landing at what would be the CRI rate.

734
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And additionally, we viewed that the current Alberta rate was insufficient in our view for

735
01:48:31,680 --> 01:48:34,960
what that mileage should be at and compared it to the CRI rate.

736
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Mayor Boisman? I think it was answered earlier through the councilor, they felt, but I was going to

737
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ask you on the community compared to a group. Some of the policies that you suggested,

738
01:48:53,440 --> 01:49:01,360
are they similar, do they have similar policies right now? Like you were talking about the two

739
01:49:01,360 --> 01:49:09,360
misses or even the funding or what it is exactly on those policies?

740
01:49:12,080 --> 01:49:18,560
Mr. Mayor, yes, the recommended policy amendments, not everyone in its entirety, but a number of

741
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the policy minutes we brought forward, whether it be by definitions or some of those changes or the

742
01:49:23,600 --> 01:49:30,240
eligible eligibility for premiums, honourums, are specifically compared to or equivalent to that of those

743
01:49:30,240 --> 01:49:38,640
in the policies of other municipalities? Councilor Richardson? Yeah, thank you.

744
01:49:38,640 --> 01:49:43,040
Same thing, most of my questions have been kind of answered or touched on a little bit here. I guess the only

745
01:49:43,040 --> 01:49:50,640
one that I still have is similar to the meeting. I see that it went from 100 to 200 for missing

746
01:49:50,640 --> 01:49:57,680
a meeting and there is talks about it coming from the per DM's schedule, the 250, and I'm just looking

747
01:49:57,680 --> 01:50:05,200
in 250 is our conference rate, the 0 to 2, 2 to 4, and 48, so if it was the 2 hour meeting, would the

748
01:50:05,200 --> 01:50:17,760
councillor lose 62, 50, or is it just a flat rate of 250? So that would be by a meeting of this

749
01:50:17,760 --> 01:50:23,520
council. So it is your council meeting. So I guess right now I think in here says that you would be

750
01:50:23,520 --> 01:50:30,880
dock 250 from your honourarium if you missed the meeting, but the 250 is based on the conference,

751
01:50:30,880 --> 01:50:36,400
which is typically over eight hours, and then we have the 0 to 2 to 4. So I guess how did we land on the

752
01:50:36,400 --> 01:50:43,520
250? Is it more just to be punitive for somebody trying to get them not to miss the meeting? Yes, that is

753
01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:50,560
correct. We view that not necessarily missing a committee meeting, but meeting missing a meeting of council,

754
01:50:50,560 --> 01:50:58,080
where one is not here, drawing that to an equivalent, or at least a with your words, a punitive value

755
01:50:58,160 --> 01:51:02,640
for accountability, of what one could have earned, and the same equipment I could have by

756
01:51:02,640 --> 01:51:11,840
not being returned. Okay, if there's not any more questions perhaps, this is an opportunity to open

757
01:51:11,840 --> 01:51:18,560
up to comments if folks felt so inclined. Oh, yeah, councillor and heldger? I'm just going to jump back to

758
01:51:19,360 --> 01:51:27,280
the comparators, and so I understand entirely the focus on the population, but when you first dug into

759
01:51:27,280 --> 01:51:32,240
this, then you would have been presented with our direct comparator group and our regional comparator group,

760
01:51:32,240 --> 01:51:42,560
and those are the comparative groups that we use for in or sorry that we use in help guiding conversation,

761
01:51:42,560 --> 01:51:48,160
decision around a lot of our other municipal decisions, budget related, and all of that. So when you looked

762
01:51:48,160 --> 01:51:55,520
at the current market comparators, and you thought that the other some of them weren't appropriate,

763
01:51:55,600 --> 01:51:59,920
could you maybe just give me some insight into why you didn't, like I understand why you chose

764
01:51:59,920 --> 01:52:05,920
some of the new ones? What was the thought process around disqualifying the other ones? Aside from just

765
01:52:05,920 --> 01:52:10,960
population? Okay, so thank you for the question again. Let's see, I've turned to reinforce what we brought

766
01:52:10,960 --> 01:52:17,280
forward. We've identified population number one as a near-closer alignment to mournville. We've

767
01:52:17,280 --> 01:52:23,280
identified the complexity or the type in kind of services that mournville offers as a town.

768
01:52:24,000 --> 01:52:32,000
We've identified the comparison with whether it be full-time versus part-time counsel or mayors,

769
01:52:32,000 --> 01:52:40,720
roles, and duties, and then recognizing that there was a disparity based on some of the populations,

770
01:52:40,720 --> 01:52:46,640
and the expectations with where if we use mournville as an example, having a population of approximately

771
01:52:46,640 --> 01:52:52,800
10,000 people, 10,000 people, common services that would be provided to the community in

772
01:52:53,520 --> 01:52:58,720
perfilling your role in time of counsel as you do in counsel chambers tonight. The committees that you

773
01:52:58,720 --> 01:53:04,320
attend, the calls that you get from residents of concern or the inquiries and the time that you spend with them,

774
01:53:05,040 --> 01:53:11,680
for those that are of the larger centers that would be exponentially of a higher level of expectation and

775
01:53:11,680 --> 01:53:17,360
demands on counsel, compared to that of those that we have here with similar populations of

776
01:53:17,360 --> 01:53:24,720
mournville, noting particularly like, and I don't think it's no secret, the city of spruce Grove,

777
01:53:24,720 --> 01:53:32,000
the city of Locom, is a city. It brings a lot different diversity in some of the expectations.

778
01:53:32,000 --> 01:53:37,040
Some of the subject and the content may be the same, but the demands of counsel would be more

779
01:53:37,040 --> 01:53:42,320
exceeding in those larger facilities, or not cities, facilities, but cities, and the demands of residents,

780
01:53:42,320 --> 01:53:48,400
and the time of residents, compared to where we are as a comparative town use ability. You will note that we

781
01:53:48,400 --> 01:53:53,680
have not included stringing county and recognizing that mournville resides adjacent to stringing county,

782
01:53:53,680 --> 01:53:59,120
and there's a lot of partnership and communications that occur between mournville and stringing county.

783
01:53:59,520 --> 01:54:05,360
It is that it is a rural jurisdiction, compared to an urban jurisdiction, and we view that the urban

784
01:54:05,440 --> 01:54:12,960
jurisdictions have a lot more similarities in that of a council role and responsibility to that of a rural

785
01:54:12,960 --> 01:54:19,360
center, as well as the contributing tax basis, is another aspect that we didn't touch on,

786
01:54:19,360 --> 01:54:24,640
where the rural county will have a different tax base tax revenue compared to some of those different

787
01:54:24,640 --> 01:54:31,680
cities, and the diversity that you'll note there, and we recognize, Hinton has a unique tax base

788
01:54:31,760 --> 01:54:37,600
as in his fail with some of the agriculture, so there's a change, but we couldn't have a one-size-fits-all

789
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but we tried to bring this to a comparison that we again viewed more closely aligned with mournville,

790
01:54:42,800 --> 01:54:47,040
and that's where you'll note the omissions or the exclusions of some of those cities,

791
01:54:47,040 --> 01:54:51,680
as well as a surgeon county as a rural jurisdiction. I appreciate you expanding.

792
01:54:52,560 --> 01:54:55,600
Okay, we'll open it up for comments.

793
01:54:59,360 --> 01:55:06,800
Not all at once. There's two recommendations here. One is to say that the report has

794
01:55:06,800 --> 01:55:11,040
information and that the job of the committee is complete, and the second one is the recommendations.

795
01:55:12,400 --> 01:55:18,000
Which one you looking for comments? Well, we can make the first motion and then move into where we have

796
01:55:18,560 --> 01:55:23,360
the comments and recommendations moving forward, so somebody wants to make that first one and we can do that.

797
01:55:27,600 --> 01:55:34,160
Okay, I would move that council accept the council re-uneration review committee report as

798
01:55:34,160 --> 01:55:40,160
information and deem the work of the committee complete. Thank you for all the work that you put into this.

799
01:55:40,160 --> 01:55:45,360
I'm not going to see I agree with all of it, but it's nice that somebody had a fresh look at this,

800
01:55:45,360 --> 01:55:51,840
that is in a way tied to council or administration in any way, and I think it was a

801
01:55:51,840 --> 01:55:57,520
very objective look at it. However, I will make recommendations when it comes to the other motion.

802
01:55:57,520 --> 01:56:05,360
Thank you for your work. Okay, and I guess you don't need to note them because you had one.

803
01:56:05,360 --> 01:56:12,560
So I'll call the question, all those in favor, and that passes unanimously. Now we can

804
01:56:13,280 --> 01:56:18,080
have an introduction. Deputy Mayor Blanco, I just want to advise the second motion

805
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:24,320
directing administration to do work and any amendments. We should just do that in the business arising.

806
01:56:25,280 --> 01:56:26,480
Thank you. Thank you.

807
01:56:28,720 --> 01:56:34,560
Great, but I will open that up for yes. Yeah, I mean, if we're just going on some comments, is that to

808
01:56:34,560 --> 01:56:40,560
do you want to get into before we go back to the meeting? There's a few things that I think are really

809
01:56:40,560 --> 01:56:44,960
good and here, and obviously a few that I kind of disagree with a little bit, and one of the things

810
01:56:44,960 --> 01:56:50,320
that I'll just say is, I find some of it pretty prescriptive, and I know Councillor Daphil and myself have

811
01:56:50,320 --> 01:56:57,840
different opinions on the missing and the meetings of Council from 42, and the other thing that I

812
01:56:57,840 --> 01:57:05,280
seen in here is just the increase in the penalty. You know, I don't know if the punitive nature of it

813
01:57:05,280 --> 01:57:10,800
actually meets, you know, I'll say the significance of missing a meeting, and I'll say we have some

814
01:57:10,800 --> 01:57:14,480
meeting, sometimes that are an hour long that are pretty quick, and if you're missing that and you're

815
01:57:14,480 --> 01:57:20,640
being doing $250, because it happens to be one that wasn't approved by Council, I think that

816
01:57:21,680 --> 01:57:26,960
unfortunately that seems a little bit harsh for that penalty. And on the other side of that is we do

817
01:57:26,960 --> 01:57:30,960
have some long meeting, sometimes more important, which are budget, and I think missing some of those are

818
01:57:31,040 --> 01:57:39,040
probably, you know, worthy of a $250, subtraction from the on-rare, if it wasn't approved to leave.

819
01:57:39,040 --> 01:57:44,720
So, you know, kind of a little bit on the fence either way on that, and then the comparators as well,

820
01:57:44,720 --> 01:57:51,120
I find some of them I don't think really relate to the same responsibilities that we have, which

821
01:57:51,840 --> 01:57:59,760
could reflect why the pay is different in other municipalities. So, I know before we bring this back,

822
01:57:59,760 --> 01:58:07,920
I think that some of the comparators, I would like to see maybe changed or more resemble some of the

823
01:58:07,920 --> 01:58:15,440
work efforts that we put in. So, that would be my comments on the kind of presentation.

824
01:58:16,800 --> 01:58:24,000
Hey, anybody else? Everybody has the... Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Councilor Defo.

825
01:58:24,720 --> 01:58:29,360
Yeah, thank you, Deputy Mayor. Just a bit of a response to Councillor Richards and

826
01:58:29,760 --> 01:58:36,000
you know, I think the intent with the meeting absence. Well, first of all, you know,

827
01:58:37,520 --> 01:58:44,640
we're not ultimately approving a policy for this Council, although it would affect this Council.

828
01:58:44,640 --> 01:58:49,120
You're thinking of the role of Councillor, and as I've indicated in the past,

829
01:58:49,760 --> 01:58:54,240
we've had members that missed way more meetings than they ever should have.

830
01:58:54,560 --> 01:59:01,920
But the important thing here, I think, is that this is you're allowed to missed meetings

831
01:59:03,200 --> 01:59:10,400
without permission or resolution of the Council. I think most of the meetings that we missed

832
01:59:11,040 --> 01:59:17,520
would fall within that. We don't have anyone here that simply not showing up for a meeting or not

833
01:59:17,520 --> 01:59:23,200
showing up for a meeting because it's a controversial or contentious issue that they don't want to vote on.

834
01:59:23,760 --> 01:59:30,160
We have people that miss meetings because they have work. And as I think you mentioned at one

835
01:59:30,160 --> 01:59:37,680
point, we don't want to preclude that shift worker who may have to miss the occasional meeting

836
01:59:37,680 --> 01:59:44,320
from being able to run for Council. I don't think that's the intent here. So I'm not afraid of that going

837
01:59:44,320 --> 01:59:48,960
to, and I'm trying not to debate because we don't have anything on the table. I'm not afraid of that

838
01:59:48,960 --> 01:59:56,400
going down to two meetings, and I'm not afraid of the $250 sting. That's meant to be

839
01:59:56,400 --> 02:00:00,160
a peanut of, to say, hey, you should be at a meeting. So, so...

840
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:04,300
I don't think we're as far apart on that UNI as your might think.

841
02:00:04,300 --> 02:00:07,760
Yeah, and I would agree. And, you know, Councillor Stinney can also talk to this a little bit too

842
02:00:07,760 --> 02:00:12,480
about, you know, his time coming to council and having a full-time job. And what that looks

843
02:00:12,480 --> 02:00:16,520
like in the stress that it puts on, not only your full-time job, but your family on making

844
02:00:16,520 --> 02:00:21,360
some of these meetings. And I would hate to have something prescriptive where somebody goes, well,

845
02:00:21,360 --> 02:00:25,920
you know, if the council doesn't like me, I can't get out of this and also in your being punitively

846
02:00:25,920 --> 02:00:29,920
hit by it. And really the electors elect the people that they feel that will represent

847
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:34,560
them the best. And sometimes that's not always represented in these meetings here, but just

848
02:00:34,560 --> 02:00:39,600
in general. And, you know, there's a lot of ways we represent our constituents without being here at this

849
02:00:39,600 --> 02:00:43,920
table, although this is a very big part of it. It's just not the only way that we represent them, so.

