[2:25] testing.

[5:11] Good morning everyone. [clears throat] Welcome to the regular council meeting

[5:15] of August 26th. Um, we'll call the meeting to order.

[5:21] Before we do introductions, uh, just a few housekeeping items. If you have a

[5:25] cell phone, if you could please ensure your cell phone is turned to off.

[5:29] Um, please note that all council meetings are being livereamed, recorded,

[5:33] and retained. All personal information collected will be managed in accordance

[5:37] with the access to information act. And with that, I will start with

[5:40] introductions. And I'll start with Ryan, please.

[5:42] » Good morning. Ryan Morrison, director of operational services.

[5:46] » Good morning. Mike Kger, manager of assessment services.

[5:49] » Good morning, Chris Ratchen, director of legislative, community, and agricultural

[5:52] services. >> Good morning, Margareta Bloom, director

[5:54] for planning and development services. >> Jeff Holmes, chief administrative

[5:58] officer. >> Good morning. It's nice to see so many

[6:01] people in the gallery. I'm Jennifer Lutz, division 7. And if you don't know

[6:04] where division 7 is, it's the east corner of old surrounding area out to

[6:09] the kneehill red county borders. Good morning. Peggy Johnson, counselor,

[6:15] division six, which is Eagle Hill, Eagle Valley, and Westward Hoe. Uh, south, no,

[6:22] northeast of Sunundry. >> Tiffany Nixon, division 4, uh, soy

[6:27] Bergen up through Zella and Melville towards Dsbury.

[6:30] » Good morning, Angela Alers. Uh, division 5 council and Reev.

[6:35] » Good morning, Angela. Look, division three counselor just um, west of Dsbury

[6:40] to the kneehill border running straight through here. Morning,

[6:45] Greg Harris, division 2. That's uh way out Cremona Water Valley Way.

[6:52] » Good morning. [clears throat] Uh Dwayne Fton, division one counselor uh rule

[6:55] cares south to Rocky View and East Hill. >> Good morning, Laura Catman's executive

[7:00] assistant. >> Good morning, Ray Pole, planner.

[7:04] Morning, Shelley French Communications. >> Thank you. And we have an agenda in

[7:09] front of us. Are there any additions to the agenda? Councelor Harris, if

[7:13] » I could add an item RMA uh committee appointment.

[7:18] » Okay. So, we'll add that under 9.8.

[7:29] Is there any other additions or any other changes to the agenda?

[7:34] Seeing none, could I have a motion to adopt the amended agenda, please? Moved

[7:38] by Councelor Nixon. Uh, [clears throat] I will call the

[7:42] question. All in favor? And that motion is carried.

[7:48] Okay. And we have um regular council minutes of our August 12th meeting. Is

[7:54] there any errors or omissions in those minutes?

[7:58] Seeing none, could I have a motion to adopt those? Moved by councelor Lutz.

[8:02] I'll call to question. All in favor? And that motion's carried.

[8:07] Okay. Okay. And so before we get into uh the council agenda, just to point out a

[8:11] few things. We do have two delegations today. We have the Legacy Land Trust

[8:15] Society coming at 11:00 and we have Olds College coming at 11:30. So wherever we

[8:20] are in the agenda, we will endeavor to accommodate those um uh delegations as

[8:25] uh um um as appropriate on the agenda times

[8:30] 11:00 and 11:30. And then 9.1, the future airport management structure. We

[8:35] will be um addressing that agenda item after our close session.

[8:42] So we will move right into the public hearing

[8:47] and that is agenda item 4.1. [clears throat]

[8:53] This is bylaw number LU2026 being a bylaw of Mount View County in

[8:57] the province of Alberta to amend land use bylaw number uh 1024 affecting

[9:03] Southeast 153365 plan 1711620

[9:09] block one lot 2 pursuit pursuant to the municipal government act. This received

[9:14] first reading on July 8th 2026. And with that I will open the public hearing and

[9:18] turn it over to planning please. >> Thank you. The beginning of the

[9:22] presentation starts on page 25 of the agenda. The applicants and land owners

[9:27] are Gary and Heather Crouch. This application is proposing to redesate an

[9:31] approximate 2.63 acres from agricultural 2 district A2 to country residential 1

[9:37] district.

[9:40] The next slide is the location map and shows that the subject property is in

[9:44] the rural neighborhood of McDougall Flats about 7 kilometers west from the

[9:49] town of Sundry.

[9:53] The next slide shows the figure three map from the municipal development plan

[9:57] and shows that the proposal is within the potential multi-law residential

[10:00] development area. This is a policy area that may consider a maximum of four

[10:05] titles within a quarter section.

[10:10] The redesation site sketch on page 28 of the agenda shows that the application

[10:14] seeking to redesate an approximate 2.63 63 acres of bare land from the southwest

[10:19] corner of a 71.91 acre agricultural parcel. The subsequent

[10:24] subdivision application proposes the creation of the fourth title for the

[10:28] quarter.

[10:31] The surrounding land use map shows that the subject property is predominantly

[10:35] surrounded by agricultural zone land. The subject quarter does already contain

[10:39] one residential parcel east of the parent parcel.

[10:43] Surrounding the subject quarter, there's also a residential parcel in the quarter

[10:47] to the west. The quarters to the north and northeast are both crown land. Four

[10:52] of the neighboring quarters are currently unsubdivided and four contain

[10:55] two titles.

[10:59] The well and pipeline facilities map is shown on the next slide. The subject

[11:03] quarter contains one natural gas pipeline along its north boundary along

[11:06] with foothills natural gas lines that are used to service nearby residential

[11:10] sites. The closest oil and gas facility surrounding the parent parcel is a

[11:14] flowing gas well located over 530 meters northwest of the proposal within the

[11:19] neighboring quarter. Oil and gas facility should have a minimal impact on

[11:23] the proposal.

[11:27] The next slide shows the topography and water map. The parent parcel is more

[11:30] elevated along its north boundary and slopes down to the south. According to

[11:34] Agressid, the landform is mostly considered hammocky low relief. Barberry

[11:39] Creek is located about 490 m south of the proposal within the quarter to the

[11:44] south.

[11:48] Looking closer, you can see that there appears to be unclassified creeks to the

[11:52] north and west of the proposal. During the site visit, it was noted that these

[11:56] creeks appear to be seasonal, representing the natural drainage

[11:59] throughout the quarter. This seasonal creek eventually drains into Bberry

[12:03] Creek.

[12:08] Because the topography map does not capture the proposal's feature, this

[12:11] slide shows historical aerial images of the proposal area that shows some of the

[12:15] site's characteristics. The proposal consists of an elevated area near its

[12:19] center and is bordered by gentle hillsides. There appears to be um

[12:24] adequate space near the center of the proposal with more level topography that

[12:27] can accommodate future development.

[12:33] Soil information is shown on this next slide. According to Canada Land

[12:38] Inventory, the parent parcel contains class 5 soils. Eggressid shows that most

[12:43] of the parent parcel contains soils with an LSRS rating of 4H, indicating that

[12:47] the soils have severe limitations to produce spring grains. According to the

[12:52] farmland field sheet, most of the parent parcel contains soils with a farmland

[12:56] assessment rating that ranges from 34 to 39%. While the soils with the greatest

[13:01] limitations appear to be within the lowerlying areas. The data shows that

[13:05] the north portion of the parent parcel contain soils with somewhat higher soil

[13:09] capabilities.

[13:13] The environmental scan map on this next slide shows that there are no

[13:16] environmentally significant areas identified within the parent parcel.

[13:21] There is a class 4 ESA within the quarter to the south that surrounds

[13:25] Barberry Creek and its tributaries.

[13:30] Starting on page 36 of the agenda are some site photos. Um this slide shows

[13:36] the approximate location of the proposal's boundaries. Photo A was taken

[13:41] um near the proposal southeast corner and photo B shows the proposal southwest

[13:46] corner that is bordered by the adjacent quarter to the west. You can see how

[13:49] this area of the parent parcel contains a gentle hillside.

[13:55] The next slide shows the approximate location of the proposal's north

[13:58] boundary. Photo A shows the proposal's northwest corner, and you can see how

[14:03] this boundary has been angled to follow the edge of a tree stand near the bottom

[14:07] of the hill while allowing the wetter areas to remain within the balance of

[14:11] the parent parcel. And photo B shows the approximate location of the proposal's

[14:16] northwest corner.

[14:22] This next slide shows views within the proposal area. Photo A and B uh both

[14:27] show that the proposal is slightly more elevated here and consists of a slightly

[14:31] undelating topography. This would be the location of a future residential site

[14:36] should the application be approved.

[14:40] The next slide shows views of the surrounding uh parent parcel. Photo A

[14:46] shows the areas north of the proposal and photo B shows the lowlying area to

[14:50] the east of the proposal. The applicants intend on continuing using the

[14:54] surrounding lands for pasture.

[15:01] This next slide shows access and sight lines to the subject property. The left

[15:06] side shows the potential location for a future approach that would need to be

[15:09] constructed into the proposal and the right side shows the existing approach

[15:13] into the proposed remainder. Should the application be approved, one condition

[15:17] of subdivision will be to ensure that both approaches meet the county's

[15:20] current access management policy.

[15:25] The application proposes a third subdivision from the quarter to create a

[15:28] new residential parcel and was evaluated against the municipal development plans

[15:33] residential land use policies. As the proposal would be um seeking to create

[15:37] the fourth title and is within the potential multi-illot residential

[15:41] development area, it does remain within the maximum density of four titles per

[15:45] quarter. The proposal mostly complies with the policies of 433 for lowdensity

[15:50] residential subdivisions and are summarized on this slide. A more

[15:54] detailed evaluation of policies 433D and M is provided on the following slide.

[16:01] The land owners have owned the property for more than 5 years and the higher

[16:04] quality agricultural lands will remain within the proposed balance of the

[16:08] parent parcel. The proposal is between 2 to three acres and would have access to

[16:13] a county road and can establish services located on an elevated area in the

[16:18] southwest corner of the quarter. The proposal is expected to have a minimal

[16:21] impact on the continued agricultural use of the remaining lands. The applicant

[16:27] also consulted nearby land owners before submitting the application. The site

[16:31] visit confirmed that the proposed parcel contains a relatively level building

[16:35] area despite the surrounding gentle slopes and appear suitable for

[16:38] development. A geotechnical report may be required at the development permit

[16:43] stage depending on the scope and location of future development. As the

[16:47] subdivision would create the third title within the quarter section, municipal

[16:51] reserve dedication will be required as cash inlue in accordance with county

[16:55] policy and the municipal government act. The environmental land use policies were

[16:59] considered due to the unclassified creeks. However, given that the nearby

[17:04] creeks appear to be seasonal and Barberry Creek is well removed from the

[17:07] proposal, it should have a minimal impact on the surrounding environment.

[17:13] A key policy consideration is MDP policy 433D.

[17:18] The quarter already contains a 7.14 acre residential parcel that was created in

[17:23] 2008. Combined with the proposed 2.63 acre parcel, the total residential area

[17:28] within the quarter would be approximately 9.77 acres exceeding the

[17:33] preferred maximum of 9 acres. The applicants have provided additional

[17:38] rationale to support this variance which has been included in the report to

[17:42] council for your consideration. Analysis of the development history

[17:46] within the quarter shows that it currently contains three dwellings. One

[17:50] in the previously subdivided residential parcel and two on the agricultural

[17:55] parcel along the east half of the quarter. The applicants have confirmed,

[17:59] however, that the mobile home within the agricultural lot has been sold and is

[18:03] expected to be removed early in September. If the proposed parcel is

[18:07] approved and developed, the quarter would then contain three dwellings with

[18:11] the potential for a fourth dwelling on the remainder parcel remaining compliant

[18:16] with the land use bylaws dwelling density provisions.

[18:21] Administration recommends refusal of this application as the proposal seeking

[18:25] to exceed the total area of 9 acres for residential use within the quarter

[18:29] established by MDP policy 433D. However, given the applicant's

[18:34] rationale, the size of the 2008 subdivision and the modest size of the

[18:38] proposed parcel, council may consider approval with a variance of the total

[18:42] residential acres policy. That concludes my presentation and the applicants are

[18:46] available if you do have any questions. Thank you.

[18:50] Thank you. Do the applicants have any new or additional information they'd

[18:53] like to provide? No. Okay. Thank you. The applicant

[18:58] waves. Is there anyone in the gallery who would like to speak in opposition of

[19:02] this application? Is there anyone in the gallery who would

[19:07] like to speak in favor of this application?

[19:11] Is there anyone online who would like to speak either in favor or in opposition

[19:16] to this application?

[19:21] Okay. Uh, seeing none, then I will open the, uh, floor for council to ask any

[19:25] questions they may have. Council Johnson,

[19:29] [clears throat] thank you. Question to planning. If the, um, second dwelling

[19:34] um, [clears throat] doesn't get moved, does it become legal

[19:38] nonconforming in order to allow for an additional dwelling on the proposed

[19:42] parcel? How does that work? >> Margaretta, please. So the only

[19:48] provision there is for a legal non-conforming second dwelling is if you

[19:52] have a farmstead and it is considered as part of the redesation and subdivision

[19:57] process.

[20:00] » Thank you. Is there any other questions? Uh councelor Harris.

[20:03] » Um [clears throat] just to clarify, Ran, I heard what you said, but on a couple

[20:08] of the maps there's actually showing a residence

[20:12] on the west part of the quarter. I'm looking at page 35.

[20:19] and it's showing a residence on the west half of the quarter immediately west of

[20:23] the residential subdivision that's 7 acres

[20:32] » and then others it doesn't show it so I'm not sure

[20:36] we're it is confirmed that there is no residence there though

[20:41] » through the chair um so the 7.14 acre subdivision has one residential site

[20:49] there and then the east half of the corridor has um a residential um

[20:56] building there and then a mobile home just along the periphery of the quarter.

[21:02] Um the parent parcel itself doesn't contain any development. Um, so the

[21:07] applicants did confirm that the um the mobile home because they owned the um

[21:15] agricultural parcel on the east side had been um used by a family member, but

[21:19] they've recently moved out and the mobile home's been um sold and services

[21:24] have been disconnected and they're just waiting to have it removed offsite. So

[21:29] if um that [clears throat] confirmation can be provided prior to the subdivision

[21:33] meeting um then it would have been addressed and we'll have um only two

[21:38] dwellings within the quarter at this time um and ensuring that we remain

[21:43] within the maximum of four dwelling units of um considering that the new

[21:48] residential parcel will need to accommodate a residential site as well

[21:51] as the remainder of the parent parcel. >> Okay. So Brian, just to just to clarify,

[21:56] those dots are rural addresses. Are they is that correct? Not dwellings

[22:02] » on page 35 of the agenda. Yes, they uh some of those dots there are all rural

[22:08] addresses and you'll see they'll correlate with dwellings. Uh but the

[22:12] parent parcel has got a rural address that's indicated by the dot, but there

[22:16] is no dwelling. >> Thank you. Yes.

[22:19] Thank you. Is there any other questions?

[22:27] » No. Then I will ask if planning has any closing comments.

[22:31] » I do not. Thank you. >> Thank you. And does the applicant have

[22:34] any closing comments? >> Thank you. The applicant waves. So with

[22:38] that, I will close the public hearing and I will look for a motion. Please. Uh

[22:42] councelor Nixon. I would move that council give second reading to bylaw

[22:46] number LU 20226 red designating the lands within the southeast 153365

[22:52] plan 1711 620 block 1 lot 2. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion?

[22:59] Seeing none, I'll call to question. All in favor

[23:02] and opposed. And that motion's carried. and councelor Nixon.

[23:07] » I would further move that council give third reading to bylaw number LU 2026

[23:13] redesating the lands within the southeast 153365

[23:17] plan 1711620 block one lot 2. Thank you. Any further

[23:22] discussion? I will call question. All in favor

[23:27] and opposed and that motion is carried. [clears throat]

[23:35] Okay, we will move on to um we have no uh bylaws, we have no

[23:41] directives, so we'll move right into 8.1 operational services quarterly report.

[23:46] Ryan, please. >> Good morning. Uh container in your

[23:50] agenda is the operational services quarterly report. Um always a little bit

[23:55] awkward doing these ones because it's a month behind from where we're actually

[23:59] at today. So, um, I'll give you, uh, an update of where we're at today along

[24:04] with this update that's contained in the report. So, our our chipping crew with

[24:08] the weather here we've had in August, they've been making some really great

[24:11] progress. Right now, we've been, uh, spending a lot of time down in uh, the

[24:15] Water Valley area is where they're currently at right now. Um, we haven't

[24:19] had a whole lot of setbacks besides the weather we had in June, but everything

[24:22] is looking good right now. They should be rounding up here at the end of

[24:26] September, getting close to to completing all their programs.

[24:30] [clears throat] The base stabilization work, we we just completed the last jobs

[24:35] on that. So, those two program that program is wrapping up and the majority

[24:39] of the staff that work on that program are are younger staff and they're

[24:42] heading back to university here right now. We're starting to see them leave

[24:47] one by one as the as the week goes on. And uh by, you know, in another week and

[24:52] a half, they'll probably all be be gone. So, we're we're working on that.

[24:56] Drainage, we've been working on on some different things all around. Uh we

[24:59] definitely have been getting requests coming in from different people in the

[25:03] public uh asking for different ditching projects going on.

[25:08] um bridge work. We're seeing uh rounding up most of the bridge work is is has

[25:13] been complete for the year. We still have to do this one on Range Road 20

[25:17] just north of of uh DDsbury. The the one on the Bergen Road, which I know some of

[25:22] the counselors ran into when they were coming to the last meeting. That one is

[25:26] complete and now we'll move on to the other one. It's the same contractor

[25:30] doing both of them because they are each other's detour route. So, uh they should

[25:34] be getting that. We're just getting the the final fabrication on the girders and

[25:37] then that one will start. That one shouldn't take super long for them to do

[25:41] and then we can get everything paved up and everything completed here before the

[25:44] summer. Um, Acme Road, big one that we're working on with with staff right

[25:49] now. So, the contractor is is underway. We have had some some setbacks on that

[25:54] road with uh some of the third party contractors that we we deal with um on

[26:00] there and I can I can elaborate on that in the CEO's uh meeting later. um when

[26:05] the contractor has been working there, we have been hitting very interesting

[26:09] geotechnical um issues there. We've been hitting a

[26:13] lot of rock and uh rock is a very strong matter to build a road out of, but it's

[26:20] also inherently difficult to deal with. So, we've been ripping a lot of rock. If

[26:24] anyone has ever taken a tour through there, if you got lost and you went

[26:27] through the signs, there's a lot of rock. A lot of rock coming out of that

[26:31] road. A lot of sandstone. We're we're ripping it up. we're we're working on.

[26:34] And then the other one we've hit there is we knew going into it that we were

[26:38] going to be hitting a lot of black dirt. We are hitting a lot of black dirt.

