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Good evening and welcome to our regular council meeting for Monday, April the 25th. And I'd like to call this meeting to order, but before I begin, I will be doing a land acknowledgment. As we gather here today, we acknowledge we are on Treaty 6 territory and the homeland of the Métis. We pay our respects to the First Nation and Métis ancestors of this place and reaffirm our relationship to one another. This time I'll ask for a motion to adopt the agenda. Councilor Houston,

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I'd like to move the adoption of the agenda.

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for Monday, April 25th. Thank you very much Councillor Euston. Are there any additions

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or deletions from Councillor? Councillor Stevenson.

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Thank you, Mayor. I'd like to give a report on the tri-leisure centre, please.

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All right, so we will add that under Councillor Reports, there's 12 A, TLC, Councillor Gillette.

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Thank you, Mary. I'd like to give an update on the conference I attended.

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Okay, so we will add under Council Reports B. In the conference report,

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are there any other

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additions or deletions to the agenda?

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Seeing nothing else from Council, I'll turn this

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to administration to see if there are any additions or deletions. Good evening, Mr. Mayor.

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Members of Council, nothing from your administration site. Thank you very much, so if there are no

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objections? I will call the question on the motion.

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Thank you very much.

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That motion has been carried. So we will move on now to our consent agenda.

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And if I could please have someone make a motion. Well, I guess before I do that,

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I'll ask if there are any items anyone would like to remove from the consent agenda.

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I am seeing none. So could I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda?

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Councillor Gillette. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that the recommendations

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contained in the following reports be approved, item 4.1 minutes, April 11th, 2022,

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regular council meeting and April 19th, 2022, Committee of the Whole Meeting, item 10.6C,

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dash 11.96, dash 22, dash 22, property tax and supplementary property tax rate bylaw,

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First reading, item 10.7c, 1198-22, traffic bylaw amendment.

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First reading, item 11.120-1-2022, external boards and committees appointments revised April

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Thank you, Councillor Gillette.

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I will call the question on the motion.

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And thank you, that motion has been carried unanimously.

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So we will be moving in, well, our next is minutes and those were approved under our consent

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agenda. And we do have two public hearings this evening. So before I start on the public

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hearings, I would like to ask a member council to please read the public hearing opening

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statement.

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Councillor Stevenson.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Public hearings are

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convened in accordance with the Municipal Government Act of Alberta and have two purposes.

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The first is to provide stakeholders and community members with an opportunity to make submissions

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to council about the proposed by-law. The second is to allow council to gather pertinent information

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on the proposed by-law prior to making a decision.

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This is the public's last opportunity to comment on a proposed by-law as council is unable

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to receive further submissions after public hearing is closed.

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Thank you very much Councillor Stevenson, so I will open the public hearing on C-1194-22,

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land use by-law amendment McLaughlin stage 4A redistricting.

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And I'll just ask the city clerk to review the hearing procedures.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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The process for the hearing will be as follows.

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Administration will make a presentation first.

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Council will then hear from those who wish to address council, both through a virtual

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and in-person format.

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Those interested in making an email submission during the hearing may do so by sending an

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email to city clerk at sprucegrove.org.

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Email submissions will be accepted until the close of the hearing.

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The city clerk will then read into the record any written submissions received by email

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If deemed necessary, the hearing will temporarily adjourn to allow Council to review the material.

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And finally, Council will be given the opportunity to ask clarifying questions of administration.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much, and I see we have Mr. Nalabde here.

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And if you could please go forward with your presentation.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor and members of Council.

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I'm just starting my presentation here.

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This is the public hearing for by-law C-1194-22,

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McLaughlin Stage 4A, which is a B-districting amendment to the land use by-law.

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McLaughlin Stage 4A is located in the west area of the city, located along Medallink,

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common north of Nelson Drive, in the McLaughlin neighborhood as shown on the map.

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The intended land use for McLaughlin Stage 4A is single detached residential.

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The

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Heritage Estates Area Structure Plan is the bylaw that provides the planning framework

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for the McLaughlin neighborhood.

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The slide shows the location of the amendment in the context of the overall area structure

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plan.

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The area structure plan identifies the amendment area for mixed load-medium density residential.

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The redistricting application for single detached housing is consistent with the approved area

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structure plan.

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The proposed amendment is to redistrict an area of 1.1 hectare of northwest quarter

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section 4, Township 53, Range 27, West of 4, Meridian, from its current district, which

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is UR Urban Reserve District, to R1 mixed load medium density residential district.

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This redistricting will support the development of approximately 20 single detached lots.

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The public hearing was advertised in April 8th and 15th, 2022, editions of the Sprues

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Grove Examiner, satisfying the requirements of the Municipal Government Act.

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Additionally, a notice was mailed directly to properties within 30 meters of the subject

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lands and was also published on the city's website.

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The proposed by-law amendment was circulated to other city departments, including engineering

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and public works, and has received the support for the amendment.

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administration supports this by-law. Now, this portion concludes the formal component of my

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presentation. I just want to take a minute and address the letter received by administration

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and council from an adjacent property owner who shared her concern regarding an old tree that falls

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within the development area. When the city embarks on the planning of a new area structure plan,

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the city focuses on the preservation of large environmental areas which also have the potential to

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become a community wide amenity rather than focusing on small isolated tree stands.

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Examples of this approach includes areas of heritage Grove Park, Jubilee Park, and new

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areas within the Fenwick neighborhood in the form of municipal and environmental reserves.

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In the McLaughlin neighborhood, this city will be acquiring additional lands for the dog

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creek corridor, and this will include portions of existing mature trees as well.

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While the city is actively taking steps for the preservation of natural and

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freed areas, unfortunately not all trees can be saved during the urbanization of an area,

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and our bylaws currently do not govern the protection of trees and private property.

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Beyond these points, I would like to defer to the developer regarding their plans for this site

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and what they intend to do. That concludes my presentation. Thank you.

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Thank you very much for your presentation. At this time, I'll ask our city clerk if there have

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There have been any members of the public who have registered to ask a question virtually.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I can advise no members of the public have registered to address Council virtually.

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I will advise, however, we do have PJ Pescod with Melkor present to answer any questions

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if needed.

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Thank you very much.

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So I will ask if there are any members of the gallery that would like to speak to Council

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for this public hearing.

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I'll ask council at this time if there are any questions for clarification.

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I hope council are being Donald.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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Thank you, Mr. Melavde, for reading the letter from the resident.

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She sent that in at my suggestion.

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She contacted me initially and expressed her concerns about the loss of a tree that was

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adjacent to her property.

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My heart goes out to her.

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I think I've driven by the site a couple of times and I've noticed that tree.

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it's pretty spectacular. And it occurred to me, you know, in the midst of us talking about

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public art here in Spruce Grove, that that tree is a piece of public art. It's not manmade,

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but it's pretty spectacular. It's a hundred-year-old tree. It's pretty majestic, and it's a shame that we

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are potentially on the verge of losing that tree. With respect to your comments, I really appreciate

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what you shared there. Your colleague, Mr. Tal, I saw his response to the resident, and I want to

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acknowledge a really good empathetic response on his part that appreciated, I guess, the beauty

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of this tree. And I get that we can't just preserve individual trees, but it's a shame.

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For our guest from Melkor, I'd notice that that piece of land is up for sale on MLS. Is

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Melkor intending to develop the land? Or what, can you speak to that, please?

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Please.

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Can you hear me?

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Thanks for the question.

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Sorry.

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With regards to the land.

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Are you talking about the land that's the, oh, Melcord doesn't own that land currently.

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Okay.

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So we wouldn't.

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We're not sure what the development plans are for that.

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I did see that it's less than an MLS, but it's not a Melcord holdings.

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Oh, see.

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I misunderstood.

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Okay.

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And with regards to the, to the tree, we totally agree.

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We try our hardest to preserve environmentally sensitive areas.

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is we like our communities to really have an environmental feel as well.

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When you drive through McLaughlin, you'll see that we protected the environmental reserve

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along Dog Creek, and it is a really nice tree.

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We actually sent someone out today to take a look at it.

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They did note that it is at the towards the end of its life cycle, and then we spoke to

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the adjacent landowner that tree really affects, and they've been noticing it's a bit of a hazard

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as a lot of the branches have been falling off, and so they were actually in favor of removal

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of the tree.

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I'm not saying the tree is being 100% removed.

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It does sometimes impede drainage standards with the city of Spruce Grove.

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We've encountered this with a few other communities.

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So totally empathetic to people getting used to a certain amenity or a certain tree and

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wanting to keep it, but sometimes it can affect city drainage standards.

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Thank you, and thank you for clarifying as well.

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No further questions, but again, thank you to your colleague and First City's attempts to respond to the residents concerns. I do appreciate it.

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Thank you, Councilor McDonald. I'll ask for the second time if there are any members in the public gallery that would like to ask a question.

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I'll go back to Council, and as my colleagues, if there are any further questions for clarification during this public hearing.

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And for the third time, I'll ask if there are any members in the public gallery that would like to speak at this public hearing.

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Seeing nobody, I'll go back to the city clerk and just ask if we've received any correspondence by email on this public hearing.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I can advise we have not received any questions by email on this public hearing.

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All right. Thank you so much. So I will close the public hearing. I'm bylaw C-113-21, land use bylaw amendment McClockland stage 4A redistricting.

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And now we will open up the public hearing for bylaw C-1195-22.

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2, 9-use by-lawed text amendment, alcohol sales, major, plan 142, 2641, block 1, lot 1.

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And I'll ask the city clerk to once again review our hearing procedures.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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The process for the hearing will be as follows, administration will make a presentation first.

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Council will then hear from those who wish to address council both through a virtual and in-person

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format. Those interested in making an email submission during the

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The hearing may do so by sending an email to city clerk at sprucegrove.org. Email submissions will be accepted until the close of the hearing. The city clerk will then read into the record any written submissions received by email, and if deemed necessary, the hearing will temporarily adjourn to allow council to review the information. Finally, council will be given the opportunity to ask clarifying questions of administration. Thank you. Thank you very much. Mr. Nullab, if you could please provide us your presentation.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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This is the public hearing for by-law C-1195-22, which is a site-specific text amendment

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to the land-use by-law.

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The subject site, one Dalton link, also known as deer park commercial, is located east

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of Jennifer Hylway and south of Dalton link in the deer park neighborhood, as shown on

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the map.

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The intended land use for one Dalton link is commercial.

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The north central area structure plan is the bylaw that provides the planning framework

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for the deer park neighborhood.

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This slide shows the location of the amendment area in the context of the overall area structure

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plan.

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The area structure plan identifies the amendment area for commercial land use and consistent

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with this intention, the subject site is currently restricted as C3 neighborhood retail and

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services district.

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The purpose of the C3 neighborhood retail and service district is to provide for commercial

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and personal service uses to serve the day-to-day needs of residents within a residential

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neighborhood.

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The C3 district currently permits alcohol sales minor with a maximum floor area of 275

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meter square.

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The commercial developer of the site has a potential tenant for the site that requires

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a floor area of 420 meters square to put a larger format store.

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This amendment proposes the addition of alcohol sales major on Plan 142641 block 1.1.1,

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under Section 125 C3 neighborhood retail and services district,

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subsection 1 discretionary uses as a site-specific discretionary use,

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and under subsection three additional regulations in new regulation limiting the use,

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this uses maximum flow rate at 425 meter square.