850
02:00:46,480 --> 02:00:58,160
Mayor Boris Ma. So, I love the insights that you've provided here tonight. And I'm not sure this

851
02:00:59,120 --> 02:01:04,800
the full reports are the accounts for the unique demands that we actually have in Morenville are

852
02:01:04,800 --> 02:01:13,120
always seen. They, the context, context, which we govern. So, I think transparency response will

853
02:01:13,120 --> 02:01:20,800
have because must remain at the forefront of our decision when we make one. Transparency ensures

854
02:01:20,800 --> 02:01:25,440
our residents understand the council of wages are not just a cost. And I think that's an important

855
02:01:26,000 --> 02:01:29,840
thing, but it's an investment in the leadership required to move more and build forward.

856
02:01:30,720 --> 02:01:36,880
So, in the responsibility compels us to recognize that as part of Edmonton, Metropolitan Region,

857
02:01:36,880 --> 02:01:43,360
our council is uniquely positioned to engage in regional partnerships. Don't see that in all of the

858
02:01:43,360 --> 02:01:49,760
comparator communities. To advocate for local priorities and navigate pressures that

859
02:01:50,720 --> 02:01:57,680
smaller or more rural communities may not face. Advocacy requires us to send standards

860
02:01:57,680 --> 02:02:03,280
that value leadership, not only for the current officials, but also for those who will guide

861
02:02:03,280 --> 02:02:10,080
our community into the future. So, Morenville, obviously, as you know, has emerged from a fiscal

862
02:02:10,080 --> 02:02:17,920
vortex stronger today. Thanks to this council's collaborative effort and tough decisions. I believe

863
02:02:17,920 --> 02:02:25,120
we've demonstrated fiscal responsibility and delivered results to date. In light of the progress,

864
02:02:25,120 --> 02:02:30,960
I urge council to take the reports, findings, and obviously under advisement, which I really appreciate

865
02:02:30,960 --> 02:02:37,200
each one of you brought forward, but to also consider the broader responsibilities and pressures that

866
02:02:37,200 --> 02:02:43,760
are unique to our community, which may not have been seen because of what you talked about earlier.

867
02:02:44,080 --> 02:02:49,600
You really didn't look at each individual council or were able to speak to it, so you took that

868
02:02:49,600 --> 02:02:54,800
under, I'll take that under advisement. And I think the committee's port is very important

869
02:02:55,840 --> 02:03:04,160
that is put into this decision, but there are also other inputs to consider as well. So, what I would

870
02:03:04,160 --> 02:03:10,560
recommend is for administration to bring a comprehensive, comprehensive report to council that includes

871
02:03:10,640 --> 02:03:16,320
the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation Report, which I think some of us may have, you know,

872
02:03:16,320 --> 02:03:23,360
not looked at as close. And the recommendation of the council compensation committee and any other

873
02:03:23,360 --> 02:03:32,080
relevant consideration. So, and I think I'll put that into a motion later on, but that's my comments on it.

874
02:03:32,080 --> 02:03:41,920
Thank you, Mayor of course, Mayor. Councilor Wait. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Yeah, I'm totally in agreement

875
02:03:41,920 --> 02:03:47,040
with if I'm going to bring my spouse to anything. I'm paying the freight for everything. Everything.

876
02:03:47,040 --> 02:03:51,840
Because I don't think that the town of Warnville should be covering off any expenses that I'm

877
02:03:51,840 --> 02:03:59,040
incurred by choosing to bring my spouse with me. So, I totally agree with that. The one thing there that

878
02:04:00,000 --> 02:04:06,720
it kind of sets me aside with the with the comparators is that very early on in council, when we were

879
02:04:06,720 --> 02:04:14,000
talking about a renomeration period that there was comments made about you can't cherry pick comparators

880
02:04:14,000 --> 02:04:20,400
to get the result you want. And that was something that stuck in my head for a while. We live in the

881
02:04:20,400 --> 02:04:26,880
Edmonton region. We buy homes in the Edmonton region in Warnville. I don't know what prices are in

882
02:04:26,880 --> 02:04:32,560
table. I don't think that's relevant, but I may pay more here than I would in table. So, making my

883
02:04:34,240 --> 02:04:40,640
room numination the same as it is in table is not a fair comparison. There's a lot of things that

884
02:04:40,640 --> 02:04:50,480
that go into the whole part of being a counselor. And it's not just the time that you see here at the meeting.

885
02:04:50,960 --> 02:04:57,600
I mean like today's meeting agenda was 30 seconds. I have at least eight to 10 hours of reading

886
02:04:57,600 --> 02:05:02,480
this agenda package before I got here. So, it's not the time that I spent here that takes the time,

887
02:05:02,480 --> 02:05:11,280
but it's also the the issues that are in this document today. We're living in my head for the last four days.

888
02:05:11,280 --> 02:05:20,320
And that's a you know it's a part of being a counselor and I'm not complaining. But you have to look

889
02:05:20,960 --> 02:05:28,160
at what is involved in the work to understand why we get paid what we do. But the other things that I

890
02:05:28,160 --> 02:05:34,960
really need to stress is that when you're looking at reducing pay for somebody in the in the neighborhood

891
02:05:34,960 --> 02:05:42,400
of 24 percent, it should be done on a red circle basis. So, you would red circle that person in that

892
02:05:42,400 --> 02:05:47,600
until the next election. And then the fresh people coming in and putting their name forward in

893
02:05:47,600 --> 02:05:52,640
September can look at what the new rate is going to be and say yeah that's for us at all go for it.

894
02:05:52,640 --> 02:05:58,640
And if I don't think it's worth it then I don't go for it. But when I put my name forward in 2021 in September,

895
02:05:59,520 --> 02:06:07,360
I looked at the rate of pay the the benefits and I made a decision that it was worthwhile for me to do this

896
02:06:07,360 --> 02:06:14,640
work. But to take it away midway through the term, it's completely wrong in my opinion at any type of change

897
02:06:14,640 --> 02:06:19,920
to this if there's going to be a reduction should be red circled to September of next year and then the

898
02:06:19,920 --> 02:06:26,720
next council can decide whether they want to take this role on for the money that is being put forward

899
02:06:26,720 --> 02:06:30,480
because quite frankly I think a lot of people are not going to put their name forward.

900
02:06:31,760 --> 02:06:39,440
I've got one more thing. When the Hillcrest Trust report came out in February 27th,

901
02:06:40,400 --> 02:06:47,280
I was looking at that and thinking they're recommending that the mayor's pay go up 25.38%

902
02:06:47,280 --> 02:06:55,120
and council pay go up 14.86% and then this committee was struck and I'm thinking okay well maybe they'll balance

903
02:06:55,120 --> 02:07:02,160
that somehow. But somewhere in the middle is where I think this needs to land and I think we're fixing

904
02:07:02,160 --> 02:07:07,280
something that isn't broke but that's that's my opinion and you know I think that's the way we

905
02:07:07,280 --> 02:07:14,720
handle it going forward. People should be considered on how their employment with the town is working

906
02:07:14,720 --> 02:07:19,120
and the changes that are going to be made and when those changes are going to be made.

907
02:07:22,080 --> 02:07:31,200
Thank you Councillor Defo. Thank you Deputy Mayor. I know for Councillor White in particular that

908
02:07:31,200 --> 02:07:36,240
increase and pay that was an issue for you during the election and and you're aware of this but I want

909
02:07:36,240 --> 02:07:42,960
to make others aware of it. I think at that time of the Hillcrest report one of the reasons why

910
02:07:44,000 --> 02:07:51,600
the rate went up as significantly as it did is that prior to that one third of what a councilor was paid

911
02:07:51,600 --> 02:07:59,440
was tax-free and the federal government and their infinite wisdom took that away and that's why that

912
02:07:59,440 --> 02:08:07,920
was increased the kind of balance that out. Where I have a slight disagreement with with the last

913
02:08:07,920 --> 02:08:16,720
information that that was presented if we're going to review this and we're going to reduce as the

914
02:08:16,720 --> 02:08:26,320
committee recommends our honorariums, per DMs are going up so that's a move point but the honorariums

915
02:08:26,400 --> 02:08:31,920
then this council should be prepared to take a hit because I don't want to be a guy sitting here

916
02:08:31,920 --> 02:08:37,520
and going well that's a good pay for me but the next group and I know that's not your intent and I

917
02:08:37,520 --> 02:08:41,600
understand completely where you're coming from but if we're going to bring this back and we're going to

918
02:08:41,600 --> 02:08:47,520
consider it taking a reduction in what someone sitting at the table is paid we damn well better we

919
02:08:47,520 --> 02:08:54,080
prepared to take that hit in our final year ourselves and in reality it's probably going to be the last

920
02:08:54,080 --> 02:09:01,760
six months of the term but that's just an outward thought that I have. Okay any comments from

921
02:09:01,760 --> 02:09:09,600
anybody else I'm going to say something council right first just because I've been really quiet no it was

922
02:09:09,600 --> 02:09:16,000
a point that councilor white had made around the competitor groups the majority of which are part of our

923
02:09:16,000 --> 02:09:24,000
EMRB which I think are fairly big players because the demands are big on us as well with

924
02:09:24,000 --> 02:09:32,720
EMRB and that report looking at that report it wasn't just and I can appreciate that councilor

925
02:09:32,720 --> 02:09:42,800
day for the you know losing the one third never has this rule been a nine to five we don't have

926
02:09:42,800 --> 02:09:49,520
predictable hours I know myself a year and a half ago I was working school based mental health and

927
02:09:49,520 --> 02:09:56,640
had to leave that role because I had zero predictability with my schedule and I had kids who were

928
02:09:56,640 --> 02:10:03,840
depending on me and I wasn't able to accommodate that I think the same can be said for everybody around here it

929
02:10:03,840 --> 02:10:11,200
is not it's moving targets all the time you're getting those calls late at night you are feeling things

930
02:10:11,200 --> 02:10:18,240
through social media you're answering emails you don't get to shut it down and so I appreciate the work

931
02:10:18,240 --> 02:10:25,840
that has been done by this committee and I get looking from the outside in it may look one way or another

932
02:10:25,840 --> 02:10:35,600
but the demands I feel on this rule come at a cost to all of us time with our family getting lynched in

933
02:10:35,600 --> 02:10:42,800
stores in town I love to share this one I ran into a counselor at sobies from our neighboring

934
02:10:42,800 --> 02:10:48,000
municipality and I had a ball cap on and we just made eye contact looked at each other all we did was

935
02:10:48,000 --> 02:10:54,000
nod because anytime we walk in the sobies we know we're guaranteed a half an hour conversation

936
02:10:54,800 --> 02:11:00,160
those are things that we don't account for but they have value they have value in our community because

937
02:11:00,160 --> 02:11:06,080
we live here we pay those same taxes we want to leave it better than we found it so when we look at that

938
02:11:06,080 --> 02:11:12,320
report with our competitor groups and I agree maybe some can change an urban flow when we're looking at

939
02:11:12,320 --> 02:11:20,000
that 50th percentile knowing that our mayor is a 25% blow and as council we are 15% blow that 50th

940
02:11:20,000 --> 02:11:26,400
percentile I also think that narrative needs to be shared and it needs to be loud in saying that I'll

941
02:11:26,400 --> 02:11:32,400
hand it back over to council wait thank you deputy mayor yeah I just wanted to comment a little bit

942
02:11:32,400 --> 02:11:40,800
on my conference convention stuff because this has been a very responsible council as far as all of us

943
02:11:40,800 --> 02:11:48,000
going to us and we don't do that we haven't done that once this term and you know that I think that

944
02:11:48,000 --> 02:11:54,640
it was personal responsibility on our part but if if you move forward with you don't there's only two

945
02:11:54,640 --> 02:11:59,200
people going to each thing now you've got either the mayor deciding who's going or maybe the

946
02:11:59,200 --> 02:12:03,680
mayor goes every time and we only get to go once or whatever but you're setting this up for a new council

947
02:12:03,680 --> 02:12:10,400
and a new council when when you start and if you go to SM you're going to take three or four courses

948
02:12:10,400 --> 02:12:15,760
that are why you're there you can't bring that back and and just give everybody at council the the

949
02:12:15,760 --> 02:12:21,200
Colesnell's version of the four courses that you learned at so I mean it's a it's an educational tool for

950
02:12:21,200 --> 02:12:27,120
new council but I you know I agree that not everybody should go to everything every time but I think that you

951
02:12:27,120 --> 02:12:34,000
should set the budget so that in my personal development I only get enough money to go to two or three

952
02:12:34,000 --> 02:12:38,960
or whatever so that I can make the decisions on what I want to go to because I don't know what works for you

953
02:12:38,960 --> 02:12:46,400
but I do know what works for me so I mean I think that you're setting the next council up for a bit of

954
02:12:46,400 --> 02:12:51,520
who goes where thing and a big fight over it if if you start going to that there's only two people going

955
02:12:51,520 --> 02:12:58,720
into this and two people going to that so that's my comment on that. Thank you Councillor Richardson.

