[0:08] I'd like to call to order this regular meeting of the council of the village of

[0:12] Chase held here at the village office and via Zoom on September 8th, 2026 at 4

[0:19] p.m. to order. I would like

[0:24] someone to adopt the agenda. Councelor Stevens, Councelor Forward. Any

[0:29] discussion? Okay. All in favor?

[0:36] Carried. Now we have three adoption of the August

[0:42] 11th regular meeting minutes. Councelor

[0:46] Herman, councelor Con. >> Any discussion? Is this revised? I

[0:51] think. >> Yeah.

[0:54] Is it? >> Yeah. Yes. Yes. completed.

[0:57] » Okay. All in favor carried 3.2 minutes of the August 11th

[1:04] public hearing. Councelor Toron, councelor Stevens, any any discussions?

[1:10] Oh, all in favor? That's okay.

[1:16] Number four, no public hearings. Five, public input on current agenda

[1:22] items. Is there anyone in the gallery or online that wishes to provide input on

[1:28] items on this agenda? Okay. The one nobody online.

[1:36] » Okay. And you're up. Just name and address, please.

[1:39] » Uh Andrew, 5848 road. Chase. See? Um I I just on behalf of the Chase Memorial

[1:46] Action Society, uh we wanted to thank the council for um writing to the

[1:52] province to urge the continuation of the LBC funds um because it was great that

[2:00] they did that and I see that now it's being acknowledged, but we just wanted

[2:05] to thank the council for taking that action.

[2:09] » Thank you. That's all I wanted to say. >> Great. Thank you very much. Anybody

[2:13] else? Okay, seeing none,

[2:19] we'll go to six delegations. Ashton Swam, executive director, Chase and Area

[2:26] Family Services. Ashton, you have the floor.

[2:30] » Wow, this is moving very quickly. That's wonderful.

[2:34] Yeah. Um, so, uh, ideally I would have had a bit of a slideshow done for you

[2:40] all the time. Um, uh, so our organization has over the last o over

[2:47] the summer months been, uh, organizing and preparing and now we're in the

[2:52] unfolding of the frames project. You may have noticed around town there is some

[2:57] new art that's going up around town. Um there's uh the concept is that um is

[3:06] that uh well at at it at its heart the idea is to beautify the community. This

[3:11] the bring some color, bring some life, bring some something really interesting

[3:16] to community members that live here in town. At a deeper level, it's about

[3:21] bringing art to people who might not otherwise be able to access it. So, a

[3:25] full like a yearround outdoor gallery for everybody. And so, we we're

[3:30] selecting pieces that are made by locals. We're making we're selecting

[3:36] pieces that are that complement the intentions of the project.

[3:42] Not my kid. That's good. Um, that we're we're we're mostly choosing

[3:48] pieces for the color that they bring to town. So, we're, you know, we're not

[3:52] choosing anything with muted tones. It's mostly something that's really going to

[3:55] liven things up around town. And so far, honestly, we've just been so thrilled.

[4:00] There's seeing the project go from its conception to the roll out. Sometimes

[4:06] when you're doing a bigger project like this, there's moments of disappointment.

[4:10] But this one, absolutely not. We're just It's even better than we thought it was

[4:14] going to be. But um but yes, we're five pieces in now of 10 planned projects.

[4:21] There is a hope that at the end of the 10 planned projects, uh, everybody's

[4:25] going to be so thrilled with the project that we'll find a way to extend it and

[4:29] just keep it going in all sorts of varying ways as but for now we have our

[4:33] 10 pieces. Um, we we have uh we have two that are

[4:42] anyway it's like every project that we've ever done and that will ever

[4:46] happen is it's gone over budget. It's way harder than we thought it was going

[4:50] to be and uh and we're looking for some support and help. Um we largely have the

[4:56] funding needed to be able to do the printing and production and pay for the

[5:00] wages. One thing that we have found with the installations is that they are much

[5:04] more difficult than we thought they were going to be and that they're that we do

[5:08] need some sort of equipment that's going to be able to uh get the art into some

[5:13] of the trickier hard like higher surfaces. So, one of those spaces is at

[5:18] the library um on the side that I can I can follow up if you want more

[5:24] information around the locations, but uh on the library on the wall that faces

[5:29] Cam Loops, uh as you come into town, we're going to have a quite like a 7 by7

[5:34] piece that's going up up there. And then the other one is going to be where the

[5:40] the plans are still in like unfolding, but ideally it'll be at the Legion, but

[5:44] the art's still being created for that and is pending um approval of the

[5:48] Legion. Um so for for equipment that we're hoping that

[5:54] the village might be able to help us with, it's not ideal for the purposes,

[5:57] but it would do in a pinch is the bucket lift that is on the back of a truck. The

[6:04] downside of that is that we won't be able to we'll have to figure out how to

[6:08] lift the panels with it. It'll I I I trust other people to figure this

[6:14] out, not myself. But but it would it would raise it to a high enough level

[6:18] and is strong enough. Um I think a more ideal

[6:23] piece of equipment would be like a off-road scissor lift. That's what we

[6:27] used for the other ones and that worked well except for it was just a little bit

[6:32] it it really should have been a sturdier piece of machinery. We're learning but

[6:39] um but yeah, so so what we're asking for from council is help with the equipment

[6:45] element of things and potentially um a a day of help from a staff member. Um the

[6:54] the costs associated is I I I have a quote from uh from Coopers in Salmon Arm

[7:04] for what we're looking for and it seemed a little bit high to me, but we did for

[7:08] the initial scissor lift pay $625 for the day's use and that was delivered

[7:15] to Chase. So, I'm imagining, yeah, for the off-road bigger scissor lift, it

[7:20] would be a larger. Anyway, it' be it cost more, but I'm not I'm not entirely

[7:26] sure how much more at this point. Um, but yeah, so that's that's ask one. And

[7:34] there is a second part to what we're asking involving the SL project. I

[7:38] wonder what the best way to proceed with this would be, whether it be to discuss

[7:42] this and then move on or for me to just lay it all out right now. Yeah, just

[7:46] bring that one up too. >> Okay, so the second part is a piece of

[7:50] really, really exciting news that just came in in the past couple of days and

[7:55] it's that Tanya Willard, the most recent whit liner of the Soie Prize, big deal

[8:01] in the art world, who happens to live here in Chase, is interested in

[8:05] contributing a piece to the frames project. And the uh space that she has

[8:10] in mind is the community hall. And uh anyway, it's a bit of a dream come true

[8:15] uh big deal for our community and um and so because this is a big deal piece,

[8:21] it's not, you know, like the other art is really exciting and we're really

[8:25] happy to have it up, but a Tanya Willard piece would be a whole different level.

