[0:02] I didn't know what was sort of going on.
>> Well, I didn't hear a doorbell or
[0:05] nothing.
>> No, no, I just knocked and opened the
[0:07] door and told hello Daryl and I'm
thinking please answer me. Yes,
[0:12] [laughter]
please have.
[0:14] » Thank you very much. Sorry for being
late. So, it's 5:46. I'd like to call
[0:19] the commole meeting to order at 5:30.
First story bit for the agenda. I don't
[0:27] believe there's anything. We have no in
camera.
[0:31] So the agenda are there any additions or
deletions?
[0:36] Do you have anything?
>> Yes, sir.
[0:38] » All right. Can I have a motion to accept
the agenda as is?
[0:41] » Motion to accept as is.
>> Favor. Thank you.
[0:46] First order of business
6.1, the new business and solid waste
[0:50] collection survey. See if you've been
working on that. Do you want to discuss
[0:56] it or? Yeah, I can.
>> Okay, thank you.
[1:00] » Um, so we have heard lots of feedback
from residents that some of them would
[1:05] like to go to weekly back to weekly
garbage pickup. So, we got a quote from
[1:11] our provider and um
we just want to do a survey of the
[1:19] residents in town. We'll do it on our uh
website. We'll have it in the paper and
[1:25] it'll be at the front counter
for um everybody to fill out if they
[1:31] choose to. We will take uh the results
of that from the received verified
[1:39] um surveys that we get back and the
majority will bring to will bring to
[1:43] council what the majority wants and then
you guys can make the decision. the
[1:48] extra cost would be $12.95 a month,
which is what they're pay or what
[1:52] they're paying now for bi-weekly. So
basically it would double. Um and then
[1:58] so the total cost for garbage would go
up to $35.95
[2:02] from 29 now because the $5 is coming off
on October 1st and we could implement
[2:08] this on October 1st. The garbage um
integrity says they only need a week's
[2:13] notice. So, um, we're going to have the
survey available starting tomorrow if
[2:19] you, um, recommend that we do that and
it'll have to be filled out by September
[2:25] 17th so we can bring it back on the next
council meeting and then make the
[2:30] decision and then let Integrity know.
There any questions?
[2:35] » I have a question. How are we letting
the residents know? Because I know a lot
[2:40] of people speak to me about it.
>> About the survey, you mean?
[2:44] » How are we letting them know about the
survey? Yes, that's correct.
[2:47] » Oh, it'll be on our on our website.
Jesse will send out a mass notification.
[2:51] It'll be in the paper. It'll go on
Facebook.
[2:55] » Okay.
>> Thank you.
[2:59] I know last time, you know, there was a
lot of talk that they didn't have any
[3:04] say in the decision,
>> right? And unfortunately, I mean, we we
[3:09] we planned on it for a long time and we
made the decision as a council and and
[3:13] there was some feedback saying that you
know advice, but I mean we that's what
[3:18] we're here for is to make these
decisions for them. So, um this way I
[3:22] guess in this one if they don't like it,
they don't want it, leave it the way it
[3:25] is.
If you want to change it, we'll change
[3:29] it. I mean, it's unfortunate that uh you
can't have daily uh pickups or weekly
[3:36] day, you know, without paying for it.
Everything everything cost money.
[3:40] » So, yeah. Go ahead.
>> Is it noted on the survey or anywhere
[3:44] that uh the people do have an option to
have a second bin without um like if we
[3:50] don't get every second week or pardon
me, if we don't get every week pickup
[3:54] that week? No, we can put that on there.
We can put that on in our communication.
[4:00] Um, but we if people call in, we do tell
them that they're allowed to have a
[4:06] second bin.
>> Um, it's not that they're running out of
[4:09] room for garbage. That's not the
complaint. The complaint is it stinks
[4:14] and they're um some stuff shouldn't be
left for 2 weeks. Um, yeah, it's more
[4:21] that it's not I can't my bin is full.
It's more
[4:26] I don't like the smell of it or I have
stuff in there that shouldn't be left
[4:30] for 2 weeks,
but I can definitely and when we send it
[4:35] out, we can say that you're allowed to
have two bins and the cost is $12.95 a
[4:39] month.
>> What would go into the gar standard
[4:42] garbage that would I guess
>> dirty personally? Yes.
[4:45] » Yeah.
>> Everything that brought it should be in
[4:48] organics, but there is dirty.
>> Yeah. So, have you checked into the cost
[4:54] for a second bid?
>> It's $12.95.
[4:57] We already there are people that have a
second bin already.
[5:01] » Okay.
>> But the difference is we can they can
[5:03] have that just then instead of the whole
town.
[5:06] » Yeah.
>> So, really after you take off the $5,
[5:09] it's basically down to $7.95.
>> No, it's going up $12.95. Garbage is
[5:15] $12.95, but this the recycle is coming
off. So they would have only been paying
[5:22] $24.95.
>> Yeah.
[5:26] » And now or $23.95 after the recycle came
off.
[5:30] But now with
recycle going back on or not recycle, if
[5:36] they add another bin, it's an extra
$12.95
[5:39] over in a book like
>> Okay. But if if nothing changes, if
[5:43] nothing changes, we don't have any more
services. Everybody's fee is going down
[5:47] $5.
>> Correct.
[5:49] Okay.
>> As of October 1st.
[5:52] » Yes. Which they've already been notified
about that. So,
[5:54] » yeah. Just being know that wants to know
that. And uh and I mean October 1st is
[5:59] when the uh the new organics thing comes
in with the province. Is that correct?
[6:05] » The new recycle. Yeah.
>> Okay.
[6:08] » So, basically,
>> one and the same, I guess. I'm sorry.
[6:13] » Yeah.
>> So, basically what we're saying is the
[6:16] current is 105. It's going to go down to
$100 with the $5 slot. But if they want
[6:24] weekly garbage pickup, the utility bill
is going to be 155.
[6:30] » No, the weekly the monthly utility bill
will go up to 113.
[6:35] » And then but it's an increased cost of
$155 a year.
[6:40] » Yeah.
>> To have weekly garbage pickup.
[6:43] » Okay.
>> Yeah.
[6:46] So,
>> and garbage isn't something that a town
[6:48] subsidizes. It's totally user pay. So,
>> yeah. So, the decision is
[6:57] » and I just we're going to make it very
clear that it this affects everybody.
[7:02] So, um hang on, there's just a wasp
right here. Um [laughter]
[7:07] » that it it affects everybody. So that um
like and if you don't if you don't want
[7:14] like basically you need to have your
voice be heard because this could affect
[7:17] your bill and if it's something you
don't want or do want you need to let us
[7:22] know because if you don't want it and
you don't speak up and then you end up
[7:27] paying it I don't want to hear about it.
[laughter]
[7:32] [gasps]
>> All right. Any more question discussion?
[7:36] Yeah. Go ahead.
>> Just a comment. We want to make sure
[7:38] with this that that integrity isn't
picking up at Jesse's house and they
[7:43] skip my house and skip council Kevin's
house and go to Car's house with because
[7:48] she wants it picked up every week. That
won't happen either.
[7:51] » Well, you can't have that happen. It's
not possible.
[7:54] » Everybody gets it or nobody.
>> See, you're absolutely right because I
[7:59] know in the last one there I had people
come up to me and say, "Well, I don't
[8:02] want to pay for I don't need it. I'm
going to use it." Well, guess what? It's
[8:05] one for all and all for one.
So
[8:08] » yes, we do the same thing and be
prepared if the answer is no, we don't
[8:11] want it, they'll raise some feed
>> issues.
[8:16] Okay, pretty straightforward. Yeah, go
ahead.
[8:18] » I don't know if this has been available
through Integrity, but I did see in Luke
[8:23] in um the adult living area that there's
one bin for a section of homes. Uh the
[8:30] pardon me when I'm saying one bin, the
organics.
[8:35] So, eight houses can go drop into one
bin.
[8:40] I don't know if that's available through
Integrity,
[8:45] possibly say for the apartment building.
I don't know if they have organics at
[8:49] the apartment building or for Happy
Haven.
[8:52] » The apartment building does its own
garbage. They're not on our
[8:58] » Well, this would be organics. Yeah, but
if if you don't have like they would
[9:02] have to arrange that themselves because
they're not on our program.
[9:05] » Okay. What about the
>> Oh, I'm thinking Happy Haven where
[9:10] they're clustered and there's more than
just one household.
[9:14] » I don't know.
>> Jesse, what does Happy Haven have right
[9:17] now? They have bins, don't they?
>> As far as I know. Yeah.
[9:21] » Yeah. So, everybody there they have
multiple bins.
[9:24] » They have 12 bins as far as I'm aware.
That's
[9:28] » I have to look it up.
>> They pay a larger fee.
[9:32] » But you're just you're just talking to
the apartment. You're not saying that.
