[0:55] Okay.
[0:58] Call to order. Any errors? Just small
[1:00] errors, which we learned organizes the
[1:02] ancestral territory of the Squamish
[1:04] people.
[1:05] And
[1:09] adoption of the agenda as presented.
[1:12] >> Someone moved to second.
[1:13] >> Who will second?
[1:15] Playing all in favor.
[1:16] Carried. Adoption of the August 5th
[1:19] regular meeting council minutes. So, who
[1:21] will move to second?
[1:22] >> I'll move to second.
[1:24] >> Are there any omissions? All in favor?
[1:26] Carried. Sorry.
[1:28] Yes, it's come to my attention first.
[1:29] >> Yes.
[1:30] >> Um no petitions or delegations today.
[1:32] We'll go to staff reports under 6.1,
[1:35] business facade improvement grant
[1:36] application for 133 Fir Street and 8th
[1:38] Avenue.
[1:39] Mark.
[1:40] >> Thank you. Uh we've got a facade
[1:42] improvement grant application for 135.
[1:46] Um
[1:47] this is
[1:48] uh
[1:49] retail location with suites above. Uh
[1:52] they have just finished a exterior
[1:57] renovation on the lane side of their
[1:59] building. Um and they want to upgrade
[2:02] the facade on the Vermilion side,
[2:04] basically to match. Uh it's kind of a
[2:06] dark grayish brown uh hardy plank
[2:10] siding.
[2:11] And then uh re-shingling the
[2:14] uh
[2:15] the awning as well. So,
[2:17] uh total project cost is uh
[2:20] over $18,000.
[2:22] So, uh if approved, it would likely be
[2:25] the maximum funding of 5,000.
[2:29] >> Questions?
[2:30] >> Councilor Gould.
[2:31] >> Um Mark, I see that the awning is like a
[2:34] shared
[2:36] like it's um it's over more than one
[2:39] building. Will they just do what's in
[2:40] front?
[2:41] >> Presumably, yes.
[2:43] >> Okay.
[2:44] >> Um
[2:45] >> And then your report says that they
[2:46] would have to enter into a or possibly
[2:49] have to enter an encroachment agreement.
[2:51] >> Yeah, so so with
[2:54] kind of the way we've handled the
[2:55] awnings
[2:57] uh that are over our sidewalks is if
[2:58] they require a building permit, um
[3:02] at the very least then then we uh try to
[3:05] catch up on the that legal easement as
[3:07] well. Um
[3:09] I have talked to the building
[3:10] department. Uh
[3:12] they're a little unsure what the scope
[3:14] of work is, but um
[3:16] with this
[3:18] with the BFI program uh when they enter
[3:22] into the performance agreement, uh it
[3:25] basically asks for a review with the
[3:27] building department prior to work
[3:29] starting.
[3:29] >> That's when they'll get more details.
[3:31] Okay, perfect.
[3:32] >> Yeah.
[3:33] >> No, it's going to look nice.
[3:37] » Anybody else? Motion?
[3:39] Councilor Gould.
[3:40] Second.
[3:41] >> Mhm.
[3:42] >> To approve.
[3:44] Any last questions?
[3:47] All in favor?
[3:48] Carried. Thank you.
[3:50] Uh Council Kerr, Council Gould.
[3:53] >> Uh, I have no but I had a community for
[3:56] my for community forest meeting and then
[3:59] our
[4:06] » Uh, counselor McClean.
[4:10] » Nothing other than my
[4:12] and well
[4:13] town migration.
[4:17] » Yeah.
[4:18] >> We were there a few weeks ago.
[4:24] » Okay.
[4:26] Councilor
[4:27] >> Uh, as I stated at the last meeting
[4:29] August it's pretty quiet for me so I
[4:31] have nothing to report.
[4:33] >> Okay.
[4:34] Um
[4:35] I'm just trying to remember when our
[4:36] last meeting was.
