[9:25] Oh, you changed the format.
[9:33] [snorts]
[9:38] » [laughter]
[9:42] » There she is.
[9:44] » It is me.
[10:06] Please turn your ringers off. [laughter]
[10:11] [snorts]
[10:12] » I did that the other day.
[10:13] » Has he finally learned?
[10:14] » Never turned my ringer on and I had to
[10:16] turn it on because I was expecting a
[10:17] phone call and I was away from my phone
[10:18] and I forgot to turn it off and I was in
[10:20] a meeting and I'm like, who is that? I'm
[10:22] like, [laughter] that's me.
[10:29] » [laughter]
[10:30] » Why is this happening?
[10:51] » I [clears throat] want to call the
[10:52] meeting to order. I want to acknowledge
[10:53] the Smoking Valley in which we learn,
[10:55] work, and organize is the ancestral
[10:57] traditional unseated territory of the
[10:58] Smoking people, home of the upper
[10:59] Smokeoky Indivan. Can I get a motion to
[11:02] adopt the agenda as presented?
[11:03] » So move.
[11:04] » Thank you. Councelor Willis, Councelor
[11:07] Mlan. All in favor? Carried. Go down to
[11:11] 3.1 adoption of the minutes from August
[11:14] 19th regular meeting of council.
[11:17] » Thank you, Councelor Elliot. Councelor
[11:19] Gould. Any errors or emissions? I will
[11:22] call the question. All in favor? That is
[11:24] carried. Thank you. Uh we have no
[11:27] petitions or delegations which will take
[11:28] us down to staff report 6.1
[11:32] which is the town of Princon tax sales.
[11:34] James.
[11:35] » Thank you Mr. Mayor. So, uh, for
[11:38] council's consideration,
[11:40] uh, a simple resolution, uh, every year
[11:43] we, uh, ask council to approve Lyall
[11:46] Thomas, the CEO,
[11:48] um, to authorized to bid at the tax
[11:50] sale, uh, when we have, uh, um, an live
[11:55] auction, uh, if, uh, he deems it in the
[11:57] best interest of the municipality. Uh,
[12:00] just a little bit of background, our
[12:01] municipal tax sale is set by the
[12:03] community charter. Uh it'll be held
[12:05] September 28th in this room at 10 a.m.
[12:08] Uh right now we have 12 uh properties
[12:11] and three mobile homes uh with
[12:13] delinquent taxes on them. Uh we're
[12:15] working with homeowners directly uh
[12:18] sending them letters and having them
[12:19] actively come in and uh pay off those
[12:22] delinquents. Um we're pretty much uh on
[12:26] pace with uh the average of how it's
[12:28] worked in previous years. So, uh, ask
[12:31] councel to approve this resolution and,
[12:33] uh, I'll be available for questions.
[12:37] » Thank you. Moved by councelor Mlan.
[12:39] » Second,
[12:40] » Gould. Any questions?
[12:42] » I do have a question. Um, I just wanted
[12:45] to make sure I looked on the town
[12:47] website and I don't see anything on
[12:49] there. There's there's some old
[12:50] information on there. Can we just make
[12:52] sure that we also
[12:53] » Yeah, it'll be it'll be uh it'll be
[12:55] published for the next list.
[12:56] » Okay. Thank you. And [snorts] I noticed
[12:57] they were already advertised in the
[12:59] local paper, too.
[13:01] » Any other questions? Call the question.
[13:03] All in favor? That is carried.
[13:07] Okay.
[13:09] So, the next one is number seven under
[13:12] council reports. But before we do our
[13:13] council reports today, I just want to
[13:16] make a little presentation to uh
[13:20] somebody who's in the crowd today.
[13:22] [laughter]
[13:24] So, I would like to make a presentation.
[13:26] Come on up, Jen. [laughter]
[13:30] [snorts]
[13:31] » Dude, [laughter]
[13:33] » Might want to just go around tripping on
[13:35] wires.
[13:40] » Who [clears throat] would ever trip on
[13:42] wires?
[13:43] [laughter]
[13:46] » Oh, yeah.
[13:51] came over.
[13:56] Um, this is a certificate of recognition
[13:59] for all your years of dedication and
[14:02] volunteerism and service to our
[14:04] community on behalf of council. Thank
[14:06] you for everything. [laughter]
[14:09] » Thank you so much. Thank you.
[14:13] » Thank you.
[14:17] » Smile. [laughter] Beautiful.
[14:20] » Thank you very much.
[14:22] » It's I'll keep going as long as this
[14:24] will let me.
[14:28] » Thank you very much.
[14:39] [clears throat]
[14:42] » Okay. The next thing is uh council
[14:43] reports and I will start with councelor
[14:45] Willis. I don't have much to report, Mr.