[8:30] Um so we we would want to put a lot of thought and intention into how that

[8:35] happened. We would want to really respect the art and make sure that it

[8:38] happened in a good way. So, we're not we're not looking at timelines right

[8:41] now, per se, but what we are looking for is um an indication from council that

[8:48] this is interesting, that they would like to work with us to make this

[8:52] happen. Um and so, uh so we're not we're not we're not at a budget phase. We're

[8:57] not at how are we going to get the money. We're at Tammy Willard's willing

[9:01] to work with us. Whoa. And uh and we want to see where this will go. and and

[9:08] in order to potentially start seeking funding for that project, we would need

[9:13] some sort of motion from council to indicate that that is interesting to

[9:18] you. So

[9:22] that's all of it. >> Those are the two things.

[9:24] » Those are the two things. >> We have any questions from council?

[9:30] » Council P. Um what did you guys try team equipment or uh

[9:35] » they have a man lift um but not what we need like I like the person that is

[9:42] doing the installations Kenny Toma said that it wasn't what you needed or

[9:47] » how heavy is the piece. >> It's not heavy.

[9:51] » So the the bucket truck if it could get over there you could probably somehow

[9:57] » get it and move it over. >> I think so. I think we could make it

[10:00] work. Yeah. Like again, Kenny wouldn't be thrilled, but like also it would make

[10:07] it possible. >> We just have to figure a few things out.

[10:10] » Yeah. >> Yeah. If you can get in there. Yeah.

[10:13] Truck would work. Why wouldn't you use it?

[10:16] some discussion. Just going to ask the CEO, is this something that

[10:21] staff can talk to this group with and maybe bring something back for our next

[10:26] meeting for a a solution or >> um actually I do have one question for

[10:30] Ashton and that is is the the 10 piece the two pieces of the 10 pieces is that

[10:36] um like time sensitive or can you give us a couple of weeks it could come back

[10:40] to council for an answer and we could give you sort of an answer on both of

[10:44] these. That would be perfect for the library piece. We are also working on

[10:49] library time and they have to go through their many many layers of approvals.

[10:53] Everybody's on board. We just have to figure out the right contracts and all

[10:56] that. So, so that's not time sensitive. It's mostly

[11:01] » just now we're getting into the shifting weather and due to funding parameters,

[11:05] we do need to get it done before winter. >> Okay. Yeah.

[11:09] » Gotcha. >> Yeah.

[11:10] » So, it sounds to me like then, Mr. career that yeah we can um if unless

[11:14] council has any other questions we can bring this back on the 22nd

[11:19] » their council to decide >> any other questions councelor to

[11:24] » now with the library would have to be involved with that

[11:30] » yeah we're like no it's like they own that building

[11:35] » yes that's >> so so

[11:39] the it's that we've been in touch with them for four months about this and

[11:44] they're Yeah. Like it's very complex >> and but it's all on their end

[11:50] » like >> Yeah. So they approved it or

[11:52] » Well, no, not yet. Everybody agrees this is a good thing.

[11:56] » Yeah. >> But uh it's it's well, you know,

[12:00] » it's like a big bureaucracy they're working through,

[12:03] » right? >> So much so much. Yeah.

[12:07] » Um if I could add just to that, Mr. Mayor to councelor Torbone once council

[12:13] is gives us the go-ahad at the hopefully on the 22nd

[12:17] » um then um we can work with you and you know 15 RV staff we we need to work with

[12:22] them >> early library one we can make it work

[12:26] » perfect it's there's a lot of willingness on all the parts it's just

[12:30] navigating >> going through the yeah

[12:35] okay um yeah feel free to get back to me with any questions that come up Yeah.

[12:40] » Thank you. You can stay, go, or whatever you like.

[12:54] » That was nice. The arch looks nice around.

[12:58] » Okay. So, now we go on to reports, >> mayor and council reports. So, we can do

[13:04] both at once. Staff, if you wish. Yeah. if there's any

[13:10] questions. >> Are there any questions on reports

[13:14] or does any what do you want to ask? I think staff has something they want to

[13:17] add. >> Um Mr. Mayor, I just wanted to I think

[13:21] um our CFO is on on the call with us and her telephone. Um Deb, can you hear me?

[13:32] » Mute a deer. Maybe she's getting

[13:38] » um so report >> Yes, I can hear you.

[13:41] » Great. Um so Deb, the the mayor is was wondering earlier in your report it says

[13:47] that we haven't any new applications for permissive tax exemptions. I'm wondering

[13:52] if you can explain why we don't have any.

[13:56] » Um two I think it was two years ago or a year and a half ago when the permissive

[14:03] tax exemptions came up. Well, even four years ago when council first started.

[14:07] So, we did two bylaws um for permissive tax exemptions. The first one was for

[14:12] the churches and their um land excluding the land under their building, and we

[14:19] gave them a 4-year exemption. That way, we could go into the next council and

[14:25] not have to worry about tax exemptions until this time next year. And then with

[14:31] the um the not forprofit groups, we did their tax exemptions in 2-year

[14:39] clumps. So last year, I believe we did 25

[14:44] and 26 or 26 and 27, I think it was, so that we didn't have to do it this year

[14:52] going into like election time and and just leaving it open for the next

[14:56] council to to handle. Okay, thank you.

[15:02] Councelor Stevens. >> Yeah, I have a question. Um, for staff,

[15:07] I I was just wondering, did any of the staff have an update on Talis?

[15:11] » That's what she's got. >> Amazing.

[15:16] » Actually, thanks to our our Robin, our dev specialist. Um, so evidently the

[15:22] issue is that so they were supposed they had told us they were going to do fiber

[15:26] installation in 2026 in Chase. um they have since told us that it's delayed

[15:30] until 2027 and the reason is is um basically a supply chain issue. So

[15:36] basically there's um 87 new data centers going up in Canada and they're taking

[15:42] all the product that Telus needs for the community installs if you can believe

[15:45] that which I believe um unfortunately the businesses come before the small

[15:49] communities. So basically what Telus is saying to us at this point is that they

[15:54] plan to start early 2027 and be completed with the homes and businesses

[16:00] hooked in by late summer of 2027.

[16:07] » Okay, thank you very No, that's a that's a good update. It's um it that's

[16:13] extremely disappointing to hear that see the data centers are taking precedent

[16:17] and actually you know I think that I don't know I would like to see something

[16:22] in at Silga or something maybe a resolution or something where we can put

[16:26] some pressure on these companies because I I think that's totally unacceptable to

[16:30] put these massive corporations before small communities that don't have

[16:35] internet. But thank you for that update. Any other questions for councel to on

[16:41] the report council

[16:49] » um through the through the CA uh the same

[16:53] as the update last Tuesday. Uh they came in last Tuesday. Um, and so we're

[17:00] preparing, I believe we're I'm supposed to be meeting with the, uh, public works

[17:04] foreman on Thursday to spray paint the actual locations that they'll be going

[17:09] in with the install most likely next week.

[17:16] » Yeah. >> Anything else, council comment?

[17:22] » Okay. Uh, need a motion to receive for information. Council Stevens councelor

[17:28] German any more discussion all in favor carried

[17:41] number eight unfinished business 8.1 does council want to do your business

[17:49] councelor Stevenson >> I move that the village of case

[17:52] municipal ticket information amendment bylaw

[17:55] 969-2026 be adopted.

[17:58] » We have a second here. Councelor Berman discussion.