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Sorry.

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Administration supports this proposal as the site is located at the periphery of a residential neighborhood

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and that its corner location has ample access from both an arterial road being Jen Hylway

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and collector road Dalton Link to allow customer visits without increasing traffic

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throughout the neighborhood's interior.

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This proposal is strictly a size increase request

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by adding size to the use.

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The application is not looking for any exemptions

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and all separation distances from parks

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and school sites will be exceeded.

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Lastly, as part of the circulation,

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by law enforcement also had no issue with this proposal.

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The public hearing for this by law was advertised

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in the April 8th and 15th 2022 edition

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the screws group examiner, satisfying the requirements of the Municipal Government Act.

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Additionally, a notice was mailed directly to properties within 30 metres of the subject lands

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and was also published on the city's website. Administration supports this by-law,

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and that concludes my presentation. Thank you.

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Thank you very much. I appreciate the presentation, and at this time, I'll ask the city clerk if any

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members of the public registered to address Council virtually.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I can advise no members of the public have registered to address Council virtually.

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Okay, thank you so much.

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I'll ask if there are any members of the public that would like to address Council during this public hearing.

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Please step right up.

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Maybe you can just step up and just provide us your name.

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That's David Longprey.

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So your worship, Mayor Acker?

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Excuse me, Mr. Mayor?

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Can I just provide the opening protocol?

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That's right.

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We'll have the City Court just read through the protocol once again.

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Perfect. Thank you. The protocols for speaking during the public hearing will be as follows.

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Presenters may only speak once and will have a maximum of five minutes to speak.

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The clerk will notify presenters when there are 30 seconds remaining.

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If you're part of a delegation, please select one speaker to present on behalf of the entire group.

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A delegation spokesperson may only speak once and will have a maximum of five minutes to speak.

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All questions and submissions must be directed to the chair and should be directly related to the

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the public hearing. Protocol decisions of the chair are final and will not be debated.

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Thank you to the city clerk for reminding me to do that crucial part of the process and

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please Mr. Long for David. Long pray. Long pray. Thank you so much.

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Thank you. So your worship Mayor Acker, members of council, staff, and members of the public.

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Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to speak on behalf of myself and my partner

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to all of you today. My name is David Longprey, as I said, and my partner in this project is

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my brother Warren Longprey, and we both live in the Vancouver area. Warner and I have been developing

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land together for several years now, and between the two of us have initiated, owned and managed

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the construction of over a million square feet in commercial and industrial space, mainly in

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B.C. and Alberta, but I believe about 40% of that work is being in Alberta.

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Our nation, the past 10 years, has been working with just a few high-profile, expanding

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retail tenants, finding excellent corner locations for them, and developing projects of a convenience

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commercial nature.

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Our most recent project, prior to this subject-spruce-grove property, has been in Stony Plain at the corner

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of veterans Boulevard and Highway 16-A, which is about 75 percent completed in the past year.

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It has been a solid two years and eight months since we first identified this subject location

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in Spruce Grove. That's been a long pre-developed period that sees us here before you today,

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but we've trusted demonstrates our dedication to our goals and our valued retailers.

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We've been able to attract three very high-profile retail uses,

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to this location so far with more to come who have also believed in the location and asked strong enough to remain by our side as we've worked through the real estate issues on this property.

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As the land development do all my brother and I believe we've acquired the ability to find properties that are meant to be new opportunities and new points of public usefulness and convenience with ourselves comes a depth of experience working not just with retailers.

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but also with several municipal jurisdictions and neighborhoods.

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We believe that we have the skills and sensibilities

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and able us to balance the demands that come from every sector

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involving a project to bring it to a successful conclusion.

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In that light, we do our best to anticipate

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where the points of interest may arise

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and we do our best to facilitate and mitigate

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with whatever we have within our control

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to make things come together smoother.

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This location in Spruce Grove has been no exception to those many interests, and I believe

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we've been able to achieve something here that works.

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Something that will work for the long term, not just between the owner and the city, but

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also something that will ensure the success of our valued retailers, which in turn leads to

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a series of public benefits, including the long term generation of tax revenues, a new

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the new local full and part time employment opportunities and new spruce grove

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residents convenience and enjoyment. So we're here today to answer any questions

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or comments from council or the public about who we are, what we hope to

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achieve and how it has come together. And thank you very much for the opportunity.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Bon Query, for being here and presenting during this

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public hearing. I will open this up for members of council. If there are any

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Any questions for clarification, or perhaps to Mr. Longcray during this public hearing?

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I'd see you in any questions right now from Council, so thank you very much.

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I will once again ask if there are any members of the public that would like to speak to this

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public hearing.

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base again with my Council colleagues, are there any further questions come to mind

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for clarification?

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I am seeing none, so for the third time I'll ask if there are any members of the public

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gallery that would like to speak at this public hearing.

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I'll ask the city clerk at this time if we've received any correspondence via email.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I can advise we have not received any questions via email.

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All right, so I will close the public hearing.

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I'll buy the last seed as 1-195-22, line use bylaw text amendment, alcohol sales, major, line 1-4-264-1, block 1, log 1.

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And we are now at item 6 which is our public question and answer period.

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and I will first ask our city clerk if anyone has registered to ask a question virtually.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I can advise that no one has registered to speak virtually.

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Okay. I'll ask if there's anyone in the gallery that would like to address council during this public question period.

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I'll ask our city clerk if we've received any correspondence via email.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I can advise. We have received no questions via email.

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All right. So for the final time, I'll just ask if there's anyone in the gallery that would like to

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address or ask question of council, this would be the time for that.

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And I am seeing none, so we will move ahead into council presentations.

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We have no official council presentations in the agenda this evening.

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So we'll move to our delegations and we do have a delegation this evening.

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We are going to have Mr. Lempfier's please introduce our guests for this evening.

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On this side.

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Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

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here. This agenda item will be seeking council approval of the 2021 audited consolidated

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financial statements is prepared by administration and as audited by KPMG LLP. KPMG has completed

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their audit of the city of through scroll financial statements for the year ended December

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31, 2021. They are here to present their findings and to answer any questions that council has.

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And with us today, we have two of the senior representatives from KPMG here, Ms. Robin

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Eason, partner on behalf of Mr. John Stelter, that most members of Council know.

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And Ms. Taylor Rollhizer, who's the senior manager, I'll turn it over to KPMG to perform

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their presentation.

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Thank you.

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Good evening, Mr. Mayor and members of Council.

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Thank you for having us here tonight.

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As mentioned, my name is Taylor Rollheiser and I'm a senior manager with KPMG, and joining

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me here is Robin Easton, a partner with KPMG. KPMG is the external auditors of the city

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of Spruce Grove. There is an audit findings report included in your package. I'll hit some

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the highlights on that report, and then run through the PowerPoint that's also included, and

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of course, answer any questions you have here tonight.

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So our audit findings report builds on our audit plan that we did present to council on January 10th, 2022.

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We are here tonight to confirm that we have completed our external audit of the consolidated financial statements of the city of Spruce Grove for the year ended December 31, 2021.

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And we are prepared to release our final auditors report once approved by council, which is expected this evening.

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We are satisfied that the city's consolidated financial statements are fairly prepared

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and presented with the and that the significant accounting policies, estimates and disclosures

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included in the consolidated financial statements are appropriate.

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We have also completed some other audit assignments on a few other pieces of information that come

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out of the year-end work, one of those being the municipal financial information return for

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the city, which is the financial information that's provided to the province. We also do work

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on the local authorities pension plan and the APEC supplementary pension plan. So those are

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plans that city employees are members of. We provide an opinion or a report on family and community

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support services. So that's special grant reporting that also goes to the province. And finally,

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we are also required to review the city's annual report before it's published as part of our

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professional requirements, and we don't have any matters to report on our work related

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to those other assignments.

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As far as our main audit work on the consolidated city of Spruce Grove financial statements, we

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outlined a number of areas of audit focus in our audit plan.

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I'll run through them quickly.

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Those being the recognition of revenue amount subject to external restrictions, so those

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are grant and contribution agreements that the city receives, making sure that those

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have been recorded in accordance with terms and restrictions that are attached to those

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dollars. We spend some time looking at your property tax revenue so looking at the assessed

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value as well as the rates and ensuring that those have been appropriately recorded in

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the financial statements. When we look at your investments, we're looking at the accuracy

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and the valuation of the investment portfolio that is recorded at the city. We confirm those

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numbers and also recalculate investment income that is earned on the city's portfolio.

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We spend some time looking at the contributed tangible capital assets that come to the

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city through development agreements, so making sure that the valuation of those tangible

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capital assets has been a-

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We've appropriately supported and that it's been recorded at the time that those assets are transferred to the city. In terms of the assets, the tangible capital assets that the city actually builds or purchases directly, we look at the approved capital projects, the funding that you've received and ensure that all the expenditures have been appropriately recorded in the financial statements. We spend some time looking at the city's debt, so we confirm the debt that is outstanding.

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and recalculate interest as well as the debt limit that is included in your financial statements.

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On the cost side, continuing on the cost side, we make sure that your expenses have been

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appropriately supported, that they are appropriate in terms of the nature of the expense,

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and that any liabilities that are remaining at the end of the year have been appropriately

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recorded as a liability. We take a look at your environmental obligations and contingencies,

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So ensuring that where there are some costs that are expected in the future that those have been appropriately assessed and valued and are recorded in your financial statements.

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In terms of salaries and benefits, you do report some salaries and benefits within your financial statements.

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So we make sure that those have been appropriately presented and supported and are included in your financial statement note disclosures.

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And lastly, we spend some time looking at the ability of management to override any controls

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that are at the city.

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That's an inherent risk that we need to address in all of our audits and were satisfied

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that we do not have anything to report back to Council from completion of those procedures.

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We're happy to report that we also didn't identify any audit differences, so no changes

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to the numbers that were provided by administration, so certainly kudos to them for keeping great records

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throughout the year. Aside from the actual audit adjustments, we did or that there weren't any

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audit adjustments part of me. We did work with your team here to ensure that any disclosure matters

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were appropriately taken care of and worked with them to ensure that your financial statements

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We're presented appropriately.

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As part of our audit work, we are required to look at controls over financial reporting

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that are operating at the city.

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We're happy to report that we don't have any findings or control deficiencies to report.

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We also don't have any new other matters to report back to the city.

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We've come in previous years with some things to think about.

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Nothing new that came out of this year's audit, but we did follow up on previous year's

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recommendations.

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So, one of those related to capital budgeting, specifically capital budgeting when it came to contributed tangible capital assets, and we're satisfied that the city does have a robust budgeting process in place and that that other matter that has been addressed or identified in previous years can be closed.

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The other somewhat related observation is in relation to the implementation of an asset

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management system that's been I think an ongoing project and continues to be an ongoing

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project of the city and we fully support this project going forward, certainly it will

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benefit the city in many ways.

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The last previous point that we have also considered clear from the city was we had provided some

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comments related to the city's plan to continue to refresh policy and make sure that city

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policies are updated on a frequent schedule and we're fully supportive of this initiative

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and know that it is ongoing.

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Included in the city's draft annual report has a draft

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in your package. You have a draft independent auditor's report as well as a draft management

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representation letter, both of which we expect will be signed today. So in conclusion, we're

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We're very appreciative of the opportunity to work with the City of Spruce Grove as your external auditors.

