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[2:00] we have some submitted questions but do
we maybe we should start with some
[2:04] questions from the audience and then we
can deal with some of the concerns or
[2:08] questions you might have so if you have
a question feel free to put your hand up
[2:13] and then we'll talk about the questions
that have been submitted we have a
[2:17] question over here
from
[2:24] Linda uh I have a question about um
mowing uh
[2:30] I realized mowing may have been cut down
and that's fine but uh I live in
[2:36] Glennwood the Forgotten area of
Strathmore which has been there since
[2:41] 1955 and when they come to
Mo they always send a team afterward to
[2:48] do the trim around the trees Etc so the
first time they mowed this year it was
[2:53] done promptly the second time it was 3
days later and today it is day eight
[2:58] from when they mowed the lawn in
Glenwood and there's been no trim done
[3:03] so I was hoping that Donna McCallum
would be here or somebody that anyway if
[3:08] somebody can answer my question at some
point thank you um I'll turn to one of
[3:12] the staff members Jamie who is our
director of infrastructure and
[3:19] operations uh good morning my name is
Jamie dugdale director of uh
[3:23] infrastructure operations and
development services so I'll share that
[3:25] with Donna um I think uh we'd like to
have a better standard than that so I do
[3:30] apologize so I'll share that with Donna
mcallum and make sure that we do a
[3:33] little better job at kind of returning
to do that trimming so I'll definitely
[3:36] share that with
her yeah I'll share that with
[3:43] her thank you are there other questions
oh we have a question from Clara and the
[3:48] gentleman in yellow or lime green thank
you good morning good
[3:54] morning uh I have um been over to the
new
[4:00] at the uh garbage disposal site and I
was uh recycling sorry yeah and I was uh
[4:09] quite surprised because I haven't been
there for quite some time and I uh I'm
[4:15] so used to go to the hwad
one and I was quite shocked coming to uh
[4:23] what now has apparently been what town
is utilizing
[4:29] uh first of all I don't or we don't use
uh the bin
[4:34] system because uh I find it inconvenient
for me because I have six boxes or seven
[4:40] or more you know with one with soft
plastic one with h plastic and so on and
[4:47] so on so I used to go to hwad and just
within few minutes have it all dumped in
[4:52] from my blue boxes into the various
ones and now I came to what
[5:00] at the present is what the town is
running and I'm kind of questioning uh
[5:07] why are we now having that one compared
to what seemed to work very very well uh
[5:13] with the hits uh because first of all
I'm a short person and I cannot get up
[5:21] to those uh little
rectangle places and dump in my uh
[5:29] garbage
no matter what it is the only thing that
[5:32] was available was just a dumb inin was
the soft plastic one all the other ones
[5:36] was impossible for me to do especially
if it was a windy day you know it would
[5:40] be blowing all over the place and I
can't reside so my question is uh why
[5:47] have we gone from the hawed service or
to what apparently now is what the town
[5:55] provides on the south side of our okay
thank you and you're not the first first
[5:59] person who's asked us that as far as the
height of the bins I know our coo and I
[6:04] have talked and U one of the one of the
options that would help maybe and I can
[6:09] ask you if it would help is if if there
were stairs at those new Bins with that
[6:13] well there is a little step stools or
whatever it is you need a l but yeah but
[6:18] also I cannot take my containers and
dump them in you know as we were able to
[6:26] do previously okay because you have to
stand and take one item out at a time
[6:31] and reach up into those little slots
okay um is there someone on staff I can
[6:37] turn to as far as uh the change from
hookstead to Blue Planet as far as
[6:42] Recycling and then what we can do as far
as the bin Heights and uh seniors who
[6:48] need to get up to the uh bins to get rid
of their
[6:52] recyclables uh good morning again so the
reason we we switch recycling locations
[6:58] uh was we switched to Blue Planet
they're a different contractor that's
[7:01] collecting garbage uh for us and running
the recycle yard so uh like the mayor
[7:07] said we can certainly look at how that's
working for people or not working for
[7:11] people and perhaps make some changes so
we did we went from Waste Management to
[7:16] Blue Planet as the provider so that
required us to change the location of
[7:19] the recycle Depot but if uh residents
are having problems getting their
[7:23] recycles put there then we can certainly
look at better solutions to allow people
[7:27] to do that more easy easily
[7:35] okay
[7:44] so sure and and I mean Our intention is
to improve service so that's why we'll
[7:48] look at that but every every certain
amount of years when a contract is over
[7:51] we do a what we call an RFP so we go out
to Market and then private companies
[7:56] will respond to that RFP and we'll look
at all the submissions and we make a
[7:59] decision based on who gives us the best
submission so that's kind of why that
[8:03] changed um obviously our desire is that
service will remain the same or get
[8:08] better so that's why I'll take that away
and and we'll look at how we can make
[8:11] the recycle Depot look better for
[8:20] you
[8:24] uh yeah yeah sure if you give me a few
weeks a couple of months uh and I know I
[8:30] have to talk with my manager of
infrastructure first and talk about
[8:33] Solutions and we have to look at what
that might cost and how to Source them
[8:36] but uh we can definitely take that away
and hopefully in a month or two you'll
[8:39] see a
[8:46] difference attention thank you now we uh
live over on Lakeside views and we have
[8:55] our little uh Garden here your p in
front of us uh a couple of years ago I
[9:03] think it is now we had um some tree
pruning service that the town hired
[9:11] apparently to take down dead trees and
and so on now at the moment and it has
[9:18] been there for all the time we have been
here in town uh a big poer tree on the
[9:24] south end of the the Garden
area and uh I just took a walk to the
[9:31] Garden area this
morning and I'm quite disappointed
[9:36] really of what a beautiful area we have
in there and
[9:41] how it seems to be not being able to to
be be
[9:46] kept all the dead branches from that
tree because so many many of the
[9:52] branches is dead and they are laying all
over the the ground and of course that
[9:58] doesn't make it any better
but also we
[10:03] have quite a few Park staff young people
that comes to work and they come in now
[10:10] we were not around in the early spring
as they start to to do the maintenance
[10:16] work but I've been kind of watching it
over the years that we've been here and
[10:22] uh who is in charge of educating those
young ones and supervising them and
[10:29] guiding to to what to do because
nowadays they seem to kind of come in a
[10:34] group with a truck park the truck and
then four or five or six of them comes
[10:41] out and I think they need some guidance
and supervision to be able to be
[10:47] utilizing the time and the effort the
town put into to try to keep a a parks
[10:53] and they is be
beautified because I think the resources
[10:59] is there but I'm just kind of
questioning are anybody going out and
[11:04] and giving the instruction on and why to
do because you can't expect the young
[11:09] ones to be able
to just kind of come and know everything
[11:14] so quite often they kind of sit there
and uh having a good time and of course
[11:19] they're picking some here and there but
uh when you have to get to the bottom of
[11:24] weed you just don't pull you get in and
and get to the main CLA I can tell you
[11:32] that I I had an informal talk with Donna
mallum who's in charge of the U the park
[11:38] staff Ground St and uh she's um she's
got in her mind some things to do she
[11:43] wants to spend more time mentoring and
working with the young people so it's on
[11:47] our radar and uh I'm sure Donna mallum
will uh will be a positive force with
[11:53] those with those workers well they are
wonderful bunch of young ones it's just
[11:57] that I feel that they are not
educated enough to be able to to really
[12:03] yeah I just want to assure you that that
Don is aware and she's she's uh going to
[12:08] spend time working with her staff and M
we appreciate that I think it was be
[12:12] beneficial for everything and everybody
thank you very much thank you Claire if
[12:17] I can just follow up on that too you
know one of the things that uh that's
[12:21] really useful for Donna because you know
she she now our town is growing and this
[12:26] has been a really bad year for for um
um winter kill there was a lot of winter
[12:32] kill and um and one of the things that
really helps is if uh if people
[12:38] communicate through the communication
form it's not always convenient for for
[12:42] people you know if you if you don't like
uh using computers you don't you don't
[12:47] necessarily uh think that's your best
thing but one of the things that you can
[12:52] do you can you can always just you can
phone any one of the counselors our our
[12:56] numbers are are public or uh and ask us
to do it too and and if you give us a
[13:01] date like Lakeside Muse and we know in
the corner and now on the town property
[13:05] there's Deadfall and if she knows that
she she's very very more likely don't
[13:11] don't except in the case of Linda who
just took eight days to get mowing done
[13:15] um and uh and there's and Donna probably
has a rational reason it's probably due
[13:19] to the freaking Water Crisis that she's
been dealing with but but it's good for
[13:23] them to know because then it's recorded
then they know they have your statement
[13:28] and it's now expectation that that there
is a followup and that something happens
[13:32] so that citizen communication for is is
really useful I know councelor langmaid
[13:37] is really good she she um guides lots
and lots of people through it too to uh
[13:43] to get to where it needs to do it so
we'll definitely do that we' be happy to
[13:46] do that and I know that Donna would be
grateful to know because it really helps
[13:51] her
[13:55] yeah and and you know that and you're
you're not alone you know that that it's
[13:58] not not it's not um the easiest to
navigate for sure
[14:08] so this is informal and this is really
good
[14:14] yeah no you've made no mistake but but
if it happens again if it happens again
[14:19] you
know
[14:22] yeah yeah no this you've made no mistake
no this is exactly the place to bring it
[14:28] and and uh and if we can make that
process easier for you when it happens
[14:31] or should it happen
again
[14:35] yeah y well that's
[14:42] important it is
beautiful
[14:47] yeah yeah no no it's good to
[14:53] know thank you Clara and thank you
councelor Peterson uh question from the
[14:57] gentleman back there we have a
microphone coming to you right
[15:01] now good morning I have a few questions
actually it's regarding Park Lane Drive
[15:07] uh obviously um Anthem United is doing
some development back there and uh it's
[15:13] been surveyed everything else number one
uh none of the residents have received a
[15:18] plot plan or anything else about what's
going on back
