[8:06] I would like a motion to adopt the agenda of today's council meeting by councilor Baldwin,

[8:16] seconded, Council of Oppen, Paul in favor. Motion is carried and will deal with the minutes of

[8:23] the last meeting on August 11th, the motion to adopt the minutes of that regular council meeting,

[8:29] councilor Izler, seconded councilor Dues, on favor. Motion is carried. Our next thing will be our

[8:35] mayor and councilors reports.

[8:46] So in the 12th of August, I had an EMCR emergency management

[8:52] climate readiness, situational briefing. We have them every now or right now I think week.

[8:58] So I did one on the 19th as well just to let us all know what the fire and belt situation

[9:04] was like in the province. On the 20th of August I intended as RDC K board meeting. On the 22nd

[9:11] myself and several other counselors here we're at the Creston Farmers Market for public engagement

[9:17] and we have lots of chat with people and the one thing that's out on there is the

[9:21] The Rolling Barrage motorcycle group stopped in Preston on Friday at the fire hall, several

[9:28] hundred bikers there, and they are a group that has been assembled across Canada, former

[9:35] firefighters, police officers, and other emergency personnel who have had PTSD and they

[9:41] unified as a group to bring awareness to this, and we're very supportive of each other.

[9:46] It's so nice to have them stop in our community and they all said when they looked around

[9:52] what a beautiful place we live in and I agree with them.

[9:57] That's their do us.

[9:59] Thank you.

[10:00] August 17th and August, we had two situation table meetings last week, so on August 17th

[10:05] and 18th and then I attended the candidate readiness workshop on August 20th and the invitation

[10:12] from the museum to honor the outgoing students, and then also the farmer's market on the 22nd

[10:20] of August.

[10:21] Councillor Baldwin, that just the farmer's market is the quietest 10 days of, can remember,

[10:27] and so, let's try to hear Vimeo on that.

[10:30] Oh, yeah, that was great.

[10:32] Yeah, that's what I was talking about.

[10:34] The 20th day, the 10th of the 10th is ready, it's workshopped in the 22nd of the farmer's

[10:38] market.

[10:40] Anyone else?

[10:41] Councilor Locke?

[10:42] Yeah, on October 17th and October.

[10:46] I'm sorry, October.

[10:47] August 17th and August 18th.

[10:50] Put your glasses on and you'll see that's an A and not a no.

[10:54] Situation table meetings.

[10:57] August 18th as well emergency management planning committee meeting in the afternoon.

[11:03] And on August 19th,

[11:04] I was in Nelson at the joint resource recovery committee meeting.

[11:09] Any other reports?

[11:12] You're done.

[11:13] Can I have a motion that the verbal and written reports of council be received?

[11:17] Councillor Eisner, seconded, Councillor Holland?

[11:19] All in favour?

[11:20] Motion is carried.

[11:23] And we'll write along.

[11:24] We will announce.

[11:25] We now entertain the motion that council resolves itself into a committee out the whole.

[11:30] Councilor Dumas, second, the Councilor Baldwin,

[11:32] one of your favour, but most importantly, it's clear.

[11:35] That brings us to our delegation,

[11:37] which is Canadian Cancer Society, Pan-Walkington,

[11:41] 100 radon, let's get challenged for Preston B.C.

[11:45] So you are on pattern, please.

[11:48] Thank you very much, Mayor Duboon and Council

[11:50] for allowing me to present.

[11:52] We worked with the town of Preston

[11:56] to distribute radon test kits over the last winter,

[11:58] and I'm presenting the report summary of that project.

[12:04] So the 100-tasket challenge is a program that is one of the initiatives of take action

[12:11] on radon.

[12:12] And take action on radon is funded by health Canada.

[12:15] It's run by the Canadian Cancer Society and CAST, which is our radon association with the

[12:21] intent of raising awareness across the country and working with various groups to do that.

[12:26] It's a turnkey program.

[12:27] It's free, but we certainly appreciate the staff and all the support that we had from your team in the community to run it.

[12:38] We were able to distribute test kits throughout the community, raise awareness as we did that.

[12:45] And then a couple of the other goals that we have among this program are to generate data, which I'm presenting today.

[12:51] and also to inspire legacy programs.

[12:54] So I'll just refer to my end slides about some resources

[12:57] that Health Canada has developed

[12:58] to help support communities such as yourself

[13:00] with continuing discussion about Raidon.

[13:03] The Hundertesket Challenge is in just wrapping up its eights year.

[13:07] So we've been able to work with communities across the country.

[13:10] We have worked in all provinces

[13:13] in one territory as well.

[13:16] We have worked with some First Nations and MAT groups.

[13:18] groups. We have about a 74% return rate on our program and part of that reason is because

[13:25] we have a structure to it. So, although testing for rate on is easy, there are a lot of competing

[13:30] priorities in our life and we find people tend to forget to return it. So, the program is

[13:35] structured in such a way to support people's all the way through the testing program.

[13:40] And then one of our other priorities is making sure that people actually reduce their rate

[13:46] exposure. So although testing and the program really involves just the first step, we do want

[13:52] to support people with understanding what mitigation is and so our surveys show that about 58 percent

[13:58] of our past participants have taken action to reduce it if their levels were above 200.

[14:05] I have included all the communities that we've worked with in your package. I won't go through all

[14:10] those but just for your reference you can see we've worked with a number of other BC communities.

[14:15] So, the reason that we're prioritizing this program is radon is linked to lung cancer.

[14:20] So, health Canada estimates about 3,000 people per year are dying of radon-related lung

[14:25] cancer.

[14:26] It is the number one cause of lung cancer for people who don't smoke, and it is a contributing

[14:31] factor to those who do have a smoking history.

[14:33] So, either current smokers or ever smokers, it adds to their risk factor as well.

[14:39] Now, radon is found in our soil all across Canada.

[14:43] It comes from uranium, uranium eventually decays and becomes radon.

[14:47] Radon is a gas and it moves that out of our soil into the air.

[14:51] So any building that has contact with the ground can have a potential of having elevated levels of radon.

[14:57] It doesn't just stay in the basement, it can circulate throughout the air.

[15:00] We can focus on testing kind of from the lowest level up because typically levels are highest in the basement. Health Canada recommends testing buildings using a three-month test. And then if any levels are above 200, that the building owner take action to reduce them. And so those are the types of tests that we used in this project. We were able to distribute just over 100 detectors. And you'll see that we were able to issue 86 reports within 85% return rate.

[15:28] So really one of our better return rates of the community,

[15:31] you will see though that one person may still have their detector in place.

[15:36] And so if they still have it, they can still mail it back to us and we'll make sure

[15:40] that it gets analyzed. And there may be a handful of people that forgot to even set up their

[15:46] detector. And so again, if there are people that either have a detector, they can set them up still

[15:51] and then leave them in place for three months and return them after the program.

[15:57] or if there is somebody that started it and forgot to return it, we're still taking it back,

[16:02] so we want you to mail it back to us and we'll make sure that we get it analyzed.

[16:06] But this report is on the 86 reports that we've been able to issue and we do find that some people,

[16:13] we send these reports out by email, some people don't get them, so we also want to let people know

[16:17] that if they didn't get the report by email, they can reach out to us and we will make sure that we

[16:21] help get them a report, but at this point 86 people should have received their rate on

[16:25] test report and a one-pager which helps them with understanding what the results of the

[16:30] report mean.

[16:32] And from the data that we have issued in these reports, 19% of these reports are above 200,

[16:39] so that's health Canada's action guideline.

[16:42] And so it breaks down like this, 36% are in the green and those are reports that are under

[16:47] 100 beck rolls, 45% are in the yellow and that's representing 1 to 200 beck rolls. So that's

[16:53] just coming up to the health Canada guideline. And then in the red are the ones that are between

[16:58] 2 and 600. So we had 16% of reports were in that 2 to 600 level. And then there was a report in

[17:06] each of the next levels, purple represents 600 to 1000 and black is 1000. And so we lay out the

[17:13] information this way because exposure to radon does increase as the exposure increases.

[17:19] And so as the levels go up, that does represent an increased health risk.

[17:23] Now some of the other data that we gathered is about housing types, so you can see that

[17:27] the majority of people in this program participated were in single detached homes.

[17:32] There were some semi-detached couple mobile homes and a couple apartment or condo-style units.

[17:38] And so, you can see that all the ones that were high were single detached homes.

[17:45] But we do have resources for other groups because there has been other programs

[17:50] where we've seen mobile homes with elevated levels or condos or stratas

[17:55] or apartments that also could have elevated levels.

[17:58] And the other thing that we have had is renters.