[9:35] » No, I'm saying
>> households can together and use one.
[9:38] » Right. Well, this is what I'm seeing in
Luke that this is available in the um
[9:44] ravine villas. I'm not sure how many
units go to just one bin.
[9:49] » That goes all each of them have a banana
peel. They don't really have they don't
[9:53] have their own grass.
>> Yeah. Go ahead.
[9:54] » Yeah. and Tracy, they're a condo society
and normally condos aren't included in
[9:59] garbage pickup in a in a community.
>> That's their arrangement, but I thought
[10:04] it was kind of smart. It's just out in
>> and that's through the city of Leuke or
[10:09] they do that on their own
>> because the most condos have their own
[10:14] garbage pickup. So, they would have to
do garbage and organic separately
[10:19] through their garbage
>> like do you know what I mean?
[10:24] Just food for thought.
>> Yeah, because it's a condo board and
[10:28] condos like my mom and dad used to live
in a condo and the condo took care of
[10:31] the garbage, not the city of Leuke,
>> right? Did you
[10:36] » um just kind of thought I guess to keep
in mind if we were to do something like
[10:40] that, a part of this also did stem from
we we sort of almost had an option like
[10:45] that with the organics pile. Um, I would
wager if let's let's say if all of
[10:51] Madison got their own organic spin,
other people from town would just dump
[10:54] their garbage in there, right?
>> Or dump large trucks or things that
[10:59] shouldn't be in there. Like it's just we
have a history of that sort of abuse.
[11:04] » Like if you did that, you can't you're
going to end up where two or three
[11:08] neighbors are fighting. What are you
putting your dog crap in my organic spin
[11:12] for? And then like it happened, right?
>> Yeah. We've already got residents that
[11:17] fill up our our garments around town and
stuff. And I mean folded brim every
[11:23] week.
>> Really?
[11:25] » Every week they're dumping. I even know
>> I'll dump my car garbage.
[11:32] » Gas station.
>> Okay.
[11:36] Anything else?
>> Are you going to allow So it's a survey.
[11:41] I get that. But if people come into the
gallery, are you going to allow them
[11:44] some time to to speak regarding this?
>> Uh after after we get the survey back.
[11:50] » Yeah.
>> Um I don't know. How do you want to run
[11:51] that Donna? Do you want to um do you
want to do a public meeting on it or do
[11:56] you want an open house on it or what
would you like to do? the Don the only
[12:01] reason I'm bring the only reason I'm
bringing it up
[12:04] » is because once people start hearing
about it
[12:07] » they come in here then they can speak
their piece and then they got this is
[12:11] the way it is right
>> I'm thinking the survey is going to
[12:14] speak for itself but
>> but give people opportunity you know
[12:19] » yeah running scenarios through my head
here I don't have a problem uh subject
[12:23] to council's approval with a public
hearing ahead of council meeting you
[12:26] just allow for half an hour Yeah.
>> So, it's
[12:31] [laughter]
>> I think that way you get more
[12:34] clarification rather than, oh, I heard
this and I heard that because that's a
[12:38] lot of what's going on now, right?
>> Well, I I think what you probably do is
[12:41] uh we bring results in and then we let
anybody speak to it. I mean, like I
[12:48] said, the the the survey is going to
speak for itself.
[12:50] » Yeah.
>> But still give people
[12:52] » Is there a place for comments on the
survey?
[12:54] » That's what I was just going to say. We
could add a comment section on the
[12:58] survey and people can write their
comments on there if they want.
[13:02] » So if we get when and hopefully we get a
lot of surveys back,
[13:08] » it's going to be the majority.
>> Yeah.
[13:11] » Rules then.
>> Yep.
[13:13] » Yes.
>> Yep. That's what I mean. So
[13:15] » the only thing Oh, sorry. You were
council. The only thing I'm thinking
[13:19] about timing is this the if we had a
public we'd have to have a public
[13:24] hearing ahead of the regular.
So, we may want to extend our due date
[13:29] for the survey because you definitely
don't want to have the survey results
[13:31] and then hold a public hearing. It'll
look like we've
[13:34] » Yeah.
>> uh shanked it somehow, right?
[13:38] » So, we'd have to look at extending the
survey to the to the end of that week of
[13:44] the council meeting. then you could take
in the public hearing comments [snorts]
[13:48] as well into that if that's what council
wants to do. Um, and I would suggest
[13:56] for a public hearing once they have time
to speak to it, they are have they're
[14:01] going to have to register to come in.
It's a public hear. They got to register
[14:05] their name.
>> They still have to have a yay or nay
[14:08] vote. They can't just come in and and be
upset.
[14:11] » No. Exactly.
>> They have to have a yay or nay vote. and
[14:13] they have to register that vote beside
their their name that that they uh sign
[14:18] into. Otherwise, you're allowing folks
to voice their opinions, but your survey
[14:24] is already done.
>> Yeah.
[14:26] » And you're entering into another
>> Yeah.
[14:29] » nightmare. So, I mean, it's however
which way council wants to go.
[14:33] So would it not be a good idea that like
I'll take some time do a timeline let
[14:39] them come in and speak to it and then
make the decision
[14:43] » make the decisions you can and then they
would have to vote that night though
[14:47] they would have to say their forward or
against it uh on paper beside their name
[14:52] at reg at the registration like once
they had their chance
[14:55] » I mean I mean it's like any other
decision on that sometimes when you do
[15:00] the best interest sometimes you know if
you're having an open house and
[15:03] something and then majority of the
public doesn't want to do it. It's still
[15:06] our choice to do it. Dina know the
majority has
[15:10] » Yeah.
>> Is it safe to assume it's one survey per
[15:14] household?
>> Should be.
[15:19] » Yeah. Well, yes. Everybody has So, when
you fill it out, they have to put their
[15:22] name, address, phone number, and email.
Um, and then it's the question. You saw
[15:28] it on the
>> Jess, can you just bring it up? Yep.
[15:32] Please.
>> Thank you. Chris, do you have a
[15:34] question?
>> Oh, just wait. Mr. Mayor, hang on one
[15:36] second.
>> Hand up and I was smart
[15:40] saying hi. But I I will mention just for
the record because you asked me uh I've
[15:45] only got like five extra bins
>> to at my disposal and I have no extra
[15:51] cycling bins. That's all I've got. So,
we would have to order. I don't know if
[15:55] we paid for
not being used, how that works. They
[15:59] would have to they would have to drop
them off for us, Chris, like they did
[16:02] with the organic bins when they brought
them when we brought them in. So, this
[16:06] this is the survey right here.
>> Make it bigger, just
[16:12] » I mean, I can make it bigger, but you
lose some of the elements of it, but
[16:16] » I guess just clarity on that it's one
per household because if you got varying
[16:21] » opinions in the household, you might get
two or three.
[16:25] » Yeah, we can put that on there, too. One
survey per household for sure. Yeah,
[16:29] » I would I would make that very big
>> stand out that it's one per household
[16:36] » because I'm reading all the way down
there. I can sort of, you know, it's a
[16:41] civic address, but
make it very noticeable. It's one per
[16:47] household.
>> Yeah, it's good.
[16:49] » And and we're adding the comment field.
>> Yeah.
[16:53] » Okay.
Good.
[16:56] » And what did we decide on? Sorry, just
because we've gone back and forth so
[17:00] much.
>> Well, here's Can I just speak to the
[17:03] public hearing? And I'm not saying I
don't want one, but I again, if you're
[17:07] going to go with majority,
like the if you're if that's how you're
[17:11] going to decide is by the majority of
the survey, if every if 45 people say
[17:16] they want it, and five if we get 50
surveys back, 45 say yes, we want
[17:22] weekly, and five say no, then the five
are going to be mad no matter what. if
[17:26] and and it if you're if that's how
you're going to decide what people have
[17:30] to say at a public hearing isn't going
to sway you. So, you guys have to decide
[17:35] how you're going to decide
because if you're going to decide
[17:39] strictly on the survey what the majority
wants, then then it's then there's no
[17:45] point in having people come in to talk
about it. If you're going to decide
[17:49] based on a public hearing, then there's
no point in doing the survey.
[17:55] » Okay.
No, I think we still do both
[17:58] » because not everybody can be here when
the town meeting is is happening. So,
[18:03] they still have an opportunity to hand
in the survey, but somebody who feels
[18:07] the need to voice their opinion still
can come in and do that within that half
[18:11] hour time frame. I think
>> as long as they vote.
[18:14] » As long as they vote. Yeah, I agree with
that.
[18:15] » But their opinion isn't like that's what
I'm saying. If you're going to go on the
[18:19] majority vote,
then somebody's opinion on what they
[18:24] have to say isn't going to sway you.
>> No, but it's about giving the public an
[18:29] opportunity to say something and not
everybody is necessarily going to fill
[18:33] out the survey,
>> right? And that's why we're saying like
[18:36] you basically have to fill this out or
your voice isn't heard.
