[0:02] Okay, let's call the meeting to order.
7:00 p.m.
[0:07] And um
Scott's on video.
[0:11] Mayor Scott, can you say?
And
[0:15] Scott, since we can't always see you
when we're doing the voting, um unless
[0:19] we hear from you, we're just going to
say that you're voting in agreement,
[0:23] okay?
Okay, that sounds good. Can you hear me?
[0:28] Yes. Yeah.
All right, so
[0:33] we're going to adopt the agenda.
[0:36] I move to adopt the agenda.
Thank you, Mayor.
[0:43] I will move that so I can get my name in
the
[0:47] I think we're going to have to wait till
we finish. That's right.
[0:53] Ordered.
[0:57] All right, everybody in favor?
The agenda.
[1:01] Okay.
I.
[1:04] » [laughter]
>> Okay.
[1:05] It's adopted.
All right, uh any recognition
[1:09] from anybody?
[1:12] Um the
[1:17] It fell off.
Was it girls or boys?
[1:22] I'm not sure who it fell off of.
Who was it on?
[1:25] They'll start going through the usual
routine, so it must have
[1:29] Boys left it on. Who are the boys that
left it on?
[1:31] They got a long road to Peace River.
[1:36] Uh if that's betting in Grande Prairie
or not. Anything else? Before season.
[1:41] Off the ground.
No. All right.
[1:45] Library's new signs.
I I did like that one there. That's the
[1:49] one you're talking about? I think it's
the one on the outside third town now,
[1:52] too. What? I missed it.
I waited three years and I missed it.
[1:57] Okay.
Yeah, we could recognize that. Yeah.
[2:00] That's good. That's good. That's good.
[2:05] All right.
We have our obligations now. So, so
[2:10] Corporal Travis Norton. Yeah,
absolutely. Do I need you to want me to
[2:13] stand up, get in the camera, or just
talk nice and loud and stuff? That's
[2:17] about all I'm going to show you what I'm
going to tell you. Yeah, so I think um
[2:21] Sergeant Goss had sent over the
quarterly reports as always. As usual,
[2:25] so I went through um
kind of
[2:29] my own little spin-off on kind of what I
think would be important for you guys.
[2:32] So,
um speaking
[2:35] precisely about Q3, which is October to
December, there was 300 calls for
[2:42] service in our detachment during that
time, and 32 of those were
[2:47] from Stirling. Those could have been and
combined with that were traffic
[2:52] complaints on Highway 4. We get lots of
those because they come by Stirling, it
[2:56] gets named Stirling.
Um traffic collisions on Highway 4, if
[3:00] it's due
uh the 846 again coming forward.
[3:04] Um we didn't um
have very many criminal code
[3:09] investigations here, and the reports
that we did have come in regarding that,
[3:13] I could tell you were between basically
two households.
[3:16] Um just problem places that we go to
regulars or just kind of certain
[3:22] dynamics that are happening at the time
is what gets our attention.
[3:25] So far in Q4, you guys have been counted
again, and you'll have to trust me on
[3:30] this.
32 out of the 260 calls for service that
[3:34] we've had so far out here. So, about 13
and 11% of what our call volume is is
[3:39] consistent of you. Um within that is a
large amount of well-being checks on
[3:44] folks that they just haven't been heard
from family members for a little while.
[3:48] We go check on them, make sure they're
safe.
[3:51] Um another large majority of that, like
has been mentioned before, is mental
[3:54] health calls. Um we within those, you
know, 60 some calls for service that
[4:00] we've had so far out here, 10 to 15 of
those are related to mental health
[4:04] calls.
Those could be anywhere from going and
[4:07] checking in on somebody again to say,
"Hey, what's going on? Are you doing
[4:10] okay?"
or apprehending them, taking them to
[4:14] Lethbridge, and the last time I was in
Lethbridge at the hospital, the wait
[4:18] time was 2 and 1/2 hours.
So, we're sitting in the emergency room
[4:22] with somebody that we've taken there
that we know is struggling, and we need
[4:25] to bring them to
support systems, and our wait just to
[4:30] relieve myself of my responsibility is 2
and 1/2 hours.
[4:34] Yeah. So, that's a large quantity of our
time during that
[4:39] doing those things, but it is something
that we deal with by a lot. And again, I
[4:44] would say the same three or four people.
