[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.

March 18, 2026 Council Meeting

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