Good afternoon. As I call this meeting to order, I respectfully acknowledge that we are on
36 territory, traditional lands of the Cree, Gany. It's starting to go to Sue, the so-to, and the adjourned
First Nations and the Mati people. The town of Mornville is dedicated to ensuring the spirit of 36 is honored and respected.
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
630 and 7 p.m. if needed. And with that, I will ask for adoption of the agenda as presented.
Councillor. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that Council approve the agenda as presented.
Thank you. I don't need to open.
Are there any questions of Council? Seeing none? I'll ask the question. All those in favor?
All right. With that, we'll move to 2.3. I'll go to consent agenda.
Have any councillors?
Thank you, Mayor.
Thank you, Mayor Burisma. I would like to pull 9.1.1, 9.1.2, and 9.1.3.
All right, do we have any other ones?
I'd like to pull 8.1.
I can at least pull 8.2.1.
Are there any others? If not, ask for motion. Councilor Defo, some move Mr. Mayor.
All right. You don't want to open? You're good.
Get no need to open or close. All right. I'll ask the question. All those in favor? All right.
So with that, we will move to protocol items. Are there any protocol items? Councilor Defo?
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I just want to point out that on December 19th, that's a Thursday evening at 7 p.m.
At the Moranville Community Cultural Center, there will be the 44th edition of the Community Christmas Celebration.
This was started by a teacher in town 44 years ago.
And in recent years, it's been taken over by the Moranville Minsterals, a singing group here in town.
And we wouldn't have it without their volunteer efforts. I encourage everyone to come out.
Anyone who has gone knows what a great evening it is.
Thank you. Are there any others?
With that, I do want to note that December of Proclamation is today's Human Rights Day.
Twenty twenty four marks the seventh thick anniversary of one of the world's most important groundbreaking global pledges.
The University of the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by UN in 1948.
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.
Each person is entitled to fundamental rights, including the right to equality, the right to life, liberty and security of the person.
It also recognized the right of freedom of religion and speech.
And the right to participate in the cultural life of community.
Also, like to speak a little bit about community spirit.
And I hope that many of you were there at light up the night.
It was an amazing event.
And the Christmas festival in total between December 29th and December 1st.
And I know it was real cold out. Some of us didn't notice because our hands were frozen.
But it was an amazing night. Lots of candies handed out. Lots of kids were happy.
And so it's great to see families out. And the wonderful fireworks that came with it.
So again, thank you for everyone coming.
And we also have the Giving Tree.
It'll be up until December 13th. So please feel free to stop by at the MCC.
And purchase a gift for a deserving senior.
Those are important members of our community.
I'm also want to recognize that on December 10th and 11th.
Town Hall will be open until 6 p.m.
So knowing that there's a postal strike on.
They'll be able to pick up paper copies of the utility bills.
So we'll be sure to bring a valid photo ID to confirm you are the account holder.
So with that, we also wish everyone to have a great Christmas.
And Councilor Defol, go ahead.
Sorry, Mr. Mayor. I do have another one.
More and little community high school does an annual drama production.
And that starts tomorrow.
There's a not name in the afternoon for students.
But the first show is tomorrow night doors open at 6.30.
Showtime is 7 p.m.
It will be on Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night.
This year they've gone with a comedy.
It's called the Drowsy Shaperone.
And it looks like it's going to be another great event.
I have my tickets for Bonnie and I for tomorrow night.
I encourage everybody to get out and see some good theater.
Tickets are available 15 bucks at the door.
They're 10 bucks in advance.
And you can buy them through the school website.
Right on.
And they do an amazing job for sure.
So anyone else got anything else?
So good. Okay. So then we will move on to six delegation.
So we will ask Sergeant to come forward.
Thank you very much.
Good afternoon, everyone.
Thanks for inviting me this afternoon to present our second quarter update
from the more of the RCMP detachment.
Hopefully you have the right button here.
So this update will provide our second quarter report,
which covers the period of July 1st to September 30th.
Activity at our detachment here in Mournville.
Okay.
Again, the purpose of these updates provide an update on two council on the operations of the Mournville RCMP detachment.
And an overview of our jurisdiction and call volume.
The Mournville RCMP detachment provides 20 for our policing services.
Two several municipalities and communities including the Alexander First Nation,
Sturgeon County, Towns of Bonnecourt, Gibbons, Legal, and of course Mournville.
Human resource update.
The Mournville RCMP detachment is comprised of 40 personnel,
which includes 26 police officers,
starting with one staff sergeant.
We're a truly.
We have one sergeant, five courperals,
18 constables, in addition to that.
We have one constable of the accident or school resource officer position.
Four public service employees, four town of Mournville, full town employees,
five town of Mournville, casual employees, one reserve is constable.
Enter officers are also supported by what's now central burden regional victim services and five guards.
Just a quick update on our human resource movement during this quarter.
As you all know, and I reported at the last update.
Sergeant Lou Sims moved on to Ladoop detachment by way of promotion in August.
Happy to announce effective last month on November 12th.
That Sergeant Mike Fibraro was identified as the successful promotional applicant.
Sergeant Fibraro was actually joining me this afternoon.
So he has taken the places our operations in CO for the Mournville detachment.
Mike has been here for several years already.
Very familiar with the Mournville detachment area.
He is an excellent police officer and just a fantastic leader.
And it was it was an easy choice.
Just some further updates on our supervisor ranks.
Corporal Ryan Lamay and Corporal Jonathan Corp.
Both started out our detachment in September.
Corporal Lamay came from the central burden district general investigation section.
And Corp. John Corp came from the Fort Saskatchewan detachment.
Both started in late September.
We also welcomed a new supervisor to our detachment corporal Samantha Barrett.
Was identified as a successful corporate applicant.
She started at our detachment two weeks ago.
She came from the same Albert detachment.
She has several years of experience.
And she's actually be a constable on the frontline here in Mournville several years ago.
I can also update on the constable ranks.
We have a constable Andrew Fontana, who has two years of service.
It's going to be coming to our detachment brand new from Shateh detachment, which is up north near the northwest territory's border.
He'll be starting with us just a few days after Christmas.
And I'm sure he'll welcome the change.
For departures we saw Constable Darren Ryan.
Leave our detachment after several years.
He was selected for a promotional opportunity in Evansburg.
He left about three weeks ago now.
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.
That will leave us at this point with two vacancies.
One in the Constable ranks.
And one in our corporal ranks that Sergeant Ferbaro just vacated.
I expect to have some updates on those very shortly.
We also have two police officers currently on sick leave and we have one on parental leave.
The criminal statistics update for quarter two.
Criminal code of traffic defenses have seen a general reaction from the previous year.
Our criminal code occurrences include persons crimes which are down 25% this quarter compared to this time last year.
Property crimes are up 19% which I'll get to in a moment.
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.
Looking at those numbers, that's pretty consistent where we're holding pretty steady with that.
Our traffic defenses criminal code traffic defenses down from 3 to 2 and our provincial traffic defenses again very steady 113 to 120.
Before I move on to this.
Next slide I'll just touch on the property crime.
I want to just mention that one.
So if you go into the detailed report on crime statistics that was provided, you'll also notice that we had 14 vehicle thefts.
This quarter and that's a comparison of pretty stark comparison to the five that we had over the same period last year.
So we're getting to work on that we did make one arrest recently of one young offender who obviously won't be identified.
We also have a continuing investigation and I am expecting further arrests shortly and making some progress on these.
Other policing statistics common policing activities have seen increases in some areas and decreases in others.
False alarm is pretty consistent 9 to 8 this year 911 calls have gone 1 to 2.
Suspicious persons vehicles properties of suspicious activity complaints.
We've seen a pretty good increase on that and that's good.
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.
No call to small when it comes to reporting suspicious activities.
So we've seen a nice increase there from 29 to 42 compared to the summer previous.
No persons reported missing this quarter compared to five last year.
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.
Also happy to report that the mournville detachment was selected in August as one of two new our pass locations in central Alberta district,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
That are neighboring detachments and our neighboring communities are also beneficiaries of us having it here in Mornville.
We've assisted other detachments, such as sports, a schedule, and in nursing persons cases.
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.
Among the many activities and the many initiatives that Tanner has taken charge of, one was distracted driving presentation.
They prevented local year to several schools that came in and robust in from the area.
And I attended myself, I was very impressed with that Tanner also spearheaded a November fundraiser.
And he partnered with local students to grow what was intended to be mass dashes.
And there raised $900 that they were able to donate to cancer research. She's just fantastic.
A great opportunity to work with the kids.
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.
Our communication strategy, which we got running up to full speed in the summertime, positive ticketing campaign.
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.
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.
And we do have something like this running on a smaller scale here with municipal enforcement in Mornville.
What we're looking at is rolling out something that's maybe a little bit bigger scale across our detachment area.
Our members also attended, remember, stay ceremonies here in town. And we also attended the light up the night parade.
Actually, myself and Sergeant Fubara were both present for that.
And we'll be participating in the candy cane check stop later this week.
We also had a capital project detachment capital project meeting last week with operational strategy branch out of K division.
Where they provided some basic information to us on some of the restrictions and requirements when it comes to considerations for new detachment.
That included issues and items on location space, uses and cost.
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.
And with that, I'll put to the group of questions.
Thank you very much, Staff Sergeant.
We're going to go and thanks for the update.
And really impressed with your our past system that you showed off tonight.
So, glad our community has it. So, are there any questions of staff Sergeant?
Councillor Saintingy.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
Thank you, Staff Sergeant, for the update.
Would be remiss not to acknowledge, I really appreciate the human resources update and just using officers by name.
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.
And so, with an understanding that turnover is a part of the job.
But it's sad to see a lot of these families have to relocate.
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.
So, really appreciate the way that you framed all that.
I do have one question. It's a bit of an outlier, but I wanted to ask in nonetheless.
So, on page 70, there's this weird anomaly where municipal by-law infractions were significantly down in 2023.
And then return to sort of a normal number in 2024.
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.
That job, though, at me as well.
So, when it comes to the municipal by-law numbers coming and reported into our data.
Obviously, it's not a primary mandate to investigate municipal by-law matters.
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.
Can be of that nature, and sometimes we forward them, but we still gather those statistics.
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.
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.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
And thank you for the report.
The stuff with the drones is amazing.