It's kind of how that evolves and what
[4:49] we're dealing with. So, it's it's repeat
people. It's not new individuals in the
[4:54] area. It's just people that are
struggling, and it pops up more often,
[4:57] and we come into their lives to
support them, transport them, and make
[5:01] sure they get the help they
solve them. That's where a large portion
[5:04] of our investigations have been.
A file that I've had recently was
[5:10] what we classify as a break-in, but what
ended up happening is the individual
[5:15] went inside, hit the garage door closer,
and went down, hit a chunk of ice,
[5:19] popped back up, and was just open for
the taking. So, somebody walking by
[5:23] helped themselves to a couple of
different tools and things.
[5:28] Other than that, um one of your your
guys's bathroom doors out of the
[5:32] campground was attempted to be pried
open. That was in
[5:35] November, I believe.
But, a lot of those files are, as we
[5:40] come across them, it's usually, "Is
there CCTV? Is there a witness?"
[5:45] Most often, it's not. Um
but with this time of year, with farmers
[5:50] getting into the fields again, the thing
that we want to focus on and maybe put
[5:53] out there is
keeping the keys in your pocket instead
[5:57] of on the dash or hidden in the vehicle.
We always get that a lot. I hid
[6:03] another set of keys in the vehicle, and
they're found, and the vehicle drives
[6:06] off.
When you guys did your survey, cuz I got
[6:10] those results as well, how many people
were Could you tell how many people had
[6:14] engaged in that survey? Uh 66. 66. Okay.
So,
[6:20] going through those, what I came through
and saw was active patrols,
[6:25] um crime prevention with the example of
community presentations, and then
[6:31] traffic enforcement on 4th Ave here,
beginning school, after school, peak
[6:36] summer hours with
the pool being open and that thing. So,
[6:40] those are are obviously great for us to
know. I can tell you in Q3 and Q4 we did
[6:45] a number of laser setups in town. No
tickets were given out during that.
[6:52] There wasn't any speeds at that time
while we were there that was needed for
[6:57] any kind of intervention or the tickets
and the There were more than a handful
[7:01] of traffic stops where we warned, "Hey,
your speed's getting up there. Did you
[7:04] know that the school zone is this long?"
Okay, yep, education.
[7:09] So, those will continue. Um
again, I've got young kids. Sandra and I
[7:14] were talking about this, and I know how
busy the school zones get, how busy the
[7:18] pool gets, and everything. So, you guys
have a lovely facility here.
[7:22] That's something that we're keeping on
top of and making sure we're documenting
[7:25] those patrols, documenting when we're
doing those kind of traffic operations
[7:30] and stuff. Um and I believe the peace
officers are contracted to be in town as
[7:35] well. Is that correct? That's correct.
So, obviously we work closely with them
[7:39] as well. They're in our office.
We had brought that to their attention
[7:42] as well. I can't speak for how many
times they come through town or done any
[7:46] patrols since I don't we don't track
them that way. We're not in charge of
[7:50] that, but it is something that we'll
continue to bring up and and make
[7:54] mention of that.
So,
[7:55] um when it comes down to active patrols
and crime prevention, so those kind of
[8:01] go together in the sense where we're
patrolling around, and
[8:04] we'll patrol around through the day,
patrol around often through the night,
[8:08] and we'll roll around and just see a
pair of headlights and follow vehicles
[8:11] home around town and see what they're
doing. So, that's stuff that we're we're
[8:14] keeping on top of.
Um I am the
[8:20] Sergeant Goss proclaimed community
engagement coordinator, okay? I love
[8:25] that. My background throughout my three
post things is community development. I
[8:32] love to be up and be active in the
schools and the communities. Any
[8:35] presentation you want, I can come and I
can do that. What I will say is when we
[8:41] put the message out there, we're not the
most lovely people that, you know, they
[8:44] want to come and talk to or see us.
The most success that I've seen in this
[8:49] community as well as out is when we um
collaborate with a organization that
[8:56] already gets a fairly large gathering of
people
[9:00] once a month or every couple of months,
where I can come in and supplement a
[9:05] fraud presentation. That's something we
see a ton, and we can never ever give
[9:11] enough of those presentations cuz we see
it, and it's like, "I thought, you know,
[9:15] we had this out there in your community.
