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Good afternoon. As I call this meeting to order, I respectfully acknowledge that we are on Treaty 6 territory, traditional lands of the Cree, Dane,

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Storneco de Sue, de Soto, and the Adjiva First Nations, and the Métis people. The Town of Mornville is dedicated to ensuring the spirit of Treaty 6 is honored and respected.

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with that, we will move on to two, which is the adoption of the agenda, and I want to

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make sure that we recognize that we will have a break between 6.30 and 7 p.m. if needed.

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And with that, I will ask for adoption of the agenda as presented,

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Councillor.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I would move that council approve the agenda as presented.

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Thank you.

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I don't need open.

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Thank you.

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Are there any questions to council?

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Seeing none, I'll ask the question.

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All those in favor?

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All right.

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With that, we'll move to 2.3.

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I would go to consent agenda.

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I have any Councillors.

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Deputy Mayor.

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Thank you, Mayor Borisma.

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I would like to pull 9.1.1.

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9.1.2 and 9.1.3.

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All right, do we have any other ones?

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I'd like to pull 8.1, 0.1.

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Can I please pull 8.2, 0.1?

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Are there any others?

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If not, I'll ask for motion.

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Councilor Defol.

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So move, Mr. Mayor.

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All right.

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You don't want to open?

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You're good.

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Okay.

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No need to open or close, sir.

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All right.

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I'll ask the question.

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All those in favour?

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All right.

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All right,

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so with that, we will move to protocol items.

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Are there any protocol items, Councilor DeFo?

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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I just want to point out that on December 19th, that's a Thursday evening at 7 p.m.

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At the Moranville Community Cultural Center, there will be the 44th edition of the Community Christmas Celebration.

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This was started by a teacher in town 44 years ago, and in recent years it's been taken over by the

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Maureenville Minsterals, a singing group here in town, and we wouldn't have it without their volunteer

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efforts. I encourage everyone to come out. Anyone who is gone knows what a great evening it is.

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Thank you. Are there any others?

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With that, I do want to note that December

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Proclamation is today is Human Rights Day, 2024 marks the 76th anniversary of one of

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the world's most important ground-blaking global pledges.

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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by UN in 1948.

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All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights.

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Each person is entitled to fundamental rights, including the right to equality,

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the right to life, liberty, and security of the person.

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It also recognizes the right of freedom of religion and speech.

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And the right to participate in the cultural life of community.

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Also, I'd like to speak a little bit about community spirit and I hope that many of you

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were there at light up the night was an amazing event and the Christmas festival in total

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between December 29th and December 1st and I know it was real cold out.

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Some of us didn't notice because our hands were frozen but it was an amazing night.

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Lots of candies handed out, lots of kids were happy so it's great to see families out

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and the wonderful fireworks that came with it.

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So again, thank you for everyone coming.

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And we also have the giving tree.

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It'll be up until December 13th, so please feel free to stop by at the MCC and

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purchase a gift for a deserving senior.

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Those are important members of our community.

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I also want to recognize that on December 10th and

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On May 11th, Town Hall will be open until 6 p.m., so knowing that there's a postal strike on, they'll be able to pick up paper copies of the utility bills.

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So be sure to bring a valid photo ID to confirm you are the account holder.

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So with that, we also wish everyone to have a great Christmas, and Councillor Defoe, go ahead.

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Sorry, Mr. Mayor, I do have another one.

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Bornville Community High School does an annual drama production, and that starts tomorrow.

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There's a matinee in the afternoon for students, but the first show is tomorrow night, doors open

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at 6.30, showtime is 7 p.m., it'll be on Wednesday night, Thursday night, Friday night.

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This year they've gone with a comedy, it's called The Drowsy Shaperone, and it looks like

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it's going to be another great event.

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I have my tickets for Bonnie and I for tomorrow night and I encourage everybody to get out and see some good theater tickets are available

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15 bucks at the door they're ten bucks in advance and you can buy them through the school website

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Right on and they do an amazing job for sure, so

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Anyone else got anything else? So good. Okay, so then we will move on to six delegations. So we will

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Ask Sergeant to come forward, thank you very much.

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Good afternoon everyone, thanks for inviting me this afternoon to present our second quarter

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update from the Moore and Valar C&P detachment.

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Hopefully hit the right button here, so this update will provide our second quarter report,

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which covers the period of July 1st to September 30th activity at our detachment here in Moore

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andville.

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Again, the purpose of these updates provided an update on two council on the operations

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of the Morinville RCMP Detachment, and an overview of our jurisdiction and call volume.

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The Morinville RCMP Detachment provides 24-hour policing services,

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to several municipalities and communities including the Alexander First Nation,

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Sturgeon County, Towns of Bonacore, Gibbons, LaGalle, and of course, Morinville.

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Human Resource Update, the Morinville RCMP Detachment is comprised of 40 personnel,

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which includes 26 police officers, starting with one staff sergeant.

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We have one sergeant, five corporals, 18 constables.

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In addition to that, we have one constable who acts in our school resource officer position.

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Four public service employees, four town of Bornville Fulltown employees,

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five town of Bornville Casual employees, one reservist constable,

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and our officers are also supported by what's now Central Alberta Regional Victim Services and five guards.

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Just a quick update on our human resource movement during this quarter.

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As you all know, on our report at the last update, Sergeant Lewis-Ims moved on to a

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Laduk detachment by way of promotion in August.

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Happy to announce effective last month on November 12th that Sergeant Mike Fibraro was identified

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as the successful promotional applicant, Sergeant Fibraro was actually joining me this afternoon.

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So he has taken the place as our operations NCO for the Mornville detachment.

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Mike has been here for several years already, very familiar with the Mornville detachment area.

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He is an excellent police officer and just a fantastic leader and it was an easy choice.

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Just some further updates on our supervisor ranks. Corporal Ryan Lemay and Corporal Jonathan Corp

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both started at our detachment in September. Corporal Lemay came from the Central Alberta District General Investigation Section.

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And Corporal John Corp came from the Fort Saskatchewan detachment, both started in late September.

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We also welcomed a new supervisor to our detachment, Corporal Samantha Barrett,

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was identified as a successful Corporal applicant. She started at our detachment two weeks ago.

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She came from the St. Albert detachment. She has several years of experience.

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And she used to actually be a Constable on the front line here in Morneville several years ago.

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I can also update on the Constable ranks. We have Constable Andrew Fontana, who has two years of service,

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is going to be coming to our detachment brand new from Chatee detachment,

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which is up north near the Northwest Territories border.

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He'll be starting with us just a few days after Christmas,

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and I'm sure he'll welcome the change.

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For departures, we saw Constable Darren Ryan leave our detachment

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after several years.

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He was selected for a promotional opportunity in Evansburg.

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He left about three weeks ago now,

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and also Constable Marianne Marin,

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who left on a lateral transfer to Maskwood Chiefs detachment,

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both at the same time, about two or three weeks ago.

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That will leave us at this point with two vacancies,

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one in the Constable ranks,

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and one in our corporal ranks that Sergeant Fibero just vacated.

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I expect to have some updates on those very shortly.

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We also have two police officers currently on sick leave

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and we have one on parental leave.

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The criminal statistics update for a quarter two.

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Criminal code and traffic offenses have seen a general reduction

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from the previous year.

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Our criminal code occurrences include persons crimes,

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which are down 25 percent.

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This quarter compared to this time last year.

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Property crimes are up 19 percent,

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which I'll get to in a moment.

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Other criminal codes are up 13 percent.

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Our total criminal code cases are up 6% of volume total from 189 to 201 this quarter compared to last

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Looking at those numbers. That's pretty consistent where we're holding pretty steady with that our traffic offenses

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Criminal code traffic fences down from three to two and our provincial

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Traffic offenses again very steady 113 to 120 before

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I move on to this

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Next slide. I'll just touch on the

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The property crime, I want to just mention that one.

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So if you go into the detailed report on crime statistics that was provided, you'll also

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notice that we had 14 vehicle thefts this quarter, and that's a comparison, a pretty

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stark comparison to the five that we had over the same period last year.

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So we're getting to work on that.

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We did make one arrest recently of one young offender who obviously won't be identified.

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We also have a continuing investigation and I am expecting further arrests shortly and

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making some progress on these.

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Other policing statistics, common policing activities have seen increases in some areas and decreases in others.

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False alarm is pretty consistent, 9-8 this year, 9-1-1 calls have gone 1-2.

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Suspicious persons, vehicles, property, suspicious activity complaints, we've seen a pretty good increase on that, and that's good.

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That's one thing I've really been pushing the public for since I started here seven months ago, was to try to get these reports up.

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No call too small when it comes to reporting suspicious activities.

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So we've seen a nice increase there from 29 to 42 compared to the summer previous.

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Nope, persons reported missing this quarter compared to five last year.

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Cases where spousal abuse or spousal was an element of the complaint that we went to has stayed pretty much on par with last year.

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And no mental health calls for this quarter.

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I'm also happy to report that the Mornville detachment was selected in August.

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As one of two new, our past locations in Central Alberta District remotely pilot aircraft system also known as drones.

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The ARPASS has been in use at the Morinville Detachment

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since September of 2024.

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Very, very excited about this one.

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This provides us with access to an ARPASS system

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that is, as I mentioned, accessible.

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That's a big thing for us.

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We have it right here locally at our detachment.

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We don't have to go through different channels

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and go through red tape.

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We don't have to reach out to Edmonton or district anything.

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It's right here in house.

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We need it.

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It's in the air.

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We have two locally trained pilots, which I'll get to in the next slide, we don't have

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We have to, again, look for anyone to come into our community to do it. We already have it right here and we have the people to use it right here. It's also cost effective, obviously. We are able to put eyes in the sky and help us with investigative measures, and with tactical needs, and a very cost effective measure. And it's safe. We don't have to put people in harm's way to see what we're going into if needed. We can use this arpastism. It's just a great thing. Some of the commonly, sorry, arpats are commonly known as drones or UAVs.

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unmanned aerial vehicles.

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They do provide, again, cost effective aerial photos,

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HD imagery, 3D imagery, FILIR, video and photos,

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which are thermal imaging, infrared night vision,

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vegetation disturbance patterns, and old burial sites,

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and real-time situational awareness.

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When can our past be used?

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Some examples of use include traffic-related investigations,

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emergency or disaster response, search and rescue,

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major crime scenes, investigations and areas

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where no expectation of privacy exists,

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and when a warrant has been obtained.

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As I mentioned, we have two members at the Morneville detachment currently trained as pilots.

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It's already been used on ten occasions since its arrival in cases of missing persons,

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vehicle thefts, and suspect pursuits.

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And I can also add to this that our neighboring detachments and our neighboring communities

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are also beneficiaries of us having it here in Morneville.

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We've assisted other detachments such as ports of schedule and immersing persons cases.

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An update on our community policing activities.

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Our school resource officer program has been up and running with

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constable Tanner Willes since the start of the school year and I'm on-thrilled with

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the work that he's doing at Mooreville Community High School and at

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Sturgeon Comp. Among the many activities and the many initiatives that Tanner has

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taken charge of, one was distracted driving presentation, the prevented

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locally here to several schools that came in and robust in from the area and I

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attended myself, I was very impressed with it. Tanner also spearheaded a

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November fundraiser and he partnered with local students to grow what was intended to

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be mustaches and they raised $900 that they were able to donate to cancer research.

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It was just fantastic and a great opportunity to work with the kids.

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Coffee with the Cops sessions, again we continued attending a number of coffee with Cops sessions

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throughout Tart de Tashroom Terry which included one July 2nd session here in Mornville, our communication

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location strategy, which we got running up to full speed in the summertime.

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Positive ticketing campaign, we're in the early stages of this one.

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What I'd like to do is, right now I'm working with community partners.

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What I'd like to do is have this up and running by the end of this school year,

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where we have a system in place throughout our detachment area, where we can go out and

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hand out positive behavior tickets with coupons or gift certificates to local kids.

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And we do have something like this running on a smaller scale here with municipal enforcement in Morinville.

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What we're looking at is rolling out something that's maybe a little bit bigger scale across

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our detachment area.

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Our members also attended Remembers Day ceremonies here in town, and we also attended

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the light-up the night parade, actually myself and Sergeant Fibaro, we're both present for

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that, and we'll be participating in the Candy cane check stop later this week.

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We also had a capital detachment capital project meeting last week with the operational strategy

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branch out of K division, where they provided some basic information to us on some of the

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Restrictions and requirements when it comes to considerations for a new detachment that included issues and items on location space uses and cost I found it very informative

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I expect this is going to lead to some further discussions in the new year as we move forward on that one to determine feasibility and with that I'll put to the group for questions

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Thank you very much, Staff Sergeant McGillical, and thanks for the update, and I'm really impressed

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with your ARPAS system that you showed off tonight, so glad our community has it, so are there

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any questions of Staff Sergeant? Councillor Saintinini.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Staff Sergeant, for the update.

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Right, would be remiss not to acknowledge, I really appreciate the human resources update and just using officers by name it's not lost on me and everyone in this room that these folks wear a lot of different hats in our community or the communities that they're coming to us from.

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And so, with an understanding that turnover is a part of the job but it's sad to see a lot of these families have to relocate, but with an understanding that there's some incredible officers and families that will be coming to our community, including the officer from the north.

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So, really appreciate the way that you framed all that.

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I do have one question, it's a bit of an outlier, but I wanted to ask nonetheless.

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So on page 70, there was like this weird anomaly where municipal by-law infractions

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were significantly down in 2023 and then returned to sort of a normal number in 2024.

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And I'm just curious, I know that you weren't here at that particular moment in time,

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but I'm just wondering if you have any sort of insight into why numbers were down so much.

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That job did that me as well.

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So when it comes to the municipal by-law numbers coming reported into our detachment,

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Obviously, it's not a primary mandate to investigate municipal by-law matters.

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At the same time, though, the nature of the complaints that come in through our dispatch

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center to the members that we have on the road can be of that nature, and sometimes we

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forward them, but we still gather those statistics.

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So they will vary a little bit.

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As far as, you know, seeing a sixfold increase from one period in municipal by-law complaints

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to the other, I really don't have an explanation.

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Other than we'll always forward that to municipal enforcement if we think that it's appropriate

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for them to follow up.

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Councillor White.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

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And thank you for the report.

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The stuff with the drones is amazing.

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What a great tool to help out with law enforcement in our community.

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The one question I have for you and I've asked you this before.

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Is there any update on the St. Charles Baptiste fire?

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Yeah, there is.

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So that investigation is ongoing.

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We have spoken to witnesses recently and we are going to be forwarding immediately shortly,

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seeking the identification and conferring the identification of three suspects on that matter,

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so it is progressing. Thank you.

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Yeah, I'll also mention too, I know it's somewhat related to that outside the community though,

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but we did also make two arrests recently on a church fire on the Alexander First Nation.

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Suspects, I will say, are not believed to be related to the one here in Mornville.

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If you may, but I'm cool.

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Thank you, Staff Sergeant McGonagall for, it's always robust.

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You bring lots of great energy into the room, so thank you so much for being here and for

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the presentation.

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I certainly echo my fellow councillors, just the, you know, good stuff's happening.

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I noticed that the sexual assault complaints in 2023 were quite high, and I know that there

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There was a number of media releases around that, about some, a gentleman that was, I used

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the term loosely, was doing some internet stuff with some minor children.

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And I'm wondering if, I know that was part of it.

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There was a number of press releases that you guys had also sent out about this person.

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I'm wondering if that has now subsided just because we're seeing the numbers come down.

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And initially, there was concern that there might be more folks coming forward.

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and certainly parents had been asked to have those conversations with our kids.

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And obviously, if those numbers are coming down, you guys are doing your job amazingly well.

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But wondering if that has somewhat wrapped up?

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Yeah, I certainly do attribute it to that.

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Again, not directly related to what we have in town here, but we also had a case of kind of related to that in the Gibbons area recently that we were made an arrest on.

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And yeah, we're, I'll tell you right now just kind of a sneak peek of the quarter update that I'll be presenting next, you'll see again that trend going in that direction of that decrease.

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Thank you again, just for the great work you're doing and thank you for bringing some wonderful people into our audience here tonight.

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I really appreciate that. Thank you.

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Anyone else?

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All right.

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Well, thank you very much, Sergeant.

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I'm so appreciate it.

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And again, we'll see you here in a couple of days with

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Handy or the candies and stuff.

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But you guys are doing a great job and so appreciate it having

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the community and just also want to put a hat off to Sergeant Willis

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for doing his job just getting in touch with those kids.

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I've heard nothing but good things about that.

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So again, thank you very much.

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Thank you for being such cooperative partners.

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We really appreciate it.

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Merry Christmas, everyone.

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All right.

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With that, we will have a delegation for Rose Ridge wastewater, so we'll ask Ms. Berry and Mr. Kus to come forward.

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So should, just sorry, should we go into closed session right now, or is there speaking before that?

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No, okay, so I will have to get someone to move to go.

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Okay, Councillor White.

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I would move that Council move into closed session to discuss item 6.2 pursuant to section 23 and 24 of the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act, RSA 2000, CH.F.25.

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I don't need to open.

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Thank you. All right. Any questions? Any debate? I see none. I'll ask the question. All those in favor.

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So I know we have a big crowd here right now, so I'm just going to ask you just to go into the lobby until we're done our close.

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All right, so with that, at this time, I don't see any public presentations. So I will move on to

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business and 8.1. We'll move on to election by-law number 2020-24, and I will have administration

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speak to that, Ms. Gilbert.

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Good evening, Mayor and Council, and happy holidays. The election by-law

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is presented for second and final reading.

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As mentioned previously, this by-laws being brought forward due to changes from the Municipal

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First Attitude Amendment Act, Effective October 31, 2024, also known as Bill 20.

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Additionally, it's always best practice to ensure the election by-law is reviewed within each

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election cycle for any changes that it needs.

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In addition to mandatory provisions in the Local Security Election Act, there are a number

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of discretionary items, Council can consider such as nomination and requirements for candidates.

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Any changes, though, related to nomination requirements must be approved prior to December 31,

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2024, as the nomination period begins January 2025. This includes the number of required signatures,

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the candidate deposit amount, and whether to require a criminal record check.

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Considerations for an implications of a criminal record check requirement were included in the report to council.

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Council has the option to approve the by-law as presented, or they could direct that criminal record check be added as listed in the options of the reports.

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Our recommended procedural process to ensure this by-law is approved within its legislative timeline while ensuring council is confident in the by-law approved.

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is listed under the alternative section of the report and includes draft motions.

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So, for minimal amendments to candidate nomination requirements, that must be passed prior to December 31st.

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Council approval of second reading. Council could direct an amendment and then we could approve third reading of the by-law as amended. Both alternatives one and two outline that process. That being said, if council needs more information on items requiring approval prior December 31st, council could also call a special meeting to address this item before year end. Overall, our approach was to provide all updates to this by-law in one go.

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But if there's any amendments as per council direction we'll be happy to implement that and we can also answer any questions

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Thank you very much miss Gilbert

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Are there any questions of council on this by-law?

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Councilor and Helger just

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had a question in the in the briefing note it

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You highlighted the need to

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to offer the electors' assistance at home.

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And how was that done?

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Was it previously done with portable ballot boxes?

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Because that's not, my understanding was that Bill 20 says

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that we're not allowed to use those any longer.

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So how do we facilitate the electors' assistance at home?

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It's still a program under the Local Authorities Election Act

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that we can do.

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I do understand that amendment clause about,

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I believe it was a centralized collection point.

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So with special ballots, we can't have a ballot box anymore to collect special ballots.

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It has to be received by the returning officer directly with voting assistance at home.

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Two deputy election workers typically will go to the house,

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assist them with voting and return with their ballots to bring to the elector assistant at home ballot boxes.

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So each voting station outside of the typical voting day will have a ballot box that's secured until we are counting center opens.

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So that's the same process for whether we're doing advanced voting, institutional voting,

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electors, assistant homes, special ballots, they're all secured when those voting stations close, and

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they're all collected by election workers as allowed under the local police election act.

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So it's just specifying that we can't have a drop box.

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It has to be received by a person.

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Thank you very much.

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Anyone else have any questions?

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If not, someone would have forward the motion.

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I'll get you to Mayor.

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Thank you, Mayor.

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I'll move that council approved second reading of the election bylaw, number 20-2024.

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And they don't need to open, but I definitely want to thank Ms. Gilbert for her very hard work.

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Thank you and your bait question all right did you want to close all right I'll ask the question all those in favour all right not

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unanimous and then I'll move on to is anyone want to put third reading on forward

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councilor wait thank you Mr. Mayor I would

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We move that council approved third reading of the election bylaw, number 2-0-2-0-2-4.

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And just a bit of an opening here, I want to thank Ms. Gilbert for all the work that she

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did as well.

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Obviously, there was a lot of work created by the changes that came in Bill 20 and that's

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not always easy to implement without looking at the ramifications and implications that

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that could have to other parts of the election by law.

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And by my reading of this, you did a very thorough job of going through everything.

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So I support the way it is written and thank you for your work.

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Thank you very much.

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Is there any debate on this or questions?

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All right, I'll ask the question.

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All those in favor?

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All right, and that is unanimous.

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And we will move on to 8.21 and I will turn that over to the administration.

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Thank you, Mayor Borza.

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It's my pleasure tonight to present the T2 Report to Council.

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As you'll recall, this is our reporting cadence for progress against Council's strategic plan and administration's cascading corporate business plan.

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As usual, I will just pick the odd highlight from each goal to cover and then certainly be

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willing to take any questions from there.

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With that, so goal one, community building, the go-to for me on this goal is always the

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engagement that was a priority for council.

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And so in T2, I know council will have seen out and about the extensive engagement plan that

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we had put in place for the development of our municipal development plan.

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and so in T2 that got off and running,

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and I know that council saw that out in the community.

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We also around community safety and well-being,

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we saw it in goal two.

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We implanted the 40 kilometer an hour speed limit

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across Moornville supported by a comprehensive educational campaign

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to help raise awareness among residents.

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And we also constructed an emergency access route

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at Notre Dame Point Subdivision.

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It was completed, so it enhanced accessibility and safety for that community.

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As well, the more villager centers saw the introduction of the wellness and recreation

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access program, which there's an updated my CAO report later, and corporate memberships

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were added as of August 1st to promote well-being in the community.

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With respect to call 3, we are pleased to report that our advertising and sponsorship program

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continues to perform very well exceeding revenue productions and receiving very positive feedback.

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And in terms of what that looks like on the ground, we had the Pembena Activate Program was expended.

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Flowpoint was confirmed as a sponsor for the free skate.

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And we also were able to install a billboard in town that helped us with additional revenue generation.

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In terms of goal for environmental responsibility, we completed the waste audit in partnership with GFL.

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and that helps continue to inform our management strategy, and we've also had some discussions

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that are at least renewal for the community gardens.

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With respect to goal five, around economic development, the more and more in-vill campaign

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was actively promoted.

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This was when our successful developer block party was held to showcase development opportunities

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in the municipality, and as well as Mayor Boersma participated in the Urban Development Institute

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to Munchen, strengthening those regional relationships

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and providing more and more as an attractive destination

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for investment.

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We also, I'm happy to report, receive your requests

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for information from Edmonton Global,

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which led to a site visit for a local business,

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showcasing our potential as a desirable location

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for investment.

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And then in terms of goal six,

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we continued to support our good neighbors

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out of Alexander First Nation with attendance and support for their multitude of cultural events.

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But we also had a collaboration of a very practical way too,

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which was we had a member of our staff ask to support a recruitment process with the nation.

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And then on page 15 or 15 of the report and 146 of your agenda,

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you can see some of those highlights, so the developer block party is there,

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got festival days, the MDP, bike rodeo and so forth.