[18:40] » Like if you don't fill out the survey,
you can't be mad with the results.
[18:44] » Yeah. Okay. Or if they come in and they
want to speak here, why not just get
[18:48] them to fill out a third sheet while
they're here? Okay, you're here that
[18:52] night. You voiced your opinion. Now,
fill out your survey sheet before you go
[18:56] and then it's all still based off.
>> Well, that would be your worship. That
[19:00] would be your registration form into
here. They have a survey with the
[19:03] registration form with their vote.
>> Perfect.
[19:06] » Then they get to say their opinion.
>> Sorry, just a thought. I suppose I I I
[19:13] understand why we would do a public
hearing for many matters, but in this
[19:17] case, if we're still basing it off the
survey and we want to give them a chance
[19:20] to voice their opinions, could we insert
a larger public commentary section just
[19:25] for that part of the agenda? Avoid
having a public hearing altogether, but
[19:29] still give them an extra 30 minutes a
like before we make the motion in the
[19:33] regular meeting. That way, we don't have
to schedule anything ahead of time.
[19:38] It's just a I don't mind one way or the
other.
[19:43] » Thanks.
You have something to say.
[19:45] » So,
>> the survey is going to be kicked out to
[19:50] everybody.
>> It's going to be available on the
[19:53] website in the paper and at the front
desk.
[19:58] » Okay. So, my suggestion is we all get a
water bill. Why not attach this survey
[20:04] with every water bill as well? Because
then you can't say you didn't get it.
[20:10] You can't say, "Well, I didn't see it on
Facebook."
[20:15] » It's timing.
>> You won't get it done by October 1st.
[20:20] » I was just trying to figure out a way
where No, you can't get that to go on
[20:25] the survey would have to be in there
last week when water bills were because
[20:29] » or we wait till November 1st. Could that
not happen?
[20:32] » Well, it could.
>> We'd have to do it.
[20:36] » But even then,
>> getting rid of all the flack for all the
[20:39] people that are going to go, "Well, I
didn't hear about this and I didn't hear
[20:42] about that and I can't attend meetings
and all this."
[20:45] » Kevin, do you know how many people I
sent 53 registered mails, registered
[20:49] letters out to people and I got 10 of
them back.
[20:53] » People don't get their mail.
>> That's not
[20:57] » Well, they get their water bill.
>> No, they don't. Some of them just come
[21:00] in and pay or some of them just
automatically pay it every month. People
[21:04] don't get their
>> mail
[21:09] with the green card.
>> The the you know the owners renters
[21:13] don't get the water bill and they don't
get it goes to the owners.
[21:17] » Well, they don't have a say.
>> Yes, they do because it's their garbage.
[21:21] Like it's their garbage, right? And they
pay the bill.
[21:25] » They pay the bill, but they don't get
the bill. Well, I think
[21:30] » every renter comes in here and says, "I
don't get my bill. How much do I owe
[21:34] » or they're on cut off list because they
don't get their bills and they come in
[21:39] when they get the green thing on their
door?"
[21:41] » So, the survey is available to the
renters when it's advertised this way.
[21:46] » Yeah, it's available to everybody and I
can tell you that 95% of the people are
[21:51] on Facebook. They read the paper. I
mean, I can't I can't get no matter what
[21:56] I do, I can't guarantee everybody's
gonna get one.
[21:59] » Well, I think we're complicating this.
>> Yeah.
[22:05] » Okay. If if we delayed it till November
1st to get everybody to get them their
[22:11] survey, does that affect our contract
with integrity? Because it's up for
[22:17] » No,
>> it's not up at all. It's not up at all.
[22:19] They're just willing to add this extra
week like they're willing to do the
[22:22] addendum to the contract
>> to make sure that everybody gets
[22:29] and has access to their bills.
Why can't we just wait till October and
[22:36] put it in the mail and then make sure
that everybody can see it, everybody
[22:41] knows it, and then our decision can be
made. I don't think we need to have
[22:46] people come in and speak. Put a comment
in there. If they can't comment on it, I
[22:51] don't see any point going any further.
If you feel that strongly on it, put it
[22:56] on your comment and get your results
back in here.
[23:00] » Thank I agree with you. It's just
>> I know what
[23:04] » I I I agree with you because then nobody
can actually physically come in and say,
[23:08] "Well, I didn't hear about this. I
didn't hear about that."
[23:10] » If we put it in all the different areas
and the bill,
[23:15] done.
>> It's up to us make that decision. We
[23:18] want to whichever way you want to do it.
>> Well, you're still putting it in paper
[23:21] too as well. So,
>> so sorry, just to clarify the thought.
[23:25] So, are we um think just in thinking are
we thinking put it out on the October
[23:30] bill and then wait have a deadline for
November 1st and then bring it back to
[23:34] the November regular or do you guys
still want to try to bring it to the
[23:37] October regular after the order? I'd
bring it to the October regular
[23:43] » because bills bills will go out probably
on the 2nd
[23:48] » of October,
>> which means everybody will get it by
[23:52] well, it'll be in their mailbox by the
Monday or Tuesday.
[23:56] If you don't pick up your mail, I can't
control that. But it will also be on
[24:00] Facebook, the website, in the paper. So
>> ahead of time, right, like before the
[24:05] second, we could start that earlier. So
when
[24:07] » we could put it in the paper for that
Friday the 2nd.
[24:11] » So is that is that what anybody wants to
do that way?
[24:14] » Is there any other urgency that we're
not aware of?
[24:17] » Nope.
>> Does our contract still
[24:23] put comment on here though yet?
>> She magically do it. She's doing it.
[24:30] » Okay. All right. Is that the wish of
everybody?
[24:33] » I think that it's
>> all right. I get a recommendation motion
[24:37] to recommend that council publish a
survey on the town website Facebook
[24:41] connect 39 and the October water bill
>> to direct information to direct count to
[24:47] direct administration to do that for
you. That's how you're uh your motion
[24:52] has to read sir.
>> Okay.
[24:54] » You're directing us to do what
>> correct just said that's what I meant.
[24:58] » I'll move to direct administration. Same
thing I thought.
[25:03] » It's not okay.
[laughter]
[25:07] » Okay.
>> And sorry, just to clarify one more
[25:09] thing. If we do it on October 1st, like
send it out in the water bill, we would
[25:14] have a deadline of uh Thursday the 22nd.
>> Exactly.
[25:19] » That we could and then it wouldn't start
till the second week of November because
[25:23] they need a week's notice.
>> So,
[25:28] » all right. I think we beat it to death
enough already. Somebody would like to
[25:32] » I move to direct administration.
>> Okay.
[25:35] » On what he said
in
[25:39] » favor.
I
[25:42] » concur.
>> Absolutely concur that we'll do
[25:45] something. [laughter]
[25:49] » We got
we beat that one up and off. Let's move
[25:52] on.
uh
[25:56] else reports 7.1
uh I guess I'll start with mine. So uh
[26:01] going three months for the months of
June, July and August following
[26:06] activities. June the 2nd we had a
special council meeting regarding the
[26:10] river intake lease. June 9th we had a
council of the whole June 13th I just
[26:15] wanted to point out that uh at my
resident I had my water beer changed. It
[26:20] was probably 40 or 50 years old. The
entire process took about half an hour.
[26:25] Uh went very well considering the age of
my meter and the fact that it had to be
[26:29] cut out and uh replplumped. So they had
to do the whole works on it. Uh the
[26:35] installer was very knowledgeable and
very professional and
[26:39] everything went very smooth. So I just
wanted to point that out. Uh June 23rd
[26:45] regular council meeting. June 24th I
attended the AGM for the North Scan
[26:51] Water Alliance. The agenda and program
was shown in correspondence for a
[26:55] regular meeting. I think in July
everybody saw that there was quite a bit
[26:58] in there. July the 2nd I attended the
Actto Cup as a guest of ACTO CEO Jason
[27:05] Shark. While there I chatted with
President Nancy Sutherland.
[27:10] uh she was very aware of what's
happening in Thorsby especially
[27:13] regarding with the changing out of the
uh um gas lines and the upgrades and she
[27:20] also was very aware of what we're trying
to do with the water and she was very
[27:24] encouraging to it. I I did make a
comment to her that I said it's taken us
[27:28] a long time. She says when you're
dealing with the government and they're
[27:31] giving you money it takes a lot of time.