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And I will go through the PowerPoint slide right now and happy to answer any questions that Marin Council have.

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Okay, so this first slide summarizes most of what I've already talked about.

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It highlights our reporting requirements, our reporting responsibilities to the city.

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And again, we're satisfied that the consolidated financial statements are fairly presented.

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We've also are prepared to provide separate reports on those items listed on the slide and

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have confirmed that we have reviewed the information to be included in the annual report.

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And we don't have any findings to report in respect to that.

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Now for the pictures, which is maybe a little bit more exciting.

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Here we've just summarized some of the key financial measures or key themes to take out of your

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financial statements. The first is this presentation that highlights the city's net debt and non-financial

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asset position. So on the left or the smaller bars, that's the city's net debt position. So at the

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end of 2021, the city was in an $11 million net debt position, which has improved over the previous

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two years. You can see that net debt position is getting smaller. And what that net debt measure

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is the difference between the financial assets of the city, which are your cash, your investments,

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your receivables, and then the difference between that and the liabilities that the city has.

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So your long-term debt, your accounts payable. So currently, your liabilities exceed your financial

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assets by $11 million. The larger bars on the right-hand side of the screen are the city's

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These non-financial assets, predominantly this is your tangible capital assets.

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So largest number on the city's financial statements, it's your roads, your infrastructure,

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your buildings, and certainly you can see that has continued to increase as the city has

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continued to spend on your tangible capital assets.

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This next slide highlights the city's long-term debt, so both the current long-term debt position

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as well as the long-term debt limit.

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So, the municipal government act does require the city to calculate and to operate within a debt limit.

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What that essentially is, it's the city's capacity to borrow.

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So, the large bar, the 142 million bar, that's the city's capacity to borrow, 142 million.

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You can see at the end of the year, the city's orings were 39 million.

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So, approximately 27% of the debt limit has been used at the end of December.

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That number has continued to decline from 2019 to 2020, and in the current year there

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is actually no new debt that was taken by the city, so that's where you see that decrease

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in 2021.

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This next slide highlights a little bit, I guess, of a comparison between some

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of the city's few-screws, neighbors in the capital region, so you can see that this is

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highlighting the city's debt compared to the average of a few other municipalities which

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are named on this slide. The only thing I'd highlight here is that the city's not an outlier.

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You can see the city is fairly consistent with your neighboring municipalities in terms of

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the debt load that you currently have.

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Now for some numbers, these are a little bit of a snapshot

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of the actual statements of the city of Spruce Grove. This slide is highlighting your operating

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revenue, so the budget as well as the 2021 results and the 2022 results. And as you can see,

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the city does a pretty good job of budgeting your operating revenues. You came in very close

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to the budget, budget of 90 million, almost 91 million, and you came in at 91 million. So,

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right on budget and with a slight increase over 2020,

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looking at the bottom half, so the expenses,

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the operating expenses that the city has through the year. So again, budget compared to the current

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year and the previous year. You have come in a little bit under budget in 2021 and that

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differences mostly all within the salaries, wages and benefits caption, which is your largest

435
00:38:35,260 --> 00:38:42,100
expense. It's your people expense. And again, there's just a few less FTEs than was included in

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the budget for 2021, but pretty close to budget as well as the 2020 results in terms of operating

437
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expenses.

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This slide here highlights the city's annual surplus or deficit before capital

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items, so that if maybe if we started the bottom, the bottom green line is what your annual

440
00:39:09,530 --> 00:39:15,710
deficit is at the end of the year. That includes the non-cash item, which is your

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00:39:15,710 --> 00:39:22,270
amortization. So when you take amortization out of the equation, which is an expense on the city's

442
00:39:22,270 --> 00:39:24,990
financial statements, but not something you actually pay cash for.

443
00:39:25,310 --> 00:39:29,750
You can see that you're actually generating a surplus of $9.6 million.

444
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This slide highlights the statement of operations.

445
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The two top lines are the two that we've already talked about, the operating revenue and

446
00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:48,360
your operating expenses, and then this also adds in the capital related items.

447
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So these are included in the bottom half of your statement of operations or in the bottom section.

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And this is where you see what the city has been spending on your tangible capital assets.

449
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So your government transfers for capital.

450
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Those are assets that the city has spent or constructed directly.

451
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Contributed tangible capital assets.

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That's $6 million, almost $7 million are assets that have come into the city through developer agreements.

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And lastly, we have the developer contributions and levies coming in at $3.3 million.

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As you can see, this is a little bit more of a challenge, I guess the budget compared to your operating results.

455
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But this is consistent with expectation.

456
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It's harder to predict the weather in terms of construction activity.

457
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Pandemic-related implications, there's lots of factors to consider when you think about the capital activity.

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This slide here is highlighting the city's accumulated surplus.

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So the city does separate accumulated surplus into three captions, municipal utility and developer.

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and then below that is the invested

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in tangible capital assets.

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So the top three categories there are resources

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that the city has to spend on future operations

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in terms of municipal and utility.

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And then on the developer deficit side,

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you can see that is in a deficit.

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And that indicates money that the city has spent

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to start development or an advance of development.

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Those monies will be collected by future developers through levies once the development projects have started and that invested in tangible capital assets number 523 million again a big number.

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That's what the city has invested in your tangible capital assets.

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This slide reconciles the changes in net debt so we talked about net debt on the first slide.

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that's the bottom line, that $11 million net debt position.

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You can see that net debt position, as I mentioned, is improving, so an improvement over

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last year as well as an improvement over budget.

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If we move back up to the top, that $16 million is the city's annual surplus.

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And then the reconciliation in the middle is all the capital related items, so

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conversation, again, that's a non-cash item, acquisition of tangible capital assets.

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00:42:26,050 --> 00:42:31,330
So this is reconciling the change in your net debt on your statement of financial position.

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And that was all I had proposed to present tonight.

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Again, thank you for having us here this evening.

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00:42:44,090 --> 00:42:45,170
John sends his regrets.

482
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I'm happy to answer any questions that Marin Council have.

483
00:42:50,110 --> 00:42:54,410
Well, thank you so much, Ms. Rolliser, and Ms. Easton for being here in front of us.

484
00:42:55,430 --> 00:42:59,250
Great presentation and an amazing audit, really enjoyed reading through it.

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00:42:59,390 --> 00:43:03,530
So, at this time, I'm going to first ask for a motion for one of my colleagues to read

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this on the floor.

487
00:43:06,070 --> 00:43:10,330
Perhaps I can have Councilor Gillette go ahead.

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00:43:11,270 --> 00:43:16,910
I move that the audited, consolidated financial statement of the City of Spruce Grove for

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the year ended December 31, 2021, be approved as presented.

490
00:43:23,290 --> 00:43:23,450
Thank you.

491
00:43:23,830 --> 00:43:24,850
Thank you very much.

492
00:43:24,890 --> 00:43:31,510
I will open it up at this time for any questions of our presenters, discussion, Councillor

493
00:43:31,510 --> 00:43:31,830
Gillette.

494
00:43:32,190 --> 00:43:33,590
Since you motion, would you like to speak first?

495
00:43:34,110 --> 00:43:35,130
Yes, thank you.

496
00:43:35,330 --> 00:43:42,050
I just want to say thank you for that in-depth walk-through of the financials, especially the

497
00:43:42,050 --> 00:43:42,710
debt ratio.

498
00:43:42,710 --> 00:43:47,510
So it's very interesting to read and just happy to see how well our city is doing, so thank

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00:43:47,510 --> 00:43:49,550
you for that great presentation.

500
00:43:50,930 --> 00:43:55,750
Thank you, Councillor, are there any other questions from Council to our presenters?

501
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:04,520
I am seeing nobody up in the queue, so I just want to thank you.

502
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:10,340
The depth that you guys go through on our audit is fascinating to me, and I know it's appreciated

503
00:44:10,340 --> 00:44:11,560
by our residents as well.

504
00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:16,460
It's an independent review of our finances, and I was very happy and pleased to see.

505
00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:31,420
It's a very clean audit and the recommendations coming forward are fantastic, so I just want to thank you for working with us, ensuring that we are getting that independent review of the finances and it's always a pleasure to see you this evening and give our best to John.

506
00:44:32,380 --> 00:44:33,180
Thank you.

507
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:37,220
With nobody else on the queue, I will call the question on the motion and

508
00:44:47,270 --> 00:44:49,370
thank you very much that motion has been carried unanimously.

509
00:44:49,370 --> 00:44:55,310
have a good evening. We are now moving into administrative updates but we have

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00:44:55,310 --> 00:44:59,790
none on our agenda this evening. So we will get right into our

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00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:08,260
Bye-laws and first up under by law 10.1, by law c-1136-2O. So I use by law amendment for eastern

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00:45:08,260 --> 00:45:16,140
stage 2 redistricting and we are doing 3rd reading this evening. Now I do have to point out that

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00:45:16,800 --> 00:45:21,900
Councillor McDonnell, Carter and Gillette, we're not part of the public hearing process for

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00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:27,100
this, so we're going to ask them at this time just to please excuse themselves from chambers

515
00:45:27,100 --> 00:45:30,620
and we will move into the presentation.

516
00:45:31,280 --> 00:45:32,200
So thank you very much.

517
00:45:32,540 --> 00:45:34,100
We will call you back once we are completed.

518
00:45:37,630 --> 00:45:41,050
And just to clarify to those zooming in or in the gallery,

519
00:45:41,650 --> 00:45:45,470
if a member of council is not part of the entire public hearing process,

520
00:45:45,990 --> 00:45:50,270
they need to recuse themselves from voting on the issue before us.

521
00:45:50,490 --> 00:45:52,870
So because this one took place prior to the election,

522
00:45:53,410 --> 00:45:57,050
neither of the three new councilors attended that public hearing.

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00:45:57,050 --> 00:46:02,770
So luckily, we still have four with quorum so we can continue and at this time, I will ask Mr.

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00:46:03,290 --> 00:46:05,230
Alevde to please present this topic.

525
00:46:06,710 --> 00:46:09,770
Thank you, Mr. Mayor, here's the presentation.

526
00:46:11,590 --> 00:46:16,590
Administration has brought forward a request for decision seeking council's third reading of

527
00:46:16,590 --> 00:46:23,730
Bylaw C-1136-20 East in Stage 2, which is a redistricting amendment to the land use bylaw.

528
00:46:23,730 --> 00:46:33,630
This by-law has received second reading and is being brought forward as the developer has now completed the development agreement process and the third reading can now be given to this by-law.

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00:46:34,930 --> 00:46:42,650
Location of eastern stage two is in the east area of the city located along McLeod Ave in the newly developing eastern neighborhood.

530
00:46:44,070 --> 00:46:49,830
The east pioneer area structure plan is the by-law that provides the planning framework for the eastern neighborhood.

531
00:46:49,830 --> 00:47:01,310
the area structure plan identifies the amendment area for low to medium density residential, medium to high density residential and parks and open spaces as shown on the map.

532
00:47:02,170 --> 00:47:06,030
This redistricting application is consistent with the approved area structure plan.

533
00:47:07,070 --> 00:47:15,450
The proposed amendment will redistrict a 2.1 hectare of southeast quarter section 2, township 53, range 27.