[14:48] Mayor. Um, other than the ICE is back in
[14:52] and, uh, POSI starts this weekend.
[14:54] » Excellent. Councelor Gold.
[14:56] » Um, just community forest meetings and I
[14:59] was just wondering if I could ask if
[15:00] there's been an update on that, if we
[15:02] have a follow-up meeting yet.
[15:05] » That's it. Nothing else.
[15:07] » Uh, Councelor
[15:09] Elliot,
[15:10] » Uh, museum society meeting is the only,
[15:14] uh, meeting I've been to in the last
[15:16] week. Not a lot to report. Uh summer
[15:20] students have uh their hours have come
[15:23] to an end and things are starting to
[15:25] wind down for the typical offse season.
[15:32] » And you did attend something else.
[15:34] » Oh yes, thank you. Yes, I did uh support
[15:37] the Christian Arts Council by attending
[15:41] one of the evening concerts of the
[15:44] Copper Valley Music
[15:47] Festival. That was great. Uh sat there
[15:49] in the rain with you and a couple other
[15:52] people and yeah, actually it was it was
[15:54] a great concert. I have to say I really
[15:56] enjoyed it.
[15:57] » Great venue, too.
[15:59] » Yeah, that is a really great venue.
[16:01] Council ML
[16:03] uh 37 prospective players in town.
[16:10] Hopefully we can try and do just that a
[16:14] little bit better than we did last year.
[16:17] But uh the other thing I can't get over
[16:19] is as a driver on the work going on in
[16:22] terms of the community services or the
[16:26] public court in the police station and
[16:31] it just seems like things are going like
[16:33] it's it's just nice to and then you know
[16:37] doesn't hurt business that bad to have a
[16:39] lot of workers having pain. So
[16:42] » Anyway
[16:44] just in my mind it's just a nice
[16:46] Randy and George.
[16:48] » Okay. Thank you.
[16:50] I hear your mic's not on. [laughter]
[16:53] » It's right on top.
[16:55] » Correct. It's not on.
[16:56] » Oh, there we go.
[16:58] » So, okay. Can you do that? [laughter]
[17:05] » Yeah. Um,
[17:07] okay. I'll uh go back to the last
[17:10] meeting here.
[17:12] Um, yeah. The weekend of the 21st uh to
[17:15] 23rd was crazy busy in town. Um attended
[17:20] the pickle ball tournament, the barrel
[17:23] racing, uh multiple different times. I
[17:26] was at the uh the music festival. Uh
[17:29] rolling barrage came through town. Got
[17:31] to wave at them as they went through. Um
[17:35] apparently there was a golf tournament
[17:36] at the same time. I don't know where
[17:38] everybody stayed, but there was like
[17:40] hundreds of people in town. There was I
[17:42] think almost 200 participants for the uh
[17:45] for [clears throat] the pickle ball
[17:46] tournament alone. Um and then there was
[17:50] I think or over around a hundred just
[17:52] over 100 participants at the barrel
[17:54] racing. So super busy weekend. Um
[17:57] amazing weekend had us hopping all over
[18:00] the place. Um that was also the same
[18:03] weekend we had that massive 12-hour long
[18:05] thunder storm and uh I see Ed in the
[18:09] back of the room. I just want to say
[18:10] thanks to Ed and the team from Princeton
[18:13] uh with Princeton Fire Department that
[18:15] went out with the Headley Fire
[18:16] Department with uh the BC Wildfire and
[18:19] walked their way into one of the fires
[18:21] and and uh helped contain that. So,
[18:24] thank you for that because there was I
[18:26] think six or seven fire starts that
[18:27] night and then more popped up the next
[18:29] day and and had everybody jumping. So,
[18:32] uh Tulleain Fire Department was out
[18:34] working, everybody was out working. It
[18:35] was a it was a great team effort by
[18:38] everybody. So, um, super busy weekend
[18:41] that weekend. Um,
[18:43] and then, uh, what else did we do here?
[18:46] Um,
[18:48] just trying to find the date. Um,
[18:52] yeah. Oh, also on uh the Friday the
[18:55] 21st, uh, we had a a Forest Corporation
[18:58] meeting and then earlier in the day, I
[18:59] also had a meeting with Tota BC about uh
[19:03] funding for SVPS.