[15:21] there uh with the new one I mean that
development's been going on for 18 years
[15:26] now uh they're finally doing some
something with it there's been many many
[15:30] changes made and we really haven't got
any answers to what's going on uh I have
[15:36] a call into uh Anthem United I'm waiting
for a return on it to be quite honest um
[15:44] however in the original proposal there
was supposed to be I believe it was
[15:47] about 86 houses back there and all of a
sudden it went up to about 186
[15:55] houses um part of that obvious obviously
was land costs uh because when um
[16:03] stantech was the engineer on record they
obviously made a mistake because the
[16:07] fillet was moved from the ranch over to
uh the commercial area raised the
[16:14] elevation over there substantially and
lowered the elevation behind us so there
[16:18] was additional costs involved and I can
understand um the lot costs everything
[16:24] else to go with
it however in saying that um
[16:29] with the added residential units that
have gone in there um Council and it
[16:36] wasn't this Cil it was a previous one or
the one before had passed a narrow lot
[16:42] bylaw uh the original understanding was
all the perimeter Lots were supposed to
[16:47] be 50
ft um that back on the Park Lane
[16:53] Drive uh my understanding now they're
all 35
[16:57] ft uh and second ly there was supposed
to be a buffer zone of 10 m between
[17:02] property line to property line and that
was derived actually when uh I believe
[17:09] Mr grac was mayor and that Council and
then the previous Council went down to
[17:16] the narrower lot sizes so there is a
concern with the residents along Park
[17:22] Lane Drive whether that buffer is still
in place or not or whether we're going
[17:26] to have a 35t property backing right
onto our
[17:30] uh our property line and there's other
things that go with it um uh
[17:36] the I guess the uh
Road um that was proposed that was going
[17:42] to join parkline from klyber Trail uh
that was taken out of the original plan
[17:48] because Park Lane Drive is not a
commuter
[17:51] Road um you're making it a commuter road
now uh actually you look at I think if
[17:58] you look at a lot of
um um information that's I've researched
[18:04] on the web on that the minimum width of
a commuter road is um 44 ft Park Lan
[18:12] drives 42 ft also they have driveways
backing onto the road all the way
[18:17] along so in saying that I
guess um you have to look at snow
[18:23] clearing which has always been an issue
in Park C it's a bus route everything
[18:27] else your plows come down they windro
the stuff in front of uh all the
[18:33] residents and that um maybe some of you
know now I'm sure you do cars with all
[18:39] their safety features my wife's car
won't even back over one the car shuts
[18:45] down so uh there have been calls made to
um the people responsible for snow
[18:53] clearing and that I'm sorry I can't
remember the name of your your
[18:56] department and that and the respons once
has been we were allowed to uh wind Ros
[19:03] snow to the height of 1 meter that was
it so they block people in there's a lot
[19:08] of elderly people on that street I don't
put myself into that category but I'll
[19:14] be quite honest I have blown out
people's driveways with my snow
[19:18] blower uh I've had the BW officer come
and tell me I can't do anything on the
[19:23] street um how do people get out of their
driveways so what are your plans if that
[19:29] is going to be a commuter Road or a
collector Road I guess what are your
[19:35] plans for the
intersection on Freeman Trail and
[19:39] that there's not enough room for a right
turn in there you're going to have to
[19:43] take a house
out you know on the other side uh you've
[19:49] put a right turn exit in and a threeway
and that but on the other side there's
[19:54] nothing there so you have one lane
that's going to take that traffic
[19:59] how are you going to deal with
that you know and I mean we could go on
[20:04] and on I could take all morning going
over this but I guess the big thing is
[20:08] the
development there's no information out
[20:12] there from no one we don't know what's
going on okay thank you um I think I can
[20:18] turn to our staff as far as how we can
get more information to you as far as
[20:23] what Anthem has planned um as far as
that road from r going on to Park Lane
[20:30] Drive that's proposed as long as I've
been on Council it's always been a thing
[20:36] that's supposed to be coming that
Connector Road over to Park Lane Drive I
[20:40] am not aware of any Council that has
said it'll never be a connector to
[20:45] Parklane drive as far as Parklane Drive
um I believe it is a connector Road and
[20:50] like you said it does have school buses
on it so um we can definitely look at
[20:56] getting more information to I can
explain the R1 the r1n uh this the
[21:02] narrower Lots what Strathmore has tried
to do is find a way to have more people
[21:08] be able to get into housing because as I
think as you all know uh we're in a
[21:13] housing crisis in Strathmore and there's
young people who have very difficult
[21:17] times affording the inflation is really
high the interest rates are are still
[21:21] very reasonable but to get into a home
you need a lot of money and the other
[21:26] thing that the C that I was on did that
that brought about or helped bring about
[21:33] the uh the narrower Lots is that
Strathmore is a is a rural town and
[21:39] we're trying to avoid urban sprawl into
Farmland so we've increased the density
[21:44] in our town and I understand that some
of you who have big properties with with
[21:49] Big Lots may have some reservations
about a narrower lot 35 instead of a 50
[21:55] Frontage I don't think it necessarily
means that you're going to have a bad
[22:00] situation behind you but we do need to
be uh cognizant or aware of reducing our
[22:08] spread into into agricultural land as
much as we can and to also try to make
[22:13] housing at least attainable for younger
families and so we did go ahead with
[22:18] some narrower
Lots I know that may not sit well with
[22:22] the people who are on Park Lane Drive
but I think our staff um maybe our CAO
[22:27] or Jamie we can talk about uh getting
you information as to what's planned in
[22:33] that Anthem area and you're right it's
been sitting for a long time and they
[22:37] are staking out and getting ready to go
um and I'm I'm just wondering is that is
[22:44] that road that's going to connect to
Park Lane from Ranch is that where the
[22:47] empty lot is is there an empty lot like
a park kind of a space a small green
[22:54] space yeah and that's right where the
road is going to come to Park Lane
[23:04] y
[23:55] behind
[23:59] the
[24:47] [Music]
[24:57] respon
[25:26] thank thank you um I understand your
your concerns on parking Drive um the
[25:32] traffic part or the speeding part that's
something that we can look into as well
[25:37] uh you also had a a comment about
Windrose and I don't think there's I I
[25:42] don't think there's an easy fix to not
having wind RS because when you plow a
[25:47] street it's got to go to one side or the
other and so it does create wind RS I
[25:52] get them on my street as well they're
all through Strathmore but the only way
[25:56] to get rid of a windro is if is if if
you were lifting your blade at every
[26:00] driveway and not plowing it onto
driveways which would be incredibly
[26:05] slow pardon
me in angling it
[26:10] towards the middle of the street
[26:21] [Music]
[26:36] the new development over there it used
to go under the highway into cber land
[26:41] and that that's been shut off so it just
uh creates uh a storm Pond for lack of a
[26:49] better work in the ranch
development so you know there's places
[26:53] to dump that snow and there's places to
to uh get rid of it off the Road and I
[26:59] can go back in stratmore
before um where they wind rode the snow
[27:05] into the middle of the road and the
complaint was oh gosh I got to drive
[27:09] around the block to get into my driveway
well you know what you can still get
[27:12] into your
driveway well we can we can actually I
[27:17] can turn to staff to explain why we
don't create a pile in the middle of the
[27:21] streets they'll they'll probably be able
to address that um as far as dumping
[27:28] snow into those areas again I don't have
the operational experience I can turn to
[27:34] our staff for that um but again as far
as my knowledge as a counselor I have
[27:40] always thought that that Ranch Road was
going to connect
[27:45] to uh Park Lane Drive now I'm I'm not
sure about the Ballard system but again
[27:51] we can address your questions as far as
seeing the plan and finding out about
[27:56] the buffer zone as far as what you folks
were told and what the new design looks
[28:01] like um can I turn to J sure so I guess
I'll answer the question or try to
[28:06] answer the question first on the on the
planning items um Ranch the ranch
[28:11] development one of the challenges we
have with that is um it was I guess
[28:16] conceptualized before we required what's
called an area structure plan which is a
[28:21] process through Council uh it's a plan
that's adopted through Council by a
[28:26] bylaw um the Ranch again was approved
before we used those as a tool in
[28:31] Strathmore so um way back when probably
around 2000 I'm not sure when that was
[28:37] done but the the public wouldn't have
got the same kind of input as they would
[28:40] if we got a new ASP
today um the reason that that
[28:46] development has the through Road uh is
and you mentioned it when you were
[28:50] asking questions was with relation to
emergency access the number of homes in
[28:55] there we did bring a report to council
in I believe July of 2021 kind of
[29:00] summarizing both the the engineering
rationale as well as the fire and EMS
[29:05] rationale for that through road so that
would have went to Council in July of
[29:08] 2021 just to ensure that they were again
on on side with why staff made that
[29:14] decision to approve the subdivision in
that way um but as the mayor said we can
[29:18] get you that most recent subdivision
approval so you're aware of it um and
[29:24] the rezoning as well would have gone
through a public hearing I think there
[29:27] was two rezonings in that phase that
changeed like you suggested from larger
[29:31] lots to smaller Lots um on the snow
removal um yeah we hear about wind rows
[29:36] every every year um it's a challenge um
unfortunately we can't just dump snow
[29:43] anywhere um environmental regulations
from The Province are quite stringent
[29:49] these days um that's why we have a snow
dump and we actually improved our snow
[29:53] dump in the last couple years to make
sure it was compliant um that being said
[29:58] this fall we every fall we come to
council with an update on snow removal
[30:01] and our practices and to find out if
Council feels the public would would s
[30:08] support any changes again with increased
resources um we did I think a couple of
[30:12] years ago consider wind rows in the
middle of the street like you suggested
[30:17] um while yourself and some people might
be happy with that some other people
[30:20] like you said might not be uh doesn't
mean we can't do that and we'll look at
[30:24] it again um but again in September we'll
be coming to council with an update uh
[30:28] so I would suggest you um share your
feedback with Council before then as you
[30:32] did today and we can look at that and