[26:41] There's some interesting photos that we've shared with the CEO on on some of

[26:45] the test pits in the center of the road. You know, six foot tall surveyor stand

[26:49] in the in the pit and the black dirt's over his head. So, it's uh it's not

[26:55] surprising that we haven't been able to keep this road together with the

[26:58] changing traffic conditions. I know the the detour routes in that area. We have

[27:02] been getting uh um some feedback from the local residents about the traffic

[27:08] moving around trying to get around the detour, taking some of the gravel roads

[27:12] uh that aren't on the detour road. We've been seeing a large spike in traffic

[27:16] through uh um township 290 going through the the kind of the hamlet of dog pound

[27:23] there. We're seeing a very large uptick of the the county residents who probably

[27:28] are migrating or or commuting to Erdri, Crossfield, Calgary. That way they're

[27:33] they're starting to go through through that area there and and uh dogging

[27:37] through through Madden. We've had some some different [snorts] uh interesting

[27:41] conversations with the fellas at Rocky View County as well about they're

[27:44] starting to see this this uptick on traffic, especially uh a lot of the

[27:48] heavy traffic that was using that road. they're trying to figure their way

[27:51] through there and then the residents in that area are are feeling a lot of that

[27:55] that that extra traffic on their roads. Um far as the other projects we're

[28:00] doing, uh long patching, uh most of the counselors had long patching in their

[28:05] areas. The long patching is complete. Central City Ashefold did that out of

[28:09] their pit in Garington and uh that's all good and done and we were we were very

[28:14] pleased with the work that they did and the time frame to which they did it.

[28:18] They hit it very hard and got everything done probably in about a week and a

[28:24] half, two weeks, including the uh the paving and sundry at Willow Hill behind

[28:29] uh the subdivision there where Saunders and and uh Coleman Forest Products is.

[28:33] That's that's all done. So, we got all that done. Um this summer, Richardson

[28:38] Brothers Construction, we were looking at our workflow and they helped us

[28:41] complete the uh the two base jobs we had to do. one across the lake here just

[28:46] south of southwest of Olds. So, they got that one done quick and then our crews

[28:50] came in and uh and chipped that one and then they did that uh elevator road that

[28:55] 332 which we originally got them to come do that because it was only like a half

[29:00] mile from their shop. We said we need some help. Can you guys come help us?

[29:03] And they're like, "Yep, we can come help you." So, uh that one's all done. So,

[29:08] we're we're definitely seeing most of our projects are either done or starting

[29:12] to wrap up. We have a couple stragglers out there with bridge stuff to do, but

[29:17] then once those get going, um they'll get done pretty quick. We're not

[29:21] expecting to roll over any of these projects into the new year. Um with the

[29:26] exception of the Acme Road upgrade, that's going to be a wait and see, see

[29:29] how we go. They just passed the Passu farm road. So now they're they're

[29:33] through the most difficult stretch of road and now they're getting into the

[29:36] flatter, easier stretch. We're hopeful. We've been doing some test holes there

[29:41] that will we'll see some of the geotechnical issues improve out there

[29:45] and hitting less rock in some of these boral pits we're going to dig, but we

[29:49] won't know until we dig the hole. >> Just a question for you, Ryan, on the um

[29:54] Bergen Bridge on the Bergen Road just past um

[29:57] » the office here >> there. Yeah.

[29:58] » Yep. Uh I are we going to also repair or replace um the patch that's between the

[30:06] train tracks and the bridge because that is still pretty crappy. I saw that there

[30:10] was some work that was done around the tracks which made it a lot nicer coming

[30:13] over it this morning but there's still that that little gap.

[30:16] » So Vulker Ste's going to pave from the railway tracks past the bridge. So,

[30:20] we're going to pave that little segment of road from Range Road 21 to the tracks

[30:24] and then portray across the where the bridge was where the new culverts were

[30:29] installed. >> Thank you.

[30:30] » Then they're actually going to jump across the tracks and do the uh the

[30:34] south shoulder of the Bergen Road as well because that's starting to just

[30:37] migrate its way in. The guys went out and patched it. But you can see Central

[30:41] City did those other patches leading up to there and we had originally had them

[30:45] to do it and then them and Vulker worked out of things and we'll just do it when

[30:49] we come. So, we'll get that all polished up.

[30:53] » Councelor Luck, >> Tiffany asked or sorry, Councelor Nixon

[30:56] asked my question about 320. Um, with regards to Acme, what are we doing with

[31:00] the excess rock and excess black dirt? >> So, we're working with our engineers

[31:08] coming up with different plans on the design template to try and get that

[31:13] material out. So, you have the the road trapezoid, I guess you would call it. So

[31:19] the center of the road by design has to be new good material. The shoulders of

[31:24] the road can be that excess material. So we're taking that mixed organic material

[31:30] and that's what we're building the shoulders of the road out of. And then

[31:32] there are some of the areas too where we've over excavated the ditches and

[31:36] we'll fill the ditches with that material to try and maintain that

[31:40] template. Now, hauling that material and changing these templates does come at a

[31:45] cost, but we have to we have to find some place to get rid of this material.

[31:48] And then we're also working with the the farmers in that area saying, "You want

[31:53] some black dirt? We'll we'll we'll we'll give you some black dirt because there's

[31:57] there's no no shortage of it out there." And then there's some of the areas there

[32:02] like on the west side of the pass through farm road um where we cut

[32:06] through the black dirt. We cut through like 6 in of subs soil and then it's

[32:10] just shale. Shale below that pure rock. Now shale that's we can we can use that.

[32:17] We can we take that material and use it. But most of the large sandstone we're

[32:22] ripping it with the D9s, smashing it up and putting it in the road.

[32:27] Okay. Uh uh councelor Johnson >> uh related question. Um later on uh

[32:33] Christopher is going to talk about um uh how many top soil permits and stuff we

[32:38] do. So I'm trying to understand like the the way that the black dirt is being

[32:43] treated on Acme Road. Is that kind of standard policy or in general across the

[32:48] county? What happens to the black dirt? Does does the contractor just deal with

[32:53] it? [clears throat] Do we need a soil permit? How does that work? So, no, we

[32:57] don't require a soil permit for when we're doing the road construction. And

[33:00] then when we strip a quarter section of land, we don't ever move that top soil

[33:05] off that quarter section. So, if we strip the quarter section the side

[33:08] adjacent to to your property, we don't move that top soil onto another quarter

[33:13] section. We try and maintain within those half mile junctions. And that's to

[33:17] do with a lot of things. We used to do strip like larger sections and make big

[33:22] piles of dirt. We don't do that anymore because a lot of the farmers after uh

[33:26] the construction's done were complaining about weeds. Like I take good care of my

[33:29] black dirt. My neighbor does not. Or that was uh the big one we've seen is uh

[33:34] one quarter section's cultivated, one quarter section is pasture. You move the

[33:38] top soil from the pasture into the cultivated portion and you have a

[33:43] incredible bloom of weeds come up that the the farmer hasn't been dealt with

[33:48] before. So we uh we keep the land we keep the dirt per quarter section.

[33:54] » Yeah. >> Okay. [clears throat]

[33:55] Ryan, do you have anything further? >> Uh yeah, I'll keep going here.

[34:00] » Um contained here is also the industry activity we've been seeing here. So um

[34:05] this includes when roadbands came off in June and uh we saw an uptick in drilling

[34:11] rigs in the Eagle Hill area again which was uh not unexpected. Um but generally

[34:19] we haven't seen um the same activity that we saw late

[34:24] last year. Uh I don't know why there was a lot of D56s that came in for for

[34:29] additional drills, but I'm not an oil guy. I can't comment on how the oil

[34:34] industry works and how they do their exploration. But we did see a lot of

[34:38] D56s come through in January. So we're expecting a lot more drilling to be

[34:42] happening and we haven't seen those rigs come into the county quite yet. So,

[34:46] might be a big push still this fall. [clears throat]

[34:53] » Councelor Johnson, >> an additional question if I might on

[34:56] page 84. I was surprised uh Ryan when I looked at this report that the the

[35:03] gravel road maintenance which is about the fourth or fifth line down shows that

[35:08] there was only four requests in in uh up until the end of June for gravel

[35:13] maintenance. Is that based on the fact that uh we've had quite a bit of rain

[35:16] and the gravel roads are in pretty good shape. It just looks a lot different

[35:20] than than the historic requests. >> It is. And then the other one that

[35:25] really populates that gravel road uh service request is the dust ones. So, we

[35:31] haven't had as many dust ones come in because we have had sporadic rain

[35:36] throughout the season. So, we've kept that kind of down. But, you know, last

[35:41] fall we had that super dry fall and then we got lit up. So, not saying that

[35:46] that's the indicator on how the year will finish by any means. And especially

[35:49] with with silage harvest going on, guys are moving their bales right now. We'll

[35:53] start to see those go up, I'm sure, as the the agricultural truck traffic

[35:57] begins to increase here as coming to months end and definitely getting into

[36:01] September. >> Okay, Ryan.

[36:05] Um, and then the last parts are just the service requests uh per per quadrant,

[36:12] the maps that that council has requested in the past. We've included those for

[36:16] for for council to to to stay informed on on where the actual requests are

[36:21] coming. It's a you know, a wide birth of of requests. And then the last map

[36:26] that's on there is our continued uh attempt at letting council know where

[36:32] we're actually seeing the road permits coming in. So no surprise it's it's

[36:38] Eagle Hill and north of Sundry are leading the way once again in in all of

[36:43] our oil field over dimension overweight permits. They're all coming in in that

[36:49] area. And then the last one of the dots is the actual sites that they've been

[36:53] hauling to. So definitely Eagle Hill north of Sunundry leading the the charge

[36:59] as far as industry traffic in Mountain View County.

[37:03] » And uh >> Councelor Johnson,

[37:05] » um I really appreciate that map on page 94. If um if you look at where um

[37:13] they're drilling, where they're fracking, and you look at the most

[37:16] recent soil uh dry soil maps from Alberta agriculture, you'll see that

[37:22] there continues to be a correlation between where we're pumping the water

[37:26] downhole and where the dry soil is in Alberta. And u so I very much appreciate

[37:31] this map. Also would comment on the long patching that was done uh this year. It

[37:36] was extraordinarily good. Um certainly the improvements on Range Road 44 and on

[37:42] 340 are are really noticeable. So thank you for that.

[37:48] » Thank you. Is there any other questions for Ryan? Ryan, do you have anything

[37:52] further? >> Nope.

[37:56] » Okay. [clears throat] So we have a motion on

[38:01] the screen page 81. Uh councelor look. I move that council receives the

[38:07] operational services quarterly report as information.

[38:11] » Thank you. Is there any further discussion?

[38:13] Seeing none, I'll call question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. We'll

[38:18] move on to corporate services quarterly report. Mike, please.

[38:21] » Thank you, Reeves. The RFD for the corporate services quarterly report is

[38:25] 90 on page 95 with the report starting on page 96.

[38:30] On the assessment side, we worked through reinspections. Assessment

[38:33] notices were mailed out for May 15th and uh we addressed any inquiries prior to

[38:38] the role closing which occurred on July 14th. At the end of roll closing, there

[38:43] were three assessment appeals that had been filed.

[38:47] Through [clears throat] that inquiry period, revisions were completed u

[38:51] municipally and proincially. This resulted in about $1,500 in reduction of

[38:57] municipal tax base. Uh the chart below kind of outlines the change in the

[39:01] assessment of the different classes as well as the tax impact from uh the

[39:06] municipal standpoint. Looking ahead, we'll continue to inspect

[39:12] uh all residential, commercial, and industrial properties throughout the

[39:15] county. Uh work through the appeals as well as prepare for upcoming market

[39:20] analysis. On the tax side, we included a chart of

[39:23] the pre-authorized debit yearly comparisons.

[39:27] Below that we have the tax incentive deadline was June 30th. We did see a

[39:31] decrease in the amount of taxes collected through the incentive program.

[39:35] However, we did ste see about 50% of properties taking advantage of that

[39:39] reduction. Chart below shows outstanding balance.

[39:44] You can kind of see the difference between last year and this year um at

[39:48] taxes collected as of June 30th. Um but we should see that level out as we

[39:53] approach the the tax deadline of September 15th.

[39:58] business services on IT security saw um nine low severity security incidents

[40:04] reported which did not result in any data breaches. So it continues to

[40:08] educate staff and make updates to keep our systems secure and our devices

[40:13] secure. GIS continues to work with departments to meet their needs and

[40:17] begin work on the ownership map which are updated every two years.

[40:23] Update on our financial software replacement noted as the ERP project.

[40:28] Our targeted go live to date is uh early Q4 of this year. The current system will

[40:34] remain operational during this transition. Uh the project is noted it

[40:39] is behind schedule uh due to data conversion and software readiness. This

[40:44] is common not just for us but other municipalities converting to the new

[40:48] platform. So we look to uh avoid being the lead in development of the software

[40:54] and and allow other clients to kind of work through the kinks so to speak.

[41:00] Uh service request transition Cclicks fix implement implementation is underway

[41:06] and expected to go live um Q4 prior to the expiration of our current software

[41:13] through syllogis. We also introduce a citizen portal. This will allow public

[41:17] to make payments to access historical transactions. Uh view properties

[41:22] associated with their accounts along with tax and assessment notices. Uh

[41:26] users will be able to register for tips, pay bills, produce tax certificates all

[41:31] through the portal. Another change that will um be expected

[41:36] are assessment and tax notices. If you can recall a couple years ago, uh, June

[41:41] of 2024, council approved the separation of assessment and tax notices with this

[41:46] new software. To help with that transition, we're kind of looking to

[41:50] maintain traditional mail uh target time frames as as we have in the past for for

[41:57] 2027. and with that communicate changes that that will likely be expected for

[42:04] 2028 which include an earlier assessment notice mail date outside and separate

[42:08] from their tax notice mail date later in the year.

[42:12] So lots coming up with updated programs and systems. Um

[42:17] on the finance for revenues some variances throughout either above or

[42:22] below due to timing of specific bill building billing and payments received

[42:26] but overall revenues are in line with year-to- date budgets and expectations.

[42:31] Return on investment has outpaced the year-to- date budget due to favorable

[42:34] short-term interest rates and higher than expected returns from early

[42:38] investment sales. On the expense side, some variances as

[42:43] well noted throughout the departments. Again, due large part to the timing of

[42:46] the expenses compared to when this report was generated, but overall

[42:50] expenses look in line with the budget. Looking ahead, finance system

[42:55] replacement will take some time uh with training and testing ongoing through Q3

[43:00] with anticipated Q4 uh application. inventory count of the

[43:06] Disbury shop scheduled for the end of Q3 and the budget process is currently

[43:10] underway with operating budgets being compiled in anticipation of the October

[43:16] special council meeting. Grant status updates are provided in

[43:20] tables below including annual grants, new ongoing and project grants and

[43:26] completed grants are outlined in three tables.

[43:30] Also attached for your reference are uh the consolidated statements of

[43:34] operations 2026 project reporting and the CO CAO

[43:40] contingency funding all as of June 30th 2026.

[43:45] With those attachments, that concludes the corporate services quarterly report.

[43:49] Jen and I are happy to answer any questions.

[43:52] » Thank you, council. Any questions?

[43:59] » No. [clears throat] Seeing none, um just one note, I did

[44:04] speak with the assessment department this year and um they were extremely

[44:08] helpful. Uh explained my assessments very well to me and uh congratulations

[44:13] to your to your staff. They did a fantastic job. So, please feed that

[44:17] back. And I've been encouraging everyone to call the assessment department if

[44:21] they have any questions or concerns or if they just want to understand the

[44:24] process better. Um, so hopefully you haven't been overwhelmed with calls, but

[44:28] uh um I I do encourage all the counselors to to um point uh point their

[44:34] constituents to the the assessment department and uh they'll get some great

[44:37] information. >> Absolutely. Thank you very much, Ree. I

[44:41] will pass that on. >> Thank you. And we have a motion on page

[44:44] 95. >> So maybe if I could, I just wanted to

[44:46] share one um experience from our return on investments. Um we had a really

[44:50] profitable one this year that came um up for early sale. So, back in 2024, we had

[44:56] purchased a 7-year PPN, which is a principal protected note, uh, at an

[45:00] original investment of about $200,000. Uh, earlier this year, we sold off half

[45:05] of that and, uh, actualized a return of $138,000.

[45:11] So, just over a 100% return. Um, and here in August, we actually sold another

[45:16] $60,000 of that principle and brought in another $94,000 in interest. So on that

[45:22] original 160, we realized uh $232,000 in interest. Um when when looking at

[45:30] that opposed to budget, this PPN actually didn't have a cash flow planned

[45:34] for this year. So that is all above and beyond what our expectations had been.

[45:38] Uh we retained about $40,000 in that investment just because the underlying

[45:43] index is still up and we don't want to lose out on any um future growth that we

[45:47] might see. But I just wanted to share that as kind of one of the indicators of

[45:51] why that return on investment is coming in um above budget and we're working

[45:55] really hard with our portfolio managers to find good replacements so that we can

[45:59] get these you know windfalls when they're available. [clears throat]

[46:03] » Fantastic. Thank you. Uh councelor Lutz, >> speaking of windfalls, um is there any

[46:08] strategy? I know it's really early days, but we have a lot of green equipment and

[46:12] arts are going to be tariffed. Are you guys talking as a group on um

[46:18] what to do with tariffs,

[46:22] » Jeff? >> Well, it's an everchanging question. Um

[46:27] we have had conversations with tariffs as we've

[46:31] moved through the the changing landscape over the last couple of years, but we

[46:36] have not looked at the anything new announced yesterday or that kicked in um

[46:41] yesterday. So remains to be seen uh how that'll impact us. We we do also rely uh

[46:48] significantly on RMA and canoe procurement to help mitigate some of

[46:53] that landscape as a lot of our procurements do go through the the canoe

[46:57] portfolio which is run by RMA. There'll be interesting budget

[47:02] discussions this year, I'm sure, in the fall.

[47:06] And we always retain the option to defer purchasing new equipment if we can get

[47:11] an extra year or two out of the lifespan. I don't know if we'll make

[47:14] three years or I guess two years to the end of the term. [laughter]

[47:20] We'll see. >> Yeah. And [clears throat] you know, I

[47:22] think that is a good comment, Reeve. Um, you know, in in large part to council's

[47:28] planning and preparations in previous years, the the fleet is in pretty good

[47:33] shape. So, you know, if we do hit a few wrinkles, I think we can withstand them

[47:38] and and wait them out to see what what the landscape looks like uh moving

[47:43] forward. Um, but certainly it could be painful depending on how it plays out.

[47:51] » Thank you. Is there any further questions? If not, we have a motion on

[47:55] page 95. Uh, councelor Nixon, >> I would move that council receives the

[48:00] corporate services quarterly report as information and that no further action

[48:04] be taken. >> Thank you. Is there any discussion? I'll

[48:08] call to question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. And we'll move on to

[48:11] 8.3 LEG Community and Agriculture Services Querly Report. Christopher,

[48:15] please. >> Thank you, worship. I'm on page 105 of

[48:17] the agenda package is where my report starts. A couple things I'll highlight

[48:21] for you here on the first page under our economic development strategy. Uh quite

[48:24] busy uh doing a lot of marketing right now uh with all of our local businesses.