534
00:47:15,450 --> 00:47:34,550
West 4th Meridian in the eastern neighborhood from its current district and you are urban reserve district to our one mixed low to medium density residential district or to mixed medium to high density residential district and P1 parks and recreation district as shown on the map.

535
00:47:34,550 --> 00:47:39,850
The redistricting will support the development of approximately 21 single detached lots,

536
00:47:40,510 --> 00:47:45,050
27 row housing lots, and a small linear park in the eastern neighborhood.

537
00:47:45,870 --> 00:47:51,530
A statutory public hearing was held on November 12, 2020, prior to giving second reading,

538
00:47:52,190 --> 00:47:57,250
and the advertisement of the public hearing was placed in the screw scrub examiner on November

539
00:47:57,250 --> 00:48:02,250
6 and 13, 2020, as per the requirements of the Municipal Government Act.

540
00:48:03,270 --> 00:48:07,810
The developer has now signed the development agreement meeting the requirements of policy

541
00:48:08,670 --> 00:48:14,130
705 and third reading can now be given to the bylaw administration supports this bylaw

542
00:48:14,130 --> 00:48:18,710
and that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much for the presentation

543
00:48:18,710 --> 00:48:23,270
and for introducing this item. Can I ask for a motion from one of my colleagues for third reading?

544
00:48:25,940 --> 00:48:29,460
Councillor Oldum. Thank you, Mayor. I'll move the third reading

545
00:48:29,460 --> 00:48:35,840
be given to Biola C-1136-20, land use by-law amendment eastern stage 2 redistricting.

546
00:48:36,620 --> 00:48:39,260
Thank you, Councilor Oden. As the mover, would you like to speak on this item?

547
00:48:40,380 --> 00:48:42,300
So I will open it up if there's any questions.

548
00:48:44,280 --> 00:48:49,520
Councilor Stevenson. Great, thank you. First, it's so weird to see

549
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:56,620
houses in the eastern eastern going up and stuff. It just looks like three houses.

550
00:48:56,620 --> 00:49:00,700
I think there's actually four basements, Doug already, so it just looks really interesting.

551
00:49:01,300 --> 00:49:07,580
I just wanted to clarify, are these, like we're doing it in stages, do they actually touch

552
00:49:07,580 --> 00:49:08,000
each other?

553
00:49:08,580 --> 00:49:12,960
Like I'm feeling we've actually approved more than one stage of East and already.

554
00:49:14,080 --> 00:49:17,460
Through Mr. Mayor, there are already a total of three stages in play.

555
00:49:17,940 --> 00:49:19,780
The stage one is currently developing.

556
00:49:21,180 --> 00:49:24,360
Stage two has, is in front of you today.

557
00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:30,320
And immediately adjacent north of this stage, stage three, which is also on the agenda

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00:49:30,320 --> 00:49:31,180
this evening.

559
00:49:32,240 --> 00:49:36,980
Stage one is critical in providing the infrastructure that leads to stage two and stage two will provide

560
00:49:36,980 --> 00:49:38,540
infrastructure to the stage three.

561
00:49:38,900 --> 00:49:42,860
So all three stages are currently in play, but what you're seeing out there is the stage

562
00:49:42,860 --> 00:49:43,020
one.

563
00:49:43,520 --> 00:49:43,740
Okay.

564
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,400
We've only approved one stage.

565
00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:50,000
Maybe it's because we've talked about it so often the different things of I thought we

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00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:55,320
have more approved. But anyway, I just wanted to make sure we weren't, that they were all connected,

567
00:49:55,660 --> 00:49:59,760
so obviously they are. Through Mr. Mayor, you have gone through three separate

568
00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:04,960
bylaws because all three of them have had second reading. They literally are coming back with third

569
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:09,420
reading because the developer did not sign the development agreement. Okay. So now that they are ready

570
00:50:09,420 --> 00:50:14,780
of the market certainty, they are moving forward with it. Okay, perfect. Thank you. Thank you.

571
00:50:18,460 --> 00:50:32,840
I'm happy to see this finally come before us for third reading, I understand with the last couple of years it may have been challenged, but exciting to see buildings starting up in Easton and seeing this continue on for the second stage.

572
00:50:32,840 --> 00:50:36,740
So I will call them most or call a vote on the motion.

573
00:50:56,830 --> 00:50:58,070
We could do this one by hand.

574
00:50:58,150 --> 00:50:59,190
Oh, there we are.

575
00:50:59,670 --> 00:51:00,930
All right, so the question is there.

576
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:12,360
And that has been carried unanimously of the four in present

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00:51:12,360 --> 00:51:13,680
and three that had to abstain.

578
00:51:14,340 --> 00:51:15,860
So thank you very much for the presentation.

579
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:17,700
We will call in our colleagues back.

580
00:51:18,220 --> 00:51:20,700
If we can have them return to chambers

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and then we can continue on with our meeting.

582
00:51:54,540 --> 00:51:56,740
All right, thank you for returning to chambers.

583
00:51:56,980 --> 00:51:57,680
I appreciate that.

584
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:01,260
But we will move on to our next item, which is 10.2.

585
00:52:01,700 --> 00:52:08,960
It is by-law C-1176-21, land use by-law amendment eastern stage 3, redistricting third

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00:52:08,960 --> 00:52:09,280
reading.

587
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I will have administration, please introduce this topic.

588
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:13,740
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

589
00:52:18,660 --> 00:52:23,000
Administration has brought forward a request for decision seeking council's third reading

590
00:52:23,000 --> 00:52:30,740
of Bylaws C-117-6-21, East and Stage 3, which is a redistricting amendment to the land use bylaw.

591
00:52:32,990 --> 00:52:37,750
East and Stage 3 is located in the East area of the city, north of McLeod Avenue,

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00:52:38,070 --> 00:52:42,410
and again north of Stage 2, which was given third reading previously this evening,

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00:52:43,010 --> 00:52:48,050
in the newly developing East and neighborhood. The redistricting application is consistent with the

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00:52:48,050 --> 00:52:52,590
approved East Pioneer Area Structure Plan, which identifies this area for low

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00:52:52,590 --> 00:52:57,190
to medium-density residential and medium to high-density residential uses.

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00:52:59,380 --> 00:53:04,800
The proposed amendment will redistrict an area of 2.6 hectare of southeast quarter

597
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:10,640
section 2, Township 53, range 27, west of 4th Meridian, from its current district

598
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:18,600
UR Urban Reserve District to R1 mixed low to medium-density residential district and R2 mixed

599
00:53:18,600 --> 00:53:22,240
medium to high-density residential district as shown on the map.

600
00:53:22,240 --> 00:53:28,780
The redistricting will support the development of approximately 52 single detached lots and 15

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00:53:28,780 --> 00:53:35,940
row housing lots. A statutory public hearing was held on January 10, 2021, prior to giving second

602
00:53:35,940 --> 00:53:42,260
reading and advertising of the public hearing was placed in the screw scrub examiner on December 24th

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00:53:42,260 --> 00:53:49,100
and 31st, 2021, as per the requirements of the municipal government act. This by-law has previously

604
00:53:49,100 --> 00:53:54,040
to see second reading and the developer has now completed the development agreement process

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00:53:54,040 --> 00:53:59,740
meeting the requirements of policy 705 and a third reading can now be given to this

606
00:53:59,740 --> 00:54:06,300
bylaw administration supports this bylaw. Thank you. Thank you very much for introducing this item.

607
00:54:06,740 --> 00:54:08,840
I will ask now for a motion for third reading.

608
00:54:11,570 --> 00:54:12,430
I have Councillor Mc Donald.

609
00:54:13,050 --> 00:54:20,390
Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. I move that third reading be given to bylaw c-1176-21.

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00:54:20,390 --> 00:54:24,130
One land used by law amendment, eastern stage three redistricting.

611
00:54:24,970 --> 00:54:25,990
Thank you, Councilor McDonald.

612
00:54:25,990 --> 00:54:28,250
Is the mover would you like to speak on this motion?

613
00:54:28,690 --> 00:54:29,090
No, thank you.

614
00:54:29,770 --> 00:54:33,010
Okay, so I will open it up for any questions or discussions or debate.

615
00:54:34,250 --> 00:54:38,050
Is there any questions on third reading for this item?

616
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:46,000
I am seeing nobody in the queue, so I will call the question on the motion.

617
00:54:56,780 --> 00:54:58,880
Thank you very much. That motion has been carried unanimously.

618
00:54:59,740 --> 00:55:04,280
We are now on item 10.3, which is C-1184-21,

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land use while amendment Harvest Ridge Stage 20,

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redistricting third reading.

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In the last semester, no update.

622
00:55:10,980 --> 00:55:11,940
To please introduce the topic.

623
00:55:20,880 --> 00:55:21,520
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

624
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:25,380
Administration has brought forward

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00:55:25,380 --> 00:55:28,080
a request for decision seeking council's third reading

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00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:32,200
of by-law C-1184 Harvest Ridge Stage 20,

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00:55:32,600 --> 00:55:35,260
which is a redistricting amendment to the land use by-law.

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00:55:37,060 --> 00:55:42,500
location of Harvestridge 20 is in the west area of the city located along Hemingway Crescent

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and north of Grove Drive in the developing Harvestridge neighborhood as shown on the map.

630
00:55:50,160 --> 00:55:55,440
The west central area structure plan is the bylaw that provides the planning framework for

631
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:59,860
the Harvestridge neighborhood. The slide shows the location of the amendment area in the context of

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00:55:59,860 --> 00:56:01,180
the overall area structure plan.

633
00:56:03,220 --> 00:56:06,340
The area structure plan identifies the amendment area for mixed

634
00:56:06,340 --> 00:56:11,440
low-to-medium density residential. The redistricting application is consistent with the approved

635
00:56:11,440 --> 00:56:19,340
area structure plan. The proposed amendment will redistrict a 3.66 hectare area of southwest

636
00:56:19,340 --> 00:56:25,600
quarter-section 8, Township 52, range 27, west of 4th Meridian, in the Harvest Ridge neighbourhood,

637
00:56:26,100 --> 00:56:31,860
from its current district, you are urban reserve district, to R1 mixed low-to-medium density

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00:56:31,860 --> 00:56:37,620
residential district. The redistricting will support the development of approximately 51 single

639
00:56:37,620 --> 00:56:44,320
detached lots and 26 semi-detached residential lots in the subdivision. A statutory public hearing

640
00:56:44,320 --> 00:56:50,860
was held on March 28, 2022, prior to giving second reading, and advertising of the public hearing

641
00:56:50,860 --> 00:56:56,840
was placed in the spruce from examiner on March 11 and 18, 2022, as per the requirements of the

642
00:56:56,840 --> 00:57:01,820
municipal government act. The developer has now completed the development agreement process,

643
00:57:02,020 --> 00:57:06,840
meeting the requirements of policy 7-0-0-5, and a third reading can now be given to this

644
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:10,360
Milo. At its administration supports this Milo. Thank you.

645
00:57:11,300 --> 00:57:14,900
Thank you very much. Could I please have a motion for third reading?

646
00:57:18,120 --> 00:57:18,980
Councillor Carter, can

647
00:57:18,980 --> 00:57:19,460
you make that motion?

648
00:57:21,530 --> 00:57:24,790
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I move that third reading be given to

649
00:57:24,790 --> 00:57:32,670
bylaw c-1184-21, land use bylaw amendment, Harvest Ridge stage 20 redistricting.