[18:02] And so you can see in the next chart that there was one renter who did test

[18:08] high and those often require some additional resources because a renter now needs to go

[18:15] and talk to their landlord. A landlord really is the one that's responsible for the mitigation

[18:19] and so we do have resources for renters. Also, if there happen to be strata, there's a co-ownership

[18:25] that structure there as well and so we do can support those as well in talking with their ownership

[18:30] group if there is a need for reduction.

[18:35] The other thing that we ask is about testing, so our goal of the program really is to support

[18:41] people through testing the first time.

[18:43] And so you can see that the majority of people, this was the first time they tested.

[18:46] But you can see that there was a few people that they had already tested before.

[18:50] And this is not unusual.

[18:52] Sometimes people do need to test a couple times before they take action to reduce it.

[18:57] But we do want to tell people that the tests that we use in this program are accurate.

[19:01] we do quality assurance on it so they can have confidence in the results of the report and move

[19:06] to take action on it. We also asked about raid on systems that were installed in the home and

[19:12] so you can see that the majority didn't have any system installed or they didn't know. But there

[19:19] was a couple with that passive stack. So that is the current building code in BC and in the

[19:23] question area that extended rough in that does extend out and so if those levels were

[19:30] high then they would just need to make sure that the fan is properly sized and added

[19:36] on to that passive system but you can see that those ones were below the 200 level.

[19:42] And then the other thing that we ask is age of construction and so often we get questions

[19:45] from people about you know is it in old homes or new homes and you can see here in this

[19:51] graph. The top level top bar is we don't know the age of construction or they didn't know so

[19:58] they didn't provide it to us but then each bar here represents a decade and we've just simplified

[20:03] the result so green represents levels below 200 red represents levels above 200 and then the numbers

[20:10] at the bottom represent the number of units in that area and so are the number of data per bar

[20:18] And so you can see that it does go across age of construction.

[20:21] So although we don't have any in the 2020 or more recent,

[20:28] you can see that the numbers of data points are quite low in that age group.

[20:32] But what we have found from doing this project across the country

[20:35] is that it is in older homes, it is in newer homes.

[20:38] Everybody really does need to test to know what that they need to either add a fan

[20:44] if they've got that passive system or add a full system and you can see in this graph just that

[20:50] we've worked with other communities across BC and so you happen to be kind of right in the middle

[20:54] although the BC average is about 8% we do find at a community level that we've certainly have

[21:01] a number of communities that are higher than that provincial average. So this data is all for you to

[21:07] help answer some of the questions that we find Marin councils might have or that your citizens may

[21:13] have to help you with supporting some answers to them. We are here to continue to provide support

[21:18] to you or to the participants or your citizens about rate on awareness, but this is our public

[21:24] report now. So this will be shared out on our website. It's a one-page report with the results of

[21:29] the survey on the one side and then with general information about rate on on the other side

[21:34] so that it answers some of these basic questions that people have about the health risk of rate on

[21:39] and how to mitigate it and how to find a certified professional.

[21:43] And then the additional slides that I've provided also provide some additional information.

[21:48] This is program is funded by Health Canada and so we have funding to do it one year but

[21:52] we can include repeat programs for communities if we're able to find partner funding.

[21:59] There also is information about our certification program so anybody that needs to reduce their

[22:04] rate on level can hire a certified professional and there is a list that you can direct people

[22:08] to online. There is also a mitigation grant. So for those that don't have finances and

[22:16] are concerned about the cost of mitigation, they can apply to the Canadian Lung Association

[22:20] for the Lung's Matter Grant. They need a long-term test report, a quote from a CNRPP professional

[22:25] and then they need a qualify and they can qualify one of two ways either because of their income

[22:31] so they can provide proof of income and they are under the median income or also they would qualify

[22:37] if they had a lung cancer diagnosis. So those are two ways that they could qualify.

[22:42] Another thing I wanted to point out is that BC does have a pilot program. It's a screening program

[22:48] for those that are have been exposed to high levels. And so we do find that we get questions from

[22:52] people saying, you know, I've lived in my house for 20 years and I'm just finding out now about

[22:56] rate on and so they can go to the BC cancer site if their levels are 800 or if they're even approaching

[23:04] they can ask to be included in this and this is a lung house check just to see what their

[23:10] lung exposure might be at this point. And then the last slides are the rate on action guides

[23:16] that health Canada have developed for municipalities and so I've just put some quick summaries of what

[23:22] there included but there are really great guides for communities to read and see suggestions

[23:27] on how you can continue to support your citizens with rate on awareness. There are some really

[23:32] easy things like putting information on your website or more in-depth things like testing

[23:36] all your municipal buildings and not sort of thing. Thank you very much for the time and I'm

[23:40] happy to answer any questions.

[23:44] Thank you.

[23:52] But two quick questions. One is we use circulate this information to the local media. So it's if you want to get people to participate, seeing the results of this will be important step one.

[24:05] And then the second part of the question is, are there other communities so far that have taken you up on your request to run the program again because we haven't really put so bad context for that today, but just wondering are there communities doing that?

[24:20] Yeah. Thank you for the question. And so we will circulate it. We do have a draft press release

[24:26] that we shared with Asha and that we will share so that we can help the community with communications

[24:32] as well as circulate it to the local media. We bill, like I said, it's accessible on our website

[24:39] as of now so that people can access that as well. And then yeah, we do have repeat communities. We've

[24:45] worked with, actually, at the regional level, we've worked with the regional district of

[24:49] Central Okanagan and the regional district of Okanagan, the Somalkin, to support them

[24:55] a couple of years with their communities. We've also worked with Kimberly at multiple

[25:01] years and all of her, although it's in the RDOS a couple of times, and in BC, and then in

[25:08] other provinces, we've worked with other communities as well. We find that, like, you've kind

[25:13] of inferred that once people start to see the results and they see that other people have tested,

[25:18] now they're more interested in testing as well. Sometimes some of us need sort of some other

[25:24] people to go ahead and do it first and then we do see a pick-up of testing after that.

[25:33] I was just wondering if a community did not run a program a second time, if we can just actually get

[25:46] Yeah, we don't actually sell test kits, but there are kits available.

[25:50] And so, yeah, certainly people can purchase them online.

[25:53] And we do have information about that on the second page on that community report.

[25:58] And so they can go on to our take action on RAID on website.

[26:00] And we have a list of different companies that sell kits there that people can purchase

[26:06] from.

[26:06] In addition, the libraries also have digital monitors that are available, so people can borrow them if they want to do that.

[26:14] First, it's sort of a screening because it's a shorter term.

[26:18] And they're off the shelves for the summer, but then they kind of go back on now as we start to get into the winter.

[26:25] So they will become available again.

[26:27] And then on the CNRPP website, there is information about digital monitors as well.

[26:32] So we use the one used tip kits in this program, but there are electronic ones that you can connect to your smartphone and that sort of thing.

[26:39] And so there's a list of those on the CNRPP website as well.

[26:44] Thank you.

[26:45] Yeah, thank you. I was just curious about if you have a mapping.

[26:50] If, like, does it work, like, let's say, the 10 were in one neighborhood.

[26:56] Do you have that mapped and would you recommend, like, approaching those people around that neighborhood?

[27:02] Is that, like, does, I don't, like, you have to teach me, is that how it works?

[27:06] One area will be, have more radon and what maybe other areas in Creston wouldn't have less.

[27:10] So, is, do you map that and are we able to have that data?

[27:14] So that is a common question that we get.

[27:16] So yeah, thanks for asking that because we do map it.

[27:18] We're very cautious with it and so we walk through a little bit with that when we

[27:24] Reviewed the data and putting this present to get presentation together and

[27:29] What we find in your community is the same as what we find in most of the all the other communities that we've done in the

[27:36] The country that they are distributed throughout the area. So there's no one neighborhood or they're not all in one area

[27:43] So you can have we sort of put the the colored

[27:47] Marks has differentiate between the different levels and you can have like one

[27:52] you know greenhouse next to a red house next to a yellow so even on one

[27:57] street it can be you know one is low one is high and that's quite common even

[28:02] with the same developer even within the same proximity of age of construction and

[28:06] all those sorts of things it can range so yeah it's important for everybody to

[28:10] test but we do check it just in case there's something and you know unique like

[28:15] you said. And then what we do, so we protect our mapping data because it's, you know, we protect privacy,

[28:23] but we look at it from that level. But we do share it with the BCCDC and they then map it at a

[28:29] summary level. So they roll up the details into, and they protect individual privacy. And so you can

[28:37] and go on the BCCD-C radon map and find the data there as well.

[28:43] That's interesting. Thank you for that.

[28:46] So this morning when I turned my phone on,

[28:49] there was an pop-up reminder,

[28:50] return your radon detector.