what it would what it would mean
[30:35] operationally to
[30:47] do okay I've gotone my rear end three
times trying to get over the wind rows
[30:51] into my
traffic it is a safety issue that snow
[30:56] is plowed right underneath V Les it's
plowed up over the running rails
[31:01] everything else so I mean it's a huge
concern so I'd like you to consider that
[31:06] as well because someone goes on their
rear end and ends up in the hospital you
[31:12] know what's going to happen I know
what's going to happen there'll be a
[31:17] lawsuit so I'm wondering if I could just
interject Jonathan do you have the date
[31:23] is it in September when the U snow
clearing is coming coming up to us is
[31:29] that might be a meeting you'd like to
come to because we have a public meeting
[31:33] and a discussion Tammy September 11th
okay it's September 11th September 11th
[31:40] so if if you're free on September 11th
Mark that in your C uh calendar we start
[31:45] at 6: p.m and if uh there's an item on
the agenda the public I will I can turn
[31:51] to the public and say if you have any
questions or concerns or comments you'll
[31:55] be allowed to speak on it since it's on
the agenda that night
[31:58] you're welcome Pat can I say one thing
about that can the graders at least lift
[32:03] their blade when they go past the
mailboxes there can't be that many
[32:07] mailboxes that that would be a problem I
can't get over a drift this high from my
[32:12] car to my mailbox okay um maybe we can
make a note of that and it can be part
[32:17] of our discussion on September
11th Canada Post Yeah Canada Post lets
[32:24] us know when there's issues believe me
uh sure and then they we talk to them
[32:29] regularly through the winter so uh we'll
we'll make sure we pay attention to that
[32:34] we need a better solution for for Post
Office boxes it it causes seniors
[32:39] especially tremendous grief I I want to
go back that's this one works thanks I
[32:45] want to go back to your point about
about the danger of wind RS when they're
[32:50] when they're plowing in your streets and
and I I would be really interested to
[32:54] find out from from our infrastructure or
from people with lived EXP experience
[32:58] whether it's worse on some streets than
others like it like does it does it make
[33:03] a difference and so I live in the old
area of downtown um the mayor has a name
[33:09] for the area I do L you're the one who
named it so um I live on a street across
[33:15] from a school and so you know we're uh
as old as we are we're plowing out those
[33:20] 4ot wind rows uh in front in front of
our our driveway as well and um and I'm
[33:26] wondering if there is isn't you know
some plan in the in the offing where
[33:31] where this Park Lane Drive Park Lane
like you're talking about is a different
[33:36] context than than area say where I live
in the downtown that is a a bus pickup
[33:41] route or a place where hundreds of
parents pick up their children every day
[33:45] and and I think that that would be a
really good a useful exercise to
[33:48] undertake to do we have to apply the
same standard in every neighborhood all
[33:53] the time and um and and uh Linda
Ferguson's pointed about the mailboxes I
[33:58] think is something that's becoming you
know as our Winters are are more
[34:02] mercurical and there's more ice and you
know it's just becoming more and more
[34:05] treacherous especially for a senior in a
community with 25% of our population
[34:10] being seniors it's really not a good
thing the other thing that I wanted to
[34:14] address is the speeding on Parklane
drive and that is something that came to
[34:18] council um slightly less than two years
ago and we did we did undertake a study
[34:23] on on Parklane drive and they did find
some some excessive speeds but not um
[34:31] not enough to to do more than the take
take more than the action they did take
[34:36] which was to put that flashing light in
on the pathway by the canal and they put
[34:40] that in there because of all the young
people that are walking from the um Holy
[34:45] Cross Collegiate and Sacred Heart across
that pathway and um the people who live
[34:51] on that on the uh south side of the
street at in that area have said it has
[34:55] made a difference but uh we know that
it's a a Speedway I've seen it myself
[35:01] difference however if you go further
east yeah on Park Lane uh by the lift
[35:06] station yeah and that as soon as people
come along uh come off Freeman Trail
[35:13] they just Hammer their gas ped it is a
Speedway I I've seen it yeah at the
[35:17] curve you know they start slowing down a
bit and then conversely when they're
[35:21] going east at the curve they Hammer the
gas we've had people come down there at
[35:25] 120 clicks and and that was and you turn
around and yes you know you have had
[35:31] your B out there occasionally and I'll
use the term
[35:34] occasionally however try it at 6:00 in
the morning so do you do you think that
[35:39] it would be useful so so you you you
said that the flashing light has helped
[35:43] on the one end that it has made a
difference we also now have a school
[35:47] zone just on the other side on on George
Freeman Trail where we have lots of
[35:51] other kids walking to school as well on
on George Freeman Trail we have another
[35:55] school now yes and so you know having a
Raceway in between where you have
[36:00] literally hundreds upon hundreds of
children walking every day yeah do you
[36:05] think there is some use in doing a test
to see if we could put another flashing
[36:09] light in on the curve on the other side
of the of the um well I don't think it's
[36:13] NE on the curve I think probably and
you've put a uh a pedestrian light in
[36:19] now across from uh well right at your
lift station I believe the address is
[36:23] about 1 I don't know 57 something like
that there's a pedestrian light that's
[36:28] gone in because of numerous complaints
by a person and that um it does no
[36:34] good they just the way they
go so we need to alert bylaw pardon me
[36:40] so it's a bylaw situation well I
personally I think it is but you know
[36:45] somewhere along the line I mean people
work so at 10:00 in the morning you're
[36:49] going to get people ripping down there
occasionally yes is 6:00 in the morning
[36:54] then try it at 7 8 and 9:00 at night
because Park Lane Drive is an escape
[36:59] exit out of the city or out of the Town
it always has been since it's been
[37:03] developed so you know um younger
generation now they've been a lot better
[37:09] about drinking and driving than when I
was young because that was a thing to do
[37:14] it isn't anymore you know and I give
them credit for that but it's still an
[37:19] Escape Route so you get the guys in
their trucks that go bombing down there
[37:23] you get the guys in their cars
everything else there's noise I I mean
[37:28] I've got pictures of vehicles license
plate and the
[37:31] driver that is a constant Menace on that
road you know you turn around and it's
[37:40] it's ridiculous it really is and it just
seems like something that's been totally
[37:45] ignored and this this has been going on
well
[37:49] before um this council's
time and it has been brought up um when
[37:57] [Music]
um can't remember his name but I mean
[38:02] it's been brought up when Steve graic
was around everything
[38:06] else you know and it just seems like
that area is a lost area because I'll
[38:12] I'll excuse me for a minute I'll even
bring the development again when that
[38:16] area was first
stripped Strathmore had a development
[38:20] officer I don't know whether they do
anymore but I approached them at one
[38:24] time because of the Dust when they were
stripping that
[38:28] we had to have our floors replaced cost
us
[38:32] $7,000 and that we provided pictures you
couldn't see the back of your property
[38:38] line you couldn't see 10 ft off your
deck we approached the development
[38:42] officer and he said what do you want me
to do about it well my backgrounds in
[38:46] the construction industry is a site
superintendent and then
[38:51] beyond what do you want what I want you
to do about it shut them down
[38:58] they have to live by their development
permit and do and do what they say or
[39:02] and they're not doing it and you know
that's one of the concerns again and I'm
[39:06] digressing here but it's it's so
frustrating that that whole area seems
[39:11] to be
ignored if if I can jump in for a second
[39:15] when it comes time to develop this new
phase that Anthem is doing if if you're
[39:20] finding again that dust is becoming a
real issue we all have our numbers
[39:25] posted on the town website you can call
call us and we will talk to our
[39:29] infrastructure team and our CAO as far
as oh as far as improving that goes um
[39:36] yes yes our CAO did look into it on the
west side of town um the other thing I
[39:41] can say is uh we have we have the staff
sergeant of the RCMP coming in quarterly
[39:47] to do reports if you keep an eye on um
our meeting agendas maybe you can come
[39:52] on the night of Staff Sergeant there we
can also bring this forward to our staff
[39:56] sergeant as far as the speed on Parklane
drive for sure now that we're all aware
[40:01] of the concerns again we can we can talk
to our CAO and talk to the staff
[40:06] sergeant regarding some possible plans
for Park Lane
[40:10] Drive um I have questions from the from
the people have submitted some so I
[40:15] thought we could maybe do one or two
questions that have been submitted
[40:18] beforehand and then I can go back to the
audience if that's okay so if you can
[40:22] remember your questions will come to you
uh we had a question about water resp
[40:28] restrictions and uh there we've had re
we've received many questions and is
[40:32] there an update on restrictions and when
can we expect to be back to normal so I
[40:36] want to thank all the residents for
obviously helping to reduce our water
[40:40] usage uh as as much as we did I'm really
proud of Strathmore residents you
[40:45] reduced your our Target was 25%
reduction daily and uh we were very very
[40:51] close to that we exceeded it on on
several times um and so I was really
[40:56] happy with that and like Calgary we're
going to be we can ease our indoor water
[41:01] restrictions we still need to continue
as we ease back into normal water use
[41:06] obviously you guys have done some of
these things to space out your laundry
[41:10] your showers if you can reduce shower
time your dishwasher runs but indoor
[41:15] usage is is back to to normal and um
stage four outdoor water restrictions
[41:21] are still currently in effect so I know
a lot of people have been sharing on
[41:25] Facebook different ways they've been
using to collect rainwater I know my
[41:30] wife and I have this is the first year
in our 40 years here that we've been
[41:34] putting bins under our e trough uh drain
pipe and so I know that's spread
[41:39] throughout the town this is the first
time my wife and I have talked about
[41:43] getting a rain barrel too as far as
handw watering outdoor plants so very
[41:47] proud and very pleased with Strathmore
residents thank you for all your efforts
[41:51] that you did and we're excited to
announce that the lp pool in the town
[41:55] aquatic center is open
residents are welcome to enjoy the lap
[41:59] pool and while the pool is reopening the
hot tub water slide and kitty pool
[42:05] remain
closed and U over the last week the town
