Okay.
Call to order. Any errors? Just small
errors, which we learned organizes the
ancestral territory of the Squamish
people.
And
adoption of the agenda as presented.
>> Someone moved to second.
>> Who will second?
Playing all in favor.
Carried. Adoption of the August 5th
regular meeting council minutes. So, who
will move to second?
>> I'll move to second.
>> Are there any omissions? All in favor?
Carried. Sorry.
Yes, it's come to my attention first.
>> Yes.
>> Um no petitions or delegations today.
We'll go to staff reports under 6.1,
business facade improvement grant
application for 133 Fir Street and 8th
Avenue.
Mark.
>> Thank you. Uh we've got a facade
improvement grant application for 135.
Um
this is
uh
retail location with suites above. Uh
they have just finished a exterior
renovation on the lane side of their
building. Um and they want to upgrade
the facade on the Vermilion side,
basically to match. Uh it's kind of a
dark grayish brown uh hardy plank
siding.
And then uh re-shingling the
uh
the awning as well. So,
uh total project cost is uh
over $18,000.
So, uh if approved, it would likely be
the maximum funding of 5,000.
>> Questions?
>> Councilor Gould.
>> Um Mark, I see that the awning is like a
shared
like it's um it's over more than one
building. Will they just do what's in
front?
>> Presumably, yes.
>> Okay.
>> Um
>> And then your report says that they
would have to enter into a or possibly
have to enter an encroachment agreement.
>> Yeah, so so with
kind of the way we've handled the
awnings
uh that are over our sidewalks is if
they require a building permit, um
at the very least then then we uh try to
catch up on the that legal easement as
well. Um
I have talked to the building
department. Uh
they're a little unsure what the scope
of work is, but um
with this
with the BFI program uh when they enter
into the performance agreement, uh it
basically asks for a review with the
building department prior to work
starting.
>> That's when they'll get more details.
Okay, perfect.
>> Yeah.
>> No, it's going to look nice.
» Anybody else? Motion?
Councilor Gould.
Second.
>> Mhm.
>> To approve.
Any last questions?
All in favor?
Carried. Thank you.
Uh Council Kerr, Council Gould.
>> Uh, I have no but I had a community for
my for community forest meeting and then
our
» Uh, counselor McClean.
» Nothing other than my
and well
town migration.
» Yeah.
>> We were there a few weeks ago.
» Okay.
Councilor
>> Uh, as I stated at the last meeting
August it's pretty quiet for me so I
have nothing to report.
>> Okay.
Um
I'm just trying to remember when our
last meeting was.
Uh, there's been lots going on.
Um
so
just
Uh, we had a meeting um
with uh
Jared
and Shawn and uh
directors from area HB and G.
Um
with the Minister of
water, land, natural or resource
stewardship uh
on
early August 3rd.
Um discussing some of the projects that
were outstanding and uh getting permits
for for approvals. We're still waiting
on the permits for certain works post
flood so we discussed that and then as a
valley we discussed uh some water
issues that are ongoing with the
watershed and the ongoing drought and what not.
Um
so that was a good meeting. Um she used
my office for a while to have a meeting
and then we had an hour and a half with
the minister which is uh
pretty great cuz you don't usually get
that kind of access so
Um and then the next day
um
Yeah, so we're working on a highway
through the SBPS working on a
um
Highway 3 tourism
kind of succession planning and business
attraction program. Um, we're almost to
the point. So, Destination Canada has a
grant process out. We're working with
Destination BC to do some matching funds
and then each participant has to put in
some funds. So, today at our SBPS
meeting we allocated
5,000 out of our budget to to go to
this. Um
So, that'll be our portion and then
uh, we're working with Boundary Country
and Christina Lake. So, we're going to
look at a corridor-wide
business
succession planning attraction and uh
um
like an
inventory of all the tourism businesses
along the corridors so that we can
hopefully go to the next stage which
would be attracting and developing more
tourism-based businesses for the corridor. So, that's that's an
ongoing weekly meeting right now just
till we get to the grant. Um, and
Destination BC is looking after the
grant process and everything for us. So,
um
Then,
we had a regional district meeting.
Um, we had a special
in camera meeting to bring us all up to
date. Last Thursday, tomorrow we have
another regional district meeting and
then he'll bring us up to date on that
as well. So,
as everybody knows the fire in
Summerland area F holder Meadow Valley,
Garnet Valley, all those areas. Pretty
devastating fire.
Roughly 20,000 evacuees um, all within a
5-hour process.
Um
You know, I've heard mixed things. We
have We have people over there
at Maureen or over there working.
They're still there as far as I know.
There's been a fire protection or fire
structure protection unit that is a
joint between Aris, Princeton, I think
Hayes Creek has people on it. Um have
all been on scene.
Um
Yeah, so it's it's been a really uh
a regional approach to to supporting
this.
The far end of uh area H over in the
Tro- over by Thirst Lake, that is on
evacuation order right now. There's an
evacuation alert that goes all the way
to Jellicoe.
Um
so there's
it's still advancing, just not as fast
as it was. It did take a little bit of a
turn.