[48:28] We really focus our marketing endeavors internally this year uh and trying to

[48:33] showcase uh all of those uh great businesses that uh people can uh

[48:37] utilize. Getting a lot of good feedback on that process. So certainly interested

[48:40] to hear from council if you've heard of anything uh from any of your local

[48:43] businesses or residents on that. Film office has also uh been uh pretty busy.

[48:49] If you recall during my last quarterly report, we updated that we received a

[48:52] grant through the Northern and Regional Economic Development Program to support

[48:56] investment attraction. Uh we have proceeded with those grant dollars to do

[49:00] a lot of uh publications around the film office. uh and it also gave us the

[49:04] opportunity to participate in the BA world media festival which we have done

[49:08] for the last couple of years and that's a great opportunity for our economic

[49:12] development and marketing officer as well as those from DDsbury and Sundry uh

[49:17] to meet with various uh industry partners uh as you can see in the report

[49:21] had over 20 meetings highlighting our area uh and what we can offer uh to

[49:25] folks. So that's a great uh return on investment especially because we were

[49:28] able to do it with grant dollars I believe. As far as airports are

[49:32] concerned at the bottom of page 106 uh a lot of work going on at the airports uh

[49:37] over the summer uh specifically looking at internet connectivity issues that

[49:41] we've had. I've updated previously that we're looking at some Starlink

[49:44] capabilities. So those are proceeding and are proceeding uh currently in

[49:48] various different forms. We expect that in 2027 that project will be completed.

[49:53] And then you'll note uh that we've done a few things at the Sunundry airport as

[49:57] well after uh some discussion from the aviation and advisory committee uh

[50:01] specifically on the terminal building at the Sunundry airport. Uh a roof

[50:05] inspection was done, some repairs were done in June and then there was also

[50:08] some upgrades made internally there uh to the electrical system as well as to

[50:12] smoke and carbon monoxide uh alarms. Into the communications uh report, a lot

[50:19] going on in communications. very very busy time of year for uh both Shelley

[50:23] and Sydney uh producing a lot of great documents that our residents have come

[50:27] to rely on. The 2026 annual tax brochure which outlines uh the uh deliberations

[50:33] from council around property taxes and uh where those tax dollars are going.

[50:38] Uh, one of the bigger campaigns that we have put forward uh, this year is our

[50:43] service level video series which I think has been a great addition to our overall

[50:47] communications um, portfolio where we've started to highlight, you know, a lot of

[50:52] the work that happens around the county specifically within operational and

[50:56] agricultural services that lots of residents might not understand, might

[51:00] not understand how um, how the process actually works and that's where a lot of

[51:05] those budget dollars are ultimately going. So, we've started to get some

[51:08] great views on those which are updated within the [clears throat] report there

[51:11] and those are continuing to be uh released. They're all also available on

[51:15] our website if council wants to distribute to any residents that may

[51:18] have questions on those various service levels or if any residents just want to

[51:21] look at the entire package. Uh they are offered there as well. The community

[51:27] budget report is uh I would say likely our biggest publication we do annually

[51:31] in collaboration with corporate services. uh that is the document that

[51:35] we put out that outlines the entire budget uh package where all all the

[51:40] dollars are going to where they've been allocated

[51:43] uh some of the main projects that we're looking at uh within 2026. And so that

[51:48] report was released within this quarter as well. Combined with that is the 2026

[51:53] budget video which then walks everybody through that budget package in uh more

[51:57] of a plain language, easy to understand um campaign. uh and that usually gets

[52:03] some very good views as well. So again, that's also available on the website for

[52:06] council to distribute or if any residents are interested.

[52:10] One of the bigger events that council participated in and communications was

[52:14] uh was key in hosting there as well uh was the Canada Day pancake breakfast and

[52:19] our stars logo unveiling which was a great event. Uh we estimate we had about

[52:24] 500 residents that attended and we also produced a video uh that was released in

[52:28] July of that opportunity which uh was the uh recognition of our milestone of

[52:33] hitting that $500,000 mark of uh contributions to STARS and having the

[52:38] county's logo placed on the helicopter. Moving down into uh public

[52:44] participation, a lot of workshops being hosted over the summer months. Uh

[52:47] obviously um the Eggy Days is is our largest one that we have had, but we've

[52:52] also had uh some participation in the ARAR roundup of 2026 uh where there's

[52:57] about 300 participants there as well. A couple coming up here in the next little

[53:02] bit. Uh the uh Reed Ranch Country Fair is coming up uh in the middle of

[53:07] September. And then we're also doing a talk, ask listen workshop uh with do

[53:12] more egg. Uh and the details on that are still to be decided on uh but likely in

[53:16] November. The mobile app continues to be a very um

[53:23] uh important way of getting information out there. You'll note in this quarter

[53:26] we had a large amount of downloads and submissions coming out of it. Had over

[53:30] almost 150 new downloads, which is is a lot for an individual quarter

[53:34] considering that we already have 2,200 downloads uh prior to the quarter. So

[53:40] continues to be a way that residents are using to get information as well as to

[53:43] submit information. You'll note the right hand column there is the form

[53:46] submission. So that tracks how many uh residents have submitted through the app

[53:52] uh service requests or uh general inquiries that the county tracks

[53:58] for legislative services. A few uh programs still uh after this quarter are

[54:03] are in the implementation phase now. So the remotely piloted aircraft system

[54:08] operations policy council approved that's the drone policy is easier to uh

[54:12] understand that policy was approved by council and is now being uh worked

[54:17] through with ledge and uh communications as well as with our IT team looking at

[54:23] producing a video there on what that looks like for residents. Uh that was a

[54:27] request that came out uh from council is to do a short little video similar to

[54:30] our service level video uh that we'll be able to distribute to residents. So, I

[54:33] know they were just doing some filming here in the last couple of weeks. So,

[54:36] that video should be available within the next month, I would say, for

[54:38] distribution. Privacy management program. Uh, this was approved by

[54:43] council within the quarter. Huge, huge project, uh, that William undertook here

[54:47] on the privacy management program for the county, bringing all of our

[54:51] documentation up into compliance and putting it all in a one-stop shop for

[54:55] residents uh, to be able to access. A lot of now the action items coming out

[54:59] of that privacy management program we're now seeing such as things such as the uh

[55:03] development of the personal information bank that's required and some privacy

[55:07] management assessments. So you'll start seeing those uh being available within

[55:11] the next couple of months as well. >> Councelor Luck, do you have a question?

[55:15] » I was just going to say it was a pleasure to see the drone in action on

[55:18] the Acme Road. That sure opened it up for for me personally and I assume

[55:23] others to to see what's going on there and the massiveness of that project.

[55:29] » Yeah, absolutely. And I think that's where the value is that we see it uh as

[55:32] well. So, it's good that you were able to identify that as well.

[55:35] » Thank you, Christopher. >> Uh governance review had a very large

[55:39] governance review in June of this quarter. You'll note our stats there. Uh

[55:44] the far right column is the one that I track the most. that is the one that

[55:47] highlights the percentage of documents that are still left to review. Uh so by

[55:51] the end of 2026, I would like to see both of those numbers at least at 75%.

[55:56] So you'll note that we have met both of those thresholds with 75% of bylaws

[56:00] still to review this uh term and we only have 60% of our policies left to review.

[56:05] So well in line to be able to accomplish that uh within council's term. Our egg

[56:11] stats service level uh reports is at the bottom of page 111. Uh not a lot to

[56:17] identify quite yet. These are the beginning of the um of the egg stats. So

[56:22] our big quarter for egg is Q3. That's where you see most of our service level

[56:26] will get uh obtained. Uh but a couple of the stats are starting to roll through

[56:30] there. You'll note that at the time of this report, 17% of our service level

[56:35] was completed uh for mowing. Uh we expect that that will be able to uh hit

[56:39] that 100% threshold before the end of the year.

[56:44] Uh, one other thing I would update council on is at the bottom of page 112.

[56:48] Uh, an egg plastic roundup day is scheduled for November 19th over at the

[56:52] county egg shop. That's the opportunity for residents to bring in grain bags,

[56:56] bor twine, etc. Uh, between 9:00 and 3:00 where we will have staff available

[57:01] uh to be able to be able to assist uh with preparation of that. Uh, so we'll

[57:06] be communicating that to residents as well.

[57:09] our grant programs uh very much uh are in the process of being uh fully

[57:14] allocated. Uh so you'll note that the difference between the approved funding

[57:18] and the allocated funding may be a timing based on the specific program or

[57:22] just may be that the organization hasn't requested their entire funding that was

[57:26] approved for them this year. But you'll note that almost all of our grant

[57:29] programs are fully expended now uh and are in the process of being fully

[57:33] allocated as well. emergency services. Uh a lot going on

[57:39] there um in the uh in the second quarter here. Some vegetation fires, you'll note

[57:44] uh started to pop up there. A large amount uh within the Sunundry area. Uh

[57:49] and and then uh some motor vehicle collisions and traffic traffic

[57:52] collisions also uh mixed in kind of across the board there as well. Not

[57:56] inconsistent with what we would expect in quarter two uh of any given year.

[58:03] our patrol stats. Some very high stops of the quarter once again. A 65 over in

[58:08] the Bergen area uh and a 62 uh over in the Hantock area. So those are obviously

[58:13] uh limits that are very very fast and our team is out there

[58:17] looking at uh trying to uh trying to find those ones specifically, but uh

[58:22] looking at lots of violations as well this quarter at 154 95 total warnings

[58:28] were issued within this quarter. Councelor Nixon, just a quick question

[58:32] on that Bergen stop. Was that at a transition or was that

[58:36] » I would have to look into that specific situation for you and get back.

[58:39] » Could you maybe because that's quite high.

[58:40] » Sure. It is. >> Thank you.

[58:45] » And then I'll pop all the way down to the very end of my report on the bottom

[58:48] of page 117. This was information that council asked uh during the last

[58:53] presentation of my quarterly report around the transition between two peace

[58:57] officers and three peace officers. So this occurred in 2023.

[59:01] Uh so we were able to go back and pull some information um based on what was

[59:06] available to us on what was the typical uh expectations in prior to 2023 and

[59:12] then what do we see today. So you'll note that first uh first box there is

[59:17] around how many days did we not have an officer on duty in 2020. So before that

[59:22] 2023 mark uh we had 104 days without an officer on duty. That was under the

[59:27] two-piece officer system. And then under the three-piece officer system, last

[59:31] year there was only nine days where we didn't have an officer on duty. And

[59:35] that's typically because of a holiday or a vacation uh day where, you know, there

[59:41] just wasn't somebody available to go on there. We do try to get 365 days minus

[59:46] uh some of our statutory holidays uh covered. So likely aiming for that 355

[59:52] mark is what we would be looking at in a typical year. As far as the kilometers

[59:57] patrolled, I think a question. >> Sorry, councelor Lutz.

[59:59] » Sorry. Um, so we there's more than nine stats. So, they are working stats.

[1:00:04] » We do have uh officers that do work stats. Specifically, the summer stats

[1:00:07] where we see uh lots of traffic on the roadways uh will be working those stats.

[1:00:11] We don't work, you know, days like Christmas, for instance, where there's

[1:00:14] not lots of activity. >> Sorry to interrupt you.

[1:00:15] » Yeah, no worries. >> People are on their best behavior over

[1:00:18] Christmas. >> Yeah, nobody does anything wrong on

[1:00:20] Christmas. >> Thank you. Uh and then the last stat

[1:00:23] here that I provided as well, these are the kilometers that are patrolled, which

[1:00:26] I think is a bigger indicator and if council recalls was kind of our

[1:00:29] objective of trying to institute the third officer is that we went from about

[1:00:33] 65,000 kilometers being patrolled uh to 160,000 km being patrolled. So really a

[1:00:39] success in being able to get officer time out on the roads and getting um

[1:00:43] getting more visibility uh with our officers out there as well. So those

[1:00:46] were the stats that council requested I believe. Um but certainly I can answer

[1:00:50] questions on anything that I have presented or anything that is contained

[1:00:53] within the report. >> Thank you. Are there any questions for

[1:00:56] Christopher? Uh councelor uh Johnson. >> Um thanks for your report Christopher.

[1:01:01] Um, if we look at page 112, it looks at the pasture sprayer use and um, I know

[1:01:08] that [clears throat] communications has done really excellent work and I'm

[1:01:12] wondering if there is time that we could do a communication um, piece on the fact

[1:01:19] that we have pasture sprayers available and also that we have a herbicide rebate

[1:01:25] program. um given all the good rain we've got uh maybe a bigger problem on

[1:01:30] the west side of the county than the east side as uh Ryan sort of uh referred

[1:01:36] to u most cultivated land is sprayed anyway but um some of the pastures um

[1:01:42] are have hedges of thistles in and so I'm wondering if uh I'm wondering if we

[1:01:50] could promote the fact that we have pastor sprayers and a herbicide rebate

[1:01:54] program that uh farmers could use to look after some of those thistles in

[1:01:58] their pasture. >> Yeah, absolutely. We can continue to do

[1:02:02] that. I know both of those programs uh Shelley and the team uh do communicate

[1:02:05] out through our channels. We can continue to do that. Our herbicide

[1:02:08] rebate program specifically is usually oversubscribed every year. So, it is a

[1:02:12] very popular program uh that our land owners are taking advantage of um for

[1:02:16] sure. Uh but we you will likely see in the next quarterly report that pasture

[1:02:21] sprayers number has increased significantly over the summer months as

[1:02:25] well. Uh, councelor Harris. >> So, Christopher, just for clarification,

[1:02:30] going back to page 114, um, the fire department calls by

[1:02:35] incident type and and looking at sunundry in the medical calls and here's

[1:02:40] where we're supposed to have an ambulance. Do we keep a record of how

[1:02:46] many are first instance versus second instance, ambulance not available, and

[1:02:52] then we're responding? Uh so our stats would be able to show

[1:02:56] whether we have been dispatched automatically or whether our our service

[1:03:00] was requested. Also tracks the um the emergency classification level as well

[1:03:05] from alpha to echo so that we can track whether you know these are emergency

[1:03:09] calls or these are you know just somebody that's not feeling well type of

[1:03:12] thing. So we can certainly track all of that. But yes, your comments are

[1:03:15] certainly taken that there's a large part of AHS's service level that that

[1:03:20] department specifically as well as the Cremona district emergency services

[1:03:23] department typically picks up for Alberta Health Services.

[1:03:27] » Yeah, I I mean Cremona I understand we we don't have an ambulance there. Um but

[1:03:32] it's indicative I think of ambulances being redirected to places and then

[1:03:38] being not being there to serve our residents. So I think one of the things

[1:03:42] that's difficult too is Sundry has now been downgraded. It's no longer a

[1:03:46] priority ambulance um service in Sundry. So the Sunundry Wellness Committee's

[1:03:51] been trying to figure out why that change has been made and why Sundry is

[1:03:55] no longer um a priority ambulance um center and so stay tuned for that. So

[1:04:01] we're trying to figure that out. Uh we haven't gotten any answers yet, but I

[1:04:05] know that Sundry is always uh one of the higher ones with uh with the medical

[1:04:10] assists from the fire department. Uh even though Sundre's supposedly had a um

[1:04:15] an ambulance, it is very rarely in Sundry. It is um it it's always being

[1:04:20] diverted to uh other communities, but I think it's a great question.

[1:04:25] » Perhaps those stats would be helpful to the committee then and highlighting the

[1:04:28] the change there. Yeah, we'll take that back councelor Harris to the committee

[1:04:32] and councelor Johnson and I can try and get a better answer for you um on that

[1:04:36] for sure. It's a it's a great question. Uh councelor Lutz,

[1:04:43] no I thought sorry I thought before I got councelor Harris I thought I saw

[1:04:46] your light come on. Thank you. Okay, any other questions for Christopher?

[1:04:53] No. Uh then we have a motion way at the top on page 104.

[1:04:59] Uh, councelor Harris. >> Okay, I'll move to receive the report.

[1:05:03] » Thank you. Any further discussion? I'll call question. All in favor? And that

[1:05:08] motion's carried. And we'll break till 10 uh 5 minutes past 10.

[1:15:48] All right, >> we'll resume the regular council meeting

[1:15:53] of August 26th and we are on 8.4 Planning and Development Services

[1:15:57] Quarterly Report. Margaretta, please. Margaretta with the uh cane, please.

[1:16:02] » Thank you, Ree. Uh so the quarterly report starts on page 118 of the agenda.

[1:16:07] So what is included is our stats for the second quarter which includes the

[1:16:12] individual months of April, May and June which is from page 122 to 126. And then

[1:16:19] the last attachment is the second quarter uh enforcement file report on

[1:16:24] page 128. So if it works for council, we'll just go through the project

[1:16:29] updates which is on page 119. So for the municipal plan and land use bylaw review

[1:16:35] process, we had two meetings on June 22nd and July 14th and the next meeting

[1:16:41] is scheduled for September 16th. The agenda minutes as well as the

[1:16:46] recordings are all available on our websites and for development and

[1:16:50] permitting there's no uh official updates to provide.

[1:16:55] That takes us to the end if there's any questions. Thank you.

[1:17:00] Wow. Uh, Christopher, you need to shorten your reports.

[1:17:05] [laughter]

[1:17:10] » I'm think I'm thinking Christopher will pass airports over to planning and

[1:17:13] development. [laughter]

[1:17:17] » Sorry, Kessa Harris. >> Margaretta, there does seem to be a a a

[1:17:22] general drop in in a lot of the categories. Is is this another one of

[1:17:27] those just it's just a timing with this quarter 2 report? Um cuz generally I

[1:17:33] think a lot of people it's that two quarter two where they start submitting

[1:17:36] these things hoping to get in the construction season. Um or are we just

[1:17:41] seeing a a slower year?

[1:17:45] » It's a slower year relatively comparable uh to the previous year. So again if you

[1:17:51] um take the you know on page 120 for the second quarter. So if you look at the

[1:17:56] first table, the second last column, we have the total amounts uh for 2026 to

[1:18:03] date. So that is 188 total of all of our development permits, redesignation and

[1:18:09] subdivision. So if you compare that to the column of the 2025 totals, you'll

[1:18:14] see that there's 334. So again, uh you know, more or less uh

[1:18:19] you know, half of it at half of the year. So very comparable to the previous

[1:18:24] year. And it is all dependent on applica applicants bringing forward

[1:18:28] applications. >> So you're good with airport. [laughter]

[1:18:34] » Thank you. >> Okay. Is there any other questions from

[1:18:37] Margaretta? >> No. All right. Then we have a motion on

[1:18:46] page 118. Councelor Lutz. I move that I move that council receives planning

[1:18:51] development service quarterly report as presented or as information.

[1:18:55] » Thank you. Any further discussion? I will call to question. All in favor?