[4:39] Uh, there's been lots going on.
[4:41] Um
[4:42] so
[4:44] just
[4:45] Uh, we had a meeting um
[4:48] with uh
[4:49] Jared
[4:51] and Shawn and uh
[4:54] directors from area HB and G.
[4:57] Um
[4:58] with the Minister of
[5:01] water, land, natural or resource
[5:03] stewardship uh
[5:06] on
[5:07] early August 3rd.
[5:09] Um discussing some of the projects that
[5:11] were outstanding and uh getting permits
[5:13] for for approvals. We're still waiting
[5:16] on the permits for certain works post
[5:19] flood so we discussed that and then as a
[5:22] valley we discussed uh some water
[5:25] issues that are ongoing with the
[5:27] watershed and the ongoing drought and what not.
[5:31] Um
[5:33] so that was a good meeting. Um she used
[5:35] my office for a while to have a meeting
[5:37] and then we had an hour and a half with
[5:39] the minister which is uh
[5:41] pretty great cuz you don't usually get
[5:43] that kind of access so
[5:45] Um and then the next day
[5:48] um
[5:51] Yeah, so we're working on a highway
[5:52] through the SBPS working on a
[5:55] um
[5:56] Highway 3 tourism
[5:59] kind of succession planning and business
[6:01] attraction program. Um, we're almost to
[6:04] the point. So, Destination Canada has a
[6:07] grant process out. We're working with
[6:09] Destination BC to do some matching funds
[6:12] and then each participant has to put in
[6:14] some funds. So, today at our SBPS
[6:16] meeting we allocated
[6:18] 5,000 out of our budget to to go to
[6:21] this. Um
[6:23] So, that'll be our portion and then
[6:26] uh, we're working with Boundary Country
[6:28] and Christina Lake. So, we're going to
[6:30] look at a corridor-wide
[6:32] business
[6:34] succession planning attraction and uh
[6:37] um
[6:39] like an
[6:40] inventory of all the tourism businesses
[6:42] along the corridors so that we can
[6:44] hopefully go to the next stage which
[6:45] would be attracting and developing more
[6:48] tourism-based businesses for the corridor. So, that's that's an
[6:52] ongoing weekly meeting right now just
[6:54] till we get to the grant. Um, and
[6:56] Destination BC is looking after the
[6:58] grant process and everything for us. So,
[7:00] um
[7:03] Then,
[7:04] we had a regional district meeting.
[7:08] Um, we had a special
[7:12] in camera meeting to bring us all up to
[7:14] date. Last Thursday, tomorrow we have
[7:16] another regional district meeting and
[7:19] then he'll bring us up to date on that
[7:20] as well. So,
[7:21] as everybody knows the fire in
[7:23] Summerland area F holder Meadow Valley,
[7:28] Garnet Valley, all those areas. Pretty
[7:30] devastating fire.
[7:32] Roughly 20,000 evacuees um, all within a
[7:36] 5-hour process.
[7:38] Um
[7:39] You know, I've heard mixed things. We
[7:42] have We have people over there
[7:44] at Maureen or over there working.
[7:46] They're still there as far as I know.
[7:48] There's been a fire protection or fire
[7:51] structure protection unit that is a
[7:53] joint between Aris, Princeton, I think
[7:57] Hayes Creek has people on it. Um have
[8:00] all been on scene.
[8:02] Um
[8:03] Yeah, so it's it's been a really uh
[8:05] a regional approach to to supporting
[8:08] this.
[8:09] The far end of uh area H over in the
[8:12] Tro- over by Thirst Lake, that is on
[8:15] evacuation order right now. There's an
[8:16] evacuation alert that goes all the way
[8:18] to Jellicoe.
[8:19] Um
[8:20] so there's
[8:22] it's still advancing, just not as fast
[8:24] as it was. It did take a little bit of a
[8:26] turn.