But uh
we continue to watch that fire and uh
um Dave Stringfellow's back from working
on
the Was it the Boston Bar fire I think
he was on?
Um so he's back and uh they're
coordinating some efforts up there right
now with Cindy, the fire chief from
Hayes Creek, and and whatnot. So the
whole area's kind of on on alert right
now just to keep an eye on what's going
on there.
Uh everything will be weather dependent
between now and when the snow flies, so
how that fire progresses or does not
progress.
Um
so
Who else do we speak with? Uh
I've had some Through all that, I've had
some conversations with the Minister of
Forests, the
emergency management office, the ALC.
Um just doing what we can do to help. We
did open a
uh ESS center for two for a couple days
here in Princeton. Um that was to
support the evacuees that were coming
out of the the Tro- um
the side of Tro- Creek.
And um we end up servicing
members of the Summerland community as
well from here cuz they got dispersed
everywhere.
Um
yesterday?
Yeah, yesterday
Lyle and I met with the Minister of
Transportation about the Copper Mountain
Road intersection with Highway 5 or
Highway 3. Um
presented them with that. They're going
to work with our staff on
some planning and some research on that.
Um asked them to extend that all the way
to Sand Hang
so that way we we look at a gradual
reduction in speed and then also bring
in the uh
the intersection at the golf course and
uh
campground cuz it's 90 km/h there as
well. So, also the Sand Hang
intersection and the Taylor Mill, the
three
intersections at Taylor's Mill now. So,
um just have them look at it all as one
big unit. Um so,
they're going to do a traffic study and
bring their engineers over and work with
the I'm guessing Jared and his his team
on that.
Um
Yeah, it's still everything's still
going busy on top of everything else.
Um
one of the things
that
Oh, and then I was in Clearwater also
during this last while for uh Silga
meeting. So,
um the day that the fire Summerland
broke out, we're on our way back from
Clearwater when we got the phone call
that it had happened.
So, um
kind of been super busy.
One of the things that has come up since
then is we had uh three fires in one day
in town.
Uh one was a um
RV camper trailer that
burned down
on private property.
Um another one was um an industrial fire
that And then the last one
was actually um
I guess
I don't want to call it arson, but it
was a criminal. They arrested the
guy. Um
unfortunately, he's been let out on
conditions.
Um he deliberately lit a fire down in
the tunnel area and walked away from it.
He did appear in front of a judge and he
was let out on conditions.
So, something I want to ask council
is I want
um
I'd like for us to write uh
a victim impact statement on behalf of
the community
cuz they've put the entire community in
a state of
uh fear
and panic. And also
something that I've been discussing with
uh
the RCMP
and I think it's something we should
attempt to do is I want to write a
letter to Crown prosecutors
asking that
they um
try to get the maximum sentence on this.
But also
I think we should be asking for a
um
What do they call it?
It's where they say you can't come back
to town. So they can uh
the a judge can make a decision to keep
you from coming back to a community for
a certain amount of time. And I think if
somebody's willing to try to burn our
community down, then uh it's uh the
least we can do is ask the Crown counsel
to
push for that as part of the ruling.
And just show people that if you're not
going to be part of our community, then
we don't want you
in our community right now. So
um
I guess we can add that as a new
business item.
Carrie?
>> I'm just writing it all down.
>> Okay.
And then uh
And if uh we're successful, then I think
it's something that we can ask for in
the future as well. Um
I think if you break the social
contract, then you need to be
dealt with as such. And uh
We have a
I think we have people in positions of
authority right now who will support us
on those requests. So,
we just need to get Crown to convince a
judge of that.
>> Yeah, I was just going to ask if you had
any idea of what the temperature in the
RCMP office would be related to this.
>> I believe I could say with certainty
that we have full support of our uh
current RCMP detachment to uh
try to get the maximum sentence on
everything that we can get on. It's It's
really not up to any of us. I mean, this
is a new approach. Um
if council wants to go that way.
And I think it's I think it's needed. I
think the certain individuals that are
doing certain these things um
need to be
It needs to be shown that
the community doesn't want
If you If you're not going to
participate in our community, then we
don't want you as part of our community.
So.
>> I would make that motion.
>> Well, we'll do that in the new new
business.
>> For the new business?
>> Yes.
>> Okay.
>> This is just a report. So.
>> Right.
>> Yeah.
» Is there any
Carrier, Lyler, and Spencer, is there
any notification of what court cases are
coming up prior to?
>> Sort of.
Go ahead.
» There's monthly court lists, yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> But usually the docket's not confirmed
right away. Like it's not months in
advance.
>> We wouldn't have advance notice of
What I'm getting at is that we years ago
we instituted a court watch
so that
there was an observer there on behalf of
council just to bring back
uh information about the what cases went
on and what the
penalties were and whatever, just so
that
we could do exactly what he's talking
about in terms of
um
giving information.
What we were going through at the time
was high drug problems. And so we tried
to
um
put pressure on um
you know, fines and whatever with regard
to drugs.