956
02:12:58,720 --> 02:13:02,960
I think you actually I was just going to talk about that as well and Lake Councillor Wade has said I

957
02:13:02,960 --> 02:13:09,120
think that this council has been fairly responsible and it hasn't been a huge uptake for FCM but I've

958
02:13:09,120 --> 02:13:14,560
had this sentiment for a while that if I'm under my professional development budget and my

959
02:13:14,640 --> 02:13:19,920
my island subsistence budget I should be able to take what I feel is going to best help me

960
02:13:21,520 --> 02:13:30,480
represent the the residents of Mournville and you know some people might have more I'll say ambition to

961
02:13:30,480 --> 02:13:35,760
go to something like my one of my other birds like Erwack where I want to go to a ban for a convention

962
02:13:35,760 --> 02:13:41,360
there and if you're doing that then obviously you can't do FCM but if I'm not doing that in order to go to

963
02:13:41,360 --> 02:13:47,360
FCM well one's in Alberta and one's not you know how come I'm not able to do it if I'm still underneath

964
02:13:47,360 --> 02:13:52,080
my mileage and subsistence and professional development so that one kind of is a little bit of a

965
02:13:52,080 --> 02:13:57,520
sticking point for me as well and you know maybe there isn't needs to be a cap but I think to is pretty low

966
02:13:57,520 --> 02:14:01,920
and Lake Councillor Wade said that you know the mayor is probably the best suited to go there as he's the

967
02:14:03,840 --> 02:14:08,480
official spokesperson for the town of Wornville and then if one other person goes that means two

968
02:14:08,480 --> 02:14:13,840
people are going in a year and there's a lot of benefits from attending a conference like FCM especially

969
02:14:13,840 --> 02:14:19,760
for a new counselor that can go there and learn about some of the stuff that Council should know about so

970
02:14:21,120 --> 02:14:26,800
again I don't know where I'd sit exactly number wise but I think two probably two low and seven probably two

971
02:14:26,800 --> 02:14:35,520
two highs so. Thank you Councillor Santini. I thank you Deputy Mayor. You know yeah I can't

972
02:14:35,600 --> 02:14:41,920
Councillor Richardson I'm kind of spoke to a little bit of what I wanted to I guess touch on

973
02:14:44,560 --> 02:14:49,840
I do had some some concerns around some of the recommendations specific to the professional

974
02:14:49,840 --> 02:14:57,520
development you know I do believe that there there should be some autonomy I look at this council

975
02:14:57,520 --> 02:15:00,320
we each have our own unique.

976
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:20,000
So, there's only so many opportunities to to learn and so many windows of opportunity to do some of that professional development. And so, you know, most of these boards sort of plan around Alberta,

977
02:15:20,000 --> 02:15:25,000
sort of plan around Alberta, munis, and FCM because it impacts the majority of folks that sit on around those tables.

978
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:36,000
And, you know, so putting a cap at two, I just, you know, I guess going back to Council Richardson's point earlier.

979
02:15:36,000 --> 02:15:43,000
It seems rather prescriptive, you know, and again, understanding the rationale for not consulting with mayor and council.

980
02:15:43,000 --> 02:15:55,000
I do think that this is one particular area where, you know, I think us not having a voice in any of this.

981
02:15:55,000 --> 02:16:02,000
He said, upset me a little bit. You know, big picture, and it's been set a couple times, but nobody here at this table is doing this for financial gain.

982
02:16:02,000 --> 02:16:11,000
You know, when I look at my in and out at the end of each month.

983
02:16:12,000 --> 02:16:21,000
You know, big picture, and it's been set a couple times, but nobody here at this table is doing this for financial gain.

984
02:16:21,000 --> 02:16:29,000
You know, when I look at my in and out at the end of each month, and I stack that up against the hours that I put in.

985
02:16:29,000 --> 02:16:34,000
And I know that, you know, my, my call, my counterparts would certainly echo this.

986
02:16:34,000 --> 02:16:40,000
It's sobering when, when you, when you put that up against sort of the renumeration as is.

987
02:16:40,000 --> 02:16:52,000
And then sort of what that represents in terms of sacrifice to, you know, family time and all the other roles that each of us sort of bring to this table.

988
02:16:52,000 --> 02:16:56,000
And I know that when we go into this, we do that with an understanding.

989
02:16:56,000 --> 02:17:07,000
So I have concerns about the precedent that this would set set for future councils with an understanding that we want to attract.

990
02:17:07,000 --> 02:17:15,000
Qualified, skilled, motivated residents that want to serve our community.

991
02:17:16,000 --> 02:17:24,000
For all the right reasons, and I just wonder, I don't think that any of us would ever be in the position to ask for a raise.

992
02:17:24,000 --> 02:17:32,000
That's not what we're doing, but, you know, to roll back to the degree that is recommended.

993
02:17:32,000 --> 02:17:43,000
I just worry that we could be placing barriers for qualified skilled motivated residents that may want to put their name in for next.

994
02:17:43,000 --> 02:17:51,000
For the next election, you know, October of next year, so those are my thoughts.

995
02:17:51,000 --> 02:17:56,000
Councilor and Helger, and then Councilor Default, sorry, did you.

996
02:17:56,000 --> 02:17:59,000
Okay.

997
02:17:59,000 --> 02:18:12,000
Perfect, I just, so my, my comments to the committee, I really appreciate this work, and I definitely, I understand the approach in using comparators and focusing on the population.

998
02:18:13,000 --> 02:18:24,000
Because in terms of service providing governance and and serving populations, I understand that thought.

999
02:18:24,000 --> 02:18:39,000
One thing I do think that maybe was missed in this is considering what our goal is in terms of attracting people to council.

1000
02:18:39,000 --> 02:18:45,000
And I don't think of it that just in terms of, well, I mean, yes, the rate of pay is important.

1001
02:18:45,000 --> 02:18:55,000
And everybody here can say that they're not doing it for the money and everybody here can also sit around and say that this is not our primary job and probably not the primary.

1002
02:18:56,000 --> 02:19:06,000
Fundor of paying our bills and that and acknowledging that I'm coming to this table with some privilege and ability to say that.

1003
02:19:06,000 --> 02:19:12,000
But we have people around this table with exceptionally flexible schedules for their work life.

1004
02:19:12,000 --> 02:19:16,000
We're able to mitigate all of that.

1005
02:19:16,000 --> 02:19:22,000
And if a reduction in, well, maybe salary, I worry.

1006
02:19:22,000 --> 02:19:28,000
What considerations put into what kind of people we want to attract to this role.

1007
02:19:28,000 --> 02:19:33,000
Do we want people who are semi retired part time of employed that sort of thing?

1008
02:19:33,000 --> 02:19:36,000
I think that that's a consideration we need to make.

1009
02:19:36,000 --> 02:19:47,000
And on top of that, it's not just the salary we are acknowledging the increase in moving to the CRA rate and acknowledging the increase in the per deems because that.

1010
02:19:47,000 --> 02:19:53,000
That takes care of a lot of that subcommittee and committee work that we do and I think that's important.

1011
02:19:53,000 --> 02:19:59,000
But I didn't I thought we'd see maybe some expenses come forward.

1012
02:19:59,000 --> 02:20:03,000
Ornville isn't has a median age in the mid-30s.

1013
02:20:03,000 --> 02:20:09,000
So that's a population of families, parents, state home parents and that.

1014
02:20:09,000 --> 02:20:14,000
We did the committee look at opportunities or expenses perhaps for child care.

1015
02:20:14,000 --> 02:20:19,000
What are we doing to reduce barriers to get people in this role and attract people to this role?

1016
02:20:19,000 --> 02:20:25,000
And I think just just the remuneration doesn't isn't quite the full picture.

1017
02:20:25,000 --> 02:20:33,000
So in administration bringing this back, I would like to see us follow up on some of those additional considerations as well.

1018
02:20:33,000 --> 02:20:41,000
And but I really appreciate the thought and the work that went into this and how prudent.

1019
02:20:41,000 --> 02:20:53,000
I think this committee's approach is very indicative of mournville residents and their need to see financial good financial stewardship.

1020
02:20:53,000 --> 02:20:57,000
And I think that this is reflective of this.

1021
02:20:57,000 --> 02:21:01,000
So starting here, I think council and administration has something to work towards.

1022
02:21:01,000 --> 02:21:08,000
And I'd like to see some additional considerations in the next iteration of the policy.

1023
02:21:08,000 --> 02:21:13,000
Thank you councilor and helliger. Yes, no councilor default.

1024
02:21:13,000 --> 02:21:16,000
Well, I was going to talk about FCM and that's been done to death.

1025
02:21:16,000 --> 02:21:18,000
So I don't think I will.

1026
02:21:18,000 --> 02:21:23,000
Councilor and helliger said has great value to me.

1027
02:21:23,000 --> 02:21:29,000
As an older guy with gray hair and gray beard and I look at the committee and I'll do respect to the committee.

1028
02:21:29,000 --> 02:21:38,000
I also see a lot of gray hair and all men and that's no reflection on the committee because they are the ones who.

1029
02:21:38,000 --> 02:21:41,000
Step forward to volunteer for this position.

1030
02:21:41,000 --> 02:21:46,000
But maybe when we're recruiting next time.

1031
02:21:46,000 --> 02:21:56,000
We can, you know, we can try to have some women on that committee because child care is something that I'm not thinking of, but your generation absolutely would.

1032
02:21:56,000 --> 02:22:05,000
So I think I think there's some value in in we have this committee's work, but bringing those types of things forward and I know we.

1033
02:22:05,000 --> 02:22:16,000
We talk a great game and municipalities about diversity on committees, but but we didn't have that and that's not taking away anything that your committee is done.

1034
02:22:16,000 --> 02:22:25,000
And I'm I'm respectful and appreciative of that, but like you say, we might have missed some of those things it because for me, I'm not going to be here next time.

1035
02:22:25,000 --> 02:22:26,000
I don't care.

1036
02:22:26,000 --> 02:22:33,000
I'll be a taxpayers sitting on that side of the room, but I want to make sure that we have good people around the table.

1037
02:22:33,000 --> 02:22:44,000
And if there are any barriers to good people because, you know, a shift worker can't do it or a mom can't do it because it's not enough to cover child care.

1038
02:22:44,000 --> 02:22:48,000
That would that would be a missed opportunity.

1039
02:22:48,000 --> 02:22:51,000
Okay, Councillor Richardson.

1040
02:22:51,000 --> 02:22:57,000
Yeah, I was just going to add one thing that twin Councillor and held your head said, what type of people are we trying to attract.

1041
02:22:57,000 --> 02:23:10,000
One of the things that I thought about as soon as I saw this was the perdium chaser and you know where your honorarium's not enough to I'll say, you know, help with some of those bills, especially if you.

1042
02:23:10,000 --> 02:23:13,000
Let's just say you need it for a secondary income or something.

1043
02:23:13,000 --> 02:23:26,000
So then you would have people that are just going to to meetings and conferences just to collect the perdium to up their wage or up their their honorarium.

1044
02:23:26,000 --> 02:23:42,000
Which, you know, isn't something you want. You want people that are actively engaged at the meetings and boards at their honor of people are just going just to collect money to help subsidize that the loss or I think we're in a worse spot than we are now with people who are going to meetings because they want to be there.

1045
02:23:42,000 --> 02:23:48,000
So, you know, that was just something that that jumped out in me, especially some of the bigger increases.

1046
02:23:48,000 --> 02:24:00,000
Okay, can we last round this one and can we move on? Okay, I think it's been a really robust conversation for sure.

1047
02:24:00,000 --> 02:24:07,000
Let's, well, wait and do that recommended motion when we come out of.

1048
02:24:07,000 --> 02:24:18,000
The committee of the whole will move on at this point with certainly our thanks to the council reneumeration review committee for the work and for the thought that went into all of this.

1049
02:24:18,000 --> 02:24:23,000
And and for your patience listening to our questions and commentary here this evening.

1050
02:24:23,000 --> 02:24:26,000
Thank you and thank you for being invested in our community.

1051
02:24:26,000 --> 02:24:34,000
And we'll move on at this point then to 9.1.2 the highway 642 snow maintenance please.

1052
02:24:34,000 --> 02:24:45,000
Thanks, council. So with us tonight we have two two people from our infrastructure services building to discuss our favorites of our snow which it seems to be letting it do you outside.

1053
02:24:45,000 --> 02:24:56,000
And some of the challenges that we're not challenges but some of the changes that we're facing and opportunities that are there. So I'll turn over to Mr. Longos to take you through those.

1054
02:24:56,000 --> 02:25:02,000
Good morning, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and council. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me tonight.

1055
02:25:02,000 --> 02:25:06,000
So previous to the this snow season.

1056
02:25:06,000 --> 02:25:16,000
The service levels of where it looked after by on highway 642 through town along the 100 avenue was through mcon contracted by Alberta transportation.

1057
02:25:16,000 --> 02:25:23,000
So this season the the contract has changed to lead core and they will be looking after the snow maintenance along 100.

1058
02:25:23,000 --> 02:25:27,000
Throughout throughout the town boundaries and limits.

1059
02:25:27,000 --> 02:25:34,000
So through this that because it has changed the contract has also changed with.

1060
02:25:34,000 --> 02:25:39,000
With the town so now that that course taken over.

1061
02:25:39,000 --> 02:25:44,000
They they'll be looking after the snow meeting just along the highway.

1062
02:25:44,000 --> 02:25:49,000
To meet the council's desired service levels as outlined in the snow maintenance troll policy.

1063
02:25:49,000 --> 02:25:56,000
More andville and agreement with the former third party mcon to perform storm removal services within its jurisdiction.

1064
02:25:56,000 --> 02:26:06,000
Specifically, more andville managed snow maintenance along highway 642 along its boundaries for so accumulations ranging from 0 to 500 meters or during icy conditions.

1065
02:26:06,000 --> 02:26:16,000
As part of the more andville snow maintenance services residents businesses together with more andville's operational teams would move snow from walkways and ball boats on to highway 642.

1066
02:26:16,000 --> 02:26:25,000
The operational team would then clear the snow from curb your curb using graders pushing into the center of the highway creating temporary windows and removing it from there.

1067
02:26:25,000 --> 02:26:28,000
With the new service provider.

1068
02:26:28,000 --> 02:26:46,000
They flew through town to do one clearing and pushed to the side and for for us to our immediate response would be to move that and get it out of the way but there is logistics and reasons as to why they they don't allow that.

1069
02:26:46,000 --> 02:26:51,000
So they we would.

1070
02:26:51,000 --> 02:26:59,000
Beginning in 2020 for us no season the continue to the next decade the third party provided like court response for the snow andville services long highway 642.

1071
02:26:59,000 --> 02:27:03,000
With the within the town boundaries.

1072
02:27:03,000 --> 02:27:09,000
In accordance with the headquarters guidelines bound by their contract obligations over transportation.

1073
02:27:09,000 --> 02:27:15,000
They will perform a single pass through more andville clearing the snow pushing to the curb edge with snowplows but not immediately.

1074
02:27:15,000 --> 02:27:18,000
Removing the snow from the highway 642 corridor.