[8:27] But uh
[8:28] we continue to watch that fire and uh
[8:32] um Dave Stringfellow's back from working
[8:35] on
[8:36] the Was it the Boston Bar fire I think
[8:38] he was on?
[8:39] Um so he's back and uh they're
[8:42] coordinating some efforts up there right
[8:43] now with Cindy, the fire chief from
[8:45] Hayes Creek, and and whatnot. So the
[8:47] whole area's kind of on on alert right
[8:49] now just to keep an eye on what's going
[8:51] on there.
[8:53] Uh everything will be weather dependent
[8:55] between now and when the snow flies, so
[8:57] how that fire progresses or does not
[8:59] progress.
[9:00] Um
[9:04] so
[9:07] Who else do we speak with? Uh
[9:10] I've had some Through all that, I've had
[9:12] some conversations with the Minister of
[9:13] Forests, the
[9:15] emergency management office, the ALC.
[9:19] Um just doing what we can do to help. We
[9:22] did open a
[9:23] uh ESS center for two for a couple days
[9:26] here in Princeton. Um that was to
[9:28] support the evacuees that were coming
[9:30] out of the the Tro- um
[9:32] the side of Tro- Creek.
[9:34] And um we end up servicing
[9:37] members of the Summerland community as
[9:40] well from here cuz they got dispersed
[9:41] everywhere.
[9:43] Um
[9:44] yesterday?
[9:45] Yeah, yesterday
[9:47] Lyle and I met with the Minister of
[9:48] Transportation about the Copper Mountain
[9:51] Road intersection with Highway 5 or
[9:54] Highway 3. Um
[9:56] presented them with that. They're going
[9:58] to work with our staff on
[10:01] some planning and some research on that.
[10:04] Um asked them to extend that all the way
[10:06] to Sand Hang
[10:07] so that way we we look at a gradual
[10:10] reduction in speed and then also bring
[10:12] in the uh
[10:13] the intersection at the golf course and
[10:15] uh
[10:16] campground cuz it's 90 km/h there as
[10:18] well. So, also the Sand Hang
[10:20] intersection and the Taylor Mill, the
[10:22] three
[10:24] intersections at Taylor's Mill now. So,
[10:26] um just have them look at it all as one
[10:28] big unit. Um so,
[10:30] they're going to do a traffic study and
[10:33] bring their engineers over and work with
[10:35] the I'm guessing Jared and his his team
[10:38] on that.
[10:39] Um
[10:42] Yeah, it's still everything's still
[10:43] going busy on top of everything else.
[10:46] Um
[10:49] one of the things
[10:52] that
[10:53] Oh, and then I was in Clearwater also
[10:55] during this last while for uh Silga
[10:58] meeting. So,
[10:59] um the day that the fire Summerland
[11:01] broke out, we're on our way back from
[11:03] Clearwater when we got the phone call
[11:05] that it had happened.
[11:07] So, um
[11:08] kind of been super busy.
[11:10] One of the things that has come up since
[11:11] then is we had uh three fires in one day
[11:15] in town.
[11:16] Uh one was a um
[11:19] RV camper trailer that
[11:21] burned down
[11:22] on private property.
[11:24] Um another one was um an industrial fire
[11:28] that And then the last one
[11:31] was actually um
[11:34] I guess
[11:35] I don't want to call it arson, but it
[11:37] was a criminal. They arrested the
[11:39] guy. Um
[11:42] unfortunately, he's been let out on
[11:44] conditions.
[11:45] Um he deliberately lit a fire down in
[11:47] the tunnel area and walked away from it.
[11:49] He did appear in front of a judge and he
[11:51] was let out on conditions.