[28:52] Well, we hear them,

[28:53] and I'm not the one,

[28:55] they said,

[28:55] actually, for a radon detector,

[28:57] and she said, no, they're all out, right?

[28:59] I purchased mine independently.

[29:01] I really appreciate all this information.

[29:05] And as soon as I find the envelope

[29:07] is going in, but I think I know where the envelope is. But I do have a question. And is there any

[29:12] observable conclusive link between the cumulative effects of wildfire, smoke and radar?

[29:20] Yeah, that is a good question. And it is a serious thing that we're looking at right now. So there

[29:25] is a number of researchers that are taking a look at it from a few different angles. So as your question

[29:30] about exposure. The data is still early, so there really isn't any confirmed research at that

[29:38] point. But we do know that there is research with the smoking combination that the damage that

[29:46] smoking can do to lungs makes lungs more easily damaged by the radon, so they're more at risk.

[29:57] there are so

[30:00] Other issues, you know, other illnesses that impact our lungs can also make people more vulnerable. That's the word I was looking for, um, to, uh, to risk of lung cancer. When then, that's combined with exposure to radon. So there's a number of, um, research papers that I have are ongoing, um, but yeah, it's, um, it's not been published yet.

[30:24] We appreciate you doing the research, so I think it's something that is probably important

[30:29] that they do.

[30:30] So, thank you for all your information and like I said, mine's going back to the lab

[30:35] as soon as I find the album.

[30:38] Sounds good and if you need help with that, we're here to help connect you with where it

[30:41] extended.

[30:43] Okay, I'm pretty sure I know where the album is, but anyway, thank you.

[30:47] Thank you.

[30:48] Yeah, thank you very much for your time.

[30:51] Okay, so we have a motion up to the end, but we're going to have committee counsel receives

[30:59] a delegation in the committee to answer society, pound working tens, 100 made on, let's get

[31:05] challenge the rest of the V.C.

[31:07] I was very seconded by the Chancellor of Holland.

[31:11] I'm on the same level.

[31:12] I believe we're in two.

[31:13] Maybe in a very good.

[31:16] And the fact that I was.

[31:18] I know.

[31:26] The threats to the.

[31:28] I.

[31:29] The.

[31:30] The.

[31:33] The.

[31:34] The.

[31:35] The.

[32:06] the ground.

[32:09] Thank you so much.

[32:15] We're so used to farm the area up.

[32:18] We're back in order and everyone.

[32:21] And then we'll go next to with our council,

[32:24] council direction requests from the director of community services.

[32:27] The only by-law amendment fence.

[32:28] I'm excuse.

[32:31] Thank you very much. Thank you, Marsha. Council. So this report presents two proposed amendments

[32:42] for a current zoning by-law and seeks council direction to proceed with by-law amendments

[32:46] for a person sitting reading and have kind of meeting. So the first amendment is pertains

[32:53] to fence regulations. It would allow residential properties that front existential highway to

[32:59] to construct a six-foot fence versus the four-foot fence,

[33:02] which is currently permitted.

[33:04] The amendment responds to some concerns raised

[33:07] by residents that live in those areas to traffic noise.

[33:11] I like where public safety, security,

[33:13] all those types of things.

[33:15] Properties would still be required to comply

[33:17] with Ministry of Transportation and Transit requirements,

[33:21] such as an agricultural and structured permit.

[33:23] And the corner visibility regulations

[33:25] will remain in place to maintain

[33:27] that safe site line at intersections. The second proposed amendment is speaking to some tenure

[33:34] restrictions that we have. So we're looking at removing tenure restrictions for some residential

[33:40] units in commercial, highly-surface, commercial neighborhood, and industrial general zones.

[33:46] So currently these units can only be occupied by the principal owner, caretaker, or operator of said

[33:51] business. These restrictions are a bit of a carryover from a previous bylaw and

[33:57] we're calm and practice at that time in 1989 and we're intended really to

[34:01] ensure that the residential uses remain subordinate to those those primary

[34:05] uses. Housing availability continues to be a significant challenge in

[34:10] question and staff have also heard from residents and business owners that

[34:14] they're looking at you know they're requesting some greater flexibility around

[34:18] that tenure show. So removing restrictions could support you know additional housing,

[34:22] opportunities, rental opportunities, housing choice, and they even open up some,

[34:27] currently they can't use to become available. Tenure restrictions are also very challenging

[34:32] to administer and enforce. They require constant ongoing verification whether the documents

[34:37] occupants meet those by-law requirements or not. So removing these restrictions would simplify

[34:44] administration and reducing ambiguity. So as these amendments are also consistent with our

[34:50] official community plan, a public hearing is not required for these amendments under the local

[34:54] government act, although council may choose to proceed with the public hearing.

[35:00] Any questions?

[35:03] That's all so sorry. I didn't really understand the context of the R6 zone where it took

[35:09] we could looking at manufactured homes and that the tenure there and understanding that

[35:16] we haven't had any complaints about that particular division, not sure why it isn't

[35:22] perhaps being included in the context of this.

[35:25] Absolutely.

[35:27] I think we can look at this, you know, as those things present, right now when we took a look

[35:33] at the few mobile home parks we have it typically is that when our work share

[35:38] takeer of that park that is living in those spaces but it's definitely you know

[35:43] open. It's a combination like anything else so maybe it can be run remotely and

[35:50] we can be offered as as incremental accommodation for some. Absolutely.

[36:00] I'm going to read the vote, that's connected with the Senate, because the Council received

[36:04] the event, it says August 11th, but we need August 24th Council direction, request

[36:08] titled, to go on amendment by law fence, type through mixed use tenures from the Director

[36:12] of Community Services for information, and further that Council direct staff to present

[36:17] the proposed by law amendments to Council consideration, or first and second reading and upcoming Council

[36:23] So, I mean, some suspension by Councilman Dumont,

[36:26] she's not a little bigger at the end.

[36:28] When committee?

[36:29] Yeah, very pretty.

[36:30] Sorry.

[36:30] I'd recommend the end.

[36:31] I mean, everybody can either.

[36:33] They're all not.

[36:34] He likes it.

[36:35] Okay.

[36:36] I got it.

[36:38] Well, let's get out of the committee.

[36:39] The whole line is out to do that.

[36:41] And the next motion is that we rise out of the committee.

[36:44] The whole.

[36:45] That's a ball.

[36:47] On face.

[36:48] options. Very well with our division reports, then, corporate services requests for the

[36:54] ZID, the Director of Corporate Services, officers and employees by law 2056 for the option.

[37:01] Thank you, your version. So, Council has provided first with their greetings of the officers

[37:07] that I'm going to assist the officers by law as presented. This biologist is a reminder,

[37:12] Under establishes the corporate officer, financial officer, and CAO for the organization pursuant to the little specified liquid and each other. So at this time, we are just looking for an adoption of the summer.

[37:24] All right, then we'll have to just have a motion that council received this report.

[37:32] And then further that council, I'm going to turn on the officer down the press and officer

[37:38] by the 2005-06 be adopted, which will be by council maulin, secretary of health and

[37:43] health and health.

[37:44] I'm favor.

[37:46] Thank you.

[37:47] It's very to that.

[37:48] My law is now adopted.

[37:50] We'll go on to community services, we request the registration of the director of community

[37:54] services.

[37:55] to build communities strong and find their part

[37:57] from the expansion.

[38:06] Yeah, so this report seeks council authorization

[38:09] for staff to submit an expression of interest

[38:12] and future grant application to the build community

[38:15] strong fund direct delivery stream

[38:17] for the airport run rate center project.

[38:20] This project has been identified as a priority

[38:23] and the Crescent Valley Regional,

[38:24] your master plan has an estimated cost of $2.7 million.

[38:29] The proposed project would extend runway 1533 from its current length, which is approximately

[38:35] 3944 feet to approximately 4500 feet.

[38:40] The existing runway can create some operational challenges during hot weather and person

[38:46] heavier aircraft, including air ambulance services.

[38:50] The extension would also help accommodate future ambulance fleet requirements in through

[38:54] relief for emergency medical transfer and enhance their

[38:59] disability to support emergency response as well for our

[39:02] suppression. The runway extension would also improve regional

[39:05] connectivity supporting economic and tourism development.

[39:10] The project does align with the Bill Community Strength Fund,

[39:13] securing additional funding or external funding reduced financial

[39:16] impact on local taxors as well advancing the Black Opera Master

[39:20] I think it looks great and I went online and just looked at the criteria for the fund.

[39:36] I just have some questions when we talk about climate resilience and understanding how

[39:47] the extension of the runway puts climate resilience as the factor. So, trying to figure that out myself,

[39:58] and trying to understand, is that like are we looking at composition of the actual tarmac

[40:03] when we talk about that rather than if it's easier for plain to land?