1075
02:27:18,000 --> 02:27:21,000
The snow removal will be completed at their discretion.

1076
02:27:21,000 --> 02:27:23,000
Some of the challenges that we're facing.

1077
02:27:23,000 --> 02:27:28,000
As noted, led court will be pushing the snow to the parking lanes without a meeting immediately removing it.

1078
02:27:28,000 --> 02:27:33,000
The community's accumulation of snow at the curb edge particularly when combined with the snow pushed by businesses.

1079
02:27:33,000 --> 02:27:39,000
Will we create a window potentially and likely obstructing parking and pedestrian access to the Jason walkways.

1080
02:27:39,000 --> 02:27:49,000
Additionally during free saw cycles the windows would could complete could repeat drainage leading to the formation of ice dams and creating safety hazards for pedestrians.

1081
02:27:49,000 --> 02:27:57,000
With this change in responsibilities more of those residents are expected to have more questions and concerns with regards to this.

1082
02:27:57,000 --> 02:28:04,000
And increase our administrative efforts required to address the inquiries and the perception of more of those performing operational snow services.

1083
02:28:05,000 --> 02:28:11,000
Given the nature of led court's snow maintenance practices the immediate response from more of that would be to remove curbside.

1084
02:28:11,000 --> 02:28:15,000
The curbside snow to keep the snow policy in place.

1085
02:28:15,000 --> 02:28:22,000
So some of the challenges that we have facing that we would have to employ snow from the opposite side of the tandem.

1086
02:28:22,000 --> 02:28:33,000
So as shown in the report we'd have to switch our snowboards to the opposite side and also the proximity to the snowboard of the Jason walkways increases.

1087
02:28:33,000 --> 02:28:40,000
The risk of debris being thrown into walkways and businesses raising concerns about pedestrian safety and potential damages to be disenfranchised.

1088
02:28:40,000 --> 02:28:41,000
The frontages.

1089
02:28:41,000 --> 02:28:46,000
Blowing snow on the opposite direction may cause debris to be blown out on coming traffic as well.

1090
02:28:46,000 --> 02:28:52,000
Fabrication of snowboard mounts would be required to allow installation the passenger side of the tandem truck.

1091
02:28:52,000 --> 02:29:07,000
So thank you for that information Chris and I would like to say that it's my first formal interaction with council.

1092
02:29:07,000 --> 02:29:18,000
And it's a pleasure and I'm honored to be serving the ratepayers, the stakeholders, my GM, the CAO and the council of the town of Warrenville and the capacity of manager of infrastructure services.

1093
02:29:18,000 --> 02:29:24,000
And so just to summarize the information that Mr. Long was brought forward essentially, ATEC has a new service provider.

1094
02:29:24,000 --> 02:29:31,000
They retended out their new contractor has been established which is like core and the town had a previous arrangement in place.

1095
02:29:31,000 --> 02:29:41,000
And that service provider was willing at that time to come to an agreement with the town in order to customize the snow clearing options for a grand and avenue.

1096
02:29:41,000 --> 02:29:56,000
And so in order to maintain the same service level, we've gone through that process with lead core to try to collaborate and negotiate with them to this extent in order to achieve the same thing.

1097
02:29:56,000 --> 02:30:01,000
At this point in time, lead core is.

1098
02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:27,000
Is basically in the position where they can either adhere to coming into a third part of your agreement with us, or they could just choose to simply keep consistent with their agreement that they have with Alberta Transportation, which is to push the four lanes while granting avenues a six lane wide road and clear their four lanes of snow into the parking lanes, whereas the town then has to deal with the problem of removing that snow.

1099
02:30:27,000 --> 02:30:50,000
So we have a current snow and ice control policy, and some of the information that we received from the headquarters that they have new increased service levels, designated from AT that they have to adhere to, which means essentially within a three-centimeter snow accumulation, they have to start clearing that road within four hours, or the way it's written is two hours within a lane, but essentially four hours.

1100
02:30:50,000 --> 02:31:04,000
So that service level is increased, then what we currently have within our town of Mournville, policy, and in attempting to achieve anything different than that, again, it has to be, we have to form an agreement or an arrangement with light core.

1101
02:31:04,000 --> 02:31:15,000
So to summarize that without getting into much further details, essentially that's kind of an executive summary of the current situation, and the information included within the report at this time.

1102
02:31:15,000 --> 02:31:18,000
If there is any questions, however, yeah.

1103
02:31:19,000 --> 02:31:40,000
Just noting here at the impact, it's this administration is continuing to collect information to determine what budget impacts are coming back, or will come back, so I'm guessing this is not the last we will hear of this policy or this new issue, but I will certainly open it up if there's any questions or comments here within council.

1104
02:31:41,000 --> 02:31:42,000
Councillor Richardson?

1105
02:31:42,000 --> 02:31:52,000
Yeah, I guess my only comment is if, you know, this new contract is going to cause us some undue hardship because of what they're doing.

1106
02:31:52,000 --> 02:32:08,000
I think that the mayor needs to have a conversation with RMLA, or the Department of Transportation, and try to figure out an analytical solution because, you know, hearing that their snow clearing could happen at any time within a snowfall could leave us in spots where we have.

1107
02:32:08,000 --> 02:32:17,000
Like he said, I spilled up and potential hazards for pedestrian stranded cross in those areas, so I think we need to have some sort of conversation.

1108
02:32:17,000 --> 02:32:23,000
Governance conversation with the MLA and, and Albert Transportation.

1109
02:32:23,000 --> 02:32:28,000
Thank you, Councillor Richardson. Anybody else, Councillor Day 4?

1110
02:32:28,000 --> 02:32:29,000
Thank you.

1111
02:32:29,000 --> 02:32:35,000
Somewhat flippantly deputy mayor, if we took control the road, that would probably be less of an issue than we have now, right?

1112
02:32:35,000 --> 02:32:39,000
Just saying out loud.

1113
02:32:39,000 --> 02:32:44,000
Well said, I just quickly need to note that we are at 630.

1114
02:32:44,000 --> 02:33:03,000
I know that this is our break. We're supposed to have, but I would ask if we could at least consider moving forward after this one with our resident concern just because these folks have been sitting very, very patiently here for many, many hours.

1115
02:33:03,000 --> 02:33:11,000
And we certainly appreciate that you filled up our council chambers this evening, and I don't want you to wait any longer this evening.

1116
02:33:11,000 --> 02:33:20,000
So if there's no more questions around the Highway 642, if I can look at the recommended motion, if somebody could do that for me.

1117
02:33:20,000 --> 02:33:21,000
Anybody?

1118
02:33:21,000 --> 02:33:22,000
Okay, Councillor Wait.

1119
02:33:22,000 --> 02:33:31,000
I moved up the committee except the Highway 642 snow maintenance report as information. I don't need to open. I don't need to close.

1120
02:33:31,000 --> 02:33:34,000
I'll call the question, all those in favor.

1121
02:33:34,000 --> 02:33:36,000
Wonderful. That passes unanimously.

1122
02:33:36,000 --> 02:33:43,000
Now let's move on. 9.1.3 with our things to I asked for the report.

1123
02:33:43,000 --> 02:34:12,000
Thank you again, Council. So this evening we are presenting an information report to Council on the basis of a motion given to us from resident concerns that were raised and submitted to administration.

1124
02:34:12,000 --> 02:34:20,000
And also, CCT Council. Essentially, the residents are concerned about safety and accessibility along 100th Street.

1125
02:34:20,000 --> 02:34:30,000
And a quick exclamation here is that they've, they are concerned about increased pedestrian traffic, unclear traffic patterns and insufficient lighting as some of the safety concerns.

1126
02:34:30,000 --> 02:34:40,000
Specifically, we'll focus tonight on the three sort of requests or issues raised, which look like a stop sign relocation at the exit point of,

1127
02:34:40,000 --> 02:34:46,000
that is of Mournville. We'll talk about the consideration of a crosswalk across 100th Street from the entrance.

1128
02:34:46,000 --> 02:34:50,000
And then we'll also discuss the street lights north of the entrance.

1129
02:34:50,000 --> 02:34:55,000
And so in order to do that, I just wanted to flag for Council that this has been a collaborative effort internally.

1130
02:34:55,000 --> 02:35:09,000
As there are a number of departments that were collaborated with and sought their expertise, including our infrastructure services team, our enforcement services team and our planning team in order to be able to bring you a holistic

1131
02:35:09,000 --> 02:35:13,000
set of information to consider in this matter.

1132
02:35:13,000 --> 02:35:21,000
So for the most part, Mr. Hour is going to be helping us walk through some of the intricacies of this and the locations.

1133
02:35:21,000 --> 02:35:27,000
And so I will run his PowerPoint and he will convey his knowledge.

1134
02:35:27,000 --> 02:35:30,000
Thank you, Ms. A.

1135
02:35:30,000 --> 02:35:40,000
So here we just have some aerial images to sign identifies on the left the intersection of 100 Street, 107 out the new and meadows drive.

1136
02:35:40,000 --> 02:35:49,000
You can see there the location of the stop sign, just on the west side of the private property line.

1137
02:35:49,000 --> 02:35:59,000
You can also see there is one existing street light and the identification of what potential future street light locations would be following existing infrastructure standards.

1138
02:35:59,000 --> 02:36:08,000
The aerial to the right, you will see the existing crosswalk for our trail network.

1139
02:36:08,000 --> 02:36:13,000
That's sort of at the north end of the urban development boundary of town.

1140
02:36:13,000 --> 02:36:21,000
And this is the location where the street lighting would be requested to based on the resident concern raised.

1141
02:36:21,000 --> 02:36:27,000
So with that location context, we can move on to our first set of findings is regarding the stop sign.

1142
02:36:27,000 --> 02:36:31,000
So the stop sign is currently on private property.

1143
02:36:31,000 --> 02:36:36,000
Technically a stop sign is not required in this location, but it is a very common practice.

1144
02:36:36,000 --> 02:36:44,000
Meadows drive is a private road similar to other access roads to condominium developments or large commercial developments.

1145
02:36:44,000 --> 02:36:48,000
So where you will see on the south end of town.

1146
02:36:48,000 --> 02:36:57,000
Like the the no frills development where those stop signs are provided by the private property owner and are located where them.

1147
02:36:57,000 --> 02:37:06,000
So that's a similar pattern and if there was was interest, then we could engage the private property owner on relocating that.

1148
02:37:06,000 --> 02:37:11,000
Stop sign into public land.

1149
02:37:11,000 --> 02:37:14,000
So regarding the crossing itself.

1150
02:37:14,000 --> 02:37:21,000
So the crossing to the north that was pointed out in the previous slide is approximately 130 meters from this location.

1151
02:37:21,000 --> 02:37:26,000
There's another crossing approximately 200 meters to the south at 105th Avenue.

1152
02:37:26,000 --> 02:37:31,000
There's currently no pedestrian infrastructure.

1153
02:37:31,000 --> 02:37:43,000
The sorry as west side of 100 street or on meadows you drive for across walk to connect to or pedestrians to be directed to.

1154
02:37:43,000 --> 02:37:50,000
So meadows drive is the primary vehicular access for the meadows of more and build development.

1155
02:37:50,000 --> 02:37:58,000
So while we do have some findings here, we would potentially be creating a conflict point and there are some safety considerations where you have.

1156
02:37:58,000 --> 02:38:04,000
The pedestrians being led to no pedestrian infrastructure at a primarily drive access.

1157
02:38:04,000 --> 02:38:10,000
So the pedestrian count data is required for us to complete the transportation.

1158
02:38:10,000 --> 02:38:18,000
Association of Canada pedestrian control control guide decision support tool treatment selection matrix.

1159
02:38:18,000 --> 02:38:25,000
Now in the report you will see that the current the tech matrix completed with the current data that we do have.

1160
02:38:25,000 --> 02:38:40,000
Would support a crosswalk at this location for context that is based off previous council direction to use the high standard of a 100 meter threshold between crosswalks based on previous considerations on 100 Avenue.

1161
02:38:40,000 --> 02:38:50,000
And the trigger really for that recommendation is the fact that as evidenced by the letter provided to council there is a pedestrian desire.

1162
02:38:50,000 --> 02:38:59,000
To cross that location, but it's not other other technical considerations that would be driving that recommendation.

1163
02:38:59,000 --> 02:39:03,000
So in, oh, next slide please.

1164
02:39:03,000 --> 02:39:10,000
An additional view of looking at the Council's tenure capital plan.

1165
02:39:10,000 --> 02:39:19,000
So there are street lights along the east side of 100 street in line with this arterial standard up until approximately a hundred and fifth Avenue.

1166
02:39:19,000 --> 02:39:28,000
That's where identified that existing crossing approximately two hundred meters south of this location and the light previously shown at a hundred and seven.

1167
02:39:28,000 --> 02:39:32,000
Within capitals or within council's tenure capital plan.

1168
02:39:32,000 --> 02:39:39,000
There is a levy funded project scheduled for 2028 that would extend this arterial standard.

1169
02:39:39,000 --> 02:39:47,000
So street lights crossings from 105 Avenue to a hundred and seven and metos drive.

1170
02:39:47,000 --> 02:39:57,000
So within the scope of that project based on our tax assessment that would include pedestrian crossing at that time.

1171
02:39:57,000 --> 02:40:09,000
Then street lights north of a hundred and seven have is actually part of the arterial upgrade that would go from a hundred and seven have to the north boundary of the municipality.

1172
02:40:09,000 --> 02:40:18,000
Beyond the urban development footprint that we see in the map shown full quarter section to the north boundary.

1173
02:40:18,000 --> 02:40:24,000
And that is currently scheduled beyond council's tenure capital plan.

1174
02:40:24,000 --> 02:40:37,000
So in terms of next step in order to adequately complete the the tax matrix and in response to the the letter provided from the community administration will gather that pedestrian count data in 2025.

1175
02:40:37,000 --> 02:40:50,000
And administration will continue to implement council's capital plan as scope and scheduled.

1176
02:40:50,000 --> 02:40:53,000
Thank you Mr. Hour. Thank you Ms. Hey.