What a great tool to help with law enforcement in our community.
The one question I have for you and I've asked you this before.
Is there any update on the things I'll about to fire?
Yeah, there is.
So, that investigation is ongoing.
We have spoken to witnesses recently, and we are going to be forwarding a media release shortly.
Seeking the identification that confirmed the identification of three suspects on that matter.
So, it is progressing.
Thank you.
I'll also mention two.
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.
Suspects, I will say, are not believed to be related to the one here in Mornville.
If you're Mayor, belong to them.
Thank you.
Staff Sergeant McGonagal for it's always robust.
You bring lots of great energy into the room.
So, thank you so much for being here for the presentation.
Certainly echo my fellow counselors.
Just the, you know, good stuff's happening.
I noticed that the sexual assault complaints in 2022 were quite high.
And I know that there was a number of media releases around that.
About some, gentlemen, that was, I use the term loosely, was doing some internet stuff with some minor children.
And I'm wondering if, I know that was part of it.
There was a number of press releases that you guys had also sent out about this person.
I'm wondering if that has now subsided just because we're seeing the numbers come down.
And initially, there was concern that there might be more folks coming forward.
And, you know, certainly parents had been asked to have those conversations with, with our kids.
And obviously, if those numbers are coming down, you guys are doing your job.
It, like, amazingly well.
But wondering if that has somewhat wrapped up.
Yeah, I certainly do attribute it to that.
Again, not directly related to what we haven't done here.
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.
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.
You'll see again that trend going in that direction of that decrease.
Thank you again, just for the great work you're doing.
And thank you for bringing some wonderful people into our audience here tonight.
I appreciate that. Thank you.
Anyone else?
All right. Well, thank you very much.
Staff Sergeant, so appreciate it.
And again, we'll see you here in a couple of days with handing over the candies and stuff.
But you guys are doing a great job and so appreciate it having a community.
And just also want to put a hat off to Sergeant Willis for doing his job.
Just getting a touch with those kids heard nothing but good things about that.
So again, thank you very much.
Thank you for being such cooperative partners.
And we really appreciate it.
Merry Christmas, everyone.
All right, with that, we will have a delegation for Rose Ridge wastewater.
So we'll ask Ms. Barry and Mr. Costa come forward.
So should just sorry, should we go into closed session right now?
Or is there speaking before that?
No, okay.
So I will have to get someone to move to go.
Okay.
Councillor White.
I would move that council move into closed session to discuss item 6.2.
Percent to Section 23 and 24 of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act RSA 2000.
CH.f.25.
I don't need open.
Thank you.
All right.
Any questions?
Debate?
I've seen none.
I'll ask the question.
All those in favor?
So I know we have a big crowd here right now.
So I'm just going to ask you just to go into the lobby.
Until we're done.
Thank you.
All right. So, with that, at this time, I don't see any public presentations. So, I will move on to business
and 8.1. We'll move on to election by law number 20, 2020, 24. And I will have administration
to speak to that Ms. Gilbert.
Good evening, Mayor and Council. And happy holidays. The election by law is presented for
second and final reading. As mentioned previously, this by-laws being brought forward
due to changes from the municipal affairs statute amendment act. Effective October 31,
24, also known as Bell 20. Additionally, it's always best practice to ensure the
election by law is reviewed within each election cycle for any changes that it needs. In addition to
mandatory provisions in the Local Authorities Election Act, there are a number of
discretionary items. Council can consider such as nomination requirements for candidates.
Any changes, though, related to nomination requirements, must be approved prior to
December 31, 2024 as the nomination period begins January 25. This includes the number of
required signatures, the candidate deposit amount, and whether to require criminal
record check. Considerations for an implications of a criminal record check requirement were
included in the report to Council. Council has the option to approve the by-law as presented
or they could direct the criminal record check be added as listed in the options of the reports.
Our recommended procedural process to ensure this by-law is approved within its legislative
timeline while ensuring Council is confident in the by-law approved is listed under the
alternative section of the report and includes draft motions. So for minimal
amendments to candidate nomination requirements, that must be passed prior to December 31,
with approval.
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.
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.
And overall, our approach was to provide all updates to this by-law in one go.
But if there's any amendments, as per council direction, we'll be happy to implement that.
And we can also answer any questions.
Thank you very much, Ms. Gilbert.
Are there any questions of council on this by-law?
Councilor and Halger.
Thank you.
I just had a question. In the briefing note, you highlighted the need to offer the electors assistance at home.
And how was that done? Like, was it previously done with portable ballot boxes?
Because that's not. My understanding was that bill 20 says that we're not allowed to use those any longer.
So how do we facilitate the electors assistance at home?
It's still a program under the local authorities election act that we can do. I do understand that amendment clause about.
I believe it was a centralized collection point. So with special ballots, we can't have a ballot box anymore to collect special ballots.
It has to be received by the returning officer directly.
With voting assistance at home, two deputy election workers typically will go to the house.
A system with voting and return with their ballots to bring to the elected assistant at home ballot boxes.
So each voting station outside of the typical voting day will have a ballot box that's secured until we are counting center opens.
So that's the same process for whether we're doing advance voting, institutional voting,
electors assistant at home special ballots. They're all secured when those voting stations close.
And they're all collected by election workers as allowed under the local service election act.
So it's just specifying that we can't have a drop box. It has to be received by a person.
Thank you very much. Anyone else have any questions?
If not, someone would have forward the motion.
Deputy Mayor.
Thank you, Mayor. I'll move that council approve second reading of the election byla number 20-2024.
And they don't need to open, but I definitely want to thank Miss Gilbert for her very hard work.
Thank you.
Can you debate, question?
All right. Did you want to close?
All right. I'll ask the question. All those in favor?
All right. That's unanimous.
And then I'll move on to is anyone want to put third reading on forward?
Councillor White.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that council approve third reading of the election byla.
Number 2-0-2-0-2-4.
And just a bit of an opening here. I've wanted to thank Miss Gilbert for all the work that she did as well.
Obviously, there was a lot of work created by the changes that came in 2020.
And that's not always easy to implement without looking at the ramifications and implications that
that could have to other parts of the election byla.
And by my reading of this, you did a very thorough job of going through everything.
So I support the way it is written and thank you for your work.
Thank you very much.
Is there any debate on this or questions? All right.
That's the question. All those in favor? All right. And that is unanimous.
And we will move on to 8.21.
And I will turn that over to administration.
Thank you, Mayor. It's my pleasure tonight to present the T2 report to council.
As you recall, this is our reporting cadence for progress against council strategic plan and administration's
Cascading corporate business plan.
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.
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.
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.
So in T2, that got off and running and I know that council saw that out in the community.
We also around community safety and well-being.
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.
And we also constructed an emergency access route at Notre Dame Point Subdivision.
This completed so enhanced accessibility and safety for that community.
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.
And corporate memberships were added as of August 1st to promote well-being in the community.
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.
And in terms of what that looks like on the ground, we had the Pembena Activate Program was extended.
So point was confirmed as a sponsor for the free skate.
And we also were able to install a billboard in town that helped us with additional revenue generation.
In terms of goal four environmental responsibility, we completed the waste audit in partnership with GFL and helps continue to inform our management strategy.
And we've also had some discussions that are released renewal for the community gardens.
With respect to goal five, we're on economic development.
The more and more environmental campaign was actively promoted.
This was when our successful developer block party was held to showcase development opportunities in the municipality.
And as well, I'm very pleased to participate in the urban development institute luncheon.
Strengthening those regional relationships and promoting more and more as an attractive destination for investment.
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.
And then in terms of goal six.
And we continued to support our good neighbors at a Alexander first nation with attendance and support for their multitude of cultural events.
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.
And then on page 15 or 15 of the report and 146 of your agenda.
So the developer block parties there, festival days, MDP, bike, rodeo and so forth.
It also includes your financial update for T, T2, so both revenue and expenses were had positive variances.
And the revenue variances were mostly due to higher than budgeted user fees.
And the expense variances were driven by lower contracted services and salaries and benefits expenses.
There's also a capital projects update and your ATE statistics are included.
And there are staff on hand to help answer questions.
Thank you very much, Miss Hayes.
It's a great report to read and lots of information.
So again, thank you very much for getting all this out to us and for the completions that we can see.
Are there any questions of council on the T2 report?
Okay, comment from the Premier.
Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Miss Hayes.
I'm really, quite pleased actually to see the in goal six around the collaboration with the county looking at similar purchasing opportunities.
And I think that's a key thing.
It's been a long running joke for Councillor White and I every time we see some of their councillors about the assault shed.
So I'm so excited to see that there I feel like we should go celebrate.
But really good stuff and a lot of completion.
And it's really nice to see the movement through here because we're not always abreast of what's going on.
So just my thanks and really pleased as well to see what's happening with our first nation's neighbors.
Anyone else?
Councillor Daveville.
Thank you, Mayor.
Not a question, but a comment.
I just want to thank staff for correcting the statement of operations where it relates to honorariums and prudiums.
When I read through the agenda and saw that I was the highest paid and by a margin of 5,000.
I knew that absolutely wasn't correct.
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.
A lot closer to where they should be.
You're just testing you to keep your sharp.
But in all honesty, thank you for allowing us the opportunity to rectify that.
Yeah, no, I'm always looking at numbers.
And thank you for catching that.
Again, thank you for staff for helping along with that.
Councillor Sintany.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
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.
So it's nice to have a visual.
I do have one question.
I'm just wondering on the statement of operations on page 148.
Under gain loss on Capitol ass at the disposal.
I'm just curious what is what does the 31,676 represent?
So generally speaking, gain or loss on asset disposal means when we advertise an asset a physical asset.
When you dispose of it, there is a certain amount of amortization that's been built up on that on that asset.
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.
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.
You would either recognize a gain or a loss depending on whether that amount was above or below what our book value is.
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.
And basically help support surplus that council can allocate at the end of the year or through our reserve policies.
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.
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.
Yes, and this is a gain. So in this case, we were able to recover more than what we had on our book value.
Okay, no one I appreciate that.
Yeah, I was wondering if it was like one particular piece of infrastructure, but yeah, so thank you.
Thank you, anyone else?
All right, see none.
Yeah, I need a motion for him. Okay, go ahead and dip your mayor.
I'm blank.