[1:19:00] And that motion's carried. And uh 8.5 CEO uh services quarterly report. Jeff,

[1:19:07] please. >> Thank you, Reeves. Starting on page 131

[1:19:09] is the health and safety report. A couple of statistics to highlight. Um,

[1:19:14] you will note we've had a a few uh more asset related incidents, specifically

[1:19:20] uh damage to the light fleet. There seems to be a rash of deer incidents.

[1:19:25] Three out of the five were were deer related. Um, one of those being um

[1:19:30] rearended when stopping for a vehicle in front of us that was encountering a

[1:19:34] deer. So, it's a wide variety of of circumstances related to deer attacking

[1:19:40] county vehicles. Um, on the health and safety side, also

[1:19:45] important to note this is our external audit year and so that means we are

[1:19:49] being peer-reviewed by an external municipalities health and safety team.

[1:19:55] Uh, so that audit actually kicked off this week and they do documentation

[1:20:00] reviews. They will do um a sampling of all of our our staff and interviewing on

[1:20:06] the health and safety program as well as doing facility inspections um from a

[1:20:12] handful of selected facilities. In exchange uh later in the year,

[1:20:17] Mountain View County's uh health and safety team will end up uh doing a

[1:20:22] health and safety inspection for another municipality and we'll be doing the town

[1:20:25] of Devon's health and safety audit for 2026. So, we look forward to the

[1:20:31] external uh health and safety audit results which will probably uh come out

[1:20:37] maybe in another uh month or so is probably when we'd anticipate those

[1:20:41] results. They usually come out kind of in the early October time frame

[1:20:45] depending on when um Alberta Municipal Health and Safety Association uh

[1:20:49] endorses and accepts the final report. On the human resources side, that report

[1:20:55] starts on page 133 and you will note some uh some some updates there. Uh

[1:21:03] notably, you were introduced to Bailey today. Uh Bailey was our term employment

[1:21:08] that was completed uh for the operational services Matt leaf coverage.

[1:21:12] Uh and as well the 2026 in-ear retirement. Um you you don't see the

[1:21:18] development officer that has resigned. Uh that was Jaden Rhyr who resigned.

[1:21:22] That'll be in the Q3 report and Bailey is filling in that position.

[1:21:28] And also we had our uh an egg field operator uh that um resigned following a

[1:21:35] maternity leave. So she won't coming back to join our team and our manager of

[1:21:40] IT services and our community peace officer retirement which I think council

[1:21:44] is well aware of. So with that, that is the conclusion of the report and if

[1:21:49] there are any questions, I will try and answer them.

[1:21:53] » Thank you. Any questions for Jeff? Uh, councelor Harris,

[1:21:56] » not a question, Jeff, but just I I it's years now and I continue to be impressed

[1:22:01] by how we are able to bring people on um as relief or part-time and the

[1:22:10] organization is is such that it attracts them to come back and work for us

[1:22:14] full-time. I think I think that's an invaluable thing to recognize that that

[1:22:19] we provide a a real uh desired uh place for people to be employed.

[1:22:27] » Thank you, Council Harris. I would I would echo those comments and uh I think

[1:22:31] it is one of our our recruitment strengths um that recognition from

[1:22:35] applicants.

[1:22:38] » Any other questions for Jeff? >> No. Seeing none, then we have a motion

[1:22:45] on page 130. Um, councelor, um, look,

[1:22:49] » I would move the council receives the CAO services quarterly report as

[1:22:54] information. >> Thank you. Any further discussion? I'll

[1:22:58] call question. All in favor? And that motion's carried.

[1:23:08] Okay. So, uh, we will defer 9.1 until after our close session. So, we'll move

[1:23:13] on to 9.2. Tax penalty cancellation, Tanstone Energy Limited. Jeff, please.

[1:23:18] » Thank you, Ree. I will ask Mike to introduce this item as it is in his

[1:23:22] business area. >> Thanks, Jeff. Uh, so the RFD for the tax

[1:23:28] penalty cancellation is on page 137 of the agenda package. Uh for background,

[1:23:34] on July 29th, 2026, administration received a letter from Canstone Energy

[1:23:39] Limited requesting council's consideration for property tax penalty

[1:23:43] cancellation as it relates to penalties applied to the 2025 property tax

[1:23:49] balance. So the summaries uh of the incurred penalties include nine roles

[1:23:55] with penalties amounting to $1,673.3.

[1:24:01] Penalties were applied as the 2025 property tax payment was received and

[1:24:05] processed on September 19th past the September 15th date of 2025.

[1:24:11] Attached for council's uh review is a request for Canstone Energy Penalty

[1:24:16] cancellation on pages 139 through 145. administration included uh excerpts from

[1:24:23] the Canada Post website as well as uh image from the envelope we had received

[1:24:28] that was postmarked and stamped. Um those pages 146 to 148 for the Canada

[1:24:34] Post and pages 149 to 150 for the photos of the envelope.

[1:24:39] Uh with that I'll turn it over to council for your discussion and

[1:24:42] consideration of the request. >> Hey uh councelor Nixon. Uh just one

[1:24:48] quick question. So, um just to confirm, other than the um penalties, is their

[1:24:54] account up to date? They've been paying their their

[1:24:59] um property tax portions on time >> other than

[1:25:03] » the 2025 balance was paid in full. >> Y

[1:25:06] » um so it was just the >> previous years were good as well to your

[1:25:10] knowledge. >> Yeah, to my knowledge, I don't don't

[1:25:13] have any concerns. Yeah. >> Thank you.

[1:25:16] Is there any other questions or uh I'll entertain a motion. Uh councelor

[1:25:20] Johnson. >> Um taxes were due on September 15th. Is

[1:25:25] that correct? >> That is correct. That's the deadline for

[1:25:30] [sighs] to pay taxes prior to any penalties incurred. September 15th.

[1:25:36] » Ree, if I may just expand on that question for Mike to answer. Um, just

[1:25:40] could you clarify if uh if if the payment is postmarked by September 15th,

[1:25:47] does that meet the criteria of paying your taxes on time even though we may

[1:25:52] not have received the money um yet? >> Yeah, thanks Jeff. That is that is

[1:25:58] correct. If if it is postmark date of payment due and we receive it later, we

[1:26:03] will accept it as on time without incurring or applying any penalties.

[1:26:10] Okay. [clears throat] Uh, looking for a motion.

[1:26:19] Uh, Council Nixon, >> I would move that council that council

[1:26:23] cancel property tax penalties incurred totaling $1,673.3

[1:26:30] for the nine property tax roles as listed. 1 0 024

[1:26:36] 2- 26310500 080 27310

[1:26:42] 060 273 1 5 0 1 1 0 273 1 27 0 1 0 0 2732

[1:26:54] 160160 273320

[1:26:59] 030 27330 3070040

[1:27:05] and 2832190070.

[1:27:09] » Thank you. [clears throat] >> Okay. Is there any discussion on the

[1:27:14] motion? Uh councelor look. Everyone knew of the postal strike or impending postal

[1:27:20] strike and businesses know that taxes are an

[1:27:26] important part and are penalized if late. To send a check out 4 days before

[1:27:34] taxes are due, dated the day of claim a postal strike

[1:27:40] begs me to question why they didn't just send it out or deliver it if they were

[1:27:45] concerned with the postal strike. [clears throat]

[1:27:48] » Okay. So, the motion is to cancel the property tax penalties.

[1:27:54] So, is there any further discussion on that motion? Councelor Harris,

[1:27:57] » I'm I'm looking at the um at their documentation for uh cutting the check

[1:28:04] and I note it's done on the 8th of September um in the full amount. I think

[1:28:11] the intent was there um to pay it um I think three or four days late, three

[1:28:19] days late, the 18th. Um yeah, I'll support the motion.

[1:28:27] Okay. So, Councelor Harris brings up a good point. Uh, Jeeoff, did I

[1:28:33] misunderstand you then with the if it's post-dated prior to the 15th? So, what

[1:28:39] am I missing here? >> I don't think you're missing anything,

[1:28:41] Reeve. the the point that Mike clarified was that uh if we receive mail that's

[1:28:48] postmarked by the due date, so se if it had been postmarked September 15th,

[1:28:54] » even though we didn't receive it until a day or two later because Canada Post has

[1:28:58] to deliver it, we would accept it as an on-time payment. Okay?

[1:29:02] » But in this case, the letter does not show a postmark date of September 15th.

[1:29:07] » Right. Okay. Okay. Now I'm understanding. And for the record, we do

[1:29:10] not look at when a check is dated. We would look at when it's received. Um,

[1:29:15] and it's deemed received when it it's either physically in our possession or

[1:29:20] postmarked. >> Okay. Thank you for that clarity. Uh,

[1:29:24] councelor L. >> And just to confirm, it's postdated.

[1:29:27] That fine print means that it went to the the post office September 18th.

[1:29:31] Correct. >> That's what it looks like to me. I just

[1:29:34] want to make the assumption. Yeah. So, I'm not going to support the the motion

[1:29:37] because they missed the deadline completely. Okay. [clears throat] Uh,

[1:29:42] councelor Harris. >> Yeah. Just what I'm basing it on is I

[1:29:46] see when they cut the check. Um what we don't have is the date they delivered

[1:29:51] the post office and I think what they're rising raising is the issue that mail

[1:29:56] was was and it's supported by the Canada postup that mail was sometimes being

[1:30:02] left for longer than normal periods in post offices before it was processed and

[1:30:08] put out for delivery. So um they've been a good

[1:30:13] taxpayer so far. So, I I just don't see any reason to penalize them because of a

[1:30:18] labor short uh disruption. >> Okay. So, I have a motion on the floor

[1:30:22] to cancel the property tax penalties. With that, I will call to question. All

[1:30:27] in favor? >> And opposed? And that motion's lost.

[1:30:36] Okay. 9.3 2026 Rapier Harvest Lunch. Christopher, please.

[1:30:41] » Thank you, Worship. Just seeking council's consideration once again

[1:30:44] whether you would like to hold a rate pair harvest lunch. We've done it for

[1:30:48] the last few years. Uh typically it's held in October or November depending on

[1:30:53] uh the season and counselor's availability. Uh and we typically have

[1:30:58] it catered by our local business as well. Last year we had about 300 people

[1:31:02] that we believe attended the rape pair harvest lunch. We have included in the

[1:31:06] RFD a list of possible dates uh that may work for council. Uh, and but of course,

[1:31:12] council may choose an alternative date if you wish.

[1:31:20] » Uh, councelor Nixon, >> I would propose Friday, October 23rd

[1:31:25] because we're here.

[1:31:33] » Oh, I see. Gotcha. >> Um, I have that from

[1:31:38] 9 till 4. That's our budget meeting and normally

[1:31:42] um we don't have a time here. Um >> that will likely be a full day meeting.

[1:31:48] Yes, it traditionally has been. >> Yeah. So, um my question to Christopher

[1:31:52] is what is we don't have a date. We don't have a time for the harvest lunch.

[1:31:57] Did I miss it in here? >> I I believe it's usually from 11 to 1.

[1:32:01] Is that right, Josie? Yeah. Right. 11 to 1.

[1:32:04] » Yeah. And so council will remember we used to have the budget meeting on the

[1:32:08] Wednesday but we flip-flopped with the egg service board which is the now the

[1:32:13] 23rd date. >> Yeah.

[1:32:14] » So I think I think that is going to be too difficult for us to accommodate. So

[1:32:18] I think it's probably best if we take that one off.

[1:32:22] » Um the one that I can make the easiest is the 29th. Um but I don't know if that

[1:32:26] works for everyone. October 29th. Uh, councelor Lutz,

[1:32:29] » I just think uh with harvest I think if we want our farmers to be there 15th

[1:32:32] 16th it's a little early. I think they'll still be in the fields.

[1:32:37] » Okay. So just looking if October 29th would work for council. I'm seeing that.

[1:32:46] Oh, can you make a different date?

[1:32:52] » You're gonna be here. >> Okay.

[1:32:57] Okay. If with regards to the 23rd, if we have the budget meeting scheduled from

[1:33:02] 9:00 to 4 with our usual 1 hour break for lunch, would council consider

[1:33:07] starting at 8 that day, allowing us the 2-hour break for the harvest lunch and

[1:33:13] then carry on with the the budget meeting? I I think it's just too much.

[1:33:18] Um because we usually have people that stay longer or that come earlier. So, um

[1:33:24] I think it's just better if council has more flexibility to engage and we're not

[1:33:28] kind of trying to rush off to a to a budget meeting. So, um I'm hearing the

[1:33:32] 29th would work. Yeah.

[1:33:37] So, I'll move the council schedule the 2026 rate pair harvest lunch to be held

[1:33:41] at Mountain View County uh office on October 29th.

[1:33:50] So we'll start with that and then I think Christopher you had another

[1:33:52] question in here as to whether or not we wanted to just status quo with the

[1:33:55] catering or whatever. If we don't discuss that then that is the direction

[1:33:58] that the administration has. >> Yeah. So that's what's been budgeted for

[1:34:01] in the 2026 budget. So unless council wants to choose an alternative such as

[1:34:05] cooking lunch yourself uh then uh yeah that's why we said status quo would

[1:34:10] would be uh what is being presented. >> Okay. So we'll start with the date. Um I

[1:34:14] have a motion on the floor. Is uh any is there any discussion on the motion? No.

[1:34:18] Then I'll call the question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. And is

[1:34:22] there any discussion or does everyone like the format of the way we've always

[1:34:26] done it? Okay. Councelor Harris,

[1:34:29] » just curious at in the past we've used it as an opportunity to highlight

[1:34:35] particular things that we're doing or pass on information. Is there any plans

[1:34:39] to to do so this year? We'll wait for final direction from

[1:34:45] council, but we anticipate it will be a large MDPLUB public engagement session

[1:34:51] for the review. We'll further determine that through the MDPLUB

[1:34:56] committee that will provide the direction on the public engagement, but

[1:35:00] administratively, that's what we're thinking. Similar to what we did in

[1:35:03] 2019, you may remember we'll set up this room with all the boards and the

[1:35:07] information and have the people available to have the conversations and

[1:35:10] the food and social activities out in the main hall.

[1:35:14] » Two pigeons with one stone. >> Uh, councelor look,

[1:35:20] » do we have a just on the MDP LUB, do we have a proposed date or or where we're

[1:35:26] thinking for that survey to be out? So, uh, we have the 16th that's coming up

[1:35:31] and then that will be part of the agenda item to, uh, determine, uh, further

[1:35:35] discussions. >> Okay? Because the harvest lunch, I

[1:35:38] think, is a perfect opportunity. When I requested the 2019 survey results, it's

[1:35:44] kind of a gas to see that there were only 56 replies.

[1:35:47] » Um, a lot. Well, but if we've got 300 people coming to lunch that know it

[1:35:54] might be coming up, maybe we could increase that number to make it a little

[1:35:59] more reflective of what people are thinking. Yep. So, we can have that

[1:36:02] discussion on the 16th. [clears throat and cough]

[1:36:07] Excellent. Is there anything further on this agenda item?

[1:36:11] Okay. Um,

[1:36:15] look at um Mr. Chemies are joining us very early. Thank you for coming.

[1:36:21] [clears throat] Uh

[1:36:24] uh 9.3 2000. Uh no, we just did that one. 9.4 council strategic priorities.

[1:36:31] » Did I miss one? >> No, you were right on schedule, Reeve.

[1:36:33] And so on page 153, you will see the updated visual layout of the strategic

[1:36:40] priorities for council for 2026 through 2030. And note that uh council did

[1:36:46] provide the one direction to modify the wording under community well-being and

[1:36:51] that would be the third bullet point. It has been amended to now read foster

[1:36:55] opportunities for people to age in their communities.

[1:37:00] » Okay. [clears throat] Council any um any discussion?

[1:37:07] No. So uh Jeff, what is the once council approves this? what is the uh direction

[1:37:13] for getting it out there to the public? >> So, I'll maybe defer some of that over

[1:37:18] to Shelley, but certainly we'll update our website and uh replace the existing

[1:37:22] version with the new version if approved by council. And Shelley can maybe speak

[1:37:26] to any of the other communication plans for sharing the information.

[1:37:31] » Shelley, please. >> Hi. Um if council desires, we can

[1:37:36] certainly do a social campaign on it. update the website like Jeff said, um,

[1:37:40] put it as notice on our website. Anything that you guys would like.

[1:37:44] » Okay. So, uh, councelor, let's just, uh, I don't know if it's a typo, if it's

[1:37:50] meant to be, but people might think it's a typo. Uh, the double dash between 2026

[1:37:55] 2030. >> There is

[1:37:58] » uh, strategic priorities 2026- 2030. >> Yeah, it is dash.

[1:38:05] » I only I only see one dash. on mine. Mine's bigger.

[1:38:10] » It's dash dash. >> Oh, violated it.

[1:38:13] » You can fix that. You can [clears throat] fix that. Okay. So, we

[1:38:17] have a motion uh on page 152. Councelor Harris,

[1:38:20] » I'll move the council approve the 2026-2030

[1:38:24] strategic priorities as presented. >> Thank you. Is there any further

[1:38:29] discussion? Okay. With that, then I'll call

[1:38:34] question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. And we've heard the

[1:38:37] communication plan for this. Is there if there is anything in addition that

[1:38:41] council would like the opportunity I again um probably the uh the rate payer

[1:38:47] lunch is a good opportunity to have maybe the board um with the strategic

[1:38:52] priorities in the one pager uh for public consumption.

[1:38:56] » I assume we're changing >> uh we'll change all of that. Yeah. So uh

[1:39:00] is there anything special that council would like to see as communications?

[1:39:04] Otherwise, we'll leave it in the competent hands of Shelly.

[1:39:08] Okay. >> Maybe just a quick comment that um I I

[1:39:14] [clears throat] think that people um maybe wouldn't realize that the

[1:39:19] strategic plan hasn't changed, just that the the um look look the layout and the

[1:39:26] the look of it has changed. So, I think we might want to include the whole idea

[1:39:31] of of continuity. um as we have moved from the last strategic uh priorities to

[1:39:37] the present one and I think that um that in in a world of chaos having things the

[1:39:44] same is very useful. >> Thank you [clears throat] for those

[1:39:47] comments. Okay, so we'll move on to 9.5 town of

[1:39:52] olds funding requests. Jeeoff, please. >> Thank you, Ree. Starting on page 154 is

[1:39:57] the RFD for this item and this is uh one of our policy and procedure 806

[1:40:04] intermunicipal collaboration funding requests brought to council. And so the

[1:40:09] Olds IC Committee last met on June 11th and reviewed and discussed the Town of

[1:40:15] Olds projects and application for 2026 and did recommend that the projects be

[1:40:21] forwarded to Mountain View County Council for consideration. So in today's

[1:40:25] agenda package, you will see the background information from the town of

[1:40:30] Olds on the projects they are proposing to complete. And the cumulative total

[1:40:35] for 2026 is is uh projects that would be cost shared by the county in the amount

[1:40:40] of $188,000. So council will note that exceeds the

[1:40:45] policy maximum of $125,000 that that's in our policy. However, when

[1:40:51] we reviewed this as an ICC, we discussed that the sports electrical repairs is a

[1:40:57] carryover project from 2025 that was approved by Mountain View County

[1:41:02] Council. And so you will recall when we did our year-end financial transfers to

[1:41:08] reserves, we did transfer $68,915 into the carry forward reserve from 8006

[1:41:17] funding in 2025 related to the town of Olds's projects. And so that's why the

[1:41:22] motion you will see in the recommendation is only asking for

[1:41:26] council approval of $119,000 recognizing the balance of that 188 that

[1:41:33] the town of Olds is requesting is going to be funded from 2025 carry forward

[1:41:38] amounts. And so that again is largely related to uh changing uh project scope

[1:41:45] for the electrical repairs and upgrades uh following some further investigation

[1:41:51] and engineering completed by the town of Olds.