1177
02:40:53,000 --> 02:41:01,000
At this point I will open that up to council and allow for comments or questions.

1178
02:41:01,000 --> 02:41:06,000
Thank you Deputy Mayor. Yeah, I'm.

1179
02:41:06,000 --> 02:41:18,000
One leading out today, which maybe isn't always the best thing, but thank you to administration. I know that all I know that all of this was action prior to the motion and that this work was already happening behind the scenes.

1180
02:41:18,000 --> 02:41:30,000
And certainly want to recognize also just the advocacy that's you know that's that's happened that continues to take place from the residents of the metals of Mornville really just a couple questions.

1181
02:41:31,000 --> 02:41:35,000
With respect to the interim crosswalk.

1182
02:41:35,000 --> 02:41:44,000
It tore the make sense that there should be pedestrian infrastructure in place separate from the vehicle access point to ensure pedestrian safety.

1183
02:41:44,000 --> 02:41:58,000
In saying that how did we get around like how did we get around this with the crossing just south for pk court because when you look at their entry point it's very similar there isn't a pedestrian sidewalk.

1184
02:41:59,000 --> 02:42:03,000
Thank you.

1185
02:42:03,000 --> 02:42:04,000
Thank you.

1186
02:42:04,000 --> 02:42:06,000
Thank you.

1187
02:42:06,000 --> 02:42:16,000
Through you Mayor Borsma looking at that location it is the north boundary of the the previous arterial upgrade and you'll see there is pedestrian infrastructure on one side of the street.

1188
02:42:16,000 --> 02:42:22,000
So at least crossing the the culvert to get access to.

1189
02:42:22,000 --> 02:42:28,000
And then leading to a wider sort of entranceway on the other side of the street.

1190
02:42:28,000 --> 02:42:34,000
But yeah in that case it does only provide pedestrian infrastructure on one side of the street.

1191
02:42:34,000 --> 02:42:37,000
Now that is to a single.

1192
02:42:37,000 --> 02:42:47,000
Development, which I don't have the current population figures for but with the anticipated population of of the metals of Mornville being.

1193
02:42:47,000 --> 02:42:54,000
About 154 dwelling units and 400 population at full build out it is a bit more of an intensive development.

1194
02:42:54,000 --> 02:42:55,000
Okay.

1195
02:42:55,000 --> 02:42:56,000
No thank you.

1196
02:42:56,000 --> 02:43:00,000
Yeah and certainly understand that there is the infrastructure in place on the east side of a hundred street.

1197
02:43:00,000 --> 02:43:02,000
Can this ask more more question.

1198
02:43:02,000 --> 02:43:04,000
Just for clarification purposes.

1199
02:43:04,000 --> 02:43:09,000
So the landowner has the authority to move the stop sign has had the authority to move the stop sign.

1200
02:43:09,000 --> 02:43:12,000
Anywhere on metal drive adjacent to a hundred streets.

1201
02:43:12,000 --> 02:43:16,000
So if the stop sign was relocated to a more neutral.

1202
02:43:16,000 --> 02:43:28,000
Natural exit point adjacent to a hundred street would it still be on on private property or would with that stop sign then be on public property.

1203
02:43:28,000 --> 02:43:31,000
Thank you Councillor Santanyan and through your mayor.

1204
02:43:31,000 --> 02:43:36,000
So currently the stop sign is located at the limit of the private property.

1205
02:43:36,000 --> 02:43:41,000
So the private property owner wouldn't have been able to relocate it up of their own well at any given time.

1206
02:43:41,000 --> 02:43:45,000
They would have required municipal authorization to to locate it on public land.

1207
02:43:45,000 --> 02:43:48,000
Okay.

1208
02:43:48,000 --> 02:43:49,000
Yeah.

1209
02:43:49,000 --> 02:43:50,000
Thank you very much.

1210
02:43:50,000 --> 02:43:55,000
I've got a couple more but a week.

1211
02:43:55,000 --> 02:43:56,000
Okay.

1212
02:43:56,000 --> 02:43:57,000
No.

1213
02:43:57,000 --> 02:43:58,000
Okay.

1214
02:43:58,000 --> 02:43:59,000
It's back to you.

1215
02:43:59,000 --> 02:44:00,000
Sorry.

1216
02:44:00,000 --> 02:44:01,000
Sorry.

1217
02:44:01,000 --> 02:44:02,000
Sorry.

1218
02:44:02,000 --> 02:44:03,000
Sorry.

1219
02:44:03,000 --> 02:44:04,000
Sorry.

1220
02:44:04,000 --> 02:44:12,000
Would there be an option of putting a temporary crosswalk in there a couple of signs and paint a crosswalk in there.

1221
02:44:12,000 --> 02:44:27,000
And until it is fully developed and the tenure plan kicks in and the design is completed the way it's supposed to be in the capital plant or is that is that illegal.

1222
02:44:27,000 --> 02:44:28,000
Thank you.

1223
02:44:28,000 --> 02:44:29,000
Thank you.

1224
02:44:29,000 --> 02:44:30,000
Thank you.

1225
02:44:30,000 --> 02:44:32,000
Thank you.

1226
02:44:32,000 --> 02:44:34,000
Thank you.

1227
02:44:34,000 --> 02:44:35,000
Thank you.

1228
02:44:35,000 --> 02:44:36,000
Thank you.

1229
02:44:36,000 --> 02:44:37,000
Thank you.

1230
02:44:37,000 --> 02:44:38,000
Thank you.

1231
02:44:38,000 --> 02:44:39,000
Thank you.

1232
02:44:39,000 --> 02:44:40,000
Thank you.

1233
02:44:40,000 --> 02:44:41,000
Thank you.

1234
02:44:41,000 --> 02:44:42,000
Thank you.

1235
02:44:42,000 --> 02:44:43,000
You're crossing.

1236
02:44:43,000 --> 02:44:45,000
Calvert right because it's a.

1237
02:44:45,000 --> 02:44:48,000
See a lot of rural standard of of drainage.

1238
02:44:48,000 --> 02:44:50,000
So you're you're providing the.

1239
02:44:50,000 --> 02:44:56,000
Perception of safety that that may not be there for the pedestrians and potentially guiding them to.

1240
02:44:56,000 --> 02:45:00,000
interacting at a vehicle conflict point so that

1241
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:04,960
What would be consideration to what sort of treatment would be appropriate and what sort of messaging

1242
02:45:04,960 --> 02:45:12,000
is given to the driver and pedestrian, but as I stated, no, it is not illegal to my knowledge.

1243
02:45:12,000 --> 02:45:15,000
Thank you.

1244
02:45:15,000 --> 02:45:20,000
Okay, we're going to go to Mayor Borsma, then Councillor and Hillary, then Councillor Richardson,

1245
02:45:20,000 --> 02:45:22,000
and then back to Councillor Saintingtini.

1246
02:45:22,000 --> 02:45:27,000
Not sure you answered this earlier, but is there a concern that there is no sidewalk coming out of

1247
02:45:28,000 --> 02:45:30,000
the more out of the metals.

1248
02:45:30,000 --> 02:45:32,000
Just the street.

1249
02:45:32,000 --> 02:45:39,000
Thank you, Mayor Borsma. Yes, so the lack of connection into any sort of pedestrian network is part of the

1250
02:45:39,000 --> 02:45:44,000
concern, both on the public side of the property and the private side.

1251
02:45:49,000 --> 02:45:50,000
You're good with that.

1252
02:45:50,000 --> 02:45:56,000
So how do you suggest we connect that down the road, then if that's a concern today, that would be concerned tomorrow.

1253
02:45:56,000 --> 02:46:01,000
So, how do you suggest we?

1254
02:46:01,000 --> 02:46:07,000
Thank you, Mayor Borsma, through the arterial upgrade of 100 street.

1255
02:46:07,000 --> 02:46:12,000
That would address the presence of the culverts that would also address the lighting,

1256
02:46:12,000 --> 02:46:18,000
and it would also complete the pedestrian network that with analysis at that time,

1257
02:46:18,000 --> 02:46:23,000
Mayor may not utilize that entry to metals of more info.

1258
02:46:23,000 --> 02:46:25,000
Thank you.

1259
02:46:25,000 --> 02:46:27,000
Councillor and Hillary.

1260
02:46:27,000 --> 02:46:29,000
Perfect.

1261
02:46:29,000 --> 02:46:37,000
So when mentioned, you said the stop sign being located on private property right up to the boundary of the property.

1262
02:46:37,000 --> 02:46:42,000
So what would the process be if the owner of the stop sign?

1263
02:46:42,000 --> 02:46:44,000
Wanted on public property?

1264
02:46:44,000 --> 02:46:46,000
Is that an option?

1265
02:46:46,000 --> 02:46:54,000
You said that it's at their expense, so I'm just curious, is that can we facilitate that at all?

1266
02:46:54,000 --> 02:47:01,000
Or where does that go and or have any of those conversations with the property owner occurred?

1267
02:47:01,000 --> 02:47:02,000
Thank you, Councillor.

1268
02:47:02,000 --> 02:47:06,000
I'm not aware of those conversations today.

1269
02:47:06,000 --> 02:47:11,000
Certainly, if we were requested by the property owner to consider the sign relocation,

1270
02:47:11,000 --> 02:47:13,000
administration would be happy to work with them.

1271
02:47:13,000 --> 02:47:16,000
Obviously, consider in our own,

1272
02:47:17,000 --> 02:47:19,000
perfect on site lines and at location.

1273
02:47:19,000 --> 02:47:23,000
But yeah, we would do more than happy to work with the property owner.

1274
02:47:23,000 --> 02:47:25,000
Councillor Richardson.

1275
02:47:25,000 --> 02:47:26,000
Thank you.

1276
02:47:26,000 --> 02:47:29,000
I guess I'd just a bit of a comment.

1277
02:47:29,000 --> 02:47:35,000
I'd like to find solutions, especially in situations like this, where we know that there's people crossing their road there.

1278
02:47:35,000 --> 02:47:36,000
They're not on an island.

1279
02:47:36,000 --> 02:47:39,000
They're residents in our community.

1280
02:47:39,000 --> 02:47:43,000
And we know that's the means to access the rest of the community.

1281
02:47:43,000 --> 02:47:47,000
We're not going to ask somebody to walk in the ditch because that's hazardous in itself.

1282
02:47:47,000 --> 02:47:49,000
So I think we need to do something here.

1283
02:47:49,000 --> 02:47:55,000
And if it's something temporary to hold us over, I think doing your due diligence to make sure it's a safe as possible.

1284
02:47:55,000 --> 02:48:03,000
Knowing that we already have people crossing the street there and doing nothing is turning a blind eye is probably not a great thing either.

1285
02:48:03,000 --> 02:48:05,000
So I think that we need to do something there.

1286
02:48:05,000 --> 02:48:11,000
And I'd like to look into some sort of temporary solution until we can see the full buildout happen there.

1287
02:48:14,000 --> 02:48:18,000
I said some motions arising coming out of community of the whole.

1288
02:48:18,000 --> 02:48:19,000
Councillor Zintini.

1289
02:48:22,000 --> 02:48:23,000
Yeah, thank you.

1290
02:48:23,000 --> 02:48:25,000
Councillor W.

1291
02:48:25,000 --> 02:48:30,000
I was looking for a little direction on just stop sign relocation.

1292
02:48:30,000 --> 02:48:38,000
I guess my question like to administration is like does administration require direction from council to meet with the private landowner?

1293
02:48:38,000 --> 02:48:48,000
I think that to me seems like the next logical step sort of in this, you know, this partnership right to discuss not only this report,

1294
02:48:48,000 --> 02:48:52,000
but the pedestrian count matrix that was referenced this evening.

1295
02:48:52,000 --> 02:49:03,000
The arterial upgrade timelines and potential next steps including perhaps like a temporary solution to bridge the gap until 2028.

1296
02:49:03,000 --> 02:49:08,000
When there could, you know, could be an interim crosswalk.

1297
02:49:08,000 --> 02:49:12,000
So yeah, I guess I'm looking for some direction from administration.

1298
02:49:12,000 --> 02:49:16,000
So I was suggest that we don't need it that that's something we would sort of intuitively do,

1299
02:49:16,000 --> 02:49:19,000
but I also understand the practicalities of of giving that direction.

1300
02:49:19,000 --> 02:49:23,000
So it's kind of a at your call.

1301
02:49:23,000 --> 02:49:26,000
Okay.

1302
02:49:27,000 --> 02:49:34,000
Yeah, like if if if you're comfortable helping me just make a motion to.

1303
02:49:34,000 --> 02:49:41,000
Continue this conversation with the private landowner, I think that to me seems like a logical step.

1304
02:49:41,000 --> 02:49:46,000
Yeah, we'll work on something for motions arising.

1305
02:49:46,000 --> 02:49:47,000
Perfect.

1306
02:49:47,000 --> 02:49:49,000
Have I missed anybody else?

1307
02:49:49,000 --> 02:49:51,000
Okay.

1308
02:49:51,000 --> 02:50:01,000
I certainly echo everybody sentiments here this evening and fill that one of the things we really pride ourselves on is the safety and walkability of our community and that needs to be for all of our community members.

1309
02:50:01,000 --> 02:50:06,000
So certainly appreciate the the effort and the showing up.

1310
02:50:06,000 --> 02:50:13,000
That you folks have done here in our community and and patiently waited and even so much.

1311
02:50:13,000 --> 02:50:23,000
You didn't even blur anything out like you were so wonderful and respectful and so we appreciate that you also value that same safety and security here within our community.

1312
02:50:23,000 --> 02:50:26,000
At this point, there is a recommended.

1313
02:50:26,000 --> 02:50:29,000
Motion if somebody's able to.

1314
02:50:29,000 --> 02:50:30,000
Make that one.

1315
02:50:30,000 --> 02:50:31,000
Yeah.

1316
02:50:31,000 --> 02:50:32,000
Councilor Santini.

1317
02:50:32,000 --> 02:50:33,000
Thank you.

1318
02:50:33,000 --> 02:50:36,000
Yeah, I will move the count.