Thank you, Mayor. I will make the motion that council accept the town of Martinville, T.T.
Strategic Plan progress report 2024th information.
No need to open or close.
Thank you.
All right, any debate or questions on that?
If not, ask question all those in favor.
All right, and that is unanimous.
And with that, I have, I'll recommend that we need another motion to bring us into committee of a whole.
Councillor Daphoh, so move Mr. Mayor.
All right, all those in favor?
All right, so move the chair.
Thank you, Mayor.
Let's move on to business 9.1, 9.1, council reneumeration review committee report.
I'll tear that over to Ms. Brush and administration.
All right, thank you, Deputy Mayor.
So for those of you who don't know me, I'm the manager of Human Resources here at the town of Martinville.
I'm going to do a brief introduction before we head into the council remuneration review committee report.
So as you can recall from the February 27th, 2024 regular meeting of council council approve the establishment of a council remuneration review committee,
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
and develop recommendations for council's consideration.
The committee was solely formed of more and more electors appointed by more and more and more chief administrative officer,
and this was to maintain the important principle of neutrality.
Their mandate was to ensure fair and equitable compensation for elected officials,
to demonstrate with the responsibilities will also considering fiscal responsibility and transparency in the governance.
The committee was focused on the accountability to the community, the ability to attract and retain qualified candidates for public office,
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.
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.
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.
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.
So with that, go into our presentation.
Let's look for the slide. Thank you.
I'm going to touch on a few points here today for agenda. So the background is thought in establishment of the committee.
The introduction of our committee members, our mandate, some foundational information that we want to share with you.
Particularly recommendations for council consideration that are going to include updated policy and schedules.
A change in comparative groups are recommended change, recommended target percentile of that council remuneration would be based on, and analytics supporting this information.
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.
So the background is established in the committee.
It's important to note that this is a voluntary group and one that is in part separate from anything of council.
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.
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.
And that we are an independent group of citizens bringing forward recommendations for your consideration.
We do recognize that it is truly recommendations and the authorities still rest with yourselves.
And ultimately establishing what if any by-law or policy changes will be coming from that.
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.
So this is actually for committee members. There were five of us appointed to it. My self is chair appointed by our committee.
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.
So those gentlemen that are with us today. Thank you for attending and being in part with us here as well.
And as well, I'd like to express our thanks on behalf of the committee for the administrative support through Ms. Jennifer Brush.
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.
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.
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,
per deums and any other forms of remineration and to provide recommendations on revisions to more adults policies or that by-law.
And to provide any methodology to be used to establish future justice to remineration, including comparators and frequency.
For you today, this presentation is our report.
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.
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.
As well as other municipal council remineration by-laws and policies within the direct comparator group.
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.
The committee is also researched populations of marginal mournable's regional comparison municipalities and those of the direct comparators.
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.
So council's remineration review committee beyond the by-law mandate of council.
We applied these additional lenses and that is accountability, fiscal responsibility, efficiencies, transparency and clarity.
As well as alignment with other municipalities and government practices.
So for our council remineration policy recommended amendments these include but they're not limited to the following key areas.
3.1 council compensation was to include that compared to group.
4.2 which includes a cost of living and absence.
4.3 per deems including eligibility committee alternates.
4.4 which is expenses which includes reimbursements for meals and travel.
Professional development encompassing activities without a province travel.
And then schedule B which is the council remineration rates including updated recommended honorarium per deem, mileage and meal allowance rates.
So for our current market comparators that's been established by mournable council encompasses the city of Beaumont, Devon, Fortress Gatchon, Locom,
Cochrane Hinton, White Court, Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Surgeon County.
We have reviewed that and the policies and Bala's other municipalities.
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.
The comparative community populations as well as recognizing the geographic location that's in proximity to a large urban center.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So of this recommended new compared to group, you can note on this table here, the municipality listed by name on the left.
The population as at the 2021 federal census, the percentile population encompassing where mournville is at at 64% based on those population numbers.
And then of course our percentage of that being at that 64th.
So with this numbers in hand, mournville is residing out of approximately 65th percentile based on the population of this compared to group.
So I go back comparison and I don't have this as a table.
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.
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.
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.
The rationale and I'm going to jump back and forth on a couple slides here for that.
I should go back to that one.
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.
The council directed administration to bring forward the council remuneration policy.
That's a tongue twister.
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.
Now we weren't present in the when that motion was put forward but in considering the context of what that does.
It brings the decision of whether or not council would it would normally be automatically as a cost of living adjustment.
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.
We view that the committee in terms of reviewing the above motion.
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.
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.
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.
Honorariums with respect to cost of living and absence.
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.
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.
So we are recommending that the honorariums are commensurate again with that population percentile being at that 65th percentile.
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.
Currently it is up to 4 meeting absences per year.
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.
We view that there is a greater importance for a member of council theory to be absent.
It is to be by council resolution as an approved absence.
4.2.3.2, in cases where it is determined that honorarium will not be retained due to an unapproved absence for meetings.
deductions will be applied in the amount of $250.
That is the same equivalent amount for the pridium for that of a council meeting.
So if a member is unapproved or exceeds that two absences per year for those absences is there that they are an exceedance of.
They will have a deduction of their honorarium based on that author honorarium but their pridium for that equivalent amount.
So going back again for the rationale for our committee.
For 4.2.1.1 and 4.2.1.2 combined, the coal is not deemed applicable for council.
Whereas the honorariums are reviewed and adjusted every two years.
Equivalent to the population percent of the new recommended comparative group.
And the committee deems this frequency and method for potential adjustment to be reasonable.
And it's highlighted in a highly but identifies as a potential adjustment.
It's commensurate with our population or more bills population with out of that comparative group.
So in the example where if more and will would be increasing to the 70th percentile of that comparative group.
More and bills honorarium, where therefore be at the 70th percentile of the amounts compared to those comparative groups.
Conversely, if more and will was to start decreasing in terms of its population state on that comparative group.
Council's honorarium would be equivalent to that same percentile as a reduction.
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.
Again, as I stated previously in capturing it for your presentation, with respect to the number of approved absences per year.
Going from four to two demonstrates an increase of accountability and commitment to the responsibilities as a council member.
Increasing the honorarium penalty from $100 to $250 as a more significant financial consequence in the event of unapproved absences.
Next, with respect to 4.3 per deum, including the eligibility for per deum, the committee alternates and values.
It's recommended policy updates include 4.3.9.2.1.1.
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.
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.
The rationale for those two respective recommendations.
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.
And representation of our council.
The committee deems that attendance of an alternate at a board or committee meetings when the main designated board members present.
Capping the eligibility for per deum to a maximum of three meetings per year.
Here, demonstrate some fiscal prudence. Or more fiscal prudence than what could be in place right now. And
it's not by any means suggesting that any particular member of this council would be purposely
attending more meetings that what they need to be or when the alternate is the main
debt board member is there. By bringing this into policy, it demonstrates that openly and
transparent that it removes that particular opportunity for financial gain just by sitting
on board committee meetings. 4.3.9, 1.4, excuse me. Again, very similar to the above one,
it removes by removing this policy article and eliminates the potential for financial
motivated meeting attendance by a non-appointed member of council. So in the area of expense reimbursement
for meals and travel, the recommended policy and schedule updates includes the area
of 4.4, which meal reimbursement will be set equivalent to the Canada Revenue Agency
simplified reimbursement method at current public rates. That will be included in your package
under schedule B for further information. And when breakfast lunch or dinner is provided
a conference seminar workshop or meeting, then meal lances or received meals will not be reimbursed
without council approval. By applying the Canada Revenue Agency simplified rate, it is
essentially eliminates the need for the policy amendments, perhaps on an annual basement,
basis, or the frequency of policy changes where council yourselves or future councils will determine
what that rate should be at. It is more efficient for administration and it is consistent with
those CR rates that is applicable in other jurisdictions. As for the standard mileage, it will
be reimbursed at the current Canada Revenue Agency mileage rate, where again, similar to that
of the meals, it isn't a need for council to make a decision on how much cost per kilometer
a councilor should be reimbursed for mileage or what the current rates shall be for breakfast
lunch or dinner. Those are established for fixed rates that are updated annually by the
CRA. So with that, members of council may claim for, sorry, that was that one. The next one we have
is 4.4.6.2.1. Members of council may claim for disposal or guest expenses in circumstances where it
is expected that they be accompanied by their spouse or guests to a maximum of $200 per year. And that
was, uh, including, but not limited to the FCM conference gala. We are recommended that that be removed.
And the rationale for that is that the committee views that is not expected for a member of council to
have a spouse or guest a company of them at events, nor shall shut to a company meant be eligible for
expense reimbursement. Removing this policy article demonstrates fiscal responsibility and prudence
and should a guest attend an event, the respective members of the council shall be personally responsible for
the expenses of their guests and attendance. In modern day, as much as some view may view in the past where
one need to have a spouse or a partner attend a gala or event, the committee had discussed this and again,
reinforcing the view that our, or yourselves as council members are the elected representative of our community.
And it is the elected member of the committee that is supporting our community any spouses, again, is at
your personal discretion or future council's discretion, whether you want to be there or not.
I need not explain further again for why we have brought forward the, the meal reimbursement change.
But again, we view as it demonstrates alignment with the national standard, other jurisdictions,
and enables updates to the respective reimbursement values without the need for undertaking council policy
amendments of those noted values.
With regard to 4.6 professional development activities, including out of up province travel,
the recommendation of the committee is that only two members of council may attend the same out of province conference,
convention, seminar, workshop, or course. The attendance of two members of council, she shall be by resolution.
The rationale for this from our committee is that the committee views that attending professional development and representation of council
through attendance at conference, convention, seminar, workshops. Yes, it is an important aspect of your roles or future members,
roles of council and a function of governance. However, establishing the only two members of council shall attend the same
out of province event, yet upholds reasonable and appropriate representation of our council at those events and demonstrates fiscal prudence for more
and build. Looking at conferences such as the FCM conference in particular, depending upon where it may be,
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
where all members of council attend FCM, the cost for that would be near exceeding, depending upon where is in Canada,
upwards of 40 to 50 thousand dollars for all members of council to attend that conference. I recognize what in the committee recognizes
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,
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
of our community and information for council to bring back.
So looking at more details what would be scheduled be the Honorary and Comparative Group being at the 65th percentile as a target.