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It also includes your financial update for T2, so both revenue and expenses had positive

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variances, and the revenue variances were mostly due to higher than budgeted user fees,

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and the expense variances were driven by lower contracted services and salaries that

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benefits expenses.

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There's also a capital projects update, and your ATEs statistics are included, and there

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are staff on hand to help answer questions.

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It's a great report to read and lots of information.

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So again, thank you very much for getting all this out to us and for the completions that

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we can see.

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Are there any questions of Council on the T2 report?

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Okay, comment from Deputy Mayor.

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Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Miss Hayes.

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I'm really quite pleased actually to see the in goal six around the collaboration with

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the county looking at similar purchasing opportunities and I think that's a key thing.

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It's been a long-running joke for Councillor Whiteney every time we see some of their

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Councillors about the salt shed in the salt services.

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So I'm so excited to see that there, I feel like we should go celebrate, but really good

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01:09:06,020 --> 01:09:13,060
and stuff and a lot of completion, and it's really nice to see the movement through here because we're not always abreast of what's going on.

448
01:09:13,240 --> 01:09:19,040
So just my thanks and really pleased as well to see what's happening with our First Nations neighbors.

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01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:21,720
Anyone else?

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01:09:21,960 --> 01:09:22,680
Councilor Deifel.

451
01:09:23,600 --> 01:09:24,440
Thank you, Mayor.

452
01:09:24,720 --> 01:09:27,500
Mr. Mayor, not a question, but a comment.

453
01:09:27,660 --> 01:09:34,660
I just want to thank staff for correcting the statement of operations where it relates to

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01:09:35,480 --> 01:09:41,520
honorariums and per diems when I read through the agenda and saw that I was the highest paid

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01:09:41,520 --> 01:09:48,000
and by a margin of 5,000 I knew that absolutely wasn't correct so with the corrected numbers

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01:09:48,000 --> 01:09:54,600
I'm pleased to see that I'm under my budget allocation as I should be and that everybody

457
01:09:54,600 --> 01:09:58,720
is a lot closer to where they should be.

458
01:09:59,320 --> 01:10:03,880
You're just testing you to keep your sharp but in all honesty thank you for allowing us

459
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:05,300
the opportunity to rectify that?

460
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:06,500
Yeah, no.

461
01:10:06,820 --> 01:10:08,840
I'm always looking at numbers.

462
01:10:11,230 --> 01:10:12,870
And thank you for catching that.

463
01:10:13,690 --> 01:10:16,370
Again, thank you for staff for helping along with that.

464
01:10:17,010 --> 01:10:18,050
Councillor Sainte-Denise.

465
01:10:19,150 --> 01:10:20,050
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

466
01:10:20,690 --> 01:10:24,350
Yeah, and thank you as always for the update

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01:10:24,350 --> 01:10:27,290
and for shining a light on some of the progress

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01:10:28,030 --> 01:10:30,810
that we see and often feel in our community.

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01:10:30,810 --> 01:10:32,690
So it's nice to have a visual.

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01:10:33,210 --> 01:10:34,090
I do have one question.

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01:10:34,090 --> 01:10:41,750
I'm just wondering on the statement of operations on page 148 under gain loss on capital asset

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01:10:41,750 --> 01:10:42,150
disposal.

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01:10:42,270 --> 01:10:47,030
I'm just curious what is, what does the 31,676 represent?

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01:10:52,280 --> 01:10:58,460
So generally speaking, gain or loss on asset disposal means when we advertise an asset,

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01:10:58,460 --> 01:11:03,640
a physical asset, when you dispose of it, there is a certain amount of amortization that's

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01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:06,280
been built up on that asset.

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01:11:06,280 --> 01:11:12,960
So basically when you have the initial purchase value what we call the book value is the purchase value less how much

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01:11:12,960 --> 01:11:21,580
amortization we booked against that asset. When we go and sell an asset depending on what we get in the at the at auction or what we're able to recover back on

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01:11:21,580 --> 01:11:30,020
that you would either recognize a gain or a loss depending on whether that amount was above or below what our book value is. So if we are able to return a

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01:11:30,020 --> 01:11:31,840
higher amount than what our book value is.

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01:11:31,940 --> 01:11:34,260
We recognize a gain and then that flows through

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01:11:34,260 --> 01:11:35,720
as income through our income statement

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01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:38,800
and basically help support surplus that council can

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01:11:38,800 --> 01:11:40,000
and allocate at the end of the year

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01:11:40,000 --> 01:11:41,940
or through our reserve policies.

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01:11:42,320 --> 01:11:44,180
If we were to sell something and unfortunately

487
01:11:44,180 --> 01:11:47,020
not be able to get as much as what the book value was,

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01:11:47,340 --> 01:11:49,540
the reverse happens and we have to book a loss against that.

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01:11:49,900 --> 01:11:51,880
So I'm not familiar with, off the top of my mind,

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01:11:52,000 --> 01:11:54,200
what the actual asset that was, it was just posed,

491
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:56,940
but that's how gain and loss on tangible capital assets works.

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01:11:58,080 --> 01:11:59,100
Yes, and this is a gain.

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01:11:59,100 --> 01:12:02,760
So in this case, we were able to recover more than what we had on our book value.

494
01:12:03,060 --> 01:12:09,020
Okay. No one I appreciate that. Yeah, I was wondering if it was like one particular piece of infrastructure, but yeah, so thank you.

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01:12:12,030 --> 01:12:13,310
Thank you. Anyone else?

496
01:12:16,340 --> 01:12:21,020
All right. Seeing none, I need a motion for it. Okay, go ahead and dip your mirror.

497
01:12:21,200 --> 01:12:26,980
Alonco. Thank you, Mayor. I will make the motion that Council accept the town of Morinville,

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01:12:27,100 --> 01:12:32,780
TG Strategic Plan, progress report 2024th information. No need to open or close.

499
01:12:32,780 --> 01:12:32,840
Yes.

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01:12:33,420 --> 01:12:34,100
Thank you.

501
01:12:34,720 --> 01:12:34,880
All right.

502
01:12:35,220 --> 01:12:36,720
Any other questions on that?

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01:12:37,360 --> 01:12:38,360
If not, ask a question.

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01:12:38,520 --> 01:12:39,220
All those in favour?

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01:12:40,260 --> 01:12:40,680
All right.

506
01:12:41,080 --> 01:12:42,300
And that is unanimous.

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01:12:43,280 --> 01:12:52,140
And with that, I have, I'll recommend that we need another motion to bring us into committee

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01:12:52,140 --> 01:12:52,540
of a whole.

509
01:12:54,780 --> 01:12:57,000
Councillor Deifold, so move, Mr. Mayor.

510
01:12:58,100 --> 01:12:58,300
All right.

511
01:12:59,640 --> 01:13:00,460
All those in favour?

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01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:02,040
All right.

513
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:04,040
All right, so move the chair.

514
01:13:07,360 --> 01:13:07,940
Thank you, Mayor.

515
01:13:10,460 --> 01:13:15,040
Let's move on to business 9.1, 9.1, 1.1.

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01:13:15,080 --> 01:13:17,240
Council of Renemoration Review, Committee Report.

517
01:13:17,880 --> 01:13:21,360
I'll tear that over to Ms. Brush and administration.

518
01:13:31,180 --> 01:13:32,920
All right, thank you, Deputy Mayor.

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01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:38,480
So for those of you who don't know me, I'm the manager of Human Resource Services here at the town of Moornville.

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01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:39,480
My name is Jennifer Brush.

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01:13:39,480 --> 01:13:43,520
I'm just going to do a brief introduction before we head into the Council Remuneration

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01:13:43,520 --> 01:13:44,660
Review Committee report.

523
01:13:45,300 --> 01:13:51,100
So as you can recall from the February 27, 2024, regular meeting of Council, Council

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01:13:51,100 --> 01:13:56,540
approved the establishment of a Council Remuneration Review Committee, which consisted of five

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01:13:56,540 --> 01:14:02,100
mournful electors and myself as the administrative facilitator to review the Council Remuneration

526
01:14:02,100 --> 01:14:08,340
Review, results, and the Council Remuneration Review Policy and Develop Recommendations for

527
01:14:08,340 --> 01:14:12,980
Council's consideration. The committee was solely formed of more

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01:14:12,980 --> 01:14:17,380
and more electors appointed by Morinville's Chief Administrative Officer, and this was

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01:14:17,380 --> 01:14:22,360
to maintain the important principle of neutrality. Their main date was to ensure fair and equitable

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01:14:22,360 --> 01:14:27,600
compensation for elected officials commenced with the responsibilities while also considering

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01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:32,420
fiscal responsibility and transparency in the governance. The committee was focused on

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01:14:32,420 --> 01:14:37,320
the accountability to the community, the ability to attract and retain qualified candidates

533
01:14:37,320 --> 01:14:42,380
for public office, aligning compensation with the demands and expectations of civic leadership,

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01:14:42,620 --> 01:14:47,200
and fostering public trust in the process through the involvement of independent members of the

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01:14:47,200 --> 01:14:54,620
public. The updated red line draft policy has been attached to your agenda package that has

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01:14:54,620 --> 01:14:59,780
been prepared by the committee for council's review and to contextualize the committee's recommendation.

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01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:29,160
It is important to note that the draft was prepared by the committee, not administration, and is therefore intended for information only. Following council's direction to bring back the remuneration policy for formal review, administration at that time can prepare a formal draft update for council that includes administrative updates, recommendations, the recommendations of the committee and any specific direction of council. At this time, I'd like to introduce the committee's chair, Brian Brost, to provide the committee's recommendations to council for consideration.

538
01:15:34,060 --> 01:15:34,880
Thank you, Jennifer.

539
01:15:35,780 --> 01:15:36,640
Set this down here.

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01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:38,040
Again, my name is Brian Brost.

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01:15:38,220 --> 01:15:42,580
I am the appointed chair of the Council Remuneration Committee and it's a pleasure to be in front of you all today.

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01:15:43,220 --> 01:15:51,280
And on behalf of the committee, I would like to express my thanks of the committee members and my family for your contributions to this community as members of council.

543
01:15:51,460 --> 01:15:57,280
It's a noisy task and it's one that is very important in establishing good governance for a community and we do thank you for that.

544
01:15:57,980 --> 01:16:00,440
So with that, go into our presentation.

545
01:16:04,400 --> 01:16:06,700
I'm going to touch on a few points here today for agenda.

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01:16:07,160 --> 01:16:10,540
So the background is about an establishment of the committee, the introduction of our

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01:16:10,540 --> 01:16:14,740
committee members, our mandate, some foundational information that we want to share with you.

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01:16:16,980 --> 01:16:21,340
Particularly recommendations for council consideration that are going to include updated policy and

549
01:16:21,340 --> 01:16:26,320
schedules, changes in comparator groups, or recommended change, recommended target percentile

550
01:16:26,320 --> 01:16:30,480
that Council remuneration would be based on and analytics supporting this information.

551
01:16:30,960 --> 01:16:36,060
As administration noted, a policy red line version is included in your agenda package

552
01:16:36,060 --> 01:16:41,540
that encompasses the changes or the recommended changes to that policy and our rationale for that.

553
01:16:42,580 --> 01:16:44,380
So the background is to establish on the committee.

554
01:16:44,860 --> 01:16:51,580
It's important to note that this is a voluntary group and one that is in part separate from anything of council.

555
01:16:51,580 --> 01:16:58,860
and we wish to acknowledge Council's decision of past motions in 2024 for the approval of the by-law to have this

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01:16:59,180 --> 01:17:04,920
independent Council remuneration review committee. There was work done by a report from the

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01:17:05,360 --> 01:17:10,400
2023 Hillcress Report that undertaken a complete review of all of the

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01:17:11,100 --> 01:17:19,700
comparator municipalities by Council's policy and that we are an independent group of citizens bringing forward recommendations for your consideration.

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01:17:19,700 --> 01:17:29,220
We do recognize that it is truly recommendations and the authority still rests with yourselves in ultimately establishing what if any by-law or policy changes will be coming from that.

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01:17:29,820 --> 01:17:42,700
Our appointment has been by the CAO of this past year in June and we have met seven times between June and November through establishment of our own terms of reference in alignment with the mandate per council by-law.

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01:17:47,030 --> 01:17:49,870
So the introduction of your committee members, there were five of us appointed to it.

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01:17:50,010 --> 01:17:51,890
Myself is chair, appointed by our committee.

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01:17:52,610 --> 01:17:57,450
Mr. Kelvin Collier, who's with us today is vice chair and members Fred Barer, Rainier

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01:17:58,030 --> 01:18:01,030
Kubis and Kelvin Kusik is unfortunately unable to be with us today.

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01:18:01,210 --> 01:18:04,910
So those gentlemen that are with us today, thank you for attending and being in part with

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01:18:04,910 --> 01:18:05,410
us here as well.

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01:18:05,970 --> 01:18:09,710
And as well, I'd like to express our thanks on behalf of the committee for the administrative

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01:18:09,710 --> 01:18:11,430
support through Ms. Jennifer Brush.

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01:18:11,570 --> 01:18:15,170
It has been very appreciative for the work that she's contributed to this.

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01:18:15,170 --> 01:18:21,330
And as she noted earlier on, all the decisions and the information brought forward to today is by ourselves as a committee.

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01:18:22,790 --> 01:18:27,870
So the mandate of this committee for by-law of council, and this is no

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01:18:28,830 --> 01:18:34,030
new information for yourselves, is to review the remuneration and benefits paid to Mordville's council.

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01:18:34,490 --> 01:18:43,390
It is to provide a report to council with our recommendations for council's consideration regarding the remuneration and benefits for Mordville's council, including the onerium benefits, pensions,

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01:18:43,390 --> 01:18:48,410
per DMs, and any other forms of remuneration, and to provide a recommendation on revisions

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01:18:48,410 --> 01:18:53,370
to Mordville's policies or that by-law, and to provide any methodology to be used to

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01:18:53,370 --> 01:18:57,310
establish future adjustments to remuneration, including comparators and frequency.

577
01:18:57,930 --> 01:19:00,490
For you today, this presentation is our report.

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01:19:02,670 --> 01:19:07,110
So the foundational information that we've utilized for our determination and the, ultimately,

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01:19:07,390 --> 01:19:11,570
the recommendations for you today is based on the Mordville's current Council remuneration

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01:19:11,570 --> 01:19:17,230
policy, the 2023 Hillcrest Third Party Council Remuneration Report, corresponding current

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01:19:17,230 --> 01:19:21,690
policy-compared-to-musicalities by the policy of council, which are those comparative

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01:19:21,690 --> 01:19:26,230
municipalities, and their by-laws, as well as other municipal council-remuneration

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01:19:26,230 --> 01:19:29,090
by-laws and policies within the direct-compared-to-group.

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01:19:29,290 --> 01:19:33,950
The direct-compared-to-group is a group of other municipalities that, more than the administration

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01:19:33,950 --> 01:19:39,490
uses for their comparison for their staff, comparison in their respective wages and remuneration.

586
01:19:40,230 --> 01:19:45,530
The committee has also researched populations of Morgil and Warnville's regional comparison

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01:19:45,530 --> 01:19:47,930
municipalities and those of the direct comparators.

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01:19:48,570 --> 01:19:53,030
With that, fundamentally, we are bringing forward a recommendation which I'll provide further

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01:19:53,030 --> 01:19:57,650
information on that in my presentation of a revised comparator group of municipalities

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01:19:57,650 --> 01:20:01,110
which we believe Warnville aligns most closely with.

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01:20:03,560 --> 01:20:10,100
So Council's Remuneration Review Committee, beyond the bylaw mandate of Council, we applied

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01:20:10,100 --> 01:20:21,840
these additional lenses, and that is accountability, fiscal responsibility, efficiencies, transparency, and clarity, as well as alignment with other municipalities and government practices.

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01:20:25,350 --> 01:20:30,570
So for our council remuneration policy recommended amendments, these include, but they're not limited to the following key areas.

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01:20:31,310 --> 01:20:40,350
3.1, council compensation was includes that compared to group, 4.2 which includes the cost of living and absence, 4.3

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01:20:40,350 --> 01:20:42,830
per diems, including eligibility, committee alternates,

596
01:20:43,350 --> 01:20:46,310
four, which is expenses, which includes reimbursements

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01:20:46,310 --> 01:20:48,790
for meals and travel, professional development,

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01:20:49,310 --> 01:20:51,570
encompassing activities without a province travel,

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01:20:52,330 --> 01:20:54,710
and then schedule B, which is the council remuneration rates,

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01:20:55,350 --> 01:20:56,810
including updated recommended onerium,

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01:20:57,190 --> 01:20:59,170
per diem, mileage, and meal allowance rates.

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01:21:05,950 --> 01:21:08,190
So for our current market comparators

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01:21:08,190 --> 01:21:10,450
that's been established by Mooreville Council,

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01:21:10,990 --> 01:21:12,810
encompasses the city of Beaumont, Devin Forza,

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01:21:12,930 --> 01:21:15,070
Scotch and Lecombe, Cochran, Hinton, White Courts,

606
01:21:15,070 --> 01:21:17,590
This is Bruce Grove, Stony Plain, and Surgeon County.

607
01:21:18,150 --> 01:21:20,170
We have reviewed that, and the policies and

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01:21:20,170 --> 01:21:21,290
by-laws of his municipalities.

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01:21:22,090 --> 01:21:25,790
And in considering those, we've viewed that there is a need for

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01:21:25,790 --> 01:21:29,810
new market comparators that are more comparative to the civic functions and

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01:21:29,810 --> 01:21:34,550
the demands of council for Mornville, the comparative community populations,

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01:21:35,050 --> 01:21:39,670
as well as recognizing the geographic location that's in proximity to a large urban center.

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01:21:41,110 --> 01:22:02,450
So, while those recommended market comparators will include new recommended comparators were identified by an asterisk, including some of the other ones that remain on the recommended new grouping, which includes a town of blackfolds, coal dail, town of Devon, town of Hinton, town of Innisfail, city of Lakom, town of Olds, town of Stony Plain, the town of Taver and the town of White Court.

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01:22:02,450 --> 01:22:08,150
Those in themselves, for following statistics, you'll see some of the population rationalization

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01:22:08,150 --> 01:22:13,150
will be brought to with that, as well as what we view are the similarities of our community,

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01:22:13,730 --> 01:22:18,530
whether that be demographics of our community, whether that be civic functions of our community,

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01:22:19,070 --> 01:22:23,350
the level of service or type in kinds of service that our community offers, we view this to be more

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01:22:23,350 --> 01:22:24,110
aligned with Mornville.

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01:22:26,260 --> 01:22:31,300
So of this recommended new comparator group, you can note on this table here,

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01:22:31,300 --> 01:22:33,720
the municipality listed by name on the left.

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01:22:34,420 --> 01:22:38,580
The population as at the 2021 federal census,

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01:22:39,300 --> 01:22:40,960
the percentile population,

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01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:42,940
encompassing where Morinville is at,

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01:22:43,060 --> 01:22:45,480
at 64% based on those population numbers.

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01:22:46,340 --> 01:22:47,540
And then of course, our percentage

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01:22:47,540 --> 01:22:49,800
of that being at that 60, 64th.

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01:22:52,840 --> 01:22:54,520
So with this numbers in hand,

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01:22:55,060 --> 01:22:59,020
Morinville is residing at a part of that 65th percentile

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01:22:59,020 --> 01:23:01,180
based on the population of this comparator group.

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01:23:02,180 --> 01:23:03,120
So I go back.

631
01:23:03,560 --> 01:23:06,020
Comparison, and I don't have this as a table,

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01:23:06,820 --> 01:23:16,320
Moornville is currently established by policy, by remuneration, to be at the 50th percentile for honorariums and per diems alike, of what the current comparator group is.

633
01:23:16,580 --> 01:23:24,840
So we are bringing forward a recommendation to not necessarily be at 50, but to be at 65th of the new comparator group, and I'll explain later.

634
01:23:27,010 --> 01:23:30,190
So for that, the recommended policy updates include.

635
01:23:30,190 --> 01:23:44,170
Number 3.1.4, the Council, Honorary and Pre-DM shall be reviewed and adjusted accordingly by annually to the equivalent population percentile of the Comparative Group specified in 3.1.3.

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01:23:45,850 --> 01:23:51,250
The rationale, and I'm going to jump back and forth in a couple slides here for that. I should go back to that one.

637
01:23:51,250 --> 01:23:58,630
The rationale, I'll explain later on that one, and as well recognizing that there was a motion put forward by Councillor White in 2024,

638
01:23:59,290 --> 01:24:04,230
the Council direct administration to bring forward the Council remuneration policy, that's a tongue twister,

639
01:24:04,930 --> 01:24:13,250
CP 194-DAS 2022, with an amendment to clause 4.2.1 to allow Council to vote on whether or not they receive the cost of living adjustment.

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01:24:14,170 --> 01:24:20,690
Now, we weren't present in when that motion was put forward, but in considering the context of what that does,

641
01:24:20,690 --> 01:24:28,210
It brings the decision of whether or not council would A, it would normally be automatically

642
01:24:28,210 --> 01:24:29,690
as a cost of living adjustment.

643
01:24:30,170 --> 01:24:35,310
By motion of this, this brings it to the table that council has to vote on that on an

644
01:24:35,310 --> 01:24:37,970
annual basis and not be an automated cost of living adjustment.

645
01:24:39,030 --> 01:24:45,530
We view that the committee in terms of reviewing the above motion, we don't support council eligibility

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01:24:45,530 --> 01:24:46,170
for COLA.

647
01:24:46,170 --> 01:24:49,290
and the recommended policy update achieves reasonable honorarium and

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01:24:49,290 --> 01:24:53,230
per-dem adjustment potential in alignment with being at the 65th percentile

649
01:24:53,230 --> 01:24:59,270
every two years. So essentially if Mornville Council supports this being at

650
01:24:59,270 --> 01:25:04,390
the 65th percentile of that comparator group and the 65th percentile of those

651
01:25:04,390 --> 01:25:10,030
respective honorariums or per-dems of those other councils that would be an

652
01:25:10,030 --> 01:25:14,450
adjustment by annually. So every two years there would be an eligibility for

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01:25:14,450 --> 01:25:19,310
adjustment and where more and more resides that in that population and commensurate with that population.

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01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:27,980
Honorary arms with respect to cost of living and absence, the recommended policy updates include

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01:25:27,980 --> 01:25:35,320
under 4.2.1.1, mayor and council honorems are not eligible for that cost of living adjustment during their term

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01:25:36,160 --> 01:25:39,680
and that council honorems should be reviewed and adjusted accordingly, again, as I stated earlier,

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01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:43,020
by annually to the equivalent population percentile of the comparative group.

658
01:25:43,020 --> 01:25:57,340
So we are recommending that the honorariums are commenced again with that population percentile being at that 65th percentile item 4.2.3.1

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01:25:58,460 --> 01:26:01,760
Notwithstanding policy section 4.2.3

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01:26:02,230 --> 01:26:09,140
Members of council will be excused for up to two meeting absences per year without approval by council resolution.

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01:26:09,140 --> 01:26:24,620
Currently, it is up to four meeting absences per year, and the rationale for that is relative to the accountability of council, of a councilor member, whether one is either absent or not, and reducing that from four to two.

662
01:26:25,080 --> 01:26:33,140
We view that there is a greater importance for a member of council, if they are to be absent, it is to be by council resolution as an approved absence.

663
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:40,980
4.2, 0.3, 0.2, in cases where it is determined that honorarium will not be retained due to an

664
01:26:40,980 --> 01:26:45,520
unapproved absence from meetings, deductions will be applied in the amount of $250.

665
01:26:46,320 --> 01:26:50,100
That is the same equivalent amount for the per diem for that of a council meeting.