[40:08] That's right. So climate resilience is a little bit around, you know, yes, it will be easier for

[40:13] for some larger aircraft, for wildfires,

[40:16] especially in things like that.

[40:17] But it's the actual tarmac piece

[40:19] in the really fog weather right now,

[40:22] as it's replaced the whole way out,

[40:24] some climate resilience to that infrastructure.

[40:26] Right.

[40:27] And so supplemental sweet work here.

[40:31] Like that.

[40:32] So I went and looked back at our airport strategic plan.

[40:38] And we've got the cost breakdown sheet as well.

[40:41] But it doesn't really like is there a big difference in the price for materials that make this and more climate resistant type of tarmac surface?

[40:54] Because I don't and when I read through the document again, it doesn't really talk about that type of changes to the runway.

[41:04] it just talks about extending it and putting those

[41:10] anchors on the end, right? So it talks about adding that, but

[41:15] I think it might need to resurface the entire runway

[41:18] if we are using that as criteria for the ground.

[41:22] Right, I'm honestly not too sure I'd have to follow up with the director

[41:26] of Community Services.

[41:29] Yeah, we had a fast B estimate for approximately that amount,

[41:33] But yeah, I can't speak to be sure the contents. Yeah, the climate resiliency is actually about

[41:43] the length of the runway. So as the temperatures go up, it actually makes planes that can take off

[41:49] and that size will run away, not if it's take off. And as the air ambulance changes their fleet,

[41:54] their action increase in size of their plane. So in cold weather, they're able to take off

[41:58] in the distance, but in temperatures over 30 degrees Celsius, it cannot rise in the long enough for it.

[42:05] Because the lift is changes as temperature rises.

[42:09] So, what that climate resiliency is, is that we're getting more and more days over those 30 degrees Celsius days,

[42:14] which then puts at risk those, the ability for those sides of plants to take off.

[42:19] So, by adding that extension, it actually extends that ability to take off in the higher temperature, so it's those days.

[42:26] Thank you.

[42:28] Thank you.

[42:33] Yes.

[42:34] So then I would like the motion that the August 25th, 2026.

[42:39] It's right for the same.

[42:40] I will build community strong fund airport runway extension when the director of community services to receive for information.

[42:47] And then council authorize the staff to prepare and submit flat applications to the build communities.

[42:52] We've just drawn final grant delivery,

[42:54] that's made it at $2 million, $1,160,950.

[42:58] It offers that council authorizes staff

[43:00] on receipt of the grant to administer

[43:02] the funding to complete the airport,

[43:04] airport runway extension project, if it's successful.

[43:09] Councilor Halt, seconded councilor,

[43:11] is there a discussion?

[43:13] All in favor, motion is carried.

[43:16] Thank you, Mr. Crossman.

[43:18] What a benefit that would be your community,

[43:20] and we actually need rest, but it's competitive

[43:23] and it's a lot of money,

[43:24] but we'll share the one that flows inside it.

[43:28] Okay, so you're still here for the

[43:30] by-way and both the by-law adoption.

[43:33] Right.

[43:34] So this report presents the encroachment by-law

[43:38] and associated by-laws to modernize

[43:40] the task approach to managing our encroachments.

[43:42] The proposed amendments have outdated definitions,

[43:46] clarify the distinction between major and minor encroachments,

[43:49] provide some legislative references, staff titles, and remove the actual agreement on the

[43:55] viola to provide some more administrative flexibility. The viola also establishes a more

[44:01] comprehensive risk management framework in the form of major encroachments as major encroachments

[44:06] will be required to have a covenant registered on title to clearly identify the encroachment.

[44:12] Overall, the proposed changes are intended to improve administrative efficiency,

[44:16] provide greater clarity for applicants and staff, strengthen our risk management practices,

[44:21] and ensure our encroachment regulations remain current and effective. So, the recommendation

[44:26] of our council today is to adopt the three by-laws.

[44:33] One has our hand up, so this is four parts. First, that we receive this information.

[44:38] Second, that how we encode from bylaw number 2060, 2026 be adopted, and then bylaw, notice enforcement amendment bylaw number 2061 2026 be adopted.

[44:52] You're going to be able to do these all as individual moments please, thank you.

[45:00] It's an individual. We'll start with the first one then. First motion is that we receive this for information. Motion by council organizers, second, the council are following. All in favor, motion carry. Next, the highly encoded by line number 2060, 2026, be adopted, council ballroom, second, the council, do must all in favor. Motion carry. Next, that by law, notice enforcement amendment. I'll add 206126 be adopted.

[45:29] did. We're in buttons I get a

[45:33] council've fallen in favor. Motion

[45:36] carried and then last that feeds and

[45:39] charges are meant by the number

[45:40] 2063 2026 feet adopted. Council

[45:44] were doing this I can't counsel

[45:46] Eisner favorite motion is carried.

[45:50] So now low productive services

[45:52] information report from the

[45:54] emergency management coordinator

[45:55] regarding hazard risk and

[45:57] We're all equal to the assessment.

[46:18] That's sure when you put together.

[46:20] Sure when you put together.

[46:21] Quick reading.

[46:26] I'll just stack it in multiple of the lives.

[46:33] I'll regret the last confusion.

[46:36] Yes, so we.

[46:41] We received that in July.

[46:43] I'm happy to say very excited about having our HIV A.

[46:48] And so an HIV A has a risk in vulnerability assessment.

[46:52] I live in the world of acronyms.

[46:55] So there are HIV A concerns that hazard impacts in question.

[46:59] It considers vulnerabilities and it considers

[47:01] consequences associated with hazards.

[47:04] So it meets legislative requirements.

[47:07] And considering that hazard is considering a risk,

[47:10] the hazard risks, and it has a consequences.

[47:13] Overall, this HIVA provides the foundation for emergency planning and the preparedness

[47:17] for increased resiliency questions.

[47:20] And when I say questions, specific hazards, I'm talking about hazards that impact the time

[47:26] person directly, but also hazards that occur around the person and have an impact on them.

[47:35] So a

[47:40] hazard is a circumstances condition or process of phenomenon that can be human or natural

[47:48] costs that give the rights to an emergency. The vulnerability is the characteristic or circumstance

[47:54] in the community that makes it more susceptible to the impact of the hazards.

[48:00] The risk of the culmination of the likelihood of the hazard occurring and the severity of the

[48:04] consequences. So for example, air pollution is a hazard. Air pollution is a hazard and the vulnerability

[48:13] ability could be age, for example, very young or elderly could be more susceptible to the

[48:18] impacts of hazards, so that's vulnerable.

[48:20] And then risk for air pollution, for example, is low, because the likelihood while high

[48:29] has lower consequences.

[48:35] So our consultants used a little toolkit as the foundation for developing this age-arbeating,

[48:42] which encourages scientific knowledge and local knowledge.

[48:48] These observational and existing data

[48:52] that considered past event, current research,

[48:55] as well as future projections, specifically climate projections.

[49:00] And then there was thorough engagement as well

[49:02] with partners, both in-person and online,

[49:05] which I'll speak to a little bit here.

[49:11] So the province identifies 57 hazards

[49:13] that are applicable in BC, six of those hazards do not

[49:18] are all relevant to Preston.

[49:20] 27 of those hazards are what we consider tier one hazards.

[49:23] And so those are the highest variety hazards

[49:25] or hazards of greatest concern.

[49:27] Whereas 24 of them were considered peer to hazards,

[49:30] which are the lower relative risk hazards.

[49:36] And so all hazards were ranked on a likelihood scale

[49:40] from rare to almost certain.

[49:42] With rare being less than a 1% chance

[49:45] that hazard occurring in any given year and almost certain hazard greater than 50% chance

[49:50] occurring in any given year. So another way to say it is 1 in 100 year event or rare event.

[50:11] And so we looked at both non-climate and climate-related hazards. We considered population changes,

[50:17] New York County industry, land use development infrastructure for non-climate hazards,

[50:22] and then the climate-related hazards really looked at those projected future trends.

[50:26] We also looked at current and future likelihoods with the current being hazards in the near

[50:33] immediate current and then future objections up to 2050.

[50:41] So the bulk of the feedback we received, how to do with the consequences of systems, we

[50:46] looked at consequences of systems for all the hazards.

[50:49] And this is where we did our partner engagement workshop over the world cafe style engagement

[50:54] where we invited community partners, province, first nations.

[50:58] We had a specific workshop with yakening key, lower pretty best staff who sat down with us.

[51:04] And then anyone who wasn't able to attend the in-person workshops were invited for one-on-one interviews.

[51:11] We also did a public survey with the community and we had really good feedback there.

[51:15] There was desktop research and then also subject matter expert input into the document as well.