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
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
cold adjustments subsequent to that, or that of the rates per those other respective communities. The annual council honorarium being at 35,280.
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
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.
Should any of those other members represent of municipalities change their respective honorariums?
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
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.
So in closing comments, the committee, excuse me, we have undertaken a review of the current mortal policies and that of other
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.
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.
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.
In our recommendations, the council accept the council remunation review committee report is presented for information and your DMR work complete.
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.
Any other views and expressed opinion by council for your consideration at a future meeting.
With that, I welcome any questions of council. Thank you very much, Mr. Rose, and certainly.
That's all right. That's all good. Thank you, Mr. Rose, for this presentation.
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.
I know the mayor is chomping at the bit to have a conversation about this too. No, I'm joking. No kidding.
But I will open it up right now to the rest of council. If there's some questions or comments.
Councillor Steyney, we'll start.
Sure. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Thank you, Mr. Rose, for the presentation and to the committee members for obviously a tremendous amount of work.
That's gone into it, seven meetings and obviously lots of work between July and now.
So, my first question, it's really just a curiosity.
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.
I only asked this because I did a little bit of digging, because I have really only seen ours, our previous iteration.
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.
Every one of those, there was a touch point with Mayor and council to gather information.
Yeah, too. You're Deputy Mayor.
Councillor Dany, that is a very important question and one that is and was discussed amongst her committee.
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
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.
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.
So, okay, thank you.
Councillor White.
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.
I thought it was right for us to each vote on them without getting them automatically.
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.
Just I just wanted to clarify that.
And if I made Wallyco.
Thank you for the clarification and that is what the committee had viewed the rationale for that motion being brought forward.
We realize and through our information from administration that it was an automatic cold adjustment to council.
And that that it being said being that is automatic.
That in your motion was the fact that you want to bring that forward with a council actually does accept that or not.
Or consider an increase or a decrease to what that cold motion is.
We did review that motion and again from our presentation.
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.
But cold it could be counted for without of any other honorary and values that other comparative groups established for their respective honorariums.
So it basically takes the cola as an individual item to adjust annually, but that of a biennial review.
Okay, thank you and I guess if the recommendation is to remove the cola then my motion would no longer be pertinent.
And that is clear yes our recommendation is to remove the the cola adjustment on an automated annual basis for council.
Council day for.
Thank you deputy mayor a couple of things.
First of all I was I was pleased to see the number of permitted meetings without permission reduced to to.
My first term when we did a remuneration review a game with the public committee and they did consult council.
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.
It got increased before I'm happy to see it go back to to.
So that's my comment my question in line with council or saint denny in the absence of interviewing council.
When I respect that you wanted to remain impartial, what did you use, you and the committee, to understand
the work that this council does? I mean, certainly we have some population numbers and I understand
getting us closer to populations like Hinton, which is very similar to us, some little below,
some little above. But beyond population, what was used to determine the respect of workloads,
because two communities of 10,000, mournville has EMRB, Edmonton, Global, Hinton doesn't, but
at the same token Hinton probably would have some regional boards that we don't. So I
hope we understand the rationale and all of that. Councillor Defo, and three of you Madam Deputy
Mayor should say first, the response to that is that although we did not consult specifically with
yourselves as current members of council, and indeed that was to remain impartial to our
decision so that it couldn't be viewed by your input. That was influencing what we were bringing
forward. That was one of the primary reasons. In terms of the information that we reviewed,
we're bylaws, we're pile up policies of those respective compared to groups. The committee also examined
the types and kinds of those communities, as I noted, close to our large urban centers,
recognize that there is other urban committees of council. We could see in the schedules of
all those respective compared to groups, the type and kinds of committees that would be similar to
that of mournville, and recognizing that each one of those isn't exactly or similarity aligned with
mournville, but compared to that of the current compared to group, we viewed that it was not in alignment
as near as much as mournville is as a community. Recognizing population, recognizing the
services that are offered by the community, also recognizing that the members of council of some of
those committees are either full time or part time or mayors or full time or part time. Those were a
number of the rationale and the information that we had reviewed for bringing forward the recommendations
that we did. Thank you for that.
Okay, anybody else? Councilor Inaeliger, and then followed up by Mayor Borshma.
Yeah, I just have a question actually in regards to the changes that you'd recommended regarding
the mileage rates in that. Why the change to government of Alberta? Sorry, the federal, the federal
mileage rate over the provincial mileage rate, because I believe and this question's sort of
for administration also, is that the same rate that staff is applied for staff for mileage, the
government of Alberta rate also? Sorry, two-part question.
So the mileage rate is for staff is CRI rates, the per DM rate for meals is based on the government of Alberta.
So I wasn't, excuse me, you're self actually councilor and held your, we did not have or look at
what the staff reimbursement rates were. We were looking at the type and kind of reimbursement rates
that were applicable for mileage or meals with that of the current compared to groups, as well as
the recommended new compared to groups. And many of those are landing at what would be the CRI rate.
And additionally, we viewed that the current Alberta rate was insufficient in our view for
what that mileage should be at and compared it to the CRI rate.
Mayor Boisman? I think it was answered earlier through the councilor, they felt, but I was going to
ask you on the community compared to a group. Some of the policies that you suggested,
are they similar, do they have similar policies right now? Like you were talking about the two
misses or even the funding or what it is exactly on those policies?
Mr. Mayor, yes, the recommended policy amendments, not everyone in its entirety, but a number of
the policy minutes we brought forward, whether it be by definitions or some of those changes or the
eligible eligibility for premiums, honourums, are specifically compared to or equivalent to that of those
in the policies of other municipalities? Councilor Richardson? Yeah, thank you.
Same thing, most of my questions have been kind of answered or touched on a little bit here. I guess the only
one that I still have is similar to the meeting. I see that it went from 100 to 200 for missing
a meeting and there is talks about it coming from the per DM's schedule, the 250, and I'm just looking
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
councillor lose 62, 50, or is it just a flat rate of 250? So that would be by a meeting of this
council. So it is your council meeting. So I guess right now I think in here says that you would be
dock 250 from your honourarium if you missed the meeting, but the 250 is based on the conference,
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
250? Is it more just to be punitive for somebody trying to get them not to miss the meeting? Yes, that is
correct. We view that not necessarily missing a committee meeting, but meeting missing a meeting of council,
where one is not here, drawing that to an equivalent, or at least a with your words, a punitive value
for accountability, of what one could have earned, and the same equipment I could have by
not being returned. Okay, if there's not any more questions perhaps, this is an opportunity to open
up to comments if folks felt so inclined. Oh, yeah, councillor and heldger? I'm just going to jump back to
the comparators, and so I understand entirely the focus on the population, but when you first dug into
this, then you would have been presented with our direct comparator group and our regional comparator group,
and those are the comparative groups that we use for in or sorry that we use in help guiding conversation,
decision around a lot of our other municipal decisions, budget related, and all of that. So when you looked
at the current market comparators, and you thought that the other some of them weren't appropriate,
could you maybe just give me some insight into why you didn't, like I understand why you chose
some of the new ones? What was the thought process around disqualifying the other ones? Aside from just
population? Okay, so thank you for the question again. Let's see, I've turned to reinforce what we brought
forward. We've identified population number one as a near-closer alignment to mournville. We've
identified the complexity or the type in kind of services that mournville offers as a town.
We've identified the comparison with whether it be full-time versus part-time counsel or mayors,
roles, and duties, and then recognizing that there was a disparity based on some of the populations,
and the expectations with where if we use mournville as an example, having a population of approximately
10,000 people, 10,000 people, common services that would be provided to the community in
perfilling your role in time of counsel as you do in counsel chambers tonight. The committees that you
attend, the calls that you get from residents of concern or the inquiries and the time that you spend with them,
for those that are of the larger centers that would be exponentially of a higher level of expectation and
demands on counsel, compared to that of those that we have here with similar populations of
mournville, noting particularly like, and I don't think it's no secret, the city of spruce Grove,
the city of Locom, is a city. It brings a lot different diversity in some of the expectations.
Some of the subject and the content may be the same, but the demands of counsel would be more
exceeding in those larger facilities, or not cities, facilities, but cities, and the demands of residents,
and the time of residents, compared to where we are as a comparative town use ability. You will note that we
have not included stringing county and recognizing that mournville resides adjacent to stringing county,
and there's a lot of partnership and communications that occur between mournville and stringing county.
It is that it is a rural jurisdiction, compared to an urban jurisdiction, and we view that the urban
jurisdictions have a lot more similarities in that of a council role and responsibility to that of a rural
center, as well as the contributing tax basis, is another aspect that we didn't touch on,
where the rural county will have a different tax base tax revenue compared to some of those different
cities, and the diversity that you'll note there, and we recognize, Hinton has a unique tax base
as in his fail with some of the agriculture, so there's a change, but we couldn't have a one-size-fits-all
but we tried to bring this to a comparison that we again viewed more closely aligned with mournville,
and that's where you'll note the omissions or the exclusions of some of those cities,
as well as a surgeon county as a rural jurisdiction. I appreciate you expanding.
Okay, we'll open it up for comments.
Not all at once. There's two recommendations here. One is to say that the report has
information and that the job of the committee is complete, and the second one is the recommendations.
Which one you looking for comments? Well, we can make the first motion and then move into where we have
the comments and recommendations moving forward, so somebody wants to make that first one and we can do that.
Okay, I would move that council accept the council re-uneration review committee report as
information and deem the work of the committee complete. Thank you for all the work that you put into this.
I'm not going to see I agree with all of it, but it's nice that somebody had a fresh look at this,
that is in a way tied to council or administration in any way, and I think it was a
very objective look at it. However, I will make recommendations when it comes to the other motion.
Thank you for your work. Okay, and I guess you don't need to note them because you had one.
So I'll call the question, all those in favor, and that passes unanimously. Now we can
have an introduction. Deputy Mayor Blanco, I just want to advise the second motion
directing administration to do work and any amendments. We should just do that in the business arising.
Thank you. Thank you.