666
01:26:50,260 --> 01:26:55,580
So if a member is unapproved or exceeds that two absences per year, for those absences

667
01:26:55,580 --> 01:26:59,580
is there that they are an exceedance of, they will have a deduction of their honorarium

668
01:26:59,580 --> 01:27:03,300
based on that other honorarium, but they're per diem for that equivalent amount.

669
01:27:03,300 --> 01:27:13,380
So going back again for the rationale from our committee, for 4.2.1.1 and 4.2.1.2 combined, the

670
01:27:13,380 --> 01:27:18,820
coal is not deemed applicable for council, whereas the honorems are reviewed and adjusted every two

671
01:27:18,820 --> 01:27:24,240
years, equivalent to the population percentile of the new recommended comparative group, and the

672
01:27:24,240 --> 01:27:29,860
committee deems this frequency and method for potential adjustment to be reasonable. And it's

673
01:27:29,860 --> 01:27:33,980
highlighted and not highly, but identifies as a potential adjustment, is commensurate with our

674
01:27:33,980 --> 01:27:37,920
population or mournville's population with out of that comparator group.

675
01:27:38,540 --> 01:27:45,740
So in the example where if mournville would be increasing to the 70th percentile of

676
01:27:45,740 --> 01:27:54,400
that comparator group, mournville's honorarium would therefore be at the 70th percentile of the amounts

677
01:27:54,400 --> 01:27:55,880
comparative to those comparator groups.

678
01:27:56,820 --> 01:28:03,580
Conversely, if mournville was to start decreasing in terms of its population state on

679
01:28:03,580 --> 01:28:08,500
On that comparative group, Council's interim would be equivalent to that same percentile

680
01:28:08,500 --> 01:28:08,980
as a reduction.

681
01:28:10,020 --> 01:28:15,620
So it's very much tied to where Marnville rests in terms of its growth and comparison

682
01:28:15,620 --> 01:28:18,360
with that new recommended comparative group.

683
01:28:20,290 --> 01:28:25,390
Again, as I stated previously, in capturing it for your presentation, with respect to the

684
01:28:25,390 --> 01:28:31,450
number of approved absences per year, going from 4 to 2, demonstrates an increase of accountability

685
01:28:31,450 --> 01:28:34,270
and commitment to the responsibilities as a council member.

686
01:28:35,010 --> 01:28:38,290
Increasing the honorarium penalty from $100 to $250

687
01:28:38,690 --> 01:28:40,730
as a more significant financial consequence

688
01:28:41,090 --> 01:28:43,330
in the event of unapproved absences.

689
01:28:47,550 --> 01:28:50,530
Next, with respect to 4.3 per diem,

690
01:28:50,890 --> 01:28:52,270
including the eligibility for per diem,

691
01:28:52,690 --> 01:28:54,530
the committee alternates and values,

692
01:28:55,430 --> 01:28:57,910
it's recommended policy updates include,

693
01:28:58,650 --> 01:29:01,350
4.3.9.2.1.1,

694
01:29:01,350 --> 01:29:19,710
The appointed alternate attendees are lauded per diem to a maximum of three meetings per year per committee in which they are the designated alternate when accompanying the main board member, and removal of 4.3.9.2.1.4,

695
01:29:19,710 --> 01:29:23,330
where non-appointed alternates shall be paid at the Mornville

696
01:29:23,330 --> 01:29:26,570
per-dem rates, per section 4.3 of this policy,

697
01:29:27,030 --> 01:29:29,170
to a maximum of three meetings per year.

698
01:29:31,790 --> 01:29:35,170
The rationale for those two respective recommendations,

699
01:29:35,790 --> 01:29:37,890
although the committee recognizes the importance

700
01:29:37,890 --> 01:29:40,670
of upholding alternate members for boards and committees

701
01:29:41,070 --> 01:29:43,450
of council, including functional continuity

702
01:29:43,450 --> 01:29:45,030
and sharing and transferring the information

703
01:29:45,030 --> 01:29:47,370
between that of council and council members,

704
01:29:47,850 --> 01:29:49,890
and representation of our council.

705
01:29:49,890 --> 01:29:56,370
The committee deems that attendance of an alternate at a board or committee meetings when the main designated board member is present

706
01:29:56,910 --> 01:29:59,910
Capping the eligibility for peer DM to a maximum of three meetings pre

707
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:27,900
Chair, demonstrate some fiscal prudence or more fiscal prudence than what could be in place right now. And it's not by any means suggesting that any particular member of this council would be purposefully attending more meetings that what they need to be or when the alternate is the main board member is there by bringing this into policy. It demonstrates that openly and transparent that it removes that particular opportunity for financial gain just by sitting on board committee meetings.

708
01:30:29,560 --> 01:30:37,960
4.3.9.2.1.4, excuse me, again, very similar to the above one.

709
01:30:38,720 --> 01:30:42,980
It removes, by removing this policy article, it eliminates the potential for financial

710
01:30:42,980 --> 01:30:46,220
motivated meeting attendance by a nonadpointed member of council.

711
01:30:50,730 --> 01:30:56,160
So in the area of expense reimbursement for meals and travel, the recommended policy and

712
01:30:56,160 --> 01:31:03,240
updates includes the area of 4.4.4, which meal reimbursement will be set equivalent to

713
01:31:03,240 --> 01:31:08,680
the Canada Revenue Agency simplified reimbursement method at current published rates. That

714
01:31:08,680 --> 01:31:14,060
will be included in your package under Schedule B for further information. And when breakfast

715
01:31:14,060 --> 01:31:18,520
lunch or dinner is provided at a conference, some are workshop or meeting, then meal

716
01:31:20,040 --> 01:31:22,980
will not be reimbursed without Council approval.

717
01:31:23,880 --> 01:31:27,380
By applying the Canada Revenue Agency simplified rate,

718
01:31:27,980 --> 01:31:32,120
it essentially eliminates the need for the policy amendments,

719
01:31:32,580 --> 01:31:37,900
perhaps on an annual basis, or the frequency of policy changes

720
01:31:37,900 --> 01:31:42,460
where Council yourselves or future councils will determine

721
01:31:42,460 --> 01:31:43,700
what that rate should be at.

722
01:31:44,160 --> 01:31:45,860
It is more efficient for administration,

723
01:31:46,520 --> 01:31:48,260
and it is consistent with those CR rates

724
01:31:48,260 --> 01:31:50,140
that is applicable in other jurisdictions.

725
01:31:51,280 --> 01:31:57,620
As for the standard mileage, it will be reimbursed to the current Canada revenue agency mileage rate,

726
01:31:58,040 --> 01:32:03,220
where again, similar to that of the meals, it isn't a need for council to make a decision

727
01:32:03,220 --> 01:32:09,160
on how much cost per kilometer a councilor should be reimbursed for mileage, or that of

728
01:32:09,160 --> 01:32:12,220
what the current rates shall be for breakfast lunch or dinner.

729
01:32:12,220 --> 01:32:17,480
Those are established per fixed rates that are updated annually by the CRA.

730
01:32:18,120 --> 01:32:22,140
So with that, members of council may claim for, sorry, that was that one.

731
01:32:22,680 --> 01:32:26,900
The next one we have is 4.4, 0.6, 0.2, 0.1.

732
01:32:27,780 --> 01:32:33,420
Members of council may claim for disposal or guest expenses in circumstances where it is

733
01:32:33,420 --> 01:32:37,920
expected that they be accompanied by their spouse or guest to a maximum of $200 per year.

734
01:32:37,920 --> 01:32:42,060
And that was including, but not limited to the FCM conference gala.

735
01:32:42,420 --> 01:32:48,840
We are recommending that that be removed and the rationale for that is that the committee

736
01:32:48,840 --> 01:32:52,700
views that is not expected for a member of council to have a spouse or guest accompany

737
01:32:52,700 --> 01:32:57,660
them at events, nor shall such accompaniment be eligible for expense reimbursement.

738
01:32:58,360 --> 01:33:01,760
Removing this policy article demonstrates fiscal responsibility and prudence and should

739
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:06,140
a guest, a tenant event, the respective members of the council, shall be personally responsible

740
01:33:06,140 --> 01:33:08,480
for the expenses of their guests and attendants.

741
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:16,360
In modern day, as much as some view may view in the past where one needs to have a spouse

742
01:33:16,360 --> 01:33:22,320
or a partner attend a gala or event, the committee had discussed this and, again, reinforcing

743
01:33:22,320 --> 01:33:27,180
the view that our, or yourselves as council members are the elected representative of our community,

744
01:33:27,780 --> 01:33:31,420
and it is the elected member of the community that is supporting our community and he

745
01:33:31,420 --> 01:33:35,720
responses, again, is your personal discussion or future council's discussion, whether you

746
01:33:35,720 --> 01:33:36,340
want to be there or not.

747
01:33:38,780 --> 01:33:41,700
I need not explain further, again, for why we had brought

748
01:33:41,700 --> 01:33:47,360
forward the meal reimbursement change, but again, we've used and demonstrated alignment with

749
01:33:47,360 --> 01:33:51,740
the national standard, other jurisdictions, and enables updates to the respective reimbursement

750
01:33:51,740 --> 01:33:56,940
values without the need for undertaking council policy amendments of those noted values.

751
01:33:56,940 --> 01:33:57,960
With

752
01:34:00,590 --> 01:34:04,690
regard to 4.6 professional development activities, including out-of-up province travel,

753
01:34:05,290 --> 01:34:09,110
the recommendation of the committee is that only two members of council may attend the

754
01:34:09,110 --> 01:34:13,010
same out-of-proven conference, convention, seminar, workshop, or course.

755
01:34:13,490 --> 01:34:17,710
The attendance of two members of council shall be by resolution.

756
01:34:18,750 --> 01:34:23,170
The rationale for this from our committee is that the committee views that attending professional

757
01:34:23,170 --> 01:34:28,390
development and representation of council through attendance of conference, convention, seminars,

758
01:34:28,390 --> 01:34:33,550
workshops. Yes, it is an important aspect of your roles or future members' roles of council

759
01:34:33,550 --> 01:34:37,290
and a function of governance. However, establishing that only two members of council

760
01:34:37,290 --> 01:34:41,590
shall attend the same out-of-profits event yet upholds reasonable and appropriate representation

761
01:34:41,590 --> 01:34:46,330
of our council at those events and demonstrates fiscal prudence for Mornville.

762
01:34:49,830 --> 01:34:55,630
Looking at conferences such as the FCM conference in particular, depending upon where it may be,

763
01:34:56,170 --> 01:34:59,550
our committee has done an evaluation of the costs of what that could be.

764
01:34:59,550 --> 01:35:06,250
And if we were to support what is currently in place where all members members of council attend FCM,

765
01:35:06,650 --> 01:35:13,190
the cost for that would be near exceeding depending upon where is in Canada, upwards of $40 to $50,000

766
01:35:13,190 --> 01:35:15,570
for all members of council to attend that conference.

767
01:35:16,670 --> 01:35:21,190
I recognize what and the committee recognizes that it's important work what council does,

768
01:35:21,670 --> 01:35:26,130
and being there and being present at those type of events, whether it be holder in part,

769
01:35:27,350 --> 01:35:39,490
is an investment that may not be to the betterment or the benefit of our community, whereas two members of council could attain the same representation of our community and information for council to bring back.

770
01:35:41,960 --> 01:35:49,900
So looking at more details, what would be scheduled be the honorarium comparative group, being at the 65th percentile as a target.

771
01:35:49,900 --> 01:35:56,420
But the numbers in front of you show the 2021, and again, the municipalities on the

772
01:35:56,420 --> 01:36:00,880
left are what the committee is bringing forward as the recommended new comparator group.

773
01:36:01,640 --> 01:36:08,280
The 2021 federal census is what those values are based on, placing more than what the 64th

774
01:36:08,280 --> 01:36:08,540
percentile.

775
01:36:09,300 --> 01:36:17,620
The annual mayor on our area at 65,000, again, this is based on the 2023 rate setter in place

776
01:36:17,620 --> 01:36:23,140
not including any cold adjustments subsequent to that or that of the rates per those other

777
01:36:23,140 --> 01:36:32,540
respective communities. The annual councilor onerarium being at 35,280 and if you look and

778
01:36:32,540 --> 01:36:41,100
apply that same numbers against the 50th percentile of the new comparator group, it would land

779
01:36:41,100 --> 01:36:49,700
at $54,576 annual honorarium for the mayor and $25,331 for that of counselors for the honorarium.

780
01:36:50,480 --> 01:36:56,260
Applying the 65th percentile value to the new comparator group

781
01:36:57,140 --> 01:37:05,700
brings the honorarium for the mayor's position at $59,880 and the counselor honorarium at 27,594.

782
01:37:05,700 --> 01:37:12,680
Again, these numbers are based on the 2023 numbers that we had from the Hillcrest Report.

783
01:37:13,500 --> 01:37:18,040
And there is still a potential for changes in each of these respective values.

784
01:37:18,500 --> 01:37:24,380
Should any of those other members or representative municipalities change their respective honor

785
01:37:24,380 --> 01:37:24,680
areas?

786
01:37:29,950 --> 01:37:33,550
Schedule B, per-DM expense reimbursement, the committee has reviewed this.

787
01:37:33,550 --> 01:37:41,630
In adjusting these values, there are quite a range of per DM values across those recommended

788
01:37:41,630 --> 01:37:47,930
new comparators for the hours of expense reimbursement for time and attendance of council or members

789
01:37:47,930 --> 01:37:55,750
of committees, so zero to two hours from 50 to 6250 per DM rate, two to four hours, changing

790
01:37:55,750 --> 01:38:02,590
from 100 to 125, a four-hour to eight-hour event from 200 to 250, a daily maximum of 300,

791
01:38:03,010 --> 01:38:07,450
and recognizing the conference data maximum increasing from 200 to $250.

792
01:38:10,850 --> 01:38:15,210
So, in closing comments, the committee, excuse me, I'm stuck.

793
01:38:15,710 --> 01:38:19,710
We have undertaken a review of the current moral policies and that of other comparators in

794
01:38:19,710 --> 01:38:21,370
alignment with the Council by-law mandate.

795
01:38:23,180 --> 01:38:27,030
The information that we have reviewed and the decisions and the recommendations that are

796
01:38:27,030 --> 01:38:31,330
being brought free today are all through a consensus of our committee members, as well

797
01:38:31,330 --> 01:38:32,970
as the proposed policy and schedule amendments.

798
01:38:33,770 --> 01:38:38,770
We understand that council is not bound by our recommendations, and ultimately we do respect

799
01:38:38,770 --> 01:38:43,950
and appreciate the deliberation that council will take going through this and that those decisions

800
01:38:43,950 --> 01:38:48,030
won't be made today, and they are not going to be easy decisions of council.

801
01:38:49,030 --> 01:38:53,230
We also view that the purpose and function of the Council Tribune Nation Review Committee

802
01:38:53,230 --> 01:38:55,050
to be an important aspect of demonstrating

803
01:38:55,050 --> 01:38:57,750
responsible civic function for the betterment of Mornville.

804
01:39:00,830 --> 01:39:02,630
It is our recommendations that council accept

805
01:39:02,630 --> 01:39:04,790
the council remuneration review committee report is presented

806
01:39:04,790 --> 01:39:07,350
for information and your demar work complete.

807
01:39:08,330 --> 01:39:10,250
The council director administration to bring forward

808
01:39:10,250 --> 01:39:12,350
a revised council remuneration policy

809
01:39:12,350 --> 01:39:14,650
encompassing the recommendations that we brought forward

810
01:39:14,650 --> 01:39:17,190
further in final review and as administration

811
01:39:17,190 --> 01:39:21,750
indicated earlier, any other views and expressed opinion

812
01:39:22,190 --> 01:39:23,710
by council for your consideration

813
01:39:23,710 --> 01:39:28,470
at a future meeting. With that, I welcome any questions of Council.

814
01:39:29,370 --> 01:39:32,270
Thank you very much, Mr. Roaston. Certainly. Oh, sorry.

815
01:39:33,310 --> 01:39:39,630
That's all right. That's okay. It's all good. It's all good. Thank you, Mr. Roast, for this presentation.

816
01:39:40,670 --> 01:39:46,710
I certainly can appreciate the robust work and not an easy task as well to take all of this on.

817
01:39:47,090 --> 01:39:52,470
At this time, I'm going to open it up to the rest of my Council. I know the mayor is

818
01:39:52,470 --> 01:40:02,250
I'm just chomping at the bit to have a conversation about this too, so no, I'm joking, no, I'm kidding, but I will open it up right now to the rest of council if there's some questions or comments.

819
01:40:03,910 --> 01:40:05,230
Councillor St. Dini, we'll start.

820
01:40:05,930 --> 01:40:20,850
Sure, thank you, Deputy Mayor. And thank you, Mr. Brost, for the presentation and to the committee members for, you know, obviously a tremendous amount of work that's gone into its seven meetings and obviously lots of work between July and now.

821
01:40:20,850 --> 01:40:31,890
So my first question, it's really just a curiosity, so I'm wondering why the committee chose

822
01:40:31,890 --> 01:40:38,410
not to interview or consult mayor council to better understand our local civic duties

823
01:40:38,410 --> 01:40:41,350
and council demands which you referenced in the presentation.

824
01:40:41,690 --> 01:40:48,210
And I only asked this because I did a little bit of digging because I have really only seen

825
01:40:48,210 --> 01:40:56,870
are as our previous iteration and of the 12 council renovation or council compensation committee

826
01:40:56,870 --> 01:41:03,490
reports that the first 12 that I found from 12 different municipalities and regions in the

827
01:41:03,490 --> 01:41:09,430
province that have come forward since 2022 each and every one of those there was a touch point with

828
01:41:09,430 --> 01:41:17,330
mayor and council to gather information. Yeah, too, you deputy mayor. Councilor Denny, that is a very

829
01:41:17,330 --> 01:41:24,210
important question and one that is and was discussed amongst our committee, we did consider it

830
01:41:24,210 --> 01:41:30,130
and in considering the what we believe to be the impartiality of what we are bringing forward

831
01:41:30,130 --> 01:41:36,490
should mayor and council wish to bring forward any other changes than what we have recommended

832
01:41:36,990 --> 01:41:41,230
that would be leaving that to yourselves to bring forward in your own respective debate

833
01:41:41,230 --> 01:41:45,990
and consideration of those policy changes before council and in front of council.

834
01:41:47,470 --> 01:41:51,870
Okay. No, I appreciate that. Yeah. Like to me, it just felt like that was a big omission,

835
01:41:52,110 --> 01:41:57,110
you know, with an understanding, I guess, of the rationale. So, um, okay. Thank you.

836
01:41:59,610 --> 01:42:07,670
Councillor White. Yeah, just a bit of a clarification on my motion. So the reason the motion

837
01:42:07,670 --> 01:42:15,090
was put forward was we were getting the cola increases without voting on them. I thought it was

838
01:42:15,090 --> 01:42:18,970
right for us to each vote on them without getting them automatically.

839
01:42:19,570 --> 01:42:22,990
The motion was never put on the floor, never debated, and never passed.

840
01:42:23,290 --> 01:42:32,850
So this motion was delayed, pending the outcome of this and the outcome of the actual council

841
01:42:32,850 --> 01:42:36,310
renemoration policy that we'll be voting on at some time in the future.

842
01:42:36,310 --> 01:42:37,610
Just, I just wanted to clarify that.

843
01:42:38,690 --> 01:42:40,790
And if I may, W. Bolinco.

844
01:42:42,690 --> 01:42:48,870
Thank you for the clarification, and that is what the committee had viewed, the rationale for that motion being brought forward.

845
01:42:49,530 --> 01:42:55,650
We realize, and through our information from administration, that it was an automatic code adjustment to council.

846
01:42:56,650 --> 01:43:00,290
And that it being said, being that it's automatic,

847
01:43:03,390 --> 01:43:08,170
that in your motion was the fact that you want to bring that forward where the council actually does accept that or not.

848
01:43:08,170 --> 01:43:12,290
or consider an increase or a decrease to what the COLA motion is.

849
01:43:13,030 --> 01:43:17,890
We did review that motion, and again, from our presentation,

850
01:43:19,210 --> 01:43:23,290
encompassing that any adjustments would be by based on a biennial basis,

851
01:43:23,890 --> 01:43:26,810
per the percentile of the comparator group, or we'd be at,

852
01:43:27,230 --> 01:43:31,770
would eliminate the need for contemplation of what the COLA specific would be for an adjustment,

853
01:43:32,130 --> 01:43:35,790
but COLA could be accounted for without any other onerium values

854
01:43:35,790 --> 01:43:40,350
that other comparator groups establish per their respective honorariums.

855
01:43:40,810 --> 01:43:47,810
So it basically takes the COLA as an individual item to adjust annually, but that of a biennial review.

856
01:43:49,310 --> 01:43:56,290
Okay, thank you, and I guess if the recommendation is to remove the COLA, then my motion would no longer be pertinent.

857
01:43:57,150 --> 01:43:57,890
And that is clear.

858
01:43:58,050 --> 01:44:03,690
Yes, our recommendation is to remove the COLA adjustment on an automated annual basis for council.

859
01:44:03,690 --> 01:44:03,790
Council.

860
01:44:06,450 --> 01:44:07,250
Councilor DeFo.

861
01:44:09,530 --> 01:44:10,970
Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

862
01:44:11,170 --> 01:44:19,070
A couple of things. First of all, I was pleased to see the number of permitted meetings

863
01:44:19,070 --> 01:44:27,170
without permission reduced to two. In my first term, when we did a remuneration review

864
01:44:27,170 --> 01:44:32,750
a game with the Public Committee and they did consult council, one of the concerns I had

865
01:44:32,750 --> 01:44:36,590
was the number of absence that an individual was missing,

866
01:44:37,130 --> 01:44:39,310
25% of my memory serves.

867
01:44:39,810 --> 01:44:45,610
That resulted in that being added to the council compensation.

868
01:44:46,110 --> 01:44:48,370
Originally, it had lobbied for two.

869
01:44:48,810 --> 01:44:51,990
It got increased to four. I'm happy to see it go back to two.

870
01:44:53,030 --> 01:44:57,270
So that's my comment. My question in line with Councillor St. Denis.

871
01:44:57,270 --> 01:44:59,810
in the absence of interviewing counsel.

872
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:28,840
Can I respect that you wanted to remain impartial? What did you use UN the committee to understand the work that this council does? I mean, certainly we have some population numbers, and I understand getting us closer to populations like Hinton, which is very similar to us, some a little below, some a little above. But beyond population, what was used to determine the respective workloads?

873
01:45:28,840 --> 01:45:32,080
because two communities of 10,000,

874
01:45:32,080 --> 01:45:36,840
Moornville has EMRB, Edmonton, Global, Hinton doesn't,

875
01:45:37,060 --> 01:45:41,620
but at the same token, Hinton probably would have some regional boards that we don't.

876
01:45:41,840 --> 01:45:44,640
So help me understand the rationale and all of that.

877
01:45:45,880 --> 01:45:48,340
Councillor Defoe, and through you, Madam Deputy Mayor,

878
01:45:48,840 --> 01:45:53,620
I should say first, the response to that is that although we did not consult specifically

879
01:45:53,620 --> 01:45:55,940
with yourselves as current members of council,

880
01:45:55,940 --> 01:46:00,660
And indeed, that was to remain impartial to our decision so that it couldn't be viewed

881
01:46:00,660 --> 01:46:03,420
by your input that was influencing what we were bringing forward.

882
01:46:03,720 --> 01:46:05,020
That was one of the primary reasons.

883
01:46:05,540 --> 01:46:10,940
In terms of the information that we reviewed, we're bylaws, we're pilot policies of those

884
01:46:10,940 --> 01:46:12,440
respective comparator groups.