I wish you had come." Is there any
[9:19] organizations in town that would meet
regularly that we could partner with and
[9:22] engage with like that? I've got you
right there. I've got eyes on I'm seeing
[9:25] eyes staring directly at
I see you there.
[9:29] So,
reach out to me, please, so I can
[9:32] prepare presentations. I will either be
there myself, or I will direct another
[9:37] constable that is working to go there
and give that presentation. Just
[9:43] uh 2 months ago, I guess I guess now in
January, I partnered with uh the school
[9:47] counselors and did some bullying and
online safety presentations through
[9:53] uh the Stirling schools. So, we hit
grade 6, 7, and 8. Some of that was
[9:56] targeted because of issues they were
seeing within those boxes. Others of it
[10:00] was just it's always nice to get in
front have a police outfit in there and
[10:04] and work hand in hand with
with Claire and Karen and a couple of
[10:08] those people. So,
that's what my passion is. So, please
[10:12] anything that you can think of
I'll reach out to me and we will set a
[10:17] date that works. I'll let you know what
constable or if I can come out and what
[10:21] presentation would work best for you
guys.
[10:24] If you have a phone number contact
information too so that if service
[10:26] students want to
be able to get a hold of you.
[10:31] The dispatcher knows even if you call
and say, "Hey, I'm looking for the guy
[10:34] that's the community board." They know.
But they know that I'm Travis Task.
[10:38] He'll handle it. He'll take care of it.
He knows things. So, don't worry if if
[10:42] somebody doesn't remember my name, if
they just call and ask for new
[10:45] presentation, they'll put it on my desk
and I'll handle it. Make sure.
[10:50] Um
when it comes down to like other crime
[10:53] prevention things, like a lot of it does
come through tips and tricks of what we
[10:58] pick up on. Fraud is obviously a great
thing, but fraud is all happening across
[11:02] the world.
When it comes down to
[11:06] theft prevention, breaking enters, those
types of things, that it's really a lot
[11:10] of the simple things that do it, but
sometimes we forget what those simple
[11:13] things are. And again, I'm happy to
come up with brochures and safety tips
[11:19] and posters and those types of lovely
things to help with that as well in the
[11:24] community.
[11:27] Does anyone have any questions for me
that I can help answer or add on to?
[11:32] Sandra's got my my name and family info
all down. So, she'll tell you how to get
[11:37] how to get a hold of me. So, I hope you
guys enjoyed the presents at the
[11:41] Sterling Break this year. I think that
was
[11:44] um
really fun to have three people involved
[11:47] in that two marching.
You want to come and then a partner
[11:50] driving. So, again, I'm kind of the
we're going, you're coming with me. So,
[11:55] I don't know what we're doing. So,
if you guys have anything that I can be
[11:59] of help with that, please let me know.
We've got lots of presentations. So,
[12:08] That's everything for me.
Any questions from council?
[12:12] Comments?
[12:15] We're being a priority to be blind.
>> [laughter]
[12:43] » Fortunately for me in in Killam, I
worked with NFCS a fair amount of my
[12:48] first most things. So, I got into that
real very quickly and that's where that
[12:52] that community engagement side of me
kind of goes.
[12:57] All right.
If you've never heard of Claire's Law,
[13:00] research that.
Is it Claire's Law? Claire's Law. Have a
[13:03] look at that and the kind of information
it can help people in your area or
[13:08] organization.
Um and that's again another presentation
[13:12] that I'm happy to give because I've been
a domestic violence coordinator in my
[13:15] previous postings as well. So, Claire's
Law is something that isn't new to the
[13:20] province, but it's new enough that not a
lot of people know about
[13:27] All right, thank you. You're welcome.
I'll let you guys get on with it. So,
[13:30] you've got my contact info. So, I'll be
sure to forward one over to you. Thank
[13:33] you. Awesome. Thanks so much, guys.
Thanks so much.
[13:42] You don't need that for accepted. No. I
think that's all my issues.
[13:46] All right. So, now we're going to move
to close session.
[13:51] I'll make the motion to go into close.
In Thank [clears throat] you, Matt.
[13:57] Anybody favor?
[14:04] Don't say I didn't show up. If you want
to
[14:14] Okay, so now we need to make our motion.
Are we already We did that in
[14:18] I don't need a motion.
I don't need a motion. I'm just going to
[14:21] start it. So, someone can just make the
motion. Okay.
[14:26] I will make that motion.
[14:31] I'll make the motion.