So I was kind of I was very impressed
[27:36] that uh you know they certainly
certainly knew about it and was very
[27:40] encouraging they were supporting us. So
uh July the 15th I attended the chlor
[27:46] barbecue in Morbert along with
counselors Watson and Messen and I was
[27:49] late for that one as well. [laughter]
[27:54] » You were I was
>> lost track of time again though. July
[27:59] the 17th, I attended the opening
ceremonies for the uh U8 provincial
[28:03] finals in Thorsby. I gave a little
speech regarding the uh treaty 6 and
[28:08] treaty 6 indigenous land race and
Thursdays won gold. Congratulations to
[28:13] them all. Even though they had to go to
Millet because it got rained out here
[28:17] the next day, but uh first couple days
was pretty good there. July 28th, we had
[28:22] a regular council meeting. August 4th,
special council meeting regarding the
[28:26] amended boring bylaws. First greetings.
August 6, uh, place the looney in the
[28:34] casting center ice on the arena floor.
This is a custom from the contractor for
[28:39] all their projects recognizing the
Olympics when Canada placed the looney
[28:43] in the ice and went on to win gold. It
goes back
[28:47] that far and the these scouts uh they
keep they lo everyone that they do. So
[28:51] there's plenty.
August 18th, special council meeting for
[28:56] second and final readings for the
amended board bylaws.
[29:00] August 22nd, Cod Don and I attended a
barbecue in Devon which everybody was
[29:05] invited to posted by MLA Andrew
Bachenko. Uh we met the staff today on
[29:11] the way and received some valuable
contact information. I'm sure CO is
[29:16] going to talk about later, but it was
very worthwhile.
[29:19] August 25th regular council meeting.
That's my report. Any questions?
[29:27] No. Good. Council evidence.
You can tell I did mine from the road.
[29:34] [laughter]
Uh I thought it Yeah. So for the summer
[29:37] I report I attended all regular council
meetings and the two special meetings
[29:41] that we had.
[29:44] » Questions.
Uh, John Council Mson.
[29:50] » All right. So, I attended all regularly
scheduled meetings for the month of
[29:54] June, July, and August. Other activities
or duties, be it paid or volunteer were
[29:59] as such. June 3rd was special meeting.
June 4th, I was bingo pay master. June
[30:06] 8th, Commissioner of Oaths. June 10th,
communities and bloom meeting and
[30:11] planted plants at Taylor Park. June
11th, Luke Regional Housing Foundation
[30:16] Governance Meeting. June 12th,
volunteered for TEPA as they were short
[30:21] on volunteers for the year- end movie.
June 17th was the Asha Golf Tournament.
[30:28] June 19th, Commissioner of Oath. June
20th, parade entry with Councelor Watson
[30:33] at Warber Canada Day Parade. June 25th,
LRHF board meeting. June 26th,
[30:41] Commissioner of Oath. June 30th, guest
of Foris at Pinoa Stampede. July 15th,
[30:49] LRHF Cloverleaf Manor Barbecue.
July 15th, I had Lions Meeting. July
[30:56] 18th, Morning Star Open House. July
23rd, LH LRHF Plane View Manor Barbecue.
[31:05] July 24th, Commissioner of Oath. July
29th, communities and blue meeting.
[31:10] August 4th was a special meeting. August
6th, Looney Cast with Bryland at Artic
[31:16] Spa's rec complex. August 10th,
Commissioner of Oaths. August 14th,
[31:22] senior's barbecue. August 18th, special
meeting. August 27th, bingo pay master.
[31:30] August 27th, virtual LRHF special
meeting.
[31:35] That is my report. Well, thank you very
much. You have any questions for council
[31:40] muscle?
All right. If not, then that concludes
[31:45] the council reports. Can I have a motion
to accept the council reports for
[31:49] information?
>> Motion to accept information.
[31:53] » All in favor?
All right. Administration reports. They
[31:57] have it on. Thank you. Worship of
council. So is summer.
[32:03] are the uh top part I always keep with
you so you know what kind of government
[32:08] projects we're doing and how we're doing
them. So the ONS project uh that we had
[32:13] from the government is complete water
treatment 100 administration office of
[32:17] the sale 100 and recreation completed at
100. So um that's all good. So we have
[32:22] manuals, we have stuff, we have forms,
we have everything we need for that. uh
[32:26] circular materials have been uh we went
to their kickoff meetings and the roll
[32:31] out schedule and uh that's all was
completely a full report. Uh privacy act
[32:36] off the privacy commissioner is still
building a plan to start to classify
[32:40] documents and again that that language
is is still from the last uh last month.
[32:45] So basically designation of privacy
officer which is me mandatory staff
[32:50] training document classify system etc.
So, we're are just finishing off the
[32:54] plan. Uh we'll get to classifying
information probably 2027 and 2028 and
[33:00] 2029.
Emergency management. Uh Leoo County is
[33:04] proposing a meeting with all the CEOs to
look at regional emergency management.
[33:08] This was tried a few years ago with some
serious roadblocks. So, uh the CEOs are
[33:13] very interested in how this will be
beneficial and efficient. We'll see. Uh
[33:17] it always comes with a cost and that's
not being nasty. It there is a cost. The
[33:22] last time it was $15,000.
So we'll work through it and and we'll
[33:27] advise uh July and August highlights. So
attending construction toolboxes as
[33:32] often as possible to keep up with any
issues that we could solve or bring
[33:35] forward. Construction is on budget. Uh
curbon gutter is being staged with
[33:40] paving after. So they do the curbon
gutter. They put gravel underneath it.
[33:44] Then along comes border pavement.
They're at a heck of a time right now.
[33:47] They took a 40 chase a water break and
it was in a service line and so they got
[33:53] all that fixed and then there was tree
problems with our famous elms and so
[33:59] that was all looked after as well. Um we
had a uh new uh we have a new Alberta
[34:06] municipal insurance carrier um
representative so met with met with them
[34:11] and and had lunch and that's very good.
So, we finished September is the PRQ
[34:16] questionnaire. That means what do you
how many staff do you have? How many new
[34:20] buildings do you have? How many new
pieces of equipment do you have? That's
[34:23] just them uh getting any new information
so they can up our our premium
[34:28] basically. That's all done. That usually
takes a half a day. And then the finite
[34:32] tracking what we ensure will come in
October before our insurance policy is
[34:35] bound. So, uh that's when we have to
count tractors and greater blades and
[34:40] all that sort of thing. But we've been
doing that for four and a half years.
[34:43] So, we're getting better at it. Uh,
monthly meetings with the league player
[34:46] to keep informed. I try and stop every
Tuesday night if they're at fire
[34:49] practice. And if they're just coming in
off a practice or coming in off an
[34:52] event, I try and stop in and uh just
chat with them. Uh, and uh we'll uh
[35:00] we'll do some finite tracking with them,
what we ensure, and that'll come in
[35:03] October. Sorry. Um, meetings of Yeah,
sorry, I'm on the wrong thing. Uh, the
[35:08] 16inch pipeline was fixed at the intake
meetings with Alberta Environment.
[35:12] They're all fine with that. Um, I should
have put a bullet in there. Oops.
[35:16] Planning matters, compliance,
certificates, development, permits, and
[35:19] discussions been going on all the time.
We have some folks wanting to do things.
[35:22] And so there was chatting with us and
with Liz. Attended the Looney ceremony
[35:27] at the arena. The cement base was being
poured. Had lunch with the Bryand team
[35:31] along with mayor and counselors.
Attended by invit invitation Mr.
[35:36] Bchenko's open house in Devon on a
Saturday to make valuable connections
[35:39] with his chief of staff. So, here's
here's how we like to work. If I want to
[35:43] talk to Minister Buenko, I have to come
to the mayor and council and get
[35:46] permission to to take one of you with
me. I can't just phone him. Well, hi,
[35:49] how's it going? Uh, but with his chief
of staff, uh, we're all on the same par
[35:54] level. I can phone them anytime. So, I
met with his chief of staff about a
[35:58] couple issues that that I want some
support on. And uh it may not be uh
[36:03] Minister Buenko's um ministry, but when
they'll they'll let you have access to
[36:09] the other chiefs of staff when you
become co colleagues. Right. First u
[36:14] first one I want to look at is uh a road
agreement with uh lead actually with the
[36:19] province with respect to 778. So I'm
going to look at a road agreement and
[36:23] that's strictly for basically the cement
uh the uh permacete that goes in our
[36:27] water main breaks. So, uh, that letter's
been sent off through Mr. Boyenko's
[36:33] chief of staff to the chief of staff,
Alberta transportation. The second one
[36:37] is is a project that we want to think of
for the uh, industrial parks. I want to
[36:43] talk to Alberta Innovates and that's a
different ministry through uh, municipal
[36:48] affairs. So, uh, Minister Municipal
Affairs chief of staff and I will chat
[36:53] about that and and we'll all we all get
to know each other and make friends. So,
[36:57] you get more done at that level. And I'm
not breaking a protocol because I'm
[37:01] pretty fussy with protocol with the
government. Excuse me. Um,
[37:06] orders sent out for mowing lots in June
with either enforcement under contract
[37:09] or mowing attaching, billing to taxes.
All those lots have now been done.