[1:41:55] With that uh I will pause and see if council has any questions for myself or

[1:42:02] the town of olds ICC members. >> Council any questions? Councelor Lutz,

[1:42:08] » just my only comment is it's good to see our municipalities catching on to using

[1:42:12] the the u the fund more. I I think that work that we did on communicating that

[1:42:18] it's available is is paying off and it's good to see they're using it.

[1:42:23] » Okay. And then I'll look for a motion. Councelor Lutz,

[1:42:27] » I move that council approve cost sharing the municipal portion of the 2026 Town

[1:42:31] of Olds projects to the maximum of 119,455

[1:42:36] to be funded from the intermunicipal collaboration reserve.

[1:42:40] » Thank you. Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call to question. All

[1:42:44] in favor? And that motion's carried. Uh 9.6 proposed RMA resolution. Jeff,

[1:42:51] please. >> Thank you, Reef. So, in advance of our

[1:42:56] um September 2nd resolution deadline for the upcoming central region RMA meeting,

[1:43:02] uh council is being asked to consider a dissolution resolution. We have engaged

[1:43:09] uh the county of Clearwater inquiring if they would be interested in seconding

[1:43:12] this resolution and they have indicated there would be support for that should

[1:43:16] Mountain View County Council proceed with uh endorsing this resolution to be

[1:43:21] sent to the CRMA meeting. >> Thank you. And and again this resolution

[1:43:27] pretty much is in line with the RMA [clears throat]

[1:43:30] um paper on the post dissolution uh impact study. So if you are interested

[1:43:37] in any of that information, if you read that, this um resolution pretty much

[1:43:41] mimics that and pulls out the important components that Mount View County found

[1:43:46] uh with respect to the whole process. So the dissolution paper is much greater

[1:43:51] and there's way more recommendations within that, but we tried to condense

[1:43:54] the ones that we thought were the most relevant to Mount View County and would

[1:43:58] be the most supportive moving forward. Councelor Johnson. Um uh just one uh

[1:44:04] very picky suggested word change. Um if we could go to page 158 under the first

[1:44:11] uh therefore be be it resolved. Uh the last sentence says those that are beyond

[1:44:18] uh life expectancy. Um oh sorry I should read the whole

[1:44:23] sentence. Uh reflect audited infrastructure needs and those that are

[1:44:27] beyond life expectancy. And I think where it says and providing funding, I

[1:44:32] think that should just be the word provide.

[1:44:35] I think the content is excellent. I think we just need to change that word

[1:44:38] to provide.

[1:44:42] » Okay, we can clean that up. >> And I I would be happy to make the

[1:44:47] motion. >> Okay. Uh [clears throat] no, you go

[1:44:49] ahead. We can we can move the resolution and then still make changes. So

[1:44:52] » Okay. So I would move that council endorse uh submitting the dissolution

[1:44:58] dissolution process resolution to the 2026 fall RMA convention.

[1:45:04] » Thank you for the motion and councelor Lutz.

[1:45:06] » The one thing that stood out for me in this one I thought coming from two

[1:45:09] counties the whereas most villages already set very high mill rates I kind

[1:45:13] of wondered where I assume that came from RMA but I I wondered if the county

[1:45:17] should be evaluating that or saying that or or how we back that up. I thought it

[1:45:22] was a bit it just stood out to me as um >> maybe not appropriate. But

[1:45:28] » so when I reviewed all of the dissolution uh reports, if you look at

[1:45:32] all of the uh villages that have gone under the viability review study, their

[1:45:37] mill rates are significantly higher. Like I'm talking, you know, between 12

[1:45:42] and 18 mill rate. So is it most small villages that have gone through the like

[1:45:46] it's not I read it is all small v most small villages in the province of

[1:45:51] Alberta are already setting very high mill rates. So it's just the way I read

[1:45:54] it. Um read maybe I read it differently. >> Okay. Yeah. Um

[1:46:01] I I think what this was trying to address is it's trying to address the

[1:46:05] fact that municipal affairs has come back in our last district meeting to say

[1:46:09] if you take on these villages just increase their mail rates. You you can

[1:46:14] you can do that by putting in a special um what's it called? Like a special tax

[1:46:20] for serviced um communities versus the rest of the rural communities. So, we

[1:46:26] just wanted to get across the point that um increasing mail rates is not going to

[1:46:30] be um it's not going to generate enough revenue because uh those villages have

[1:46:38] already um utilized that opportunity to increase their mill rates to increase

[1:46:42] revenues. Uh and it didn't work. So, it if council wants to change the wording,

[1:46:48] we can, but that was the purpose of that. I read it the same way as

[1:46:52] councelor Lutz >> and I'm wondering if some word smithing

[1:46:56] around most small villages facing dissolution or considering

[1:47:02] um that we can narrow that down to those and not all small villages in the

[1:47:07] province. >> How about if we just take out the most

[1:47:09] » or if we say often >> small villages because you have come

[1:47:14] across several that you use to to for this point. So often small villages are

[1:47:20] already >> okay. Is everyone okay with changity?

[1:47:24] » So is everyone okay with changing most to often?

[1:47:28] » Councelor Harris, >> I was thinking more along the lines of

[1:47:32] just after villages uh

[1:47:36] undergoing review. >> So

[1:47:41] » well I don't just think it's the ones undergoing review though. I think that's

[1:47:44] the important distinction here is I don't think it is just those undergoing

[1:47:47] review. Oh, I'm sure it isn't. But I think the focus of the of the resolution

[1:47:51] is the review process. >> Okay. So, we have a couple suggestions.

[1:47:56] Is everyone uh is everyone okay with either saying often or is the preferred

[1:48:01] wording to go small villages uh undergoing viability review?

[1:48:06] » Do you want to focus on that? >> It was the um missing the undergoing

[1:48:10] viability review that caught me the most. So, okay. But I'm not going to

[1:48:13] words it either. Just you point. >> Okay. So um is is the direction then to

[1:48:19] to um kind of modify the whereas to include or the focus on the viability

[1:48:26] review those those um villages going through a viability

[1:48:30] review. Everyone's okay with that? >> Okay. Okay. Uh so uh councelor Johnson

[1:48:36] if we could just add as amended to your motion would you be okay with that and

[1:48:39] then and then we can capture those two changes that council has brought to to

[1:48:43] our attention. Yeah. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. Okay. So, everyone

[1:48:47] is good with that. Is there any other suggestions or is there any other

[1:48:50] concerns with moving this forward? No. Thanks for that. Thanks for that. Those

[1:48:55] are good catches. Okay. So, I have a motion to accept or

[1:48:59] to um move this resolution forward as amended.

[1:49:04] [clears throat] Any further discussion? I'll call to

[1:49:06] question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. Thank you for that

[1:49:10] great discussion.

[1:49:16] Fine. And we'll go to 9.7 upcoming special council meeting schedule. Jeff,

[1:49:19] please. Uh, >> thank you, Reeve. So, for council's

[1:49:22] information, wanted to highlight on page 160 of your agenda some changes uh that

[1:49:27] the Reev and I have worked on and coordinated for some special council

[1:49:31] meetings upcoming. Uh, this is a receive as information item as the Reeve has

[1:49:36] approved changing the schedule. Uh so for your information, council will be

[1:49:40] aware the October 7th meeting has been moved to September 30th with a start

[1:49:45] time of 8:30 and the budget special budget meeting that was set for October

[1:49:52] 21st was moved to October 23rd to accommodate a change in dates of the

[1:49:59] regional egg service board conference. >> And thank you very much to council for

[1:50:04] being accommodating. I um I know it's always difficult, but there's a lot

[1:50:08] going on. So, I really appreciate everyone's quick responses. And because

[1:50:12] we have council motion setting these dates, I think it was important that we

[1:50:15] brought this back for council's uh approval.

[1:50:20] So, is there any discussion or I'm looking for a motion? Uh, councelor

[1:50:24] Lutz, >> I um move that council receive as

[1:50:28] information the scheduled changes for the special council meetings regarding

[1:50:31] 2027 budget and economic development strategic plan.

[1:50:35] » Thank you. And also thank you to administration for accommodating those

[1:50:38] changes for council. Always appreciate we know how much work goes in uh to uh

[1:50:43] creating those agenda packages. So thank you for all your work on that. Okay, any

[1:50:48] further discussion with that then I will call the question. All in favor? And

[1:50:52] that motion is carried.

[1:50:58] Uh, and I see that we have our um 11:00 delegation. Are you waiting for anyone

[1:51:02] else to come to join us? Would you be all right to start um earlier?

[1:51:08] Fantastic. Oh, we still have 9.8. So, uh, we're

[1:51:12] going to get to that right after 9.8 because I have apparently forgot one.

[1:51:17] » Yes, but I have it written down. Uh bear with us. We'll still get you in before

[1:51:22] 11. Uh so 9.8 RMA committee approval. Uh Councelor Harris.

[1:51:27] » So as everyone has seen, the um RM has reached out uh um a couple of months ago

[1:51:34] looking for [snorts] members to apply for their justice committee. I was

[1:51:37] unable to at that time because of some family issues I was dealing with. Those

[1:51:41] are now settled. They've extended the deadline. So I would very much like and

[1:51:46] I've been encouraged to apply for the justice committee uh appointment of RMA

[1:51:52] um and asking council's approval. It would result in um because RMA won't

[1:51:57] pick up PDMS etc that pdiums and transport or traveling costs would be

[1:52:03] borne and it should be ending in uh spring of 2027.

[1:52:09] Uh yeah, so we uh it's actually in the uh agenda package on page 163, but Laura

[1:52:14] actually also has it on the screen. Um I think this is going to be an excellent

[1:52:20] uh thing for Mount View County to participate in. I think councelor Harris

[1:52:23] has the um the skill set to make to make this committee actually function really

[1:52:29] really well and get some great results. So I think it's it's absolutely awesome.

[1:52:34] We have a motion that's been created in order to address this. And councelor

[1:52:38] Harris, I think you said that uh part of the application process requires that

[1:52:42] that you have the municipality support. >> That's correct.

[1:52:45] » Yeah. >> Councelor Nixon,

[1:52:48] » I would move that council endorse councelor Greg Harris applying for RMA's

[1:52:53] justice committee and that the council res assumes all costs associated with

[1:52:57] attending meetings should he be appointed.

[1:53:00] » Thank you. This is a great use of taxpayer dollars. I think our rural

[1:53:04] constituents would get a lot out of having councelor Harris sit on this.

[1:53:09] Any further discussion? I will call question. All in favor? And that

[1:53:13] motion's carried. Send it in. Get her done.

[1:53:20] All right. Okay. Is anyone going to stop me from moving to the delegations?

[1:53:25] All right. So, if I could ask our um legacy land trust society to come

[1:53:31] forward. The mic will be live. Um I believe everyone knows everyone, but

[1:53:36] just in the spirit of making sure that you know who you're talking to, I'm just

[1:53:39] going to do a quick round of introductions from our counselors. And

[1:53:41] I'll start with um uh councelor uh Fulton, please.

[1:53:45] » Morning. Uh Dwayne Fultton, counselor, division one.

[1:53:49] » Morning. Thanks for coming. Greg Harris, division 2.

[1:53:53] » Hi, Angela Look, Division 3. Good morning, Angela Alers, Division 5 and

[1:53:57] Reeve. Tiffany Nixon, division 4. Good morning. Peggy Johnson, division

[1:54:02] six. >> Jennifer Lutz, division 7.

[1:54:10] » Okay. So, what I'll do is I will turn the floor over to you. Um, delegations

[1:54:13] have 10 minutes to uh uh to address council and then we'll have loads of

[1:54:17] questions. If you need any uh any time in addition, if you tell me now, then we

[1:54:21] can look at extending that. Do you think you'll be able to fit within the 10

[1:54:24] minutes? >> Uh, we think so.

[1:54:26] » Perfect. All right, then. I will turn it over to you. So, I won't waste any more

[1:54:28] of your time. >> Okay.

[1:54:32] Madame Reev and counselors, uh, thank you for having us here today. Uh, I'm

[1:54:37] Doug Kollister. I'm Legacy's current chair. And with me today is our

[1:54:42] executive director, Kevin Franovski. So, we're here to update you on Legacy.

[1:54:47] We've done that a number of times in the past, and ask for your support. And, um,

[1:54:53] Kevin will present the first part of what we have to share today. and I will

[1:54:57] finish up. So, I'll turn it over to Kevin.

[1:55:00] » Thanks, Doug. Morning, counselors. Um, as you can see on the screen, um, our

[1:55:06] vision and mission is focused on working with communities um, in the Mountain

[1:55:10] View uh, county and surrounding environments uh, on conservation and

[1:55:16] stewardship of valued landscapes including uh, ecological, agricultural

[1:55:21] and heritage values. Next slide. So we were founded in 2013. We became a

[1:55:28] registered charity in 2015 uh with support from Mountain View County and we

[1:55:33] signed our first conservation easement or CE in 2015.

[1:55:38] Uh we currently have more than 3,800 acres on 21 CES and it helps um our

[1:55:46] stewardship helps maintain and improve the health and biodiversity of uh these

[1:55:51] uh lands including rangeand. Uh 85% of oures are working landscapes i.e. they

[1:55:59] include agriculture. Um 16 have eco gift status from environment Canada. So,

[1:56:04] Environment Canada has certified them as ecologically sensitive and we have four

[1:56:08] more in addition to the the 21 that are listed there. We have four more in

[1:56:12] progress and we'll talk about term easements in a minute.

[1:56:17] So, this is just some visuals of um some of the CE donors and uh that's a the

[1:56:24] type of sign that we put on them to uh let people know that this is a

[1:56:28] conservation easement property.

[1:56:32] Originally, the Alberta Land Trust Grant Program, which was a provincial funding

[1:56:36] program launched in 2011, provided funding to land trusts like Legacy to

[1:56:42] place permanent or perpetual CES on private lands. In 2025,

[1:56:48] this program came to an end and it was replaced by the private land

[1:56:52] conservation program, which focuses only on term easements. So it is still

[1:56:56] possible to put a perpetual or permanent easement on land but now that needs to

[1:57:01] be funded through private sources. The provincial funding um is only for term

[1:57:06] easements now and those can range from 20 to 50 years.

[1:57:13] Um the unexpected cancellation of the ALTGP program um was a significant

[1:57:19] impact to all the regional land trusts in Alberta. um at the time that it came

[1:57:25] down last year, none of our existing land owners who were considering putting

[1:57:31] um easements in place were interested in moving from perpetual to term. And so we

[1:57:35] made no applications for term easements last year. Um if you move to the next

[1:57:40] slide, we do have some um people who are interested in now putting term easements

[1:57:46] on and so we will be submitting PLCP applications um by the September 15th

[1:57:52] deadline and if successful those funds will start flowing um sometime next

[1:57:57] year.

[1:58:00] So we're in a financially healthy position. The year-end financials are on

[1:58:05] our website if anyone's interested. Those 21 CES that I mentioned, they're

[1:58:09] valued at almost $10 million. We have almost a million dollars in endowment

[1:58:14] funds that we managed through um a Mau investment um professionally managed

[1:58:20] investment and the income that comes from that pays for our annual monitoring

[1:58:25] and stewardship. So, for example, last year $32,000 of income was generated

[1:58:30] from those endowment funds and we ended the year with a surplus of $10,000 or 9

[1:58:36] $9 9,783. Doug,

[1:58:41] » yeah, the next few slides um talk about Legacy's future and what we've we've

[1:58:48] done uh in that regard. So, we hired a fundraising consultant in late uh 2025

[1:58:54] to help us examine the feasibility of a capital campaign going forward. And we

[1:59:01] early this year we held a uh a professionally facilitated strategic

[1:59:07] planning session which identified uh three options for us going forward. Um,

[1:59:14] option one uh was uh what we called expand and

[1:59:20] evolve and basically it was business as usual going forward and it was

[1:59:25] contingent on receiving uh a grant that we'd applied for from the center for

[1:59:30] land conservation. We did not get that grant. Option two uh was a protect what

[1:59:36] we call protect and consolidate which was to withdraw into a a skeleton

[1:59:41] situation where we take care of existing CES and and uh involve more volunteers

[1:59:49] and option three was merging with another land trust. So legacy land trust

[1:59:56] ceasing to exist.

[2:00:01] Um at our board meeting on June 3rd of this

[2:00:06] year, the board agreed to uh implement a modified option two that would uh that's

[2:00:14] the withdraw and and take care of existing C's and so on. um but uh also

[2:00:21] involve a an operating fund donation campaign

[2:00:26] uh in an attempt to raise uh $100,000 to help fund operations in 2027 and into

[2:00:33] 2028. We have funds to operate through 2026

[2:00:39] into early 2027. Um board members have seated that

[2:00:44] operating fund donation campaign with $20,000. every one of our our directors

[2:00:50] has made a contribution. Um our plan is to transition to option

[2:00:56] one. In other words, get back to a a business as usual model over the next

[2:01:01] two to three years. Um and that would involve a capital campaign uh to try and

[2:01:08] uh get a an operating endowment um fund in place of somewhere in the range of$1

[2:01:14] to $2 million. Um while this is going on, we'll of

[2:01:19] course continue to reassess our position and if we feel like um what we're trying

[2:01:26] to do is not feasible, uh we will go back and revisit the merger option.

[2:01:36] Our current executive director, uh Kevin, is under contract until May of

[2:01:41] next year. Um, we also have a part-time conservation coordinator who does who

[2:01:47] pretty much does our monitoring and stewardship

[2:01:50] um, at the moment. So that's on an hourly basis. Um in the winter coming

[2:01:56] up, we anticipate having an intern work with us through the winter. Um mentored

[2:02:02] by Kevin and uh hopefully gaining sufficient experience and organizational

[2:02:08] knowledge that that person can take over when Kevin um has to give up his

[2:02:14] position. So that's our successional plan. Uh additional staff are very much

[2:02:19] dependent on successful implementation of a capital campaign.

[2:02:25] This is just a picture of one of our CES, West Hawk Farms. Um, and it's a

[2:02:32] working landscape. Uh, what matters. This is what we've

[2:02:37] heard from the community and our constituents and and we agree with these

[2:02:43] values. They're very much our values as well.