885
01:46:12,880 --> 01:46:20,680
The committee also examined the types and kinds of those communities, as I noted, closer

886
01:46:20,680 --> 01:46:26,300
or larger urban centers, recognize that there is other urban committees of council.

887
01:46:26,560 --> 01:46:31,100
We could see in the schedules of all those respective comparator groups, the type and

888
01:46:31,100 --> 01:46:34,480
kinds of committees that would be similar to that of Mornville.

889
01:46:35,040 --> 01:46:40,600
And recognizing that each one of those isn't exactly or similarly aligned with Mornville.

890
01:46:41,180 --> 01:46:46,880
But compared to that of the current comparator group, we viewed that it was not in alignment

891
01:46:46,880 --> 01:46:50,460
is near as much as Moornville is as a community.

892
01:46:51,120 --> 01:46:55,240
Recognizing population, recognizing the services that are offered by the community.

893
01:46:55,700 --> 01:47:02,740
Also recognizing that the members of council, of some of those communities are either full time or part time or mayors or full time or part time.

894
01:47:03,140 --> 01:47:08,980
Those were a number of the rationale and the information that we had reviewed for bringing forward the recommendations that we did.

895
01:47:09,720 --> 01:47:10,560
Thank you for that.

896
01:47:13,720 --> 01:47:15,480
Okay, anybody else?

897
01:47:15,800 --> 01:47:18,420
Councilor Anhelliger, and then followed up by Mayor Borsma.

898
01:47:20,880 --> 01:47:27,680
Yeah, I just have a question, actually, in regards to the changes that you'd recommended regarding the mileage rates in that,

899
01:47:28,040 --> 01:47:34,860
why the change to government of Alberta, sorry, the federal, the federal mileage rate over the provincial mileage rate?

900
01:47:34,960 --> 01:47:44,160
Because I believe, and this question is sort of for administration also, is that the same rate that staff is applied for staff for mileage, the government of Alberta rate also?

901
01:47:47,140 --> 01:47:48,360
Sorry to park question.

902
01:47:49,920 --> 01:47:58,920
So, the mileage rate for staff is CRE rates, the per-DM rate for meals is based on the

903
01:47:58,920 --> 01:47:59,540
government of Alberta.

904
01:48:02,100 --> 01:48:09,160
So I wasn't sexually through, actually, Councillor and Helder, we did not have or look

905
01:48:09,160 --> 01:48:13,440
at what the staff reimbursement rates were, we were looking at the type and kind of reimbursement

906
01:48:13,440 --> 01:48:18,180
rates that were applicable for mileage or meals with that of the current comparator groups

907
01:48:18,180 --> 01:48:20,820
as well as the recommended new comparator groups,

908
01:48:21,220 --> 01:48:25,340
and many of those are landing at what would be the CRA rate,

909
01:48:25,680 --> 01:48:28,400
and additionally, we viewed that the current Alberta rate

910
01:48:28,910 --> 01:48:31,280
was insufficient in our view,

911
01:48:31,760 --> 01:48:33,380
for what that mileage should be at,

912
01:48:33,640 --> 01:48:35,040
and comparative to the CRA rate.

913
01:48:38,300 --> 01:48:39,060
Mayor Borseman.

914
01:48:40,620 --> 01:48:44,940
I think it was answered earlier through Councillor Defoe,

915
01:48:45,080 --> 01:48:48,840
but I was going to ask you on the community comparator group,

916
01:48:49,940 --> 01:48:58,820
some of the policies that you suggested, are they similar, do they have similar policies right now?

917
01:48:59,120 --> 01:49:09,300
Like you were talking about the two misses or even the funding or what it is exactly on those policies.

918
01:49:11,900 --> 01:49:18,540
Mr. Mayor, yes, the recommended policy amendments, not everyone in its entirety, but a number

919
01:49:18,540 --> 01:49:22,040
of the policy amendments we brought forward, whether it be by definitions or some of those

920
01:49:22,040 --> 01:49:28,280
changes or the eligible eligibility for per diems, honorims, are specifically comparative or

921
01:49:28,280 --> 01:49:31,980
equivalent to that of those in the policies of other municipalities.

922
01:49:36,730 --> 01:49:37,550
Councillor Richardson?

923
01:49:38,130 --> 01:49:38,570
Yeah, thank you.

924
01:49:38,750 --> 01:49:42,070
And the same thing, most of my questions have been kind of answered or touched on a little

925
01:49:42,070 --> 01:49:42,370
bit here.

926
01:49:42,370 --> 01:50:11,370
I guess the only one that I still have is similar to the meeting, I see that it went from 100 to 200 for missing a meeting and there's talks about it coming from the per DM schedule, the 250 and I'm just looking at 250 is our conference rate, the 0 to 2 to 4 and 48 so if it was a 2 hour meeting, would the councillor lose 62 50 or is it just a flat rate of 250?

927
01:50:15,240 --> 01:50:20,280
So that would be by a meeting of this council, so your council meeting.

928
01:50:20,780 --> 01:50:24,920
So I guess right now I think in here it says that you would be docked 250 from your

929
01:50:26,700 --> 01:50:31,660
honorarium if you missed the meeting, but the 250 is based on the conference which is typically

930
01:50:31,660 --> 01:50:35,100
over eight hours and then we have the zero to two to four.

931
01:50:35,260 --> 01:50:40,360
So I guess how did we land on the 250, is it more just to be punitive for somebody trying

932
01:50:40,360 --> 01:50:43,760
to get them not to miss the meeting, or is it, yeah, okay, yes that is correct.

933
01:50:43,760 --> 01:51:03,320
In fact, we viewed that not necessarily missing a committee meeting, but meeting a meeting of council, where one is not here, drawing that to an equivalent, or at least a punitive value for accountability of what one could have earned and the same equitable amount being returned.

934
01:51:03,320 --> 01:51:04,280
Okay.

935
01:51:07,380 --> 01:51:12,560
If there's not any more questions, perhaps this is an opportunity to open it up to comments

936
01:51:13,020 --> 01:51:16,560
if folks felt so inclined. Oh, yeah. Councilor Unheliger.

937
01:51:17,360 --> 01:51:24,560
I'm just going to jump back to the comparators. And so I understand entirely the focus on

938
01:51:24,560 --> 01:51:29,360
the population. But when you first dug into this, then you would have been presented with our

939
01:51:29,360 --> 01:51:34,300
direct comparator group and our regional comparator group. And those are the comparative groups

940
01:51:34,300 --> 01:51:42,900
that we use for, or sorry, that we lose, that we use and help guiding conversation decision

941
01:51:42,900 --> 01:51:47,140
around a lot of our other municipal decisions, budget related and all of that.

942
01:51:47,480 --> 01:51:54,660
So when you looked at the current market comparators and you thought that some of the more weren't

943
01:51:54,660 --> 01:51:59,320
appropriate, could you maybe just give me some insight into why you didn't, like I understand

944
01:51:59,320 --> 01:52:04,320
And while you chose some of the new ones, what was the thought process around disqualifying the other ones?

945
01:52:05,020 --> 01:52:06,340
Aside from just population.

946
01:52:06,740 --> 01:52:08,380
Okay, so thank you for the question again.

947
01:52:08,820 --> 01:52:11,220
Let's see, I'm trying to reinforce what we've brought forward.

948
01:52:11,920 --> 01:52:16,740
We've identified population number one as a near closer alignment to Morneville.

949
01:52:17,240 --> 01:52:23,360
We've identified the complexity or the type and kind of services that Morneville offers as a town.

950
01:52:24,100 --> 01:52:53,340
We've identified the comparison with whether it be full-time versus part-time council or mayor's roles and duties, and then recognizing that there was a disparity based on some of the populations and the expectations with where if we used more inville as an example having a population of approximately 10,000 people, 10,000 people, common services that would be provided to the community in the

951
01:52:53,340 --> 01:52:57,020
You're fulfilling your role in time of council as you do in council chambers tonight.

952
01:52:57,420 --> 01:53:04,340
The committees that you attend, the calls that you get from residents of concern or the inquiries and the time that you spend with them.

953
01:53:05,060 --> 01:53:12,820
For those that are of the larger centers, that would be exponentially of a higher level of expectation and demands on council.

954
01:53:13,060 --> 01:53:17,840
Compared to that of those that we have here with similar populations of Moornville.

955
01:53:19,700 --> 01:53:28,560
Noting particularly like, and I don't think it's no secret, the city of Spruce Grove, the city of Locom, is a city.

956
01:53:28,760 --> 01:53:31,700
It brings a lot different diversity in some of the expectations.

957
01:53:32,160 --> 01:53:46,720
Some of the subject and the content may be the same, but the demands of council would be more exceeding in those larger city facilities or not city facilities, but cities and the demands of residents and the time of residents compared to where we are as a comparative town municipality.

958
01:53:46,720 --> 01:53:51,320
You'll note that we have not included Sturgeon County and recognizing that

959
01:53:51,320 --> 01:53:55,060
Moornville resides adjacent to Sturgeon County and there's a lot of partnership and

960
01:53:55,640 --> 01:53:58,980
communications that occur between Moornville and Sturgeon County.

961
01:53:59,420 --> 01:54:04,340
It is that it is a rural jurisdiction compared to an urban jurisdiction and

962
01:54:04,340 --> 01:54:08,340
we've viewed that the urban jurisdictions have a lot more similarities in that of

963
01:54:08,340 --> 01:54:13,300
a council role and responsibility to that of a rural center.

964
01:54:13,300 --> 01:54:19,020
here, as well as the contributing tax basis, is another aspect that we didn't touch on,

965
01:54:19,400 --> 01:54:24,120
where the rural county will have a different tax based tax revenue compared to some of

966
01:54:24,120 --> 01:54:25,020
those different cities.

967
01:54:25,300 --> 01:54:29,560
And the diversity of those that you'll know there, and we recognize Hinton has a unique

968
01:54:30,440 --> 01:54:36,460
tax base as does Inus fail with some of the agriculture, so there's a change, but we couldn't

969
01:54:36,460 --> 01:54:41,000
have a one size fits all, but we tried to bring this to a comparison that we, again, viewed

970
01:54:41,000 --> 01:54:49,140
more closely aligned with Mornville, and that's where you'll note the omissions or the exclusions of some of those cities, as well as Sturgeon County as a real jurisdiction.

971
01:54:49,960 --> 01:54:51,500
Perfect, I appreciate you expanding.

972
01:54:53,780 --> 01:54:55,460
Okay, we'll open it up for comments,

973
01:54:59,120 --> 01:55:00,160
not all at once.

974
01:55:00,580 --> 01:55:03,380
Actually, there's two recommendations here.

975
01:55:03,520 --> 01:55:10,920
One is to say that the report has information and that the job of the committee is complete, and the second one is the recommendations.

976
01:55:12,260 --> 01:55:14,320
Which one are you looking for a comment on that?

977
01:55:14,320 --> 01:55:21,280
Well, we can make the first motion and then move into where we have the comments and recommendations moving forward.

978
01:55:21,420 --> 01:55:23,360
So, somebody wants to make that first one, we can do that.

979
01:55:27,550 --> 01:55:27,750
Okay.

980
01:55:28,910 --> 01:55:36,730
I would move that council accept the council remuneration review committee report as information and deem the work of the committee complete.

981
01:55:37,550 --> 01:55:40,070
Thank you for all the work that you put into this.

982
01:55:40,550 --> 01:55:47,630
I'm not going to see, I agree with all of it, but it's nice that somebody had a fresh look at this that is no way tied to.

983
01:55:47,630 --> 01:55:53,270
Council or administration in any way. And I think it was a very objective look at it.

984
01:55:53,490 --> 01:55:57,970
However, I will make my recommendations when it comes to the other motion. Thank you,

985
01:56:00,710 --> 01:56:00,910
Okay.

986
01:56:01,710 --> 01:56:08,270
Perfect. And I guess you don't need an open to the hat one. So I'll call the question. All those

987
01:56:08,270 --> 01:56:15,430
in favor? And that passes unanimously. Now we can have that introduction. Deputy Mayor

988
01:56:15,430 --> 01:56:24,310
I just want to advise the second motion, directing administration to do work and any amendments we should just do that in the business arising.

989
01:56:25,130 --> 01:56:25,710
Thank you.

990
01:56:25,930 --> 01:56:26,450
Thank you.

991
01:56:28,640 --> 01:56:31,480
Great, but I will open that up for, yes.

992
01:56:31,880 --> 01:56:37,200
Yeah, I mean if we're just going on some comments, is that what you want to get into before we go back to the meeting?

993
01:56:37,200 --> 01:56:41,460
I think, you know, there's a few things that I think are really good in here and obviously

994
01:56:41,460 --> 01:56:45,900
a few that I kind of disagree with a little bit, and one of the things that I'll just say

995
01:56:45,900 --> 01:56:50,620
is I find some of it pretty prescriptive, and I know Councillor DeIFO and myself have different

996
01:56:50,620 --> 01:56:57,200
opinions on the missing and the meetings of Council from four to two, and the other thing

997
01:56:57,200 --> 01:57:03,140
that I've seen in here is just the increase in the penalty. You know, I don't know if the

998
01:57:03,140 --> 01:57:09,720
The punitive nature of it actually meets, I'll say the significance of missing a meeting

999
01:57:09,720 --> 01:57:13,520
and I'll say we have some meetings sometimes that are an hour long that are pretty quick

1000
01:57:13,520 --> 01:57:18,140
and if you're missing that and you're being dinged $250 because it happens to be one

1001
01:57:18,140 --> 01:57:23,560
that wasn't approved by council, I think that unfortunately that seems a little bit harsh

1002
01:57:23,560 --> 01:57:27,980
for that penalty and on the other side of that is we do have some long meetings sometimes

1003
01:57:27,980 --> 01:57:32,720
more important which are budget and I think missing some of those are probably worthy of

1004
01:57:32,720 --> 01:57:38,940
about $250, subtraction from the honorarium if it wasn't approved to leave.

1005
01:57:39,260 --> 01:57:42,280
So, you know, kind of a little bit on the fence, either way on that.

1006
01:57:43,120 --> 01:57:49,140
And then the comparators as well, I find some of them, I don't think, really relate to the

1007
01:57:49,140 --> 01:57:54,880
same responsibilities that we have, which could reflect why the pay is different in other municipalities.

1008
01:57:54,880 --> 01:58:03,060
So, I know before we bring this back, I think that some of the comparators I would like

1009
01:58:03,060 --> 01:58:10,040
to see maybe changed or more resemble some of the work efforts that we put in.

1010
01:58:11,420 --> 01:58:15,360
So, that would be my comments on the kind of presentation.

1011
01:58:17,180 --> 01:58:17,460
Okay.

1012
01:58:20,250 --> 01:58:21,050
Anybody else?

1013
01:58:21,290 --> 01:58:22,810
Oh, I'm sorry.

1014
01:58:23,110 --> 01:58:24,010
I'm sorry, Councillor Dafo.

1015
01:58:24,870 --> 01:58:26,070
Yeah, thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1016
01:58:26,070 --> 01:58:31,570
There are just a bit of a response to Councillor Richards and, you know, I think the intent

1017
01:58:31,570 --> 01:58:40,050
with the meeting absence, well, first of all, you know, we're not ultimately approving

1018
01:58:40,050 --> 01:58:44,270
a policy for this council, although it would affect this council.

1019
01:58:44,910 --> 01:58:46,810
You're thinking of the role of councilor.

1020
01:58:47,350 --> 01:58:53,490
And as I've indicated in the past, we've had members that missed way more meetings than

1021
01:58:53,490 --> 01:59:00,490
they ever should have. But the important thing here I think is that this is you're allowed

1022
01:59:00,490 --> 01:59:09,390
to miss meetings without permission or resolution of the council. I think most of the meetings

1023
01:59:09,390 --> 01:59:15,990
that we miss would fall within that. We don't have anyone here that's simply not showing

1024
01:59:15,990 --> 01:59:21,330
up for a meeting or not showing up for a meeting because it's a controversial or contentious

1025
01:59:21,330 --> 01:59:26,590
issue that they don't want to vote on. We have people at mis-meetings because they have

1026
01:59:26,590 --> 01:59:33,430
work. And as I think you mentioned at one point, we don't want to preclude that shift

1027
01:59:33,430 --> 01:59:39,510
worker who may have to miss the occasional meeting from being able to run for counsel.

1028
01:59:39,770 --> 01:59:45,350
I don't think that's the intent here. So I'm not afraid of that going to, and I'm trying

1029
01:59:45,350 --> 01:59:49,330
not to debate because we don't have anything on the table. I'm not afraid of that going

1030
01:59:49,330 --> 01:59:56,350
down to two meetings and I'm not afraid of the $250 sting that's meant to be

1031
01:59:56,350 --> 01:59:59,830
punitive to say, hey, you should be in a meeting. So, so

1032
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:29,800
I don't think we're as far apart on that UNI as your might think. Yeah, and I would agree. And, you know, Councillor Stinney can also talk to this a little bit too about, you know, his time coming council and having a full time job. And what that looks like in the stress that it puts on not only your full time job, but your family on making some of these meetings. And I would hate to have something prescriptive where somebody goes, well, you know, if the council doesn't like me, I can't get out of this and also you're being punitively hit by it. And really the electors elect the people that they feel that will represent

1033
02:00:29,800 --> 02:00:39,920
them the best, and sometimes that's not always represented in these meetings here, but just in general, and there's a lot of ways we represent our constituents without being here at this table.

1034
02:00:40,320 --> 02:00:43,860
Although this is a very big part of it, it's just not the only way that we represent them, so.

1035
02:00:46,240 --> 02:00:47,060
Mayor Boersma.

1036
02:00:49,300 --> 02:00:58,340
So, I love the insights that you've provided here tonight, and I'm not sure this.

1037
02:00:58,340 --> 02:01:04,140
The full reports are the accounts for the unique demands that we actually have in

1038
02:01:04,140 --> 02:01:05,600
Moornville are always seen.

1039
02:01:06,220 --> 02:01:10,280
I think the context, which we govern.

1040
02:01:10,920 --> 02:01:13,260
So I think transparency, responsibility, and

1041
02:01:13,260 --> 02:01:18,320
the Africa must remain at the forefront of our decision when we make one.

1042
02:01:19,660 --> 02:01:24,220
Transparency ensures our residents understand that Council's wages are just the cost.

1043
02:01:24,460 --> 02:01:25,700
And I think that's an important thing.

1044
02:01:25,700 --> 02:01:29,800
But it's an investment in the leadership required to move more and build forward.

1045
02:01:30,780 --> 02:01:36,320
So in the responsibility compels us to recognize that as part of Edmonton Metropolitan Region,

1046
02:01:36,660 --> 02:01:41,380
our council is uniquely positioned to engage in regional partnerships.

1047
02:01:41,920 --> 02:01:44,920
Don't see that in all of the comparator communities.

1048
02:01:45,580 --> 02:01:53,840
To advocate for local priorities and navigate pressures that smaller or more rural communities may not face.

1049
02:01:55,120 --> 02:02:00,540
Advocacy requires us to send standards that value leadership, not only for the current

1050
02:02:00,540 --> 02:02:04,860
officials, but also for those who will guide our community into the future.

1051
02:02:06,340 --> 02:02:11,880
So Mornville, obviously, as you know, has emerged from fiscal foretex stronger today.

1052
02:02:13,100 --> 02:02:16,860
Thanks to this council's collaborative effort and tough decisions.

1053
02:02:16,860 --> 02:02:23,160
I believe we've demonstrated fiscal responsibility and delivered results to date.

1054
02:02:24,010 --> 02:02:29,140
In light of the progress, I urge Council to take the report's findings and obviously under

1055
02:02:29,140 --> 02:02:32,460
advisement, which I really appreciate each one of you brought forward.

1056
02:02:33,290 --> 02:02:38,840
But to also consider the broader responsibilities and pressures that are unique to our community.

1057
02:02:39,460 --> 02:02:43,500
Which may not have been seen because of what you talked about earlier.

1058
02:02:43,500 --> 02:02:48,960
You really didn't look at each individual council or we're able to speak to it so you took

1059
02:02:48,960 --> 02:02:51,560
that under, I'll take that under advisement.

1060
02:02:51,920 --> 02:02:57,800
And I think the committee's port is very important that is put into this decision.

1061
02:02:58,800 --> 02:03:02,160
But there are also other inputs to consider as well.

1062
02:03:02,580 --> 02:03:07,360
So, what I would recommend is for administration to bring a comprehensive

1063
02:03:07,360 --> 02:03:12,800
comprehensive report to council that includes the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation

1064
02:03:12,800 --> 02:03:32,200
report, which I think some of us may have, you know, not looked at as close, and the recommendation of the council compensation committee, and any other relevant consideration, so, and I think I'll put that into a motion later on, but that's my comments on it.

1065
02:03:34,490 --> 02:03:37,210
Thank you, Mayor Borisma, Councillor White.

1066
02:03:38,050 --> 02:03:38,810
Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1067
02:03:39,070 --> 02:03:44,530
Yeah, I'm totally in agreement with if I'm going to bring my spouse to anything, I'm

1068
02:03:44,530 --> 02:03:49,190
paying the freight for everything, everything because I don't think that the town of Hornville

1069
02:03:49,190 --> 02:03:54,230
should be covering off any expenses that I'm incurred by choosing to bring my spouse with

1070
02:03:54,230 --> 02:03:54,370
me.

1071
02:03:54,750 --> 02:03:56,730
So, I totally agree with that.

1072
02:03:56,730 --> 02:04:04,430
But the one thing there that it kind of sets me aside with the comparators is that very

1073
02:04:04,430 --> 02:04:11,230
early on in Council, when we were talking about a renomeration period, there was comments

1074
02:04:11,230 --> 02:04:15,130
made about you can't cherry pick comparators to get the results you want.

1075
02:04:15,790 --> 02:04:19,470
And that was something that stuck in my head for a while.

1076
02:04:19,710 --> 02:04:21,210
We live in the Edmonton region.

1077
02:04:21,550 --> 02:04:25,050
We buy homes in the Edmonton region in Moornville.

1078
02:04:25,050 --> 02:04:30,310
I don't know what prices are in table, I don't think it's relevant, but I may pay more

1079
02:04:30,310 --> 02:04:37,390
here than I would in table, so making my room-numeration the same as it is in table is not a fair

1080
02:04:37,390 --> 02:04:47,510
comparison. There's a lot of things that go into the whole part of being a counselor and it's not

1081
02:04:47,510 --> 02:04:53,870
just the time that you see here at the meeting. Today's meeting agenda was fairly thick.

1082
02:04:53,870 --> 02:04:59,270
I have at least 8 to 10 hours of reading this agenda package before I got here.

1083
02:04:59,750 --> 02:05:02,230
So it's not the time that I spent here that takes the time.

1084
02:05:02,670 --> 02:05:08,830
But it's also the issues that are in this document today.

1085
02:05:09,210 --> 02:05:11,030
We're living in my head for the last four days.

1086
02:05:11,850 --> 02:05:17,890
And that's, you know, it's a part of being a Councillor and I'm not complaining.

1087
02:05:17,890 --> 02:05:25,710
But you have to look at what is involved in the work to understand why we get paid what

1088
02:05:25,710 --> 02:05:26,010
we do.

1089
02:05:26,270 --> 02:05:32,210
But the other things that I really need to stress is that when you're looking at reducing

1090
02:05:32,730 --> 02:05:39,770
pay for somebody in the neighborhood of 24%, it should be done on a red circle basis.

1091
02:05:40,130 --> 02:05:43,530
So you would red circle that person in that until the next election.

1092
02:05:43,530 --> 02:05:52,590
and then the fresh people coming in and putting their name forward in September can look at what the new rate is going to be and say, yeah, that's worth it. I'll go for it.