[51:21] So,

[51:25] for each hazard, we looked at 11 consequence categories.

[51:28] All the categories range from none to extreme fatalities, for example, none meaning that

[51:40] there are no fatalities to extreme meaning many fatalities and for exceeding our local

[51:47] resources, going into eventual federal or even international resources.

[51:51] Another example is psychosocial impacts, with none being unlikely to result in other short or long-term trauma, or extreme being widespread in terms of psychosocial.

[52:05] And again, there are 11 categories for each hazard.

[52:10] That brings us to our risks scoring, so that's, so for each hazard both current and likelihood assessments were done as well as the consequence assessments.

[52:21] And then that brings us to our risk metrics, which is my favorite part of the document.

[52:28] And so on the left, you can see the current likelihood.

[52:31] So how likely was the hazard to occur and the consequences on the bottom?

[52:35] How severe are the consequences in the top right hand corner where we have it in red?

[52:40] That's our higher consequences more likely to happen.

[52:44] And the green in the left bottom corner, lower consequence, lower likelihood.

[52:48] here.

[52:50] Currently, we have Wildbear, their only hazard, only high hazard,

[52:57] high risk hazard, whereas we look at future projections. Some of those

[53:02] hazards do bump up. Extremely drought, wastewater,

[53:07] grail, this all do bump up into that red category. I'll just pause here for any

[53:12] questions. I got stuck on sage.

[53:17] When I went through this first time and I looked it up, and it's a recurring way, right?

[53:21] So I'm trying to figure out how does that connect to space with it?

[53:25] Or does it connect to space?

[53:25] No.

[53:26] It doesn't.

[53:27] That's not it.

[53:28] Let's take it out.

[53:29] They're not related.

[53:30] Basically.

[53:31] That's what it is.

[53:32] No, it's not related.

[53:33] It's not related.

[53:34] Also, those are quite abstract from our perspective here.

[53:38] The reason that they're in the yellow is because if it did happen, it could have more severe.

[53:44] I'm sorry.

[53:46] I realized it seemed like these are whatever it is, I should have noticed it by

[53:50] never mind. Right. Okay. I think it should actually be a little bit lower there because that's really

[53:56] that would be pretty late. A big wave and pretty late. Spishing back and forth. So that one actually

[54:01] I think should be lower and then bump to the right. So I think that one. But space weather in particular

[54:05] that was also something that struck me as we haven't heard how that one could happen.

[54:13] I guess

[54:14] We just stopped, I wasn't talking about it much.

[54:17] I think the consequences are just high, right?

[54:21] If it's like, it could cost power outages at the end like that,

[54:24] but yeah, but not very likely to happen.

[54:27] But it wasn't, I like the category.

[54:28] So maybe things have changed.

[54:31] Sorry, more likely to happen lower consequences for that one.

[54:34] Yeah, the siege though, I think like that one,

[54:37] that one's a bit of an error.

[54:38] That one should go down and move to the right.

[54:40] They can have higher consequences,

[54:41] but very, very down.

[54:42] I think it happened.

[54:45] So I hope that.

[54:46] Yep.

[54:47] I got totally stuck on that one.

[54:49] That's a very good question.

[54:53] It had recorded this.

[54:56] And then we looked at vulnerabilities for question.

[54:59] So, you know, it's one thing to understand our hazards,

[55:02] but how do they actually impact us?

[55:05] So we looked at three categories of vulnerabilities.

[55:07] So we have clinical infrastructure and services,

[55:10] social and economic,

[55:10] and physical and environmental vulnerabilities.

[55:16] So for a critical and infrastructure vulnerabilities,

[55:20] there were some highlights.

[55:22] For example, dependence on power supply

[55:24] with limited backup, reliance on fewer transportation

[55:27] robots with natural supplies, aging or capacity

[55:31] constrained assets, exposure of infrastructure

[55:34] to environmental hazards.

[55:35] So those are some of the examples

[55:37] in our critical infrastructure vulnerability category.

[55:43] And then we go and look at our social and economic

[55:45] salt and revealer, you know, there's quite different.

[55:48] And the way this has looked at is where something called

[55:51] the Canadian Index of Social Vulnerability,

[55:53] which is a stats Canada, is created by stats Canada,

[55:59] and it provides a social vulnerability score for Preston,

[56:02] based on four dimension categories.

[56:04] And you can see the map, there is a wall blue

[56:07] with very dark blue in the middle,

[56:09] which tells us that there are no areas in Preston

[56:12] where we have a low vulnerability score.

[56:15] And that specifically is because mostly because of dimension two,

[56:21] that applies to about 80% of our catapultzing or our air isn't

[56:25] question.

[56:26] And age is really, I think, the driving factor behind that one.

[56:31] So again, it's completely spread out over question,

[56:34] but a little bit more concentrated in the center,

[56:36] most likely due to population.

[56:37] But yeah, so that's good to know for us,

[56:40] especially for planning, as I said mentioned too, is 8% in question, so that really does influence

[56:51] our planning and preparedness moving forward.

[56:56] As well, there are some environmental vulnerabilities,

[56:59] such as our dependence on wetlands in our parent areas, for water storage, water quality, and drought.

[57:05] We have land and water management activities that are outside of the town that could influence our

[57:11] runoff and erosion, and there are some steep terrain that could cause degree flows,

[57:16] land fires, you know, those things could impact their roadways and things like that.

[57:24] And that brings us to the meat and potatoes of the document, which is our all-hazard summary.

[57:30] And so this is where each hazard is looked at and given it sort of more detailed analysis,

[57:37] with the higher priority hazards listed first. So wild fires on the top and then it goes down from

[57:41] there. Two or one hazards have a more detailed analysis, but each hazard has a background,

[57:48] likelihood rationale, key consequences, and compounding relationships, so how do the hazards

[57:54] interact with one another?

[58:00] I really wanted to highlight some of the existing risk reduction

[58:03] measures we already have in person, because there are quite a few. We have a great emergency

[58:08] management organization with a number of services in person, our emergency management team,

[58:13] serve fire ambulance police we have a number of those services really well set up and defined in

[58:19] question. There are also a number of hands-on reports that already exist and do get implemented here

[58:25] in question as well as other members such as public education, staff training, building

[58:31] close-to-force and electronic violence etc.

[58:38] And that brings us to our resilience recommendations.

[58:41] So what can we do moving forward to become more resilient in question?

[58:46] And so their recommendations

[58:48] are broken out a little bit. There are overarching hazard recommendations, and then there are also hazard specific recommendations based on priority hazard.

[58:57] For overarching hazard recommendations, thankfully all of the top five recommendations are already on our work plans.

[59:05] So we already have business continuity in our plans for next year.

[59:09] We do have a disaster response plan. We're looking at those amendments this year next year.

[59:14] We are having RFP out currently for climate adaptation plan.

[59:18] We are looking at doing our vaccination planning broke planning next year as well.

[59:23] And we're currently working on our public information plan.

[59:26] So good news that we're already progressing in all of these areas.

[59:33] And then we come to the five priority hazard recommendations.

[59:37] And again, some of the work.

[59:39] We're already doing some of the work and some of it is already in our work plans.

[59:42] So, for example, reducing wildfire exposure at public works, as well as other critical

[59:47] infrastructure.

[59:48] Our first market coordinator has already been working on some of these critical infrastructure

[59:52] assessments and looking at ways to mitigate those.

[59:54] We do have an extreme heat response plan that we can look at incorporating potentially.

[59:58] Thank you.

[1:00:00] recommendations. We are looking at some hazard specific planning in the next couple of years. You know, we may consider

[1:00:06] vulking out the throughout response and pandemic response specifically. And then it also recommends some waste order upgrading, including install back-of-power,

[1:00:16] call the street lift station upgrading our state of systems. There are a number of other recommendations, but these are some of the top ones.

[1:00:26] And Matthew, there are a number of maps on support planning. And it's also just really interesting. I think to look at my

[1:00:33] I really like this wall bar map.

[1:00:35] You can see Creston really doesn't have a lot of risk identified on this map,

[1:00:40] but all of the surrounding areas are quite high.

[1:00:43] So again, that speaks to the hazards that impact us in the valley.

[1:00:51] Any other questions about that?

[1:00:55] Well, I have some questions.

[1:00:58] You have this, the whole list of recommendations here.

[1:01:02] And people always ask questions, are we prepared?