[2:02:51] So, so what we're coming to you with is an opportunity to support what you care

[2:02:56] about and the constituents in Mountain View County uh care about. We very much

[2:03:02] appreciate the support that that Mountain View County has provided to

[2:03:07] Legacy. Um, I don't think it's far off to say that Mountain View County is a

[2:03:12] founder of Legacy and we're hopeful that Mountain View County can support us

[2:03:17] again at this important juncture with with the donation of operating funds for

[2:03:21] 2027.

[2:03:26] Uh, this is our value proposition um that we're that we're presenting to

[2:03:31] potential donors. Uh some important points are we're the only land trust

[2:03:36] working exclusively in West Central Alberta.

[2:03:40] We protect landscapes that matter to the people of Mountain View County and

[2:03:43] surrounding areas. Uh we really value and try and build

[2:03:48] lasting relationships with our land owners, communities, and partners to

[2:03:52] protect places that define Mountain View County.

[2:03:55] and the members of the board and our staff

[2:04:01] all live and work here and we understand the land and we understand the

[2:04:05] conservation challenges that Mound View County faces.

[2:04:09] Your support will provide operating funds obviously help us transition to

[2:04:15] the new funding environment that was forced on us by the change in programs.

[2:04:20] allow us to establish an operating endowment fund. That is, it'll give us

[2:04:24] breathing space to implement our capital campaign and uh and hopefully get an

[2:04:31] operating endowment fund in place. Uh it'll help us achieve our target, which

[2:04:36] is $100,000 and it'll build on the $20,000 that our

[2:04:41] board members have contributed already.

[2:04:46] And that concludes uh our presentation and we'll we're happy to to answer any

[2:04:52] questions or discussion that you might like to have.

[2:04:57] » Thank you for [clears throat] your presentation. I will open it up to uh

[2:05:00] council to ask some questions. Councelor Johnson,

[2:05:02] » thanks for your presentation. Can you tell us a little bit more about the

[2:05:07] merger option you talked about? Um uh what would that look like if it goes

[2:05:12] forward? How would that affect uh the the um land that you already have um

[2:05:19] easements on? Can you tell us a little bit about what a merger option would

[2:05:22] look like? >> Sure. Sure. I'll be happy to do that.

[2:05:25] So, we've had preliminary discussions with another land trust, Western Sky,

[2:05:30] and and they're quite interested in in in us merging with them if if that

[2:05:36] becomes the thing that that is the most rational uh to do. um

[2:05:43] we're required if if if we wind up to move our assets to a similar uh

[2:05:51] organization and Western Sky obviously would be that. Um I think that it would

[2:05:57] be it would be pretty seamless for the current CES and the owners of those

[2:06:03] lands that that we have right now. Um, but having said that, clearly clearly

[2:06:11] Western Sky would not have the same focus on Mountain View County that that

[2:06:16] Legacy does by virtue of it being a Mountain View County entity. So, we

[2:06:23] certainly uh the board uh I'll refer back again to that meeting we had in

[2:06:27] June, the board meeting we had in June when we came up with this plan that

[2:06:31] we're that we're trying to implement. Um uh the board the board really doesn't

[2:06:38] want to go that way. However, we're we're sensible enough to realize that we

[2:06:44] may not have a choice depending how things go. And so and so we're keeping

[2:06:48] communications with Western Sky open and keeping them updated on how we're doing

[2:06:53] and what we're trying to do so that so that uh if that option becomes the one

[2:06:59] that we have to pursue that it's still there.

[2:07:03] Thank you. So, who is Western Sky? >> Um,

[2:07:09] good question. Well, they're a land trust. Uh, and they've been around a

[2:07:12] little bit longer than we have. Um, they're not a whole lot bigger than us.

[2:07:20] Uh, there's they're uh their offices in Calgary.

[2:07:24] Um, they've stolen two of our people over the years.

[2:07:30] um which is I guess a compliment but you know a loss to us and u uh they're a

[2:07:37] good organization I think that's my that's my impression with them knowing

[2:07:42] them and and having had some discussions with them I think they would they would

[2:07:47] do a good job by our existing CES and and and the assets that we have but uh

[2:07:53] our board doesn't really want to go there if we if we can avoid it.

[2:07:56] » Okay. Um, councelor look. >> Thank you. Um, how many of the 21

[2:08:02] easements that Legacy holds are in Mountain View County?

[2:08:07] » Yeah. Do you want >> I can look that up. Just give me a

[2:08:09] moment. We can move to the next question. I'll come back.

[2:08:11] » Thank you. Not being totally familiar with CES. Um, from a financial p

[2:08:17] perspective, where does the bulk of the the financial obligation lie? Is it in

[2:08:23] filing the legal documents? How how is this money being spent? I didn't have

[2:08:28] time to um look into your financials today.

[2:08:31] » Yeah, the operating funds that we're asking for.

[2:08:33] » Um yeah, I'll speak a little bit just to

[2:08:37] how uh what our business model is. So we apply for for grants for in you know if

[2:08:45] a land owner comes to us or or we establish a relationship with a land

[2:08:49] owner and the land owner would like to put a CE on their land then we work with

[2:08:54] the land owner to make an application to the to the existing program which now is

[2:08:59] the PLCP the private land conservation program and uh so there's money uh all

[2:09:06] of the costs associated with putting a C in place are contained within that grant

[2:09:12] if we get the grant and the grant is segregated. It's a separate fund and it

[2:09:17] uh that money can only be spent on that particular conservation easement project

[2:09:22] and there's monies within that uh that envelope to to uh fund our people our

[2:09:30] activity in developing the agreement and organizing the baseline and organizing

[2:09:38] the appraisal and other and other things that go with the C. But there is um and

[2:09:44] and I think it's a typical thing with nonprofits. There there are there are

[2:09:49] monies needed um just to operate our business and operate our organization

[2:09:55] that that are not provided in those grants and we need to fund you know we

[2:10:00] need to come up with that money in other places. And why we have found ourselves

[2:10:05] in a bit of a pinch here is because is because as Kevin mentioned, none of our

[2:10:10] our prospects when the change occurred between the

[2:10:14] programs and it was only a month or six weeks before the deadline. So it was a

[2:10:21] very short term. I think the only land trust that actually got any applications

[2:10:26] in last year was in fact Western Sky and they just happened to have a big project

[2:10:30] that was just sitting there waiting. So um so because we didn't make any

[2:10:36] applications last year, we had no new projects come in this year. The previous

[2:10:41] year we'd only received one project from the old program and uh so as a result uh

[2:10:48] our our business slowed down and there wasn't and so we needed more non-project

[2:10:54] money to to fund our internal operations. And so so we found ourselves

[2:10:59] short from that from from that perspective.

[2:11:03] » Councelor Harris, >> Doug, couple questions. Um,

[2:11:08] » is there anything I'm not familiar with this new private land conservation

[2:11:12] program? Is there anything to prevent people with a a trust on a private land

[2:11:18] at its end reapplying and continuing with a new trust on the same

[2:11:25] land? while the old trust is in place.

[2:11:30] » Well, no. If I say I put a 50-year trust on in my family, then at the end of that

[2:11:35] 50 years, of course, we won't know what a government will do. And then, but is

[2:11:39] there any thing in the legislation or the program that says you can't reapply?

[2:11:45] In other words, >> no.

[2:11:47] » Continue. Okay. >> No. No.

[2:11:50] Um, is there any indication or maybe it's too early to see if some of the

[2:11:54] people who were interested in a land trust uh and now with a term through the

[2:12:00] province um maybe looked federally to the Nature Conservancy or I have a

[2:12:06] couple of those in my area that have been out your way that have been there

[2:12:09] forever. >> Yes. Um I'm wondering if that would

[2:12:14] redirect people to to that program away from uh Legacy. It's possible uh

[2:12:22] counselor, but um one of the real needs that Legacy has

[2:12:28] filled is that and and and let's just use Nature Conservancy as a a good

[2:12:33] example because they're the biggest land trust um in Canada is that uh Nature

[2:12:39] Conservancy got to a point where they um couldn't see themselves dealing with

[2:12:46] small parcels, quarter sections. And I have personal experience with that

[2:12:49] because when I wanted to put an easement on my property near Water Valley, um I

[2:12:54] contacted Nature Conservancy and they were very nice, but they said, "Sorry,

[2:12:58] we just we just can't do that. We're doing these big projects in southwestern

[2:13:03] Alberta and elsewhere all over Canada and so on. We can't do that." And

[2:13:06] fortunately, um it was about that time that Legacy with Montre Countyy's help

[2:13:12] and others >> got going and and uh and that's how I

[2:13:15] ended up with, you know, an easement on my property. So, I think it's possible

[2:13:19] what you say, but I but it would be going back um in a direction that we

[2:13:25] were pushed away from not that long ago. So,

[2:13:29] » I I agree with you, Doug. I I'm just trying to highlight that that there

[2:13:32] isn't an alternative, >> right?

[2:13:34] » Um that if legacy goes away, um other than a merger, there's nothing to

[2:13:42] to pick up where legacy leaves off. I just

[2:13:46] » Thanks. >> That's right. Uh uh councelor lights.

[2:13:49] » Yeah, I was just I don't know the differences uh real greatly on the two

[2:13:52] different programs, but I I I know that the the money the financial benefit

[2:13:56] isn't the same as it used to be under the new program. Um is there any um work

[2:14:03] with the government to try and get that inequity financially?

[2:14:07] Um >> you want to speak to that

[2:14:09] » so uh people are more uh apt to put land under the conservation easement? Yeah,

[2:14:15] that's a very good question. Um, so under the ALTGP program, especially with

[2:14:20] the EcoGift, um, you would get a tax receipt from CRA for the value of the CE

[2:14:26] and then the EcoGift, um, component of that, um, allowed you to extend the

[2:14:32] amount of time that you had to use that tax receipt and it gave you a break on

[2:14:36] capital gains. under PLCP because it's a term easement not a perpetual easement

[2:14:40] all of that disappears and instead what the um provincial grant provides as a

[2:14:45] onetime cash payment for the value of the CE and so you know you're left with

[2:14:51] full capital gains you know impact on that sort of stuff you can't use it for

[2:14:54] estate planning etc etc so it is it is a pretty significant um change

[2:15:00] going back to councelor look's question 17 of the 21 are in Mount Buchanan

[2:15:06] Okay. Uh, councelor Johnson. >> Um, because, uh, I guess I'm I'm

[2:15:13] concerned that what we've built in Mountain View County stays in Mountain

[2:15:16] View County. So, um, question to Jeff. When I look at the, um, the alternative

[2:15:24] um, uh, option for a motion. I'm prepared to make the motion. So, um,

[2:15:29] councelor Johnson, let's finish with the, uh, um, it's important that we

[2:15:32] finish with the delegation first and that we have, um, the opportunity for

[2:15:36] council to ask more questions and gather more information. So, is there any other

[2:15:39] questions for um, uh, councelor? Look, >> I just have one more. Does legacy

[2:15:44] actively um, pursue land owners or opportunities to offer this to? um how

[2:15:53] how does a average land owner for example out there know um that this even

[2:15:59] exists or is an opportunity for them? >> Yeah, that's a good question. Um you

[2:16:04] know and that's one thing we have uh struggled with. I guess all

[2:16:08] organizations do to try and uh increase our profile so people know we're here

[2:16:12] and and and know what they do if they if they do want to uh do something, you

[2:16:20] know, along the lines of what we provide for for their legacy. Uh but we're you

[2:16:25] know we have our radar up and um uh if we run into somebody uh

[2:16:33] uh and and and see that you know you know they have land and they're thinking

[2:16:37] about their how they're going to pass it on and so on. Uh you know we'll mention

[2:16:41] that to them. So we we you know we act as ambassadors ourselves and and and the

[2:16:47] folks who know know us do that and we have people who call in. Uh certainly

[2:16:52] that's what I did with Legacy was I just called into the Legacy office back back

[2:16:57] when I was interested in putting a CE on and and asked for it. Yeah. And I'll

[2:17:02] just add to that um we obviously have a website that includes information for

[2:17:06] landowners. Um Sally Banks um maintains a Friends of Legacy um email list and

[2:17:12] there's a newsletter that goes out and uh you know we've got calendars and

[2:17:16] other promotional material that that we do. we hold events and so we we do the

[2:17:20] best to sort of make people aware. Um word of mouth obviously and referrals,

[2:17:25] personal referrals are are sort of the the core thing that that allows people

[2:17:29] to understand who we are and what we do. >> Thank you. Uh councelor Lut just trying

[2:17:35] to figure out the financial position. So your endowment um um that's that's

[2:17:40] pretty substantial. That's a a really nice endowment. So, are you looking at

[2:17:45] the shortage like the the 32,000 of income that was from the endowment funds

[2:17:49] withdrawn in 2025? Was that just a accumulation of um investment revenue or

[2:17:55] is is that kind of an annual expected revenue from that? And uh what's the

[2:18:00] difference on um what what's the gap for you guys in operations?

[2:18:06] » Yeah, that's endowment. >> That's another good question. So the

[2:18:10] critical um challenge with our particular financial model is that um

[2:18:15] whether it's the ALTGP or the new PLCP um grants when they come to us um the

[2:18:21] endowment that comes as part of that is what we call restricted funding. And so

[2:18:26] when it goes into the endowment the investment income that comes off of that

[2:18:29] annually can only be used to monitor and steward the existing CES. it can't be

[2:18:34] used for operating costs, right? And so that's the challenge is that

[2:18:39] [clears throat] um under ALTGP there was a certain amount of money that was

[2:18:43] available to us for sort of you know doing the necessary operations and and

[2:18:49] bringing in um you know advertising and stuff bringing in new CES that

[2:18:54] disappeared under the new program. And so the gap that we're looking at is not

[2:18:59] for funding to do monitoring and stewardship and maintain the existing

[2:19:02] CES. it's to do the the necessary operating costs. So, you know,

[2:19:08] bookkeeping, advertising, um you know, reaching out to to land owners, holding

[2:19:13] events, that sort of stuff. Those are the costs that aren't covered under the

[2:19:16] restricted funding. >> Okay.

[2:19:20] » Thank you. And uh just you call it a capital campaign, but do you do you

[2:19:25] actually spend any capital or is it mainly just operating?

[2:19:29] » Yeah, maybe I confused things there. So, we have this uh you know, our campaign

[2:19:34] that we're we're we're on now until the end of this year is is to raise $100,000

[2:19:40] worth of operating funds that we think will will allow us to operate through

[2:19:45] 2027 and 2028. Um once that's done and hopefully we're

[2:19:50] successful on that, then then that consultant that we hired back uh in late

[2:19:56] 2025 that that did a study on the feasibility

[2:20:01] of a capital campaign, we'd like to try and implement that and go uh and look

[2:20:06] for uh potential endowment funds that would provide us

[2:20:12] with operating funds through the income in the longer term. So, we're looking

[2:20:18] for, you know, the $100,000 campaign we're on right now as a short-term fix

[2:20:23] for the next year and a half or two years. And and then during that time,

[2:20:30] uh, we would endeavor to build an endowment fund that would provide us

[2:20:34] with operating funds in the longer term >> that would be unrestricted.

[2:20:37] » Correct. >> Yes. Okay.

[2:20:39] » Yeah, that's the key. Yeah. >> Right. And maybe just um u elaborating

[2:20:43] from counselor um Lex's question. What is your annual operating costs?

[2:20:50] » Speak to that. >> Um yeah, that's a tricky.

[2:20:54] » Yeah, it's it's a bit under 100,000 per year.

[2:20:56] » Yeah. >> Bit under 100,000 per year.

[2:20:59] » Yeah. >> Okay. And that's including everything.

[2:21:01] That's including your monitoring and stewardship and and as well as the other

[2:21:06] advertising and administrative >> cost. the monitoring and stewardship is

[2:21:09] covered by the endow the restricted endowment returns and so this would just

[2:21:13] be the unrestricted so it's office rent it's it's you know it and and

[2:21:18] » and that's 100,000 roughly per year okay >> yeah maybe if if I can just add

[2:21:23] something to that so an important thing to be aware of is Kevin so Kevin's our

[2:21:27] executive director right now and and uh uh his remuneration is as an executive

[2:21:33] director an experienced executive director and so on he's on he's on

[2:21:36] contract until May of next year. Uh I mentioned in my remarks that we're that

[2:21:42] we're going to bring an intern in over the winter and try and get her or him up

[2:21:47] to speed such that they can take over. Not as an executive director, though. It

[2:21:52] would be a lower position. It would be it would cost less. So, so um we're

[2:21:58] looking at reducing our operating costs over the next year, one to two years, uh

[2:22:05] by virtue of that because it's a big part of our annual operating cost is the

[2:22:09] salary for whoever is leading the organization from an operational point

[2:22:13] of view. >> Right. And my last question is really

[2:22:16] kind of like a high level. So founded in 2013, uh it it's crazy to think how much

[2:22:23] the world has changed in the last 13 years. Um land values, I don't think

[2:22:29] anyone could have ever anticipated they were going to go as high as they are. Um

[2:22:33] sustainability moving forward, uh what are the biggest challenges for the

[2:22:39] sustainability moving forward? You've got provincial grant changes, you've got

[2:22:43] um land value changes, you've got a different demographic out there right

[2:22:47] now. I see a lot of large farms uh children don't want to take them over

[2:22:52] anymore. They're selling them off peace meal. What is the sustainability in your

[2:22:56] opinion of a land trust moving forward given all of the challenges that have

[2:23:01] happened over the last 13 years? >> Do you want to speak to that or I can

[2:23:06] follow? You you can follow up. Um the the important sort of foundation

[2:23:12] that we have with the perpetual CES that that we have lays the foundation to make

[2:23:18] us somewhat resistant to to sort of these changes because there's a there's

[2:23:22] legal documents in place that you know allow these CES to continue on. Um the

[2:23:28] you know what's going to happen with people being willing to put term

[2:23:31] easements on that have a sort of defined end date. um you know the land values as

[2:23:37] you mentioned are keep going up and so I'm not going to you know put a CE on

[2:23:41] because I can subdivide it and become a millionaire and and all that sort of

[2:23:44] stuff. It it's definitely a challenge but I think the the other side of the

[2:23:49] scale is that people are becoming more and more um aware that preserving the

[2:23:54] agricultural and and ecological character of the county is super

[2:23:58] important. And the simple fact of putting a CE on a quarter section or

[2:24:04] more to say, you know, this will be used for sustainable agriculture going

[2:24:09] forward allows them some comfort that despite the pressures of, you know,

[2:24:14] everyone wanting to move out here and buy their own acreage and whatever that

[2:24:17] at least, you know, their children, their grandchildren or, you know, others

[2:24:21] who can take on that land will, you know, that it it contributes to sort of

[2:24:26] the the overall vision of what, you know, our local landscape should look

[2:24:30] like. Our biggest sort of immediate to medium-term challenge is figuring out

[2:24:35] those unrestricted funds. You know, that's why Doug talked about if we can

[2:24:39] set up an unrestricted endowment that provides us that would solve sort of

[2:24:43] that that sort of, you know, immediate headache. And then longer term, I think

[2:24:48] we need to look more strategically and how we work with the county or, you

[2:24:53] know, other land trusts or whatever to sort of stitch these parcel to parcels

[2:24:57] together into something that that works for sort of all the all the uh

[2:25:02] stakeholders in in the county. >> And maybe one last question just

[2:25:06] following up on yours, how do the existing CES

[2:25:09] contribute to the financial viability of the land trust moving forward? Do you

[2:25:15] continue to get funds from from those? Is that part of the grant program?