[11:54] So, something I want to ask council
[11:56] is I want
[11:59] um
[12:00] I'd like for us to write uh
[12:04] a victim impact statement on behalf of
[12:05] the community
[12:07] cuz they've put the entire community in
[12:08] a state of
[12:09] uh fear
[12:11] and panic. And also
[12:14] something that I've been discussing with
[12:16] uh
[12:17] the RCMP
[12:19] and I think it's something we should
[12:20] attempt to do is I want to write a
[12:22] letter to Crown prosecutors
[12:25] asking that
[12:27] they um
[12:30] try to get the maximum sentence on this.
[12:34] But also
[12:35] I think we should be asking for a
[12:38] um
[12:40] What do they call it?
[12:42] It's where they say you can't come back
[12:43] to town. So they can uh
[12:46] the a judge can make a decision to keep
[12:49] you from coming back to a community for
[12:51] a certain amount of time. And I think if
[12:53] somebody's willing to try to burn our
[12:54] community down, then uh it's uh the
[12:57] least we can do is ask the Crown counsel
[12:59] to
[13:00] push for that as part of the ruling.
[13:03] And just show people that if you're not
[13:04] going to be part of our community, then
[13:05] we don't want you
[13:06] in our community right now. So
[13:08] um
[13:10] I guess we can add that as a new
[13:11] business item.
[13:13] Carrie?
[13:14] >> I'm just writing it all down.
[13:15] >> Okay.
[13:17] And then uh
[13:19] And if uh we're successful, then I think
[13:21] it's something that we can ask for in
[13:22] the future as well. Um
[13:24] I think if you break the social
[13:25] contract, then you need to be
[13:27] dealt with as such. And uh
[13:30] We have a
[13:32] I think we have people in positions of
[13:35] authority right now who will support us
[13:36] on those requests. So,
[13:39] we just need to get Crown to convince a
[13:41] judge of that.
[13:43] >> Yeah, I was just going to ask if you had
[13:44] any idea of what the temperature in the
[13:47] RCMP office would be related to this.
[13:50] >> I believe I could say with certainty
[13:52] that we have full support of our uh
[13:55] current RCMP detachment to uh
[13:59] try to get the maximum sentence on
[14:02] everything that we can get on. It's It's
[14:05] really not up to any of us. I mean, this
[14:07] is a new approach. Um
[14:10] if council wants to go that way.
[14:12] And I think it's I think it's needed. I
[14:14] think the certain individuals that are
[14:17] doing certain these things um
[14:20] need to be
[14:22] It needs to be shown that
[14:24] the community doesn't want
[14:27] If you If you're not going to
[14:28] participate in our community, then we
[14:29] don't want you as part of our community.
[14:32] So.
[14:33] >> I would make that motion.
[14:34] >> Well, we'll do that in the new new
[14:36] business.
[14:36] >> For the new business?
[14:37] >> Yes.
[14:38] >> Okay.
[14:38] >> This is just a report. So.
[14:39] >> Right.
[14:40] >> Yeah.
[14:42] » Is there any
[14:45] Carrier, Lyler, and Spencer, is there
[14:47] any notification of what court cases are
[14:50] coming up prior to?
[14:53] >> Sort of.
[14:56] Go ahead.
[14:58] » There's monthly court lists, yeah.
[15:00] >> Yeah.
[15:01] >> But usually the docket's not confirmed
[15:03] right away. Like it's not months in
[15:05] advance.
[15:05] >> We wouldn't have advance notice of
[15:08] What I'm getting at is that we years ago
[15:10] we instituted a court watch
[15:13] so that
[15:14] there was an observer there on behalf of
[15:17] council just to bring back
[15:20] uh information about the what cases went
[15:23] on and what the
[15:25] penalties were and whatever, just so
[15:27] that
[15:28] we could do exactly what he's talking
[15:29] about in terms of
[15:31] um
[15:33] giving information.
[15:35] What we were going through at the time
[15:36] was high drug problems. And so we tried
[15:39] to
[15:40] um
[15:40] put pressure on um
[15:43] you know, fines and whatever with regard
[15:46] to drugs.