650
00:57:33,410 --> 00:57:35,790
Thank you, Councillor Garner. Did you want to speak on your motion?

651
00:57:36,950 --> 00:57:42,370
Not at this time. I just like to say that I am happy to see this subdivision almost complete.

652
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Yes, stage 20, it's great to see. So I will open it up if anyone has any questions or

653
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I would like to open up for debate on stage 20.

654
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I am seeing nobody else on the queue, so thank you very much, I will call the question

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on the motion.

656
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That motion has been carried unanimously,

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and we are now moving to item 10.4, which is

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C-194-22, a land use by law amendment for McLaughlin stage 4A, redistricting, and we're going

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to be talking about second and third reading this evening, so please have Mr. and no update,

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please introduce this topic.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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Administration has brought forward a request for decision seeking Council's second reading

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of by-law C-1194-22, McLaughlin stage 4A, which is a redistricting amendment to the

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land use by-law.

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A detailed presentation was provided earlier this evening, during the public hearing of

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the by-law.

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I will briefly speak to the amendment highlights.

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It's located in the west area of the city, located along Medallin Common, north of Nelson

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Drive, in the McLaughlin neighborhood, as shown on the map.

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The proposed amendment is to redistrict an area of 1.1 hectare of northwest quarter

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section 4, Tantra 53, Range 27, west of 4th Meridian, from UR Urban Reserve District to R1

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mixed load of medium density residential district. This redistricting will support the development of

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approximately 20 single detached lots. Administration supports this bylaw. As per city policy 7005,

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a completed and signed development agreement is required prior to third reading. Since this

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process has not yet completed, administration is requesting an amendment to the proposed motions

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to only give second reading to the bylaw this evening. Upon completion of the development agreement,

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the bylaw will be brought forward for a third reading. That concludes my presentation. Thank you.

678
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Thank you very much for your presentation.

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Presentation, so we will only be considering second reading this evening. So if I could please have Member of Council make motion for second reading. I have Councillor Houston on that. Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor. I'd like to move the second reading to be given to by-law C, 1194-22, land use by-law amendment, McLaughlin, stage 4A redistricting. Thank you, Councillor Houston. Would you like to speak to your motion? I just very briefly, I am very supportive of this development and I have to give kudos to one of the

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Developers that are in attendance this evening and how pleased I am with the rollout of how McLaughlin is being staged and the incredible community that's being built over there

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I think it's going to be a highlighted area for for a city and really appreciate it. Thank you

682
01:00:43,160 --> 01:00:44,180
Thank you very much

683
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I'll open it up for any other questions or debate for second reading.

684
01:00:51,630 --> 01:00:53,450
I am seeing nobody else on the queue

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01:00:53,450 --> 01:00:55,970
So I will call the question on second reading and

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that motion has been carried unanimously

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So, we will move to 10.5, which is C-1195-22, land use bylaw text amendment, alcohol sales major, plan 142641, block one, block one, and we're looking at second and third reading this evening.

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So, Mr. Inalabde, please go ahead.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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01:01:30,930 --> 01:01:35,850
Administration has brought forward a request for decision seeking Council's second and third

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reading of Bylaws C-195-22, which is a site-specific text amendment to the Land Use

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Vylaw. A detailed presentation was provided earlier this evening during the public hearing

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of this Vylaw. I will briefly speak to the amendment highlights. The subject site One Dalton Link,

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also known as Dear Park Commercial, is located east of Jen Highway and south of Dalton Link

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in the deer park neighborhood as shown on the map.

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The amendment proposes the addition of alcohol sales major

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on plan 142641, block one, lot one,

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under section 125, C3 neighborhood retail

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and services district, under subsection one discretionary uses

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as a site specific discretionary use,

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and under subsection three and additional regulation limiting

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this uses maximum floor area to 425 meter square.

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There, administration supports this amendment for a larger retail space for alcohol sales,

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as the site is located at the periphery of a residential neighborhood, and that it's

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01:02:39,760 --> 01:02:44,540
cornered location as ample access from both an arterial road and a collector to allow

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01:02:44,540 --> 01:02:48,200
visitor visits without increasing traffic through the neighborhood's interior.

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Policy 70005 allows the redistricting of commercial lands to be given a third reading without the

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01:02:55,680 --> 01:03:00,360
completion of your development agreement as such a third reading can also be given to this by-law.

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That concludes my presentation. Thank you.

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01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:05,500
Thank you very much for your presentation.

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01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,460
I'll ask for a motion for second reading.

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Councillor Stevenson.

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01:03:12,010 --> 01:03:16,710
Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I'll move that second reading be given to by-law C-1195-22.

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01:03:17,470 --> 01:03:23,710
Land used by-law text amendment alcohol sales major. Plan 142-2641, block 1, lot 1.

715
01:03:24,570 --> 01:03:27,030
Thank you very much, Councillor Simonson. Would you like to speak to your motion?

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01:03:28,430 --> 01:03:33,110
Okay, so I will open it up for any questions or discussion, debate, or second reading.

717
01:03:36,700 --> 01:03:40,760
Councillor Oldum. Thank you, Mayor. I would just briefly comment

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01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:45,380
that I'm pleased to see development in the Deer Park area. Com, I think our residents

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01:03:46,120 --> 01:03:51,320
have been wondering for a long time what may be coming there. And you know what, I'm supportive

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01:03:51,320 --> 01:03:56,580
of something that is going to serve the community and, uh, grateful to see this here tonight.

721
01:03:57,760 --> 01:04:00,800
Thank you very much, Councillor Olden. Great comments. Are there any other

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01:04:01,800 --> 01:04:07,340
members of the council I'd like to speak? I am seeing none, so I will just express my support for

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01:04:07,340 --> 01:04:12,140
this as well. I appreciate administration recommendations being on that major

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01:04:13,020 --> 01:04:18,160
Jennifer Isleway. There isn't the impact that we see in internal neighborhoods, so I'm very

725
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:23,700
I think it's great to see some commercial development on that side of town and I know the neighborhood will be happy to see this

726
01:04:23,700 --> 01:04:26,880
So I will call the question on second reading that

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01:04:36,090 --> 01:04:37,450
motion has been carried unanimously

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01:04:37,450 --> 01:04:40,670
So I will now ask for a motion for third reading this evening.

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01:04:43,960 --> 01:04:44,680
Councilor Euston.

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01:04:49,940 --> 01:04:54,860
By law C-1195-22 land use by law

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Text Amendment alcohol sales major plan 142-2641

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Block one lot one.

733
01:05:04,550 --> 01:05:07,450
Thank you. Councilor Euston. Would you like to speak to your motion?

734
01:05:07,450 --> 01:05:09,270
No, thanks. Thank you.

735
01:05:09,290 --> 01:05:12,070
All right. Any other discussion or questions?

736
01:05:15,190 --> 01:05:17,350
IMC nuns. I will call the question on third reading.

737
01:05:26,460 --> 01:05:27,940
That motion has been carried unanimously.

738
01:05:28,660 --> 01:05:29,260
Thank you very much.

739
01:05:32,450 --> 01:05:38,450
Our next item on the agenda is item 10.6, which is C-1196-22.

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01:05:39,350 --> 01:05:43,430
The 2022 property tax and supplementary property tax rate bylaw.

741
01:05:44,150 --> 01:05:46,290
And we are going to be talking about second reading.

742
01:05:46,750 --> 01:05:48,830
So, Mr. Van Ferris, please go ahead.

743
01:05:48,830 --> 01:05:51,970
Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.

744
01:05:52,630 --> 01:05:59,150
Yes, this is second reading of BILA C-1196-22, the 2022 property tax and supplementary property

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01:05:59,150 --> 01:06:03,270
tax rate BILA is presented for consideration by Council.

746
01:06:03,730 --> 01:06:10,230
It sets the 2022 property tax rates that are necessary to pay the requisitions, expenditures

747
01:06:10,230 --> 01:06:13,110
and transfers as set out in the Council approved budget.

748
01:06:13,110 --> 01:06:19,450
The 2022 rates are listed in the by-law that's attached to the Council package.

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01:06:20,130 --> 01:06:28,090
And it includes year two of the 1% dedicated tax increase for transfers to the municipal

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01:06:28,090 --> 01:06:35,310
life cycle reserves, 2.9% general tax increase, continuation of the Council approved shift

751
01:06:35,310 --> 01:06:40,250
of the residential non-residential rate split to move to an average similar to other communities.

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01:06:40,250 --> 01:06:48,890
So that will be to 1.46 zero ratio of non-residential to residential for the 2022 year.

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01:06:50,050 --> 01:06:53,510
That rate split is aligned with the Property Tax Distribution Policy that was approved

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01:06:53,510 --> 01:06:55,630
by Council in February of 2021.

755
01:06:58,040 --> 01:07:04,260
The annual property tax bylaw sets out the assessed property values by class and calculates the

756
01:07:04,260 --> 01:07:08,800
tax rates required to raise the necessary budgeted tax revenue in accordance with the property

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01:07:08,800 --> 01:07:09,540
tax policies.

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01:07:09,540 --> 01:07:17,880
The bailout also includes almost $17 million of education requisition on behalf of the

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01:07:17,880 --> 01:07:23,780
government of Alberta, as well as approximately $420,000 of Meridian housing foundation

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01:07:23,780 --> 01:07:24,520
requisition.

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That's a 37% increase from the prior year for Meridian housing requisition, that's due

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01:07:29,720 --> 01:07:34,800
to increased utility and food costs, additional operating costs associated with the new office

763
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:39,800
building costs to retrofit office space into residential suites, increased wage and benefit

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01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,880
expenses as well as mortgage payments for the Spruce Grove Lodge land.

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01:07:43,780 --> 01:07:45,940
Annex lands are included in the bylaw as well.

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01:07:47,100 --> 01:07:52,400
Lands at Rannex in 2007 from Parkland County as well as 2021 from Parkland County.

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01:07:52,940 --> 01:07:55,420
Those must be taxed at the county's tax rate.

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At this time that the report was created, those Parkland County rates were not available.

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available, they will be available for the May 9th third reading, so we will be updating

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01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:08,940
the by-law to incorporate the actual rates.

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Supplementary taxation is also included in the by-law.

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This is for properties that are partially complete or under construction on December 31,

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2021.

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The amounts for the supplementary taxation are not included in the levied amounts.

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They will be set based on the rates that are in the by-law and will be sent out in May

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01:08:29,120 --> 01:08:33,640
for the new construction that was completed by the end of April of 2022 and will be centered

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01:08:33,640 --> 01:08:38,380
in October for new construction completed by September 30th, 2022.

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The by-law also includes the multifamily residential property rate of 1.40.

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01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:49,540
That's a continuation of the rate that was established in the property tax distribution

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01:08:49,540 --> 01:08:52,700
by-law that Council approved in February of 2021.

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And this concludes my presentation and I'm available for any questions.

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:08:57,780
Thank you.

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01:08:58,880 --> 01:08:59,980
Thank you very much.

784
01:09:00,240 --> 01:09:02,720
If I could please have a motion for second reading.

785
01:09:07,580 --> 01:09:08,900
Councillor Stevenson, thank you.

786
01:09:10,040 --> 01:09:10,960
Thank you, Mayor.