[37:13] Billing is being attached and uh, of
course, uh, we wait always because when
[37:19] an order goes out, the landowner has an
appeal time to which we have to wait.
[37:22] So, that's all done and finished. And we
do have our frequent offenders that uh
[37:29] we will get after that next year. Again,
reviewing with the team bylaws,
[37:33] policies, and more to come. We're making
progress simplifying and making sure uh
[37:36] the policies and bylaws make sense. We
were just discussing one this afternoon,
[37:40] Cindy and I and Jesse, that we had a
very robust discussion about it, which
[37:44] is good. And we realized it didn't make
sense. So, we got to send it to legal.
[37:48] It uh when you're dealing with money and
charging people things, it has to be
[37:52] right. And especially if there's a fee,
sorry, a fine attached because the last
[37:57] thing we want is to have to go to court
and have lawyers. Otherwise, there's no
[38:01] point writing the fine. If it's not a
provincial ticket, we're we're spending
[38:06] probably, let's say, on a bylaw ticket
that they that the person got the ticket
[38:10] is challenging. The lawyer fees are
about $2,000 for a $500 ticket. So,
[38:16] we're going to fix that up in the smile.
We notice that anomaly, so get that
[38:19] fixed. Uh we're working with the upward
health inspector on matters as
[38:23] requested. As he comes in and asks for
things uh he doesn't tell us the files,
[38:27] he doesn't tell us anything. He just
requests certain information from us.
[38:31] Want to start working with county on new
messaging or we have been for fire
[38:34] recruitment in Thorsby. If you look on
the uh website,
[38:39] » yeah, we uh we built it uh here as a
team and then we uh we sent it off to
[38:44] them for approval and uh they weren't
sure what to do with it because they
[38:47] never considered all that we wrote
before. we just want to change it up.
[38:51] And I went and asked the fire guys and
gals if they'd seen it. They said,
[38:54] "Yeah, that makes total sense." So um
anyways, that was that was pretty
[38:58] exciting. And uh well, I'm also want to
work with them. We have more meetings
[39:02] scheduled. I want to have a YouTube
channel where we're recruiting all the
[39:06] time where we're talking to people about
things where we're um [clears throat]
[39:10] uh doing uh a little bit of fire
prevention things rather than having
[39:15] these big seminars and that sort of
thing. So we're we're working on that.
[39:19] Um it's all good. Uh monument
placements, grave identifications in the
[39:23] grave for requests, graves, cremation
graves, certain were dug and uh entered.
[39:30] Um we were certified blessed debentures
and other government functions overland
[39:35] flooding study completed by the
government and updated participated with
[39:39] Calmar for a groundbreaking ceremony and
honored their request to assist the
[39:42] first nations elder to bless the site.
You can see that signs are being
[39:46] changed. We actually turned uh the
intersection down here at Hanken beyond
[39:50] the Treasury branch. It has to be for we
stop all the way around, not just three
[39:55] ways. So that's all fixed. And a few
other places we're starting to get
[40:00] either yields or stop signs of the
streets coming out on 50th here because
[40:05] they should be yield because that's a
major artery. So we're working on all
[40:08] that. Um as you notice, we started
painting the handicap signs today. We
[40:13] got the women side city city office here
done. And uh there's one other thing
[40:19] that I that we did here. Uh oh, and we
were in the calmar parade.
[40:23] » You know, I guess I almost forgot about
that counselor Audrey and I and she
[40:27] wrote in the back uh the box through
Candy made a fool out of herself. She's
[40:32] wearing some kind of sun hat. I was
dressed up like a water drop. I don't
[40:36] know what that was all about. I just
drove and we won't talk about
[40:39] » No, we won't. I won't say anything. And
that is my report for the summer.
[40:43] » Okay. Questions for Go ahead.
>> The last point about signs being
[40:49] changed.
>> Yeah.
[40:50] » Has it been noted that the sign that
used to be right by Argo where we're
[40:55] coming up from the construction has
gone?
[40:59] » Yes, we noted that. And we'll order a
new one.
[41:01] » Okay. I know. I remind
>> why it hasn't been changed is because
[41:06] post is illegal.
>> The old little stupid post that was
[41:09] that's actually illegal now.
Oh, sorry.
[41:13] » I just noticed it again today.
>> No, that's great. Thanks, Chris.
[41:16] » Uh on 53rd that all the waters been uh
all the temporary waters off and
[41:22] everybody's on permanent water. No, the
lines are
[41:24] » not yet.
>> Not yet.
[41:27] » I haven't received any word from
engineers, but I'll know. I'll go to the
[41:30] I heard one of the residents told me
that it was.
[41:32] » Mine's done.
>> Yours is on.
[41:36] » I'll I'll confirm the toolbox. I haven't
received any
[41:40] » [snorts]
>> Yeah,
[41:42] » they may have had some that they
couldn't contact those because it was on
[41:44] the wall again.
>> Yeah, I'll confirm with the engineers at
[41:47] the toolbox and I see I'll send you
a question. Thank you. Anybody else have
[41:53] any other questions?
[41:57] » Thank you.
>> Um,
[42:00] » sorry. You said that the construction is
on the budget. Do we have any update on
[42:03] timing? Is it still second week in
October?
[42:06] » If the weather cooperates.
>> Yeah, right. I don't
[42:09] » that's all we did. We had Lake Padernis
again at the start here.
[42:13] » And I talked to the engineers about
that. They said uh everything has been
[42:17] uh shot uh the grade is proper, but how
they put in the driveways and the old
[42:21] curbs and gutters and how they built the
lots causes them a lot of trouble with
[42:26] getting it all level and getting it the
way it should be. Some of the driveways
[42:29] they may have to cut in. Uh everybody
that had something taken off their
[42:34] property gets it back. So, if it's a
sidewalk, you won't get the blocks back.
[42:38] You probably get a sidewalk, so to
speak. Um, so they they were they were
[42:44] having trouble. Um, not that they didn't
know what to do, but they they're
[42:47] getting it as close as they can. But
that that one coming out on 778 there,
[42:51] that's going to be a turkey all the time
with water right there in that corner.
[42:55] Uh, because everything was built,
however, but u they're they're moving
[43:02] along. Um, when the curb and gutter
stuff comes in, there's about 20 or 30
[43:06] trucks that come in, about 60 guys, and
they have it done in a couple of days.
[43:10] » Cool. It's pretty impressive actually.
>> Who's fitting that cost for the
[43:14] difference in the grid that's in the
contract?
[43:16] » That's all that's all part of what they
have to do. Yeah. Yeah. They I mean,
[43:20] most most companies would um uh would
use that as a change order. They don't.
[43:27] » They just do the job. And we're not
allowing too many changers. I think we
[43:30] have a lot too, but they've all in
budget.
[43:35] » Well, thank you.
All right. Uh, Cindy, please.
[43:41] » Hello. Um, all right. So, over the
summer, I have been liazing with meter
[43:46] core read the new meter installations.
Um, as of today, there are 51 meters
[43:52] that are still remaining, of which only
27 are in the construction zone. Um the
[43:58] remainder access, plumbing or refusal
issues which are being dealt with. Um
[44:03] all installed meters have also been
placed in billing software. We've sent
[44:07] multiple letters to residents rewater
replacement meeting or booking
[44:12] deadlines. Um we've notified a couple
residents of potential water leaks. So
[44:16] that's the one benefit of the new
software and they were very happy that
[44:22] we called them. Um
uh we worked on financial policies and
[44:27] bylaws. Submitted the borrowing bylaws
to the loan local loan authority for
[44:32] dispersement September 30th barring any
court challenges which I do not foresee.
[44:38] Um submitted all grant amendments and
applications for 2026. All have been
[44:42] accepted. Just waiting for minister's
approval on the CCBF and that's just a
[44:46] rubber stamp basically. um received LGFF
operating funds and that was $88,000. Um
[44:55] received the remaining 2025 commitment
and the partial payment of 2026
[45:00] estimated commitment from Leuke County
for the recreation agreement. Um I've
[45:05] leazed with tax service regarding the
upcoming tax sale which is happening on
[45:10] September 22nd I believe. Um we've uh
facilitated installation of new phones
[45:17] due to new phone system. I submitted and
now have received um the funding for
[45:24] FCSS for 2026.
Um meetings regarding new recycling plan
[45:29] that rolls out October 1st and
eliminates the recycle fee on
[45:33] residential bills. Letters went out to
residents in this month's water bills.