[18:04] Councelor Bonn, >> what's it going to cost? You got a music

[18:08] at the lake. Now you got to hire somebody to wander around, see if

[18:11] anybody's having a smoke. What's the cost going to be?

[18:16] Then you got to give them a ticket cuz they are having a smoke. You rip it up

[18:19] and throw it on the ground, walk away. >> Okay. To the zero. I think perhaps the

[18:25] director of corporate operations could elaborate on this um the reason why

[18:30] we're adding ticketing into the bylaw. >> Yeah. Um thank you Mr. Mayor, members of

[18:39] council through to councelor Con. So the there will be no added cost to

[18:47] adding an MTI or a power to the bylaw. The bylaw officer works two and a half

[18:55] hours a day on a pretty set schedule, but there'll be no incurred extra cost

[19:02] for the bylaw officer's time. And in terms of picking,

[19:09] um, tickets are only meant to be a disincentive. They're not the end all be

[19:14] all. We always start with education, followed up by more education, followed

[19:20] up by more education. the ticket is kind of a last resort and it's probably just

[19:26] a strong signal to the offender that you know hopefully they've got some

[19:31] self-reflection. Are we going to take a smoker to court every time they rip up a

[19:36] picket and throw it on the ground? Uh likely not. Um there's a little bit of

[19:41] peer pressure involved too because you're going to be singled out isolated

[19:46] in an event where there's no smoking and uh hopefully these things take care of

[19:50] themselves. I mean, we we're not doing this to

[19:54] um to make money, but it just gives us a little bit more teeth when we are

[19:58] approaching somebody who's smoking in the park or smoking in the community

[20:03] hall or smoking on a public facility that uh it's just it's just a deterrent,

[20:10] that's all. So, if somebody's having a smoke on the bench over here,

[20:16] that's you didn't get a ticket. You just get it.

[20:25] » I don't know. Just hang on. >> I'm not into that.

[20:29] What's next?

[20:34] » Councelor Torban and councelor just up like we don't really have the

[20:41] enforcement tools to deal with it anyways on a daily basis. So the

[20:45] likelihood of somebody getting a ticket for something like this is fairly remote

[20:50] because like you said they only have a bylaw officer working two and a half

[20:53] hours a day. Probably a lot of that time that will be taken up by the complaints

[21:00] that are received that she will deal with. But there won't actually be

[21:05] anybody driving around and forcing you. >> Yeah.

[21:08] » It's just that it's just that it's like anything else. If you have them, it's

[21:13] it's like other laws like in the motor vehicle act. Although they're there,

[21:18] they may not be enforced. Like there's a lot of stuff in there that's that's

[21:23] there, but it's not enforced daily because nobody has the time to do it.

[21:28] And that's going to be the situation here because we don't have a bylaw

[21:31] officer. The auction is there if you need to get

[21:37] a ticket, but chances are it will probably rarely or never happen in

[21:42] » No, hang on. So, councelor Herman, then councelor Con. Okay.

[21:45] » Okay. Councelor Con >> in this court says they can get the RCMP

[21:49] involved. >> We're not just

[21:53] » Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. >> Just here. Don't worry about it.

[21:57] » It's Yeah. And they said in the report they could

[22:01] buy the lockers or they can get the RCMP.

[22:04] » Yeah, it's just one at a time please. And we do worry about proper order and

[22:08] immediate things. But councelor Conor, you have the floor.

[22:13] » Well, that's my my point that you could get uh if if the person told you to

[22:19] shove you a ticket, they get the RCMP. I'm quite sure the cops don't want to go

[22:26] over to a ticket group. Okay. Do you want to speak councelor Torban before

[22:30] the corporate officer or No, we're corporate officer wants to speak.

[22:35] » Yeah. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Just to share some additional information on to

[22:40] why the RCMP is a listed agency in the schedule A of the bylaw is because the

[22:45] RCMP carry our ticket books. So, they're not using the RCMP ticket books. are

[22:51] actually using village chase ticket books. They have uh very few uh

[22:57] responsibilities in terms of managing our bylaws. An example would be the

[23:02] noise bylaw. So if there's a party goes till 2:00 a.m. in the morning, we don't

[23:06] have bylaw enforcement at 2 in the morning. The RCMP can write a ticket

[23:10] using our book and RMTI for a party gets cut out of control high noise

[23:18] disturbance. Uh and smoking is another one. So, there was something at the

[23:22] community hall, a party, a dance, and quite often we get complaints from our

[23:27] parks employees because of smoking and throwing the cigarette pots into the

[23:31] garden that they've spent all year just making so nice it gets littered with

[23:35] cigarettes. Um, the RCP can um deal with open alcohol outside of the

[23:43] committee hall and smoking on Francis.

[23:49] Is there anybody else? Okay, see no more discussion. All in

[23:55] favor opposed. So 4 to one council opponent,

[24:01] you're opposed. >> I'm opposed to this. Yeah.

[24:04] » Okay. Thank you. 8.2 development variance permit 838

[24:11] Shushwalk Avenue. What's council's wishes on this one?

[24:15] To move that development experiment 2026-5

[24:23] be issued section five. Councelor Con discussion

[24:30] seeing none. All in favor? It's carried unanimously.

[24:36] 8.3 parking trespass at community hall live 27 Avenue. What does this council

[24:43] want to do with this one? Council Herman.

[24:46] » I'll make a motion that administration be directed to take all necessary

[24:49] actions to ensure that all access routes thorough throughways and throughways and

[24:55] parking areas associated with the community hall are restored and

[24:58] maintained for the exclusive use of the city hall. Do you have a second?

[25:02] Councelor Stevens discussion. >> Um we did discuss it before the meeting

[25:08] and that could if there's some way that we could help him out.

[25:14] You know the only access is the alleyway. There's there's no other

[25:18] access. Um the u the community hall there that is not an alleyway. That's

[25:26] just part of the building in that. But he does have access from the the alley

[25:30] itself. So, I don't know, maybe we if we could

[25:34] suggest something to him, help him out or something to um you can make it a

[25:39] little bit wider like his access from that alley. I don't know if he needs uh

[25:44] permission from us. >> I think that's

[25:49] through to the CEO. I think that's kind of what his legal access would be is

[25:54] through the back alley, but I'm going to put that through to the

[25:56] » CEO. His legal office is through the alley. Yep. But he could make it wider.

[26:02] » Wait, which wider? The alley. >> Not the alley, but his So he could drive

[26:06] in there as a >> Yeah, his his access if he could. Yeah,

[26:09] he could. Then that's probably what And I shouldn't say probably that's what the

[26:14] director of corporate operations is suggesting is that we get direction from

[26:18] council to do just that with him that this is what his

[26:24] » what his access is and that we we really need that other access for the hall.

[26:28] » Yeah.

[26:33] Uh, CEO, Mr. Baker has >> um maybe just to clarify a tiny bit what

[26:40] uh I think councelor Connor was was asking there was I I believe our bylaws

[26:45] limit um a residential access to say 6 meters. It might even be less than

[26:53] that for residential access might be four meters. And I think what you were

[26:58] asking was whether or not we could make that wider for

[27:02] for the for the residents. Um so that's I guess something that we could

[27:08] incorporate in our discussions with >> off of the back alley access. Yes.