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01:09:11,100 --> 01:09:18,160
I'll move that second reading be given to by law c-1196-22, 2022 property tax and supplementary

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01:09:18,160 --> 01:09:19,520
property tax rate by law.

789
01:09:20,520 --> 01:09:20,980
Thank you.

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01:09:21,020 --> 01:09:23,300
Councillor Stevenson, as the mover would you like to speak to the motion?

791
01:09:25,630 --> 01:09:27,110
I just wanted to say thank you.

792
01:09:27,110 --> 01:09:35,470
Mr. Lumpur is for the description. There's a lot that goes into what a property tax bill looks like.

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01:09:36,090 --> 01:09:39,530
I think we say this every year, it would be wonderful for us to find a way

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01:09:39,530 --> 01:09:45,550
to educate the public of that breakdown, seeing as we do collect not just only for the city,

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01:09:45,670 --> 01:09:51,790
but on behalf of the province as well as the Meridian Housing Foundation. So as much as we can

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01:09:51,790 --> 01:09:59,230
get it out there that there is more than one light item for residents to look at and just to

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01:09:59,230 --> 01:10:04,050
this council as well I think we've done a great job looking forward and with that dedicated

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01:10:04,050 --> 01:10:09,050
1% we're starting to build those reserves which I think is a key piece which can often be missed

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01:10:09,050 --> 01:10:15,010
when people just look at that 3.9% they can often forget that we have that 1% dedicated

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01:10:15,610 --> 01:10:19,810
so that we are in a good financial position in the future so thank you for that description I'm

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01:10:19,810 --> 01:10:24,010
looking forward to having those conversations in the near future with our residents after

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01:10:24,010 --> 01:10:24,450
third reading.

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01:10:24,790 --> 01:10:25,190
So thank you.

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01:10:25,890 --> 01:10:27,270
Thank you, Councillor Stevenson.

805
01:10:27,510 --> 01:10:31,290
Are there any other questions or discussions for second reading?

806
01:10:34,240 --> 01:10:39,240
I am seeing none, but I will thank you for the presentation and the detail that you provided

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01:10:39,240 --> 01:10:40,340
counts for second reading.

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01:10:40,780 --> 01:10:46,700
I'm also happy to see that we are no longer adding the TLC to venture onto our property taxes.

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01:10:46,940 --> 01:10:51,600
So that's a nice thing for our city and for our residents after 20 years.

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01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:56,820
of that debenture and I appreciate just the conversation and the points that

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01:10:56,820 --> 01:11:00,140
Councillor Stevenson made that the education requisition,

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01:11:00,320 --> 01:11:04,080
Rudy and housing foundation, those are outside of the city's hands but we do use

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01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:09,200
the property tax built. The finance those and I am looking forward to how we

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01:11:09,200 --> 01:11:13,500
communicate this out to our community as this rolls through. So I will call the

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01:11:13,500 --> 01:11:15,680
question on second reading. That

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01:11:27,620 --> 01:11:29,640
motion has been carried unanimously.

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01:11:33,390 --> 01:11:33,790
The final

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01:11:33,790 --> 01:11:42,370
business item under my laws here we have 10.7 and it's C-1198-22 traffic bylaw

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01:11:42,370 --> 01:11:47,190
amendment and we will be discussing second reading this evening and I will

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01:11:47,190 --> 01:11:49,390
have Ms. Burgham please introduce our guest.

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01:11:52,290 --> 01:11:53,650
Thank you Mr. Mayor and Council.

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01:11:54,570 --> 01:11:58,530
This evening we are bringing before Council the first two readings of proposed

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01:11:58,530 --> 01:12:03,490
amendments to our traffic bylaw. These amendments will establish decibel

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01:12:03,490 --> 01:12:08,850
levels for motor vehicles, outline the testing and calibration requirements of a decibel

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01:12:08,850 --> 01:12:12,630
device, and establish penalties for exceeding those levels.

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01:12:13,410 --> 01:12:18,270
The actual amendments are outlined in the Council Report and attached by law for your consideration.

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As responsibility for these aspects of the by law will be with enforcement services, chief

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01:12:23,850 --> 01:12:26,050
if costumant is available to answer any questions.

829
01:12:26,670 --> 01:12:26,890
Thank you.

830
01:12:27,970 --> 01:12:29,790
Thank you, Ms. Burgham, and welcome Chief.

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01:12:29,930 --> 01:12:32,990
We appreciate you being here to discuss this topic,

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01:12:33,110 --> 01:12:34,430
and I will turn the floor over to you.

833
01:12:35,830 --> 01:12:36,730
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

834
01:12:37,470 --> 01:12:39,750
As Ms. Burgham has said, this is a continuation

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01:12:39,750 --> 01:12:41,490
of the committee, the whole meeting,

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01:12:41,510 --> 01:12:42,750
where administration was directed

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01:12:42,750 --> 01:12:43,890
to go back and look at options.

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01:12:44,190 --> 01:12:45,390
We did, brought respect to Council.

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01:12:46,190 --> 01:12:47,710
Council chose option number two,

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which was to continue with the enforcement

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01:12:49,290 --> 01:12:50,550
through the Traffic Safety Act,

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01:12:50,770 --> 01:12:53,310
but in addition to add some more tools in the toolbox

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01:12:53,310 --> 01:12:55,790
within the municipal framework of our bylaws.

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01:12:56,310 --> 01:12:58,850
And tonight we have in front of you, as Ms. Burma said,

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the first and second reading of the amendments

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01:13:02,170 --> 01:13:04,730
for the traffic safety or traffic safety bylaw,

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01:13:05,770 --> 01:13:08,650
pertaining to the maximum noise permitted by vehicles.

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01:13:09,010 --> 01:13:10,390
And one of the things that you like to point out

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01:13:10,390 --> 01:13:12,850
that through the legal review and the drafting

850
01:13:12,850 --> 01:13:15,790
of this amendments, it doesn't just deal with mufflers.

851
01:13:15,970 --> 01:13:17,030
You'll notice in there that we're dealing

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01:13:17,030 --> 01:13:18,910
with the schooling attires, revving of engines,

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01:13:20,630 --> 01:13:22,610
loud stereo systems, anything else.

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01:13:22,610 --> 01:13:26,270
and it also does not restrict that you have to have a decimal reading.

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01:13:26,530 --> 01:13:29,630
So if there was a loud noise created by the vehicle that's very short

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01:13:29,630 --> 01:13:35,050
in duration, the officers hear that, they can still proceed to an offense

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01:13:35,050 --> 01:13:38,710
on that vehicle for creating that noise, even though it doesn't get recreated.

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01:13:39,490 --> 01:13:43,450
So if they have something that the electronic device or something they fire

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01:13:43,450 --> 01:13:47,610
off from the vehicle that creates a short-term loud and annoying noise,

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01:13:47,870 --> 01:13:50,390
they can still proceed to lay charges against that into this.

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01:13:50,390 --> 01:13:53,810
And as it's been said, I'm here for any questions council may have.

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01:13:55,150 --> 01:13:55,590
Excellent.

863
01:13:55,750 --> 01:13:56,390
Thank you very much.

864
01:13:56,570 --> 01:13:59,490
And I will note that first reading was approved through our consent agenda.

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01:14:00,010 --> 01:14:05,390
So I will at this time ask for a motion for second reading of Councilor Carter.

866
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:10,020
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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01:14:10,260 --> 01:14:17,580
I move that second reading be given to by law C-1198-22 traffic by law amendment.

868
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:19,620
Thank you, Councilor Carter.

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01:14:19,900 --> 01:14:22,620
As the mover, would you like to speak your second reading?

870
01:14:23,040 --> 01:14:29,440
Yes, I wanted to say that I appreciate how well laid out this is and how easy it is

871
01:14:29,440 --> 01:14:37,620
to interpret and I also appreciate that it does deal with the squealing tires and I feel

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01:14:37,620 --> 01:14:40,620
like all the base is having covered so thank you for that.

873
01:14:42,470 --> 01:14:43,420
Thank you, Councillor Carter.

874
01:14:44,360 --> 01:14:46,060
Are there any other questions, Councillor Stevenson?

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01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:50,360
Thank you to the chief.

876
01:14:50,860 --> 01:14:52,340
I have a very quick question.

877
01:14:52,340 --> 01:14:59,120
And so, under the definition of motor vehicle, it's anything that's not, like I'm not moving it essentially.

878
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:19,300
Which is a lot of things. But let's say someone has a couple of snowmobiles, and they're working on them, and they're revving them, and stuff like that. Is that considered a motor vehicle, and when they're revving and working on it, would that be a disturbance if it's disturbing the neighborhood?

879
01:15:22,980 --> 01:15:31,340
Is a motor vehicle? It is, okay. And revving the engine or causing noise disturbance with that is an offense. Okay. And it would be anything like a quad, a motorcycle.

880
01:15:32,580 --> 01:15:37,380
essentially anything that would fall into that motor vehicle, even if they're not

881
01:15:37,380 --> 01:15:41,440
necessarily riding it, but they're working on it, if it's that decibel level,

882
01:15:41,780 --> 01:15:44,440
it could be looked at under this by law.

883
01:15:44,740 --> 01:15:48,080
Correct, and again, this isn't the only tool in the two blocks of deal with noise,

884
01:15:48,220 --> 01:15:51,360
so we still have the other noise that you're, you know, you're mowing your lawn

885
01:15:51,360 --> 01:15:54,880
at two o'clock in the morning or something, but also there's other bylaws that deal with that as well.

886
01:15:55,220 --> 01:15:57,260
Right, fair enough, thank you.

887
01:16:02,880 --> 01:16:03,600
Thank you.

888
01:16:03,600 --> 01:16:07,800
Mayor, through you, I appreciate you being here tonight to Chief Costerman, and I'm very supportive of this.

889
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:15,100
The only question I have, and I see in our fees and fines, kind of numbers area here, this doesn't exist in other areas.

890
01:16:15,220 --> 01:16:20,440
But I wanted to ask anyway, is there ever consideration for progressive fines for multiple infractions?

891
01:16:21,440 --> 01:16:25,900
Mr. Mayor, through to Council, and yes, we did consider progressive fines, first defense, second offense.

892
01:16:26,900 --> 01:16:31,320
But our law firm that worked on this with us, they are also our prosecutors, and

893
01:16:31,320 --> 01:16:33,640
and their preference was to go with just the single fine.

894
01:16:34,360 --> 01:16:37,140
It is certainly within Council's prerogative to amend that,

895
01:16:37,740 --> 01:16:39,100
but that was their suggestion.

896
01:16:39,300 --> 01:16:40,800
It's just a stick with the single fine for now

897
01:16:40,800 --> 01:16:42,360
and that should work for us.

898
01:16:42,820 --> 01:16:45,560
Okay, if you're good with that and so that was a recommendation,

899
01:16:45,780 --> 01:16:47,340
I'm glad the question was asked, so thank you.

900
01:16:47,840 --> 01:16:48,360
That's all, Mayor.

901
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,160
Thank you, Councilor Olam.

902
01:16:50,160 --> 01:16:51,500
I have Councilor McDonnell next.

903
01:16:53,080 --> 01:16:54,500
Thank you, Mayor, through you to our guest.

904
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,280
Thank you, Chief Costerman for the presentation

905
01:16:56,280 --> 01:16:59,080
and I'm really glad to see this come before Council.