[42:09] has been finishing some much needed
repairs to the water slide Kitty pool
[42:13] and hot tub and once these have all been
completed and the two and the pool staff
[42:18] receives satisfactory pool chemistry
results from AHS the hot tub and kitty
[42:24] pool will be open as well uh last night
we had a a session in our public council
[42:31] meeting on garage and Garden suites and
the question is I've heard that there is
[42:35] a possibility of putting an income Suite
on my property is this permitted in
[42:40] Strathmore and I can tell you this that
last night council approved the town's
[42:45] first garage and garden Suite bylaw now
this is not a blanket zoning change or
[42:51] anything like that it's just to allow
people if they want to try to spend the
[42:56] money to convert a garage or put a a
unit above a garage there are strict
[43:02] rules that must be followed it's not
necessarily an easy process to get to
[43:06] get to have one of these but again it's
a way we thought that could help with
[43:11] the housing crisis in this town it also
could be a way for both young people who
[43:16] have maybe bought a home with a detach
garage on an alley that they could uh
[43:22] help pay their mortgage down and also it
could be a way to help seniors stay in
[43:27] their property longer if they have the
money to develop a garage Suite then
[43:32] they can stay on their property longer
if their health permits and they have
[43:36] income coming in so I I just want to
assure you that it's it's not going to
[43:40] be a blanket thing where people are
developing them right and left there are
[43:44] very many rules and controls that have
to be
[43:47] followed um applications for guards
garage and garden Suite permits will be
[43:53] available through the town office and
online in the coming weeks and the
[43:57] difference between oh there was a
question about the difference between
[44:00] tiny homes and garage and garden Suite a
garage Suite means a second accessory
[44:06] dwelling unit on a parcel located above
or adjacent to a garage structure so
[44:13] that's a separate living space that's a
garage Suite a garden Suite is a second
[44:18] accessory dwelling unit on a parcel to
be used as a separate accommodation that
[44:23] is accessory to the principal building
tiny home does not require another
[44:29] primary building on the property and can
and can stand alone we don't have any uh
[44:34] tiny homes at this time we had a session
a workshop last night on tiny homes
[44:39] where we learned about it but I again I
just want to reassure you that this
[44:42] isn't going to be happening all over
town it's not like Calgary did with
[44:46] their their zoning change this is just
something where if someone decides they
[44:50] they want to invest some money in their
garage and create a living unit that
[44:55] there are steps and regulation ations
and permitting would have to be followed
[44:59] to do that so it allows for people to
have income coming in on their property
[45:04] but it also puts controls and and
checkpoints as far as that goes wish I
[45:10] jump in on this just a couple more
points could also be a great way to get
[45:13] your uh 25-year-old son out of the
basement and into the backyard as a
[45:17] young person I can say that um but one
other one other concern I've heard
[45:22] raised about uh garage and Garden suites
is concerns around parking especially
[45:27] street parking and I want to reassure
people that uh within the bylaw that was
[45:30] approved last the bylaw amendment that
was approved last night there is a
[45:34] requirement that for each Garden or
garage Suite that is constructed an
[45:38] additional parking space must be
included so we are adding parking on top
[45:43] of what is existing at that residence to
hopefully try and mitigate Street you
[45:48] know Street congestion and uh and Tra
and traffic control issues so I want
[45:53] want to just reassure people that we
have heard about the concerns around
[45:57] parking and we did we did include some
measures within the bylaw amendment to
[46:01] to address that thank you counselor uh
Lang made so I can turn to the audience
[46:08] if there's a question again and then
we'll go back to the online questions I
[46:11] think um Lloyd you had your hand up at
one point as far as Parklane Drive
[46:19] discussion I have a lot of discussion on
Park LA sure I understand
[46:27] Lloyd Penner I live right 98 Park Lane
Drive and uh see all this activity
[46:35] started up there a couple of days ago
across from my house not a word
[46:40] mentioned not a letter sent or a phone
call from one of the counselors that was
[46:48] expected I expected that because I have
come to realize that Strathmore is no
[46:54] longer the counil that it used to be the
used to have a council where you could
[46:59] contact the
administrator and have a little chat
[47:03] with him in the during the day or
whatever it's all in the past and now
[47:08] it's all just uh hush hush hush I I hate
to be that negative sorry Lloyd I just
[47:15] want to interject when you make a strong
statement like that we all have our cell
[47:20] numbers posted on the town of Strathmore
website nobody's called me uh as far as
[47:25] some of these strong concerns you have
and as a council we're a governance body
[47:30] we set rules regulations policies bylaws
we don't necessarily know when a
[47:36] subdivision is going to start
construction until we see driving around
[47:40] we see the you know the the pegs put
that's fair thank you carry
[47:45] on that's
fair I just
[47:51] uh not very long ago in fact I did have
a letter in in in in my possession I
[47:58] don't know whether I still have or not
but I had a letter in my possession that
[48:03] told me from years back that there would
never be an
[48:07] intersection coming on to Parkland Drive
in front of my house all I can tell you
[48:13] on that is um I don't think I don't
think if it was a counselor that that
[48:19] person should have given you that kind
of strong statement and and promised
[48:25] anything into the far future
because there are things that change and
[48:30] obviously developers change I think
sorry I forgot your first name Pardon Me
[48:35] Cam so like cam was saying the change
went from 50 foot lots to 35 foot
[48:42] [Music]
um you know it sounds cliche but times
[48:48] change and there are adjustments to
things so I don't think one Council can
[48:53] handcuff a next Council and say that'll
never happen
[48:57] because things can change we're a bigger
Community now and as far as that
[49:01] Connector Road all I can say as far as
my knowledge is it was always going to
[49:06] be a connector Road that's what I had
been told that's what I had seen uh Mr
[49:12] Mayor would could you tell me uh what
what exactly is the plan there is there
[49:18] light right turns and left turns coming
entering on Park Lan well I can what's
[49:24] the plan I can turn to our
infrastructure people and they can tell
[49:27] you a little more about what they know
again because we're not involved in
[49:32] everything going on as far as
development we see we we're involved at
[49:37] a higher level approving things but but
we can definitely get that hopefully get
[49:41] you some answers for that Jamie thank
you no wor thank
[49:52] you it will be a full intersection there
so not just right in right out there be
[49:56] a full intersection
[50:03] there I assume there'll be a stop sign
on the East West
[50:11] Road and if the stop sign is on Park
Lane Drive going east west that would
[50:16] also help with speed reduction I would
think
[50:20] too coming out of the ranch well we can
definitely look into that and see if it
[50:25] might even be a threeway stop as far as
traffic control and mediation we can
[50:31] definitely look into
[50:41] that well we'll definitely uh we'll
definitely get an answer for you as far
[50:45] as how that Connector Road is going to
be linking and traffic movement onto
[50:51] Park Lane
Drive and the other concern is and
[50:55] excuse me for interrupting
um on the East End of Park Lane you have
[51:01] a daycare right in the corner or a day
home they're what're not anymore well
[51:08] then did they finally sell their house
no but they they dissolve their dayare
[51:13] over a year ago no they didn't because
cars were still parking out front right
[51:17] on the corner it wasn't over a year ago
secondly you got a taxi cab company
[51:23] across the
street with five vehicles park there his
[51:28] employees park down the street and the
entry uh into um on the right hand turn
[51:35] where the park is that's where employees
Park and you could have even cabs park
[51:40] there for 3 4
weeks but you have another business
[51:45] there as well so what do people do about
that how are you going to provide access
[51:50] and egis that goes
[51:54] easily that's definitely a good question
and um we can look into that as well our
[52:00] staff will take note of that and we can
see what we can come up with that and I
[52:05] I know we have the taxi company uh
coming as a delegation as we get closer
[52:10] to passing uh an amended taxi bylaw and
that could be something they're coming
[52:15] as a delegation to a September meeting
we could ask some questions of them
[52:19] regarding that parking situation too and
even that I'll go to the to the West End
[52:24] I'm sorry again I I don't think going on
but I'll go to the West End you had a
[52:30] paint company there and a hairdressing
company there I don't know whether the
[52:33] hairdresser is still there or not but
that's where the road Narrows by The
[52:37] Pump Station the HS what are you going
to do there if somebody parks on the
[52:42] north side of the road you can't get by
if there's a vehicle on the North side
[52:46] and last night there's a truck and a
trailer there you can't get
[52:51] by so what are you going to do you're
going to take somebody's house out or
[52:55] take two or three
[52:58] my my thought on this whole thing is is
that the whole plan of Parklane Drive
[53:05] was the concept originally I talked to
people that have since passed away that
[53:12] were in the business developing B houses
in town and they said that it was a
[53:19] there was a good plan and it was a it
was
[53:23] a it was not a thorough fair and never
was planned for that and the council
[53:29] came in later on and decided that they
or councel or whatever I mean I don't
[53:35] know how the workings go but they
decided to go ahead and start building
[53:40] and they built and with no plan in
advance right now we don't have a plan
[53:44] in
advance but anyway I'll leave it at that
[53:48] I'm quite disappointed in the way the
plans took place here there's there's no
[53:55] communication you can't can't see your
concert you can phone them you can get
[53:59] them on YouTube or something like that
if you're you're a techie but if you're
[54:03] a and if you don't have all those
facilities at your disposal but Lloyd
[54:08] you can phone me anytime and set up a
meeting with me I'll I'll meet with you
[54:12] anytime you want I I just haven't gotten
calls from people to meet with me
[54:16] privately so I'll definitely meet with I
think everybody's frustrated that's my
[54:20] thought great um I will offer something
as far as Parklane Drive
[54:27] being a a connector Road and a busy road
I lived on Cambridge Glenn Drive for 16
[54:33] years I don't know if you know that
street that's the one with the trees up