[45:37] um letters to commercial and public
service properties regarding
[45:40] discontinuation of recycling due to new
government program as these types of
[45:45] properties are not eligible. They all
got letters. I asked them to contact me
[45:49] for options as I have some available to
them and I haven't heard from any of
[45:54] them. um meetings regarding updated
updating agreements uh started working
[46:00] on operating and capital budget plans
process payables and EFT payments
[46:04] process payroll and dealt with resident
inquiries
[46:09] financial information outstanding
utilities 77,48463
[46:16] of which 6,49915
is subject to shut offstanding
[46:22] taxes $265 $5,566.85
[46:28] of which $4,792.80
[46:32] is up for tax recovery. And I just want
to note that that is the lowest number I
[46:36] have seen since I've been here. Um, and
$49,428,088
[46:42] is from 2025 tax notices. Our operating
account is sitting at $2.3 million as
[46:49] compared to 1.5 last year. And our
savings account is the same at 1.17. and
[46:54] we have not used our line of credit.
[46:59] » Thank you.
>> You're welcome.
[47:01] » Questions for April. Cindy,
>> just just a comment. Cindy, do you want
[47:06] to talk about the tax sale on the lot?
>> What would you like?
[47:14] » What about it?
>> Just let council know it's been sold.
[47:18] » Oh, that one. Oh, yeah.
>> Yeah. Not [laughter] the one we're
[47:22] coming up. What about the one that's
going up for sale? Oh, yes. We did we
[47:26] did sell one of the tax um the tax sale
properties from last year that we took
[47:32] possession of it sold uh a couple weeks
ago and uh they are in the process of
[47:39] having the old trailer removed and
putting a new manufactured
[47:44] home on there. So, they are aware of the
one-year
[47:50] um caveat from council, but they plan on
doing that like right away. So,
[47:58] » have a comment on that one. Yes, they
are working on that property as we
[48:03] speak.
>> Awesome.
[48:06] » Yeah, it looks good now. It's all nice
and mowed. It looks great.
[48:12] » All right. Any other questions,
comments?
[48:16] Okay. Uh, parks and recreation, Kelly,
please.
[48:20] » Hello.
>> Okay. This past summer, um, active
[48:26] memberships in July, we had 161 and
August 169, 12 of them being Art Expos
[48:33] employees.
So, pretty steady numbers over the
[48:37] summer. Our summer programs we ran for
six weeks from July 7th to August 13th
[48:43] with over 300 kids attending. Uh most of
the programs sold out actually. Um Sam,
[48:50] we had new summer staff this year and it
was phenomenal. It was we had a really
[48:54] good crew so hopefully we can get him
back next year. Sam did a great job as
[48:59] usual. Um I started working on the Chris
project which is the climate ready
[49:04] infrastructure service program. So the
engineering company that we're working
[49:09] with is sustain sustainable projects
group out of Calgary. It'll take about
[49:14] eight weeks to complete. So they're
doing like a climate resiliency study on
[49:18] our building to see how much our
building can withstand for future
[49:21] climate you know flash floods or
different things. And then um with the
[49:27] priority being on the roof assessment
and the building envelope um to see what
[49:31] options are available. And then they'll
also work with us on funding. So, um,
[49:35] help us with the federal grants that are
quite complicated. So, that's my hope
[49:40] for our roof, uh, financing or funding.
Um, the Roving Energy Management
[49:47] Program, which is the first one I the
first program I did, we're just wrapping
[49:52] that up and with our $10,000 grant,
we've had um 10 smart thermostats
[49:57] installed throughout the facility. Um,
there's still some money left in that
[50:01] grant. So, we're looking at a couple
other options. But with the new
[50:05] thermostats now, it's all like
controlled from my phone, like from an
[50:09] app. There's alerts. So, if we lose
power in the night, our building
[50:14] temperature drops, I'll be notified
directly on my cell phone. Bonus, but a
[50:19] good thing, right? So, it's pretty neat.
So, it'll it'll be nice. We haven't
[50:25] implemented them yet, like using them
because we're not calling for heat yet
[50:29] in the facility. But, um, the hockey
schedule was pretty much probably 95%
[50:35] finalized in early August and basically
we're fully booked for the whole season.
[50:42] » So, still finalizing little tweaks here
and there, but uh it's it's good. Um,
[50:48] we'll also be hosting seven hockey
tournaments this year, which is from
[50:51] years past. Um, so I requested three
weekends from West 39 that they did not
[50:56] book games in those weekends so I could
sell it to out of town tournaments
[51:00] because that's where the money is. Um,
and so they sold I sold them instantly.
[51:06] So it was it was great. So
should help with our revenue there and
[51:11] West 39 was uh fine with accommodating
that. Uh, the arena floor project. So
[51:18] we're wrapping that up. So, it's
complete chaos over at the complex right
[51:21] now in the final stages, but boards and
glass have pretty much all been
[51:25] installed. We're just uh the new the new
glass and netting is going to be coming
[51:30] up putting up this end of this week. It
should be um they should be completely
[51:35] done by next Friday at which time we'll
be start cooling our floor to build ice.
[51:41] Um brine is being uh was started today
to u charge the system and we're
[51:48] starting the plant either Thursday.
Still expected opening is on September
[51:53] 28th.
Um summer maintenance. Jenna did a great
[51:59] job even with all the moisture and
whatnot. Um wre havoc on our grounds and
[52:05] thank you to public works for helping
with our hay fields. It was it still is
[52:10] a challenge right now, but it was it's
great that we were able to get your
[52:13] help. Um, baseball bleachers. So, that
project is uh being done right now. So,
[52:20] the um the gravel pads with borders have
been completed for the existing diamond
[52:27] for the old diamond. We're also going to
be doing the same thing for the new
[52:31] historic if we have enough funds. Um so
cleaning up the old set of bleachers the
[52:36] grounds around it. So it looks really
good. We have
[52:40] um combined the home plate will be the
big bleachers. It's I think eight rows I
[52:45] believe eight eight rows 21 ft wide. And
then we had two small bleachers that
[52:51] like three row bleachers. So, we moved
on to third base and first base and put
[52:55] gravel pads around there so it just
looks nice and clean and professional.
[52:59] So, that should be probably wrapped up
um
[53:05] by end of next week for sure. So, yeah,
and I'm probably forgetting lots of
[53:11] stuff, but that's the end of my report.
>> Thanks for that. Um, are you uh planning
[53:17] any uh bucket dropping ceremony or
anything on the 28th?
[53:22] » Um, possibly. Yes.
>> I know. I just I'm not saying you have
[53:26] to. I'm just asking.
>> Yeah. I talked I had a meeting with
[53:29] student on Friday actually and asked and
we talked about like some sort of ribbon
[53:33] cutting ceremony
>> and I set a puck drop at our first game
[53:37] maybe like or something.
>> Cool. His suggestion was just to do a a
[53:43] simple ribbon cutting with counters in
the afternoon.
[53:47] » So, keep it simple. Um, [laughter]
>> what's that?
[53:53] » That's okay. Um,
[53:58] » skate or what?
>> In all honesty, like a game, the first
[54:02] game wouldn't be probably until mid
October at the earliest.
[54:06] » Yeah. So, if we open to the community on
the 28th, like, you know, it would be a
[54:13] few weeks before there would even be a
game. Um, so we could do something like
[54:18] » I just need to get it to the point where
I know for sure we're opening on the
[54:22] 28th. Yeah. You know, but we could do um
like a ribbon cutting and maybe like
[54:30] had mentioned maybe a staff function or
team function on the ice. We could maybe
[54:35] incorporate something all together.
We just got to get through a few other
[54:39] things first.
>> I think, you know, I mean, we've got it
[54:42] done. I think it'd be worthwhile, you
know, saying, "Hey, look,
[54:45] » Oh, yeah. Yeah. Connect 39 has already
reached out to me to make sure they're
[54:50] » radio station
three times."
[54:52] » Yeah. I saw they just did an article on
us last last week. They published it.
[54:57] » Connect 39 reached out because they want
to make sure we're on the front page of
[55:00] the newspaper for their ribbon cutting.
>> So, um, but yes, so we will have
[55:05] something It's just not until we get a
little
[55:09] » I was going to ask what's there to bring
in the FCW Critters hockey team. Is that
[55:13] a possibility?
>> Make a fun game.
[55:16] » I I think you have to book pretty uh uh
I mean if you want it from now maybe
[55:22] maybe in February or March aspect
>> when we've had the critters it's been
[55:27] booked like three or four months in
advance. And the one time we got it and
[55:33] cuz I heard it on the radio, they were
looking for somebody cuz somebody backed
[55:37] out. But usually they open that up.
>> Yeah. I'm
[55:41] » I think it might already been open and
they're already probably booked for this
[55:45] half the season.
>> I guess I know it's a really fun
[55:50] community event. It's also a big event
though.
[55:54] It's not something I can take on right
now, but um yeah, that would be like
[56:00] wonderful for Western.
>> Oh, good stuff. I like I saw the big up
[56:04] there with all the alcohol today. So,
>> yes.