1319
02:50:37,000 --> 02:50:42,000
That council accept the resident concern matters of more of the report is information.

1320
02:50:42,000 --> 02:50:46,000
And are you okay without an open or do you need one? Okay.

1321
02:50:46,000 --> 02:50:47,000
Perfect.

1322
02:50:47,000 --> 02:50:48,000
And then I'm guessing no clues.

1323
02:50:48,000 --> 02:50:51,000
So let's call that into question here.

1324
02:50:51,000 --> 02:50:52,000
Call that question.

1325
02:50:52,000 --> 02:50:54,000
All those in favor.

1326
02:50:54,000 --> 02:50:59,000
And that passes unanimously and that also brings us to ten two seven.

1327
02:50:59,000 --> 02:51:02,000
So we will call the the break.

1328
02:51:03,000 --> 02:51:07,000
And we certainly have that conversation with any folks here that are looking to converse.

1329
02:51:07,000 --> 02:51:14,000
But we will call that break from six fifty until seven twenty will come back in.

1330
02:51:32,000 --> 02:51:34,000
Thank you.

1331
02:52:02,000 --> 02:52:04,000
Thank you.

1332
02:52:32,000 --> 02:52:34,000
Thank you.

1333
02:53:02,000 --> 02:53:03,000
Thank you.

1334
02:53:32,000 --> 02:53:33,000
Thank you.

1335
02:54:02,000 --> 02:54:03,000
Thank you.

1336
02:54:32,000 --> 02:54:33,000
Thank you.

1337
02:55:02,000 --> 02:55:03,000
Thank you.

1338
02:55:32,000 --> 02:55:33,000
Thank you.

1339
02:56:02,000 --> 02:56:03,000
Thank you.

1340
02:56:32,000 --> 02:56:33,000
Thank you.

1341
02:57:02,000 --> 02:57:03,000
Thank you.

1342
02:57:32,000 --> 02:57:33,000
Thank you.

1343
02:58:02,000 --> 02:58:03,000
Thank you.

1344
02:58:32,000 --> 02:58:33,000
Thank you.

1345
02:59:02,000 --> 02:59:03,000
Thank you.

1346
02:59:32,000 --> 02:59:33,000
Thank you.

1347
03:22:00,000 --> 03:22:24,760
Thank you, everybody, for your patience and coming back promptly for 20 after. We're back

1348
03:22:24,760 --> 03:22:34,520
into committee of the whole, and at this point, the last we had a motion to accept the resident concern from the

1349
03:22:34,520 --> 03:22:40,760
meadows of Mornville, and now we'll move on to our wonderful CAO report. And I'll hand that back to

1350
03:22:40,760 --> 03:22:47,560
administration. Thanks. So I'll just recap my written report quickly for council. As you may recall, we've

1351
03:22:47,560 --> 03:22:52,520
implemented supplemental assessment and taxation. And so I'm pleased to report that for 2024, we've

1352
03:22:52,520 --> 03:23:01,560
been able to generate an extra $3,300, I wish, $35,824 in supplementary tax revenue. So that's a

1353
03:23:01,560 --> 03:23:06,360
good news story for us for sure. A couple of things that go along with the season. So the Christmas

1354
03:23:06,360 --> 03:23:10,920
hampers and the giving tree are in full swing. So Christmas hampers, midstream, and more of a adoptive

1355
03:23:10,920 --> 03:23:18,600
family are part and we're partnering with them through our FCSS to refer clients to them to pick up Christmas

1356
03:23:18,600 --> 03:23:24,360
hampers so that, sorry, I'm collecting them with those types of supports. The giving tree is about

1357
03:23:24,360 --> 03:23:29,880
seniors and on how, and how is adults. And so the time is getting short on this one, but so far,

1358
03:23:29,880 --> 03:23:37,000
71 individuals have registered to get a name and then return a gift and the, the gifts need to be

1359
03:23:37,000 --> 03:23:43,000
returned by about mid December. So if anyone was interested now is the time. Update on our wellness and

1360
03:23:43,000 --> 03:23:49,240
recreation access program or wrap as we like to call it, we've had 54 residents access it and we've given

1361
03:23:49,240 --> 03:23:55,640
out $13,450 of the $15,000 budget this year. So another good news story, the Poppy Tree, I mean it's

1362
03:23:55,640 --> 03:24:01,240
good news all around right now. The Poppy Tree had a record high of $585 contributed from its 10th year

1363
03:24:01,880 --> 03:24:07,880
with the town. And also in good news and hopefully nothing ever happens to us. We've been approved for

1364
03:24:07,880 --> 03:24:13,640
cyber insurance, the starting January 1st, 2025 will have protections in that regard. You're well

1365
03:24:13,640 --> 03:24:18,040
apprised of the Canada Post strike and some of the things that we are doing as mentioned also in

1366
03:24:18,040 --> 03:24:24,520
protocol. And then I wanted to flag for Council to you that we've had one of our land use experts on

1367
03:24:24,520 --> 03:24:30,280
Shuguta. She wrote an article for the Journal of Alberta Professional Planners Institute or APPI that was

1368
03:24:30,280 --> 03:24:36,520
published about our historic places in Mournville. And it caught the attention of the government's historic

1369
03:24:36,520 --> 03:24:41,720
resources management branch who in late November came out for a walking tour to look at some of our

1370
03:24:43,080 --> 03:24:48,200
our historical heritage buildings of significance and some of the architectural characteristics and

1371
03:24:48,200 --> 03:24:54,680
such. And so we're looking forward to seeing how the MDP will capture some of our policy statements around our

1372
03:24:54,680 --> 03:25:01,800
history. Wonderful, all good news stories and that was lovely when it came across our email today

1373
03:25:01,800 --> 03:25:08,280
just sharing that. It's nice to have that focus and that that good work has been captured or

1374
03:25:08,280 --> 03:25:13,560
looked upon. At this point, I'll open it up. Anybody comments? Questions? Mayor Boersma?

1375
03:25:14,920 --> 03:25:21,880
So I just want to take a moment to thank Ms. Gupta for the exceptional piece she created.

1376
03:25:23,000 --> 03:25:28,360
I know I read it and the depth of thought and creativity she put into it is truly remarkable

1377
03:25:29,240 --> 03:25:34,920
and appreciate the clarity insight that it brings, can see consumer effort into what it went into

1378
03:25:34,920 --> 03:25:42,520
crafting it and the ability for her to present as material. It was compelling and obviously because

1379
03:25:42,520 --> 03:25:48,360
government came, it was a true testament to her skills and dedication of what she does and

1380
03:25:48,360 --> 03:25:55,160
certainly happy that she's in our community. So again, thanks again for outstanding work and

1381
03:25:56,120 --> 03:25:59,080
look forward to more of the contributions she has to our community.

1382
03:26:02,360 --> 03:26:08,760
Very well said, with that being said, wondering if somebody would make a motion that we accept this

1383
03:26:08,760 --> 03:26:17,080
firm formation, looking at this side of the tables. Councillor Richardson. I'll make the motion that we accept

1384
03:26:17,080 --> 03:26:24,920
the report as information. Thanks. All those in favor? Perfect. That passes unanimously.

1385
03:26:25,400 --> 03:26:31,560
And then quickly we'll move on and thank you, Ms. Haffer, that report to our Council Board's

1386
03:26:31,560 --> 03:26:36,200
Committee's and Commission Report. So I'm going to start with you, Councillor Richardson. Yeah, so actually

1387
03:26:37,160 --> 03:26:44,120
trying to think here, I missed our last Urweck meeting. I was in Moestia when that one went on.

1388
03:26:44,120 --> 03:26:53,480
So nothing to report on there. Yeah, I think that's everything actually.

1389
03:26:55,640 --> 03:27:00,760
Councillor Santini. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. In terms of updates,

1390
03:27:02,360 --> 03:27:08,840
with so for homeland housing, we had a meeting plan for about seven weeks with Minister Nixon.

1391
03:27:09,720 --> 03:27:21,080
And he was unable to attend sort of last minutes. So it was a little disappointed in in in in that

1392
03:27:21,800 --> 03:27:29,320
specific to the 22 St. Thomas Street project in St. Albert. Still remaining optimistic that

1393
03:27:29,320 --> 03:27:40,760
this project will move forward with the city of St. Albert and CMHC putting their financial commitments

1394
03:27:41,720 --> 03:27:53,800
to the project. Just past our budget and operating and capital plan with homeland,

1395
03:27:53,800 --> 03:27:59,160
requisition for municipalities is 2.5% for 2025.

1396
03:27:59,800 --> 03:28:07,240
More than the library met a couple of weeks ago as a board to go over.

1397
03:28:11,240 --> 03:28:20,280
Oh, man. Plan of service. Yes, which was a great exercise for our new board. We have a number of

1398
03:28:20,280 --> 03:28:26,680
new members that sit on the board and so that will come back to the board for approval.

1399
03:28:27,640 --> 03:28:34,440
Um, actually this week. So yeah, that's that's all I got for my boards.

1400
03:28:37,000 --> 03:28:43,000
Councillor Anne Hellinger. Okay. Yes, you're a person. Mayor Worseman.

1401
03:28:47,880 --> 03:28:53,880
My apologies. Spend some time with Ebony Global Shareholder. Both Bill and I.

1402
03:28:54,520 --> 03:29:04,120
Mayor. From. I got to think here. Mayor Danlock. Thanks. I was trying to think.

1403
03:29:05,160 --> 03:29:11,320
We sat on as shareholders with the Ebony Global Board and it was a approximate for our meeting,

1404
03:29:11,320 --> 03:29:18,680
but certainly a lot of insights and it was great to actually sit there and hear about stuff and then

1405
03:29:18,680 --> 03:29:27,640
also to see what we as a community, how we can enhance that as mayors together. So that was good.

1406
03:29:28,840 --> 03:29:37,000
I also met with the MLA with certain regional mayors on transportation, local transportation,

1407
03:29:37,000 --> 03:29:44,680
so we have a meeting every quarter, which then we have touch points on all of the regional issues we have

1408
03:29:44,680 --> 03:29:50,280
with province and how he brings that forward back to transportation. So thank you very much.

1409
03:29:52,280 --> 03:29:57,240
Wonderful. I'll go to yourself. Councillor Wait. Thank you.

1410
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:10,600
Please act meeting. Our first meeting on November 28th. It was a good introduction. I'm looking forward to working with the committee.

1411
03:30:10,600 --> 03:30:23,600
The chamber did their luncheon on December 4th, and it was, there's presentations from different charities that were present at the lunch. It's really good and informative.

1412
03:30:23,600 --> 03:30:40,600
The mournful historical and cultural society, we had our meeting last night. A lot of dialogue on different things, especially some of the historical stuff that we'll be dealing with as a result of the good work of in the scoop up.

1413
03:30:40,600 --> 03:30:48,600
The one thing that I wanted to mention with that is on light up the night festival. They had 153 visitors.

1414
03:30:48,600 --> 03:31:00,600
So we can picture 153 people down there. I can't. But it was a good weekend for them and they really enjoyed having all those people through there.

1415
03:31:00,600 --> 03:31:06,600
And then the only, the last thing I have is my first meeting with Rose Ridge is on Thursday.

1416
03:31:06,600 --> 03:31:11,600
Wonderful. Thank you. Councillor Dayfold.

1417
03:31:11,600 --> 03:31:20,600
Thank you. Deputy Mayor, arrow utilities last meeting. I did not attend because that's the same week they fetched me after the hospital.

1418
03:31:20,600 --> 03:31:30,600
And I felt with the medication I was on probably best not to drive in the morning. I did attend C-SAC the November 28th meeting.

1419
03:31:30,600 --> 03:31:40,600
It was a short meeting. Primarily it was to introduce ourselves to the new board members, new committee members rather than them to us.

1420
03:31:40,600 --> 03:31:51,600
Our library manager will be the recording secretary. We received a thank you letter from our past recording secretary.

1421
03:31:51,600 --> 03:31:57,600
I can't quite remember a name. I think it might have been Jennifer and Haliger or something like that.

1422
03:31:57,600 --> 03:32:05,600
But it was well received and thanks were given back to Councillor and Haliger for that.

1423
03:32:05,600 --> 03:32:11,600
December meeting has been canceled. But I understand that January will be will be fairly full.

1424
03:32:11,600 --> 03:32:18,600
And then Northern Lights Library System was a virtual meeting and having looked at the agenda.

1425
03:32:18,600 --> 03:32:21,600
I didn't feel that was real value there.

1426
03:32:21,600 --> 03:32:30,600
And I knew that Councillor and Haliger's report would have all the details that I needed.

1427
03:32:31,600 --> 03:32:38,600
I don't have a whole lot other than what's been put in my report other than the fact that

1428
03:32:38,600 --> 03:32:51,600
Back in October I was asked to join or given the opportunity to serve appointed to the safe and healthy committees or communities committee through AB Munis.

1429
03:32:51,600 --> 03:32:56,600
And I had my first meeting on Friday and although that is not one of our standard ones.

1430
03:32:56,600 --> 03:33:02,600
I see a lot of really good work. I see a group of really dynamic people sitting around that table.

1431
03:33:02,600 --> 03:33:11,600
And we had an all day session on Friday and hope that I'm able to at least have some value added and bring things back here to our community.

1432
03:33:11,600 --> 03:33:21,600
But it's a pleasure to serve and be part of that and see what's going on and the passion that is around the room and certainly to share some of the issues.

1433
03:33:21,600 --> 03:33:25,600
Because there's some very small communities that are part of that and then some big cities as well.

1434
03:33:25,600 --> 03:33:33,600
So that's about it. Everything else is in our report. So if I could ask somebody to note we don't have to make the motion.

1435
03:33:33,600 --> 03:33:44,600
I'm going to ask if somebody would potentially be willing to make a motion passed here.

1436
03:33:44,600 --> 03:33:49,600
All those in favor? Wonderful. And it is yours again.

1437
03:33:49,600 --> 03:33:56,600
Thank you. So we have business arising from the committee of a whole.

1438
03:33:56,600 --> 03:34:09,600
And I think we'll start going to the if there's any business coming out of it on the renumeration.