906
01:16:59,080 --> 01:17:04,420
I know it's been talked about for a while and on a personal level, I find traffic noise,

907
01:17:04,620 --> 01:17:08,260
road noise from certain, inconsiderate individuals, extremely annoying.

908
01:17:08,480 --> 01:17:12,120
So I'm really glad to see that we're going to be stepping up our efforts on that.

909
01:17:13,900 --> 01:17:14,760
Policies are great.

910
01:17:15,140 --> 01:17:19,960
Can you speak to the enforcement piece and what's going to change with respect to enforcement?

911
01:17:20,760 --> 01:17:27,460
We're going to have two by-law enforcement, full time working on this and some other by-law

912
01:17:27,460 --> 01:17:27,880
offenses.

913
01:17:27,880 --> 01:17:34,040
is that correct? Traffic Safety Act? I think it was in 2021 there was a pilot and I think you

914
01:17:34,040 --> 01:17:41,300
indicated in your presentation materials, 14 infractions were issued. Is that a full calendar 2021

915
01:17:41,300 --> 01:17:47,600
year? Mr. Mayor, through to Councilor McDonald. Yes, it is for the full calendar year. The pilot

916
01:17:47,600 --> 01:17:52,840
project did not run for the full year, however, I believe it ran for eight or ten months.

917
01:17:53,860 --> 01:17:58,280
So, what we did is two community peace offices are now attached to traffic enforcement full

918
01:17:58,280 --> 01:17:58,540
time.

919
01:17:58,720 --> 01:17:59,480
That's their main focus.

920
01:18:00,060 --> 01:18:04,820
And we replaced the duties that they were doing related to regular by-laws like sidewalks

921
01:18:04,820 --> 01:18:07,100
and suddenly premises, you know, parking.

922
01:18:07,620 --> 01:18:11,180
We hired two by-law officers, specifically by-law officers that deal with that.

923
01:18:11,820 --> 01:18:15,700
And then the remaining community peace officers all rotate through the traffic function.

924
01:18:16,320 --> 01:18:21,260
But anytime they're, unless they're responding to a complaint, and if the serious traffic

925
01:18:21,260 --> 01:18:25,060
the law always deal with it, but if they're responding to another complaint, they have to prioritize.

926
01:18:26,220 --> 01:18:30,220
So if they're going to something like a dog currently attacking somebody, that's going to be a

927
01:18:30,220 --> 01:18:34,440
priority overseeing someone to roll through a staff sign. But all of the community peace officers

928
01:18:34,440 --> 01:18:39,860
have the ability to enforce the Traffic Safety Act and all of our traffic bylaws. But two people are

929
01:18:39,860 --> 01:18:45,040
dedicated to it. So every single day, there's at least one person on for a period of anywhere from 11 to

930
01:18:45,040 --> 01:18:50,680
12 hours that is just strictly doing traffic. Specifically to the enforcement of this, we have three

931
01:18:50,680 --> 01:18:54,980
options which is one is the peace officer, notices the infraction and pulls the person over.

932
01:18:55,600 --> 01:19:01,940
Two is based on public complaints. So we have a number of complaints regarding a particular

933
01:19:01,940 --> 01:19:06,480
make and model in color of vehicle. They put out a bullow so beyond the lookout for it's registered

934
01:19:06,480 --> 01:19:12,200
on all the the morning watch reports. If they see that vehicle and they suspect it's the vehicle,

935
01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:15,980
they can pull it over and test it now with this. They don't have to see the infraction,

936
01:19:15,980 --> 01:19:18,920
They can test it and just say, no, you're over.

937
01:19:19,700 --> 01:19:21,820
So that's the beauty of this particular

938
01:19:21,820 --> 01:19:23,140
lying within the by-law.

939
01:19:23,620 --> 01:19:26,740
And the third option is vehicle safety checks.

940
01:19:27,280 --> 01:19:29,360
And that would where they'd set up like a roadblock

941
01:19:29,360 --> 01:19:31,140
and pull people over and check vehicles.

942
01:19:31,660 --> 01:19:33,320
That would usually be done in conjunction

943
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:37,740
with an alcohol drug check on vehicles as well

944
01:19:37,740 --> 01:19:38,380
with the RCMP.

945
01:19:38,740 --> 01:19:40,640
So that's the three options currently in front of us.

946
01:19:41,540 --> 01:19:42,140
It's fantastic.

947
01:19:42,420 --> 01:19:44,600
I'm really glad to hear about stepped up enforcement

948
01:19:44,600 --> 01:20:00,400
because I think that we all know perhaps in our neighborhoods the repeat offenders at least I know at least a couple in my neighborhood and I see that car and I shake my fist out of through the window and I say that guy revenues engine a two in the morning or whatever.

949
01:20:00,700 --> 01:20:04,900
So I'm encouraged to see that there's going to be stepped up enforcement effort.

950
01:20:04,900 --> 01:20:09,940
Mr. Mayor, through to Councilor McDowell, to make sure you phone in and report a description of the vehicle.

951
01:20:11,200 --> 01:20:11,460
Absolutely.

952
01:20:11,740 --> 01:20:12,720
After you shake your face, that's them.

953
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:14,000
Absolutely, absolutely.

954
01:20:14,620 --> 01:20:15,200
Thank you for that.

955
01:20:16,300 --> 01:20:25,820
To Councilor Oldum's point about graduated or progressive fines, I was intrigued because it was mentioned that other municipalities do do that.

956
01:20:25,980 --> 01:20:26,420
Is that correct?

957
01:20:27,260 --> 01:20:33,680
That is correct, and all kinds of different offenses that can exist within provincial and municipal enforcement.

958
01:20:34,980 --> 01:20:42,840
One of the things that can happen, though, is that second offense is not a second offense until they're found guilty of the first offense.

959
01:20:43,780 --> 01:20:50,340
If they plead not guilty right now, we're looking at court times that are over a year out, sometimes close to two years out.

960
01:20:50,780 --> 01:20:55,400
So the person could actually have four, five, six offenses, and still they'll all be first

961
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:57,680
offense because they haven't been convicted of the first one yet.

962
01:20:58,420 --> 01:21:00,900
So that may be a little bit confusing for the public.

963
01:21:01,800 --> 01:21:06,540
So right now it was decided just best just to stick with a one offense, one ticket.

964
01:21:07,400 --> 01:21:12,800
If we have a repeat person, well, we'll just watch for the more and it can get costly very

965
01:21:12,800 --> 01:21:13,160
fast.

966
01:21:14,260 --> 01:21:14,660
Understood.

967
01:21:19,920 --> 01:21:20,320
Yeah.

968
01:21:20,320 --> 01:21:25,820
report, repeat offenders, I think it was the amount of the fine because I feel as though

969
01:21:25,820 --> 01:21:30,940
many people spend far more than that modifying their vehicles to make them maximally annoying

970
01:21:30,940 --> 01:21:32,860
to their neighbors and people in the community.

971
01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:37,480
So when I see a $250 fine, I think, well, that's not enough to change behavior.

972
01:21:38,060 --> 01:21:42,600
So I certainly hope that the increased enforcement will have the desired effect.

973
01:21:42,740 --> 01:21:47,180
Of course, the end result is to have no fines because people actually change their behavior.

974
01:21:47,180 --> 01:21:51,920
but I'm pessimistic maybe, but I'd love to see that change.

975
01:21:53,280 --> 01:21:55,800
Guy, I don't have any further comments, but thank you for the presentation.

976
01:21:56,300 --> 01:21:56,960
I look forward to seeing this.

977
01:21:58,100 --> 01:22:00,600
Councillor McDonnell, I do have Mr. Rolansky on the queue.

978
01:22:01,760 --> 01:22:02,560
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

979
01:22:02,680 --> 01:22:08,780
I just wanted to add to what you said earlier about one of the other methods, and you've heard

980
01:22:08,780 --> 01:22:13,640
me say from this spot many times, and I can't emphasize enough that we want the community

981
01:22:13,640 --> 01:22:19,240
listening to continue to call in concerns and complaints because what that does is enables

982
01:22:19,240 --> 01:22:25,180
our team to find not only particular vehicles that might, but areas that might be hot spots

983
01:22:25,180 --> 01:22:31,740
and then do targeted enforcement work where this meter and this type of device can help with

984
01:22:31,740 --> 01:22:35,520
that. So again, for the public listening and for members of council continue to encourage

985
01:22:35,520 --> 01:22:39,500
people to call in, even if they can't get there at that exact moment, what it helps us

986
01:22:39,500 --> 01:22:43,400
and determine what our priorities are in enforcement actions, and we can take that.

987
01:22:43,600 --> 01:22:47,660
So thank you very much. I have Councilor Gillette next.

988
01:22:48,300 --> 01:22:51,460
Thank you, Mayor, through you. Thank you, Chief Costman, for being here.

989
01:22:52,200 --> 01:22:56,180
I strongly support this amendment. I can't tell you how many residents I heard from

990
01:22:56,920 --> 01:23:02,360
in all kinds of different neighborhoods that have been enduring these noise disturbances.

991
01:23:02,960 --> 01:23:07,800
One of the questions I have, though, is, is there a communicated grace period,

992
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:13,420
Or will this new amendment take effect immediately or when will it take effect?

993
01:23:13,960 --> 01:23:20,020
And secondly, what will be the way that we will communicate these new amendments to the public?

994
01:23:20,360 --> 01:23:28,180
I just sort of envisioned someone getting stopped and saying, oh, I didn't know this was an issue that I would get a fine for.

995
01:23:28,520 --> 01:23:31,780
So is there a way that we're going to communicate this clearly to the public?

996
01:23:32,320 --> 01:23:37,260
And then the third thing is, it's really important that we do because there were so many

997
01:23:37,260 --> 01:23:44,760
residents, who I think want to know that we have come up with some amendments that we've

998
01:23:44,760 --> 01:23:50,280
heard them and that we have brought something to help out in this aspect.

999
01:23:51,560 --> 01:23:54,420
Mr. Mayor, through to the Council, thank you, that's a very good question.

1000
01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:57,100
There's a couple of points there, just to touch on.

1001
01:23:57,720 --> 01:24:02,140
One is that these offenses were always illegal, under-provincial and other municipal bylaws.

1002
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:05,360
This is adding a tool, gives us a measuring tool.

1003
01:24:05,960 --> 01:24:13,740
But the offense was always there, but we do want to get that message out, and we are working with communications if they would like to address the question as well.

1004
01:24:14,840 --> 01:24:22,400
To get two points out, one is that this is going to be stepped up enforcement. There's going to be more so make sure you tune up your vehicle.

1005
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:32,900
There's also discretion on the part of the officer. So as we said previously, if they pulled somebody over and the vehicle has no modifications, the muffler is just deteriorating in time.

1006
01:24:32,900 --> 01:24:36,980
They will probably issue a warning and say, hey, the next 30 days, we'll get this fixed.

1007
01:24:37,660 --> 01:24:41,540
But if the president has modified it deliberately to make noise, they know they're making noise,

1008
01:24:41,900 --> 01:24:43,580
they will probably go straight to a ticket.

1009
01:24:44,300 --> 01:24:49,400
The second part we're looking at from a communications perspective is that, yes, counselors did go out

1010
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:53,600
and knock on doors, they did hear about this, you reported this back to administration, this

1011
01:24:53,600 --> 01:24:56,620
was an issue, you brought it to us during the corporate planning process.