In favor.
[14:34] Okay.
[14:37] Okay.
We're going to go
[14:40] to
our
[14:41] minutes.
So,
[14:44] Got your minutes.
We're just about to record it here in
[14:48] the sets. So, just give us a minute.
I just want to make sure that everything
[14:52] was recorded.
Unfortunately, no money in the agenda
[14:55] this meeting.
Yeah, we got to have a motion on the
[14:59] hearing on. Yeah. Yes. So, we need to
adopt the minutes.
[15:07] Um that's from the last meeting.
Anything?
[15:13] I'll make the motion to accept the
minutes.
[15:14] Thank you.
Anybody favor?
[15:18] I got
Okay. Is there any business arising from
[15:21] those minutes that we
I'm sure should be done that.
[15:25] Don't we adopt the minutes? Don't we
adopt
[15:30] No, we're good.
Okay. Motion tracker.
[15:35] Anything to discuss?
Like to discuss?
[15:41] Oh, Raymond has to speak up. He hasn't
responded to us so we can drop that one
[15:43] off the list.
This job we just spoke about is a sent
[15:46] to him in that email.
[15:50] I think that's all.
I have talked with Greg about the asset
[15:53] that I'll be looking at in the next
month. It's fine. We'll be engaging. So,
[15:57] if it's a person.
[16:03] Okay, so
was that just for information, right?
[16:10] Yeah, you have to make a motion to ask.
Okay. So, now we're going to
[16:14] checklist two.
Okay, so
[16:19] we have of
6194
[16:23] that Justin's applied to.
Let's assume that.
[16:27] Any other ones?
[16:31] No, just that. Okay.
All right, so um 0022
[16:36] to 6193
and then 6195
[16:44] to 6210.
Um you know that to be so.
[16:59] Do you make that a motion to accept it?
I can get that explained.
[17:02] » [laughter]
>> I will make a motion to accept the
[17:03] minutes.
Anybody favor?
[17:06] That's why I can vote on that.
[17:11] Justin's applied for state. 194.
[17:15] Okay, Matt.
[17:20] Yes. I can put that one on there.
I think why did we have to make key of
[17:25] the pool?
Why did we have to make key of the pool?
[17:30] Because there was too many keys floating
around and we don't want people
[17:33] accessing the pool that shouldn't be
accessing it. Okay.
[17:36] And then
[17:42] we have the water thing on 1846.
That's water and break. Yeah.
[17:47] Okay. And that was on that from the
fire. No, that was from the road.
[17:52] On the road. And not hearing. Yeah.
That is our only system.
[17:56] Yeah. Everybody needs three months.
[18:03] All right, I forgot to ask if we had any
questions.
[18:07] Is that your I did have a question about
the town holding a bill for the new date
[18:11] structure fire? Mhm.
So, why are we billed for the new date?
[18:14] Because we called.
We responded to the aid for fires.
[18:17] That's part of our fire service area.
So, we have to call for mutual aid um
[18:22] because the county departments did not
show up in time. The one that did left
[18:25] early.
And then we passed it on to the county
[18:28] board.
[18:32] And that was last month.
[18:40] Okay.
[18:43] Any other questions about that then?
[18:52] What else?
Okay, so nobody put that on the meeting
[18:56] to think.
[18:59] Any questions there?
[19:06] All right.
[19:08] We'd like to move.
[19:12] Matt. Yeah.
Anybody favor?
[19:17] In favor. Okay.
Bank account balances.
[19:23] Any questions about that?
[19:28] Okay.
So, we should
[19:31] keep that on the agenda. Okay, Matt.
[19:35] Now we're down to items for discussion.
Mill rate.
[19:41] Okay.
So,
[19:43] I've had an opportunity to review the
report.
[19:47] Uh preliminary assessment numbers are
in. This is now off
[19:50] based off of um not having a new
building system making a small
[19:54] adjustment adjustment that we make every
year.
[19:57] But it looks like all in all there was
approximately just 105% growth in the in
[20:04] the assessment for the residential
portion.
[20:06] Now, linear to community beating it
dropped this year, so that did reduce
[20:11] the overall
assessment because the province is
[20:14] redoing how they do linear assessment,
so we can expect it to drop periodically
[20:18] for over the next few years is my
understanding.
[20:22] Lawrence,
right now
[20:25] our our budgets were very We sit in that
low mid 20s for percentage of our
[20:32] funding that's actually covered by
taxation.