[56:06] » Yeah, that's the Brian the the Brian
class. Um yeah, we also um we took down
[56:12] all of our banners. Like it was our
walls were very cluttered and kind of
[56:16] junky looking, so we're only going to be
displaying the provincial championship
[56:20] banners going forward. And um right now
we actually have Janine um I want to say
[56:27] bro, but it's not Macintosh the artist,
>> right?
[56:30] » She's doing a huge mural on our on the
wall right now. So people are going to
[56:35] » they're going to see the Bucks logo when
they come back. We did not take out Down
[56:39] Thunder.
But um yeah, she's working right now
[56:42] just wrapping it up. So
>> it'll look good in there.
[56:48] » All right. Thank you. Any questions?
[56:53] No.
All right. Up at work, please.
[56:58] Hey. Um, I'm just going to quickly
mention the first thing for that isn't
[57:02] on here. Um, and it was mostly me. I'm
not 10 hornet. What I am doing is trying
[57:09] to say I my guys were busy, so I ended
up doing it. I spent I can't even count
[57:14] the hours that I spent um assisting with
me core, trying to get access, trying to
[57:20] get appointments, trying to get
whatever. Literally days and days and
[57:24] days over the last last month. So, which
Cindy knows uh her and I together worked
[57:31] continuously. So, that's not written
down here. I just wanted to mention it
[57:34] because I completely forgot about it.
Soon as I thought about it, I got a
[57:38] headache again. [laughter]
Anyway, moving on. uh monthly meter
[57:43] readings, putting door knockers out, cut
offs, filling potholes inside the town.
[57:48] Um Casey and Cole continue training with
Dave at the water treatment plant. And I
[57:52] should mention uh they're both um
Casey's going for his level two. Cole is
[57:57] going for his level one so they can
study in all their free time. Um
[58:02] actually every morning they study a
little bit. uh assisting Somerville to
[58:06] complete the ATO project, assisting
Pernis to complete third Avenue product
[58:12] uh project, pardon me, dealing with
flooding in town and restoring sewage
[58:17] and storm water overloading systems. Um
maintaining storm sewer drains during
[58:24] heavy rains, dealing with resident
issues is ongoing. Continued equipment
[58:29] maintenance including mowers, uh grass
cutting and trimming throughout town.
[58:34] Um, great gravel roads throughout town
limits on the watering plants on Hank
[58:40] and Boulevard and draftsmith maintenance
on Hanken Boulevard. Um, maintaining,
[58:46] cutting, trimming the cemetery. Special
mention Liam. He has done a great job on
[58:53] a very, very tough job. Um, training the
summer students. Uh, we did have pretty
[58:59] good summer students this year. I
actually have uh no complaints about
[59:03] them.
um fixing the brake at the river intake.
[59:07] Huge project which is now done and we
have success in that which is awesome.
[59:13] And uh we got our uh a new pump online
at the lift station which is which was a
[59:19] big part of the storm sewer drain
issues. Um so we now have two pumps
[59:25] working. They actually work in tandem
together. One turn one turns on then the
[59:29] other takes turns turn pumps on. So
they're constantly we have two pops
[59:34] constantly working not at the same time
but in in tandem together which is the
[59:39] first time in from what I understand
almost 15 years that they've had two
[59:44] bumps working at stations. Um yeah I
think that's about it. I I'm sure I'm
[59:51] for
>> Thank you. So summer students all done
[59:55] now.
>> Yes they are.
[59:57] » Unfortunately.
>> Yeah. Okay.
[1:00:00] » Yeah. It's yeah, just having them doing
black grass cutting is a huge load of
[1:00:07] you know the three of us that work for
public works.
[1:00:12] [laughter]
[1:00:14] » Thank you. Anybody have any questions?
Yeah, go ahead.
[1:00:17] » I don't have any questions your worship,
but I thought I better but two things.
[1:00:20] I'm kind of like Chris. I forgot a
couple things. And first of all, I
[1:00:23] screwed up my face because I was hoping
we'd have like at the first meeting have
[1:00:27] a ribbon cutting near the puck drop.
That's okay. Uh we will have some sort
[1:00:32] of ribbon cutting before that road opens
on 53rd and we'll get you get your
[1:00:36] pictures in the paper. So make sure that
um
[1:00:40] know that you're going to see Artic Spa
where we've got our bulk station. It's
[1:00:43] going to be fenced up a little bit here
for the next little while. They're doing
[1:00:46] a big online sale. They're putting their
equipment over there. Plenty of room for
[1:00:50] all our big trucks and that to get in.
We've taken a look at all that. Um we
[1:00:55] were talking about that today. And uh
remind me after council remind me
[1:00:59] tomorrow. I talked about it spots about
a matter for you Chris and I think I
[1:01:03] solved the problem for us today. So um
nothing bad. So anyways, you'll see them
[1:01:09] starting to fence it up today and
they're just selling all their stuff
[1:01:12] online auction. It'll be there until
probably the end of September. But like
[1:01:16] I said, we've got plenty of room for our
trucks to get in. I pretty much talk to
[1:01:20] every uh trucker that's come in on that
golf station. I'm trying to point to
[1:01:24] selfie when I'm working late. I I do my
rounds and so they're all really
[1:01:29] pleased. I was there with a guy uh the
other night from Crow and I said, "How
[1:01:33] long you been here?" He had a 13,000
liter try and he said, "I've been here
[1:01:38] 15 minutes. I'm half full already."
>> Oh, wow.
[1:01:40] » Yeah. I said, "You're okay with that?"
He goes, "I love it. That's perfect." He
[1:01:43] said, "This is so easy to get in and out
of. It's fast. It's clean." He said,
[1:01:48] "Uh, we don't have a long haul." Uh and
and when he was just getting ready to
[1:01:51] pull out because we each chatted for a
while, uh two more bulkers pulled in
[1:01:56] after that uh and just waiting in line.
So, it's uh it's really cool. And most
[1:02:01] of these are for potatoes now. They're
pulling water for potato farming. So,
[1:02:04] they got to get the potatoes out of the
ground. So, we're chatting about that,
[1:02:07] too. Drowning underneath, cement on the
top. So, and uh yeah, that's why.
[1:02:15] Thanks. All right. Thank you.
All right. uh family community sports
[1:02:21] service. Do you want to go over that now
or you just want to accept it?
[1:02:24] » Uh no, I'll just I'll just highlight a
few things uh now that Ry's back from
[1:02:27] her sabbatical. So, and I'll just add a
couple of things that are coming. So,
[1:02:31] she's been very busy with the library
conversation group and uh uh food pick
[1:02:37] updates. Uh me she's got a busy with the
247 mental health line as well.
[1:02:44] uh she's uh busy working with the county
on the FCSS subsidized counseling
[1:02:49] program which is awesome and the home
visitation and the parenting courses and
[1:02:53] the food bank and the senior thrift shop
and income support emergency funding. Uh
[1:02:58] we we found a resident uh that a couple
weeks ago. So between Brandy and I, we
[1:03:04] got that resident some emergency
support. Um and of course home services
[1:03:08] she's doing she does applications income
support applications with the regional
[1:03:13] housing foundations and the one thing
she did put here she'll be working with
[1:03:16] our CPO team and I on psychic premises
coming up in the fall we'll need mental
[1:03:20] health support on a few we already know
that so it's going to be a long winter
[1:03:25] but it's important we do it properly.
Uh the CPO uh is coming at the end of
[1:03:31] the month. CPO will come at the end of
the month. Okay. Thank you for that.
[1:03:36] Questions? Anybody?
All right, then. If not, then uh
[1:03:43] ladies at the back, questions, comments,
anything.
[1:03:49] » Just point, do you want to accept the
administration reports from?
[1:03:52] » I'm so sorry. You're correct. Can I get
a motion to accept the administrative
[1:03:55] reports for information?
>> Sure. I'll motion to accept the
[1:03:59] administration reports. All
>> in favor? That is car.
[1:04:03] Now, go ahead. you were going to say
something back there.
[1:04:07] [clears throat]
>> Yes. I'm not sure whether it's dealing
[1:04:10] with council or um communities in bloom.
The only comment I've had from a number
[1:04:17] of people is why do we always have
purple towers,
[1:04:22] » pink,
whatever? Why can't they have yellow or
[1:04:27] red or white?
>> Okay. I mean,
[1:04:35] it's not communion blue. So, the flowers
aren't from community bloom. So,
[1:04:41] » community bloom had a comment what pink
means. And it's supposed
[1:04:49] to
>> I don't know where you read that or
[1:04:50] heard that, but
>> I read it.
[1:04:52] » Okay.
>> But I can't remember exactly the
[1:04:55] wording, but it was a positive thing
what pink means. But I'm with her. I
[1:05:00] like to have another color. Some of them
are mixed in with more than one color.
[1:05:03] But do you have to have pink beer?
>> Well, you wish I can ask that question.
[1:05:10] » I think
I'm done with you. I'm just teasing you.