[15:47] And to me,
[15:49] if we're going to keep going through
[15:50] this summertime
[15:52] fire thing every year, it seems like,
[15:55] then
[15:57] I couldn't agree with you more in terms
[15:58] of
[15:59] um if we had an idea of what if any fire
[16:03] ones were coming up, that you'd have a
[16:05] court watch person there to to observe
[16:07] it and then bring it back to council and
[16:09] say and then we would then
[16:12] pass on information
[16:14] to if you're going to do it through the prosecutors or you're going to do it
[16:18] through the judges, whatever.
[16:21] >> Well, and I think we should extend it
[16:23] not to just fires, but to repeat
[16:26] offenders.
[16:27] Um to
[16:29] other things as well. Like,
[16:32] you know, like we need to
[16:34] I think we need to make make it very
[16:36] clear to judges that the community is
[16:40] tired of certain things
[16:42] and try to convince them
[16:44] that
[16:46] one, we don't have the resources to keep
[16:48] throwing at this. Right? Like, we we
[16:51] know when we have a a a a rash of, you
[16:55] know, these small crimes like where
[16:57] people are stealing from yards and
[16:59] everything else,
[17:01] the RCMP know who they are. They pick
[17:03] them up, they're put them they're let
[17:04] back out. So they're trying to get as
[17:06] many charges as they can on these people
[17:08] before they they get them in front of a
[17:10] judge.
[17:11] But if we know these things are
[17:12] happening and then when they do go, like
[17:14] they go to Oliver for a for a while,
[17:16] Oliver everything just comes goes quiet.
[17:19] Right? And then they get out and then
[17:21] they come back to the community and what
[17:23] do they do? It all starts up again. So,
[17:26] I think if we get involved, the council
[17:28] gets involved, and we write these impact
[17:31] statements, and we start sending letters
[17:34] requesting for the maximum or for these
[17:37] I forget what they're called, but the
[17:39] restrictions to the community. It shows
[17:42] that we're tired of it and it's got to
[17:44] be dealt with and maybe maybe then
[17:46] judges will
[17:48] work with us a little bit more cuz right
[17:49] now
[17:50] I mean, Kelowna's done I don't know how
[17:52] much money they've spent on on research
[17:55] and
[17:57] like the the the prime or the majority of the crime is being
[18:02] caused by a small handful of people
[18:06] who have like
[18:08] rap sheets longer than
[18:11] all of our
[18:12] you know,
[18:13] everything that we have here. Like it's insane and why are we doing this?
[18:16] Like why is this an ongoing thing? And
[18:18] if the if the government isn't going to
[18:20] change the laws to to protect us, then I
[18:23] think we need to start standing up in a
[18:24] way and we have I think we have a
[18:26] sergeant that will work with us and and
[18:29] ask for the same
[18:30] you know, work with us on on trying to
[18:33] do this thing this stuff because
[18:35] it's
[18:37] something's got to give here.
[18:39] >> So, it's important to note that there's
[18:41] different levels of um
[18:44] offenses too. Right? You've got your municipal offenses that we can do
[18:48] under the offense act and and that we do
[18:50] with our bylaws. And then there's the
[18:52] criminal offenses and then and then
[18:55] determine on
[18:56] the criminal code that can be charged on
[19:00] it goes to prosecution like to crown
[19:02] council. But I think the biggest thing
[19:04] is if it [clears throat] comes to a
[19:06] where it is a criminal offense and the
[19:08] RCMP
[19:10] are able to charge them, then we have to
[19:12] do like you were saying,
[19:14] support the local RCMP and and I agree
[19:17] with writing a victim impact statement
[19:19] because it's a I think that's a great
[19:21] idea. Um there's a not a lot that we can
[19:24] do to
[19:25] I I wouldn't
[19:28] think we could um
[19:30] ask for exclusions, but if there's
[19:33] history and they've got the the cases of
[19:35] the repeat offenders, then supporting
[19:39] the RCMP is the way to go for building
[19:41] their case to give to the prosecution.