[1:01:05] the fact that it says here a lot that's the

[1:01:07] in progress or the part of it again. I don't want that to be confused with the

[1:01:11] fact that we haven't done anything. So I know that there's a lot of work here

[1:01:15] and that there are some plans in place that require more detail. But I just want

[1:01:20] people to understand that the fact that it says here that to begin it doesn't mean

[1:01:25] that to this point we haven't been planning. So I just want some of those

[1:01:27] clarification. Absolutely. Is there anything specifically you want to

[1:01:35] When you see, you have a business continuity plan, disaster response plan, all these different plans,

[1:01:42] that doesn't mean like we have plans in place, but there are, there are things that we can do to

[1:01:48] update those individual plans. And that's just what I wanted to be clear on is the fact that how

[1:01:54] we do it's written here. It almost looks like what we haven't even started that. That's not clear.

[1:01:58] Yeah, so business continuity and I'll speak to that one specifically. So that fun. We do have

[1:02:05] preparedness for business continuity. Absolutely. It's really going to help us specifically with the IT

[1:02:11] started things. It's really going to help us just respond more quickly or have a better idea of

[1:02:17] exactly where to start. But it's not to say that, you know, we're going to be completely lost to

[1:02:22] something that's absolutely not. We do have fun in place. Do you know what we're doing? We don't

[1:02:26] we know we're doing, but this will help us. Yeah, it's, it's, yeah, it's really a very specific

[1:02:34] and tailored guide for Preston. And then again, like the disaster response plan, for example,

[1:02:40] we do already have a disaster response plan with the new legislative requirements.

[1:02:44] This is how it's new to plan with the new legislative requirements. We have to have these things

[1:02:47] and our specific asks for these things that we need to, that we need to meet, right? Yeah.

[1:02:53] And those that legislation came out two years ago, and the regulations came out only just recently, and they begin in 2027, which is why I never heard those things are on our planet for the next year.

[1:03:05] That helpful.

[1:03:06] Yeah, because I'm looking at this from the point of view of somebody who just goes online, looks at the agenda without your information, and they see that, oh my goodness, they have to begin all this stuff.

[1:03:17] I guess that's what I wanted this direct is to let people that are unaware of what we've done in the background how far we are on this to just not missing for information.

[1:03:27] It's why I wanted to highlight a number of the things already in place too because we do already have a number of really good solid on the place and we do use them regularly.

[1:03:38] But I mean, the point of this too, like, there are gaps, right?

[1:03:42] And then I would be honest with the fact that there are gaps.

[1:03:45] Yeah.

[1:03:45] And there is work to be done, but that's exactly what this is for.

[1:03:48] It's trying to identify those gaps so that we can become more resilient moving forward.

[1:03:53] Right.

[1:03:53] And every community is going to have gaps.

[1:03:56] Right.

[1:03:56] But it's really important to identify them and then make a solid plan to work on them.

[1:04:00] Well, there be community that is having an extreme emergency situation,

[1:04:04] which several of them have had this year.

[1:04:06] I think we can learn from that as well.

[1:04:09] Absolutely.

[1:04:10] We don't want to be caught on preparing the looks.

[1:04:13] I think the biggest thing is, again,

[1:04:15] we have such great services here.

[1:04:17] Yes.

[1:04:18] With our ambulance, with our police, with our fire,

[1:04:20] we have such amazing services.

[1:04:21] Yeah.

[1:04:21] And they're, they're very well trained.

[1:04:24] They're, they're experienced.

[1:04:26] You know, so that, those are the resources we're going to go on first.

[1:04:29] But it's really great to have these clients in place to get us a step by step.

[1:04:33] on what to do, basically.

[1:04:36] We also have four routes to get up to 10.

[1:04:38] Not just one, but some unfortunate.

[1:04:40] The reason that part is harder than there is basically because

[1:04:44] hazards can still impact those things, the landslides fall for,

[1:04:48] you know, we do have more routes to get out then than many communities.

[1:04:52] Absolutely. But those things don't be limited because it's a per.

[1:04:56] Yeah. Thank you for that.

[1:05:03] The motion that is at the report titles of final hazard risk and vulnerability assessment data today from the emergency management requirement readiness coordinate to be received for information and further that consult adopt the hazard risk and vulnerability assessment for the town of Cresting 2026.

[1:05:21] So, it's been emotional for the Council of Voluntary Feltzmann's

[1:05:26] discussion.

[1:05:27] Paul in favor.

[1:05:28] She and his carry.

[1:05:31] Thank you for all that.

[1:05:32] It's still about me for a couple more.

[1:05:33] Okay.

[1:05:34] We'll take it on with the electric car show program.

[1:05:37] I think that people are interested in that.

[1:05:39] Next.

[1:05:40] Never got the minority rate.

[1:05:43] So, for the car show program.

[1:05:45] Staff are seeking direction from council regarding the press

[1:05:50] and Valid Climate Action Society's request for a dedicated level 2

[1:05:54] devy charger and parking space for the purpose of operating a torture

[1:05:58] program. So to support this program, there is a free level 2

[1:06:03] charger in the coaxory parking lot that staff recommend requesting a

[1:06:09] replacement for with the install of a new level 2 charger with RFID

[1:06:14] capabilities. And so RFID just means the charger can be controlled to

[1:06:19] system verification. Science would support this program implementation and may help with

[1:06:26] noncompliance, but can't fully ensure that outside brews won't use that designated

[1:06:31] parking space. And enforcement for this program would exceed current service levels, especially

[1:06:37] outside of regular working hours. There is a cost of replacement for the charter,

[1:06:44] there would be about 15 to 16,000 purchase and install of the charter, as well as service

[1:06:48] annual service fees moving forward, which they plan society may be unwilling or unable

[1:06:55] for purchase.

[1:06:58] As a benefit, the removal of the free Tesla Charter could see an increase

[1:07:01] in the usage of a questions three other paid stations. And there's benefits to your

[1:07:07] parks or programs such as the increase accessibility and mobility to those who don't have a vehicle,

[1:07:13] or for low-income individuals, and it may reduce strain on road infrastructure.

[1:07:18] Even still, some individuals may not be able to access a

[1:07:21] carceral program due to cost or accessibility requirements.

[1:07:25] To summarize, staff are recommending that Council direct staff to offer a dedicated

[1:07:30] parking space at regular rates and then to request that the Climate Society provide a level

[1:07:36] to charge their width or fragmented credibility and for staff to bring the parking lot by a long

[1:07:41] moment for the designated space and collaborate with the Climate Society on an agreement

[1:07:47] for alternatively, council could consider purchasing the charter in an upcoming 2027 in the upcoming

[1:07:55] municipal purchases. Any questions about that?

[1:08:08] I see that the biggest challenge is unless it's somehow prohibited in terms of the RFID

[1:08:16] that people will, that have been using the Tesla one, will go, okay, that's still a charger

[1:08:22] and now I have to pay for it, but I don't know what the other one is, and I'm just going

[1:08:26] to park my car in for three hours, plug that up, and the rental or the right share car

[1:08:32] is circling the block waiting to get back in there.

[1:08:36] How is that going to resolve itself, because you don't have anybody to come and second

[1:08:41] enforce it and have somebody towed at your system?

[1:08:43] We can't fully mitigate that issue.

[1:08:47] We can do things to help.

[1:08:49] Like, again, we can have dedicated signage.

[1:08:52] And the RFID capability means that anyone

[1:08:53] part of their can't use that charter.

[1:08:56] But we can't fully block it off.

[1:08:59] We're using that.

[1:09:00] But somebody who doesn't have part of the program ID

[1:09:04] can't use it for charge, they can't actually...

[1:09:07] I was fairly clear on this.

[1:09:09] But that's our ID card.

[1:09:11] Yeah.

[1:09:12] Is there, um, is that the only location that has been looked at?

[1:09:19] It's, it's the only location that has the infrastructure already there.

[1:09:23] So we could put in other infrastructure elsewhere, but it would cost more.

[1:09:29] And you still have the same issues.

[1:09:32] Right.

[1:09:34] Because there, that's it.

[1:09:35] There's only the one Tesla.

[1:09:36] Yeah, sure.

[1:09:38] Okay.

[1:09:42] The impact of taking out the free charger will that be possibly presented by businesses?

[1:09:51] Because it's, I don't know how many that's just people passing through quite a lot.

[1:09:55] What the usage profile and that charger is, but it's the only free one because it's unmonitored.

[1:10:00] It's honestly hard to say we don't know who's using it.

[1:10:03] How long are you using it for?

[1:10:04] It would be the same car parked there all day every day.

[1:10:06] It's honestly, we don't know.

[1:10:09] So is there potential for that?

[1:10:11] Yes.

[1:10:14] However, currently, you're paying for the electricity

[1:10:18] for these are no, I mentioned that definitely.

[1:10:22] So it's just the fact that you're taking something that

[1:10:24] was free away and you're not actually

[1:10:26] replacing with anything other than people

[1:10:28] that are part of the right share.

[1:10:29] My response to that.