[54:37] the middle it's near um it's near
Sagewood it's the street that goes north
[54:42] south and I I remember being at my staff
room at Strathmore High where I taught
[54:48] and I was complaining about the speed
and the traffic on Cambridge Glenn Drive
[54:53] and one of my teachers turned to me and
he said you bought a house house on a
[54:57] road that ends with drive it's not it's
going to be a connector a Memorial Drive
[55:03] in Calgary Centennial Drive is east west
and it's a connector Park Lane
[55:11] Drive Thomas Drive they're all connector
roads that have a lot of traffic I don't
[55:16] want the speed I totally agree that we
have to watch the Speed but to me those
[55:21] are connector roads they get you to
George Freeman Trail or with Thomas
[55:25] Drive they get you to Brent Boulevard
and
[55:30] 8817 but I again I I think in the early
days if uh you know if people are saying
[55:35] if if someone was saying that Park Lane
Drive would never be a connector they
[55:41] were wrong because it's it's an East
West uh road and it it has the word
[55:47] drive in it I don't mean to belittle
this or or make fun of it it's just it
[55:52] has the word drive in it and it is a
connector it is a connector road to
[55:56] George Freeman Trail councelor
[56:01] Mitzner here I'll give you
[56:05] mine the additional intersection may be
your Saving Grace because people will go
[56:11] directly past the ranch for direct
access rather than go park Lan Drive if
[56:16] there's another intersection to stop at
that may help your how do you mean go
[56:21] past the rench well at the four-way stop
on Center Street you can go Direct
[56:27] to the
highway versus going out to the
[56:32] east because as I've lived here my
entire life we have enough four-way
[56:36] stops and people try to eliminate stop
stop stop so it it might help your
[56:42] traffic
situation right but you're also putting
[56:45] 200 new residents in
there and most residents now have a
[56:50] minimum of two cars that's 400 Vehicles
we can definitely get you information on
[56:57] what's planned in that latest phase of
ranch and that will include that
[57:01] Connector Road to Park Lane and
hopefully the buffer space that you're
[57:05] looking for if that's of a help um Jamie
how do you see that information coming
[57:11] out to these
[57:17] folks well if we can get everyone's name
number contact information today I know
[57:22] we've got a couple of inquiries through
email already to our planning staff and
[57:25] infrastru structure we can certainly uh
get some responses to them we've already
[57:29] sent I think a response to one
individual um but I would like to
[57:32] clarify that the subdivision design
piece is not a council decision uh
[57:38] subdivision design is approved by staff
uh so between our planning staff
[57:43] infrastructure staff obviously using
operations group as well as Fire EMS
[57:48] that's who approv subdivision so it's
not a council decision uh Council
[57:51] approves land use uh but that's kind of
where their involvement in so I just
[57:54] wanted to clarify that but we will take
everyone's contact information that's
[57:58] concerned about the future plans for
ranch Phase 5 and and get some responses
[58:01] to them and and Jamie uh cam had a
question about the pathway system would
[58:06] that be would that be shown in this same
thing that is given to them as
[58:10] information would it show the pathway
system yes I can't recall I don't have
[58:14] the plan in front of me I can't recall
if there's a pathway planned or not or
[58:16] what it looks like but typically the
pathway would be shown as Mr uh through
[58:20] through that subdivision approval
so councelor Peterson thank you worship
[58:26] and and I I think too if that um if that
that pathway plan that you referenced if
[58:30] you have an input into that that would
be really useful as well well joining up
[58:35] yeah for people to walk you have a
pathway coming along the WID on the Park
[58:40] Lane and it goes across the street but
doesn't go anywhere else you know most
[58:44] of the people that designed all this
don't live in
[58:48] strathore you know they haven't even
walked or rode the pathways they have no
[58:53] idea you know people don't know there is
not a walkway
[58:58] between the first house on Park Lane or
right by the pum Pump Station to join up
[59:06] with the uh with the path it's just
gravel and weeds it's nothing else they
[59:12] don't even know there's not a place to
walk down there that you have to go on
[59:16] the road in the winter it's it's an
excellent point
[59:19] because we we work really hard nobody's
worked harder than our mayor to connect
[59:23] all the Pathways in the community and
that that isn't uh a place that really
[59:27] needs to U attention coming up it
definitely does I mean I invite anyone
[59:32] out any one of you out to 153 Park Lane
and I'll take you out back I mean we've
[59:37] turned around and since day one actually
my next door neighbor his name was
[59:42] Trevor Spence and his father serving
this Council years and years and years
[59:45] ago yeah he and I we purchased saw we
sawed back I told you United Paul Davis
[59:52] who was a project manager that time
we're going to squat in your land
[59:55] because you're doing nothing to upkeep
it so we
[59:59] sorted so it's nice it's attractive you
know aesthetically everything else but
[1:00:05] it's usable so our next door neighbor
they did it now if you you take a drive
[1:00:10] down parking and look down there you'll
see it's all nice and green that's cut
[1:00:14] down people use it to play botche ball
they use it to play volleyball
[1:00:19] everything else because there's an area
there there's nothing else around you
[1:00:24] know we talk about and I'm digress and
we talk about you know the speeding and
[1:00:28] now there's a uh pedestrian crosswalk in
by the lift
[1:00:35] station B Stanford years ago we
approached him because of it either put
[1:00:40] speed bumps in or put a playground sign
up because that Park is used by the
[1:00:47] schools when it's in and Mr Mayor you
might know that but the new school they
[1:00:53] come walking down they go into the
forest behind mind to use the whole
[1:00:58] works but what's there like we've gone
on 20 years trying to do this and
[1:01:04] nothing's been
done pardon me put a playground sign
[1:01:09] pretty
easy pardon me for interjecting this is
[1:01:13] a seemed to be almost a plan like to
keep delaying it and delaying it you
[1:01:19] know so people forget but they don't
forget and it just gets worse just like
[1:01:25] suggesting that maybe and I and I
appreciate your comment Mr Mrs
[1:01:32] counselor I appreciate your your comment
about you know uh if you uh if you make
[1:01:40] it so awkward then they'll go a
different direction that seems to be the
[1:01:44] way the Strathmore is being designed it
just falling over itself in the parking
[1:01:51] lots and in
the developments that's not just my
[1:01:56] thoughts those are thoughts I gather
from other people thank you well we'll
[1:02:00] uh we'll try to get information to you
if you leave contact information we will
[1:02:04] get uh we will get word to you and and
get a a plan so you can see what's
[1:02:09] coming for that ranch area uh hopefully
we can look at the buffer zone and see
[1:02:13] what the pathway system is maybe
there'll be I know there are other areas
[1:02:17] where areas in the Strathmore Lakes area
where we had a buffer zone created and a
[1:02:23] green space and a pathway was put in
connecting to the Strathmore Lake
[1:02:26] pathway system so we can look at getting
you all that information uh again I want
[1:02:31] to encourage you my phone number is is
on the town website you can call me you
[1:02:35] can email me I I try to respond even if
I'm watching TV in the evening and
[1:02:41] someone sends me an email I try to
respond as quickly as I can via return
[1:02:46] email and I'll try to get you the
information so we're not hiding we're
[1:02:49] not running from you we we want to get
you the information I just feel badly
[1:02:54] that you might have been told some
information many years ago that isn't
[1:02:59] accurate or or couldn't be held up many
years later because obviously the town
[1:03:06] changes and you you can't necessarily
speak that something will never happen
[1:03:10] 20 years from now that's what concerns
me as someone was giving that kind of
[1:03:14] information out when they probably
shouldn't have shouldn't have Mr M
[1:03:18] excuse me but that's going on for 20
years CU all the people that back
[1:03:22] onto uh uh card's Old Land
yeah every one of them was told that
[1:03:28] that land was owned by the
WID and then Grant came well I'm sorry
[1:03:34] I'm not disagreeing you I'm just by all
the builders Realtors everything else no
[1:03:38] I wasn't disagreeing with you I just
feel badly that information landine was
[1:03:42] owned by Grant klyber and his family
okay right up to our property line okay
[1:03:46] yeah I'm sorry about what information
you got in the past um this Anthem
[1:03:50] development is is uh we had lunch my CA
our Cao had lunch with the owner last
[1:03:58] year and then another meeting with them
this spring and he was telling us their
[1:04:01] next phase is ready to go anytime and
that's what you're seeing now so I don't
[1:04:06] know what the land was and I wasn't
trying to disagree with you I just I
[1:04:09] just feel badly that someone was telling
this kind of stuff and again maybe the
[1:04:13] land was sold to Anthem or to this
company but we will try to get you all
[1:04:19] that information as far as what you can
what you can see that's coming for that
[1:04:23] ranch phase right okay may I say one
thing in closing and then I'll be quiet
[1:04:29] sure when this development the new
development when they wanted to add the
[1:04:35] additional uh units by the soccer
field okay and I spoke to that that was
[1:04:44] defeated thank you very much for that
but I also made a comment you have signs
[1:04:49] on the out search of the city where
quality of life is a way of life and in
[1:04:54] that meeting
uh where the proposal was put in front
[1:04:57] of you all I heard was and I said that
at that time all I heard was well we
[1:05:03] have to do this for these people and we
have to do this for these people and my
[1:05:07] response to that is what are you going
to do for the current residents of
[1:05:10] Strathmore that help build this
community everything else they have
[1:05:15] property they looked after it they're
proud of it everything else and it
[1:05:20] doesn't matter whether it's Strathmore
Calgary or whatever they walk into it
[1:05:24] and
they poop all over them for lack of a
[1:05:28] better word excuse me but you know that
just happens there's no consideration
[1:05:34] for the present and current and past
people new development comes in let's
[1:05:40] give them the world to heck with them we
already got them they're already paying
[1:05:44] taxes well my hope is that when this
when this plan comes out that you can
[1:05:49] see you'll see that there are things
that are being done to give you a buffer
[1:05:54] zone or to have a pathway system or to
give you answers on that Connector Road
[1:05:59] and how you get on and off Park Lane
Drive that's my hope so we're not
[1:06:04] forgetting about you we're going to get
you that information and then um and
[1:06:09] then you can always come uh you can
contact our town office and come as a