[19:44] >> I I think we should ask for exclusions.
[19:45] I think we we're the we're the ones that represent the
[19:49] community
[19:50] and our community is asking for
[19:53] something to happen. So, I don't think
[19:55] it's unreasonable to ask Crown
[19:58] prosecutors to try to get those
[20:00] exclusions. Maybe the judges won't go
[20:02] for it, but if they keep hearing that we
[20:04] have certain people that we don't want
[20:06] here
[20:07] and it's for what? 6 months or whatever.
[20:09] >> going to charge
[20:10] >> It's not forever, but we're sending this message that we are
[20:14] we're tired of it, right? We just wrote
[20:16] a letter to um
[20:18] the um
[20:19] Attorney General asking for more court
[20:22] time because bylaw has been told that
[20:25] court time's at a premium and the only
[20:26] way we're going to get court time is if
[20:28] we
[20:29] you know, get the Attorney General to or
[20:31] yeah, Attorney General to approve more
[20:34] court time for Princeton. So, we're
[20:35] asking for like one extra day per
[20:37] quarter just to deal with, you know,
[20:40] civil and and and municipal stuff
[20:42] because
[20:43] the court services are like, we don't
[20:44] have time for you guys. So, all the good
[20:47] work that we're doing, like now it's
[20:49] stuck in the queue somewhere. So, I
[20:50] think it just needs to be shown like you
[20:52] have to invest in this stuff and you
[20:54] have to start working with communities
[20:55] cuz
[20:56] I don't know. I'm I'm tired of it. I've
[20:58] been tired of it for ages.
[20:59] >> I'm I'm agreeing that we the biggest
[21:02] impact you can do is supporting the RCMP
[21:04] and that's the way to go, right? Like
[21:06] showing that that what the impact is,
[21:08] especially if there's a history of
[21:10] damage that that our staff can prove,
[21:13] too.
[21:16] » Okay, there's no more questions on that.
[21:17] We'll go to correspondence receiving
[21:19] file.
[21:20] We have three letters there.
[21:23] The Ombudsman
[21:24] update from April 1st to 3rd June 30th.
[21:28] The Corporation of the Village of Slocan
[21:32] asking for a continuation of the local
[21:34] government climate action program
[21:35] funding and the City of Salmon Arm BC
[21:38] government climate action
[21:40] program funding continuation.
[21:43] Get a motion to receive. I'll move for
[21:44] receipt. Thank you. Councillor McLean,
[21:46] second.
[21:47] Councillor Gold, any questions? All in
[21:50] favor? Carried. And then we'll go to new
[21:52] business and that's
[21:54] the
[21:56] to write a letter and then a victim
[21:57] impact statement for Crown.
[21:59] >> Can we amend the agenda? Can I get a
[22:01] motion to add it?
[22:03] >> Sure.
[22:04] Motion to add it?
[22:06] >> Please.
[22:08] >> Sure. Thank you. Councillor Elliott,
[22:10] Councillor McLean, all in favor?
[22:12] Okay. Now, a motion to
[22:14] >> I've already made that motion.
[22:15] >> Okay. Councillor Elliott's making the
[22:17] motion. Second?
[22:19] Thank you. Councillor McLean, all in
[22:22] favor?
[22:25] No, he was I He was fast [laughter] on
[22:27] that one.
[22:28] Okay.
[22:29] So, that passed. And then a motion to
[22:31] adjourn.
[22:32] >> So moved.
[22:33] >> Thank you.
[22:34] >> [laughter]
[22:35] >> Yeah, you want to get me You want to get
[22:37] my attention?
[22:37] >> the jeopardy button.
[22:38] >> Councillor McLean, all in favor? All in
[22:40] favor? Carried. Thank you and good night
[22:42] everybody.
[22:44] We close at 5:30.