[1:10:31] So just very quickly to add to that, though,

[1:10:33] is that this was going to come to counsel

[1:10:35] regardless of this request as I sure that the that free charger with when it was put in was before electric cars were really a thing

[1:10:42] It was kind of to encourage people now that there are more means for him. It doesn't make sense that we're paying for any electricity

[1:10:49] And for people and

[1:10:52] To get free electricity for the vehicles, which is more come more commonplace

[1:10:55] And so that's one this

[1:10:58] Regardless of this issue the recommendation with the fee review is to remove that free status from that charger

[1:11:04] And it's a level thing, and I assume we're taking small steps because at this point we're

[1:11:11] dealing with one car, right?

[1:11:12] Yeah.

[1:11:13] Yeah.

[1:11:13] So I thought so.

[1:11:15] It may grow in time and where we may be, council may be faced with more decisions.

[1:11:18] But at this point, we're talking about one car in a place to park at a chart.

[1:11:22] So with that, I will read the motion.

[1:11:28] The council of RecSnap to offer a dedicated parking space in the Cook Street parking lot and regular rate according

[1:11:34] into the fees and charges by law because the Creston Valley Climate Action Society by the

[1:11:39] purpose of a car share program conditional on CVC A.S. providing a level 2 EV charger to support

[1:11:47] the program and completion of an agreement for outlining responsibilities and requirements

[1:11:52] that council direct staff to present amendments to the parking lot by law number 185, 2019,

[1:11:57] designating the space in the Cook Street parking lot for the car share program for council

[1:12:03] consideration and upcoming council meetings and further that council directs that to collaborate

[1:12:08] with CVCAS to draft an agreement addressing program operating cost science and insulation requirements

[1:12:15] for council's consideration and an upcoming regular council meeting. Well that is one more

[1:12:21] Councilor Holland, seconded Councilor

[1:12:23] involvement, discussion, one favor?

[1:12:28] Councilor Arries, was there anything to add or ask

[1:12:32] or were you supporting the motion?

[1:12:35] I was supporting motion.

[1:12:36] Yeah, thank you.

[1:12:39] I didn't want to ignore you.

[1:12:42] So it actually is a request for decision on emergency

[1:12:45] management, or it's freeing whether or

[1:12:47] we should fly over a couple of days before it.

[1:12:50] Thank you for your work, so this one is just recommended

[1:12:55] amendments to our extreme weather response plan.

[1:12:59] This is for two reasons.

[1:13:01] One is to align with an environment

[1:13:03] and this new color-coded alert weather system

[1:13:06] that they released this year.

[1:13:09] And then the other is to address for an extreme weather

[1:13:11] shelter that now exists in town,

[1:13:13] that wasn't anticipated last time

[1:13:15] and that this on this roti calisthene.

[1:13:19] So in 2026 environment, Canada did adopt this

[1:13:22] new kind of color-coded weather alert system.

[1:13:25] With health risks, change your zinc rotis yellow to red

[1:13:28] for their alert.

[1:13:29] The yellow warning thing questions 30 at 35 to 33,

[1:13:33] 33 to 35 degrees Celsius for heat alerts

[1:13:38] with overnight taps at 15 to 16 Celsius

[1:13:41] for two harmonies.

[1:13:43] And that does change specifically

[1:13:44] with the overnight temperature, but previously it was 18 degrees and they dropped that temperature down.

[1:13:52] The updated activation criteria trigger the opening of a warning overhead center

[1:13:56] as before, but this time specifically with the call to core data alerts.

[1:14:02] And this amendment also aligns with the or considers that the MCIR doesn't typically provide funding

[1:14:08] for an overnight warning center when an extreme weather shelter is available. So that's another

[1:14:12] reason why we recommend these amendments. With these changes, the towns still need to

[1:14:18] legislate their publications and may require fewer stopping resources. However, it does mean

[1:14:24] that access to warm space can be more limited to vulnerable individuals who are at home,

[1:14:30] because specifically extreme weather shelters are at home.

[1:14:36] All

[1:14:39] right, there's going to be a motion that can receive this record and the Council adopt the

[1:14:46] that's the word that I have a question.

[1:14:51] It's the smoke out of looking through,

[1:14:54] there's nothing I couldn't see anything that talks about what

[1:14:56] this going to be an emerging problem

[1:14:58] would be.

[1:15:00] Just a heat, often connected to smoke, so it's not just a warming or a cooling center. It's a fresh air resource. Right. Nothing in this, but it's all temperature-based. Our activation procedure does consider air pollution. So it does at a lower temperature of the accelerator, but higher air pollution. But currently, no, it doesn't consider the same air shelters. But.

[1:15:28] The air, when you get the alerts on your weather report on your phone, it comes up with severe air quality issue.

[1:15:37] And it's again color coded as well as.

[1:15:41] That is also a recommendation in our HRVA to consider thin air shelters or filters in our public buildings.

[1:15:50] It's also once the drug we can certainly look into what's available now and for

[1:15:54] entering that back for consideration under planning, but that's correct

[1:15:57] currently it doesn't just considerations with the activation criteria.

[1:16:03] Focus on this. Sorry to interrupt.

[1:16:06] All right now. Can I have a mover for that one?

[1:16:13] We have the executive council has the discussion.

[1:16:16] All in fair.

[1:16:18] Motion.

[1:16:18] Sharing.

[1:16:20] Any we have.

[1:16:22] The next year it's the correspondence.

[1:16:24] First is the.

[1:16:25] From Arden Jones or the question.

[1:16:28] Youth council with this is yesterday.

[1:16:29] That.

[1:16:30] Preston have someone.

[1:16:32] He's councilor.

[1:16:33] And.

[1:16:34] And you think might that would require some sort of election.

[1:16:37] It's they have an initiative.

[1:16:38] the council or other than that, they can be here just as a representative of you to

[1:16:44] to the meetings, right? I was just looking into it and like Elkberg has a

[1:16:50] there's a bunch of communities have it and it's not an elected thing. People have they put

[1:16:54] application in that they're not necessarily a memory meeting but they're ready to sound media.

[1:16:59] So they might have lots of different ways to do it. Yeah, I was looking at it too and even

[1:17:07] And, you know, some communities are doing something that parallels a little bit like what we're doing with the public art working group committee, where there are youth representatives, maybe from church groups and from the high school, from that kind of key.

[1:17:23] And they're not necessarily at every council meeting, but they are also reviewing documents that are being made by council.

[1:17:35] Well, I will ask Kirsten, would there be things that we would have to do sort of a protocol?

[1:17:41] I'm sort of organized way to do this. I'm happy.

[1:17:44] You know, I think for right now, if it's something council is interested in,

[1:17:48] it would certainly refer to synoptic coming up with a bit of a proposal.

[1:17:51] So similar to the other advisory committees that you do have,

[1:17:55] if you wanted to have a new advisory committee,

[1:17:57] you would want to consider a fence of reference in a high location process so that it's individuals who come actually up by and that's certainly something that you could look at.

[1:18:07] Do a bit of research for what other communities do such as that.

[1:18:11] But my recommendation would be to make sure that whatever councils as direct that it's fair that there is a transparent way for applications and a fence of reference that would govern them so that it's no relatively easy to administer.

[1:18:31] So we do have the customer values that are available to us and that could be an excellent

[1:18:36] resource for supporting that piece of engagement.

[1:18:41] Probably recommend them to stay but then corporate services, but they're definitely an organization

[1:18:45] that's very in touch with you for quality and gain and captures that high school majoring

[1:18:51] for them. So there's a piece of that to you.

[1:18:57] Thank you. I would like to move that we refer this to seven.

[1:19:03] It can I just clarify in moving to staff that we just asked that when it's brought back that has brought that to me the whole just so that we can have a bit more of a discussion conversation around what it could look like.

[1:19:17] just want to clarify it now.

[1:19:19] It comes about.

[1:19:23] It's been moved and seconded discussion on the motion.

[1:19:26] Hearing none, all in favor?

[1:19:29] Motion was carried.

[1:19:31] Then we have a request for letter of support

[1:19:33] from the requesting community for his corporation.

[1:19:37] The motion is the council authorizes the mayor to write a letter of support.

[1:19:41] The question value for his corporations request for an area expansion

[1:19:45] and increased to a allowable annual cut.

[1:19:47] Anything you want to add or we just want to close the motion. I don't have anything further to add as if there were was contained within your package.

[1:19:54] No.

[1:19:58] I will look for a mover on that.

[1:20:00] Councilor Baldwin, seconded Councilor Holland, discussion.

[1:20:04] All in favor.

[1:20:06] Motion is carried.

[1:20:08] And there's two other pieces of correspondence here.

[1:20:12] unless someone wants it to do anything different than there will be motion is to just receive

[1:20:18] them for information.