[1:05:16] Um, we pink and purple, but the purple
didn't come through this year. So, what
[1:05:20] we're going to do next year, yellow is a
really harsh color and and it doesn't
[1:05:25] stand out the boulevard very well
because it gets mixed up with a
[1:05:27] painting. Um, actually
>> pink. Pink looks good. So, what we might
[1:05:33] do next year is we'll go one plant or
pink. All pink. One plant are all
[1:05:38] purple. White doesn't show up very well
either. Red is very harsh. I think
[1:05:43] there's another couple of colors we
could probably pick pick. But that's
[1:05:46] Cheryl's
that's Cheryl's pink. But we'll we'll
[1:05:49] try and we [snorts] talked about
staggering next year. So, one's all
[1:05:53] blue, one's pink. Actually works well. I
have seen in German their pink they have
[1:05:59] another color come through like mix.
>> We tried doing that and the pink ate the
[1:06:03] purple. I think
[1:06:07] » I wasn't very happy that it was all
pink.
[1:06:10] » Cindy likes purple and I like pink. So
too bad.
[1:06:19] » September.
>> Oh, they're stunning this year. So we we
[1:06:22] talked about each punch around a
different color now.
[1:06:25] » Okay.
>> Yeah.
[1:06:28] » Rand.
>> Okay.
[1:06:31] » Okay. Anything else?
[1:06:38] [laughter]
>> I noticed the handicap signs. I'm very
[1:06:43] I saw that tonight this afternoon.
Um,
[1:06:49] I have a question for Sue. I think
recycling are the tenant because it's
[1:06:56] changing what we can put in the blue bag
October 1st. Are the tenants being is
[1:07:01] there somewhere where the tenants can
come and get information on that from
[1:07:04] the office?
>> Oh, yeah. Just come into the office
[1:07:07] and I'm not a homeowner. I won't get
[1:07:12] » just come into the into the office.
They'll give you a copy of the new
[1:07:15] flyer.
>> Okay. Okay. I didn't know what that was.
[1:07:19] I'll print it. I'll give it to you.
Okay. Thank you.
[1:07:23] » Thanks, Jesse.
>> We
[1:07:27] were
about year ago. We'll discuss it at the
[1:07:31] last meeting counter.
[1:07:34] The [sighs]
[1:07:38] the alley behind 46 has a problem in the
fall where people drink their hot tubs
[1:07:42] in their pools down the alley instead of
out the front in the storm brain.
[1:07:48] I know it goes through storm drain, but
it has to go a mile to get there. And
[1:07:54] Johnny said they were going to work on a
law that I didn't know how to count.
[1:08:00] I I've been researching it. Thanks,
Wendy, for that. I've been researching
[1:08:03] it. They're they're kind of few and far
between. Um, as far as where do you
[1:08:08] drain this sort of stuff. Um, because
we'd have to charge them if they're
[1:08:12] draining it down the alley, which we
shouldn't be doing anyway, all the
[1:08:15] chemicals. So, um, I will say it's still
in research mode, but now that I know
[1:08:19] where the hot tubs are, they'll be
receiving them. I've been driving around
[1:08:23] looking. There's a huge one over there
by uh in Madison there. It's big. So, we
[1:08:29] can't just let it go in the field this
particular. So, I know where they all
[1:08:34] are.
>> Thank you, Chris and staff. Thank God
[1:08:37] and staff for maintaining their behind
46 Street. They did a good job this
[1:08:42] summer.
>> You didn't get the bill.
[1:08:44] » Oh, me. [laughter]
[1:08:48] There's still I know it came from the
heavy rain. There's three brutal
[1:08:54] potholes on 50th Avenue between 46th
Street and 47th Street. And I suggest
[1:09:02] you,
[1:09:05] » you know, I
>> Yeah. One thing I I mean, the guys had
[1:09:10] the guys had all the potholes. My place
has got some bad potholes on that little
[1:09:15] street. They're all done. They're all
good. The minute it rains,
[1:09:18] » Yeah.
>> you got to start all over again. So, I
[1:09:21] it's it's hard with that all that rain
and those potholes, the gravel,
[1:09:25] » you can't you can't seem you can't see
can't keep them back. You just can't
[1:09:31] » like it's like I don't know how many
times you've been over there and uh
[1:09:36] » it was good and then all of a sudden it
rains and it's back to
[1:09:38] » I'm not complaining. I'm just asking.
>> Yeah. Y
[1:09:42] » are the fire department having Halloween
thing this year? Last year they had from
[1:09:48] 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. on Halloween night and
it didn't get posted or announced 5:00
[1:09:53] p.m. and I just found it took away from
the residential thing. That's one having
[1:09:58] a sing
or golden
[1:10:02] I don't mean to complain what they had.
What did they have? They're giving out
[1:10:09] candy. But all the kids went there and
said come
[1:10:14] » I shall speak to the chief.
>> I just I don't mean to complain. I mean
[1:10:19] it's a good thing but you know what I
had 150 at my door so they came to my
[1:10:24] door. I don't know.
>> Yeah it's amazing.
[1:10:28] » They don't like me. They don't come. And
I noticed today
[1:10:32] » that side of town the kids they they all
go to the oh cross the crosshair
[1:10:42] came here today and noticing the
superintendent and Chris at
[1:10:47] [clears throat] the pharmacy
one of the parking spots. I think it was
[1:10:51] the opposite side of those lines that
pertain to the handicap spot. In fact,
[1:10:58] just before you printed the curb,
there's a big drop now. And I know what
[1:11:02] I'm assuming that's from all the rain.
Dr.
[1:11:08] » Do you mean drop in the pavement or drop
in the sidewalk?
[1:11:12] » Dropping the pavement in front of the
sidewalk.
[1:11:14] » Okay.
Oh, I just wonder if it's
[1:11:20] » is it to the corner by bumper to bumper
or is it further down by Ter Park?
[1:11:24] » Further down by two.
>> Okay, I know what it's about.
[1:11:27] » Okay. I just I've never noticed it
before, but I noticed it today and I
[1:11:30] thought, whoa, I haven't been sliding in
there.
[1:11:33] » Well, that was a new fill, so we'll have
to look at some more work there. Okay,
[1:11:37] » I thank
Oh my goodness. Thank you for
[1:11:40] everything.
Thanks for doing
[1:11:46] » complain.
[1:11:50] » We expect it.
>> Thank you.
[1:11:52] » I have a question for Kelly.
So, at one point in time, we used to
[1:11:57] have a different town flag.
Do you know which one I'm talking about?
[1:12:02] » Like the old logo, like the green logo
>> kind of look like
[1:12:08] » had a cow on it.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Do we still have one of
[1:12:11] those kicking around?
>> I don't
[1:12:15] at that complex.
>> Maybe the historic society has one
[1:12:22] » a flag.
>> Yeah,
[1:12:26] to this logo here.
>> They had a they had a
[1:12:30] » flowers on it or flowers
>> for for
[1:12:35] » Yeah.
>> I haven't seen anything around in years.
[1:12:38] I know there's nothing here and we
cleaned everything out. I just thought
[1:12:42] maybe you guys might have wanted
>> Yeah, the historical society might
[1:12:46] because they took a lot of history stuff
over to the community hall when they
[1:12:52] first started.
[1:12:57] » One more thing.
>> Sorry, I
[1:13:01] » this is a compliment and I can't quit
emphasizing this. It's so beautiful to
[1:13:06] see our end of 49 Avenue have no cars
and garbage trucks. It just looks so
[1:13:10] beautiful when you out there cars parked
there. It just I'm sorry. It just makes
[1:13:15] my day.
>> Just makes you want to cry and excite.
[1:13:20] » No, I just want to do a happy dance and
I can't. [laughter]
[1:13:24] » Oh my goodness.
>> It just see a clear trail through that
[1:13:27] that truck. It's just unbelievable.
Took us a year to get there, but it's
[1:13:33] okay.
Yeah.
[1:13:35] » All right. Well, thank you all. Once
again, I'm sorry about my cardian
[1:13:39] [laughter]
and and you Well, you had your chance to
[1:13:43] shine. You could have just It was your
chance. You
[1:13:45] » It was the meeting. I was happy.
>> I just jumped in there about half an
[1:13:49] hour late when you're all done. And then
>> we just wanted to make sure you're okay.
[1:13:53] » Yeah. You had a little worried.
>> I just had my phone in the garage and I
[1:13:58] just got in the
>> We're just going to have a shower. Good
[1:14:02] thing that didn't catch me. I still have
my clothes. [laughter]
[1:14:06] » We phoned your wife in the club, sir.
>> Yeah.
[1:14:10] » She was.
>> Anyhow, sorry. I will adjourn the
[1:14:13] meeting and then we're good to go.
>> Wonderful.
[1:14:17] » Thank you.
>> So, after 14 messages, I just checked.
[1:14:21] The meaning.