1093
02:05:52,770 --> 02:05:55,130
And if I don't think it's worth it, then I don't go for it.

1094
02:05:55,550 --> 02:06:03,670
But when I put my name forward in 2021 in September, I looked at the rate of pay, the benefits.

1095
02:06:04,290 --> 02:06:07,590
And I made a decision that it was worthwhile for me to do this work.

1096
02:06:07,590 --> 02:06:13,050
work, but to take it a way midway through the term is completely wrong in my opinion

1097
02:06:13,050 --> 02:06:17,650
and any type of change to this, if there's going to be a reduction should be red circled

1098
02:06:17,650 --> 02:06:23,030
to September of next year and then the next council can decide whether they want to take

1099
02:06:23,030 --> 02:06:28,710
this role on for the money that is being put forward because quite frankly I think a lot

1100
02:06:28,710 --> 02:06:30,470
of people are not going to put their name forward.

1101
02:06:31,590 --> 02:06:33,350
I've got one more thing.

1102
02:06:33,350 --> 02:06:50,270
when the Hillcrest Trust report came out in February 27th, I was looking at that and thinking they're recommending that the mayor's pay go up 25.38% and council pay go up 14.86%.

1103
02:06:50,270 --> 02:06:55,730
And then this committee was struck and I'm thinking, okay, well maybe they'll balance that somehow.

1104
02:06:55,730 --> 02:07:00,030
But somewhere in the middle is where I think this needs to land.

1105
02:07:00,630 --> 02:07:03,130
And I think we're fixing something that isn't broke.

1106
02:07:03,730 --> 02:07:09,670
But that's my opinion, and I think that the way we handle it going forward, people should

1107
02:07:09,670 --> 02:07:16,550
be considered on how their employment with the town is working, and the changes that are

1108
02:07:16,550 --> 02:07:19,150
going to be made, and when those changes are going to be made.

1109
02:07:21,840 --> 02:07:23,080
Thank you, Councillor Dafo.

1110
02:07:23,980 --> 02:07:25,140
Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1111
02:07:25,140 --> 02:07:33,340
I know for Councilor Wyden particular that increase in pay that was an issue for you

1112
02:07:33,340 --> 02:07:37,460
during the election and you're aware of this but I want to make others aware of it.

1113
02:07:37,860 --> 02:07:45,140
I think at that time of the Hillcrest report one of the reasons why the rate went up as

1114
02:07:45,140 --> 02:07:51,360
significantly as it did is that prior to that one third of what a Councilor was paid

1115
02:07:51,360 --> 02:07:57,500
was tax-free, and the federal government and their infinite wisdom took that away.

1116
02:07:58,140 --> 02:08:02,140
And that's why that was increased to kind of balance that out.

1117
02:08:04,280 --> 02:08:09,960
Where I have a slight disagreement with the last information that was presented.

1118
02:08:10,640 --> 02:08:19,440
If we're going to review this, and we're going to reduce as the committee recommends our

1119
02:08:19,440 --> 02:08:26,120
or honorariums, per diems are going up, so that's a moot point, but the honorariums,

1120
02:08:26,140 --> 02:08:31,460
then this council should be prepared to take a hit, because I don't want to be a guy

1121
02:08:31,460 --> 02:08:35,400
sitting here and going, well, that's a good pay for me, but the next group, and I know

1122
02:08:35,400 --> 02:08:39,540
that's not your intent, and I understand completely where you're coming from.

1123
02:08:39,900 --> 02:08:44,340
But if we're going to bring this back and we're going to consider taking a reduction in

1124
02:08:44,340 --> 02:08:48,360
what someone's sitting at the table is paid, we damn well better be prepared to take

1125
02:08:48,360 --> 02:08:54,000
that hit in our final year ourselves. And in reality, it's probably going to be the last

1126
02:08:54,000 --> 02:08:58,140
six months of the term. But that's just an outward thought that I have.

1127
02:09:00,440 --> 02:09:06,440
Okay, any comments from anybody else? I'm going to say something, Councillor White first,

1128
02:09:06,620 --> 02:09:12,320
just because I've been really quiet. It was a point that Councillor White had made around

1129
02:09:12,320 --> 02:09:19,820
the competitor groups, the majority of which are part of our EMRB, which I think are fairly

1130
02:09:19,820 --> 02:09:26,220
big players because the demands are big on us as well with Edmonton Global. And that report,

1131
02:09:26,420 --> 02:09:33,160
looking at that report, it wasn't just, and I can appreciate that Councillor Defoe,

1132
02:09:33,340 --> 02:09:39,600
the, you know, losing the one third, never has this role been a nine to five.

1133
02:09:41,660 --> 02:09:42,700
We don't have

1134
02:09:42,700 --> 02:09:49,060
predictable hours. I know myself a year and a half ago I was working school-based mental health,

1135
02:09:49,060 --> 02:09:54,080
health and had to leave that role because I had zero predictability with my schedule.

1136
02:09:54,620 --> 02:09:59,180
And I had kids who were depending on me and I wasn't able to accommodate that.

1137
02:10:00,280 --> 02:10:03,160
I think the same can be said for everybody around here.

1138
02:10:03,700 --> 02:10:06,980
It is not, it's a moving target all the time.

1139
02:10:07,420 --> 02:10:09,020
You're getting those calls late at night.

1140
02:10:09,300 --> 02:10:12,140
You are fielding things through social media.

1141
02:10:12,440 --> 02:10:13,460
You're answering emails.

1142
02:10:13,980 --> 02:10:15,760
You don't get to shut it down.

1143
02:10:15,760 --> 02:10:29,640
And so I appreciate the work that has been done by this committee, and I get looking from the outside in it may look one way or another, but the demands I feel on this rule come at a cost to all of us.

1144
02:10:32,260 --> 02:10:36,700
time with our family, getting lynched in stores in town.

1145
02:10:37,340 --> 02:10:42,480
I love to share this one I ran into a counselor at SOBI's from our

1146
02:10:42,480 --> 02:10:46,860
neighboring municipality, and I had a ball cap on and we just made eye contact,

1147
02:10:47,060 --> 02:10:51,240
looked at each other, all we did was nod, because any time we walk into SOBI's,

1148
02:10:51,260 --> 02:10:53,800
we know we're guaranteed a half an hour conversation.

1149
02:10:54,740 --> 02:10:57,720
Those are things that we don't account for, but they have value.

1150
02:10:57,720 --> 02:11:02,980
They have value in our community because we live here, we pay those same taxes, we want

1151
02:11:02,980 --> 02:11:04,300
to leave it better than we found it.

1152
02:11:04,900 --> 02:11:09,960
So when we look at that report with our competitor groups and I agree maybe some can change

1153
02:11:09,960 --> 02:11:15,380
and or ebb and flow when we're looking at that 50th percentile knowing that our mayor is

1154
02:11:15,380 --> 02:11:20,700
at 25% below and as council we are 15% below that 50th percentile.

1155
02:11:21,160 --> 02:11:24,680
I also think that narrative needs to be shared and it needs to be loud.

1156
02:11:29,140 --> 02:11:34,000
Thank you, Deputy Mayor. I just wanted to comment a little bit on our conference convention

1157
02:11:34,000 --> 02:11:41,780
stuff because this has been a very responsible council as far as all of us going to SCM.

1158
02:11:41,920 --> 02:11:49,320
We don't do that. We haven't done that once this term. I think that it was personal responsibility

1159
02:11:49,320 --> 02:11:55,980
on our part. But if you move forward with, there's only two people going to each thing.

1160
02:11:56,380 --> 02:12:00,120
Now you've got either the merit deciding who's going, or maybe the marigolds every time,

1161
02:12:00,120 --> 02:12:03,380
and we only get to go once or whatever, but you're setting this up for a new council.

1162
02:12:03,900 --> 02:12:10,400
And a new council, when you start, and if you go to SCM, you're going to take three or four courses

1163
02:12:10,400 --> 02:12:15,180
that are why you're there. You can't bring that back and just give everybody a council,

1164
02:12:15,180 --> 02:12:18,480
So the coals notes version of the four courses that you learned at.

1165
02:12:19,100 --> 02:12:23,620
So, I mean, it's an educational tool for new council, but I, you know, I agree that

1166
02:12:23,620 --> 02:12:25,780
not everybody should go to everything every time.

1167
02:12:26,220 --> 02:12:31,960
But I think that you should set the budget so that in my personal development, I only get

1168
02:12:31,960 --> 02:12:37,120
enough money to go to two or three or whatever so that I can make the decisions on what I want

1169
02:12:37,120 --> 02:12:40,800
to go to because I don't know what works for you, but I do know what works for me.

1170
02:12:40,800 --> 02:12:47,260
So, I mean, I think that you're setting the next council up for a bit of who goes where

1171
02:12:47,260 --> 02:12:51,660
thing and a big fight over it. If you start going to that, there's only two people going

1172
02:12:51,660 --> 02:12:54,540
to this and two people going to that. So, that's my comment on that.

1173
02:12:57,290 --> 02:12:58,450
Thank you, Councillor Richardson.

1174
02:12:59,050 --> 02:13:02,510
I think, actually, I was just going to talk about that as well. And, like Councillor

1175
02:13:02,510 --> 02:13:06,250
White has said, I think that this council has been fairly responsible, and it hasn't been

1176
02:13:06,250 --> 02:13:12,770
a huge uptake for FCM. But I've had this sentiment for a while that if I'm under my

1177
02:13:12,770 --> 02:13:16,510
professional development budget and my myelin subsistence budget.

1178
02:13:16,850 --> 02:13:24,450
I should be able to take what I feel is going to best help me represent the residents of Moornville.

1179
02:13:24,890 --> 02:13:35,990
And you know, some people might have more, I'll say ambition to go to something like my one of my other birds like Erwack where I want to go to a ban for a convention there.

1180
02:13:36,470 --> 02:13:41,930
And if you're doing that, then obviously you can't do FCM but if I'm not doing that in order to go to FCM.

1181
02:13:41,930 --> 02:13:48,410
Well, one's in Alberta and one's not, you know, how come I'm not able to do it if I'm still underneath my mileage and

1182
02:13:48,410 --> 02:13:53,310
subsistence and professional development. So, that one kind of is a little bit of a sticking point for me as well.

1183
02:13:53,570 --> 02:14:02,030
And, you know, maybe there isn't needs to be a cap, but I think two is pretty low. And like Councillor White said, you know, the mayor is probably the best suited to go there as he's the

1184
02:14:03,730 --> 02:14:09,930
this official spokesperson for the town of Warrenville. And then if one other person goes, that means two people aren't going in in a year.

1185
02:14:09,930 --> 02:14:14,350
and there's a lot of benefits from attending a conference like FCM, especially for a new

1186
02:14:14,350 --> 02:14:19,210
Councillor that can go there and learn about some of the stuff that Council should know

1187
02:14:19,210 --> 02:14:22,910
about. So, again, I don't know where I'd sit exactly

1188
02:14:22,910 --> 02:14:27,490
number wise, but I think 2 is probably too low and 7 is probably too high, so.

1189
02:14:29,800 --> 02:14:31,140
Thank you, Councillor Saint-Denie.

1190
02:14:32,260 --> 02:14:33,380
Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1191
02:14:34,460 --> 02:14:41,320
You know, Councillor Richardson kind of spoke to a little bit of what I wanted to, I guess,

1192
02:14:41,320 --> 02:14:42,000
touch on.

1193
02:14:44,280 --> 02:14:50,280
I do had some concerns around some of the recommendations specific to the professional development.

1194
02:14:51,320 --> 02:14:59,640
You know, I do believe that there should be some autonomy. I look at this council, we each have our own unique

1195
02:15:00,000 --> 02:15:29,540
We have a full of boards, committees, and commission assignments which basically comprise of 28 different assignments. And of that 28, we also sit on a number of subcommittees, right? And so there's only so many opportunities to learn and so many windows of opportunity to do some of that professional development. And so most of these boards sort of plan around Alberta

1196
02:15:29,540 --> 02:15:36,040
immunies and FCM because it impacts the majority of folks that sit on,

1197
02:15:39,080 --> 02:15:39,760
around those tables.

1198
02:15:40,820 --> 02:15:45,800
And, you know, so putting a cap at two, I just, you know, I guess going back to Council

1199
02:15:45,800 --> 02:15:50,000
Richardson's point earlier, it seems rather prescriptive.

1200
02:15:50,960 --> 02:15:57,860
You know, and again, understanding the rationale for not consulting with Mayor and Council, I do

1201
02:15:57,860 --> 02:16:04,020
think that this is one particular area where, you know, I think us not having a voice in

1202
02:16:04,020 --> 02:16:09,910
any of this, I guess it upsets me a little bit.

1203
02:16:11,970 --> 02:16:18,610
You know, a big picture and it's been said a couple times, but nobody here at this table

1204
02:16:18,610 --> 02:16:20,230
is doing this for financial gain.

1205
02:16:21,130 --> 02:16:26,130
You know, when I look at my in and outs at the end of each month and I stack that up against

1206
02:16:26,130 --> 02:16:33,150
means the hours that I put in, and I know that my counterparts would certainly echo this.

1207
02:16:34,070 --> 02:16:39,650
It's sobering when you put that up against sort of the renumeration as is.

1208
02:16:40,090 --> 02:16:46,410
And then sort of what that represents in terms of sacrifice to family time and

1209
02:16:47,070 --> 02:16:51,390
all the other roles that each of us sort of bring to this table.

1210
02:16:51,390 --> 02:16:55,650
And I know that when we go into this, we do that with an understanding.

1211
02:16:56,330 --> 02:17:01,790
So I have concerns about the precedent that this would set for

1212
02:17:01,790 --> 02:17:08,250
future councils with an understanding that we want to attract qualified skilled,

1213
02:17:08,910 --> 02:17:17,210
motivated residents that want to serve our community for all the right reasons.

1214
02:17:17,210 --> 02:17:23,430
And I just wonder, I don't think that any of us would ever be in the position to ask for a raise.

1215
02:17:23,430 --> 02:17:31,250
That's not what we're doing, but to roll back to the degree that is recommended.

1216
02:17:31,910 --> 02:17:46,890
I just worried that we could be placing barriers for qualified skilled motivated residents that may want to put their name in for the next election in October of next year.

1217
02:17:46,890 --> 02:17:48,430
So those are my thoughts.

1218
02:17:51,330 --> 02:17:54,310
Councillor Anheliger and then Councillor DeFo, sorry, did you?

1219
02:17:55,050 --> 02:17:55,910
We'll see.

1220
02:17:56,090 --> 02:17:56,310
Okay.

1221
02:17:59,030 --> 02:17:59,710
Perfect.

1222
02:18:00,070 --> 02:18:05,910
I just so my comments to the committee, I really appreciate this work and I definitely,

1223
02:18:05,910 --> 02:18:14,650
I understand the approach in using comparators and focusing on the population because in

1224
02:18:14,650 --> 02:18:23,690
In terms of providing governance and serving populations, I understand that thought.

1225
02:18:24,410 --> 02:18:33,950
One thing I do think that maybe was missed in this is considering what our goal is in

1226
02:18:33,950 --> 02:18:38,390
terms of attracting people to council.

1227
02:18:38,390 --> 02:18:44,750
And I don't think of it that just in terms of, well, I mean, yes, the rate of pay is important.

1228
02:18:45,550 --> 02:18:48,890
And everybody here can say that they're not doing it for the money.

1229
02:18:48,990 --> 02:18:52,690
And everybody here can also sit around and say that this is not our primary job and

1230
02:18:52,690 --> 02:18:57,690
probably not the primary funder of paying our bills and that.

1231
02:18:58,010 --> 02:19:04,450
And acknowledging that I'm coming to this table with some privilege and ability to say that.

1232
02:19:04,450 --> 02:19:10,490
But we have people around this table with exceptionally flexible schedules for their work

1233
02:19:10,490 --> 02:19:14,990
life who are able to mitigate all of that.

1234
02:19:16,270 --> 02:19:24,870
And if a reduction in, well, maybe salary, I worry, what considerations put into what

1235
02:19:24,870 --> 02:19:27,210
kind of people we want to attract to this role?

1236
02:19:28,030 --> 02:19:33,070
Do we want people who are semi-retired, part time of employed, that sort of thing?

1237
02:19:33,070 --> 02:19:35,330
I think that that's a consideration we need to make.

1238
02:19:36,130 --> 02:19:41,730
And on top of that, it's not just the salary we are acknowledging the increase in moving

1239
02:19:41,730 --> 02:19:48,470
to the CRA rate and acknowledging the increase in the per diems because that takes care

1240
02:19:48,470 --> 02:19:52,510
of a lot of that subcommittee and committee work that we do and I think that's important.

1241
02:19:53,870 --> 02:19:58,690
But I didn't, I thought we'd see maybe some expenses come forward.

1242
02:19:58,690 --> 02:20:06,990
Mornville has a median age in the mid-30s, so that's a population of families, parents,

1243
02:20:07,310 --> 02:20:08,390
stay-home parents in that.

1244
02:20:09,030 --> 02:20:14,110
We did the committee look at opportunities or expenses, perhaps for childcare.

1245
02:20:14,730 --> 02:20:19,290
What are we doing to reduce barriers to get people in this role and attract people to this

1246
02:20:19,290 --> 02:20:19,490
role?

1247
02:20:19,630 --> 02:20:25,070
And I think just the remuneration doesn't, isn't quite the full picture.

1248
02:20:25,070 --> 02:20:40,710
So in administration bringing this back, I would like to see us follow up on some of those additional considerations as well, but I really appreciate the thought and the work that went into this and how prudent.

1249
02:20:41,590 --> 02:20:53,070
I think this committee's approach is very indicative of mournville residents and their need to see financial good financial stewardship.

1250
02:20:53,750 --> 02:21:06,310
And I think that this is reflective of this, so starting here, I think council and administration has something to work towards, and I'd like to see some additional considerations in the next iteration of the policy.

1251
02:21:08,950 --> 02:21:12,030
Thank you, Councilor and Heliger. Yes, no, Councillor Dafoe.

1252
02:21:12,970 --> 02:21:17,290
Well, I was going to talk about FCM and that's been done to death, so I don't think I will.

1253
02:21:17,490 --> 02:21:22,090
But what Councillor and Hellerger said has great value to me.

1254
02:21:23,190 --> 02:21:28,050
As an older guy with gray hair and gray beard, and I look at the committee and all do respect

1255
02:21:28,050 --> 02:21:32,510
to the committee, I also see a lot of gray hair and all men.

1256
02:21:33,070 --> 02:21:39,190
And that's no reflection on the committee because they are the ones who step forward to

1257
02:21:39,190 --> 02:22:08,950
volunteer for this position, but maybe when we're recruiting next time, we can, you know, we can try to have some women on that committee because childcare is something that I'm not thinking of but your generation absolutely would. So I think, I think there's some value in, in we have this committee's work, but bringing those types of things forward. And I know we, we talk a great game and municipalities about diversity on committees.

1258
02:22:08,950 --> 02:22:15,510
but we didn't have that, and that's not taking away anything that your committee has done.

1259
02:22:15,950 --> 02:22:22,230
And I'm respectful and appreciative of that, but like you say, we might have missed some of those things.

1260
02:22:22,670 --> 02:22:25,790
Because for me, I'm not going to be here next time. I don't care.

1261
02:22:26,350 --> 02:22:29,110
I'll be a taxpayer sitting on that side of the room.

1262
02:22:29,490 --> 02:22:35,550
But I want to make sure that we have good people around the table, and if there are any barriers to good people

1263
02:22:35,550 --> 02:22:43,110
because, you know, a shift worker can't do it, or a mom can't do it because it's not

1264
02:22:43,110 --> 02:22:46,570
enough to cover child care. That would be a missed opportunity.

1265
02:22:48,780 --> 02:22:50,060
Okay, Councillor Richardson?

1266
02:22:50,880 --> 02:22:54,820
Yeah, I was just going to add one thing that when Councillor Nelger had said, what type

1267
02:22:54,820 --> 02:22:59,020
of people are we trying to attract? One of the things that I thought about, as soon as

1268
02:22:59,020 --> 02:23:04,500
I saw this, was the per-dem chaser. And you know, where your honorarium's not enough

1269
02:23:04,500 --> 02:23:10,360
to, I'll say help with some of those bills, especially if you, let's just say you need

1270
02:23:10,360 --> 02:23:12,640
it for a secondary income or something.

1271
02:23:13,120 --> 02:23:19,480
So then you would have people that are just going to, to meetings and conferences just

1272
02:23:19,480 --> 02:23:27,300
to collect the per diem to up their wage or up their honorarium, which isn't something

1273
02:23:27,300 --> 02:23:27,620
you want.

1274
02:23:27,700 --> 02:23:31,060
You want people that are actively engaged at the meetings and boards that they're adding

1275
02:23:31,060 --> 02:23:36,200
of people are just going just to collect money to help subsidize the the loss

1276
02:23:36,200 --> 02:23:40,020
or I think we're in a worse spot than we are now with people who are going to

1277
02:23:40,020 --> 02:23:43,200
meetings because they want to be there. So, you know, that was just something

1278
02:23:43,200 --> 02:23:49,040
that I that jumped out at me, especially some of the bigger increases. But okay,

1279
02:23:52,100 --> 02:23:53,300
can

1280
02:23:53,300 --> 02:23:58,180
we last round this one and can we move on? Okay, I think it's been a really robust

1281
02:23:58,180 --> 02:24:04,860
Just a conversation for sure, let's, we'll wait and do that recommended motion when we

1282
02:24:04,860 --> 02:24:07,900
come out of community of the whole.

1283
02:24:08,160 --> 02:24:13,500
We'll move on at this point with certainly our thanks to the Council Renemoration Review

1284
02:24:13,500 --> 02:24:19,500
Committee for the work and for the thought that went into all of this and for your patients

1285
02:24:19,500 --> 02:24:22,400
listening to our questions and commentary here this evening.

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02:24:22,800 --> 02:24:23,100
Thank you.

1287
02:24:23,280 --> 02:24:25,120
And thank you for being invested in our community.

1288
02:24:25,660 --> 02:24:32,080
And we'll move on at this point then to 9.1.2, the highway 642 snow maintenance, please.

1289
02:24:33,740 --> 02:24:39,980
Thanks, Council. So with us tonight we have two people from our infrastructure services building

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02:24:39,980 --> 02:24:44,380
to discuss our favorites of their snow, which it seemed to be letting it do outside.

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02:24:44,700 --> 02:24:48,620
And some of the challenges that were not challenges, but some of the changes that we're facing

1292
02:24:48,620 --> 02:24:52,700
and opportunities that are there. So I'll turn over to Mr. Longos to you to take you through those.

1293
02:24:52,700 --> 02:24:53,720
Good

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02:24:55,840 --> 02:24:57,500
evening, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Council.

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02:24:58,320 --> 02:25:00,640
Thank you for taking the time to listen to me tonight.

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02:25:01,620 --> 02:25:15,100
So previous to this no season, the service levels were looked after by, on Highway 642 through town along the 100th Avenue was through Mcon contracted by Alberta Transportation.

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02:25:15,840 --> 02:25:24,640
So the season, the contract has changed to Ledcore and they will be looking after the snow maintenance along the 100th Ave throughout the town.

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boundaries and limits.

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02:25:26,960 --> 02:25:35,000
So, through this, because it has changed, the contract has also changed with the town.

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02:25:35,500 --> 02:25:41,240
So, now that the led course taken over, they'll be looking after the snow maintenance

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02:25:41,240 --> 02:25:42,660
as long as on the highway.