[1:20:20] Okay, let's have motion on that please, of course that's all right, Martin, it's okay to

[1:20:25] count to the ballman discussion, we'll be moving on in favor, motion is carried, and what's

[1:20:32] about right now that seems to do here, you see the assembly mayor's schedule there, the

[1:20:39] That will probably change in time, and then we're open for questions from the gallery.

[1:20:46] Any questions?

[1:20:48] Yes.

[1:20:49] Not so much as the question as a statement.

[1:20:52] The motion that you cast, that the Christians and the Action Society will be responsible for installing

[1:20:58] our own charge-up effectively kills the program because we have to fundraise to buy a car,

[1:21:03] you do not have a certain capacity for any fund,

[1:21:07] you don't pay for an electric charge.

[1:21:09] Especially if we cannot use town support

[1:21:12] in an application when we fundraise.

[1:21:15] So I guess what I'm asking you is to reconsider

[1:21:17] maybe the option to provide a higher cooperation

[1:21:21] from the town to help us get this program going

[1:21:25] because otherwise we're done.

[1:21:28] And especially in the face of climate action,

[1:21:31] And I mean, the tone's supporting it, even though I think we're also not very good from the tone.

[1:21:36] So we should consider that would be wonderful. Thank you.

[1:21:44] Thank you.

[1:21:45] We do have a new policy on our on our grants.

[1:21:51] And so the person is there as a streamer or an application that they could put in so that it could come before us for discussion.

[1:21:58] There are absolutely two points of the other grants that we do have available are the

[1:22:04] any ready grant to receive any T. So the talent press there gets an allocation of that

[1:22:09] annually that they're able to have been started that process about the January process to,

[1:22:16] you know, closes in April, the application closes February. So that is a streamer, there are

[1:22:22] some hard to suitcase streams. So that would be a recommendation. You can put it in the

[1:22:25] I said, in town, we could try and direct you to a grant stream, but there's no guarantees, of course, that there would be a grant stream that we necessarily for it.

[1:22:34] Yeah, but the car that ends the charger was looking at $65,000. That's a lot more money than the background.

[1:22:40] That's right.

[1:22:44] Well, we're, I was not going to talk, but I'm just going to say one thing.

[1:22:48] And so the second option was to keep the Tesla charger and I don't know how much you've

[1:22:56] been spending.

[1:22:56] How much you've been spending annually to subsidize Tesla owners up until this point,

[1:23:02] do you know?

[1:23:04] It would be electricity was five to ten dollars a day, I think.

[1:23:07] Yes.

[1:23:08] So it was like five or six thousand a year for how many years?

[1:23:12] Sorry, I'll just leave.

[1:23:13] It's not always a day. There's a program that's using it regularly every day.

[1:23:21] We don't know exactly how much it will cost us for that one.

[1:23:25] It's not that high. There's her who's right now.

[1:23:28] It is based on, I think, a regular use program where that credit is granted out this

[1:23:32] couple of days.

[1:23:35] Well, I just see I mentioned we are facing.

[1:23:38] We're planning to face that.

[1:23:39] But I really appreciate the staff put in the work to explore it and that the council thought about it because I've been looking at your agendas for the last couple of months and I'm going, oh my goodness, there's so much going on.

[1:23:54] And then with the threat of wildfire and all the smoke and I know there's a lot on your mind and so maybe at a future day when it's a little lighter.

[1:24:04] you know, in town and we'll revisit it and it's not necessarily dead in the

[1:24:12] water but we do feel very discouraged and disappointed but I'm sure you

[1:24:17] expect this that we will feel this way. We are very hopeful because the

[1:24:21] district of Invermere we're very supportive of the so we thought we will

[1:24:26] far more progressive than the district of Invermere but I can see that there's

[1:24:31] too much going on in the tax base. But I also didn't know. We weren't asking for a new

[1:24:38] charger. I thought it would be an existing one. But Joel was saying some of the agreements

[1:24:43] with all the other people who installed the charges. So they couldn't be a dedicated to

[1:24:49] just one group or public. So anyway, thank you so much for considering it and for all the

[1:24:56] work that you do for us.

[1:24:58] So I guess I'll ask this of Mike.

[1:25:01] You know, there is such a thing as a motion to reconsider.

[1:25:03] And I don't really think this is the meeting to do that.

[1:25:06] But if a councilor wanted to introduce a motion

[1:25:08] to reconsider this, I could be done

[1:25:10] at an upcoming council meeting, right?

[1:25:14] Certainly, or the group could actually just put

[1:25:17] in a grant request for council's consideration

[1:25:19] of future date, which I think would be the easiest way.

[1:25:22] And you know, the request was for a dedicated spot

[1:25:26] for parking a vehicle, which was considered and granted. So really what their statements

[1:25:34] are at the moment is that the costs of the car church are itself, which certainly they could

[1:25:41] put in that request to council. The separate requests for council's consideration and perhaps for

[1:25:46] the budget process council to look at that's council's pleasure. But that would be my suggestion,

[1:25:52] just to submit a letter for the grant request for that and then you know

[1:25:57] certainly staff can have that back in front of council when council can decide

[1:26:01] what to do with it at that point which would be the same as bringing back

[1:26:05] and needing to reconsider because that's the same thing. But it is a bunch of

[1:26:08] impact. We weren't wanting the town and taxpayers to pay very

[1:26:15] charger for us. That was not our intention. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I was just going to say, you know,

[1:26:25] what we did pass was that staff would meet with you guys. And they will bring back information,

[1:26:34] which very well may include what you've just stated. And so then there is the opportunity for us to

[1:26:41] more other options that have all specific things. So it's not necessarily

[1:26:47] that. I know.

[1:26:52] Thank you.

[1:26:53] First, hi, how are you? Good, thank you, your worship.

[1:26:56] I don't know. Asha, I ate them. I'm not picking on you. But you made that report so

[1:27:01] long to meet your cups of coffee. There's just a few things I know from

[1:27:06] experience. The year in the intermediate soul on page 102. You show that the

[1:27:12] there's building time hopeful to back up to the intermediates of all of them.

[1:27:17] In our media zone?

[1:27:18] Yeah.

[1:27:19] Crawford Hill.

[1:27:20] Oh.

[1:27:21] Okay.

[1:27:24] Now it says with the helping of SCADA and coronation for water.

[1:27:31] The one page 103 of the agenda.

[1:27:35] It mentioned eight-hour timeline for Colville Street.

[1:27:38] This is a long time ago.

[1:27:40] It was about 14 years ago.

[1:27:41] I think, well, I was just being, no, we had heavy for shat, and we had issues there with

[1:27:47] lip products, fuse, and it was backing up in an hour, just so you know, we would know

[1:27:55] that because you were deeper.

[1:27:56] Well, for sure.

[1:27:58] Yeah.

[1:27:58] But still, worst case.

[1:27:59] And well, yeah, for about half an hour and a half an hour, so thank you for that, and

[1:28:02] for the new problem.

[1:28:04] On the day 204, the agenda, Bill Creek also has a backup generator, so they can supply

[1:28:11] water to Crawford Hill, which can supply the entire to them.

[1:28:18] Page 227 under non-town owned critical infrastructure, energy utilities, power units, it's down

[1:28:24] the EC hydroalism.

[1:28:26] I'm almost positive for the BCO, and simply, yeah.

[1:28:29] Yes, of course, BCO, that would be a mistake, I don't know.

[1:28:31] No problem.

[1:28:32] No, that would be right, it's for us.

[1:28:34] You just wanted to, that is it for me, thank you.

[1:28:38] Well, that's the first report we've had from you and over a year, for me.

[1:28:41] Usually I move over there and I just call the project and ask the question.

[1:28:46] Thank you for your time.

[1:28:47] Thanks.

[1:28:49] Is that what I think we have done everything we need for you to do?

[1:28:52] Oh, did you want to know?

[1:28:55] Yeah.

[1:28:57] So we might see on Thursday for the company chat with mayor and council.

[1:29:01] Over there.

[1:29:02] Yeah.

[1:29:03] It's all that folks have heard.

[1:29:06] You better bring lots of coffee, lots of blood.

[1:29:08] I was hoping to attend as well as I I think I was on the list. Okay. Yeah. I was like,

[1:29:15] Chris, it's not working. No.

[1:29:19] No, you guys aren't. You aren't in council. It's that somebody else

[1:29:22] is in big. It's a very big thing. It is after working space. Yeah. Yeah. Look forward to

[1:29:28] being there again to see it all finished running. So yeah. Okay. I guess our next thing

[1:29:35] And most of you will do it.

[1:29:37] That's what I'm talking about.

[1:29:38] I guess you want to do it.

[1:29:41] Thank you very much.

[1:29:43] Thank you.

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