[20:35] So, taxation this year is covering
24.23% of the budget, last year's 23.28%
[20:42] of the budget, so we don't use a lot in
the taxation dollars
[20:46] for
covering the budget.
[20:49] Compared to our neighbors,
the 2025 tax bylaws from this community
[20:54] is Raymond used 23.51%
taxation
[20:59] for their municipal operations, the town
of Bow Island uses 57.27%
[21:04] taxation for their
operation, town of Warner is 40.15%,
[21:12] town of Milk River 22.02%,
and the village of Coutts 52.85%.
[21:17] So, many of these other communities do
not use other funding streams to fund
[21:21] the municipal operation, whereas village
of Stirling we're kind of in line with
[21:25] Raymond and Milk River in how we fund
a small portion of our budget comes from
[21:32] actual taxation.
This is This is operations. You're just
[21:36] talking This is operations, not capital.
This is the whole This is the whole full
[21:39] municipal picture operations and
capital.
[21:42] So, and that's why there's some minor
fluctuations cuz certain years look like
[21:48] 2020
four
[21:52] we didn't have a lot of way major
capital projects, so we didn't see the
[21:56] same level of capital funding and the
capital funding we got was better than
[21:59] some of the funding we're getting in our
large capital projects. So,
[22:04] we do see some minor fluctuations based
on the way we're doing capital loss.
[22:09] Things that we have to take into
consideration
[22:12] is
our requisitions and our levies. So, all
[22:16] of them have gone up.
The police funding's gone up. So, police
[22:21] regional public safety services,
children and adult services, new
[22:26] services, those requisitions accounted
for 1.21786
[22:31] mills. So, that actually translates to
14.22%
[22:35] of our operating dollars
that we're taking in our taxation. So,
[22:39] almost just a hair under 15% of our
taxes that we collect, we automatically
[22:45] give to other boards that aren't
straight pass-throughs like Ridge
[22:49] Country House or the education guys.
So, these are the ones that we bust out
[22:54] on our
tax notice that
[22:59] municipal affairs didn't catch. We would
get to usually get this year, but all
[23:03] those combined mill rates taking a
healthy chunk of our operating dollars
[23:06] now.
So, we'll have some final numbers and
[23:10] some expanded reports coming out when we
do the tax bylaw, which is coming April
[23:15] 1st, as well as the final budget report
coming April 1st.
[23:19] So, entertain any questions or comments
at this time.
[23:25] What was the percentage you said that is
referred all by other stuff? It is
[23:29] 14.22%
[23:32] of our tax dollars that are being given
away.
[23:35] So, we only retain 75% and change of our
tax dollars for our municipal operation.
[23:44] And okay, that was just municipal
education and then
[23:47] what is the senior?
So, seniors is Ridge Country House.
[23:52] So, Ridge Country House gives us the
requisition, that is a separate line on
[23:55] the tax notice just like the education
budget. It doesn't come out It's the
[24:00] only other one that's allowed to be
broke up separately, so it doesn't come
[24:03] out of our actual operating dollars. We
collect it on their behalf as a
[24:07] pass-through, same situation.
[24:11] What like this is like what why people
like why do seniors and people who don't
[24:18] have kids have to pay that education?
[24:22] Like I'm just saying like honestly
though
[24:24] if you don't
Is it just How How would you How would
[24:27] you track who does and doesn't have
children?
[24:30] So, the
The reality of it is is education So,
[24:34] the education requisition is based off
of property assessment and property tax.
[24:38] So, the only way they can you know
arbitrarily apply it is fairly across
[24:42] the entire tax base. The only other way
they can fund it is through income
[24:46] income tax levy
or if they made it completely fee
[24:50] service based where people pay for their
children's education
[24:53] right up front.
So, that would be cost prohibitive and
[24:56] you would not see an educated society.
That is what I'm trying to think of.
[25:03] Yeah.
[25:11] Do you have any questions?
[25:18] I'm good.
I'd like to thank the motion carriers at
[25:22] the the report for the information.
What time did you do that?
[25:27] Yeah, this is going to come back to us
in April 1st
[25:30] in the tax rate bylaw. That's what we'll
be We'll talk about it in the meeting
[25:33] again.
Okay.
[25:36] Everybody in favor?
That's the motion carried.