1302
02:25:43,620 --> 02:25:47,960
To meet the council's desired service levels as outlined in the snow maintenance control policy,

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02:25:47,960 --> 02:25:54,580
and the agreement with the former third-party Mcon to perform stolen removal services within its jurisdiction.

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02:25:55,820 --> 02:25:59,960
Specifically, Montenegro managed snow maintenance along Highway 642 along its boundaries.

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02:26:00,500 --> 02:26:04,580
For snow accumulations ranging from 0 to 500 meters or during icy conditions.

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02:26:06,060 --> 02:26:14,880
As part of the Montenegro snow maintenance services, residents, businesses together with Montenegro's operational teams would move snow from walkways and ballboats onto Highway 642.

1307
02:26:15,760 --> 02:26:24,540
The operational team would then clear the snow from curb to curb using graders pushing into the center of the highway creating temporary windows and removing it from there.

1308
02:26:25,260 --> 02:26:31,620
With the new service provider, they throw through town and do one clearing and push it to the side.

1309
02:26:32,600 --> 02:26:41,840
And for us to, our immediate response would be to move that and get it out of the way, but there is logistics and

1310
02:26:41,840 --> 02:26:45,620
and reasonings as to why they don't allow that.

1311
02:26:46,660 --> 02:26:48,600
So we would,

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02:26:50,620 --> 02:26:52,720
beginning in 2024, a snow season,

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02:26:52,800 --> 02:26:53,940
they continued to the next decade.

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02:26:54,340 --> 02:26:57,360
The third party provided a led core would be response for the snow removal services,

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02:26:57,360 --> 02:27:00,440
along Highway 642 within the town boundaries.

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02:27:03,770 --> 02:27:08,190
In accordance with the led core's guidelines bound by their contract obligations of a transportation,

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02:27:08,850 --> 02:27:13,470
they will perform a single pass through Marble, clearing the snow pushing to the curb edge with snow plows.

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but not immediately removing the snow from the highway 642 corridor.

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02:27:17,930 --> 02:27:20,010
Snow removal will be completed at their discretion.

1320
02:27:20,750 --> 02:27:23,250
Some of the challenges that we are facing as noted,

1321
02:27:23,490 --> 02:27:25,330
the lead corridor will be pushing the snow to the parking lanes

1322
02:27:25,330 --> 02:27:27,450
without immediately removing it.

1323
02:27:28,050 --> 02:27:30,150
The communities that snow at the curb edge,

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02:27:30,150 --> 02:27:32,850
particularly when combined with the snow pushed by businesses,

1325
02:27:33,270 --> 02:27:36,550
will recreate a windrow potentially and likely obstructing parking

1326
02:27:36,550 --> 02:27:38,450
and pedestrian access to the adjacent walkways.

1327
02:27:39,310 --> 02:27:41,490
Additionally, during freeze-thaw cycles,

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02:27:41,490 --> 02:27:45,690
materials, materials, what could complete, could impede trading leading to the formation

1329
02:27:45,690 --> 02:27:48,490
of ice dams and creating safety hazards for pedestrians.

1330
02:27:49,850 --> 02:27:53,850
With this change in responsibilities, more of those residents are expected to have more

1331
02:27:53,850 --> 02:27:59,670
questions and concerns with regards to this and increase our administrative efforts required

1332
02:27:59,670 --> 02:28:03,290
to address the inquiries and the perception that more of those performing operational snow

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02:28:03,290 --> 02:28:03,690
services.

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02:28:05,010 --> 02:28:09,450
Given the nature of led course snow maintenance practices, the immediate response from

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02:28:09,450 --> 02:28:14,750
more of that would be to remove curbside, the curbside snow to keep the snow policy in place.

1336
02:28:15,750 --> 02:28:19,950
So some of the challenges that we have facing that, we would have to, when blowing snow

1337
02:28:19,950 --> 02:28:21,330
from the opposite side of the tandem.

1338
02:28:22,190 --> 02:28:28,350
So as shown in the report, we'd have to switch our snowboards to the opposite side.

1339
02:28:28,970 --> 02:28:34,010
And also the proximity of the snowboard of the chases walkways increases the risk of debris

1340
02:28:34,710 --> 02:28:36,310
being thrown into walkways and businesses.

1341
02:28:36,310 --> 02:28:40,730
is raising concerns about pedestrian safety and potential damages to be disaffronted to the frontages.

1342
02:28:41,750 --> 02:28:45,970
Bloins, no one in the opposite direction may cause a breach to be blown onto oncoming traffic as well.

1343
02:28:46,850 --> 02:28:51,430
Fabrication and snowboard amounts would be required to allow installation of passenger side of the town of truck.

1344
02:28:57,880 --> 02:28:58,360
Hello,

1345
02:29:00,610 --> 02:29:02,290
so thank you for that information, Chris.

1346
02:29:02,670 --> 02:29:06,190
And I would like to say that it's my first formal interaction with council.

1347
02:29:07,110 --> 02:29:11,690
And it's a pleasure and I'm honored to be serving the ratepayers, the stakeholders.

1348
02:29:11,690 --> 02:29:16,410
There's my GM, the CAO, and the Council of the town of Morinville in the capacity of

1349
02:29:16,410 --> 02:29:17,710
manager of infrastructure services.

1350
02:29:18,630 --> 02:29:22,290
And so just to summarize the information that Mr. Longo has brought forward, essentially

1351
02:29:22,290 --> 02:29:24,310
ATEC has a new service provider.

1352
02:29:24,510 --> 02:29:28,250
They retended out their new contractor has been established, which is led core.

1353
02:29:29,130 --> 02:29:34,270
And the town had a previous arrangement in place, and that service provider was willing

1354
02:29:34,270 --> 02:29:38,710
at that time to come to an agreement with the town in order to customize the snow clearing

1355
02:29:38,710 --> 02:29:40,510
options for a grant and a view.

1356
02:29:40,510 --> 02:29:47,650
And so in order to maintain the same service level, we've gone through that process with

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02:29:47,650 --> 02:29:53,930
Ledcore to try to collaborate and negotiate with them to this extent in order to achieve

1358
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the same thing.

1359
02:29:56,070 --> 02:29:59,970
At this point in time, led core is

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02:30:00,000 --> 02:30:29,500
This is basically in the position where they can either adhere to coming into a third party agreement with us, or they could just choose to simply keep consistent with their agreement that they have with the Alberta transportation, which is to push the four lanes, while granted an avenue is a six-lane wide road, and clear their four lanes of snow into the parking lanes, whereas the town then has to deal with the problem of removing that snow. And so we have a current snow and ice control policy.

1361
02:30:29,500 --> 02:30:33,860
And some of the information that we received from like core is that they have new increased

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02:30:33,860 --> 02:30:39,400
service levels designated from AT that they have to adhere to, which means essentially

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02:30:39,400 --> 02:30:44,180
within a three centimeter snow accumulation they have to start clearing that road within

1364
02:30:44,180 --> 02:30:49,760
four hours or the way it's written is two hours within a lane, but essentially four hours.

1365
02:30:50,440 --> 02:30:54,460
So that service level is increased then what we currently have within our town of Moranville

1366
02:30:54,460 --> 02:31:01,260
policy. And in attempting to achieve anything different than that, again, it has to be,

1367
02:31:01,440 --> 02:31:05,720
we have to form an agreement or an arrangement with flag core. So to summarize that without

1368
02:31:05,720 --> 02:31:10,400
getting into much further details, essentially that's kind of an executive summary of the current

1369
02:31:10,400 --> 02:31:16,100
situation and the information included within the report at this time. If there is any questions,

1370
02:31:16,280 --> 02:31:22,540
however, yeah. Just noting here of the impact, this is administration is continuing to collect

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02:31:22,540 --> 02:31:39,300
to determine what budget impacts are coming back or we'll come back so I'm guessing this is not the last we will hear of this policy or this new issue but I will certainly open it up if there's any questions or comments here within council.

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02:31:41,040 --> 02:31:41,700
Councillor Richardson?

1373
02:31:41,700 --> 02:31:51,580
Yeah, I guess my only comment is if, you know, this new contract is going to cause us some undue hardship because of what they're doing.

1374
02:31:51,600 --> 02:32:07,440
I think that the mayor needs to have a conversation with our MLA or the Department of Transportation and try to figure out an amicable solution because, you know, hearing that their snow clearing could happen at any time within a snowfall could leave us in spots where we have.

1375
02:32:07,440 --> 02:32:20,760
Like you said, I spilled up and potential hazards for pedestrians to cross in those areas, so I think we need to have some sort of conversation, governance conversation with the MLA and a bird transportation.

1376
02:32:23,100 --> 02:32:25,680
Thank you, Councillor Richardson. Anybody else? Councillor Dafo?

1377
02:32:27,360 --> 02:32:34,600
Thank you. Somewhat flippantly, Deputy Mayor, if we took control of the road, that would probably be less of an issue than we have now, right?

1378
02:32:34,600 --> 02:32:36,420
just saying out loud.

1379
02:32:39,420 --> 02:32:43,660
Well said, I just quickly need to note that we are at 6.30.

1380
02:32:44,300 --> 02:32:47,920
I know that this is our break.

1381
02:32:48,200 --> 02:32:54,720
We're supposed to have, but I would ask if we could at least consider moving forward

1382
02:32:54,720 --> 02:33:00,220
after this one with our resident concern just because these folks have been sitting very,

1383
02:33:00,220 --> 02:33:05,040
very patiently here for many, many hours and we certainly appreciate that you filled

1384
02:33:05,040 --> 02:33:09,820
up our council chambers this evening and I don't want you to wait any longer this evening.

1385
02:33:10,520 --> 02:33:15,720
So, if there's no more questions around the Highway 642, if I can look at the recommended

1386
02:33:15,720 --> 02:33:17,460
motion, if somebody could do that for me.

1387
02:33:19,520 --> 02:33:20,000
Anybody?

1388
02:33:20,540 --> 02:33:20,760
Okay.

1389
02:33:20,860 --> 02:33:21,340
Councillor White.

1390
02:33:22,240 --> 02:33:27,180
I move that the committee accept the Highway 642 snow maintenance report as information.

1391
02:33:27,720 --> 02:33:28,300
I don't need to open.

1392
02:33:28,540 --> 02:33:29,140
I don't need to close.

1393
02:33:30,500 --> 02:33:30,980
Perfect.

1394
02:33:31,340 --> 02:33:32,240
I'll call the question.

1395
02:33:32,420 --> 02:33:33,200
All those in favour?

1396
02:33:33,200 --> 02:33:42,060
wonderful that passes unanimously. Now let's move on. 9.1.3 with our thanks to, I asked for the report.

1397
02:33:58,620 --> 02:34:08,040
Thank you again, Council. So this evening we are presenting an information report to Council on the basis of a motion given to us

1398
02:34:08,040 --> 02:34:14,100
from resident concerns that were raised and submitted to administration and also CCD Council.

1399
02:34:14,100 --> 02:34:19,860
bill. Essentially, the residents are concerned about safety and accessibility along 100

1400
02:34:19,860 --> 02:34:23,320
streets. And a quick summation here is that they are

1401
02:34:23,320 --> 02:34:27,480
concerned about increased pedestrian traffic, unclear traffic patterns, and insufficient

1402
02:34:27,480 --> 02:34:33,480
lighting as some of the safety concerns. Specifically, we're all focused tonight on the three sort

1403
02:34:33,480 --> 02:34:39,460
of requests or issues raised, which look like a stop sign relocation at the exit point

1404
02:34:39,460 --> 02:34:45,860
of Morenville. We'll talk about the consideration of a crosswalk across 100 streets from the entrance,

1405
02:34:46,140 --> 02:34:51,780
and then we'll also discuss the streetlights north of the entrance. And so in order to do that,

1406
02:34:51,920 --> 02:34:56,240
I just wanted to flag for council that this has been a collaborative effort internally as there are

1407
02:34:56,240 --> 02:35:01,800
a number of departments that we're collaborated with and sought their expertise including our

1408
02:35:01,800 --> 02:35:08,040
infrastructure services team, our enforcement services team, and our planning team in order to be

1409
02:35:08,040 --> 02:35:13,220
able to bring you a holistic set of information to consider in this matter.

1410
02:35:13,780 --> 02:35:19,080
So for the most part, Mr. Hauer is going to be helping us walk through some of the

1411
02:35:19,620 --> 02:35:23,860
intricacies of this and the locations, and so I will run his PowerPoint, and he will

1412
02:35:24,540 --> 02:35:25,380
convey his knowledge.

1413
02:35:28,060 --> 02:35:28,900
Thank you, Ms. A.

1414
02:35:29,940 --> 02:35:35,400
So here we just have some aerial images to say identifies on the left, the intersection

1415
02:35:35,400 --> 02:35:39,980
of 100 street, 107 out of the new and meadows drive.

1416
02:35:40,940 --> 02:35:47,760
You can see there the location of the stop sign just on the west side of the private

1417
02:35:47,760 --> 02:35:48,520
property line.

1418
02:35:49,360 --> 02:35:55,440
You can also see there is one existing street light and the identification of what potential

1419
02:35:55,440 --> 02:35:59,940
future street light locations would be following existing infrastructure standards.

1420
02:35:59,940 --> 02:36:08,040
It's the aerial to the right, you will see the existing crosswalk for our trail network.

1421
02:36:08,600 --> 02:36:12,380
That's sort of at the north end of the urban development boundary of town.

1422
02:36:13,520 --> 02:36:19,000
And this is the location where the street lighting would be requested to, based on the

1423
02:36:19,000 --> 02:36:20,760
resident concern raised.

1424
02:36:21,480 --> 02:36:25,900
So with that location context, we can move on to our first set of findings is regarding

1425
02:36:25,900 --> 02:36:26,740
the stop sign.

1426
02:36:26,740 --> 02:36:35,620
So the stop sign is currently on private property, technically a stop sign is not required in this location, but it is very common practice.

1427
02:36:36,340 --> 02:36:43,420
Meadows drive is a private road similar to other access roads to condominium developments or large commercial developments.

1428
02:36:44,300 --> 02:36:56,500
So where you will see on the south end of town, like the no frills development, where those stop signs are provided by the private property owner and are located.

1429
02:36:56,500 --> 02:37:03,560
by them. So that's a similar pattern. And if there was interest, then we could engage the

1430
02:37:03,560 --> 02:37:08,680
private property owner on relocating that stuff sign into public land.

1431
02:37:11,330 --> 02:37:12,590
So regarding the crossing

1432
02:37:12,590 --> 02:37:18,190
itself, so the crossing to the north that was pointed out in the previous slide is approximately

1433
02:37:18,190 --> 02:37:23,810
130 meters from this location. There's another crossing approximately 200 meters to the south,

1434
02:37:23,810 --> 02:37:35,510
at 105th Avenue. There's currently no pedestrian infrastructure on the west side of 100 street

1435
02:37:35,510 --> 02:37:42,410
or on meadows you drive for a crosswalk to connect to or pedestrians to be directed to.

1436
02:37:43,210 --> 02:37:48,450
So meadows drive is the primary vehicular access for the meadows of more and build development.

1437
02:37:49,590 --> 02:38:02,830
So while we do have some findings here, we would potentially be creating a conflict point and there are some safety considerations where you have pedestrians being led to no pedestrian infrastructure at a primarily drive access.

1438
02:38:03,870 --> 02:38:17,130
So the pedestrian count data is required for us to complete the transportation association of Canada, pedestrian control, control guide, decision support tool, treatment selection matrix.

1439
02:38:18,070 --> 02:38:23,250
Now, in the report, you will see that the current, the tech matrix completed with the current

1440
02:38:23,250 --> 02:38:30,290
data that we do have would support a crosswalk at this location for context that is based

1441
02:38:30,290 --> 02:38:35,410
off previous council direction to use the high standard of a 100 meter threshold between

1442
02:38:35,410 --> 02:38:39,130
crosswalks based on previous considerations on 100 avenue.

1443
02:38:40,050 --> 02:38:55,570
and the trigger really for that recommendation is the fact that as evidenced by the letter provided to council, there is a pedestrian desire to cross that location, but it's not other technical considerations that would be driving that recommendation.

1444
02:38:58,790 --> 02:39:10,290
So, in the additional review of looking at the Council's 10-year capital plan, so there

1445
02:39:10,290 --> 02:39:16,070
are street lights along the east side of 100th Street in line with this arterial standard

1446
02:39:16,070 --> 02:39:18,310
up until approximately 105th Avenue.

1447
02:39:18,770 --> 02:39:24,290
That's where identified that existing crossing approximately 200 meters south of this location,

1448
02:39:24,290 --> 02:39:27,650
and the light previously shown at 107F.

1449
02:39:28,470 --> 02:39:31,410
Within Council's tenure capital plan,

1450
02:39:31,970 --> 02:39:36,070
there is a levy funded project scheduled for 2028.

1451
02:39:36,710 --> 02:39:38,670
That would extend this arterial standard,

1452
02:39:39,130 --> 02:39:43,710
so street slides crossings from 105 Avenue

1453
02:39:43,710 --> 02:39:46,090
to 107 in Meadows Drive.

1454
02:39:47,250 --> 02:39:51,150
So within the scope of that project based

1455
02:39:51,150 --> 02:39:53,050
on our tax assessment, that would include

1456
02:39:53,050 --> 02:40:01,490
Pedestrian crossing at that time, then streetlights north of 107AV is actually part of the

1457
02:40:01,490 --> 02:40:08,290
arterial upgrade that would go from 107AV to the north boundary of the municipality.

1458
02:40:08,670 --> 02:40:14,930
So beyond the urban development footprint that we see in the map shown, full quarter

1459
02:40:14,930 --> 02:40:21,170
section to the north boundary, and that is currently scheduled beyond council's 10-year

1460
02:40:21,170 --> 02:40:21,890
capital plan.

1461
02:40:21,890 --> 02:40:22,830
So,

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02:40:24,920 --> 02:40:42,160
in terms of next step, in order to adequately complete the the tack matrix and in response to the letter provided from the community administration will gather that pedestrian count data in 2025 and administration will continue to implement council's capital plan as scoped and scheduled.

1463
02:40:50,190 --> 02:40:56,490
Thank you, Mr. Hour. Thank you, Ms. Hay. At this point, I will open that up to Council

1464
02:40:57,410 --> 02:41:03,070
and allow for comments or questions. Councillor Stainty, I knew it was going to be you first.

1465
02:41:03,910 --> 02:41:09,090
Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Yeah, the one leading out today, which maybe isn't always the best

1466
02:41:09,090 --> 02:41:15,190
thing, but thank you to Administration. I know that all of this was actioned prior to the

1467
02:41:15,190 --> 02:41:19,730
emotion and that this work was already happening behind the scenes and certainly want to recognize

1468
02:41:19,730 --> 02:41:26,010
also just the advocacy that's happened that continues to take place from the residents

1469
02:41:26,010 --> 02:41:32,550
of the metals and mornville. Really just a couple questions. With respect to the interim

1470
02:41:32,550 --> 02:41:39,030
crosswalk, it totally makes sense that there should be pedestrian infrastructure in place

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02:41:39,030 --> 02:41:43,230
separate from the vehicle access point to ensure pedestrian safety.

1472
02:41:44,050 --> 02:41:47,850
In saying that, how did we get around like, how did we get around this with the crossing

1473
02:41:47,850 --> 02:41:49,650
just south for P.K. Court?

1474
02:41:50,310 --> 02:41:53,790
Because when you look at their entry point, it's very similar.

1475
02:41:53,970 --> 02:41:59,150
There isn't a pedestrian sidewalk for safe passage.

1476
02:42:02,240 --> 02:42:03,320
Thank you, Councillor Sainte.

1477
02:42:03,860 --> 02:42:10,420
Through you, Mayor Boersma, looking at that location, it is the north boundary of the

1478
02:42:10,420 --> 02:42:15,400
the previous arterial upgrade and you'll see there is pedestrian infrastructure on one side of

1479
02:42:15,400 --> 02:42:24,460
the street, so at least crossing the the culvert to get access to that and then leading to a wider

1480
02:42:24,980 --> 02:42:30,800
sort of entrance way on the other side of the street. But yeah, in that case, it does only provide

1481
02:42:30,800 --> 02:42:37,720
pedestrian infrastructure on one side of the street. Now, that is to a single development

1482
02:42:38,580 --> 02:42:53,500
which I don't have the current population figures for, but with the anticipated population of the meadows of Moornville being about 154 dwelling units and 400 population at full build out, it is a bit more of an intensive development.

1483
02:42:54,740 --> 02:42:59,480
Okay, no thank you. Yeah, and certainly understand that there is the infrastructure in place on the east side of 100 street.

1484
02:42:59,480 --> 02:43:01,680
Can this ask me one more question?

1485
02:43:02,380 --> 02:43:06,900
Just for clarification purposes, so the landowner has the authority to move the stop sign,

1486
02:43:07,260 --> 02:43:12,100
has had the authority to move the stop sign anywhere on metal drive adjacent to 100 streets.

1487
02:43:12,300 --> 02:43:19,140
So if the stop sign was relocated to a more neutral, natural exit point adjacent to 100

1488
02:43:19,140 --> 02:43:26,660
street, would it still be on private property, or would that stop sign then be on public property?

1489
02:43:27,880 --> 02:43:30,820
Thank you, Councillor Santini, and through you, Mayor Boersma.

1490
02:43:31,220 --> 02:43:35,000
So currently the stop sign is located at the limit of the private property.

1491
02:43:35,960 --> 02:43:40,180
So the private property owner wouldn't have been able to relocate it of their own will

1492
02:43:40,180 --> 02:43:41,120
at any given time.

1493
02:43:41,120 --> 02:43:45,520
They would have required municipal authorization to locate it on public land.

1494
02:43:49,030 --> 02:43:49,770
Thank you very much.

1495
02:43:49,970 --> 02:43:51,090
I've got a couple more, but I'll wait.

1496
02:43:55,760 --> 02:43:56,440
No, okay.

1497
02:43:56,600 --> 02:43:57,220
It's back to you.

1498
02:43:57,860 --> 02:43:58,640
Oh, sorry.

1499
02:43:58,840 --> 02:44:00,080
Sorry, I didn't see you.

1500
02:44:00,080 --> 02:44:08,880
So, would there be an option of putting a temporary crosswalk in there, a couple of signs

1501
02:44:08,880 --> 02:44:14,800
and paint a crosswalk in there until it is fully developed and the 10-year plan kicks

1502
02:44:14,800 --> 02:44:21,340
in and the design is completed the way it's supposed to be in the capital plan, or is

1503
02:44:21,340 --> 02:44:22,420
that illegal?

1504
02:44:26,770 --> 02:44:27,650
Thank you, Councillor White.

1505
02:44:27,770 --> 02:44:32,030
Through you, through you, Mayor Burstman, to my knowledge, it is not illegal.

1506
02:44:33,530 --> 02:44:41,050
The challenge there would just be as highlighted in the report that essentially there's no sidewalk on either side of the street.

1507
02:44:41,330 --> 02:44:46,590
You're crossing culvert, right, because it's still at a rural standard of drain and ditch.

1508
02:44:47,890 --> 02:44:58,950
So you're providing the perception of safety that may not be there for the pedestrians and potentially guiding them to interacting at a vehicle conflict point.

1509
02:44:59,610 --> 02:44:59,970
So, that...

1510
02:45:00,000 --> 02:45:13,100
What would be consideration to what sort of treatment would be appropriate and what sort of messaging is given to the driver and pedestrian, but as I stated, no, it is not illegal to my knowledge. Thank you.

1511
02:45:15,420 --> 02:45:30,880
Okay, we're going to go mayor Boersma, then Councillor Hilleger, then Councillor Richardson, and then back to Councillor St. D.D.? Let sure you answer this earlier, but is there a concern that there's no sidewalk coming out of the metals? Just the street?