[19:06] Um, I took some time off last week for
[19:09] first time. We went up to Manning Park
[19:12] um for a family family weekend. Uh, it
[19:16] was awesome. If you ever get a chance to
[19:18] stay up there, one of their cabins are
[19:20] they're pretty awesome. Um, then we
[19:24] while I was there, we also had a uh
[19:26] update on the fire from the regional
[19:28] district and camera. Um
[19:32] and then uh yeah, last weekend was
[19:35] somewhat quiet and uh yeah, we're here
[19:39] today. So earlier today I uh just before
[19:41] this meeting, I met with the uh team
[19:44] that's working on the flood plan or not
[19:47] flood plan but the flood advocacy for
[19:50] Merritt, Princeton,
[19:52] Hope, Chillowak, and Abbottzford through
[19:55] the corridor uh group that we're working
[19:57] on. Um we did finally get a response
[19:59] from the prime minister's office which
[20:01] is positive um stating which minister is
[20:05] um been tasked with uh kind of taking
[20:08] the lead on the infrastructure
[20:10] resiliency plan. So um we're working on
[20:13] a a followup and and how to to work with
[20:16] them on that. Uh we will be speaking at
[20:19] UBCM. uh Mayor Gats and I will be
[20:22] speaking at UBCM talking about the uh
[20:26] the the advocacy work and the need to um
[20:32] I guess just the work we're doing on
[20:35] trying to get Ottawa's attention on it
[20:38] being not just a you know not just
[20:40] needing dikes but protection of the
[20:42] economic corridors that are Highway
[20:44] Three and and the Cocaala and and uh the
[20:47] how they converge and hope and and move
[20:49] through the coast. And without without
[20:52] [clears throat] our communities, there
[20:53] is no there is no economics in British
[20:56] Columbia. So um that's starting to gain
[20:58] traction. Uh last week uh while I was
[21:02] away, Lyle went to my place and they
[21:04] went to um and talked to the Suriri
[21:07] Board of Trade. um as a group we were
[21:09] invited down there with uh along with
[21:11] Minister Kelly Green of Emergency
[21:14] Management BC and and uh kind of gave
[21:16] our pitch to the uh the Siri board of
[21:19] trade which you know is one of the
[21:20] biggest in the in the province. So, we
[21:23] are getting traction and people are
[21:24] starting to pay attention and I think
[21:26] that is going to hopefully move the
[21:29] needle a little bit on on the need for
[21:31] uh flood mitigation funding because as
[21:34] we know it's been
[21:37] not well supported by Ottawa at this
[21:38] point. So, still working on that. So,
[21:41] that's my report.
[21:43] » Yeah.
[21:43] » Do you know if we have a meeting with
[21:46] Minister of Ed in in UBCM?
[21:49] » No. No. We so we met with I um Jared and
[21:52] I met and Sean and uh Smoking Valley. We
[21:56] met with um water land natural resource
[22:00] minister. We had about an hour and a
[22:02] half long lunch with her. Um pled our
[22:05] case about permitting and and work on
[22:07] the river. And then was it two weeks
[22:10] before that we met with uh our emergency
[22:14] management team and Jared and I met with
[22:17] uh Minister Kelly Green here in town. We
[22:19] took her down to the river. We showed
[22:21] her some stuff. And that the province is
[22:23] 100% behind the need to do the work that
[22:27] we're doing. It's they need that federal
[22:30] funding to to push it forward. And um so
[22:33] that's where we're kind of focusing our
[22:35] our attention right now is on Ottawa to
[22:37] get Ottawa to finally chip in and
[22:39] support the province because the
[22:41] province is behind all of us. um they
[22:43] just don't have the funds to
[22:44] » What I'm getting at is the
[22:47] information we keep receiving terms of
[22:50] our school
[22:51] » Oh that one yeah
[22:52] » Problems and that sort of thing and just
[22:54] it would have been nice to be able to
[22:57] reiterate what we're always saying that
[22:59] we want to be realigned in terms of our
[23:02] our school district
[23:05] » And we can we can write a letter to the
[23:07] minister separate from that with those
[23:09] letters that are going to coming to us
[23:12] if we want and uh send those out. So,
[23:14] » Perfect.
[23:16] » If there's nothing else, I'll move on to
[23:19] section 8 correspondence receive and
[23:21] file. We have three letters there. 8.1,
[23:23] 8.2, and 8.3. Um 8.2 is a lot. There's a
[23:27] bunch of letters that uh Sila has sent
[23:30] out on behalf of the organization. The
[23:32] changes this year with SIGA was due to
[23:36] the changes within the way UBCM is doing
[23:39] resolutions
[23:41] that put more onus on uh SILA to do more
[23:45] advocacy work and uh those letters are
[23:48] are part of that. So
[23:50] » And those meetings as well.
[23:51] » Those are some of those meetings. Yeah.
[23:55] » Okay. So that can I get a motion to
[23:58] receive and file 8.1.
[24:00] » So move.
[24:00] » Thank you.
[24:03] Willis, any questions? All in favor?