[2:25:19] » Uh the endowment that we got on day one is all that we get for any existing CE.

[2:25:24] And so that's why appropriately managing that investment is critical. Um we have

[2:25:29] put an application into a um a financial organization that's based out of the

[2:25:35] University of Alberta to take a look at our the strength of our endowment fund

[2:25:39] and give us some advice on is there anything we need to do to strengthen

[2:25:42] that. >> Okay. So, it's just a one-time

[2:25:44] contribution to the the restricted endowment funding.

[2:25:47] » Correct. And that now we need to manage that appropriately because we can only

[2:25:50] live off the the income. >> Right. Okay.

[2:25:53] » But they're on our list to approach for our operating fund campaign this fall.

[2:25:57] So, um um I' I' I'd just like to loop back just for a second if I can take a

[2:26:02] bit more time on the sustainability question you had and and um I'm not sure

[2:26:07] it came out of our presentation that clearly, but uh um

[2:26:14] coming out of the change in programs, we uh this year we had a portfolio of of 15

[2:26:21] potential new CES. Um uh and and Kevin mentioned that when the program changed,

[2:26:28] they were all thinking perpetual CE and there wasn't enough time or at least not

[2:26:33] for them uh to change their thinking and come around to maybe considering a term

[2:26:39] CE. Well, you know, some have, and as Kevin said, we're going to make

[2:26:43] applications on September 15th, but some are staying with the perpetual idea, and

[2:26:48] perpetual CES are not uh illegal. Uh, you know, you can do them. You just

[2:26:53] can't, you know, use provincial funding for it. So I think um an important part

[2:27:00] of that sustainability question is that we're just you know we're just early in

[2:27:06] figuring out other ways to do CES going forward without without those government

[2:27:13] uh you know without that government support. So and and and that seems you

[2:27:16] know people seem to be be uh coming around to that idea and and there are

[2:27:22] some solutions. We won't go into them here today because they're not totally

[2:27:26] formulated yet, but but I think that uh you know there are going to be some ways

[2:27:30] to do that going forward and that will contribute to our sustainability.

[2:27:35] » Perfect. Thank you. All right. Is there any other questions from council?

[2:27:39] » I just have one. Sorry, I don't mean to drag this out, but um um you know, you

[2:27:44] don't know what you don't know. Um, have has the uh conservation community

[2:27:49] thought of um I'm just thinking of the health regions where you know there's

[2:27:53] task one health foundation and they do all kind of the nitty-gritty um

[2:27:58] logistics stuff on behalf of a lot of different um uh fundraising committees

[2:28:03] for health just to make it more efficient. Um, I think there's like 10 U

[2:28:08] land trusts in Alberta. Have you talked about forming an umbrella organization

[2:28:13] to kind I'm sure they're all in the same boat, right? Same situation.

[2:28:17] » Yeah, we have something called the Regional Land Trusts of Alberta. It's um

[2:28:21] it's an umbrella organization. So, that's um working quite well. So,

[2:28:25] there's six regional land trusts that are conservation focused. There are

[2:28:29] other land trusts in Alberta, but the the six that are focused um just in

[2:28:33] Alberta and and mostly on conservation are part of the RLTA. Uh we meet

[2:28:38] monthly. Um we have um engaged with uh the provincial government. We have a

[2:28:44] meeting next week with Minister Hunter to explain um

[2:28:49] encouraged them to to reconsider adding perpetual back into the toolbox. Term is

[2:28:54] great, but perpetual is is a is a valuable tool. And so we'll see where

[2:28:59] those those discussions go. Um the idea of sort of having the umbrella

[2:29:04] organization raise funds is an interesting one. I'll bring that up at

[2:29:08] the next RLTA meeting. >> Thank you. Well, thank you

[2:29:13] [clears throat] very much for your time. We really appreciate the presentation

[2:29:16] and all the excellent information you've given us. Um and I'm sure council will

[2:29:21] have further discussions. >> Thank you, K.

[2:29:23] » Thank you. >> All right. So, we do have a motion on

[2:29:27] page 44. Councelor Johnson. >> So, I would move uh that council direct

[2:29:32] administration to bring back the legacy land trust society donation request to a

[2:29:36] future council meeting for consideration. And can I ask a question

[2:29:41] as [clears throat] well? >> Sure. So, my question Jeff would be um

[2:29:45] in regard to the process. So, um, uh, as part of the motion, would the process be

[2:29:53] that, um, that administration would bring back a project sheet for the 2027

[2:29:59] budget? Uh, in this regard, um, or would the process be different than that?

[2:30:07] » It would be at council's direction. It could be a project sheet for 2027. As

[2:30:11] you're likely aware, there is nothing within the 2026 budget which would

[2:30:15] contemplate providing a source of funding. However, council always has the

[2:30:19] ability to pass a resolution to fund something from the tax rate

[2:30:23] stabilization reserve if it's more imminent in nature or ideally you would

[2:30:28] defer a funding request to a future budget deliberation. So, a project sheet

[2:30:33] would be um an appropriate way to advance that. So because we don't make

[2:30:39] any decisions based on delegations, we don't make any decisions on the day as

[2:30:43] part of our process. When we went to the when we went from the policy and

[2:30:46] priorities meeting, uh, which was a a a committee of council essentially that

[2:30:51] made recommendations back to council, we don't have that anymore. So as part of

[2:30:54] our policy, we don't make decisions on the day of the council meeting. So

[2:30:58] that's why the alternative option is there. Um, if council chooses to pass

[2:31:03] this motion, then we can have all of those discussions at a subsequent

[2:31:06] meeting. Thank you.

[2:31:08] » Okay, so we have a motion on the floor. Is there any further discussion on the

[2:31:12] motion? No. And I'll call question. All in

[2:31:16] favor? And that motion's carried. And maybe um because it's standard practice,

[2:31:21] uh we will I'll ask for a motion to receive that. Um the delegation is

[2:31:27] information uh moved by council f council councelor Bolton, sorry. Uh any

[2:31:33] further discussion? I'll call question. All in favor? And that motion's carried.

[2:31:39] Okay. Um, you know what? Let's just take a five minute break before we go into

[2:31:43] our last delegation.

[2:38:15] All right, I'm going to cut all the conversation

[2:38:19] short because I want to make sure we have time for lots of great questions.

[2:38:23] [clears throat] So, we will resume the regular council

[2:38:27] meeting of August 26th and we are on our delegation, the Olds College. Um, would

[2:38:33] you like to do introductions? I think everyone knows everyone. So, um, I think

[2:38:37] we're good to proceed. So, I will just hand it over to yourself, um, Mr. Camry.

[2:38:42] » Yeah. Well, and thank you. And I do believe everybody has been introduced in

[2:38:45] the past. So, um, thank you for this opportunity to, um, to present in front

[2:38:50] of council. I know, um, we have our our regular gatherings at different stages,

[2:38:55] but this is a gathering with a partnership request, and so I will turn

[2:39:00] that over to my cohorts here right away. But um I just wanted to give a few

[2:39:05] opening comments on the relationship that has been cultivated over many years

[2:39:10] with Mountain View County and the college. And um it goes back to in my

[2:39:15] time being on council was I started in 2004. We developed a lot of different

[2:39:20] partnerships and one of the highest profile ones is the CLC. So the

[2:39:24] community learning campus. It's put Olds College and the Olds area including

[2:39:28] Mountain View County on the map. It's created an environment that only other

[2:39:32] others only wish they could have. And then along with that, there's been the

[2:39:36] more direct donations that we've had from the partnerships to the um

[2:39:41] processes of developing the meat shop years ago. And then um more recently the

[2:39:46] Workland um building and now we're here to talk to you about another um

[2:39:52] opportunity to um to enhance the partnership between us through a

[2:39:56] request. So, I'm I'm going to turn it over to to Todd and Christopher, but I

[2:40:01] just wanted to say thank you on behalf of the board. Um the board really really

[2:40:06] relishes the relationship, relishes the fact that you're willing to advocate for

[2:40:10] us at the same time, and we've had conversations about um developing a

[2:40:14] joint advocacy approach for for the county and and the college. So, those

[2:40:19] those works are in the in the thought process right now. So, with that in

[2:40:24] mind, I'm going to turn it over to Todd and Christopher and um let them run

[2:40:28] through the the package that you already have. And thank you.

[2:40:33] » Thanks, Al. Um so, I don't have I'm not going to go through any slides or

[2:40:37] anything. I'm just going to speak to you. We've uh produced the book for uh

[2:40:40] future reference. Right off the bat, I'm going to tell you on page eight, there

[2:40:44] is a error. You will see on page eight, we have ATB in there. We're significant

[2:40:50] donors. We put together uh brochures like this and even with seven sets of

[2:40:54] eyes on this, we missed that. So, I'm just going to call that out right now.

[2:40:58] Um, but first off, thank you very much for allowing us to come and to Al's

[2:41:02] point, thank you very much for supporting the college. It has been a

[2:41:05] very strong partnership and it's been a very noticeable partnership and today

[2:41:09] we'll talk about uh the potential for one more. So, the book that you got in

[2:41:13] front of you talks about and showcases what will be our signature building. So,

[2:41:18] we have a new trades building coming up on campus and while that building will

[2:41:23] house the trades program. Uh, it will also be a significant place for events,

[2:41:29] it also has offices and classes as well. So, while the trades program will be in

[2:41:33] there, others will use it as well. And I do see especially in the summertime

[2:41:38] leveraging that for events and other activities. Now the trades program

[2:41:44] itself as you know is a significant program that we have on campus. It is

[2:41:50] about 1,500 individuals a year go through that including 500 uh uh bas

[2:41:57] dual credit students. So students that will get credits both in high school and

[2:42:01] at the college as well. So it's of the programs we have the college that one is

[2:42:05] the largest and most significant for dual credit. Now the program itself

[2:42:10] today houses a mechanics, heavy duty mechanics, welding, motorcycle repair,

[2:42:17] but we also do have two other programs that we'll be looking at. So right now

[2:42:21] we're very close to having an electrical program and there will be going forward

[2:42:25] a program for plumbing as well that will be coming into that or the plumbing's

[2:42:29] trade. And the nuance and the uniqueness is when we bring programs into old

[2:42:34] college they always have a bit of a bend for agriculture. So when you are doing a

[2:42:40] program around electrical are you doing a program potentially in the future

[2:42:44] around plumbing use cases will look at what we do in a rural community. So the

[2:42:50] program still focuses very much on the what you're going to find with in any

[2:42:53] trades program but again the uniqueness of Olds College is that we focus on an

[2:42:58] egg and rural and that is our unique special sauce. Now um also as you guys

[2:43:05] know Old's College is a bit of a unique postsecary. So most postsecondaries as

[2:43:10] you understand are kind of in a region and develop their jobs and they develop

[2:43:14] their programs around that region. Now within this area within say an hour and

[2:43:20] an hour and a half drive we have 10 postsecaries.

[2:43:24] So comprehensive postsecondaries old's uniqueness is that

[2:43:29] we focus very m much on agriculture and rural. Our uniqueness is the fact that

[2:43:35] we are in a rural area and that we have 3,000 acres of farmland, 135 head of

[2:43:42] cattle, thousand head of feed lot and that ability where there's not cement.

[2:43:46] So that allows us to basically execute and drive both on research and education

[2:43:52] agriculturalbased pieces. Now, this particular program that we're looking at

[2:43:58] in terms of the uh trades is probably the most significant program to support

[2:44:04] what happens here in the county. Now, if you look at the county itself, we have

[2:44:10] here from an a equipment perspective, Brandt, Rocky Mountain Equipment,

[2:44:15] Future, Future Egg, Alberta Egg, Noble Equipment, and a number of other

[2:44:20] independent shops. On top of that, there are about 15 to 20 different welding uh

[2:44:27] locations and shops here in the county and almost every member that has an

[2:44:32] acreage or a farm is going to be utilizing the people that come out of

[2:44:37] this program. So, of all the programs that we have at Olds College, this one

[2:44:41] probably has the most significant economic impact here [snorts]

[2:44:46] at the college. So our hope is that you uh look at supporting the college and

[2:44:53] look at supporting this program and what we have uh wrote in the letter and what

[2:44:58] we have proposed is similar to what you have done in the past with the workland

[2:45:03] and that is a 5-year $100,000 uh donation. And then on page nine of

[2:45:09] your book, you'll see that what we're also proposing because again, I think

[2:45:13] this program is much more relevant specifically to the county. Now, subject

[2:45:19] to board approval, we would be looking at placing the county logo and looking

[2:45:26] at how we would place your guys's name in that building itself. And there are

[2:45:31] some spaces that we look at. So, one would be a common area. So as you come

[2:45:35] into the building, there's a main area where the food is going to be and the

[2:45:37] students are going to be. That's a very prominent area. There is also a patio

[2:45:43] and there is also specialy labs. So for example, one of the labs that's really

[2:45:47] unique in the program is hydraulics. So it's a it is I don't say a very

[2:45:51] significant thing in the rural community that skill set around how to manage

[2:45:54] hydraulics and there is a specialy lab just for that. So that is another

[2:45:59] potential naming pieces. As I said, you will also have the recognition on the

[2:46:03] donor wall and then we would also allow you to access that space for your own

[2:46:09] personal use twice a year. So if you were going to look at hosting activities

[2:46:13] or looking at engaging uh within the piece, we would allow the col the county

[2:46:18] to basically leverage that space as well and then also give you free access to

[2:46:23] the career side which could help things like your uh on your mechanics side and

[2:46:27] your heavy duty equipment side uh as well as for free. So, in conclusion, I'm

[2:46:34] hoping you see that this is a key economic driver for the county, that a

[2:46:38] lot of the employers in our New York County come to the college and work at

[2:46:41] the college, and that this is an excellent opportunity for the county to

[2:46:46] support the college and to support the local community. So, I'll leave it

[2:46:50] there. >> Thank you. I will open the floor for

[2:46:56] counselors to ask questions. Councelor Johnson,

[2:47:00] » thank you. Thanks for your presentation. Um, I think I saw yesterday or the day

[2:47:05] before in popular media that the federal government has come forward with a grant

[2:47:11] for trades. Can you speak to that and and uh whether or not uh that would uh

[2:47:18] impact um your program and and this lovely new building?

[2:47:24] » We'd have to look specifically at the grants. There are grants and support for

[2:47:27] trades and um there is actually new um funding models coming out and that does

[2:47:35] support the trades but usually those tend to focus a little bit more on the

[2:47:40] student and the operating side not necessarily the capital. So what I

[2:47:43] probably missed in the presentation is the government gave us $63 million to

[2:47:48] build this uh building. Uh the overall cost of the building is about 70.5

[2:47:54] million is what it's going to cost us. So as a college we have to raise just

[2:47:58] about a little over $7 million to basically finalize it. So these funds

[2:48:03] would specifically go to the capital build of the building itself.

[2:48:09] » Uh Al, >> yeah, thank thank you. And I I just

[2:48:14] heard about it last night on the on on TV, so on the news. And um the part that

[2:48:19] I found really exciting about it Peggy is the fact that it it talked about

[2:48:24] technology and agra food technology. So we are on the cusp of of both of those

[2:48:29] being old college of agriculture and technology. So to say there is

[2:48:34] opportunities would be presumptuous but it is exciting to hear those words all

[2:48:38] in the same phrase that tie with us. So I'm just going to say our people will

[2:48:42] have will be looking into it. that I think it was a great opportunity that

[2:48:46] was just announced and I just caught it last night and then again this morning.

[2:48:50] » Thank you. Any other questions? Uh, councelor uh look.

[2:48:54] » Thank you. Um, I'm excited. I've always been excited for the 29 years I've lived

[2:48:58] here to be in the county that that u supports old schools college. So any

[2:49:04] support that now that I'm on council that we can give excites me again.

[2:49:09] However, um, in what I read in our agenda and in your book, you talk about

[2:49:14] student retention and and appealing to the local. Are there any statistics to

[2:49:20] actually say what that retention level is? Because there's so many foreign

[2:49:25] students, well, maybe less now with the government change, but the foreign

[2:49:29] students that come in and there's rural in every county around us. So, is there

[2:49:34] any are there any statistics to show that those students who come from

[2:49:39] Mountain View County stay in Mountain View County?

[2:49:42] » I can't speak about Mountain View County specifically, but I can talk about a few

[2:49:46] of the stats that we do look at in terms of uh employment and some other things.

[2:49:52] So, one of the challenges that we have in agg and in general is that about 1.5

[2:49:58] to 1.7% of the population is rural. So if you look at the students that we have

[2:50:04] um probably about 70 75% come from Alberta and then the rest come from the

[2:50:09] other provinces. And the reason that we have to recruit more outside of just

[2:50:14] here is there's just no one left. Do you know what I mean? There's less and less

[2:50:18] people that really have a rural egg background. And so it is also important

[2:50:23] because we're probably going to also have to think about recruiting from more

[2:50:26] urban environments to have the environment to basically showcase a real

[2:50:30] a world. I think that's the thing too we have to recognize that the uniqueness of

[2:50:35] those colleges. We actually have hands-on learning environments and these

[2:50:40] dealerships that I mentioned like there's significant partnerships there.

[2:50:43] So our students get access to real equipment and the newest things. So that

[2:50:50] X- series combine is $1.2 million. They get access to now. Um 96%

[2:50:57] of our students have a job in six months. Like our challenge is not

[2:51:04] getting jobs for these kids. Our challenge is finding the kids. So that's

[2:51:08] a nice thing about this investment is that we now have a learning environment

[2:51:13] that is first class and that allows us to attract the right people into the

[2:51:18] industry because more and more like I'm an Aggie myself. We are going to have to

[2:51:22] think about how we recruit people to industry because they're just isn't the

[2:51:26] talent pool to drive to get from.

[2:51:31] » Um I'll shrink that down a little bit to be more specific about this building

[2:51:35] though. Um, with the apprenticeship programs, they typically are um meant

[2:51:40] for students or the policies are meant for students that take apprenticeships

[2:51:44] in that province. They're not necessarily transferable. So that means

[2:51:48] our students will generally be staying in Alberta. But then when you narrow it

[2:51:53] down even further with an electrical or a plumbing program, since there are

[2:51:58] programs throughout Alberta, our students will generally be coming from

[2:52:03] localities that are much closer to Olds College. So there's a higher probability

[2:52:07] they will be staying in the county if they're taking their apprenticeship

[2:52:11] program at our at our school. >> Thank you. Is there any other question?

[2:52:18] » No. Uh, councelor Lutz, >> what's the next big capital project once

[2:52:22] this is done? What's what's on the horizon for for next?