[27:16] » Conorbon. Well, the uh the driveway to a residence

[27:22] I don't think is the width of the driveway I don't think is considered.

[27:26] » The uh >> it is.

[27:28] » Yes. >> You could have like a 20ft driveway in

[27:31] the front of your yard if you wanted to. >> Well, that 20 foot driveway would be the

[27:37] 6 meter driveway essentially. Uh which I believe

[27:42] is the limit, but that may be for commercial. It might be a little bit

[27:45] smaller for residential. Again, like most of our bylaw enforcement, uh it's

[27:50] on a complaint driven basis. >> Yeah.

[27:52] » A lot of properties have multiple accesses, which again isn't allowed

[27:56] within the bylaw. Uh a U-shaped driveway, for instance, doesn't meet the

[28:02] the bylaw requirements. Um >> well,

[28:07] I think this so this motion here doesn't actually deal with that. It just allows

[28:11] staff to maintain the property, >> but it sounds like there might be a

[28:17] chance for him >> get get access from the back alley.

[28:22] » Councelor Corbin, >> given the width of the alley, it's not

[28:26] normal road size. Like I think it would be if you're dealing with it, I think it

[28:31] would be good to have him widen his access so it's easier getting in and out

[28:37] from the alley. That would make sense.

[28:41] » And it's interesting that counselor Torbon because years ago we dealt with

[28:45] this right in the back alley here when the fellow put it in and he didn't have

[28:50] we kind of allowed him to angle his his shed that he put in because it

[28:57] wasn't because it was a back alley. It was hard to do a 90 degree turn. So we

[29:01] did change a few things just to allow him because it was a back alley access.

[29:06] But that that would be something separate from this this what we're

[29:09] dealing with today. Any other discussion?

[29:14] Okay. All in favor? That's carried unanimously.

[29:18] Good discussion. 8.4 Four recommendation there. Councelor

[29:24] Torban >> let the letter from Adrien Dicks

[29:27] Minister of Energy and Climate Solution regarding the province and intention to

[29:32] remove priorities and available resources and options related to the

[29:36] future of the LG CAP funding during the 2027 provincial budget process. We

[29:43] received information >> second by councelor Stevens. Discussion

[29:48] seem none. All in favor? It's carried unanimously.

[29:54] » 8.5 recommendation from our committee of the whole veterans crosswalk. Councelor

[29:59] Herman, >> do you want to do this one?

[30:02] » Yeah. Yeah. >> Yep. Uh I move that council approves

[30:05] funding of up to $3,000 from public works operational budget and direct

[30:09] staff to work with the Chase Legion branch 107 on a design for the veteran

[30:13] for a veterans crosswalk for the installation to occur prior to your

[30:17] members. Seconded by council it any discussion

[30:23] and none in favor and that's carried unanimously.

[30:30] Uh number nine new business 9.1 development cost charges bylaw.

[30:38] It says presentation from director of corporate operations but I'm going to

[30:42] turn it over to the CEO. >> Thank you Mr. Mayor. So, um, our

[30:46] director of corporate operations has been working really hard on this

[30:49] particular, um, initiative and he does have a presentation for council to

[30:53] explain our new development cost chart. >> Thank you.

[31:08] » Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. So, the development cost charge

[31:13] bylaw uh, 2026 is proposed to replace uh 2010 bylaw which is 16 years old but

[31:21] arguably 17 or 18 years old because of the

[31:26] metrics and the the preliminary work that goes into a bylaw uh happens before

[31:31] the adoption date. So if you can imagine the cost the the money that we're

[31:35] collecting from the development community is 18 years of date. And so

[31:40] the purpose of updating this bylaw is just to get the times and then come up

[31:45] with a regular monitoring and uh check in on this bylaw every 3 to 5 years

[31:52] which is actually now the new requirement that's legislated. So uh the

[31:56] government has the provincial government has uh mandated that we we look at these

[32:02] every 3 to five years. So,

[32:07] uh, the other thing that the legislation has done is allowed some extra

[32:11] categories to go into the development cost charge bylaws. Fire protection,

[32:16] solid waste, and recycling. So, now a municipality can collect money from a

[32:22] development to earmark for a fire protection facility or a solid waste and

[32:28] recycling facility. Up until now, it's only been water, sewer, roads, parks,

[32:34] uh, drainage, and that's that's it. So, we've opened it up a little bit to allow

[32:39] some flexibility to municipalities because our costs are continually uh

[32:44] rising. Things are getting more expensive and uh we're struggling,

[32:49] municipalities everywhere are struggling to cover infrastructure replacement

[32:53] costs or upgrades. So, but what are DCC's? So VCC's aren't money available

[32:59] to uh just update or restore or repair or

[33:05] fund operations. It's specifically targeted to the amount that's

[33:12] attributable to development. So if somebody comes into Chase and builds a

[33:17] 100 new houses, what is the demand on our system specific to those 100 houses?

[33:24] not the not the overall community but specific to that development. The best

[33:29] example that I can think of is a water man and you have a water man and it's

[33:34] say 100 mills and you put in 100 houses and now you've got to have a 200 mil

[33:41] water mean. Well, who pays for the upsizing of that water me? The

[33:46] development done. the development does and they pay it through DCC's

[33:51] and sometimes just offsite works if it's right uh adjacent to their development.

[33:58] So because the taxpayers shouldn't be funding growth development should be

[34:03] funding growth. You need another filter water treatment plant. You need another

[34:08] lagoon. You need whatever whatever you can attribute directly to that

[34:13] development. That's that's where they fed ECC's.

[34:21] So on the left where it's green, these are the things that you can use

[34:26] development cost charge uh installations or reserves for.

[34:30] » Is there any way to eliminate that on the right or do

[34:34] something with it? So thank you.

[34:41] So yeah, in a nutshell, you can't use DCC's to fund infrastructure needed to

[34:48] serve the existing tax base taxpayers and they shouldn't be funding

[34:53] development. So that's very clear lines. Now the the science in getting there

[34:59] isn't always clear but it's sort of the best guess because you have to use a

[35:02] model. So you have to use predictions you have to use population growth.

[35:10] So in Chase DC's have previously paid for the water treatment plant parts of

[35:17] the water treatment plant not all of it but for instance the borrowing costs the

[35:21] interest on the borrowing costs. We're now able to actually in this bylaw,

[35:25] we're we're bringing forward some of those interest costs on the water

[35:29] treatment plant into this bylaw. So, we're still recovering the interest

[35:33] payments through DCC's that the development company uh will pay for

[35:39] uh sewage treatment plant upgrades. Uh the intersection at Shishwap Avenue and

[35:44] Ilmer Road, there was a a whole sidewalk there, railing, there was drainage,

[35:49] there was a left turn lane, there was a lot a lot of work an intersection. It

[35:53] was all paid through DCC's uh the Wilson Park pathway. So these are

[36:00] just some examples of what we've used in the past, the funds that we collect for.