[25:40] In favor.
[25:44] All right. Honorable water
and parks they said stuff to me. I know
[25:48] what they said.
We have good water.
[25:51] So, Upper River Environment
kind of like this affairs, they do
[25:55] audits of our our systems. So,
Mason was
[26:00] had a member of Upper River Environment
come down, perform an audit of our
[26:04] system,
and I can tell council we passed it at
[26:07] 85%.
That being said, that we should have
[26:11] passed it at a higher rate because Mason
knew more about the legislation than the
[26:15] evaluator.
And he challenged her on things, she
[26:18] said he was wrong, and then he looked
them up and found out he was right.
[26:21] So, he was going to go back in and try
and get the whole thing the score
[26:25] adjusted a bit off of what we passed.
Things that we will consistently fail
[26:28] on, we'll never get 100% because they
want us to have isolation valves at
[26:33] every block,
and we cannot do that. And in the rural
[26:36] system they want us to have isolation
valves every certain length, and we
[26:40] cannot afford to do that. To meet their
standard we need about $10 million or so
[26:45] in just valves to be including this
stuff. So, it's it's just an unpragmatic
[26:49] system. So, certain certain things we're
always going to fail on.
[26:52] That being said, the important part, the
quality of our water, the the risk to
[26:57] public health is nonexistent. So, we
passed on all the stuff that's actually
[27:01] really important. Where we got dinged is
he had a paper copy
[27:06] of his procedure and couldn't get the
couldn't find a PDF copy cuz it was on a
[27:09] flash drive, and flash drive was in his
desk, but it was his part of the
[27:13] inspection. So, we had the copy, but
because we didn't have both we got
[27:17] marked down. Alternatively, we had the
PDF copy of one, but we didn't print a
[27:21] copy of it, we had it saved on on the
computer, so they dinged us on not
[27:25] printing a copy of it.
So, it's it's really innocuous stuff to
[27:29] justify somebody else's existence within
the government, but the core stuff is
[27:33] we're maintaining our system, our new
valves are getting exercised, we're
[27:36] meeting all of the legislative
requirements that are important ones to
[27:40] meet, and the other ones are more or
less things that no city anywhere has
[27:44] because they're such nice to haves that
nobody can afford them on the best of
[27:47] days anyway. So, all in all
our water quality in our system, we're
[27:52] doing quite well.
[27:54] That doesn't speak to the state of the
infrastructure, but we're in good shape
[27:58] in how our our water's being transported
and the quality of the water we're
[28:02] getting in the city.
Any other questions?
[28:06] Report?
So, then
[28:08] operational is
I didn't see any of that in relation to
[28:13] not printing the water function. That is
in relation to not printing or printing
[28:16] and not having valves in every single
spot of the town.
[28:23] How do you know everybody?
[28:26] Anything else?
[28:32] This map information.
[28:36] I will.
Let's go.
[28:42] Everybody in favor?
In favor.
[28:45] Okay.
[28:49] CAO reports.
[28:52] Any questions?
So, no lunch report didn't have a ton of
[28:56] meetings.
I can't say though that we have awarded
[29:00] the first portion of the water contract
tender to Porter Tanner.
[29:06] Their
their bid came in actually substantially
[29:11] lower than what the budgeted amount was.
So, we're doing quite well in that
[29:14] respect. So, we took all of our budget
allocations, they applied GST to it.
[29:20] Without the GST component, they came in
closer to $200,000 under what FP had
[29:24] listed for our grant funding. So,
all in all quite pleased with that. The
[29:29] next closest one was $200,000 higher
than they were, and then it ranged all
[29:33] the way up to almost a million bucks
higher than they were.
[29:36] So, that's for chance somebody at this
table doesn't know exactly what the
[29:39] scope of work is. So, what we're doing.
So, we are getting rid of our old water
[29:44] treatment plant. That's getting cut
washed to where we're a small shed-like
[29:49] structure and putting all of the
equipment from the road system and our
[29:53] potable system into this one structure
to make it more viable.
[29:56] We've also got it built out for growth
and expansion where we can remove a
[29:59] portion of the roof and add in larger
pumps if need be
[30:03] to
build up higher capacity.
[30:06] Then we are draining the entire
reservoir, bypassing the reservoir, and
[30:10] doing all the structural work which is
necessary cuz our reservoir is at a
[30:13] deterioration itself.