[2:52:25] » I haven't sold anything to the board yet, Jennifer. So, we have to I have to

[2:52:28] be careful what I say, right? Um but I do think that one thing that we do have

[2:52:32] to look at is our livestock facilities because that's the other thing too that

[2:52:36] again our our uniqueness is um is the fact that we are we have the fields we

[2:52:41] have the ability to deal with the animals and so that's what makes us

[2:52:44] unique and new and there probably is some need to start looking at that.

[2:52:49] » Okay. So I' I've got a few. Um so how has the town of olds been engaged in

[2:52:55] this uh capital campaign? >> Yeah. So, we've had similar

[2:52:59] conversations with them as well. Um, as you probably know, they're not flush.

[2:53:05] So, we wouldn't expect uh this type of um same type of ability to do this. More

[2:53:12] often, what we're probably going to look at with the town of Olds is going to be

[2:53:16] uh inind kind of collaborations. Okay.

[2:53:21] » And just our other part with the town of old that is is so significant is is the

[2:53:27] residential part of of the process. You know, we have there is a large number of

[2:53:31] our students that um are provided with their housing through the community of

[2:53:35] olds too. So, it's a benefit both ways. But when it comes to this project, um

[2:53:40] I'll let Todd's comment stand that way. It's just that partnership is is there.

[2:53:44] It's just different than this partnership likely.

[2:53:47] » Okay. >> Yeah. Uh uh and um for my fellow council

[2:53:51] members who maybe weren't here when we did the workland um contributions, one

[2:53:56] of the main focuses of the workland contribution was the matching component.

[2:54:00] So I believe we had a large donor that said they would participate if we could

[2:54:04] if the college could find matching funds. So that was the big benefit and

[2:54:08] the big push for the contributions back in the day for the workland.

[2:54:13] Is there any kind of uh mechanism to do the same here where any county dollars

[2:54:19] would be matched or leveraged with either a donor or some other way?

[2:54:23] » To be honest, I didn't think of that and we haven't thought of that, but that

[2:54:27] there is possibilities of that. Um we do have right now

[2:54:32] two other very significant conversations that I think um they'd be open to that.

[2:54:39] [clears throat] I I just know from back in the day that was one of the main

[2:54:43] focuses for the county to do the contributions because of the matching

[2:54:47] dollars. So, we felt like we were getting a a a bump up of 100% for all of

[2:54:52] our contributions and that that was the big draw. So,

[2:54:55] » um I would encourage that if you could find that sort of mechanism that may

[2:54:59] influence any of the decisions. But, uh for my fellow counselors who weren't

[2:55:03] here in the in the time frame when that was done, maybe that was an important

[2:55:06] bit of information.

[2:55:10] Uh, councelor Lutz. >> So, because it's over five years, um,

[2:55:14] the request, how do you um how does the accounting work now that the money that

[2:55:20] uh we that it's it's not going to a big pot that the money we donate actually

[2:55:24] goes to the building? Because I'm um sure just because it's stretched out

[2:55:29] over years and you're you're asking for like what if you raise more than uh what

[2:55:33] you need? like what is there surplus that is designated to improvements on

[2:55:37] the building or does it just go in general?

[2:55:40] » Yeah, so there's a so the the building itself is about $7.3 million but there's

[2:55:43] all the stuff inside. So what is inside is also what we'll be raising money for

[2:55:48] and I'll maybe let Chris add a little bit to that as well. But um what we will

[2:55:54] have access will go into engines and we'll go into equipment that will

[2:55:58] basically support that. So right now we're moving everything we can for the

[2:56:03] old building over but there is also a whole list of uh other pieces that we're

[2:56:07] looking at now to some extent there too we're trying to uh look at in kind. So

[2:56:12] there are various companies that are going to potentially donate things on

[2:56:15] that front as well but at times we may just have to also purchase things. So

[2:56:19] that's probably Jennifer where most of this money would go to outside the

[2:56:23] building itself.

[2:56:27] Um, so like you've heard in the the previous delegation, the difference

[2:56:30] between restricted and unrestricted funds. Um, what we're looking at today

[2:56:34] or in this request is this 500,000 over the 5 years would go towards restricted

[2:56:39] funds for that capital campaign. If we are

[2:56:45] falling short or just meeting that 7.5 million that we need to raise for this

[2:56:51] capital campaign, we may even need to bridge with other funds um that the

[2:56:56] college has. But this will be restricted to that and it could be to the capital

[2:57:00] campaign to the capital building or to elements inside that building and

[2:57:04] ongoing repair and needs over the next five years.

[2:57:09] » Thank you. And can you give us a timeline of what um because the the

[2:57:12] trades building is already built and done. So can you give us an

[2:57:17] idea of what the timeline of this project looks like and kind of the large

[2:57:21] components of the the project? >> Well, the building itself to your point

[2:57:25] should be actually starting and operational this fall. All right. Um,

[2:57:30] but there will be continually upgrades and pieces for that. And for if we do

[2:57:35] not meet, to Chris's point, if we do not find the $7 million, will be simply

[2:57:40] financing that uh independently. If that that answers your question.

[2:57:45] » Okay. >> Yeah. And just the furthers um we we

[2:57:48] looked at substantial completion um in March of 2027. Rain, right now we have

[2:57:54] I'll use the tool room as an example. that's already open because we are we

[2:57:58] had students housed out at the overpass for the last year. So now they those

[2:58:03] students are moving back in. So we've we've got some of that program open but

[2:58:07] the main substantial completion will not really be I believe we're on schedule

[2:58:11] for uh March 2027 if that helps. >> And then when does the programming start

[2:58:16] like all these great things that you've just talked about like adding the

[2:58:19] plumbing u apprenticeship and all that when does all that start? Okay. So,

[2:58:26] currently we're on pace for a grand opening for a full student cohort to

[2:58:30] come back in September of 2027. So, with the new school year, um between March

[2:58:34] and September is when we take ownership of the building from PCL and we start

[2:58:40] filling it with classroom stuff, tables, chairs, everything else. Uh we expect to

[2:58:45] have our first cohort for the electrical program if it gets passed through um the

[2:58:50] Alberta um through AIT which is the apprenticeship um

[2:58:57] and training. Yeah. Um we expect that to start in September of 2027 when we

[2:59:03] reopen and then we'll be applying almost immediately for that plumbing which will

[2:59:08] probably take about a year for us to be able to implement that as well.

[2:59:13] Thank you.

[2:59:17] All right. Is there any other questions? No. Well, I can't thank you enough for

[2:59:22] coming um and giving us all this fantastic information and answering all

[2:59:27] of our questions. >> Our pleasure.

[2:59:30] » Thank you. Thank you for the opportunity to be here and to to share and look

[2:59:35] forward to the next time. So, we keep you up to speed.

[2:59:38] » Excellent. Have a great day, gentlemen.

[2:59:45] Okay. So, um we do have a council motion on

[2:59:53] page 65. Uh councelor Nixon, >> I would move that council receive the

[2:59:57] Olds College delegation as information. [clears throat]

[3:00:00] » Thank you. Is there any further discussion on that?

[3:00:03] » Nope. Then I will call the question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. And

[3:00:07] Jeeoff, can you walk us through um I think we've missed an alternative option

[3:00:10] here. >> Yeah, Ree. So, the the RFD um the

[3:00:14] alternative option should have been in the background. That's not the

[3:00:16] alternative option, obviously. So, the alternative option for council, similar

[3:00:20] to the previous agenda item, following council's um procedural bylaw, decisions

[3:00:26] on delegations aren't made the same day the delegation is heard. And so an

[3:00:30] alternative option for council would be to pass a motion requesting

[3:00:34] administration prepare an RFD with uh funding history and budget options uh to

[3:00:40] return to a future council meeting. And we would go through and we would

[3:00:44] summarize the history of our partnership with Olds College as well as lay out

[3:00:48] similar options what I had mentioned to councelor Johnson in response to her

[3:00:51] question for the legacy um how we would fund that through a budgetary

[3:00:56] perspective. >> Thank you. Laura, do you have an

[3:00:58] alternative motion or alternative motion for us yet? No.

[3:01:02] » Okay. >> Wing it.

[3:01:04] » Councelor Nixon's gonna wing it. >> Further move that uh administration

[3:01:08] prepare and bring back to a future council meeting um some history and

[3:01:13] options for uh addressing the Olds College request for funding for the

[3:01:18] trades program. >> Thank you. Does everyone understand that

[3:01:22] motion? Is it necessary to put it on the screen? Are we good? No. Okay. Uh,

[3:01:26] councelor Lutz, >> just a question on that. So, they

[3:01:29] offered up some space and they offered up some some things. I was wondering if

[3:01:32] if administration could also take a look if there's any um win-wins for

[3:01:37] administration on training or or what what would be most valuable um in return

[3:01:42] as in kind from the college to us. I'm sure you probably do that anyway, but um

[3:01:49] » I would see that as part of the motion um just with the request for options for

[3:01:53] the funding. Yeah, I just didn't want to just take what they had offered as as as

[3:01:58] it maybe there's um more training rooms, more whatever that would be more

[3:02:03] beneficial to Mountain View County. >> So, uh councelor Les, do you want to

[3:02:06] deal with this motion? Would you like to make a separate motion regarding that or

[3:02:09] do you feel like Jeff's got enough? >> Jeff took a note, so I'm sure he'

[3:02:13] probably do it anyway. >> Okay. Thank you. All right. Is there any

[3:02:16] further discussion? Look at Laura's put it on the screen. There we go. Uh I'll

[3:02:21] just follow the process then, Councelor Nixon. Does that reflect your motion?

[3:02:26] » Yes. >> Okay. So, the motion is that council

[3:02:28] direct administration to prepare and bring back history and options for

[3:02:32] funding the Olds College Trades Program to a future council meeting for

[3:02:36] consideration. All right. So, with that, I will call to

[3:02:39] question. All in favor? And that motion's carried. Thank you.

[3:02:46] » Okay. Um my suggestion is that we if you guys are okay we will finish all of the

[3:02:51] open session items and then we'll just come back after lunch for the close

[3:02:55] session. So um we'll start with uh council reports. I'll start with Dwayne

[3:02:59] please. Councelor Fulton. >> Thank you. Y since the last council

[3:03:03] meeting uh on the 13th the final Corona viability committee meeting. Uh you've

[3:03:09] seen all the the final report has all been shared with you. And then on the

[3:03:13] 14th, uh, Mountain View Seniors Housing had a special board meeting, uh, with

[3:03:18] the developer from Carsters to introduce the board to them and and then begin the

[3:03:24] process of exploring possible partner partnership opportunities for a carers

[3:03:30] project. And that is all. >> Perfect. Councelor Harris.

[3:03:36] » Yeah, I won't repeat it because Dwayne covered two of them. Um but on the 18th

[3:03:41] uh I had the pleasure of going in to the MVSH seniors housing uh summer barbecue

[3:03:48] for their residents and families in Ols. Um and it was a hoot. Is that an

[3:03:54] official word? Is that a hoot? And >> it is.

[3:03:56] » Good time. >> It it was a good time. uh the residents

[3:04:00] were were uh just enjoying the the perfect weather other than that we had

[3:04:05] to scramble to get up sun shades to protect them and uh that's it. Thank

[3:04:10] you, councelor L. Look, I um there was a library board meeting, did Spurbury, and

[3:04:19] there was um I wasn't in attendance, but I got a really wonderful detailed

[3:04:25] summary of the meeting from Britney, which was really nice of her to do that

[3:04:29] for me. There was some discussion about um the

[3:04:34] signing of the agreement and still some questions raised about policy 8006 and

[3:04:41] how it can apply to the library. Other than that, I've been fielding a lot of

[3:04:45] calls from residents on the fear of data centers now moving rural on some changes

[3:04:51] in direction from E3 lithium and um the airport. So, lots of resident calls

[3:04:58] coming in lately. Thank you, Councelor Nixon.

[3:05:02] » Uh, as far as council reports go, um, pretty quiet for me for meetings. Uh, I

[3:05:06] had a couple meetings that were cancelled, so that kind of freed up my

[3:05:09] schedule a little bit, but I've had numerous phone calls um and emails with

[3:05:13] residents over beavers and beaver dams, as everybody else knows, because they've

[3:05:17] got some of those uh wetlands and surface water as well as data centers.

[3:05:22] Um, and then we're also trying to uh mitigate some concerns or issues

[3:05:26] regarding uh road concerns, safety concerns. um more so around roads or

[3:05:30] edges of roads and then brushing and visibility.

[3:05:33] » Thank you, councelor Johnson. >> Thank you. Um I attended [clears throat]

[3:05:38] a virtual meeting with the Red Deer River Basin Water Information

[3:05:42] Roundtable. Um really interesting uh where they talk about current river

[3:05:48] conditions. Then a gentleman named Brandon Lee from AAP presented uh their

[3:05:54] application process and Wernern Herrera presented the AER application process

[3:06:00] for TDLS and I think it was um videoed and if it was and if it's going to be

[3:06:06] shared I would share it with council because there was a ton of good

[3:06:09] information uh in that in that onehour meeting. um attended the egg service

[3:06:16] board meeting here. Uh very uh good discussion uh from a resident point of

[3:06:22] view. Um again uh lots of um of drilling still going on in division six and of

[3:06:30] course uh division five. uh our neighbor um the most uh recent uh temporary

[3:06:36] diversion license um for white cap is 162,000 cubes uh put together with the

[3:06:45] 90,000 cubes from September last year um is a total of um

[3:06:53] uh 252,000 cubes uh which uh translates into um

[3:07:02] water that would uh supply 100 head of cows for 114.47

[3:07:10] years. Uh and that's been used in 16 months. Um so huge concerns about the

[3:07:17] water coming out of the Red Deer River between uh downstream from Sundry and

[3:07:22] upstream from Garington Bridge. Also, um, uh, concerns in the last couple days

[3:07:29] about a large Telus landline outage. Uh, a large part of our community is out.

[3:07:35] Um, Telus has indicated that may not be repaired for as much as a month,

[3:07:40] although hopefully it would be less than that. They haven't committed to less. Um

[3:07:45] big concern about our rural residents that especially elderly people that only

[3:07:52] have landline connection and aren't going to have any phone. Some of them

[3:07:57] don't have internet. Um so that are going to be uh without a phone for a

[3:08:03] large uh large chunk of time. Uh we continue to work on that.

[3:08:08] » Thank you, councelor Lutz. I'm not going to say I was fully uh 100%

[3:08:14] there, but um I did uh do the egg service board meeting for half of it and

[3:08:19] then my daughter had a baby, so it was a little bit hard to focus, but I thought

[3:08:22] the conversation on annual payments with Alice and maybe taking a look at that to

[3:08:27] encourage more Alice funding was a really interesting start to a

[3:08:31] conversation because uh the Alice funding is uh we're approving a lot of

[3:08:36] uh projects based on if funding materializes.

[3:08:39] So, you know, how to stretch those dollars out to encourage the

[3:08:43] conservation. I thought that was a really good conversation to start. Uh

[3:08:46] the next day we did the um uh provincial egg service board strategic planning

[3:08:51] session. That's hard to attend virtually um when you're doing group work and

[3:08:55] stuff like that, but um the survey, they got good participation on the survey.

[3:09:00] They're going to send that survey out, the results, and um we'll keep uh the

[3:09:04] ASB um boards uh up to date on what's happening there. Um I missed a meeting

[3:09:11] today. Um Olds Invest is um uh working with their supply chain management team.

[3:09:17] They had a meeting this morning at 9:00. They re received $27,000

[3:09:22] of federal funding to complete a market analysis

[3:09:26] um for um market analysis for foreign direct

[3:09:30] investment on the agricultural industry. And there's an RFP coming out on

[3:09:34] Tuesday. So they're still doing lots of work um to support business and

[3:09:39] agriculture. And that's probably it for me.

[3:09:45] » Thank you. Um, it was nice to see everyone's

[3:09:49] expense claims that we actually did take a little bit of time off and

[3:09:52] congratulations to council for taking some time off. I think it was a a good

[3:09:56] break I hope for every uh for everyone. So, welcome back because things are

[3:10:01] going to get hectic right up until the end of the year.

[3:10:04] though um the ASB uh I was able to attend for the

[3:10:09] whole morning session and then I had another meeting in the afternoon because

[3:10:12] the meeting was only supposed to go till 1:00 and I missed the discussion on the

[3:10:15] rural mental health. I was disappointed that our AASB decided not to put um a

[3:10:20] resolution forward to support um a review or a look at how mental health uh

[3:10:27] groups um operate within Alberta. and um that was

[3:10:32] a bit disappointing, but perhaps there wasn't enough information. So, I'm

[3:10:35] hoping the provincial board may consider looking at a resolution. I think it's

[3:10:40] extremely important uh to to bring to the minister's attention that this needs

[3:10:45] to be sorted and that there's there may not be a lack of funding, but there may

[3:10:50] be a lack of collaboration and communication between all those

[3:10:53] organizations that are doing such great work, but just need a little bit more

[3:10:57] support to be efficient. Um, [clears throat] and although the

[3:11:03] council has been fairly slow over the last month, the environmental appeals

[3:11:06] board has been extremely busy. Um, and I think one of the things the

[3:11:10] environmental appeals board is seeing is just uh increased appeals uh and the

[3:11:15] increased focus on water, which is of course um the the big thing across the

[3:11:20] province. And we are definitely seeing that uh with the amount of appeals that

[3:11:24] are coming in and with the the reduced success of mediations um in just that

[3:11:29] people are not willing to make concessions anymore and come to

[3:11:33] agreements. Um

[3:11:37] there was one oh the other thing that's uh that I've been busy working with is

[3:11:41] um trying to put together the presentation and the information for our

[3:11:44] October 7th meeting with all the elected officials regarding the north uh the

[3:11:48] South Redier Regional Wastewater Commission. Uh that's been really really

[3:11:52] great. Looking forward to that. Um we have just found out that the other two

[3:11:56] commissions have also are also going to receive a significant refund based on on

[3:12:00] the work that we've done. So, they'll receive that refund in 2026 and then a

[3:12:05] further um refund in 2027. So, it's um it's been a it's been a great month for

[3:12:12] SRD and for the commissions. Uh and I hope everyone can make the

[3:12:17] October 7th if you're interested in wastewater.

[3:12:21] That's it. Yeah, everybody everybody's interested in wastewater. Uh all right.

[3:12:28] Uh is there any questions on any of those verbal reports?

[3:12:32] No. Then I will ask for a motion to receive all those for information by

[3:12:36] councelor Fulton. I'll call to question all in favor. And that motion's carried.

[3:12:40] And then under correspondence, we have two um contact newsletters. Is there any

[3:12:46] questions or any concerns regarding the contact newsletters?

[3:12:52] Okay. Could I have a motion to receive those for information? Moved by

[3:12:55] councelor Johnson. I'll call to question. All in favor? And that

[3:12:59] motion's carried. and we will break for um should I just

[3:13:03] ask for a motion to go in close session now or we'll do that when we come back?

[3:13:07] Okay. So, we'll break for lunch and we'll come back at 12:45. Five.

Regular Council - 26 Aug 2026

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