[1:06:13] delegation if you'd like to speak more
at a at another council meeting we'll
[1:06:17] definitely hear you out and I know you
you mentioned the fact that we defeated
[1:06:22] things when we make decisions we're
trying to make decision Visions based on
[1:06:26] what we think is good for the the
overall community so it it could be said
[1:06:31] that quality of life is also we need to
consider how do we get people into Home
[1:06:36] Ownership how do we get young people
into Families how do we get older people
[1:06:40] who need to downsize and have a smaller
home and property available that they
[1:06:45] can afford so there's we have to wear
all sorts of hats as far as how we tried
[1:06:49] to U try to help people in in a variety
of ways so quality of life also be
[1:06:56] helping people attain home ownership too
I I understand that and I don't dispute
[1:07:00] that
whatsoever um however the the attractive
[1:07:04] point of Strathmore to a lot of people
was a 50ft lots MH you get a larger lot
[1:07:10] and you're not paying the prices in
Calgary and everything else now you've
[1:07:14] downsized it okay they're going to be
cheaper okay but they're still going to
[1:07:19] be Out Of Reach For A lot of people you
know no matter what you do and what is
[1:07:24] going to I mean I think you've done and
we have a realtor here I think you've
[1:07:29] done this town of the service by turning
around and
[1:07:34] approving uh 35- ft Lots in there you
know I'm and and I'm going to talk
[1:07:39] basically I mean we talked about okay do
the
[1:07:42] perimeter in 50ft lots and then the
inside part doing your 35 ft Lots but
[1:07:48] why are you affecting every house along
on the north side of uh Park
[1:07:53] L by because you go to the the other
side you go to the South Side they're
[1:07:58] all 50ft Lots they're not
35 I don't understand that and nobody
[1:08:05] has been able to explain it to me as I
said I'm not trying to digress or or
[1:08:10] lengthen this this uh sit down out but
there's a lot of questions that haven't
[1:08:17] been answered and just ignored well I
think that red us us as residents we to
[1:08:23] have no idea what's going on
none again I think that that rant plan
[1:08:29] if we can get that to you you'll be able
to see what's planned and I don't know
[1:08:34] exactly what's going there I don't know
if there are 50ft lots or if there are
[1:08:38] lots for tow houses and then and then
smaller ones off the top of my head I
[1:08:43] haven't seen the latest plan in the last
little while last one I saw they're all
[1:08:47] approved for 35t Lots okay well we'll be
able to get you some information
[1:08:52] concerning that pleas okay um I'm
wondering if we could go on to some of
[1:08:57] the online questions that have also come
in about other things in town can I just
[1:09:01] follow up sure so I just want to say too
that that I understand what you're
[1:09:05] saying in terms of feeling um um pushed
out pushed on I I live in an area of
[1:09:13] Strathmore which was designated for
density to build density and uh in the
[1:09:18] downtown and it was a really really
difficult transition and I and I we've
[1:09:24] lived we've lived here for 40 years and
so in that environment we watched uhu
[1:09:28] all the old homes in our community be
bulldozed and go into in um uh small
[1:09:34] homes condominiums apartment buildings
all around us and so one of the things I
[1:09:39] guess that that I have had to come to um
a piece with and I have is that it was
[1:09:45] um it was a good decision by the council
it wasn't one that I particularly liked
[1:09:50] but what I have seen now in the last 15
years in in my UHA area is hordes of
[1:09:57] young families that have moved in um who
uh have affordable living in in um
[1:10:04] apartment buildings and and uh side by
sides and four plexes and six plexes
[1:10:09] that are all around us and that uh the
street is filled with parking now but
[1:10:14] the other side of that is is that our
downtown has been
[1:10:17] revitalized and I can't deny that you
know when I when I came on to councel
[1:10:22] the downtown was a ghost town and that
that's not the same today and that
[1:10:27] downtown has been revitalized because of
the actions of councils that predated me
[1:10:31] and U and currently and so I didn't like
it but I have come to make peace with it
[1:10:38] and I I see the wisdom in it but it
didn't benefit us at all I also think
[1:10:45] that it benefited the schools in the
area and and that in turn benefited the
[1:10:50] rest of the community from a from a tax
base and and Mr Panner is absolutely
[1:10:54] correct this is not the same Community
my husband was on Council when we had
[1:10:59] 1,800 people and it was a time when you
could call up the CAO or you could call
[1:11:03] up the mayor and you could do what you
needed to do in the time that you had to
[1:11:06] do it and it was a much easier time and
a much more um there was much more
[1:11:11] capacity to be responsive but we're we
have 15,000 people today and and the
[1:11:18] rules around how councils are allowed to
perform and how we're allowed to act are
[1:11:23] different as well so want to say that
from the perspective of council and the
[1:11:29] and the five terms that my husband
served on Council and the 10 years that
[1:11:32] I've been here this Council has been one
of the most um proactive councils that
[1:11:38] I've seen in terms of trying to reach
out to Residents and trying to do this
[1:11:42] and and the mayor is absolutely correct
you know because we have a strong
[1:11:47] leadership team and because of the way
the governance and operations are
[1:11:50] structured we don't always know I didn't
know about the um about the garbage
[1:11:56] situation until Linda Ferguson called me
at at and I was at a at a housing
[1:12:01] meeting and called me at 10:00 at night
to say that this had happened and that's
[1:12:05] when I found out so we depend on you so
Lloyd Panner has said you know it's
[1:12:10] difficult to get a hold of people but
Lloyd has my phone number and I don't
[1:12:13] know that we've ever agreed on a single
thing but we've had some pretty good
[1:12:16] scraps over the years and I have
certainly respected the information that
[1:12:20] you've brought because I know that you
represent a group of people in this
[1:12:24] community that are really important and
I don't want you to think that you're
[1:12:27] not because you are you're you've been
integral to the community you continue
[1:12:31] to be integral to the community and you
are heard and and I think that there
[1:12:36] will be proof in that in the next over
the next few days that you have been
[1:12:39] heard and I just also while while we
were waiting I texted my husband to say
[1:12:45] where do we bring our waste because he
had exactly the same issues as you he
[1:12:49] didn't want a Teeter on a box to to dump
the garbage and um one of the options is
[1:12:54] and and may not be a satisfactory one
but uh Waste Management still does take
[1:12:59] garbage and um he said that uh we have a
contract with them and he takes his his
[1:13:04] uh recycling to waste
management thank you thank you and even
[1:13:10] though we're a town of 15,000 you can
call me uh at any time and I'll I'll all
[1:13:15] of us but for those of you who are at
home if you have a pen or a paper I'll
[1:13:19] give you my phone number It's Pat Fuel
and if you want to jot it down here
[1:13:23] that's great I'm not giving it to you
Brandon because you're you're media
[1:13:27] you're not to be truth no uh my number
Pat fuel my number is
[1:13:32] 403
324
[1:13:36] 3314 and you can call or text me and
I'll try to get you
[1:13:40] answers I think we have cards out in the
front and we have a brochure of who's
[1:13:45] who in the zoo yeah all right I do have
some questions uh that are coming in for
[1:13:52] other things that are important to
Strathmore residents uh the the next one
[1:13:56] is I've seen some groups getting
sponsorship money from the town how is
[1:14:00] that decided we have a community
delegation night and it's scheduled for
[1:14:05] October 23rd 2024 at 6:30 p.m. it's an
opportunity for nonprofit Community
[1:14:12] groups to come and request funding from
the town having all requests come in
[1:14:17] during one meeting allows for all
Community groups interested in
[1:14:21] requesting funding for the upcoming year
an equal opportunity to speak and
[1:14:26] present before Council and for Council
to get all relevant information to make
[1:14:31] informed decisions during our budget
talks so that's October 23rd 6:30 p.m.
[1:14:38] Council will hear the requests from the
community and allocate funds that will
[1:14:43] fit within the town of strathmore's
budget and align with our strategic
[1:14:48] priorities non for-profit groups can
register for this uh Community Night by
[1:14:54] filling out a delegation request form
online by October 2nd
[1:15:00] 2024 we also have many budget
discussions that take place in the PA in
[1:15:05] the fall as we prepare to approve the
2025 budget we have uh four meetings set
[1:15:11] up for budget deliberations for the 2025
budget being scheduled and then the
[1:15:17] approval is scheduled for December 4th
of this year another important question
[1:15:22] that's come online is dealing with
doctors in town and I know this is a
[1:15:27] problem all across Canada the question
is it's so hard to find a doctor taking
[1:15:33] patients in town when will we get new
doctors and I can tell you this that in
[1:15:38] May of this year Town Council approved a
new grant program to help in bringing in
[1:15:44] new doctors to town it's a pilot program
for local medical offices with the hopes
[1:15:51] of encouraging the practices to sponsor
new Physicians so in other words it for
[1:15:58] for a um a clinic to try to bring in a
doctor from out of Canada or to bring in
[1:16:04] an overseas doctor it's very costly to
go through all the steps the paperwork
[1:16:09] the different things to do so in may we
approved the grant uh format where
[1:16:15] different clinics could apply and then
we help with the funding so that they
[1:16:19] can try to attract and train and Mentor
new doctors the town of Strathmore is
[1:16:26] offering three grants up to
$30,000 each to eligible Clinic
[1:16:32] applicants on a first come first served
basis to be eligible for the B Grant
[1:16:39] applicants must have signed a
sponsorship contract with cpsa before
[1:16:45] applying agreeing to commit to
sponsoring the internationally trained
[1:16:49] doctor for up to six years including
financially supporting the sponsored
[1:16:55] physician throughout the registration
process practice Readiness assessment
[1:17:01] and agree to pay the grant back to the
town should the doctor practice in the
[1:17:07] town for less than five years so in
other words we're ponying up some money
[1:17:12] quite a bit of money three grants to
help clinics attract International
[1:17:17] doctors train them Mentor them sponsor
them get them through all the
[1:17:21] documentation and red tape processes and
we hope that that will bring in three
[1:17:27] we've got two already applications
coming to us so we're hoping that this
[1:17:32] financial help to a clinic will help us
bring in three new doctors over the next
[1:17:36] three years I have a question about our
solar farm in town I would like an
[1:17:42] update on the solar panel project costs
and benefits to the town uh I just want