So, that's the biggest most
[30:17] cost-effective cost cost component of it
and that's phase one. Phase two is that
[30:22] going down the entire main line and
replacing every valve and BOP on the
[30:25] main line. Phase two should be
commencing in September, so we should be
[30:28] seeing the RFP rolling out for that here
pretty quick.
[30:32] Porter Tanner does good work, too. Yeah.
Yeah, I was I was really pleased with
[30:36] their number, so uh
I don't like the wiring when they did
[30:39] Second Avenue and they broke every
crossing and they put it on the huts.
[30:44] They were cheap.
>> [laughter]
[30:47] » No, Porter Porter Tanner does good work.
Yeah.
[30:51] They've been doing the upgrades on the
King plans.
[30:59] Okay.
And the other question is?
[31:05] Okay.
Move for information, right? This one?
[31:11] Who is this? Hey.
Anything there?
[31:17] Got busy S. Yeah, that makes those
Sorry.
[31:21] » [laughter]
>> Tell us who you Okay.
[31:24] Uh so now oh, council okay, our reports.
So,
[31:32] Scott, you want to go ahead?
Sure.
[31:36] I mean the third one is just for the
service is going good.
[31:40] Um and I really don't have anything
report on whether than those are the
[31:45] city that I can and just let them know
that.
[31:47] Thank you.
Okay.
[31:49] Thank you.
Justin?
[31:51] I don't know.
Um
[31:53] I think that's it.
That night Justin had the Birchwood
[31:58] Water Services coming.
Uh
[32:02] Yeah.
Strictly means
[32:04] the new new of
the new new new new new new operator
[32:08] manager
um
[32:10] with the uh
Mr. Lowry
[32:13] on his advisory position for a while to
he's been there forever, but
[32:19] it seems like things are doing really
well. They're sock socking away their
[32:23] socking away money
for the event of whether when when they
[32:29] have to upgrade
the water treatment facility.
[32:33] So, that we're not left having to get
money, so
[32:37] we don't want to go into debt for that,
but
[32:39] all in all, we're doing good.
[32:43] Council?
Thank you.
[32:45] » What's this one now? What
I feel that's good. They're meeting at
[32:48] town hall tomorrow. Okay.
[32:52] We'll leave it at that, then. Mhm.
Uh
[32:57] the
coming in here
[33:00] garbage
Chief Mountain
[33:02] » [laughter]
>> Uh with the Chief Mountain meeting, I
[33:05] think I mentioned last time or in
passing they had a fire in one of the
[33:09] trucks when they were loading.
Um
[33:13] They're hoping insurance will cover it,
but anyway, they they're sort of back up
[33:16] and running temporarily, pulling it
together with bubble gum and duct tape.
[33:21] Uh
And then they had a presentation and
[33:25] maybe this is interesting to to some
people um
[33:29] So, the way they currently operate,
there's a cap on how much garbage that
[33:32] you can actually
bring into that landfill every year.
[33:37] If they move to
an approval
[33:41] it removes that. And so, for the last I
don't know how many years they've been
[33:45] getting to the end of the year and we
have to truck some garbage
[33:49] to a different landfill, you know, so
they're just paying tipping fees.
[33:53] So,
some engineering [clears throat] company
[33:56] came and did a presentation.
They talked about how much it would
[33:59] cost.
Several million dollars or over a
[34:03] million dollars for them to move from
that
[34:06] what they have now, which is
an authority to an approval or I maybe
[34:11] I'm getting those backwards, but No, no,
you're right.
[34:14] So, they're
there's going to be some more discussion
[34:19] about it. Um
at the end of the day it comes down to
[34:24] cost, right? So, at this point we're not
trucking our garbage to a different
[34:28] landfill that it makes a difference, but
if say Raymond leaves or something like
[34:34] that, that may switch their numbers and
they
[34:37] won't have to worry about it. Have they
cuz they were talking to a company that
[34:41] was going to pick up their trash on
their way by from something else to take
[34:45] it to I came up with the farmers in the
blue around here.
[34:50] So, there was a company that was coming
down doing trash somewhere in the area
[34:54] that was hauling trucks back empty and
they were they were talking to Chief
[34:58] Mountain at one point about grabbing
Chief Mountain's trash that was in
[35:01] excess and hauling it to another
landfill cuz they make money on it. Oh,
[35:05] cuz they they haul it to
Cali right now.