[36:08] So the rates are determined first off by your population growth predictions

[36:17] and then so these are all the inputs and then the the project that you're

[36:21] eyeballing the project that you want to complete put that down on paper. Let's

[36:25] say it's a new fireh hall. Uh you put that down there. You look at your

[36:30] population now your projected population growth. The fireh hall when do you think

[36:34] that'll be viable? when do you think it'll will have enough population to

[36:38] actually incur the need for that new fireh hall? Uh and then you start saving

[36:43] money in your DCC reserves. So when a fireall is built, you can attribute a

[36:48] whole bunch of the DC reserves to the firewall.

[36:57] Um so this is just sort of lays out the path that we're on right now. So uh

[37:03] we've yeah we are here where the red star is. Uh after if council gives

[37:09] readings to this bylaw goes to the ministry of of municipal services. Is

[37:14] that what they call joint? >> Municipal affairs.

[37:16] » Municipal affairs. Uh they have to authorize it and then it comes back for

[37:19] adoption.

[37:25] So I've already used the water main example. So in this case, if the water

[37:32] mane upsizing is a million dollars, uh the developer will

[37:40] contribute a third of that, 30% of it, because it's been determined that 30% of

[37:45] that upsizing is directly attributable to the growth, the new houses and the

[37:50] new people that are coming to Chase. So the taxpayers aren't paying for that

[37:54] upsizing.

[38:00] When are DCC's collective? So subdivisions is one of the most

[38:07] common. So Whitfield Landing, uh they have a three or four phase

[38:13] subdivision. They're on phase three. So every time they enter into a new phase,

[38:17] they pay development cost charges for all the lots in that phase. So I think

[38:21] the first phase was 40 40 uh units. So they would have paid 40 times the rate

[38:28] and then it would go into our reserves and it just sits there waiting for a

[38:31] project. Uh the oncore housing project

[38:36] uh they paid development cost charges too and actually I've got a slide for

[38:39] that maybe a little bit later. The other

[38:44] times that you pay for development cost charges is at a building permit for

[38:49] commercial or industrial properties. So typically for residential it's collected

[38:55] at subdivision. For anything that's higher order like commercial or

[38:59] industrial it's collected at building per

[39:04] there's some instream protection for developers that are already in the

[39:09] throws of doing their development. So they're protected. They don't if this

[39:12] bylaw was adopted today they would have some protection because they're already

[39:16] in process and nobody likes surprises. It doesn't work for their performer.

[39:20] It's just not it's not good to have uncertainty if you're a developer. So,

[39:24] this allows them some certainty that they're protected if if and when these

[39:29] these costs change.

[39:42] So, the proposal for our new development cost is to include drainage, fire

[39:47] protection, solid waste management program. So while drainage was an

[39:52] allowable dcc previously we never collected for it but now we're going to

[39:56] collect for drainage fire and solid waste.

[40:03] So and here's here are on the left hand side are the service areas that qualify

[40:09] for development cost charge collection and on the right are just some examples

[40:13] of what those funds could be used for.

[40:33] Now I'll just draw your attention to probably the very left side. Again,

[40:37] those are the the service areas that we've moved back for. And on the very

[40:42] right side are the totals. So, a single family residential

[40:46] property would now incur a $7,800 development cost charge

[41:00] and then it's broken down into the various components. So, of that $7,800,

[41:05] $1,500 goes to roads, $4,000 goes to water, $111 goes to

[41:12] sanitary sewer, 900 to drainage, 650 to parks, 319 to fire, 319 to solid waste.

[41:19] So, that's how it gets saved in our so the CFO will take the monies that are

[41:25] collected and put them into these buckets. So that if a parks project

[41:29] required development cost charge monies for something in the future, you'd have

[41:33] that reserves, you'd have it available. And actually I've got a slide with the

[41:38] with our reserves amount. It's just a little bit later.

[41:43] So single family residential development cost charges. This is just some basic uh

[41:49] comparables. I've got another sheet with more relevant comparables. Uh, these

[41:54] aren't too bad, but it just shows you the disparity from some some places that

[41:59] have $30,000 per unit development cost charges. And then what Chase is

[42:04] proposing is a bump from 2600 to 7,800. So, we're still on the very conservative

[42:10] side of of levying these charges. Uh here's some of the more significant

[42:20] uh single family home development cost charges. Langley charges $72,000 per

[42:28] single family lot. Yeah. And so some of these are in the

[42:33] news because they're they're getting a bit high and it's

[42:38] actually contributing to the housing crisis. So,

[42:41] » it's and even last year, the federal government released a lot of a lot of

[42:45] money to some of these larger centers with incentives to to provide housing

[42:51] and build more housing. And some of these municipalities in the lower

[42:55] mainland actually took advantage of it and increased their development cost

[42:59] charges that actually recouped some of the the funding from

[43:04] Yeah, it they they did and the federal government got wise to it and actually

[43:08] had them roll them back because they were

[43:14] they were um it was just a little bit unscrupulous with the what was

[43:18] happening. And so now they're sort of Everything's sort of normalizing now.

[43:24] It's getting more

[43:28] uh controlled. So you can see Chase is uh quite quite

[43:34] uh reasonable and and still conservative.

[43:40] This is for multif family.

[43:46] So even going from our existing to our proposed

[43:51] still quite low

[43:55] multif family that's for apartment buildings and then commercials charged

[44:00] on a square meter method instead of a dwelling unit

[44:05] method. So that's per square meter. So Chase right now is $1647.

[44:13] So that's in $210 and 20 $26 is closer to $45

[44:25] and industrial and then this is the Encore

[44:30] project little on Shepard there. So the 2010 rates, so we collected $76,000 from

[44:38] Encore for development cost charges and using the new rates, it would have been

[44:42] $28,000. That's just an example of sort of money

[44:47] that we're leaving on the table that we could be using for

[44:55] uh well to put into reserves if we don't have an immediate

[44:59] case for for using those those dollars.

[45:08] And these are our reserves as of December 31st.

[45:14] Well, it says 2026. They're current. So, they're actually last week I asked the

[45:19] CFO to provide this balance. So we have about half a million dollars in BCC

[45:24] reserves and they're broken down into on the left hand side you can see roads and

[45:29] parks and water sewer and you'll notice we don't have drainage in there because

[45:34] we haven't been collecting for drainage. We don't have fire facilities because we

[45:37] haven't collected for fire facilities and um solid waste recycling also.

[45:48] So throughout this process uh which began late in 2025

[45:53] uh we just the staff have been working uh on and off the whole time. So there

[45:59] hasn't been a certain uh workshop but we did a workshop with with council and

[46:06] this guy James Klauscus uh he looked just like that. He came on

[46:10] to Zoom and he he did a uh presentation on the development cost charges that was

[46:15] in February. And then we had a developer workshop. We

[46:20] organized it, sent out invitations, invited all the the developers that have

[46:26] ever uh well in the last decade worked in

[46:29] Chase and developers that were familiar with and we didn't have any update. We

[46:34] uh yeah, it was quite unusual. Didn't have

[46:38] any anybody participate in this workshop and it really impacts the development

[46:44] community the most. So we thought we would have some participation.