1512
02:45:32,200 --> 02:45:43,840
Thank you, Mayor Boersma, yes, so the lack of connection into any sort of pedestrian network is part of the current concern, both on the public side of the property and the private side.

1513
02:45:48,610 --> 02:45:49,570
You're good with that.

1514
02:45:50,370 --> 02:45:55,910
So how do you suggest we connect that down the road then, if that's a concern today, that would be concerned tomorrow.

1515
02:45:56,150 --> 02:45:57,810
So how do you suggest we?

1516
02:46:01,870 --> 02:46:07,250
Thank you, Mayor Boersma, through the arterial upgrade of 100 street.

1517
02:46:07,250 --> 02:46:13,370
That would address the presence of the culverts, that would also address the lighting, and

1518
02:46:13,370 --> 02:46:18,550
it would also complete the pedestrian network that, with analysis of that time, may or may

1519
02:46:18,550 --> 02:46:22,030
not utilize that entry to meadows of mornville.

1520
02:46:22,670 --> 02:46:23,470
Thank you.

1521
02:46:24,770 --> 02:46:25,690
Councillor Ann Hillier?

1522
02:46:27,150 --> 02:46:27,510
Perfect.

1523
02:46:29,130 --> 02:46:35,470
So when mentioned, you said the stop sign being located on private property right up to the

1524
02:46:35,470 --> 02:46:36,630
the boundary of the property.

1525
02:46:37,330 --> 02:46:44,210
So what would the process be if the owner, stop saying, wanted it on public property?

1526
02:46:44,410 --> 02:46:45,230
Is that an option?

1527
02:46:45,630 --> 02:46:48,410
You said that it's at their expense.

1528
02:46:48,750 --> 02:46:55,590
So I'm just curious, is that can we facilitate that at all, or where does that go, and

1529
02:46:55,590 --> 02:46:59,530
or have any of those conversations with the property owner occurred?

1530
02:47:01,230 --> 02:47:05,970
Thank you, Councillor O'Hallagher. Through you, Mayor Boersma, I'm not aware of those conversations

1531
02:47:05,970 --> 02:47:11,110
to date. Certainly if we were requested by the property owner to consider the sign relocation

1532
02:47:11,110 --> 02:47:16,690
administration would be happy to work with them. Obviously considering our own perspective

1533
02:47:16,690 --> 02:47:20,910
on on-site lines and at location. But yeah, we would be more than happy to work with the

1534
02:47:20,910 --> 02:47:21,410
property owner.

1535
02:47:23,950 --> 02:47:26,070
Councillor Richardson? Thank you.

1536
02:47:26,070 --> 02:47:28,170
Yeah, I guess a bit of a comment.

1537
02:47:28,990 --> 02:47:34,670
I like to find solutions, especially in situations like this, where we know that there's people crossing the road there.

1538
02:47:34,770 --> 02:47:38,770
They're not on an island, they're residents in our community.

1539
02:47:39,230 --> 02:47:42,970
And we know that's the means to access the rest of the community.

1540
02:47:43,610 --> 02:47:46,890
We're not going to ask somebody to walk in the ditch because that's hazardous in itself.

1541
02:47:47,430 --> 02:47:49,410
So I think we need to do something here.

1542
02:47:49,830 --> 02:47:54,790
And if it's something temporary to hold us over, I think doing your due diligence to make sure it's as safe as possible.

1543
02:47:54,790 --> 02:47:59,510
Knowing that we already have people crossing the street there and doing nothing is

1544
02:48:00,470 --> 02:48:05,250
Turning a blind eye is probably not a great thing either. So I think that we need to do something there

1545
02:48:05,250 --> 02:48:11,290
And I'd like to look into some sort of temporary solution until we can see the full build out happen there

1546
02:48:11,290 --> 02:48:12,070
I

1547
02:48:14,280 --> 02:48:16,200
sense some motions arising coming out of

1548
02:48:16,740 --> 02:48:19,040
Community of the whole Caldarsine Deney.

1549
02:48:22,290 --> 02:48:24,230
Yeah, thank you, Councillor W. Mair.

1550
02:48:24,230 --> 02:48:30,470
I was looking for a little direction on just stop sign relocation.

1551
02:48:31,150 --> 02:48:35,930
I guess my question to administration is does administration require direction from

1552
02:48:35,930 --> 02:48:38,290
council to meet with the private land owners?

1553
02:48:38,290 --> 02:48:45,550
I think that to me seems like the next logical step sort of in this partnership, right?

1554
02:48:45,710 --> 02:48:51,690
To discuss not only this report but the pedestrian count matrix that was referenced this evening,

1555
02:48:51,690 --> 02:48:58,330
the artier upgrade timelines and potential next steps, including perhaps a temporary

1556
02:48:58,330 --> 02:49:06,130
solution to bridge the gap until 2028 when there could be an interim crosswalk.

1557
02:49:08,690 --> 02:49:10,930
So yeah, I guess I'm looking for some direction from administration.

1558
02:49:11,810 --> 02:49:15,550
So I would suggest that we don't need it, that that's something we would sort of intuitively

1559
02:49:15,550 --> 02:49:19,210
do, but I also understand the practicalities of giving that direction.

1560
02:49:19,210 --> 02:49:21,650
So it's kind of a, at your call.

1561
02:49:23,840 --> 02:49:23,960
Okay.

1562
02:49:26,420 --> 02:49:26,980
Yeah.

1563
02:49:27,160 --> 02:49:35,500
Like, if you're comfortable helping me just make a motion to continue this conversation

1564
02:49:36,300 --> 02:49:40,680
with the private landowner, I think that to me seems like a logical step.

1565
02:49:41,460 --> 02:49:43,460
Yeah, we'll work on something for motions arising.

1566
02:49:46,200 --> 02:49:46,460
Perfect.

1567
02:49:47,000 --> 02:49:48,600
Have I missed anybody else?

1568
02:49:50,220 --> 02:49:55,680
Okay. I certainly echo everybody's sentiments here this evening and feel that one of the things

1569
02:49:55,680 --> 02:49:59,140
we really pride ourselves on is the safety and walkability of our community and that needs

1570
02:49:59,140 --> 02:50:05,100
to be for all of our community members. So certainly appreciate the effort and the showing

1571
02:50:05,100 --> 02:50:13,060
up that you folks have done here in our community and patiently waited. And even so much you

1572
02:50:13,060 --> 02:50:17,280
didn't even blur anything out. Like you were so wonderful and respectful and so we appreciate

1573
02:50:17,280 --> 02:50:21,500
that you also value that same safety and security here within our community.

1574
02:50:22,440 --> 02:50:29,880
At this point, there is a recommended motion if somebody is able to make that one.

1575
02:50:30,260 --> 02:50:31,100
Yeah, Councillor Santini.

1576
02:50:31,720 --> 02:50:32,440
Yeah, thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1577
02:50:32,580 --> 02:50:40,520
Yeah, I will move that count that Council accept the resident concern medals of more of the

1578
02:50:40,520 --> 02:50:41,580
report as information.

1579
02:50:43,400 --> 02:50:45,680
And are you okay without an open or do you need one?

1580
02:50:45,840 --> 02:50:46,020
Okay.

1581
02:50:46,020 --> 02:50:52,460
Perfect. And then I'm guessing no close. So let's call that into question here. Call that question. All those in favor?

1582
02:50:54,450 --> 02:51:01,030
And that passes unanimously and that also brings us to 10 to 7. So we will call the the break

1583
02:51:01,970 --> 02:51:06,510
And we can certainly have that conversation with any folks here that are looking to converse

1584
02:51:06,510 --> 02:51:12,310
But we will call that break from 650 until 720 will come back in

1585
03:22:18,540 --> 03:22:48,520
Thank you, everybody, for your patience and coming back promptly for 20 after. We're back into committee of the whole, and at this point, the last we had a motion to accept the resident concern from the Meadows of Mornville, and now we'll move on to our wonderful CAO report. And I'll hand that back to the administration. Thanks. So I'll just recap my written report quickly for council. As you may recall, we've implemented supplemental

1586
03:22:48,520 --> 03:22:53,300
assessment and taxation and so I'm pleased to report that for 2024 we've been able to generate

1587
03:22:53,920 --> 03:23:02,740
an extra 300 I wish $35,824 in supplementary tax revenue so that's a good new story for us for

1588
03:23:02,740 --> 03:23:07,100
sure. A couple of things that go along with the season so the Christmas hampers and the giving

1589
03:23:07,100 --> 03:23:13,480
tree are in full swing so Christmas hampers midstream and more of a adoptive family are we're

1590
03:23:13,480 --> 03:23:18,580
We're partnering with them through our FCSS to refer clients to them to pick up Christmas

1591
03:23:18,580 --> 03:23:22,560
hampers so that, I'm sorry, and connecting them with those types of supports.

1592
03:23:23,200 --> 03:23:28,700
The giving tree is about seniors and how is adults, and so the time is getting short

1593
03:23:28,700 --> 03:23:35,920
on this one, but so far 71 individuals have registered to get a name and then return a gift

1594
03:23:35,920 --> 03:23:39,860
and that goes to need to be returned by about mid-December, so if anyone was interested

1595
03:23:39,860 --> 03:23:40,520
did now is the time.

1596
03:23:41,760 --> 03:23:44,320
Update on our wellness and recreation access program

1597
03:23:44,320 --> 03:23:45,640
or rap as we like to call it.

1598
03:23:45,700 --> 03:23:48,740
We've had 54 residents access it,

1599
03:23:48,880 --> 03:23:52,960
and we've given out $13,450 of the $15,000 budget this year.

1600
03:23:53,120 --> 03:23:54,040
So another good news story.

1601
03:23:54,680 --> 03:23:56,920
The poppy tree, I mean, it's good news all around right now.

1602
03:23:56,920 --> 03:24:00,220
The poppy tree had a record high of $585 contributed

1603
03:24:00,220 --> 03:24:02,480
from its 10th year with the town.

1604
03:24:04,320 --> 03:24:07,200
And also in good news, and hopefully nothing ever happens to us.

1605
03:24:07,200 --> 03:24:08,600
We've been approved for cyber insurance

1606
03:24:08,600 --> 03:24:13,700
So starting January for his 2025 we'll have protections in that regard, you're well

1607
03:24:13,700 --> 03:24:17,740
apprised at the Canada Post Strike and some of the things that we are doing as mentioned

1608
03:24:17,740 --> 03:24:18,400
also in protocol.

1609
03:24:19,120 --> 03:24:24,260
And then I wanted to flag for council to you that we've had one of our land use experts

1610
03:24:24,260 --> 03:24:25,100
on Shugupta.

1611
03:24:25,520 --> 03:24:30,120
She wrote an article for the Journal of Alberta Professional Planners Institute or APPI that

1612
03:24:30,120 --> 03:24:33,320
was published about our historic places in Mornville.

1613
03:24:33,840 --> 03:24:38,140
And it caught the attention of the government's historic resources management branch who

1614
03:24:38,140 --> 03:24:45,120
in late November came out for a walking tour to look at some of our historical heritage buildings

1615
03:24:45,120 --> 03:24:49,120
of significance and some of the architectural characteristics and such. And so we're looking

1616
03:24:49,120 --> 03:24:55,160
forward to seeing how the MDP will capture some of our policy statements around our history.

1617
03:24:56,740 --> 03:25:02,320
Wonderful, all good news stories and that was lovely when it came across our email today just sharing

1618
03:25:02,320 --> 03:25:04,840
and that it's nice to have that focus

1619
03:25:04,840 --> 03:25:08,900
and that good work's been captured or looked upon.

1620
03:25:09,180 --> 03:25:10,280
At this point, I'll open it up.

1621
03:25:10,400 --> 03:25:11,920
Anybody comments, questions?

1622
03:25:12,920 --> 03:25:13,560
Mayor Boersma?

1623
03:25:14,720 --> 03:25:18,480
So I just want to take a moment to thank Miss Gupta

1624
03:25:19,740 --> 03:25:21,800
for the exceptional piece she created.

1625
03:25:23,020 --> 03:25:25,500
I know I read it and then the depth of thought

1626
03:25:25,500 --> 03:25:28,220
and creativity she put into it is truly remarkable.

1627
03:25:29,160 --> 03:25:31,120
And I appreciate the clarity inside

1628
03:25:31,120 --> 03:25:35,780
that it brings, can see considerable effort into what it went into crafting it.

1629
03:25:36,260 --> 03:25:41,240
And, you know, the ability for her to present as material, it was compelling.

1630
03:25:41,460 --> 03:25:46,320
And obviously, because government came, it was a true testament to her skills and

1631
03:25:46,320 --> 03:25:51,280
dedication of what she does and certainly happy that she's in our community.

1632
03:25:51,960 --> 03:25:55,160
So again, thanks again for outstanding work and

1633
03:25:56,000 --> 03:25:59,040
look forward to more of the contributions she has to our community.

1634
03:25:59,040 --> 03:26:00,020
Very

1635
03:26:02,650 --> 03:26:08,250
well said, with that being said, wondering if somebody would make a motion that we accept

1636
03:26:08,250 --> 03:26:12,310
this firm information, looking at this side of the tables.

1637
03:26:13,030 --> 03:26:13,710
Councillor Richardson.

1638
03:26:15,110 --> 03:26:18,290
I'll make the motion that we accept that the report is information.

1639
03:26:19,630 --> 03:26:20,230
Thanks.

1640
03:26:20,890 --> 03:26:21,990
All those in favour?

1641
03:26:22,970 --> 03:26:23,570
Perfect.

1642
03:26:23,890 --> 03:26:24,530
That passes unanimously.

1643
03:26:25,490 --> 03:26:29,430
And then quickly we'll move on and thank you Ms. Hafer.

1644
03:26:29,430 --> 03:26:33,670
that report to our Council Board's committees and commission reports. I'm going to start with

1645
03:26:33,670 --> 03:26:34,490
you, Councillor Richardson.

1646
03:26:35,130 --> 03:26:41,730
Yeah, so actually, I'm trying to think here. I missed our last Erwack meeting. I was

1647
03:26:41,730 --> 03:26:46,930
in Moisture when that one went on, so nothing to report on there.

1648
03:26:52,030 --> 03:26:53,210
Yeah, I think that's everything

1649
03:26:53,210 --> 03:26:53,430
actually.

1650
03:26:55,660 --> 03:26:58,980
Councillor Saintinier. Thank you, Deputy Mayor.

1651
03:26:58,980 --> 03:27:25,980
In terms of updates, so for homeland housing, we had a meeting plan for about seven weeks with Minister Nixon, and he was unable to attend sort of last minute, so it was a little disappointed in that specific to the 22 St. Thomas Street project in St. Albert.

1652
03:27:25,980 --> 03:27:35,140
still remaining optimistic that this project will move forward with the City of St. Albert and

1653
03:27:36,240 --> 03:27:42,820
CMHC putting their financial commitments to the project.

1654
03:27:45,300 --> 03:27:54,220
Just past our budget and operating and capital plan with homeland requisition

1655
03:27:54,220 --> 03:27:59,060
position for municipalities is 2.5% for 2025.

1656
03:28:01,940 --> 03:28:11,650
Mornville Library met a couple of weeks ago as a board to go over, oh man.

1657
03:28:13,290 --> 03:28:16,770
Plan a service, yes, which was a great exercise.

1658
03:28:17,990 --> 03:28:22,970
For our new board, we have a number of new members that sit on the board

1659
03:28:22,970 --> 03:28:32,750
and so that will come back to the Board for approval, actually this week. So, yeah, that's

1660
03:28:32,750 --> 03:28:34,350
all I got for my boards.

1661
03:28:36,860 --> 03:28:42,580
Councillor Ann Heliger. Okay, yes, your report's there. Mayor

1662
03:28:42,580 --> 03:28:42,900
Worseman.

1663
03:28:48,220 --> 03:28:50,620
Apologies. Spent some time with Evan and Global

1664
03:28:50,620 --> 03:28:57,700
shareholder, both Bill and I, Mayor from,

1665
03:29:00,230 --> 03:29:03,130
I've got to think here, Mayor Danilock, thanks.

1666
03:29:03,390 --> 03:29:04,090
I was trying to think.

1667
03:29:05,110 --> 03:29:10,510
We sat on as shareholders with the Ebb and the Global Board, and it was approximately

1668
03:29:10,510 --> 03:29:17,510
four hour meeting, but certainly, lots of insights, and it was great to actually sit there and hear

1669
03:29:17,510 --> 03:29:23,690
We're about stuff and then also to see what we as a community, how we can enhance that

1670
03:29:23,690 --> 03:29:27,570
as mayors together so that was good.

1671
03:29:28,690 --> 03:29:36,930
I also met with the MLA with Sturgeon Regional mayors on transportation, local transportation

1672
03:29:36,930 --> 03:29:43,570
so we have a meeting every quarter which then we have touch points on all of the regional

1673
03:29:43,570 --> 03:29:49,850
issues we have with province and how he brings that forward back to transportation. So thank

1674
03:29:49,850 --> 03:29:55,070
you very much. Wonderful. I'll go to yourself, Councillor

1675
03:29:55,070 --> 03:29:59,570
Wait. Thank you, Deputy Mayor. So...

1676
03:30:00,000 --> 03:30:06,460
Thank you, Zach meeting, our first meeting on November 28th. It was a good introduction. I'm looking forward to working with the committee.

1677
03:30:10,420 --> 03:30:30,920
The chamber did their luncheon on December 4th. And it was, there was presentations from different charities that were present at the lunch. It was really good and informative. And the Marvel Historical and Cultural Society had, we had a meeting last night, a lot of dialogue on different things, especially

1678
03:30:30,920 --> 03:30:38,020
some of the historical stuff that we'll be dealing with as a result of the good

1679
03:30:38,020 --> 03:30:44,800
work of Ms. Cooper. One thing that I wanted to mention with that is on light

1680
03:30:44,800 --> 03:30:51,400
up the night festival they had 153 visitors. So in the picture 153 people down

1681
03:30:51,400 --> 03:30:58,980
there I can't but it was a good weekend for them and they really enjoyed having

1682
03:30:58,980 --> 03:31:04,120
all those people through there and then the only, the last thing I have is my first meeting

1683
03:31:04,120 --> 03:31:05,420
with Rose Ridge is on Thursday.

1684
03:31:07,560 --> 03:31:10,560
Wonderful. Thank you. Councillor Dafo.

1685
03:31:11,300 --> 03:31:17,400
Thank you, Deputy Mayor. Arrow Utilities last meeting I did not attend because that's

1686
03:31:17,400 --> 03:31:22,880
same week they fetched me off to the hospital and I felt with the medication I was on,

1687
03:31:23,000 --> 03:31:29,880
probably best not to drive in the morning. I did attend CSAC the November 28th meeting.

1688
03:31:30,520 --> 03:31:37,320
It was a short meeting, primarily it was to introduce ourselves to the new board members,

1689
03:31:37,840 --> 03:31:40,460
new committee members rather than them to us.

1690
03:31:41,300 --> 03:31:44,440
Our library manager will be the recording secretary.

1691
03:31:45,700 --> 03:31:51,440
We received a thank you letter from our past recording secretary.

1692
03:31:51,640 --> 03:31:53,100
I can't quite remember her name.

1693
03:31:53,240 --> 03:31:56,400
I think it might have been Jennifer and Heliger or something like that.

1694
03:31:56,400 --> 03:32:05,220
But it was well received, and thanks were given back to Councillor Inhaliger for that.

1695
03:32:05,600 --> 03:32:11,920
December meeting has been canceled, but I understand that January will be fairly full.

1696
03:32:12,300 --> 03:32:18,580
And then Northern Light's library system was a virtual meeting and having looked at the

1697
03:32:18,580 --> 03:32:19,080
agenda.

1698
03:32:19,540 --> 03:32:21,960
I didn't feel there was real value there.

1699
03:32:21,960 --> 03:32:27,780
and I knew that Councillor and Helgier's report would have all the details that I needed.

1700
03:32:32,470 --> 03:32:37,450
I don't have a whole lot other than what's been put in my report, other than the fact

1701
03:32:37,450 --> 03:32:45,790
that back in October I was asked to join or given the opportunity to serve or appointed

1702
03:32:45,790 --> 03:32:53,210
the Safe and Healthy Committees or communities committee through AB Munis and I had my first meeting

1703
03:32:53,210 --> 03:32:57,810
on Friday, and although that is not one of our standard ones, I see a lot of really good

1704
03:32:57,810 --> 03:33:02,730
work. I see a group of really dynamic people sitting around that table, and we had an

1705
03:33:02,730 --> 03:33:09,590
all day session on Friday, and hope that I'm able to at least have some value added and

1706
03:33:09,590 --> 03:33:14,690
bring things back here to our community, but it's a pleasure to serve and be part of that

1707
03:33:14,690 --> 03:33:20,470
and see what's going on and the passion that is around the room, and certainly to share

1708
03:33:20,470 --> 03:33:25,650
some of the issues because there's some very small communities that are part of that, and then some big cities as well.

1709
03:33:26,010 --> 03:33:33,310
So that's about it, everything else is in our report, so if I could ask somebody to note we don't have to make the motion.

1710
03:33:33,470 --> 03:33:39,670
I'm going to ask if somebody would potentially be willing to make a motion passed here.

1711
03:33:43,020 --> 03:33:43,720
So moved.

1712
03:33:44,680 --> 03:33:45,660
All those in favor?

1713
03:33:46,580 --> 03:33:48,260
Wonderful, and it is yours again.

1714
03:33:49,200 --> 03:34:01,360
Thank you so we have business arising from the committee of a whole and I think we'll

1715
03:34:01,360 --> 03:34:10,760
start going to the, if there's any business coming out of it on the renumeration, I'd

1716
03:34:10,760 --> 03:34:14,440
I turn the chair to bring a, yes.

1717
03:34:14,980 --> 03:34:16,520
Sorry, I should have just kept it, okay.

1718
03:34:18,840 --> 03:34:20,900
All right, Mayor Boersma.

1719
03:34:22,240 --> 03:34:29,540
On Council Renemoration Review Committee, so I would like to put forward a motion.

1720
03:34:32,480 --> 03:34:37,040
Recommend administration bring a comprehensive report to Council that includes the findings

1721
03:34:37,040 --> 03:34:41,880
of the Hillcress Compensation Report, the recommendation of Council Compensation Committee, and

1722
03:34:41,880 --> 03:34:44,180
any other relevant considerations.

1723
03:34:48,660 --> 03:34:52,800
Okay, is there an open for you?

1724
03:34:53,680 --> 03:35:01,160
So I think we all heard, or we had lots of talks about the Renemoration Review Committee report tonight.

1725
03:35:02,160 --> 03:35:08,700
And I think it needs to go back to administration and get, look at full report,

1726
03:35:08,980 --> 03:35:13,540
add some of the items, and I think that what are the positives,

1727
03:35:13,540 --> 03:35:19,260
what are the negatives, what we can do, and get that report back to us to actually maybe

1728
03:35:19,260 --> 03:35:27,560
have a talk in committee or a whole, and then discuss that report full sum as a council

1729
03:35:27,560 --> 03:35:32,720
here. So hopefully everything comes back from administration, too. Thanks.

1730
03:35:33,640 --> 03:35:36,860
Perfect. Any comments or questions or?

1731
03:35:38,900 --> 03:35:40,500
Yeah, Councillor Saintini?

1732
03:35:40,500 --> 03:35:50,330
Just for clarification, Deputy Mayor, to administration, as part of this motion, can we

1733
03:35:51,130 --> 03:35:59,850
ensure that the new market comparators are a true reflection of who we are as a community

1734
03:36:00,420 --> 03:36:01,950
relative to the region?