Great, but I will open that up for yes. Yeah, I mean, if we're just going on some comments, is that to
do you want to get into before we go back to the meeting? There's a few things that I think are really
good and here, and obviously a few that I kind of disagree with a little bit, and one of the things
that I'll just say is, I find some of it pretty prescriptive, and I know Councillor Daphil and myself have
different opinions on the missing and the meetings of Council from 42, and the other thing that I
seen in here is just the increase in the penalty. You know, I don't know if the punitive nature of it
actually meets, you know, I'll say the significance of missing a meeting, and I'll say we have some
meeting, sometimes that are an hour long that are pretty quick, and if you're missing that and you're
being doing $250, because it happens to be one that wasn't approved by Council, I think that
unfortunately that seems a little bit harsh for that penalty. And on the other side of that is we do
have some long meeting, sometimes more important, which are budget, and I think missing some of those are
probably, you know, worthy of a $250, subtraction from the on-rare, if it wasn't approved to leave.
So, you know, kind of a little bit on the fence either way on that, and then the comparators as well,
I find some of them I don't think really relate to the same responsibilities that we have, which
could reflect why the pay is different in other municipalities. So, I know before we bring this back,
I think that some of the comparators, I would like to see maybe changed or more resemble some of the
work efforts that we put in. So, that would be my comments on the kind of presentation.
Hey, anybody else? Everybody has the... Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, Councilor Defo.
Yeah, thank you, Deputy Mayor. Just a bit of a response to Councillor Richards and
you know, I think the intent with the meeting absence. Well, first of all, you know,
we're not ultimately approving a policy for this Council, although it would affect this Council.
You're thinking of the role of Councillor, and as I've indicated in the past,
we've had members that missed way more meetings than they ever should have.
But the important thing here, I think, is that this is you're allowed to missed meetings
without permission or resolution of the Council. I think most of the meetings that we missed
would fall within that. We don't have anyone here that simply not showing up for a meeting or not
showing up for a meeting because it's a controversial or contentious issue that they don't want to vote on.
We have people that miss meetings because they have work. And as I think you mentioned at one
point, we don't want to preclude that shift worker who may have to miss the occasional meeting
from being able to run for Council. I don't think that's the intent here. So I'm not afraid of that going
to, and I'm trying not to debate because we don't have anything on the table. I'm not afraid of that
going down to two meetings, and I'm not afraid of the $250 sting. That's meant to be
a peanut of, to say, hey, you should be at a meeting. So, so...
I don't think we're as far apart on that UNI as your might think.
Yeah, and I would agree. And, you know, Councillor Stinney can also talk to this a little bit too
about, you know, his time coming to council and having a full-time job. And what that looks
like in the stress that it puts on, not only your full-time job, but your family on making
some of these meetings. And I would hate to have something prescriptive where somebody goes, well,
you know, if the council doesn't like me, I can't get out of this and also in your being punitively
hit by it. And really the electors elect the people that they feel that will represent
them the best. And sometimes that's not always represented in these meetings here, but just
in general. And, you know, there's a lot of ways we represent our constituents without being here at this
table, although this is a very big part of it. It's just not the only way that we represent them, so.
Mayor Boris Ma. So, I love the insights that you've provided here tonight. And I'm not sure this
the full reports are the accounts for the unique demands that we actually have in Morenville are
always seen. They, the context, context, which we govern. So, I think transparency response will
have because must remain at the forefront of our decision when we make one. Transparency ensures
our residents understand the council of wages are not just a cost. And I think that's an important
thing, but it's an investment in the leadership required to move more and build forward.
So, in the responsibility compels us to recognize that as part of Edmonton, Metropolitan Region,
our council is uniquely positioned to engage in regional partnerships. Don't see that in all of the
comparator communities. To advocate for local priorities and navigate pressures that
smaller or more rural communities may not face. Advocacy requires us to send standards
that value leadership, not only for the current officials, but also for those who will guide
our community into the future. So, Morenville, obviously, as you know, has emerged from a fiscal
vortex stronger today. Thanks to this council's collaborative effort and tough decisions. I believe
we've demonstrated fiscal responsibility and delivered results to date. In light of the progress,
I urge council to take the reports, findings, and obviously under advisement, which I really appreciate
each one of you brought forward, but to also consider the broader responsibilities and pressures that
are unique to our community, which may not have been seen because of what you talked about earlier.
You really didn't look at each individual council or were able to speak to it, so you took that
under, I'll take that under advisement. And I think the committee's port is very important
that is put into this decision, but there are also other inputs to consider as well. So, what I would
recommend is for administration to bring a comprehensive, comprehensive report to council that includes
the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation Report, which I think some of us may have, you know,
not looked at as close. And the recommendation of the council compensation committee and any other
relevant consideration. So, and I think I'll put that into a motion later on, but that's my comments on it.
Thank you, Mayor of course, Mayor. Councilor Wait. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Yeah, I'm totally in agreement
with if I'm going to bring my spouse to anything. I'm paying the freight for everything. Everything.
Because I don't think that the town of Warnville should be covering off any expenses that I'm
incurred by choosing to bring my spouse with me. So, I totally agree with that. The one thing there that
it kind of sets me aside with the with the comparators is that very early on in council, when we were
talking about a renomeration period that there was comments made about you can't cherry pick comparators
to get the result you want. And that was something that stuck in my head for a while. We live in the
Edmonton region. We buy homes in the Edmonton region in Warnville. I don't know what prices are in
table. I don't think that's relevant, but I may pay more here than I would in table. So, making my
room numination the same as it is in table is not a fair comparison. There's a lot of things that
that go into the whole part of being a counselor. And it's not just the time that you see here at the meeting.
I mean like today's meeting agenda was 30 seconds. I have at least eight to 10 hours of reading
this agenda package before I got here. So, it's not the time that I spent here that takes the time,
but it's also the the issues that are in this document today. We're living in my head for the last four days.
And that's a you know it's a part of being a counselor and I'm not complaining. But you have to look
at what is involved in the work to understand why we get paid what we do. But the other things that I
really need to stress is that when you're looking at reducing pay for somebody in the in the neighborhood
of 24 percent, it should be done on a red circle basis. So, you would red circle that person in that
until the next election. And then the fresh people coming in and putting their name forward in
September can look at what the new rate is going to be and say yeah that's for us at all go for it.
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,
I looked at the rate of pay the the benefits and I made a decision that it was worthwhile for me to do this
work. But to take it away midway through the term, it's completely wrong in my opinion at any type of change
to this if there's going to be a reduction should be red circled to September of next year and then the
next council can decide whether they want to take this role on for the money that is being put forward
because quite frankly I think a lot of people are not going to put their name forward.
I've got one more thing. When the Hillcrest Trust report came out in February 27th,
I was looking at that and thinking they're recommending that the mayor's pay go up 25.38%
and council pay go up 14.86% and then this committee was struck and I'm thinking okay well maybe they'll balance
that somehow. But somewhere in the middle is where I think this needs to land and I think we're fixing
something that isn't broke but that's that's my opinion and you know I think that's the way we
handle it going forward. People should be considered on how their employment with the town is working
and the changes that are going to be made and when those changes are going to be made.
Thank you Councillor Defo. Thank you Deputy Mayor. I know for Councillor White in particular that
increase and pay that was an issue for you during the election and and you're aware of this but I want
to make others aware of it. I think at that time of the Hillcrest report one of the reasons why
the rate went up as significantly as it did is that prior to that one third of what a councilor was paid
was tax-free and the federal government and their infinite wisdom took that away and that's why that
was increased the kind of balance that out. Where I have a slight disagreement with with the last
information that that was presented if we're going to review this and we're going to reduce as the
committee recommends our honorariums, per DMs are going up so that's a move point but the honorariums
then this council should be prepared to take a hit because I don't want to be a guy sitting here
and going well that's a good pay for me but the next group and I know that's not your intent and I
understand completely where you're coming from but if we're going to bring this back and we're going to
consider it taking a reduction in what someone sitting at the table is paid we damn well better we
prepared to take that hit in our final year ourselves and in reality it's probably going to be the last
six months of the term but that's just an outward thought that I have. Okay any comments from
anybody else I'm going to say something council right first just because I've been really quiet no it was
a point that councilor white had made around the competitor groups the majority of which are part of our
EMRB which I think are fairly big players because the demands are big on us as well with
EMRB and that report looking at that report it wasn't just and I can appreciate that councilor
day for the you know losing the one third never has this rule been a nine to five we don't have
predictable hours I know myself a year and a half ago I was working school based mental health and
had to leave that role because I had zero predictability with my schedule and I had kids who were
depending on me and I wasn't able to accommodate that I think the same can be said for everybody around here it
is not it's moving targets all the time you're getting those calls late at night you are feeling things
through social media you're answering emails you don't get to shut it down and so I appreciate the work
that has been done by this committee and I get looking from the outside in it may look one way or another
but the demands I feel on this rule come at a cost to all of us time with our family getting lynched in
stores in town I love to share this one I ran into a counselor at sobies from our neighboring
municipality and I had a ball cap on and we just made eye contact looked at each other all we did was
nod because anytime we walk in the sobies we know we're guaranteed a half an hour conversation
those are things that we don't account for but they have value they have value in our community because
we live here we pay those same taxes we want to leave it better than we found it so when we look at that
report with our competitor groups and I agree maybe some can change an urban flow when we're looking at
that 50th percentile knowing that our mayor is a 25% blow and as council we are 15% blow that 50th
percentile I also think that narrative needs to be shared and it needs to be loud in saying that I'll
hand it back over to council wait thank you deputy mayor yeah I just wanted to comment a little bit
on my conference convention stuff because this has been a very responsible council as far as all of us
going to us and we don't do that we haven't done that once this term and you know that I think that
it was personal responsibility on our part but if if you move forward with you don't there's only two
people going to each thing now you've got either the mayor deciding who's going or maybe the
mayor goes every time and we only get to go once or whatever but you're setting this up for a new council
and a new council when when you start and if you go to SM you're going to take three or four courses
that are why you're there you can't bring that back and and just give everybody at council the the
Colesnell's version of the four courses that you learned at so I mean it's a it's an educational tool for
new council but I you know I agree that not everybody should go to everything every time but I think that you
should set the budget so that in my personal development I only get enough money to go to two or three
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
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
who goes where thing and a big fight over it if if you start going to that there's only two people going
into this and two people going to that so that's my comment on that. Thank you Councillor Richardson.