[46:56] So this is where we're at. The bylaw is being presented to council. Uh upon a

[47:03] couple readings, it will get sent to the inspector of municipalities

[47:07] and then it will come back to council for

[47:10] for adoption.

[47:16] That concludes the presentation. >> Just going to ask this CEO, is this a

[47:22] good time to ask questions or should we maybe read the recommendation and then

[47:26] do discussion or what? >> Yes, let's do the recommendation and

[47:29] then do discussion, please. If somebody wants to, councelor Herman,

[47:33] » uh, I move that development cost charge bylaw number 960-2026

[47:38] be given first, second, and third readings and that the bylaw be forwarded

[47:42] to the inspector of municipalities for approval.

[47:45] » Seconded by councelor Connor, any discussion?

[47:49] Councelor Stevens, >> I think that graph should be blasted on

[47:52] the front page of our website. >> That that's incredible. I don't know.

[47:58] Rob Stokes just trying to drive people out, but that's pretty wild. Um, no, but

[48:03] but for real, when, you know, when we're we're looking to potentially attract

[48:08] developers and, you know, we we talk about, you

[48:12] know, sustainable growth and things like that. I think this is definitely

[48:15] something that's worthy of having a subpage on the website for developers to

[48:20] actually be able to see. I think there might be something there. I don't know

[48:22] off the top of my head, but something that sticks out like right in your face

[48:26] like that to just basically say Golden Chase, it's cheaper, you know. So, oh,

[48:32] thank you very much for all the work that would

[48:35] » any other discounter comment. Yeah. If somebody's taking bringing their

[48:41] sewage into Chase and they're making bigger subdivisions and stuff like that,

[48:47] are they charged this?

[48:53] » Sorry. Can you >> What I mean is Adam Lake brings their

[48:57] sewage over here and they're building apartments and stuff like that. How does

[49:01] that work with uh I mean I know they're paying for sewer same as we are but is

[49:08] there a development charge on that? That's a great question. Uh and we we

[49:13] talked about that but it's not permitted. So it's there's no

[49:17] legislation that allows us to do that. Uh but we did talk about that because

[49:21] we're right now u senior staff is working on a renewal agreement with

[49:27] Adams Indian Band for that sewer. And so we're we're talking about every

[49:31] possibility and that that did come up.

[49:37] » Any other questions? Just like to refer back to

[49:42] 2010 date because that's when Whitfield landing started and that's when we

[49:47] created the new DCC bylaw at that time. We had a we had two separate DCC's

[49:52] because they were doing such a massive operation down there. But now through to

[49:57] the CEO to corporate officer, we're now combining it. So there's just one. So

[50:02] there used to be two different DCC areas, but now we're just combining it

[50:06] into a oneizefits-all. Is that what's happening here? Because they've done the

[50:10] works. >> That's correct.

[50:13] » That's exactly it. They've completed all those works. All those major dcc

[50:17] projects, uh, they they've been completed for that project. So they're

[50:21] all being rolled up into one. So it's just easier to manage, easier for the

[50:25] development community to understand. They don't have to look at two different

[50:27] spreadsheets. Uh because before if you were on Elmer Road, you had to look at

[50:32] the Whitfield >> landing DCC's and then go to the village

[50:36] wide dcc and add them up and then but now it's just it's more simple. It's

[50:40] just all in one place. >> And and the other point through to the

[50:45] CEO that the corporate officer made was that uh

[50:49] the old bylaws were in 2010. So even by it I picked that up. Thank you. So even

[50:55] by us increasing it's probably in real time it might not be it might even be

[51:00] less money than what $2600 got you in in 2010. So it just shows how you we're

[51:06] actually falling behind >> drastically. Is there any other

[51:09] discussion? Okay, we have a motion duly seconded.

[51:15] All in favor? Carried unanimously. Thanks everyone.

[51:24] 9.2 to 1026 RBU zoning amendment. What council want to do with this one?

[51:31] » Councelor Torb that the zoning amendment application for 1026

[51:37] be accepted and administration be directed

[51:40] » to process the application and draft the zoning.

[51:43] » Seconder councelor Stevens discussion councelor Stevens

[51:48] » have a question for the court officer. Um because this person identifies that

[51:53] they want to build a secondary suite. Um >> is there any like neighborhood

[52:00] consultation that has to happen with them?

[52:06] » Mr. Chair may counselor Stevens. Yes. Uh councelor Stevens there is. So this is

[52:12] the very preliminary application process where council gets a chance to even

[52:17] consider this application and then if if they uh accept the application and

[52:22] direct us to work on a bylaw and that sort of thing. Uh there is quite a bit

[52:27] of public consultation. There's there's ads in the newspaper. There's letters to

[52:32] all the neighbors. So it's quite a public process. Yeah. It's very

[52:36] thorough. >> Any other discussion?

[52:40] Councelor Stevens, >> I have one followup. So, I noticed that

[52:43] there's there's an $800 um fee that comes with this um amendment. Does that

[52:49] $800 cover the all of that advertising and maybe your time and those types of

[52:54] things to go into that >> through to counselor Stevens generally.

[53:00] So, we have to pick a fee that you win some, you lose some. So, generally what

[53:05] we do is we we evaluate the fee structure every now and then. If if

[53:10] costs are getting out of hand, we generally have a good feel for what our

[53:14] time is and what what it's costing. There are definitely advertising costs,

[53:18] there's mailing costs, there's other staff that get involved with with zoning

[53:23] amendment. And so, uh, but we're so we have a feel for it, but generally you

[53:27] win some, you lose some, and it just sort of comes out of the wash. Um,

[53:32] » fair. Thank you, >> councelor Torban. Uh technically the new

[53:38] building actually be the main building and the cabin on the lake would actually

[53:44] be the secondary building, right? So what they're actually doing is building

[53:48] a new house on the front. So it's not technically a secondary suite. I think

[53:53] it's going to be the main house that they're putting on there. There was more

[53:58] like I I see they've got the uh the garage entrance and everything. So,

[54:03] their driveway is going to be on the right hand side

[54:07] » and then the driveway to the back is going to be on the left hand side. Yeah.

[54:11] » But on there probably right. So, I think not to confuse it by saying secondary

[54:18] suite. I find that's not really what's happening here. That's going to be the

[54:23] main entrance and the actual cabin that's there now will actually serve

[54:29] that just to clear it up.

[54:35] » It's not much different to what's already there. The other houses

[54:39] » like all of the other house and a cabin house and a cabin

[54:44] » almost all of them across that. >> Yeah. And when you looked at that

[54:47] council to so their access is going to not be off that road right away to the

[54:52] lake for all of it. So that'll kind of help that. Yes.

[54:56] » Okay. >> Council scenes.

[54:59] » Well, I guess just to follow up. So, um so is this build subject to development

[55:04] cost charges?