[1:17:48] to tell you that the solar farm is owned
and operated by a company called Capital
[1:17:52] power the town of Strath more invested
no money into bringing in the solar farm
[1:17:58] here what we do is we lease the land we
have a long-term lease with capital
[1:18:04] power that brings in
$180,000 a year and then on top of those
[1:18:10] lease payments we also receive property
taxes so the town benefits financially
[1:18:16] about
$400,000 a year for that land that is on
[1:18:20] the south side of the Trans Canada there
were no costs to the town um and as part
[1:18:26] of being good stewards of the land
Capital power has an agreement with the
[1:18:30] ranching uh a ranch to bring in sheep to
graze the land they have dogs that that
[1:18:37] stay with the sheep and herd them and I
believe they've also brought in pigs
[1:18:41] recently too so that's helping to
control the weeds the Clover the grasses
[1:18:46] and U it's been a really good thing for
our town because we never had to put any
[1:18:53] investment in
and uh I have a question on Utility
[1:18:58] Billing we are seeing a charge on our
electric and gas bill showing a payment
[1:19:03] to the town of Strathmore I believe that
this is the same charge that is in
[1:19:08] dispute with the provincial government
and it should be returned to homeowners
[1:19:12] can you update on this and I can turn to
our CAO Kevin scoel for
[1:19:19] this so on your bill you'll see
franchise fees and it's not related to
[1:19:25] what's being done in Calgary and
Edmonton the provincial government is
[1:19:28] regulating it differently for those
Metro areas so nothing has changed in in
[1:19:35] Strath more so franchise
fees um basically you know the gas and
[1:19:43] the electric runs on Town land so the
town when you put all those right of
[1:19:49] ways together that's a big loss in
taxation Revenue to a town or a city so
[1:19:55] basically the utility companies are
charged a lease uh which uh the
[1:20:00] municipalities are permitted to do under
provincial
[1:20:02] legislation so the utility companies
turn that into a a franchise fee so
[1:20:08] basically it is a flow through cost um
but the franchise fees are actually
[1:20:15] cheaper than if the franchise fees were
removed and then they become property
[1:20:19] tax uh and the reason that works is
everybody that has an electrical account
[1:20:24] pays a franchise fee there's there's
more utility customers than there is
[1:20:29] taxable property so things like the
courthouse the fish and wildlife office
[1:20:33] they aren't taxed uh they're Exempted
from tax but they have to pay the
[1:20:37] franchise fee so if we're to reduce
franchise fees the property taxes will
[1:20:43] actually go up more so it's actually a
bit of a a method of tax relief to
[1:20:50] Residents thank you CAO
scoel um I I have a question here about
[1:20:56] uh this just came in could the town or
CAO or staff please explain how the
[1:21:04] decision to change garbage pickup was
made and how any action has any action
[1:21:11] been undertaken to assure ensure this
doesn't happen again so can we just get
[1:21:17] a little basic background on on how this
first came about and I I just want to
[1:21:22] point out it wasn't a decision like it
wasn't it wasn't something written in
[1:21:26] stone that had happened it was uh it was
the early process of things um CAO
[1:21:34] scoble so Lanes need maintaining over
time um You probably all notice the
[1:21:41] garbage trucks keep getting bigger uh as
well when when you switch to automated
[1:21:46] collection as we have the weight of the
trucks increases even more because
[1:21:49] you've got that lifting arm and all the
equipment on it so it is harder on the
[1:21:53] lanes
um and the lanes need to be maintained
[1:21:57] if they're not maintained they'll get to
a point of failure where we have to come
[1:22:00] in and rebuild them uh which is
significantly more expensive so
[1:22:05] administration had the best intent in
mind to keep costs down um unfortunately
[1:22:12] there wasn't the best consideration
given to the impact on the residents so
[1:22:18] we're not pursuing that but we still do
need to maintain the lanes or we're
[1:22:22] going to get into Lane rebuilds um which
will be significantly more expensive and
[1:22:26] you won't be able to use your lane for a
long period of time so there are other
[1:22:30] methods um that I've used in other
communities we're going to look at those
[1:22:35] we don't have final details yet but the
way to think about it would be more like
[1:22:38] a street sweeping of your Front Street
we're going to have to come through from
[1:22:42] time to time uh to maintain the lanes
and that means grading them and putting
[1:22:46] more gravel down so that the lanes don't
keep failing um and so from time to time
[1:22:52] you know probably you know once a year
every two years we're going to have to
[1:22:56] work out the details we're going to have
to ask you to treat it like a sweet
[1:22:58] streping so um you're going to we'll ask
you to do things like get anything
[1:23:03] that's stored or any vehicles in the
lane out of there uh they're not
[1:23:07] permitted to be there in the first place
and it should be relatively not
[1:23:12] impactful on most residents I drove most
of the Lanes on Monday and and generally
[1:23:16] residents are doing a very good job of
of mean you know their part in the lanes
[1:23:21] the biggest impact to most residents
will be you know what whatever the
[1:23:24] frequency is once a year or once every
couple years We'll be asking you to put
[1:23:28] your garbage cans back on your property
inside your fence or whatever for a week
[1:23:33] while we get in there with the graders
to fix them up but we do need to do
[1:23:37] something there uh or we'll all be
paying a a significant amount of money
[1:23:42] to rebuild those Lanes by maintaining
them we can avoid the rebuilds so um we
[1:23:47] do apologize um like I said the the best
intent was there to provide the most
[1:23:52] value to the taxpayers but I I don't
think we gave due consideration to the
[1:23:57] impacts of moving to front so there are
other ways to do it but we're going to
[1:24:00] need your help to do
that thank you CAO scho uh the next
[1:24:06] question has to do with Park maintenance
I'm just wondering if Grace's Park is
[1:24:10] going to get weeded this year you guys
have a serious Ragweed Invasion underway
[1:24:16] leaving the park not looking so great
it's even growing in the middle of some
[1:24:20] of the gravel paths now and someone is
going to get someone is going to hurt
[1:24:24] themselves in a gopher hole on the trail
at some point as it's a safety hazard
[1:24:30] any qu any comments we can have as far
as Park maintenance uh in regards to
[1:24:35] Gray's
Park
[1:24:39] Jamie bless you so I did pose this
question to our operations manager and
[1:24:44] um Park staff um they've just weeded it
actually just yesterday um and they'll
[1:24:50] do an inspection on the pathway to make
sure it's it is safe for residents um um
[1:24:55] broadly speaking residents should also
know that Grace Park is is an
[1:24:59] environmental Reserve so it's meant to
be mostly natural uh of course with
[1:25:03] pathways through there we have to
maintain those as well but um our Park
[1:25:07] staff is on top of it so thank
[1:25:12] you thank you Jamie uh we have a
question about the Wheatland housing
[1:25:17] management board and the hospice I can
tell you that last night we approved a
[1:25:22] letter of support for the project so uh
we have still uh council is still behind
[1:25:29] the project we've had different
initiatives voted on and approved we've
[1:25:33] uh earmarked land on the east side of of
kinsman Park it's not it's never really
[1:25:39] been Park land but it's uh it's on the
eastern border we have uh committed to
[1:25:47] providing that land as part of the
town's contribution to the project and
[1:25:52] we're waiting to see how the hous
management body uh will do with their
[1:25:56] next round of uh negotiations and
approvals with the province but last
[1:26:01] night we did approve a letter of
support I have a question about waste uh
[1:26:06] oh sorry yeah question about waste
collection and recycling uh person has
[1:26:11] asked why why wasn't my garbage
collected and these are some of the
[1:26:15] reasons that a person's garbage may not
be collected carts were not carts may
[1:26:21] not have been put out on time
collection of carts happens between 7:00
[1:26:27] a.m. and 1: p.m. as per our bylaw but
it's typically completed by 5: PM if
[1:26:33] your garbage was missed at the fault of
our waste collection Services the truck
[1:26:38] can return the next operating day
sometimes a cart may not been may not
[1:26:43] have been collected because there's
unsuitable material in the cart and if
[1:26:47] that happens a tag is left to inform the
resident and sometimes the uh the the
[1:26:54] carts are placed too close to an object
to another object and again tags are
[1:26:59] left to educate and to advise the
resident as far as why that cart was not
[1:27:04] picked up there's a question about why
is there not a consistent time for
[1:27:09] garbage collection collection times can
vary for multiple reasons driver and
[1:27:15] Equipment issues route changes even
weather can affect that cart collection
[1:27:20] again occurs between 7:00 a.m. and 1:
p.m. again it's typically collected by
[1:27:25] 5:00 p.m. if your carts are out by 7:00
a.m. on your collection day they should
[1:27:31] be
collected uh flipping to the end of my
[1:27:36] questions
online when will the town move to
[1:27:40] blueart curbside collection and for
those people who aren't in the know or
[1:27:46] don't don't know that blue cart is
recyclables with the new epr which is
[1:27:52] extended producer respons ability in the
final stages with provin with the
[1:27:57] province the town is working with the
Alberta recycling Management Authority
[1:28:02] on what would be acceptable in blue
carts versus what would be considered to
[1:28:07] go to landfill we are expecting a roll
out of some version in
[1:28:13] 2025 so we're hoping that we will be
moving to some blue cart recycle pickups
[1:28:20] in 2025 but it'll come down to the
discussions we have to find out exactly
[1:28:25] what's acceptable in the
carts and we're close to the end but if
[1:28:31] anybody has a question sure and if you
could just state your name for the
[1:28:35] people watching at home hi I'm Bev Bell
we are new residents to Strathmore uh
[1:28:42] and we love it we're very happy to be
here um one of the the interesting
[1:28:47] things that have happened from people
coming to visit us we moved in from
[1:28:51] Calgary was that they couldn't see the
street signs
[1:28:54] because they're so
faint um Centennial and Thomas is a good
[1:29:00] example of that I did uh question that I
did send in through the the website and
[1:29:06] I was told that that's on the you know
it's regularly handled through um you
[1:29:11] know an ongoing plan to replace street
signs when they need it but I I I'm
[1:29:16] wondering when do they need it you know
when's the point where you go oh I I put
[1:29:21] my light on I I looked at it so people
have had a hard time finding their way
[1:29:26] in to our place and I guess the other
part is I love the comment about um the
[1:29:32] revitalization of the downtown because I
think that's really important to a
[1:29:36] community like Strathmore uh and I'd