I think you actually I was just going to talk about that as well and Lake Councillor Wade has said I
think that this council has been fairly responsible and it hasn't been a huge uptake for FCM but I've
had this sentiment for a while that if I'm under my professional development budget and my
my island subsistence budget I should be able to take what I feel is going to best help me
represent the the residents of Mournville and you know some people might have more I'll say ambition to
go to something like my one of my other birds like Erwack where I want to go to a ban for a convention
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
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
my mileage and subsistence and professional development so that one kind of is a little bit of a
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
and Lake Councillor Wade said that you know the mayor is probably the best suited to go there as he's the
official spokesperson for the town of Wornville and then if one other person goes that means two
people are going in a year and there's a lot of benefits from attending a conference like FCM especially
for a new counselor that can go there and learn about some of the stuff that Council should know about so
again I don't know where I'd sit exactly number wise but I think two probably two low and seven probably two
two highs so. Thank you Councillor Santini. I thank you Deputy Mayor. You know yeah I can't
Councillor Richardson I'm kind of spoke to a little bit of what I wanted to I guess touch on
I do had some some concerns around some of the recommendations specific to the professional
development you know I do believe that there there should be some autonomy I look at this council
we each have our own unique.
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,
sort of plan around Alberta, munis, and FCM because it impacts the majority of folks that sit on around those tables.
And, you know, so putting a cap at two, I just, you know, I guess going back to Council Richardson's point earlier.
It seems rather prescriptive, you know, and again, understanding the rationale for not consulting with mayor and council.
I do think that this is one particular area where, you know, I think us not having a voice in any of this.
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.
You know, when I look at my in and out at the end of each month.
You know, big picture, and it's been set a couple times, but nobody here at this table is doing this for financial gain.
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.
And I know that, you know, my, my call, my counterparts would certainly echo this.
It's sobering when, when you, when you put that up against sort of the renumeration as is.
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.
And I know that when we go into this, we do that with an understanding.
So I have concerns about the precedent that this would set set for future councils with an understanding that we want to attract.
Qualified, skilled, motivated residents that want to serve our community.
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.
That's not what we're doing, but, you know, to roll back to the degree that is recommended.
I just worry that we could be placing barriers for qualified skilled motivated residents that may want to put their name in for next.
For the next election, you know, October of next year, so those are my thoughts.
Councilor and Helger, and then Councilor Default, sorry, did you.
Okay.
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.
Because in terms of service providing governance and and serving populations, I understand that thought.
One thing I do think that maybe was missed in this is considering what our goal is in terms of attracting people to council.
And I don't think of it that just in terms of, well, I mean, yes, the rate of pay is important.
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.
Fundor of paying our bills and that and acknowledging that I'm coming to this table with some privilege and ability to say that.
But we have people around this table with exceptionally flexible schedules for their work life.
We're able to mitigate all of that.
And if a reduction in, well, maybe salary, I worry.
What considerations put into what kind of people we want to attract to this role.
Do we want people who are semi retired part time of employed that sort of thing?
I think that that's a consideration we need to make.
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.
That takes care of a lot of that subcommittee and committee work that we do and I think that's important.
But I didn't I thought we'd see maybe some expenses come forward.
Ornville isn't has a median age in the mid-30s.
So that's a population of families, parents, state home parents and that.
We did the committee look at opportunities or expenses perhaps for child care.
What are we doing to reduce barriers to get people in this role and attract people to this role?
And I think just just the remuneration doesn't isn't quite the full picture.
So in administration bringing this back, I would like to see us follow up on some of those additional considerations as well.
And but I really appreciate the thought and the work that went into this and how prudent.
I think this committee's approach is very indicative of mournville residents and their need to see financial good financial stewardship.
And I think that this is reflective of this.
So starting here, I think council and administration has something to work towards.
And I'd like to see some additional considerations in the next iteration of the policy.
Thank you councilor and helliger. Yes, no councilor default.
Well, I was going to talk about FCM and that's been done to death.
So I don't think I will.
Councilor and helliger said has great value to me.
As an older guy with gray hair and gray beard and I look at the committee and I'll do respect to the committee.
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.
Step forward to volunteer for this position.
But maybe when we're recruiting next time.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don't care.
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.
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.
That would that would be a missed opportunity.
Okay, Councillor Richardson.
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.
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.
Let's just say you need it for a secondary income or something.
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.
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.
So, you know, that was just something that that jumped out in me, especially some of the bigger increases.
Okay, can we last round this one and can we move on? Okay, I think it's been a really robust conversation for sure.
Let's, well, wait and do that recommended motion when we come out of.
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.
And and for your patience listening to our questions and commentary here this evening.
Thank you and thank you for being invested in our community.
And we'll move on at this point then to 9.1.2 the highway 642 snow maintenance please.
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.
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.
Good morning, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and council. Thank you for taking the time to listen to me tonight.
So previous to the this snow season.
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.
So this season the the contract has changed to lead core and they will be looking after the snow maintenance along 100.
Throughout throughout the town boundaries and limits.
So through this that because it has changed the contract has also changed with.
With the town so now that that course taken over.
They they'll be looking after the snow meeting just along the highway.
To meet the council's desired service levels as outlined in the snow maintenance troll policy.
More andville and agreement with the former third party mcon to perform storm removal services within its jurisdiction.
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.
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.
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.
With the new service provider.
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.
So they we would.
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.
With the within the town boundaries.
In accordance with the headquarters guidelines bound by their contract obligations over transportation.
They will perform a single pass through more andville clearing the snow pushing to the curb edge with snowplows but not immediately.
Removing the snow from the highway 642 corridor.
The snow removal will be completed at their discretion.
Some of the challenges that we're facing.
As noted, led court will be pushing the snow to the parking lanes without a meeting immediately removing it.
The community's accumulation of snow at the curb edge particularly when combined with the snow pushed by businesses.
Will we create a window potentially and likely obstructing parking and pedestrian access to the Jason walkways.
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.
With this change in responsibilities more of those residents are expected to have more questions and concerns with regards to this.
And increase our administrative efforts required to address the inquiries and the perception of more of those performing operational snow services.
Given the nature of led court's snow maintenance practices the immediate response from more of that would be to remove curbside.
The curbside snow to keep the snow policy in place.
So some of the challenges that we have facing that we would have to employ snow from the opposite side of the tandem.
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.
The risk of debris being thrown into walkways and businesses raising concerns about pedestrian safety and potential damages to be disenfranchised.
The frontages.
Blowing snow on the opposite direction may cause debris to be blown out on coming traffic as well.
Fabrication of snowboard mounts would be required to allow installation the passenger side of the tandem truck.
So thank you for that information Chris and I would like to say that it's my first formal interaction with council.
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.
And so just to summarize the information that Mr. Long was brought forward essentially, ATEC has a new service provider.
They retended out their new contractor has been established which is like core and the town had a previous arrangement in place.
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.
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.
At this point in time, lead core is.
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.
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.
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.
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.
If there is any questions, however, yeah.
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.
Councillor Richardson?
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.
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.
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.
Governance conversation with the MLA and, and Albert Transportation.
Thank you, Councillor Richardson. Anybody else, Councillor Day 4?
Thank you.
Somewhat flippantly deputy mayor, if we took control the road, that would probably be less of an issue than we have now, right?
Just saying out loud.
Well said, I just quickly need to note that we are at 630.
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.
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.
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.
Anybody?
Okay, Councillor Wait.
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.
I'll call the question, all those in favor.
Wonderful. That passes unanimously.
Now let's move on. 9.1.3 with our things to I asked for the report.
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.
And also, CCT Council. Essentially, the residents are concerned about safety and accessibility along 100th Street.
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.
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,
that is of Mournville. We'll talk about the consideration of a crosswalk across 100th Street from the entrance.
And then we'll also discuss the street lights north of the entrance.
And so in order to do that, I just wanted to flag for Council that this has been a collaborative effort internally.
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
set of information to consider in this matter.
So for the most part, Mr. Hour is going to be helping us walk through some of the intricacies of this and the locations.
And so I will run his PowerPoint and he will convey his knowledge.
Thank you, Ms. A.
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.
You can see there the location of the stop sign, just on the west side of the private property line.
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.
The aerial to the right, you will see the existing crosswalk for our trail network.
That's sort of at the north end of the urban development boundary of town.
And this is the location where the street lighting would be requested to based on the resident concern raised.
So with that location context, we can move on to our first set of findings is regarding the stop sign.
So the stop sign is currently on private property.
Technically a stop sign is not required in this location, but it is a very common practice.
Meadows drive is a private road similar to other access roads to condominium developments or large commercial developments.
So where you will see on the south end of town.
Like the the no frills development where those stop signs are provided by the private property owner and are located where them.
So that's a similar pattern and if there was was interest, then we could engage the private property owner on relocating that.
Stop sign into public land.
So regarding the crossing itself.
So the crossing to the north that was pointed out in the previous slide is approximately 130 meters from this location.
There's another crossing approximately 200 meters to the south at 105th Avenue.
There's currently no pedestrian infrastructure.
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.
So meadows drive is the primary vehicular access for the meadows of more and build development.
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.
The pedestrians being led to no pedestrian infrastructure at a primarily drive access.
So the pedestrian count data is required for us to complete the transportation.
Association of Canada pedestrian control control guide decision support tool treatment selection matrix.
Now in the report you will see that the current the tech matrix completed with the current data that we do have.
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.
And the trigger really for that recommendation is the fact that as evidenced by the letter provided to council there is a pedestrian desire.
To cross that location, but it's not other other technical considerations that would be driving that recommendation.
So in, oh, next slide please.
An additional view of looking at the Council's tenure capital plan.
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.
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.
Within capitals or within council's tenure capital plan.
There is a levy funded project scheduled for 2028 that would extend this arterial standard.
So street lights crossings from 105 Avenue to a hundred and seven and metos drive.
So within the scope of that project based on our tax assessment that would include pedestrian crossing at that time.
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.
Beyond the urban development footprint that we see in the map shown full quarter section to the north boundary.
And that is currently scheduled beyond council's tenure capital plan.
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.
And administration will continue to implement council's capital plan as scope and scheduled.
Thank you Mr. Hour. Thank you Ms. Hey.
At this point I will open that up to council and allow for comments or questions.
Thank you Deputy Mayor. Yeah, I'm.
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.
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.
With respect to the interim crosswalk.