1439
03:34:09,600 --> 03:34:13,600
I'd like to turn the chair to bring us.

1440
03:34:14,600 --> 03:34:18,600
Sorry, I should have just kept it okay.

1441
03:34:18,600 --> 03:34:22,600
All right. Mayor Boorsman.

1442
03:34:22,600 --> 03:34:27,600
On council reneumeration review committee.

1443
03:34:27,600 --> 03:34:30,600
So I'd like to put forward a motion.

1444
03:34:31,600 --> 03:34:33,600
Recommend administration.

1445
03:34:33,600 --> 03:34:38,600
Bring a comprehensive report to council that includes the findings of the Hillcrest Composition report.

1446
03:34:38,600 --> 03:34:48,600
Recommendation of council compensation committee and any other relevant considerations.

1447
03:34:48,600 --> 03:34:50,600
Okay.

1448
03:34:50,600 --> 03:34:53,600
Is there an open for you?

1449
03:34:53,600 --> 03:34:55,600
So I think we all heard.

1450
03:34:55,600 --> 03:35:01,600
We had lots of talks about about the reneumeration review committee report tonight.

1451
03:35:01,600 --> 03:35:07,600
And I think we need to go back to administration and get.

1452
03:35:07,600 --> 03:35:10,600
Look at full report. Add some of the items.

1453
03:35:10,600 --> 03:35:12,600
And I think that.

1454
03:35:12,600 --> 03:35:15,600
What are the positives? What are the negatives? What we can do?

1455
03:35:15,600 --> 03:35:20,600
And get that report back to us to actually maybe have a talk in committee.

1456
03:35:20,600 --> 03:35:22,600
We have a full.

1457
03:35:22,600 --> 03:35:28,600
And then discuss that report full some as a as a council here.

1458
03:35:28,600 --> 03:35:32,600
So so hopefully everything comes back from administration to.

1459
03:35:32,600 --> 03:35:33,600
Thanks.

1460
03:35:33,600 --> 03:35:34,600
Perfect.

1461
03:35:34,600 --> 03:35:37,600
Any comments or questions or.

1462
03:35:37,600 --> 03:35:38,600
No.

1463
03:35:38,600 --> 03:35:39,600
Yeah.

1464
03:35:39,600 --> 03:35:40,600
Council's thing to me.

1465
03:35:40,600 --> 03:35:41,600
Just for clarification.

1466
03:35:41,600 --> 03:35:42,600
Deputy Mayor.

1467
03:35:42,600 --> 03:35:44,600
To administration.

1468
03:35:44,600 --> 03:35:46,600
As part of this motion.

1469
03:35:47,600 --> 03:35:53,600
Can we take can we ensure that the new.

1470
03:35:53,600 --> 03:35:57,600
Market comparators are a true reflection of.

1471
03:35:57,600 --> 03:36:02,600
Who we are as a community relative to the region.

1472
03:36:02,600 --> 03:36:10,600
Because I think I heard from most of if not all of council that that there was some concern around some of the

1473
03:36:10,600 --> 03:36:16,600
components that we're added and also removed from the previous list.

1474
03:36:16,600 --> 03:36:21,600
Yeah. For sure. We would explore with council the rational behind the policy decision.

1475
03:36:21,600 --> 03:36:25,600
The existing policy decision about why those comparators were chosen.

1476
03:36:25,600 --> 03:36:27,600
And some of the rational amount behind that.

1477
03:36:27,600 --> 03:36:29,600
So that would be coming as part of it.

1478
03:36:29,600 --> 03:36:32,600
Those other relevant considerations.

1479
03:36:32,600 --> 03:36:35,600
Perfect.

1480
03:36:35,600 --> 03:36:37,600
Thank you.

1481
03:36:37,600 --> 03:36:38,600
We'd like to close. Oh, I'm sorry.

1482
03:36:38,600 --> 03:36:39,600
Sorry.

1483
03:36:39,600 --> 03:36:49,200
it's okay. Apologies if I didn't hear this, but when are we looking at this coming back?

1484
03:36:49,200 --> 03:36:55,040
So, when would I guess I'll ask that question of administration, when do you feel that you

1485
03:36:55,040 --> 03:36:59,520
can do this and I understand like, you know, we've got Christmas coming up here, but at the same

1486
03:36:59,520 --> 03:37:05,520
time, it is a relevant question. So, I totally respect that and so go ahead.

1487
03:37:06,080 --> 03:37:08,160
At this point, I'd say sometime at a February meeting.

1488
03:37:10,880 --> 03:37:17,520
Okay, that works for me. And the reason I ask the question is, as I said during committee of

1489
03:37:17,520 --> 03:37:23,680
the whole, if we're looking at lowering councils pay, that needs to fall on this council.

1490
03:37:23,680 --> 03:37:27,280
Not this council making a decision to lower the pay of the next group.

1491
03:37:27,280 --> 03:37:33,280
Okay, would you like to close mayor?

1492
03:37:33,280 --> 03:37:39,280
No, mayor, the board's not. Can I confirm the motion on the board if it's correct? I think I might have

1493
03:37:39,280 --> 03:37:42,280
missed the last point you made.

1494
03:37:42,280 --> 03:37:46,280
Okay, so I don't see it on the board. Sorry.

1495
03:37:46,280 --> 03:38:03,400
Yes, you did. So, what I've got here is I recommend administration, bring a comprehensive

1496
03:38:03,400 --> 03:38:10,840
report to council. That includes the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation Report,

1497
03:38:10,840 --> 03:38:20,680
Coma, the recommendations of council's compensation committee and any other relevant

1498
03:38:20,680 --> 03:38:32,840
considerations to the first meeting in February. First meeting of council.

1499
03:38:32,840 --> 03:38:38,440
So, don't know exactly what date that is. Sorry, guys. I can look.

1500
03:38:40,840 --> 03:38:56,840
I believe that's February 11th.

1501
03:38:56,840 --> 03:39:16,840
25.

1502
03:39:16,840 --> 03:39:42,840
Exactly.

1503
03:39:42,840 --> 03:39:48,840
The administration, do you feel that there's something missing? Is that date working for you?

1504
03:39:48,840 --> 03:39:52,840
Now is that motion working for you? Perfect.

1505
03:39:52,840 --> 03:39:56,840
And you don't need to close. You're good with this.

1506
03:39:56,840 --> 03:40:02,840
Then I will ask the question, all those in favor, and that passes unanimously.

1507
03:40:02,840 --> 03:40:06,840
I did open it up.

1508
03:40:06,840 --> 03:40:22,840
And I will return the tour back to you unless you have another motion.

1509
03:40:22,840 --> 03:40:27,840
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1510
03:40:27,840 --> 03:40:33,840
I would move that council directive administration to follow up with the medals of

1511
03:40:33,840 --> 03:40:41,840
Mooreville property owner to discuss next steps, including crosswalk considerations,

1512
03:40:41,840 --> 03:40:49,840
street light additions and stop sign relocation.

1513
03:41:03,840 --> 03:41:31,840
Thank you.

1514
03:41:31,840 --> 03:41:41,840
Thank you.

1515
03:42:01,840 --> 03:42:23,840
Thank you very much.

1516
03:42:23,840 --> 03:42:39,840
Do you want to open?

1517
03:42:39,840 --> 03:42:49,840
Through many conversations with the residents, most of these concerns predate even our term on council.

1518
03:42:49,840 --> 03:42:55,840
I do wonder if there's a temporary solution to bridge the gap between the pedestrian

1519
03:42:55,840 --> 03:43:01,840
and council analysis that will take place next year and the arterial upgrade scheduled for 28.

1520
03:43:01,840 --> 03:43:07,840
Because obviously residents currently don't have a safe passage across a hundred street.

1521
03:43:07,840 --> 03:43:17,840
And as it exists, currently children and adults of all ages are crossing the street without any safe passage.

1522
03:43:17,840 --> 03:43:37,840
So I guess my hope is that through collaboration with the owner that there can be a temporary solution and also some longer term solutions in this partnership.

1523
03:43:37,840 --> 03:43:42,840
I guess I might have an amendment.

1524
03:43:42,840 --> 03:43:45,840
Because I'm just think this is supposed to be two motions.

1525
03:43:45,840 --> 03:43:52,840
One should be a conversation with the proper owner regarding the next steps in moving the sign.

1526
03:43:52,840 --> 03:44:04,840
But the crosswalk itself or the pedestrian safety is probably something that we need to be doing before we even have conversations or potentially while we're having conversations.

1527
03:44:04,840 --> 03:44:09,840
The property owner there wouldn't have anything to do with that, correct?

1528
03:44:09,840 --> 03:44:11,840
Thank you for raising the point.

1529
03:44:11,840 --> 03:44:14,840
I can see this going two different ways.

1530
03:44:14,840 --> 03:44:24,840
With Councillor Stain today's motion it's closing the loop with this property owner and you are correct council Richardson that the one thing that we could transact with the property owner is about the stop sign.

1531
03:44:24,840 --> 03:44:28,840
So that's what they have some purview over and we can work them through next steps.

1532
03:44:28,840 --> 03:44:33,840
The other pieces of that motion would be just to relay what has gone to this meeting.

1533
03:44:33,840 --> 03:44:43,840
If we want to do more work on those two items that are not the purview of the property owner that would be a separate motion.

1534
03:44:43,840 --> 03:44:45,840
If I have that interpretation correct.

1535
03:44:45,840 --> 03:44:47,840
No, and I appreciate that.

1536
03:44:47,840 --> 03:45:00,840
Obviously there were there were some concerns that were brought forward tonight with respect to pedestrian infrastructure that currently exists or doesn't exist on the the metals of warms.

1537
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:25,000
So, I guess my thought was that through this follow-up conversation that perhaps there is a greater understanding from the ownership side of some of the augmentations or options that they might have to expedite a potential crosswalk.

1538
03:45:31,000 --> 03:45:35,000
All right, so you want to leave the motion as a stands right now then.

1539
03:45:48,000 --> 03:45:59,000
You know, I guess yes, I would keep my motion as it stands, because I do think that I think there is a lens that the property owner also brings to this conversation.

1540
03:46:00,000 --> 03:46:16,000
That hasn't been captured and perhaps the owner has some ideas as to what that could look like with an understanding of what, like what crossing, like what that actually looks like right now, because you know we've gotten in what input from a number of residents.

1541
03:46:16,000 --> 03:46:29,000
But I know that some of the gents and home personnel have been at the previous two meetings. They have a vested interest in this and I think they have a perspective that hasn't yet been articulated.

1542
03:46:30,000 --> 03:46:34,000
We're always happy to have a conversation, so I have no concerns with this motion.

1543
03:46:36,000 --> 03:46:39,000
All right, any other questions? Go ahead, counselor wait.

1544
03:46:39,000 --> 03:46:50,000
Yeah, I'm going to definitely support this motion and you know if you, if you look at that property itself and I've walked it several times and I've walked across where there's no street crosswalk.

1545
03:46:50,000 --> 03:47:00,000
There is no sidewalk in the metals or more inbuilt. So, you know, it's not like that's the only place in town where sidewalk ends and there's no sidewalk to go to.

1546
03:47:00,000 --> 03:47:07,000
There's several places in town, so to say that we can't do it on this one because there's no sidewalk to connect to.

1547
03:47:07,000 --> 03:47:17,000
Well, there's other ones in town, but I think that this is the right interim solution to a problem that's going to get resolved once everything gets built out.

1548
03:47:17,000 --> 03:47:34,000
But, you know, to provide the safety of an actual crosswalk for drivers to see pedestrians crossing that road, even though it's not right up to orbital transportation standards is better than nothing and that's what we have right now and people are walking across that street with nothing.

1549
03:47:34,000 --> 03:47:54,000
So, I think that that hopefully the crosswalk consideration turns into an actual crosswalk and I don't think you'll be painting lines across that road in the snow, but, you know, first thing in this spring, it'd be nice to see the lines get painted in the signs go up.

1550
03:47:55,000 --> 03:47:57,000
Councillor, I mean, Deputy Mayor.

1551
03:47:57,000 --> 03:48:01,000
Thank you, Mayor. I certainly want to speak in support of this.

1552
03:48:01,000 --> 03:48:09,000
As we broke, the two of the ladies came up, the two carons came up and they spoke and the ones that her grandchildren cross that road every single day.

1553
03:48:09,000 --> 03:48:17,000
And that's a really scary thought that they're doing so without that kind of safety, and especially when it's dark at four o'clock, you're right now.

1554
03:48:18,000 --> 03:48:27,000
So certainly appreciate Councillor Santini making this motion and taking such a passionate role with all of this.

1555
03:48:27,000 --> 03:48:32,000
Anyone else?

1556
03:48:32,000 --> 03:48:43,000
All right. I also, you know, I think it's a great motion and I think, you know, even what I heard tonight from the two carons, I didn't know their name was Karen.

1557
03:48:43,000 --> 03:49:00,000
I think I really appreciate the fact that the town is able to go and talk to them and also, you know, discussing even with the school system as a private owner to be able to look at what they can do to enhance that safety at this moment for the kids.

1558
03:49:00,000 --> 03:49:09,000
Instead of having to walk across and just start that enhancement on his own property as private ownership of the of the road there.

1559
03:49:09,000 --> 03:49:19,000
So I'm sure that we will have a lot safer area in the matters of Martinville for those kids, so I will be supporting this.

1560
03:49:19,000 --> 03:49:22,000
So with that, do you want to close?

1561
03:49:22,000 --> 03:49:28,000
No, I really appreciate the perspectives and certainly the support on this.

1562
03:49:28,000 --> 03:49:34,000
And I know that I wasn't the first, you know, member of council to bring this forward.

1563
03:49:34,000 --> 03:49:54,000
I know that others, including council white, was sort of banging this drum early on in our term in terms of, like with respect to some of the safety concerns that the residents brought forward then and have continued to bring forward.

1564
03:49:54,000 --> 03:50:19,000
And I'm really hopeful that there can be not only some long-term solutions to to ensure safe passage, but also some temporary solutions to bridge the gap between some of the studies and some of the upgrades that are scheduled in the coming years.