[55:07] » Yes. >> Corporate office.

[55:10] » Uh it is. It's not. And the reason is the legislation

[55:15] uh does not allow you to charge for a single unit. It's just that they've

[55:20] already paid. So you could just theoretically think of okay at one time

[55:24] that was a subdivision and when they subdivided they would have paid

[55:29] development cost charges. Now some municipalities are quite sticklers and

[55:34] they will say show me your receipts. But we know that this was subdivided in

[55:40] the 70s or 80s. There was probably no development cost charges. There was

[55:45] probably no subdivision bylaw. Uh so we we just try to move forward and we don't

[55:52] go backwards too often, but just in case they wouldn't be charged.

[55:56] » Thank you. >> Any other discussion from council?

[55:59] See none. All in favor? That's carried unanimously.

[56:06] 9.3 economic development activities. I'm going to turn it over to the CEO.

[56:11] » Uh thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, today we have Robin Seir, um our dev specialist,

[56:16] and she's going to give you a sort of a summary of the documentation that she

[56:21] provided for the agenda. Take it away.

[56:25] » Yeah.

[56:28] » Do you have the presentation yet?

[56:38] Okay, perfect. Thank you. Um, so this presentation is just to give some

[56:46] context is uh from three strategies. So one was

[56:51] built in 2020, one in 2024 and then 2025.

[56:57] Um so what I've done is I've brought those three strategies together and uh

[57:05] developed an action plan that we can move forward um with with some of the

[57:12] work and start to implement. Um, one of the things that I always

[57:18] recommend when I'm doing these are that we review it at a year, which gives us

[57:23] the opportunity if there is something that um becomes

[57:30] available for the community, we can have a look. It doesn't mean that what's in

[57:35] here gets put aside, but it may we just need to ensure that if that we're taking

[57:44] advantage of all opportunities that come forward for the village of Chase.

[57:51] We'll just next slide. >> Oh, sorry.

[57:56] » Perfect. Great. Thank you.

[58:09] should work.

[58:14] » There we go. >> Okay. So the strategic vision for this

[58:20] is that the village of Chase will become the gateway to the shoe shushwalk by

[58:24] creating a vibrant downtown, supporting local business growth, attracting

[58:30] strategic investment and strengthening partnerships with the local First

[58:35] Nations communities and developing yearround tourism and community

[58:40] amenities.

[58:43] Uh priority one was building economic development. Um the number one was to

[58:50] secure Etsy and our partner funding. Um we secured um the funding which is the

[58:57] rural economic development and infrastructure program.

[59:02] » Yeah. >> Yeah. In 2026. Um and then I was hired

[59:09] uh in June 2026. And moving forward um the partnerships

[59:16] that we will hope to develop or with Adam Slate, Wisconsin band, TNRD,

[59:23] community futures and other organizations moving forward. We have

[59:28] already started to have discussion with um CSRD

[59:34] electoral area F and C um about uh coming together to look at

[59:43] uh some opportunities probably mainly with tourism and uh developing

[59:50] some opportunities to do that. >> Roger, can you say what CNF hours? Oh no

[59:58] is area F and area C is shw says shishwap. So um so one of the things

[1:00:07] that I want to note that was um brought forward in one of the strategies that

[1:00:15] was developed in 2025 was the creation of a business

[1:00:20] improvement association. I the recommendation coming out of that

[1:00:26] is not to is not included in this document

[1:00:31] because you already have an established chamber of commerce and in a community

[1:00:37] of this size and this is just a recommendation to have a business

[1:00:42] improvement association and the chamber of commerce. I don't think that's

[1:00:47] realistic in this community. Um that is my recommendation and I

[1:00:56] wanted to bring that um forward. I think for long-term success

[1:01:04] um there could be a partnership made with the village of chase and the

[1:01:10] chamber of commerce and uh a position could be developed. Um, so that's in the

[1:01:18] document that I brought forward. So, priority two is to revitalize uh

[1:01:26] downtown Chase um and business retention and really is to transform Shushwalk

[1:01:34] Avenue into a vibrant commercial and social hub.

[1:01:38] um beautifification of facade improvements, gateway enhancements and

[1:01:43] way finding um that is can be in form of signage

[1:01:48] mural and the artwork program which has already been started and you know that's

[1:01:54] it's looking pretty nice. um pocket park upgrades and public washroom which I

[1:02:01] know there's already been some discussion on that and um pop up the

[1:02:06] retail and vacant storefront activation.

[1:02:12] So priority three is tourism uh development and visitor

[1:02:18] spending. Tourism does remain one of Chase's strongest economic

[1:02:23] opportunities. Um there can be accommodation attraction

[1:02:28] uh beach concession development which I know that there has been some um work

[1:02:34] done around that um expanded events and festivals,

[1:02:39] indigenous tourism partnerships and some marketing for promotional materials.

[1:02:49] Uh priority four is strategic investment attraction.

[1:02:54] um to pursue projects with storm community support and economic return.

[1:03:00] There has been the recommendation for a long-term care facility, um a hotel,

[1:03:06] marina, the beach concession again, and other tourism opportunities.

[1:03:22] And priority five is infrastructure and community assets. So supporting economic

[1:03:28] growth through strategic infrastructure investments.

[1:03:32] Uh Wilson Park, the curb rank, transportation and community.

[1:03:42] Uh It's a three-year implementation timeline because the funding through

[1:03:48] redep is runs for three years. So year one will be the organizational

[1:03:55] development which we've already done and then the downtown tourism uh projects

[1:04:03] and planning and the economic development office established an

[1:04:07] operational which will be able to then start to look at quick wings in this

[1:04:13] those areas.

[1:04:18] Um year two again is investment in growth in tourism downtown. Looking at

[1:04:26] um attracting businesses to come into the empty spaces of downtown and

[1:04:33] supporting the community infrastructure and uh the key deliverable visible

[1:04:40] visible transformation of downtown and active investment attraction program. So

[1:04:46] we have a we have an attraction program that's in place for

[1:04:51] any type of drone that looks at the region.

[1:04:58] Uh year three is again major projects and expansion investment traction and

[1:05:05] there is more detail in the documents. um tourism, downtown infrastructure,

[1:05:12] at least one major private sector investment project committed beyond your

[1:05:16] development. Three,

[1:05:22] so the top uh 10 actions for council approval, secure funding, which is

[1:05:28] already completed. Um the regional economic development

[1:05:33] part partnership was the one that I talked about with the northwalk and the

[1:05:37] suite underlay.

[1:05:40] Launch downtown rehabilitation projects. Implement a vacant storefront activation

[1:05:46] program. Um issue an RFP for the beach

[1:05:51] concession. And like I said, I know there's been some work going on with

[1:05:55] that already. So, uh, develop an investment package for hotel running and

[1:06:01] the long-term care opportunities. Install downtown wayfinding and gateway

[1:06:07] signage. Uh, signage also too along the highway

[1:06:11] to let people know what's in Chase. So, that's one thing that we need to move

[1:06:16] forward with. Uh, the public washroom and the pocket

[1:06:21] park improvements. I know there's been some discussion about that already. and

[1:06:26] then launch a fun gateway to the shoe destination marketing program.