love to see signage that indicates the
[1:29:41] points of interest in town um you know
and I the example I would give was uh
[1:29:47] would be High River even has a little
sign going in that says here's where the
[1:29:52] Heartland stage or Heartland and settis
uh here's where the campsite is there's
[1:29:57] you know we could have where is the
rodeo um and where can people go because
[1:30:01] if they're coming in uh for any reason
or if they're they're going to the you
[1:30:06] know to see the Chucks or lots of
tournaments going on baseball
[1:30:10] tournaments it'd be great if they had
some points of interest that would draw
[1:30:13] them into the town as well thank you uh
councelor Mitzner has been a real push
[1:30:20] on wayfaring signs so it's on our radar
and hopefully we can get some of those
[1:30:25] done councelor M did you want to speak
on
[1:30:36] that if I can answer that we do have new
maps front counter that would just
[1:30:40] produce they're perfect for visitors
they're great idea Cheryl meets check
[1:30:44] with Cheryl from counter we've got great
new maps thank you
[1:30:48] last they came probably
l so we'll be we'll be looking into to
[1:30:54] uh Wayfair sign wayfaring signage as far
as uh getting people around and as far
[1:30:59] as street signs Jamie could you speak to
how we replace and how maybe if if you
[1:31:06] uh you've already mentioned Centennial
and Thomas as being two signs that could
[1:31:11] be looked at we can make note of that
yeah so if you submitted uh you said you
[1:31:15] submitted a CCF online C sorry I think
that's what it that's what we call it
[1:31:21] but okay great yeah citizen in
communication form sorry about the
[1:31:25] acronyms but uh so if you've submitted
that um uh like like you would have
[1:31:30] heard we do have a kind of a program
that looks at that but I'll I'll have
[1:31:33] staff have a closer look at those signs
spe specifically if they're uh not
[1:31:37] legible then then we'll we'll kind of
prioritize those ones
[1:31:42] so and just before I go on how how long
have you lived in strore
[1:31:47] now when when was it that you moved we
moved here in the fall oh well welcome
[1:31:51] to Strathmore again you can get me on my
cell phone and if you want to get me on
[1:31:56] email that's on the town website or it's
pat. fuel
[1:32:01] store.ca so uh feel free to reach out
anytime um we had a question that just
[1:32:07] came in online that wants to know how
much will my property taxes be impacted
[1:32:15] by a potential new Senior Lodge and I'll
turn to Deputy sorry you're not a deputy
[1:32:23] counselor Peterson you were Deputy a
long time
[1:32:27] ago so this is
um this is actually a a complex question
[1:32:33] but it's it's a pretty um
straightforward one as well so first of
[1:32:39] all I want to say that the latest
numbers from the consultants for the
[1:32:43] Wheatland housing management body and
the Wheatland and area Hospice Society
[1:32:48] um planning that has been ongoing for
for the last three years intensively
[1:32:53] uh has just come out on April the 18th
they came out with the last um the last
[1:32:58] set of numbers so uh and even those are
still uh being adjusted in real time for
[1:33:05] for a variety of reasons costs of of
equipment maintenance uh construction
[1:33:09] costs of all of those things the best
way that I can explain this is to
[1:33:15] explain it
through through what it through what it
[1:33:18] will look like on your
2024 um tax bill and and I can do that
[1:33:27] by talking about my tax bill and so when
we get our tax Assessments in the mail
[1:33:32] or online there are two lines for
requisitions on that I think just two
[1:33:37] right two there's one for schools and
there's one for seniors housing and so
[1:33:43] on on my and I always look at mine and I
I figure it out according to how much I
[1:33:49] pay uh per year per $100,000 of of uh
tax value on on the land that where we
[1:33:55] live or the the house where we live
actually and um and then how I just
[1:34:01] break it down how much I pay uh per
month and So currently I pay
[1:34:09] $921 cents per year per $100,000 of
value on the property where we live
[1:34:15] which is a below average property in the
downtown South and so um if I break that
[1:34:22] down I I pay uh approximately round it
up to $20 a year for for for um for the
[1:34:30] current my current requisition on the
lodge and and uh $2 a month so if we
[1:34:38] were to build a new Lodge and keep our
existing Lodge
[1:34:42] open and we would effectively double
that cost so the mortgage on the new
[1:34:49] building will be
$700,000 the approximate cost to R the
[1:34:54] existing Lodge is about
$700,000 and so that would double that
[1:34:59] cost so I'd be paying $8 a month on on
my tax bill I don't I don't uh um the
[1:35:07] track the importance of that and how
much it is but I believe in it so
[1:35:11] passionately that it's money that that
uh that I am prepared to pay and um and
[1:35:17] uh certainly seniors in this community
and people who have seniors in their
[1:35:21] lives have have echoed that uh clearly
um so uh compared to so I so like I said
[1:35:29] I I pay I pay I would pay
currently um about double the amount I
[1:35:36] currently pay so about $20 per $100,000
of of value on the home where I live now
[1:35:42] for senior housing but I pay about
$280 for school taxes and I I value them
[1:35:51] both the same but I just want you know
looking after seniors has not been
[1:35:56] extraordinary when you think about the
contribution that they brought to the
[1:35:59] community and the terrible need so I
just want to also say two more things
[1:36:05] first of all most people know that there
is a private for-profit company coming
[1:36:09] into town that's going to build a lodge
they're called Shasta they're building
[1:36:13] on the existing lands by the hospital
and they are not a lodge like Wheatland
[1:36:18] Lodge they are a um health-based if you
like uh facility for seniors they'll
[1:36:25] have capacity for sl3 and SL 4D which
comprises dementia care they will also
[1:36:33] have six hospice
beds um like the Alberta healthc Care
[1:36:38] Hospice beds and they'll be run under
that ospice that part of that building
[1:36:43] the the dementia care and the hospice
will be run under the parameters of
[1:36:47] Alberta Healthcare which means that
those beds can be accessed by anyone um
[1:36:52] Alberta Healthcare has a very defin way
how they determine who gets what bed
[1:36:56] where and when and so it's very much
needed it's very much needed in our
[1:37:01] community we've estimated that in the
next 20 years we need 400 beds um just
[1:37:06] on the affordable scale for our senior
population so so that means that we need
[1:37:14] Sagewood age care we need this new
Shasta private for-profit that's coming
[1:37:19] in we need the existing Lodge and we
need the lodge we're building and we'll
[1:37:23] still will be short beds so we need them
all the last thing I want to say is that
[1:37:27] not built into that equation uh
Wheatland and area Hospice Society have
[1:37:32] raised 8.1 or sorry $4.1 million do in
eight years a local community group has
[1:37:39] raised $4.1 million it takes my breath
away people sitting in the front row
[1:37:44] here have been instrumental in in
building that that hospice they now have
[1:37:49] enough money they've made enough money
to build the capital side of that
[1:37:53] project they want to join the hospice to
the lodge to be able to do wraparound
[1:37:57] care and to make sure that they can
maximize operation costs by having the
[1:38:02] buildings together at this point in time
we don't know how the operations of that
[1:38:07] building will be funded if we do fund it
ourselves which is one of the
[1:38:14] possibilities we estimate that it'll
cost about $42 per per rate payer per
[1:38:19] taxpayer a year uh or 42 to 48 I believe
is the maximum end of that Dr mcney Who
[1:38:26] has um uh LED this project for several
several years since it's Inception has
[1:38:32] always used the term uh for the cost of
a of an extra-large Pizza uh we can
[1:38:37] operationalize our own hospice she talks
about the difference between the hospice
[1:38:41] and the new Shasta facility the new
Shasta facility she said is a is like
[1:38:45] the room at the end of a hall in a
hospital it's not the wraparound
[1:38:49] Services it is the dream of Wheatland
and area Hospice Society that has been
[1:38:54] embraced by this entire Community the
entire community of the county of
[1:38:57] Wheatland so when I talk to you about uh
um that increase on that times two
[1:39:04] increase at 100% on my tax bill going
from from uh from the um $10 or 9921 per
[1:39:12] 100,000 to to 20 um to the hospice would
again double that but um it is a a
[1:39:21] pretty straightforward number there is
another option and AHS has started to
[1:39:26] fund other uh agencies like Wheatland
and Area Hospital society and funding
[1:39:31] them um anywhere from 50 to
75% uh of their operations and that is a
[1:39:38] a great hope going forward but we're
unsure of it at this time so we hope in
[1:39:43] the very near future by this fall in
fact that um that the Wheatland housing
[1:39:48] management body will have a document
that will be uh widely uh uh published
[1:39:54] in newspapers and online and and uh and
in handouts and and media Outlets that
[1:40:00] will give you all the uh most updated
numbers and it'll also give you that tax
[1:40:05] calculator so you'll be able to go in
there and just plug in the numbers and
[1:40:10] and it will be able to tell you exactly
how much you'll pay per year per month
[1:40:15] on those current
numbers and so I don't know mayor
[1:40:20] there's any other thing I can add
no I would just add that strathore Town
[1:40:27] Council has approved various
um various initiatives and and various
[1:40:34] resolutions to support the lodge so uh
my qu I guess my question or my
[1:40:40] statement is if not now when and if if
we put it off we all know what inflation
[1:40:47] does the cost of that new Lodge will be
incredibly high so we know there's
[1:40:53] a waiting list on the current Lodge and
we know that we have a large number I
[1:40:58] think I'm at the tail end of the baby
boom generation but we know that there's
[1:41:02] a baby boom population that's going to
be large and they they definitely could
[1:41:08] need uh group senior care and if we
don't if we don't start moving to
[1:41:13] planning for that and we're going to be
left looking at something far more
[1:41:18] expensive so I'm fully behind this I
want to support our seniors as well and
[1:41:22] I'm based Bally one of the seniors now
so I don't mean to be uh biased but I've
[1:41:28] always felt we have to look after our
seniors in stth one and I think that
[1:41:33] brings us to a conclusion unless someone
has another question in our
[1:41:38] audience um I want to thank you all for
being here our staff who are here our
[1:41:43] CAO senior leadership team thank you for
being a part of it our residents here
[1:41:48] and if you're at home hopefully you got
some questions answered as well and
[1:41:53] again you have our contact information
that could be found on the town website
[1:41:57] and you can reach out at any time that's
convenient for you we'll try to get
[1:42:02] answers to you as soon as we can thank
you again for being part of this and uh
[1:42:06] I won't see you maybe some of you so
have a great summer