[24:06] Carried.
[24:08] The next one is a correspondence action
[24:11] requested and it's a letter from
[24:13] Princeton family services um
[24:17] for a services society emergency weather
[24:20] response shelter for 2026 2027.
[24:24] So this is something that has been in
[24:26] the works for
[24:28] how many years Ed?
[24:30] three, four at least. Um, I'd say
[24:34] probably since right after the flood.
[24:37] Um, we've had numerous meetings over the
[24:40] years with uh, um, BC Housing and and
[24:44] the provincial agencies that are
[24:46] responsible. Princeton family services
[24:49] and Princeton uh, community services are
[24:51] working together and uh, they've they've
[24:55] kind of found a location. So,
[24:59] » Possible location. Um, it's still up to
[25:02] BC Housing whether or not they will work
[25:04] with them on it. So, so there's there's
[25:06] a letter that's attached and uh
[25:10] yeah, so if you Ed's here to support as
[25:15] much as he can on this. Um, if you have
[25:17] any questions about it, uh,
[25:21] I talked to Chelsea yesterday and, uh,
[25:25] um, family or community too many
[25:28] services. Community services has an
[25:30] empty, uh, temporary unit up at the
[25:33] industrial park that, uh, they are
[25:36] looking at possibly using as a temporary
[25:39] shelter. So it would be out of the
[25:41] downtown core in that neighborhood and
[25:44] moved up to another location so that it
[25:46] doesn't interfere with existing
[25:48] programming.
[25:50] » I was just going to ask though because
[25:52] in the letter they were asking for
[25:53] suggestions on a location.
[25:56] » Yeah. So
[25:57] » And in the last couple years we've
[25:59] suggested numerous different locations.
[26:01] Um and every time BC Housing when we met
[26:03] with them and I'm going to throw BC
[26:05] Housing under the bus a little bit.
[26:06] Every time we've met with them they said
[26:08] don't [clears throat] worry about it.
[26:09] we'll we'll reno it, we'll do this,
[26:10] we'll do that. And then every single
[26:12] time we think it's a done deal, they've
[26:14] come back and said no. And uh this time
[26:17] around, hope we're we're more hopeful
[26:19] that this will work. It would um um if
[26:22] this location is accepted by BC Housing,
[26:25] it would, like I said, it would move it
[26:26] out of the family services um building
[26:29] and away from their programming that
[26:30] they're currently utilizing. And
[26:33] hopefully that would mean they could uh
[26:34] give up some space that's extremely
[26:37] expensive up at Riverside and move it
[26:39] back into their location.
[26:41] » Okay.
[26:42] » They want a building, right? Not just a
[26:44] lot.
[26:45] » Yeah, just a Yeah, they would. BC
[26:47] Housing would Well, they're already
[26:48] leasing the building, so it should be a
[26:50] pretty straightforward thing if BC
[26:53] Housing wants to go for it. So, they're
[26:55] just looking for support from council
[26:57] right now to
[26:59] » To move forward and um show BC housing
[27:03] that uh we're we're all on the same page
[27:06] here.
[27:06] » I read the letter as being they will
[27:08] take up the program on still continue
[27:10] with it, but that they just were looking
[27:12] for suggestions and
[27:14] » On location. Yeah.
[27:16] » Mainly and I didn't know of any
[27:17] locations we had that would be
[27:18] available.
[27:19] » Yeah. So, I mean, we can just um the
[27:22] motion could simply be for staff to
[27:23] continue to work with BC or with
[27:26] Princeton Family Services uh on this.
[27:29] » Yeah, I would make that motion.
[27:32] » And then, um I'd probably also include
[27:35] that we would write a if any letter
[27:37] needs to be written in support, then
[27:39] » Of course, mayor CEO is authorized to do
[27:41] so.
[27:42] » For sure.
[27:44] » You got that, Mark?
[27:47] George Elliot is moving it, seconded by
[27:50] councelor Gold. Questions?
[27:53] Okay, no questions. I'll call the
[27:55] question all in favor. That is carried.
[27:57] Thank you.
[28:00] Um,
[28:01] so there's no new business. That would
[28:04] take us down to 12.1. Motion to close
[28:07] the meeting uh be closed for the public
[28:09] or for the purpose of considering the
[28:11] following. 90.1E the acquisition
[28:13] disposition or expropriaration of land
[28:16] or improvements if the council considers
[28:17] that disclosure could reasonably be
[28:19] accepted to harm the interest of the
[28:20] municipality.
[28:23] » Thank you by Mlan Willis. All in favor
[28:28] carried. Thank you. With that we will go
[28:30] into closed. James
[43:19] smoking.
[43:21] Uh,