[35:09] What's Birch and Cali are the two? Yeah,
I think Cali's where they haul it cuz
[35:13] it's cheaper. Okay. Um but Birch they
can, but it's
[35:19] it's cheaper. They actually they they do
all right with hauling it to Cali, but
[35:24] obviously you're not going to haul from
Cruise all the way out to the Meth
[35:26] Heads.
So, they're strategic about it, but I
[35:29] don't know if it'll change. It's maybe
more of a two or three or four year
[35:32] discussion,
um
[35:34] but
as expansion happens, there could be the
[35:38] risk that suddenly
that place doesn't have the capacity to
[35:42] take all of the trash that's is
required.
[35:45] Um so, ongoing discussion, but I don't
think anything's going to change on our
[35:50] end.
They did talk about if it does change,
[35:54] obviously we need to build in this at
extra cost into the requisitions
[35:58] to the community, so there could be some
impact, but I
[36:01] don't foresee it happening anytime soon.
[36:06] I think their old rate was I did the
report on.
[36:09] So, it's their max is 10,000. Yeah, ton
10,000 ton neighborhood.
[36:14] We had others that they diverted.
Where it becomes a problem if there's a
[36:19] hail storm
and suddenly they're hauling shingles
[36:23] and everybody's replacing their siding
and years [clears throat] like that,
[36:26] then it becomes more of an issue. But in
years where there's not some
[36:30] catastrophic event, then we're close
enough. It's it's not an issue.
[36:38] That's I think that's it.
[36:44] Sounds good. Yeah.
Um
[36:47] too much.
I would do uh
[36:51] the store
historical.
[36:55] Is that the name Is that historical
society?
[36:59] Yeah.
And they were asking if we could
[37:01] possibly make a post to see if there is
any other
[37:05] younger people in the community that
like to become and come and learn and be
[37:10] a part of and be part of the committee.
[37:16] That was a good idea.
They said we could we could make like a
[37:19] post or something to keep it in front of
us. Yeah, that's easy. Registration of
[37:22] members? We've done that for them in the
past. That was a good idea.
[37:26] They need some old souls.
For that old bodies. Yeah, we'll get old
[37:31] souls
young old souls. Yeah, old soul love
[37:34] them.
And we have our next meeting. Yeah.
[37:39] And then we have our next separate days.
[37:43] What um as well I was going to say ship
with the other guys that's meeting
[37:47] We're probably going to have one a
month.
[37:50] We'll go actually we had the first
meeting
[37:52] but now I think have one at the end of
the month.
[37:56] We
last week in April.
[38:02] Yeah, okay. Any Is that good for
reports, then?
[38:08] So, topic.
Do we move?
[38:12] Is that from the That's just nothing.
All right, thanks for sharing. Okay.
[38:16] Thank you for sharing. Okay.
Um now we just have to go information,
[38:20] so
uh correspondence. Correspondence. There
[38:23] you go, thank you.
Um
[38:26] the Birch Regional Public Safety says
their stats. Anybody have any
[38:33] Do I have to go through all that
or is that all right? You've been here a
[38:37] long time. It's all the same.
It's the same as last. I just If you If
[38:42] someone wants to make a motion to accept
correspondence unless there's something
[38:44] glaring you wanted to talk about. Okay,
yeah. Anybody want to throw in anything?
[38:49] Did you vote? I'm sure you liked the
MCSS report, right? Everybody liked it.
[38:54] I have a motion to approve
correspondence information.
[39:00] All right.
Favor of Justin's motion?
[39:10] adjourned
adjourned if requested
[39:17] Is that everything? Uh
council members
[39:23] presentation from our our city
[39:27] And I would just include in that if
service groups Yeah. We'll let them know
[39:32] for destination.
[39:35] I'm sorry, what was that?
[39:45] » Anything else?
I think not. Uh
[39:49] water project.
Jordan
[39:52] Cancel Jordan.
[39:58] Anything else?
water
[40:02] Yeah, we got big water.
Sure.
[40:10] All right.
Last question. No, you don't have to
[40:15] wait till I ask first. Dennis Come on.
[40:19] I will vote.
[40:24] Thank you.
Everybody in favor?
[40:28] Motion carried.
>> [laughter]
[40:30] » You got to wait till I say something.
No, it's difficult.
[40:36] All right.