It tore the make sense that there should be pedestrian infrastructure in place separate from the vehicle access point to ensure pedestrian safety.
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.
Thank you.
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.
So at least crossing the the culvert to get access to.
And then leading to a wider sort of entranceway on the other side of the street.
But yeah in that case it does only provide pedestrian infrastructure on one side of the street.
Now that is to a single.
Development, which I don't have the current population figures for but with the anticipated population of of the metals of Mornville being.
About 154 dwelling units and 400 population at full build out it is a bit more of an intensive development.
Okay.
No thank you.
Yeah and certainly understand that there is the infrastructure in place on the east side of a hundred street.
Can this ask more more question.
Just for clarification purposes.
So the landowner has the authority to move the stop sign has had the authority to move the stop sign.
Anywhere on metal drive adjacent to a hundred streets.
So if the stop sign was relocated to a more neutral.
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.
Thank you Councillor Santanyan and through your mayor.
So currently the stop sign is located at the limit of the private property.
So the private property owner wouldn't have been able to relocate it up of their own well at any given time.
They would have required municipal authorization to to locate it on public land.
Okay.
Yeah.
Thank you very much.
I've got a couple more but a week.
Okay.
No.
Okay.
It's back to you.
Sorry.
Would there be an option of putting a temporary crosswalk in there a couple of signs and paint a crosswalk in there.
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.
Thank you.
You're crossing.
Calvert right because it's a.
See a lot of rural standard of of drainage.
So you're you're providing the.
Perception of safety that that may not be there for the pedestrians and potentially guiding them to.
interacting at a vehicle conflict point so that
What would be consideration to what sort of treatment would be appropriate and what sort of messaging
is given to the driver and pedestrian, but as I stated, no, it is not illegal to my knowledge.
Thank you.
Okay, we're going to go to Mayor Borsma, then Councillor and Hillary, then Councillor Richardson,
and then back to Councillor Saintingtini.
Not sure you answered this earlier, but is there a concern that there is no sidewalk coming out of
the more out of the metals.
Just the street.
Thank you, Mayor Borsma. Yes, so the lack of connection into any sort of pedestrian network is part of the
concern, both on the public side of the property and the private side.
You're good with that.
So how do you suggest we connect that down the road, then if that's a concern today, that would be concerned tomorrow.
So, how do you suggest we?
Thank you, Mayor Borsma, through the arterial upgrade of 100 street.
That would address the presence of the culverts that would also address the lighting,
and it would also complete the pedestrian network that with analysis at that time,
Mayor may not utilize that entry to metals of more info.
Thank you.
Councillor and Hillary.
Perfect.
So when mentioned, you said the stop sign being located on private property right up to the boundary of the property.
So what would the process be if the owner of the stop sign?
Wanted on public property?
Is that an option?
You said that it's at their expense, so I'm just curious, is that can we facilitate that at all?
Or where does that go and or have any of those conversations with the property owner occurred?
Thank you, Councillor.
I'm not aware of those conversations today.
Certainly, if we were requested by the property owner to consider the sign relocation,
administration would be happy to work with them.
Obviously, consider in our own,
perfect on site lines and at location.
But yeah, we would do more than happy to work with the property owner.
Councillor Richardson.
Thank you.
I guess I'd just a bit of a comment.
I'd like to find solutions, especially in situations like this, where we know that there's people crossing their road there.
They're not on an island.
They're residents in our community.
And we know that's the means to access the rest of the community.
We're not going to ask somebody to walk in the ditch because that's hazardous in itself.
So I think we need to do something here.
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.
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.
So I think that we need to do something there.
And I'd like to look into some sort of temporary solution until we can see the full buildout happen there.
I said some motions arising coming out of community of the whole.
Councillor Zintini.
Yeah, thank you.
Councillor W.
I was looking for a little direction on just stop sign relocation.
I guess my question like to administration is like does administration require direction from council to meet with the private landowner?
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,
but the pedestrian count matrix that was referenced this evening.
The arterial upgrade timelines and potential next steps including perhaps like a temporary solution to bridge the gap until 2028.
When there could, you know, could be an interim crosswalk.
So yeah, I guess I'm looking for some direction from administration.
So I was suggest that we don't need it that that's something we would sort of intuitively do,
but I also understand the practicalities of of giving that direction.
So it's kind of a at your call.
Okay.
Yeah, like if if if you're comfortable helping me just make a motion to.
Continue this conversation with the private landowner, I think that to me seems like a logical step.
Yeah, we'll work on something for motions arising.
Perfect.
Have I missed anybody else?
Okay.
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.
So certainly appreciate the the effort and the showing up.
That you folks have done here in our community and and patiently waited and even so much.
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.
At this point, there is a recommended.
Motion if somebody's able to.
Make that one.
Yeah.
Councilor Santini.
Thank you.
Yeah, I will move the count.
That council accept the resident concern matters of more of the report is information.
And are you okay without an open or do you need one? Okay.
Perfect.
And then I'm guessing no clues.
So let's call that into question here.
Call that question.
All those in favor.
And that passes unanimously and that also brings us to ten two seven.
So we will call the the break.
And we certainly have that conversation with any folks here that are looking to converse.
But we will call that break from six fifty until seven twenty will come back in.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody, for your patience and coming back promptly for 20 after. We're back
into committee of the whole, and at this point, the last we had a motion to accept the resident concern from the
meadows of Mornville, and now we'll move on to our wonderful CAO report. And I'll hand that back to
administration. Thanks. So I'll just recap my written report quickly for council. As you may recall, we've
implemented supplemental assessment and taxation. And so I'm pleased to report that for 2024, we've
been able to generate an extra $3,300, I wish, $35,824 in supplementary tax revenue. So that's a
good news story for us for sure. A couple of things that go along with the season. So the Christmas
hampers and the giving tree are in full swing. So Christmas hampers, midstream, and more of a adoptive
family are part and we're partnering with them through our FCSS to refer clients to them to pick up Christmas
hampers so that, sorry, I'm collecting them with those types of supports. The giving tree is about
seniors and on how, and how is adults. And so the time is getting short on this one, but so far,
71 individuals have registered to get a name and then return a gift and the, the gifts need to be
returned by about mid December. So if anyone was interested now is the time. Update on our wellness and
recreation access program or wrap as we like to call it, we've had 54 residents access it and we've given
out $13,450 of the $15,000 budget this year. So another good news story, the Poppy Tree, I mean it's
good news all around right now. The Poppy Tree had a record high of $585 contributed from its 10th year
with the town. And also in good news and hopefully nothing ever happens to us. We've been approved for
cyber insurance, the starting January 1st, 2025 will have protections in that regard. You're well
apprised of the Canada Post strike and some of the things that we are doing as mentioned also in
protocol. And then I wanted to flag for Council to you that we've had one of our land use experts on
Shuguta. She wrote an article for the Journal of Alberta Professional Planners Institute or APPI that was
published about our historic places in Mournville. And it caught the attention of the government's historic
resources management branch who in late November came out for a walking tour to look at some of our
our historical heritage buildings of significance and some of the architectural characteristics and
such. And so we're looking forward to seeing how the MDP will capture some of our policy statements around our
history. Wonderful, all good news stories and that was lovely when it came across our email today
just sharing that. It's nice to have that focus and that that good work has been captured or
looked upon. At this point, I'll open it up. Anybody comments? Questions? Mayor Boersma?
So I just want to take a moment to thank Ms. Gupta for the exceptional piece she created.
I know I read it and the depth of thought and creativity she put into it is truly remarkable
and appreciate the clarity insight that it brings, can see consumer effort into what it went into
crafting it and the ability for her to present as material. It was compelling and obviously because
government came, it was a true testament to her skills and dedication of what she does and
certainly happy that she's in our community. So again, thanks again for outstanding work and
look forward to more of the contributions she has to our community.
Very well said, with that being said, wondering if somebody would make a motion that we accept this
firm formation, looking at this side of the tables. Councillor Richardson. I'll make the motion that we accept
the report as information. Thanks. All those in favor? Perfect. That passes unanimously.
And then quickly we'll move on and thank you, Ms. Haffer, that report to our Council Board's
Committee's and Commission Report. So I'm going to start with you, Councillor Richardson. Yeah, so actually
trying to think here, I missed our last Urweck meeting. I was in Moestia when that one went on.
So nothing to report on there. Yeah, I think that's everything actually.
Councillor Santini. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. In terms of updates,
with so for homeland housing, we had a meeting plan for about seven weeks with Minister Nixon.
And he was unable to attend sort of last minutes. So it was a little disappointed in in in in that
specific to the 22 St. Thomas Street project in St. Albert. Still remaining optimistic that
this project will move forward with the city of St. Albert and CMHC putting their financial commitments
to the project. Just past our budget and operating and capital plan with homeland,
requisition for municipalities is 2.5% for 2025.
More than the library met a couple of weeks ago as a board to go over.
Oh, man. Plan of service. Yes, which was a great exercise for our new board. We have a number of
new members that sit on the board and so that will come back to the board for approval.
Um, actually this week. So yeah, that's that's all I got for my boards.
Councillor Anne Hellinger. Okay. Yes, you're a person. Mayor Worseman.
My apologies. Spend some time with Ebony Global Shareholder. Both Bill and I.
Mayor. From. I got to think here. Mayor Danlock. Thanks. I was trying to think.
We sat on as shareholders with the Ebony Global Board and it was a approximate for our meeting,
but certainly a lot of insights and it was great to actually sit there and hear about stuff and then
also to see what we as a community, how we can enhance that as mayors together. So that was good.
I also met with the MLA with certain regional mayors on transportation, local transportation,
so we have a meeting every quarter, which then we have touch points on all of the regional issues we have
with province and how he brings that forward back to transportation. So thank you very much.
Wonderful. I'll go to yourself. Councillor Wait. Thank you.
Please act meeting. Our first meeting on November 28th. It was a good introduction. I'm looking forward to working with the committee.
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.
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.
The one thing that I wanted to mention with that is on light up the night festival. They had 153 visitors.
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.
And then the only, the last thing I have is my first meeting with Rose Ridge is on Thursday.
Wonderful. Thank you. Councillor Dayfold.
Thank you. Deputy Mayor, arrow utilities last meeting. I did not attend because that's the same week they fetched me after the hospital.