And to me,
if we're going to keep going through
this summertime
fire thing every year, it seems like,
then
I couldn't agree with you more in terms
of
um if we had an idea of what if any fire
ones were coming up, that you'd have a
court watch person there to to observe
it and then bring it back to council and
say and then we would then
pass on information
to if you're going to do it through the prosecutors or you're going to do it
through the judges, whatever.
>> Well, and I think we should extend it
not to just fires, but to repeat
offenders.
Um to
other things as well. Like,
you know, like we need to
I think we need to make make it very
clear to judges that the community is
tired of certain things
and try to convince them
that
one, we don't have the resources to keep
throwing at this. Right? Like, we we
know when we have a a a a rash of, you
know, these small crimes like where
people are stealing from yards and
everything else,
the RCMP know who they are. They pick
them up, they're put them they're let
back out. So they're trying to get as
many charges as they can on these people
before they they get them in front of a
judge.
But if we know these things are
happening and then when they do go, like
they go to Oliver for a for a while,
Oliver everything just comes goes quiet.
Right? And then they get out and then
they come back to the community and what
do they do? It all starts up again. So,
I think if we get involved, the council
gets involved, and we write these impact
statements, and we start sending letters
requesting for the maximum or for these
I forget what they're called, but the
restrictions to the community. It shows
that we're tired of it and it's got to
be dealt with and maybe maybe then
judges will
work with us a little bit more cuz right
now
I mean, Kelowna's done I don't know how
much money they've spent on on research
and
like the the the prime or the majority of the crime is being
caused by a small handful of people
who have like
rap sheets longer than
all of our
you know,
everything that we have here. Like it's insane and why are we doing this?
Like why is this an ongoing thing? And
if the if the government isn't going to
change the laws to to protect us, then I
think we need to start standing up in a
way and we have I think we have a
sergeant that will work with us and and
ask for the same
you know, work with us on on trying to
do this thing this stuff because
it's
something's got to give here.
>> So, it's important to note that there's
different levels of um
offenses too. Right? You've got your municipal offenses that we can do
under the offense act and and that we do
with our bylaws. And then there's the
criminal offenses and then and then
determine on
the criminal code that can be charged on
it goes to prosecution like to crown
council. But I think the biggest thing
is if it [clears throat] comes to a
where it is a criminal offense and the
RCMP
are able to charge them, then we have to
do like you were saying,
support the local RCMP and and I agree
with writing a victim impact statement
because it's a I think that's a great
idea. Um there's a not a lot that we can
do to
I I wouldn't
think we could um
ask for exclusions, but if there's
history and they've got the the cases of
the repeat offenders, then supporting
the RCMP is the way to go for building
their case to give to the prosecution.
>> I I think we should ask for exclusions.
I think we we're the we're the ones that represent the
community
and our community is asking for
something to happen. So, I don't think
it's unreasonable to ask Crown
prosecutors to try to get those
exclusions. Maybe the judges won't go
for it, but if they keep hearing that we
have certain people that we don't want
here
and it's for what? 6 months or whatever.
>> going to charge
>> It's not forever, but we're sending this message that we are
we're tired of it, right? We just wrote
a letter to um
the um
Attorney General asking for more court
time because bylaw has been told that
court time's at a premium and the only
way we're going to get court time is if
we
you know, get the Attorney General to or
yeah, Attorney General to approve more
court time for Princeton. So, we're
asking for like one extra day per
quarter just to deal with, you know,
civil and and and municipal stuff
because
the court services are like, we don't
have time for you guys. So, all the good
work that we're doing, like now it's
stuck in the queue somewhere. So, I
think it just needs to be shown like you
have to invest in this stuff and you
have to start working with communities
cuz
I don't know. I'm I'm tired of it. I've
been tired of it for ages.
>> I'm I'm agreeing that we the biggest
impact you can do is supporting the RCMP
and that's the way to go, right? Like
showing that that what the impact is,
especially if there's a history of
damage that that our staff can prove,
too.
» Okay, there's no more questions on that.
We'll go to correspondence receiving
file.
We have three letters there.
The Ombudsman
update from April 1st to 3rd June 30th.
The Corporation of the Village of Slocan
asking for a continuation of the local
government climate action program
funding and the City of Salmon Arm BC
government climate action
program funding continuation.
Get a motion to receive. I'll move for
receipt. Thank you. Councillor McLean,
second.
Councillor Gold, any questions? All in
favor? Carried. And then we'll go to new
business and that's
the
to write a letter and then a victim
impact statement for Crown.
>> Can we amend the agenda? Can I get a
motion to add it?
>> Sure.
Motion to add it?
>> Please.
>> Sure. Thank you. Councillor Elliott,
Councillor McLean, all in favor?
Okay. Now, a motion to
>> I've already made that motion.
>> Okay. Councillor Elliott's making the
motion. Second?
Thank you. Councillor McLean, all in
favor?
No, he was I He was fast [laughter] on
that one.
Okay.
So, that passed. And then a motion to
adjourn.
>> So moved.
>> Thank you.
>> [laughter]
>> Yeah, you want to get me You want to get
my attention?
>> the jeopardy button.
>> Councillor McLean, all in favor? All in
favor? Carried. Thank you and good night
everybody.
We close at 5:30.