1565
03:50:19,000 --> 03:50:23,000
All right, thank you very much. And with that, I'll ask the question, all those in favor.

1566
03:50:23,000 --> 03:50:26,000
All right, and that is unanimous.

1567
03:50:26,000 --> 03:50:31,000
All right, any other motions coming out is Councillor Richardson?

1568
03:50:31,000 --> 03:50:35,000
Yeah, thanks. And actually this is probably more of a subsequent motion on that one.

1569
03:50:35,000 --> 03:50:48,000
But I'd like to make a motion that council directs administration to come back with a couple crosswalk costs for that area, temporary solution and permanent solution.

1570
03:50:48,000 --> 03:50:52,000
So that would be my motion.

1571
03:50:52,000 --> 03:50:55,000
All right, you want to open?

1572
03:50:55,000 --> 03:51:00,000
Or do you want to lay it out first?

1573
03:51:00,000 --> 03:51:09,000
Yeah, I guess the address would be 100 street and meadows drive 107th Ave.

1574
03:51:18,000 --> 03:51:47,000
Now, Councillor Richardson, we want to look at the motion there.

1575
03:51:47,000 --> 03:51:50,000
That's the one.

1576
03:51:50,000 --> 03:51:52,000
All right, did you want to speak to it?

1577
03:51:52,000 --> 03:51:54,000
Yeah, I'll just speak to the motion.

1578
03:51:54,000 --> 03:51:58,000
And I thought Councillor Centany's motion first was good.

1579
03:51:58,000 --> 03:52:07,000
I just worry a little bit about how our CEO said maybe that transactional piece where, you know, this is something that's set in stone.

1580
03:52:07,000 --> 03:52:08,000
We're going to have something come back.

1581
03:52:08,000 --> 03:52:16,000
It gives us the solution we can either take it, move it to another capital project, but this at least gets the ball rolling here.

1582
03:52:16,000 --> 03:52:21,000
And we're not kicking it down the street, we're waiting for this to come back.

1583
03:52:21,000 --> 03:52:24,000
So anybody want to speak to that?

1584
03:52:24,000 --> 03:52:29,000
Councillor, when are we looking to come back with that?

1585
03:52:29,000 --> 03:52:32,000
How long do you think that would take for you?

1586
03:52:32,000 --> 03:52:35,000
So February's good for me.

1587
03:52:35,000 --> 03:52:40,000
If ever you love of them?

1588
03:52:40,000 --> 03:52:43,000
Did you want to put that on there?

1589
03:52:47,000 --> 03:52:52,000
Yeah, a February meeting of council is perfect for me.

1590
03:53:03,000 --> 03:53:05,000
Any other questions?

1591
03:53:05,000 --> 03:53:07,000
Well, she's finishing typing.

1592
03:53:07,000 --> 03:53:09,000
All right, did you want to close?

1593
03:53:09,000 --> 03:53:14,000
I guess just the only close is hopefully before February 11,

1594
03:53:14,000 --> 03:53:16,000
there's the meeting with the landowner there.

1595
03:53:16,000 --> 03:53:19,000
And potentially there's a solution that comes up before this.

1596
03:53:19,000 --> 03:53:24,000
If not, this is an opportunity for us to pick a solution.

1597
03:53:24,000 --> 03:53:30,000
And hopefully make the crossing there safer for everybody.

1598
03:53:30,000 --> 03:53:31,000
Thank you.

1599
03:53:31,000 --> 03:53:33,000
With that, I'll ask the question.

1600
03:53:33,000 --> 03:53:35,000
All those in favor?

1601
03:53:35,000 --> 03:53:36,000
All right.

1602
03:53:36,000 --> 03:53:41,000
And that motion has passed unanimously.

1603
03:53:41,000 --> 03:53:46,000
So are there any other motions that have come out?

1604
03:53:46,000 --> 03:53:47,000
All right.

1605
03:53:47,000 --> 03:53:48,000
Seeing none.

1606
03:53:48,000 --> 03:53:53,000
We'll move on to 11, 11.1.

1607
03:53:53,000 --> 03:53:56,000
So Councillor Dayful, notice a motions.

1608
03:53:59,000 --> 03:54:01,000
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1609
03:54:01,000 --> 03:54:07,000
So my motion that I put as a notice a motion is that council directed

1610
03:54:07,000 --> 03:54:12,000
administration to bring the responsible pet ownership by law number five,

1611
03:54:12,000 --> 03:54:16,000
twenty sixteen to council to review,

1612
03:54:16,000 --> 03:54:18,000
find associated with sections.

1613
03:54:18,000 --> 03:54:22,000
And you can see them there six point three a through,

1614
03:54:22,000 --> 03:54:27,000
as well as any other penalties council may wish to review.

1615
03:54:27,000 --> 03:54:31,000
Once you accept this, I'm going to make an amendment to that motion.

1616
03:54:31,000 --> 03:54:34,000
And I'll explain why in my opening.

1617
03:54:35,000 --> 03:54:39,000
Okay.

1618
03:54:39,000 --> 03:54:40,000
Go ahead.

1619
03:54:40,000 --> 03:54:43,000
Okay. So if the motions on the table,

1620
03:54:43,000 --> 03:54:45,000
I want to immediately amend it.

1621
03:54:45,000 --> 03:54:50,000
If we can bring that up, I sent that in earlier today.

1622
03:54:50,000 --> 03:54:59,000
So my motion would be, my amendment would be that the preceding motion be

1623
03:54:59,000 --> 03:55:04,000
amended with to return to council in T1 of twenty twenty five,

1624
03:55:04,000 --> 03:55:07,000
with the responsible pet ownership by law five,

1625
03:55:07,000 --> 03:55:12,000
twenty sixteen for review and possible amendments.

1626
03:55:12,000 --> 03:55:14,000
The reason for that is,

1627
03:55:14,000 --> 03:55:20,000
I came to this with some very specific ideas surrounding loose dogs,

1628
03:55:20,000 --> 03:55:25,000
not picking up feces, loose cats, roaming cats, that's kind of thing.

1629
03:55:25,000 --> 03:55:27,000
But as I started to dig a little deeper,

1630
03:55:27,000 --> 03:55:31,000
I realized we haven't looked at this thing in eight years.

1631
03:55:31,000 --> 03:55:34,000
And it will be nine years by the time we get to it.

1632
03:55:34,000 --> 03:55:38,000
And I thought it might be a good time to bring that policy back.

1633
03:55:38,000 --> 03:55:44,000
The only thing that I could find that we've done with it since then is getting an update

1634
03:55:44,000 --> 03:55:51,000
in 2018 to indicate that there wasn't a big uptake on special animals and chickens,

1635
03:55:51,000 --> 03:55:55,000
which is where this thing originally came into being.

1636
03:55:55,000 --> 03:55:57,000
So, so that's my opening.

1637
03:55:57,000 --> 03:55:59,000
I think we should take a look at the entire thing.

1638
03:55:59,000 --> 03:56:03,000
And at that time I'll speak to the fines and so on,

1639
03:56:03,000 --> 03:56:07,000
which apparently haven't been increased in nine years.

1640
03:56:07,000 --> 03:56:09,000
Thank you very much.

1641
03:56:09,000 --> 03:56:12,000
And are there any questions of,

1642
03:56:12,000 --> 03:56:15,000
Councillor Difford for a Councillor Difford?

1643
03:56:15,000 --> 03:56:17,000
Nope.

1644
03:56:17,000 --> 03:56:18,000
All right.

1645
03:56:18,000 --> 03:56:20,000
And thank you.

1646
03:56:20,000 --> 03:56:21,000
Did you want to close?

1647
03:56:21,000 --> 03:56:22,000
Sure.

1648
03:56:22,000 --> 03:56:25,000
I think it's a good idea to look at policies before nine years,

1649
03:56:25,000 --> 03:56:26,000
but we didn't.

1650
03:56:26,000 --> 03:56:28,000
So now's our opportunity.

1651
03:56:28,000 --> 03:56:29,000
Thank you.

1652
03:56:29,000 --> 03:56:30,000
And I'll ask for the vote.

1653
03:56:30,000 --> 03:56:31,000
All those in favor?

1654
03:56:31,000 --> 03:56:32,000
All right.

1655
03:56:32,000 --> 03:56:34,000
And that is unanimity passed.

1656
03:56:34,000 --> 03:56:38,000
Was there any other notice of motions that came forward?

1657
03:56:38,000 --> 03:56:39,000
Sorry.

1658
03:56:39,000 --> 03:56:41,000
Mayor Borisma.

1659
03:56:41,000 --> 03:56:44,000
So he put forward an amendment motion.

1660
03:56:44,000 --> 03:56:49,000
So we just have to go back to the original as amended.

1661
03:56:49,000 --> 03:56:51,000
We just have to do that vote.

1662
03:56:52,000 --> 03:56:53,000
Okay. Thank you.

1663
03:56:53,000 --> 03:56:56,000
So I want to note to it.

1664
03:56:56,000 --> 03:56:58,000
All right.

1665
03:56:58,000 --> 03:57:00,000
Thank you very much for that.

1666
03:57:00,000 --> 03:57:02,000
So as amended,

1667
03:57:02,000 --> 03:57:04,000
so we will,

1668
03:57:04,000 --> 03:57:08,000
does anybody have any questions or debate on this?

1669
03:57:08,000 --> 03:57:09,000
Seeing none,

1670
03:57:09,000 --> 03:57:10,000
I know you don't want to close,

1671
03:57:10,000 --> 03:57:11,000
so ask the question.

1672
03:57:11,000 --> 03:57:13,000
All those in favor?

1673
03:57:13,000 --> 03:57:14,000
All right.

1674
03:57:14,000 --> 03:57:17,000
That is unanimously passed.

1675
03:57:17,000 --> 03:57:20,000
Is there any other notice of motions?

1676
03:57:21,000 --> 03:57:24,000
Go ahead.

1677
03:57:24,000 --> 03:57:29,000
At the January 14, 2025 council meeting,

1678
03:57:29,000 --> 03:57:31,000
I intend to put forward the following motion.

1679
03:57:31,000 --> 03:57:34,000
The council directed administration to review and

1680
03:57:34,000 --> 03:57:38,000
return to council in the first quarter of 2025,

1681
03:57:38,000 --> 03:57:41,000
with a report on enforcement services,

1682
03:57:41,000 --> 03:57:44,000
and it's enforcement of community bylaws.

1683
03:57:44,000 --> 03:57:48,000
The report should one examine the current

1684
03:57:48,000 --> 03:57:52,000
complete driven process compared to any proactive

1685
03:57:52,000 --> 03:57:56,000
enforcement work being undertaken to provide suggestions

1686
03:57:56,000 --> 03:57:59,000
for improvement to existing processes.

1687
03:57:59,000 --> 03:58:02,000
Three offer recommendations for potential

1688
03:58:02,000 --> 03:58:05,000
enhancements to the program.

1689
03:58:05,000 --> 03:58:07,000
Thank you for bringing that forward.

1690
03:58:07,000 --> 03:58:11,000
And are there any other motions?

1691
03:58:11,000 --> 03:58:12,000
All right.

1692
03:58:12,000 --> 03:58:13,000
Seeing none,

1693
03:58:14,000 --> 03:58:15,000
I will,

1694
03:58:15,000 --> 03:58:18,000
I also need to motion to go past

1695
03:58:18,000 --> 03:58:20,000
APM tonight,

1696
03:58:20,000 --> 03:58:23,000
since we have a close session coming up here.

1697
03:58:23,000 --> 03:58:25,000
So,

1698
03:58:25,000 --> 03:58:27,000
Deputy Mayor.

1699
03:58:27,000 --> 03:58:29,000
I'll make that motion so moved

1700
03:58:29,000 --> 03:58:31,000
that we are past APM.

1701
03:58:31,000 --> 03:58:32,000
All right.

1702
03:58:32,000 --> 03:58:34,000
Any debate on that?

1703
03:58:34,000 --> 03:58:35,000
I'll ask the question.

1704
03:58:35,000 --> 03:58:37,000
All those in favor?

1705
03:58:37,000 --> 03:58:38,000
All right.

1706
03:58:40,000 --> 03:58:41,000
Okay.

1707
03:58:41,000 --> 03:58:45,000
So we will then have a motion,

1708
03:58:45,000 --> 03:58:47,000
a recommended motion,

1709
03:58:47,000 --> 03:58:48,000
Councillor White.

1710
03:58:48,000 --> 03:58:51,000
And I move that council move into closed session

1711
03:58:51,000 --> 03:58:55,000
to discuss item 12.1 CAO slash council dialogue

1712
03:58:55,000 --> 03:58:57,000
for soon to section 24,

1713
03:58:57,000 --> 03:59:01,000
the freedom of information and privacy protection act.

1714
03:59:01,000 --> 03:59:03,000
RSA-2000,

1715
03:59:03,000 --> 03:59:05,000
CHF-25.

1716
03:59:05,000 --> 03:59:07,000
Thank you very much.

1717
03:59:07,000 --> 03:59:08,000
All right.

1718
03:59:09,000 --> 03:59:12,000
There's no debate.

1719
03:59:12,000 --> 03:59:13,000
Seeing no debate,

1720
03:59:13,000 --> 03:59:14,000
I'll ask the question.

1721
03:59:14,000 --> 03:59:15,000
All those in favor?

1722
03:59:15,000 --> 03:59:16,000
All right.

1723
03:59:16,000 --> 03:59:18,000
And that's unanimous.

1724
04:20:00,000 --> 04:20:29,000
All right.

1725
04:20:29,000 --> 04:20:36,000
So we are, we came out of close session and at eight, 16.

1726
04:20:36,000 --> 04:20:40,000
And we are asking for a German since there's no business arising.

1727
04:20:40,000 --> 04:20:42,000
So Councillor Dayfold.

1728
04:20:42,000 --> 04:20:43,000
So move.

1729
04:20:43,000 --> 04:20:46,000
All right. All those in favor.

1730
04:20:46,000 --> 04:20:47,000
Thank you.