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.
It was a short meeting. Primarily it was to introduce ourselves to the new board members, new committee members rather than them to us.
Our library manager will be the recording secretary. We received a thank you letter from our past recording secretary.
I can't quite remember a name. I think it might have been Jennifer and Haliger or something like that.
But it was well received and thanks were given back to Councillor and Haliger for that.
December meeting has been canceled. But I understand that January will be will be fairly full.
And then Northern Lights Library System was a virtual meeting and having looked at the agenda.
I didn't feel that was real value there.
And I knew that Councillor and Haliger's report would have all the details that I needed.
I don't have a whole lot other than what's been put in my report other than the fact that
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.
And I had my first meeting on Friday and although that is not one of our standard ones.
I see a lot of really good work. I see a group of really dynamic people sitting around that table.
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.
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.
Because there's some very small communities that are part of that and then some big cities as well.
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.
I'm going to ask if somebody would potentially be willing to make a motion passed here.
All those in favor? Wonderful. And it is yours again.
Thank you. So we have business arising from the committee of a whole.
And I think we'll start going to the if there's any business coming out of it on the renumeration.
I'd like to turn the chair to bring us.
Sorry, I should have just kept it okay.
All right. Mayor Boorsman.
On council reneumeration review committee.
So I'd like to put forward a motion.
Recommend administration.
Bring a comprehensive report to council that includes the findings of the Hillcrest Composition report.
Recommendation of council compensation committee and any other relevant considerations.
Okay.
Is there an open for you?
So I think we all heard.
We had lots of talks about about the reneumeration review committee report tonight.
And I think we need to go back to administration and get.
Look at full report. Add some of the items.
And I think that.
What are the positives? What are the negatives? What we can do?
And get that report back to us to actually maybe have a talk in committee.
We have a full.
And then discuss that report full some as a as a council here.
So so hopefully everything comes back from administration to.
Thanks.
Perfect.
Any comments or questions or.
No.
Yeah.
Council's thing to me.
Just for clarification.
Deputy Mayor.
To administration.
As part of this motion.
Can we take can we ensure that the new.
Market comparators are a true reflection of.
Who we are as a community relative to the region.
Because I think I heard from most of if not all of council that that there was some concern around some of the
components that we're added and also removed from the previous list.
Yeah. For sure. We would explore with council the rational behind the policy decision.
The existing policy decision about why those comparators were chosen.
And some of the rational amount behind that.
So that would be coming as part of it.
Those other relevant considerations.
Perfect.
Thank you.
We'd like to close. Oh, I'm sorry.
Sorry.
it's okay. Apologies if I didn't hear this, but when are we looking at this coming back?
So, when would I guess I'll ask that question of administration, when do you feel that you
can do this and I understand like, you know, we've got Christmas coming up here, but at the same
time, it is a relevant question. So, I totally respect that and so go ahead.
At this point, I'd say sometime at a February meeting.
Okay, that works for me. And the reason I ask the question is, as I said during committee of
the whole, if we're looking at lowering councils pay, that needs to fall on this council.
Not this council making a decision to lower the pay of the next group.
Okay, would you like to close mayor?
No, mayor, the board's not. Can I confirm the motion on the board if it's correct? I think I might have
missed the last point you made.
Okay, so I don't see it on the board. Sorry.
Yes, you did. So, what I've got here is I recommend administration, bring a comprehensive
report to council. That includes the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation Report,
Coma, the recommendations of council's compensation committee and any other relevant
considerations to the first meeting in February. First meeting of council.
So, don't know exactly what date that is. Sorry, guys. I can look.
I believe that's February 11th.
25.
Exactly.
The administration, do you feel that there's something missing? Is that date working for you?
Now is that motion working for you? Perfect.
And you don't need to close. You're good with this.
Then I will ask the question, all those in favor, and that passes unanimously.
I did open it up.
And I will return the tour back to you unless you have another motion.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
I would move that council directive administration to follow up with the medals of
Mooreville property owner to discuss next steps, including crosswalk considerations,
street light additions and stop sign relocation.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Do you want to open?
Through many conversations with the residents, most of these concerns predate even our term on council.
I do wonder if there's a temporary solution to bridge the gap between the pedestrian
and council analysis that will take place next year and the arterial upgrade scheduled for 28.
Because obviously residents currently don't have a safe passage across a hundred street.
And as it exists, currently children and adults of all ages are crossing the street without any safe passage.
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.
I guess I might have an amendment.
Because I'm just think this is supposed to be two motions.
One should be a conversation with the proper owner regarding the next steps in moving the sign.
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.
The property owner there wouldn't have anything to do with that, correct?
Thank you for raising the point.
I can see this going two different ways.
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.
So that's what they have some purview over and we can work them through next steps.
The other pieces of that motion would be just to relay what has gone to this meeting.
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.
If I have that interpretation correct.
No, and I appreciate that.
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.
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.
All right, so you want to leave the motion as a stands right now then.
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.
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.
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.
We're always happy to have a conversation, so I have no concerns with this motion.
All right, any other questions? Go ahead, counselor wait.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Councillor, I mean, Deputy Mayor.
Thank you, Mayor. I certainly want to speak in support of this.
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.
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.
So certainly appreciate Councillor Santini making this motion and taking such a passionate role with all of this.
Anyone else?
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.
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.
Instead of having to walk across and just start that enhancement on his own property as private ownership of the of the road there.
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.
So with that, do you want to close?
No, I really appreciate the perspectives and certainly the support on this.
And I know that I wasn't the first, you know, member of council to bring this forward.
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.
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.
All right, thank you very much. And with that, I'll ask the question, all those in favor.
All right, and that is unanimous.
All right, any other motions coming out is Councillor Richardson?
Yeah, thanks. And actually this is probably more of a subsequent motion on that one.
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.
So that would be my motion.
All right, you want to open?
Or do you want to lay it out first?
Yeah, I guess the address would be 100 street and meadows drive 107th Ave.
Now, Councillor Richardson, we want to look at the motion there.
That's the one.
All right, did you want to speak to it?
Yeah, I'll just speak to the motion.
And I thought Councillor Centany's motion first was good.
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.
We're going to have something come back.
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.
And we're not kicking it down the street, we're waiting for this to come back.
So anybody want to speak to that?
Councillor, when are we looking to come back with that?
How long do you think that would take for you?
So February's good for me.
If ever you love of them?
Did you want to put that on there?
Yeah, a February meeting of council is perfect for me.
Any other questions?
Well, she's finishing typing.
All right, did you want to close?
I guess just the only close is hopefully before February 11,
there's the meeting with the landowner there.
And potentially there's a solution that comes up before this.
If not, this is an opportunity for us to pick a solution.
And hopefully make the crossing there safer for everybody.
Thank you.
With that, I'll ask the question.
All those in favor?
All right.
And that motion has passed unanimously.
So are there any other motions that have come out?
All right.
Seeing none.
We'll move on to 11, 11.1.
So Councillor Dayful, notice a motions.
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.
So my motion that I put as a notice a motion is that council directed
administration to bring the responsible pet ownership by law number five,
twenty sixteen to council to review,
find associated with sections.
And you can see them there six point three a through,
as well as any other penalties council may wish to review.
Once you accept this, I'm going to make an amendment to that motion.
And I'll explain why in my opening.
Okay.
Go ahead.
Okay. So if the motions on the table,
I want to immediately amend it.
If we can bring that up, I sent that in earlier today.
So my motion would be, my amendment would be that the preceding motion be
amended with to return to council in T1 of twenty twenty five,
with the responsible pet ownership by law five,
twenty sixteen for review and possible amendments.
The reason for that is,
I came to this with some very specific ideas surrounding loose dogs,
not picking up feces, loose cats, roaming cats, that's kind of thing.
But as I started to dig a little deeper,
I realized we haven't looked at this thing in eight years.
And it will be nine years by the time we get to it.
And I thought it might be a good time to bring that policy back.
The only thing that I could find that we've done with it since then is getting an update
in 2018 to indicate that there wasn't a big uptake on special animals and chickens,
which is where this thing originally came into being.
So, so that's my opening.
I think we should take a look at the entire thing.
And at that time I'll speak to the fines and so on,
which apparently haven't been increased in nine years.
Thank you very much.
And are there any questions of,
Councillor Difford for a Councillor Difford?
Nope.
All right.
And thank you.
Did you want to close?
Sure.
I think it's a good idea to look at policies before nine years,
but we didn't.
So now's our opportunity.
Thank you.
And I'll ask for the vote.
All those in favor?
All right.
And that is unanimity passed.
Was there any other notice of motions that came forward?
Sorry.
Mayor Borisma.
So he put forward an amendment motion.
So we just have to go back to the original as amended.
We just have to do that vote.
Okay. Thank you.
So I want to note to it.
All right.
Thank you very much for that.
So as amended,
so we will,
does anybody have any questions or debate on this?
Seeing none,
I know you don't want to close,
so ask the question.
All those in favor?
All right.
That is unanimously passed.
Is there any other notice of motions?
Go ahead.
At the January 14, 2025 council meeting,
I intend to put forward the following motion.
The council directed administration to review and
return to council in the first quarter of 2025,
with a report on enforcement services,
and it's enforcement of community bylaws.
The report should one examine the current
complete driven process compared to any proactive
enforcement work being undertaken to provide suggestions
for improvement to existing processes.
Three offer recommendations for potential
enhancements to the program.
Thank you for bringing that forward.
And are there any other motions?
All right.
Seeing none,
I will,
I also need to motion to go past
APM tonight,
since we have a close session coming up here.
So,
Deputy Mayor.
I'll make that motion so moved
that we are past APM.
All right.
Any debate on that?
I'll ask the question.
All those in favor?
All right.
Okay.
So we will then have a motion,
a recommended motion,
Councillor White.
And I move that council move into closed session
to discuss item 12.1 CAO slash council dialogue
for soon to section 24,
the freedom of information and privacy protection act.
RSA-2000,
CHF-25.
Thank you very much.
All right.
There's no debate.
Seeing no debate,
I'll ask the question.
All those in favor?
All right.
And that's unanimous.
All right.
So we are, we came out of close session and at eight, 16.
And we are asking for a German since there's no business arising.
So Councillor Dayfold.
So move.
All right. All those in favor.
Thank you.