1735
03:36:02,890 --> 03:36:09,510
Because I think I heard from most of, if not all, of Council, that there was some concern

1736
03:36:09,510 --> 03:36:15,330
around some of the comparators that were added and also removed from the previous list.

1737
03:36:16,170 --> 03:36:21,450
Yeah, for sure. We would explore with Council the rationale behind the policy decision,

1738
03:36:21,570 --> 03:36:26,830
the existing policy decision about why those comparators were chosen and ask some of the rationale

1739
03:36:26,830 --> 03:36:31,130
that I'm in behind that. So that would be coming as part of it. Those other relevant considerations.

1740
03:36:34,170 --> 03:36:39,330
Perfect. Thank you. Would you like to close? Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry, Councillor Defoe.

1741
03:36:40,430 --> 03:36:47,870
No, it's okay. Apologies if I didn't hear this, but when are we looking at this coming back?

1742
03:36:49,830 --> 03:36:56,010
So, when would, I guess I'll ask that question of administration, when do you feel that you can do this?

1743
03:36:56,110 --> 03:37:01,550
And I understand like, you know, we've got Christmas coming up here, but at the same time, it is a relevant question.

1744
03:37:01,850 --> 03:37:05,470
So, I totally respect that. And so, go ahead.

1745
03:37:05,470 --> 03:37:08,170
At this point, I'd say some time in a February meeting.

1746
03:37:10,940 --> 03:37:12,440
Okay, that works for me.

1747
03:37:12,900 --> 03:37:17,900
And the reason I asked the question is, as I said, during committee of the whole.

1748
03:37:18,660 --> 03:37:23,280
If we're looking at lowering council's pay, that needs to fall on this council.

1749
03:37:23,860 --> 03:37:27,280
Not this council making a decision to lower the pay of the next group.

1750
03:37:31,190 --> 03:37:32,770
Okay, would you like to close, Mayor?

1751
03:37:33,850 --> 03:37:38,230
No, Mayor Boisman, can I confirm the motion on the board if it's correct?

1752
03:37:38,230 --> 03:37:41,870
I think I might have missed the last point you made.

1753
03:37:42,670 --> 03:37:46,030
Okay, so I don't see it on the board, sorry.

1754
03:37:57,080 --> 03:37:57,700
Yes, you did.

1755
03:37:58,780 --> 03:38:04,500
So what I've got here is I recommend administration bring a comprehensive report to council.

1756
03:38:06,500 --> 03:38:13,920
That includes the findings of the Hillcrest Compensation Report, comma, the recommendations of

1757
03:38:13,920 --> 03:38:22,740
Council's Compensation Committee and any other relevant considerations to

1758
03:38:27,340 --> 03:38:29,440
the first meeting in February,

1759
03:38:31,580 --> 03:38:36,340
first meeting of Council, so don't know exactly what date that is, sorry, guys.

1760
03:38:37,920 --> 03:38:38,420
I can look

1761
03:38:50,800 --> 03:38:53,320
11, I believe

1762
03:38:56,360 --> 03:38:57,260
that's February 11,

1763
03:39:16,310 --> 03:39:17,430
25.

1764
03:39:17,430 --> 03:39:17,570
I don't know if

1765
03:39:25,860 --> 03:39:28,040
that's true or not.

1766
03:39:28,040 --> 03:39:28,260
Exactly.

1767
03:39:42,900 --> 03:39:45,280
Administration, do you feel that there's something missing?

1768
03:39:45,520 --> 03:39:46,960
Is that date working for you?

1769
03:39:47,860 --> 03:39:47,940
Yeah.

1770
03:39:48,540 --> 03:39:50,380
Now is that motion working for you?

1771
03:39:50,500 --> 03:39:50,600
Yeah.

1772
03:39:50,960 --> 03:39:51,260
Perfect.

1773
03:39:52,360 --> 03:39:52,800
Okay.

1774
03:39:53,080 --> 03:39:53,900
And you don't need to close.

1775
03:39:54,120 --> 03:39:54,680
You're good with this.

1776
03:39:55,520 --> 03:39:55,740
Okay.

1777
03:39:56,180 --> 03:39:59,560
Then I will ask the question, all those in favor?

1778
03:40:01,000 --> 03:40:02,380
And that passes unanimously.

1779
03:40:02,680 --> 03:40:04,300
I did open it up to you.

1780
03:40:05,930 --> 03:40:06,210
Okay.

1781
03:40:06,210 --> 03:40:09,370
Okay, and I will return the chair back to you unless you have another motion.

1782
03:40:09,690 --> 03:40:10,070
Okay.

1783
03:40:10,290 --> 03:40:10,470
All right.

1784
03:40:19,440 --> 03:40:21,980
I will ask Councillor Saint Denis.

1785
03:40:26,850 --> 03:40:27,590
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1786
03:40:28,470 --> 03:40:46,190
I would move that Council Director Administration to follow up with the medals of Mornville property owner to discuss next steps, including crosswalk considerations, streetlight additions, and stop sign relocation.

1787
03:41:33,300 --> 03:41:35,780
including crosswalk considerations,

1788
03:41:39,000 --> 03:41:40,320
street light additions,

1789
03:41:42,640 --> 03:41:44,500
and stop sign relocation.

1790
03:42:22,280 --> 03:42:23,140
Yeah, thank you very much.

1791
03:42:24,300 --> 03:42:25,440
Did you want to open?

1792
03:42:26,420 --> 03:42:26,980
Yeah, yes please.

1793
03:42:27,600 --> 03:42:27,920
So,

1794
03:42:31,300 --> 03:42:43,420
you know, with an understanding that these concerns were brought forward in early October through many conversations with the residents,

1795
03:42:43,420 --> 03:42:48,220
Since most of these concerns predate even our term on council.

1796
03:42:49,370 --> 03:42:54,460
So I do wonder if there's a temporary solution to bridge the gap between the pedestrian

1797
03:42:54,460 --> 03:43:00,940
count analysis that'll take place next year and the arterio upgrade scheduled for 2028.

1798
03:43:01,580 --> 03:43:06,880
Because obviously residents currently don't have a safe passage across 100 street.

1799
03:43:06,880 --> 03:43:17,600
And as it exists currently, children and adults of all ages are crossing the street without any safe passage.

1800
03:43:17,960 --> 03:43:31,560
So I guess my hope is that through collaboration with the owner that there can be a temporary solution and also some longer term solutions in this partnership.

1801
03:43:31,560 --> 03:43:32,540
Go

1802
03:43:37,760 --> 03:43:38,300
ahead, Councillor.

1803
03:43:38,580 --> 03:43:46,100
I guess I might have an amendment, because I'm just thinking this should almost be two motions.

1804
03:43:46,260 --> 03:43:52,380
One should be a conversation with the property owner regarding the next steps in moving the

1805
03:43:52,380 --> 03:44:00,160
sign, but the crosswalk itself for the pedestrian safety is probably something that we need to

1806
03:44:00,160 --> 03:44:04,100
be doing before we even have conversations or potentially while we're having conversations

1807
03:44:04,100 --> 03:44:07,680
because the property owner there wouldn't have anything to do with that correct?

1808
03:44:10,120 --> 03:44:15,240
Thank you for raising the point. I can see this going two different ways. With Councillor

1809
03:44:15,240 --> 03:44:19,620
Tannis motion it's closing the loop with this property owner and you are correct Councillor

1810
03:44:19,620 --> 03:44:24,420
Richardson that the one thing that we could transact with the property owner is about the stop sign.

1811
03:44:24,620 --> 03:44:28,100
So that's what they have some purview over and we could work them through next steps.

1812
03:44:28,560 --> 03:44:33,280
The other pieces of that motion would be just to relay what has gone into this meeting.

1813
03:44:33,280 --> 03:44:38,700
If we want to do more work on those two items that are not the purview of the proper

1814
03:44:38,700 --> 03:44:40,240
unit, that would be a separate option.

1815
03:44:43,400 --> 03:44:45,120
If I have that interpretation correct.

1816
03:44:45,640 --> 03:44:46,680
No, and I appreciate that.

1817
03:44:47,480 --> 03:44:53,880
Obviously, there were some concerns that were brought forward tonight with respect to pedestrian

1818
03:44:53,880 --> 03:44:59,900
infrastructure that currently exists or doesn't exist on the metals of mourn.

1819
03:45:00,000 --> 03:45:25,860
So private property. And so I guess my thought was that, you know, through, through, I guess this follow-up conversation that perhaps there's a greater understanding from, from the ownership side of some of the, the augmentations or options that they might have to expedite a potential crosswalk. But yeah.

1820
03:45:31,570 --> 03:45:34,630
All right. So you want to leave the motions as it stands right now then?

1821
03:45:34,630 --> 03:45:35,510
You

1822
03:45:48,790 --> 03:46:17,290
know, I guess, yes, I, yeah, I would keep my motion as it stands because I do think that I think there is a lens that the property owner also brings to this conversation that hasn't been captured and perhaps the owner has some ideas as to what that could look like with an understanding of what, like, what crossing, like, what that actually looks like right now because, you know, we've gotten input input from a number of residents, but I know that

1823
03:46:17,290 --> 03:46:23,670
That's some of the gents and home personnel have been at the previous two meetings.

1824
03:46:23,950 --> 03:46:27,450
They have a vested interest in this and I think they have a perspective that hasn't

1825
03:46:27,450 --> 03:46:28,450
yet been articulated.

1826
03:46:30,250 --> 03:46:33,670
We're always happy to have a conversation so I have no concerns with this motion.

1827
03:46:36,200 --> 03:46:36,360
All right.

1828
03:46:36,980 --> 03:46:37,600
Any other questions?

1829
03:46:38,020 --> 03:46:39,140
Go ahead, Councillor Whiteen.

1830
03:46:39,620 --> 03:46:41,460
Yeah, I'm going to definitely support this motion.

1831
03:46:41,920 --> 03:46:47,880
And, you know, if you look at the property itself and I've walked it several times and

1832
03:46:47,880 --> 03:46:50,140
I've walked across where there's no street crosswalk.

1833
03:46:50,560 --> 03:46:56,500
There is no sidewalk in the Meadows of Mornville, so it's not like that's the only place in

1834
03:46:56,500 --> 03:47:00,060
town where a sidewalk ends and there's no sidewalk to go to.

1835
03:47:00,480 --> 03:47:05,660
There's several places in town, so to say that we can't do it on this one because there's

1836
03:47:05,660 --> 03:47:11,520
no sidewalk to connect to, well there's other ones in town, but I think that this is the

1837
03:47:11,520 --> 03:47:16,400
right-in-term solution to a problem that's going to get resolved once everything gets built

1838
03:47:16,400 --> 03:47:24,800
out, but to provide the safety of an actual crosswalk for drivers to see pedestrians crossing

1839
03:47:24,800 --> 03:47:30,220
that road, even though it's not right up to Alberta transportation standards is better

1840
03:47:30,220 --> 03:47:33,600
than nothing, and that's what we have right now, and people are walking across that street

1841
03:47:33,600 --> 03:47:34,180
with nothing.

1842
03:47:34,440 --> 03:47:43,980
So, I think that hopefully the crosswalk consideration turns into an actual crosswalk, and I don't think

1843
03:47:43,980 --> 03:47:52,840
I think you'll be painting lines across that road in the snow, but, you know, first thing in the spring, it'd be nice to see the lines get painted and the signs go up.

1844
03:47:55,370 --> 03:47:56,670
Councillor, I'll end up here, Mayor.

1845
03:47:57,830 --> 03:48:01,030
Thank you, Mayor. I certainly want to speak in support of this.

1846
03:48:01,930 --> 03:48:09,170
As we broke, the two of the ladies came up, the two carons came up and they spoke, and the ones that her grandchildren crossed that road every single day.

1847
03:48:09,170 --> 03:48:17,170
And that's a really scary thought that they're doing so without that kind of safety and especially when it's dark at four o'clock here right now.

1848
03:48:17,830 --> 03:48:24,910
So certainly appreciate Councillor St. Denis making this motion and taking such a passionate role with all of this.

1849
03:48:27,730 --> 03:48:28,470
Anyone else?

1850
03:48:31,660 --> 03:48:32,000
All right.

1851
03:48:32,880 --> 03:48:41,140
I also, you know, I think it's a great motion and I think, you know, even what I heard tonight from the two parents, I didn't know their name was Karen.

1852
03:48:42,640 --> 03:48:47,800
I think I really appreciate the fact that the town is able to go and talk to them.

1853
03:48:47,980 --> 03:49:09,020
And also, you know, discussing even with the school system as a private owner to be able to look at what they can do to enhance that safety at this moment for the kids instead of having to walk across and just start that enhancement on his own property as private ownership of the road there.

1854
03:49:09,020 --> 03:49:18,880
So I'm sure that we will have a lot safer area in the matters of Maureenville for those kids, so I will be supporting this.

1855
03:49:19,120 --> 03:49:20,040
So with that, do you want to close?

1856
03:49:21,860 --> 03:49:28,180
No, I really appreciate the perspectives and certainly the support on this.

1857
03:49:28,520 --> 03:49:34,180
And I know that I wasn't the first member of council to bring this forward.

1858
03:49:34,180 --> 03:49:42,460
I know that others including Councilor White was sort of banging this drum early on in our

1859
03:49:42,460 --> 03:49:51,020
term in terms of with respect to some of the safety concerns that the residents brought forward

1860
03:49:51,020 --> 03:49:59,340
then and have continued to bring forward. And I'm really hopeful that there can be not only some

1861
03:49:59,340 --> 03:50:06,360
long-term solutions to ensure safe passage, but also some temporary solutions to bridge

1862
03:50:06,360 --> 03:50:14,940
the gap between some of the studies and some of the upgrades that are scheduled in the

1863
03:50:14,940 --> 03:50:15,720
coming years.

1864
03:50:19,420 --> 03:50:19,680
All right.

1865
03:50:19,840 --> 03:50:20,440
Thank you very much.

1866
03:50:20,540 --> 03:50:21,000
I'm with that.

1867
03:50:21,140 --> 03:50:21,800
I'll ask the question.

1868
03:50:21,900 --> 03:50:22,660
All those in favor?

1869
03:50:23,600 --> 03:50:23,780
All right.

1870
03:50:24,060 --> 03:50:25,200
And that is unanimous.

1871
03:50:26,560 --> 03:50:26,760
All right.

1872
03:50:26,900 --> 03:50:30,460
Any other motions coming out is Councillor Richardson?

1873
03:50:30,460 --> 03:50:49,880
Yeah, thanks. And actually, this is probably more of a subsequent motion on that one, but I'd like to make a motion that counsel directs administration to come back with a couple cross lock costs for that area, temporary solution, and then permanent solution so that would be my motion.

1874
03:50:51,810 --> 03:50:56,610
Right. You want to open or did you want to lay it out first?

1875
03:51:00,460 --> 03:51:07,760
Yeah, and I guess the address would be 100 street and Meadows Drive, or 107th Ave.

1876
03:51:39,600 --> 03:51:41,380
Councillor Richards, you want to look at the motion there?

1877
03:51:47,160 --> 03:51:48,120
That's the one.

1878
03:51:49,940 --> 03:51:51,180
All right. Did you want to speak to it?

1879
03:51:51,540 --> 03:51:53,280
Yeah, I'll just speak to the motion.

1880
03:51:53,740 --> 03:51:57,420
And I thought Councillor St. Denise's motion first was good.

1881
03:51:58,040 --> 03:52:03,880
I just worry a little bit about how, or say I said, maybe the transactional piece

1882
03:52:03,880 --> 03:52:07,020
where, you know, this is something that's set in stone, we're going to have something

1883
03:52:07,020 --> 03:52:11,480
come back. It gives us a solution. We can either take it, move it to another capital

1884
03:52:11,480 --> 03:52:17,300
project, but this at least gets the ball rolling here, and we're not kicking it down the street.

1885
03:52:17,440 --> 03:52:18,680
We're waiting for this to come back.

1886
03:52:21,370 --> 03:52:22,790
So anybody want to speak to that?

1887
03:52:24,930 --> 03:52:26,770
Councillor, when are we looking to come back, Rebecca,

1888
03:52:29,230 --> 03:52:30,690
how long do you think that would take

1889
03:52:30,690 --> 03:52:31,050
for you?

1890
03:52:31,530 --> 03:52:32,670
So February is good for me.

1891
03:52:35,430 --> 03:52:36,250
February 11th, then.

1892
03:52:40,330 --> 03:52:41,390
Did you want to put that on there?

1893
03:52:47,220 --> 03:52:50,880
Yeah, a February meeting of council is perfect for me.

1894
03:53:03,670 --> 03:53:04,670
Any other questions?

1895
03:53:04,850 --> 03:53:05,790
Well, she's finishing typing.

1896
03:53:06,810 --> 03:53:07,170
All right.

1897
03:53:07,590 --> 03:53:08,310
Did you want to close?

1898
03:53:09,090 --> 03:53:15,290
I guess just the only close is hopefully before February 11th, there's the meeting with the

1899
03:53:15,290 --> 03:53:18,510
landowner there, and potentially there's a solution that comes up before this.

1900
03:53:18,910 --> 03:53:26,530
If not, this is an opportunity for us to pick a solution, and hopefully make the crossing

1901
03:53:26,530 --> 03:53:27,510
they're safer for everybody.

1902
03:53:27,510 --> 03:53:28,530
Thank

1903
03:53:30,740 --> 03:53:37,980
you. With that, I'll ask the question. All those in favor? All right, and that motion has passed unanimously.

1904
03:53:41,740 --> 03:53:54,200
So, are there any other motions that have come out? All right. Seeing none, we'll move on to 11, 11.1 so Councillor

1905
03:53:54,200 --> 03:53:55,900
or they full notice of motions.

1906
03:53:59,380 --> 03:54:00,360
Thank you, Mr. Mayor.

1907
03:54:01,460 --> 03:54:05,460
So my motion that I put as a notice of motion

1908
03:54:05,740 --> 03:54:07,980
is that council direct administration

1909
03:54:07,980 --> 03:54:12,840
to bring the responsible pet ownership bylaw number five,

1910
03:54:13,160 --> 03:54:18,420
2016 to council, to review fines associated with sections

1911
03:54:18,420 --> 03:54:21,920
and you can see them there 6.3 A through,

1912
03:54:22,520 --> 03:54:26,200
as well as any other penalties council may wish to review.

1913
03:54:27,140 --> 03:54:33,560
Once you accept this, I'm going to make an amendment to that motion and I'll explain why in my opening.

1914
03:54:36,130 --> 03:54:36,250
Okay,

1915
03:54:39,190 --> 03:54:39,590
go ahead.

1916
03:54:39,890 --> 03:54:44,730
Okay, so if the motion is on the table, I want to immediately amend it.

1917
03:54:45,530 --> 03:54:48,810
If we can bring that up, I sent that in earlier today.

1918
03:54:50,710 --> 03:55:00,850
So my amendment would be that the proceeding motion be amended with two words.

1919
03:55:00,850 --> 03:55:09,990
Return to Council in T1 of 2025 with the Responsible Pet Ownership by Love 5, 2016 for review and

1920
03:55:09,990 --> 03:55:11,110
possible amendments.

1921
03:55:11,710 --> 03:55:18,810
The reason for that is I came to this with some very specific ideas surrounding loose

1922
03:55:18,810 --> 03:55:24,590
dogs, not picking up feces, loose cats, roaming cats, that kind of thing.

1923
03:55:24,590 --> 03:55:29,730
But as I started to dig a little deeper, I realized we haven't looked at this thing

1924
03:55:29,730 --> 03:55:34,370
in eight years, and it'll be nine years by the time we get to it.

1925
03:55:34,550 --> 03:55:38,070
And I thought it might be a good time to bring that policy back.

1926
03:55:38,730 --> 03:55:43,950
The only thing that I could find that we've done with it since then is getting an update

1927
03:55:43,950 --> 03:55:50,690
in 2018 to indicate that there wasn't a big uptake on special animals and chickens,

1928
03:55:50,690 --> 03:56:06,510
which is where this thing originally came into being so that's my opening I think we should take a look at the entire thing and at that time I'll speak to the fines and so on, which apparently haven't been increased in nine years.

1929
03:56:07,490 --> 03:56:14,370
Thank you very much. And are there any questions of council for council?

1930
03:56:18,310 --> 03:56:26,950
I think it's a good idea to look at policies before nine years, but we didn't so now's our opportunity.

1931
03:56:27,850 --> 03:56:30,870
Thank you, and I'll ask for the vote. All those in favor?

1932
03:56:31,790 --> 03:56:34,130
All right, and that is unanimously passed.

1933
03:56:34,650 --> 03:56:38,070
Was there any other notice of motions that came forward?

1934
03:56:41,270 --> 03:56:48,690
So he put forward an amendment motion so we just have to go back to the original as amended.

1935
03:56:49,370 --> 03:56:50,830
We just have to do that vote.

1936
03:56:51,930 --> 03:56:52,850
Okay, thank you.

1937
03:56:53,390 --> 03:56:56,270
So want to go to it.

1938
03:56:56,750 --> 03:56:57,550
All right.

1939
03:56:57,810 --> 03:56:59,530
Thank you very much for that.

1940
03:57:00,110 --> 03:57:03,530
So as the as amended so we will.

1941
03:57:04,230 --> 03:57:07,850
Does anybody have any questions or debate on this?

1942
03:57:08,450 --> 03:57:12,490
Seeing none, I know you don't want to close, so ask the question, all those in favor.

1943
03:57:13,410 --> 03:57:16,310
All right, that is unanimously passed.

1944
03:57:17,850 --> 03:57:22,310
Is there any other notice of motions? Go ahead.

1945
03:57:25,450 --> 03:57:32,130
At the January 14, 2025 council meeting, I intend to put forward the following motion.

1946
03:57:32,130 --> 03:57:38,790
the Council-directed administration to review and return to Council in the first quarter of 2025

1947
03:57:39,250 --> 03:57:45,470
with a report on enforcement services and its enforcement of community bylaws. The report

1948
03:57:45,470 --> 03:57:52,550
should, one, examine the current complaint-driven process compared to any proactive enforcement

1949
03:57:52,550 --> 03:57:58,610
work being undertaken, two, provide suggestions for improvement to existing processes,

1950
03:57:58,610 --> 03:58:03,690
three offer recommendations for potential enhancements to the program.

1951
03:58:05,170 --> 03:58:08,650
Thank you for bringing that forward and are there any other motions?

1952
03:58:11,810 --> 03:58:22,750
All right, seeing none, I will, I also need to motion to go past 8 PM tonight since we have a closed session coming up here yet.

1953
03:58:23,590 --> 03:58:26,670
So Deputy Mayor.

1954
03:58:26,670 --> 03:58:30,650
I'll make that motion so moved that we're past 8 p.m.

1955
03:58:31,530 --> 03:58:37,950
All right. Any debate on that? I'll ask the question. All those in favour? All right.

1956
03:58:40,440 --> 03:58:47,780
Okay, so we will then have a motion, a recommended motion, Councillor White.

1957
03:58:49,140 --> 03:58:55,940
I move that Council move into close session to discuss item 12.1. CAO slash Council's dialogue

1958
03:58:55,940 --> 03:59:04,420
log pursuant to Section 24, the Freedom of Information and Privacy Protection Act, RSA 2000, CHF 25.

1959
03:59:06,060 --> 03:59:07,120
Thank you very much.

1960
03:59:08,140 --> 03:59:15,040
All right, there's no debate, seeing no debate, I'll ask the question, all those in favor.

1961
03:59:15,940 --> 03:59:17,800
All right, and that's unanimous.

1962
04:20:27,890 --> 04:20:46,450
All right, so we are, we came out a closed session and at 8, 16, and we are asking for adjournments since there's no business arising. So, Councillor Daveful, so move. All right, all those in favor? Thank you.