1012
01:24:57,360 --> 01:25:01,560
And we want to make sure that once we're out there enforcing it, that we get that message

1013
01:25:01,560 --> 01:25:02,120
out as well.

1014
01:25:02,120 --> 01:25:15,880
But, you know, the public does get listened to, we do make changes based on feedback, it's good to give feedback, and that's the other part we want to go. But again, I would yield the floor here to communications if they would like to answer the question as well.

1015
01:25:18,860 --> 01:25:30,460
Thank you. Through you, Mr. Mayor. Further to chief customers comments, we will be working closely with them to develop a thorough communications campaign to touch on the points that chief

1016
01:25:30,460 --> 01:25:37,100
has mentioned this evening to inform the community about these activities and how we will be working on

1017
01:25:38,620 --> 01:25:42,780
making sure that they know that this is happening and what the consequences are as well as

1018
01:25:42,780 --> 01:25:46,240
the benefits of why we are doing this. Great, thank you very much.

1019
01:25:46,320 --> 01:25:51,320
I mean, maybe Mr. Raul just add to that, that there is a little bit of period of time here because

1020
01:25:51,920 --> 01:25:59,780
we can't in good conscious, go out and purchase the equipment specified in a by-law until that

1021
01:25:59,780 --> 01:26:03,640
past a period of time where we have to acquire the equipment, proceed with the training with the

1022
01:26:03,640 --> 01:26:07,380
equipment, and that's the time period, I think, communications is going to focus on getting the

1023
01:26:07,380 --> 01:26:12,580
message out while we're doing our training as well, and that also makes a good segue into the

1024
01:26:12,580 --> 01:26:17,880
story. The officers doing the training is a great free way to get that media attention.

1025
01:26:19,600 --> 01:26:24,800
Excellent. Thank you so much. I have no one else on the queue. Any other questions?

1026
01:26:25,480 --> 01:26:35,140
I want to appreciate, and I want to echo my colleagues' comments, and I'm happy to see this come forward for second reading, and we'll be addressing it for third reading in the meetings ahead I assume.

1027
01:26:35,920 --> 01:26:38,600
And I appreciate the comments about communicating this.

1028
01:26:38,860 --> 01:26:49,460
You know, we did all hear this from the residents. It's nice to be able to report back that we heard. Here's some new tools in our toolbox, but along with letting the community know the expectations that we have.

1029
01:26:49,460 --> 01:26:53,460
for just quieting down some of those roads, especially on road drive,

1030
01:26:53,760 --> 01:26:57,920
Jan Isle, Sentry Road. Communications, we just have to go doorknock on those roads

1031
01:26:57,920 --> 01:27:01,260
and we can tell them all there's something coming. But thank you so much,

1032
01:27:01,320 --> 01:27:05,020
I really appreciate this and I appreciate the way we're going to go about this

1033
01:27:05,020 --> 01:27:07,860
and hopefully the tools will assist you and assist the community.

1034
01:27:08,460 --> 01:27:10,060
So I will call the question on second reading.

1035
01:27:18,630 --> 01:27:19,030
Thank you,

1036
01:27:19,090 --> 01:27:20,430
that motion has been carried unanimously.

1037
01:27:20,430 --> 01:27:28,670
Lastly, we have one business item on the agenda 11.1, and it is the 2021-2022 External

1038
01:27:28,670 --> 01:27:33,250
Board and Committee Appointments revised, and this was also approved within our consent

1039
01:27:33,250 --> 01:27:33,730
agenda.

1040
01:27:34,730 --> 01:27:38,610
So, we will move into our Council Reports, and we have two Council Reports as evening, and

1041
01:27:38,610 --> 01:27:42,550
we will start off with a report from Councilor Stevenson on the DLC.

1042
01:27:46,790 --> 01:27:47,010
Great.

1043
01:27:47,170 --> 01:27:47,730
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1044
01:27:48,010 --> 01:27:53,250
I just wanted to give some good news that's happening with the Child Leisure Center, so obviously

1045
01:27:53,250 --> 01:28:01,290
they've been open at near full capacity, if you want to call normal, today's normal normal,

1046
01:28:01,750 --> 01:28:07,510
for a while now and what they are seeing is that people are coming back not just in little numbers

1047
01:28:07,510 --> 01:28:14,150
but big numbers. So they are seeing numbers that they weren't even themselves anticipating as a

1048
01:28:14,150 --> 01:28:20,050
board. I think we took a very cautious approach but we're seeing very strong numbers. I'll just give you

1049
01:28:20,050 --> 01:28:28,990
an idea just before the world shut down in March of 2020, we had 5,144 active contracts

1050
01:28:29,390 --> 01:28:37,450
that did in 2021. So last year to 2,882. So that's a significant drop in the number of

1051
01:28:37,450 --> 01:28:46,430
memberships. As of this year, end of March 31st, we are back up to 4,146. So they are seeing

1052
01:28:47,010 --> 01:28:54,530
increases like in a big amount, 1,156 new contracts. So they're seeing a lot of people coming in,

1053
01:28:54,650 --> 01:29:01,030
they're doing a lot of the prepays. There is a normal pickup at the beginning of the year,

1054
01:29:01,090 --> 01:29:07,430
because of the wonderful New Year's resolution. So this is normal to see a very strong first quarter,

1055
01:29:07,770 --> 01:29:13,730
but again, very strong compared to what we originally anticipated. So you can imagine that

1056
01:29:14,230 --> 01:29:19,570
the staff and the board is extremely happy to see this.

1057
01:29:19,730 --> 01:29:21,470
A lot of the programming is full.

1058
01:29:21,830 --> 01:29:23,470
There's wait lists for some of the swimming.

1059
01:29:24,010 --> 01:29:27,510
They've had to make changes because so many of the young kids that are just learning to swim

1060
01:29:27,510 --> 01:29:29,630
haven't been able to swim in a couple of years.

1061
01:29:29,670 --> 01:29:31,530
They haven't taken their first swimming lessons.

1062
01:29:31,790 --> 01:29:35,330
So they're making adjustments to be able to get kids in the pool.

1063
01:29:35,650 --> 01:29:41,330
If any of you tried to go public swimming, it was almost, they said it was crazy crowded.

1064
01:29:41,330 --> 01:29:45,370
they didn't even have the number of staff to be able to accommodate, so they did have

1065
01:29:45,370 --> 01:29:48,850
to turn people away and they made sure that they were staffed up.

1066
01:29:49,290 --> 01:29:55,350
The other thing, too, compared to other municipalities, the tri-leisure did a very good

1067
01:29:55,350 --> 01:29:59,950
job of keeping connected with the staff that they had to lay off during COVID-19.

1068
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:29,860
And they were able to retain and bring back upwards of 80% of their staff, where other municipalities have not been able to hold on or bring their staff back. And they've actually had to reduce their programming, including a lot of the swimming. So just a big kudos to the tri-leisure for being able to maintain those relationships obviously a very good place to work if people were willing to come back after a significant amount of time being away. So very good news for the tri-leisure. I just wanted to share that with everyone.

1069
01:30:29,860 --> 01:30:35,800
And then, of course, the next big thing is that the Stony Plane Outdoor Pool will be opening in the next little while.

1070
01:30:35,800 --> 01:30:41,640
They're just finalizing that partnership that we have with the town of Stony Plane.

1071
01:30:41,800 --> 01:30:48,440
So that should be up and running in the next couple of months if Mother Nature cooperates and keeps it warm enough outside.

1072
01:30:48,560 --> 01:30:51,240
But overall, the tri-leisure is back.

1073
01:30:51,600 --> 01:30:54,140
So I just wanted to share that with the team today.

1074
01:30:55,460 --> 01:31:00,140
Thank you so much, Councillor Stevenson, that was excellent news. It's fantastic to hear

1075
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,660
that the numbers are coming back. The community is getting back out there and enjoying

1076
01:31:03,660 --> 01:31:07,400
the facilities we have. I will open up if anyone has any questions

1077
01:31:07,400 --> 01:31:09,700
for Councillor Stevenson on her TLC report.

1078
01:31:13,180 --> 01:31:16,140
I'm seeing none, but please take Council's

1079
01:31:16,140 --> 01:31:20,140
appreciation for what they've been able to do, the relationship they kept with staff, and

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having them be able to return and thank them for being there for the community. I appreciate

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it. We will now turn the attention to Councillor Gillette for a convention conference report.

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Through you to my colleagues. About two weeks ago, I attended the Alberta

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seniors and community housing conference and trade show in Calgary. Among our speakers

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was the Honourable Josephine Pond, the minister of seniors in housing. She shared on the

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province this 10-year strategy and new legislation to improve and expand affordable seniors

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housing, emphasizing partnerships with housing providers. Part of their

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strategic plan to outline how to access to the affordable seniors housing

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system will be improved by keeping it sustainable and becoming more efficient.

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The Alberta Seniors and Community Housing Association, or ASHA's, core roles

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are advocacy and access to resources to assist housing providers with

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services as they offer a variety of housing options. They proudly champion all sectors of

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seniors housing including public, private, and voluntary providers offering independent

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and supportive living spaces. In terms of our community housing representation, that would be

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the Meridian Housing Foundation and St. Michael's Health Group offering non-profit and public

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community housing options. Our regional housing bodies are striving to meet the increasing

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demand with additional living spaces such as the under construction phase one five story facility

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in the Fenwick area, as well as the much anticipated possible future construction of the 102 unit

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lodge facility by Meridian Housing. As a strong supporter of seniors living and housing that

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honors their dignity, serves their needs, and inspires purpose in our chosen community, it was great

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to attend this conference. The focus nature of learning at a conference allowed me to

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really dig deeper and learn much more about the challenges that were facing other communities

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like ours and to gain a better understanding of new proposed ideas. There are many presentations

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of programs and services and best practices to assist seniors and to promote their safety

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and well-being. So I attended these workshops and made connections that will enable me

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and my colleagues to continue to support the development of affordable senior housing

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and to advocate for our residents to have access to housing options through accountability,

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engagement and collaboration. Thank you. Thank you so much Councillor Gillette for providing us an

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update and I really appreciate that you attended this conference and your learnings and your

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relationships that you built and the knowledge that you're sharing with us on Council, and

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we appreciate that you taking the time to do that additional learnings and to reach out

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because seniors housing and housing in general is an issue and it's first growth in most communities

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in this province, so we appreciate it. Does anyone have any questions for Councilor Gillette

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on her report?

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I am seeing them, so thank you very much for your report. We will next move to

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information items and we have none on our agenda this evening. I will ask if there are any members

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01:34:43,230 --> 01:34:45,770
of Council who would like to provide a notice of motion this evening.

1117
01:34:48,710 --> 01:34:51,450
I am seeing none. So we will

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move on to next we have closed session but there are no items scheduled for closed session this evening

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and therefore there is no business arising from our closed session so we are at the final stage

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and I'll just ask a member to make a motion to adjourn.

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01:35:10,420 --> 01:35:11,080
Councilor Oldam.

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01:35:12,160 --> 01:35:13,360
Motion to adjourn, Mayor.

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01:35:14,280 --> 01:35:15,040
Thank you, Councilor Oldam.

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I'll call the question on the motion.

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Thank you very much, that motion has been carried.

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This meeting is adjourned, so everyone please be kind and be safe out there.

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Have a good night.