[1:06:34] Um so why is this being done? These initiatives ensure that developer chase

[1:06:41] builds capacity then improves the downtown attracts investment creating

[1:06:47] the strong strongest likelihood of delivering meaningful economic and

[1:06:51] community outcomes by 2021.

[1:06:57] Thank you.

[1:07:01] » Uh questions from council, councelor Stevens.

[1:07:04] » Yeah. Um are we able to put this report on the website and then maybe do a

[1:07:09] social media post about it? Um or even like a sunflower ad about it. Something

[1:07:13] I hear a lot in the community is Chase is doing nothing um in terms of active.

[1:07:18] So um I think that having your position here is really strong. you know, it's

[1:07:23] already showing great results and I I think that people actually need to see

[1:07:26] this. Now, I can please everybody, but I think this is a great start and I think

[1:07:31] this is something that people actually need to see and they'll be able to get

[1:07:34] excited about the future. That's it. And and to the councelor Stevens, one of the

[1:07:39] things that I'm hoping to do uh probably towards the end of October

[1:07:45] or early November is do a community meeting um to invite people and talk

[1:07:50] about this just so that we can do a presentation

[1:07:54] » businesses, residents and >> great to do presentations. and councelor

[1:08:00] Herman. Uh >> I just want to echo what uh councelor

[1:08:03] Stevens was saying that as I went through here and wrote underway underway

[1:08:07] underway on all of these things. You know, we're already headed in that

[1:08:10] direction and just refining and deos defining and refining what we need to do

[1:08:16] » and adding on the little extras and but I

[1:08:20] agree people need to know because people still there's nothing going on. And if

[1:08:24] you walk downtown on a busy morning like this morning, you will see there's

[1:08:28] Oakland everywhere downtown. So yeah, it's something's going on.

[1:08:33] » Yes. >> Councor Stevens.

[1:08:35] » Yeah. And just one more comment on that. I I think like such a huge um revenue

[1:08:40] generator that, you know, we we may have been missing over the years is like that

[1:08:44] minor hockey community. Um you know, hotels, they're going to cooper

[1:08:50] um because ours are getting booked up so quick. they they don't know where the

[1:08:54] local cafes are. They you know they don't know where to go to eat. So I see

[1:08:57] that's all captured here and I think that's a lot of money that could come in

[1:09:01] the into the business community. >> Can I just counselor Herman

[1:09:05] » I just want to share a little good news story today. I was in Luna on the lake

[1:09:09] and I was at the arena when Owen told me that well I saw the storm the count's

[1:09:13] team coming here the KIJHL team coming here to practice.

[1:09:17] » Yeah. And so then I was in the Lon on the lake this afternoon and uh Bernie

[1:09:22] was saying, "Holy smokes, we got slammed this morning. Two of the Chase kids that

[1:09:26] are on the storm said to their team, "Nobody's eating in Caloops. We're

[1:09:31] coming to Chase to Lon on the Lake. They have the best breakfast ever. 25." And

[1:09:36] she said, "We only have 24 seats in the restaurant." And we had a team of 25

[1:09:41] people come for breakfast when they already had their and I mean things like

[1:09:44] that are just like that was no brought the whole team. So I was like I

[1:09:52] love it. I love it. So she said we were slammed. Yeah. So that that was good

[1:09:56] news. So good news. Sorry. >> And we're going to be talking about the

[1:09:59] arena later. That's one of the good things is it's an actually when you talk

[1:10:03] about off season the shoulder seasons the hockey is good because in the winter

[1:10:07] time it brings I know like on a Sunday if there's a tournament but all the

[1:10:11] restaurants we don't have get the hotel stuff but at least the restaurants get

[1:10:16] » get food >> they're open.

[1:10:18] » Is there anything else from council? >> Okay. Thank you Robin. We made a motion

[1:10:25] corporate office. Yeah. Okay.

[1:10:30] Uh someone want to make councelor Stevens I move that the presentation

[1:10:33] from the economic development specialist please receive the second by councelor

[1:10:38] Torban discussion all in favor carried unanimously

[1:10:45] 9.4 for truth and reconciliation day. Who wants to do this from councelor

[1:10:50] Herman? >> Um, we got I move that following parade

[1:10:54] route be closed to traffic between 10:00 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, September

[1:10:59] 30th, 2026. We know

[1:11:02] » do we have to add that other part for CA?

[1:11:05] » Um, yeah, it's part of the whole recommendation. So, would it be and

[1:11:12] there or not? >> Nope.

[1:11:13] » Okay. Starting at the curling rate, right onto Shush, right onto Shishop

[1:11:18] Avenue, left onto Chase Street, left onto First Avenue, left onto Pauline,

[1:11:23] right onto Shishop Avenue, left onto Wilson Street, and finishing at the

[1:11:27] current. >> Secondly, Councelor Stevens, discussion,

[1:11:30] councelor Stevens. >> First, I want to apologize for the very

[1:11:33] poorly drawn map on page 126, but I drew that map and submitted it. Um, but no,

[1:11:39] you know what? every year or you know last couple years there's been a walk as

[1:11:43] part of this event and um this year you know we're going to do it around and

[1:11:47] chase. I did talk to some businesses um and they're actually all going to be

[1:11:50] closed anyway. So um it is it is a holiday and um yeah just kind of wanted

[1:11:57] to add that it's it's probably take no more than an hour really but it's a good

[1:12:02] opportunity. >> Any other discussion?

[1:12:07] All in favor? That's passed unanimously.

[1:12:13] 9.5 Arena Condition Assessment Report. I'm going to turn it over to the CEO.

[1:12:18] » Um, thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, just briefly, um, I've got a memo there and

[1:12:23] of course the whole report is there as well. Um, and, um, thanks to Owen

[1:12:28] Kristen, he was very accommodating with the fellow that came out for me just to

[1:12:33] do the assessment, provided him a lot of information. Um, so originally the UBCM

[1:12:39] gave us or granted us $25,000 to do this assessment and the final cost is coming

[1:12:45] out at around 15. So we're fully covered by the UBCM grant. Um, there's a lot of

[1:12:52] moving parts on this because we'd really like to do solar panels, but we have to

[1:12:57] make sure the roof is okay in order to have solar panels. And we need an

[1:13:00] assessment of the roof, but then we have some issues with a whole bunch of other

[1:13:04] stuff on the roof. And then we've got some water egress and there's a whole

[1:13:08] bunch of stuff. So, we'd like to just focus on um some repairs and

[1:13:13] replacements in the immediate term of the shells of the of the roof and the

[1:13:18] insulation and whatnot. Um and we do we think we can use community works funds.

[1:13:23] that's previously called Gas tax funds, but because it's going to be um

[1:13:27] upgrading some of the insulation and stuff, I think we have

[1:13:32] um do we have something like $70,000 in that fund off the top of your head?

[1:13:40] I think there's around $70,000 in there. Anyway, we would like to utilize some of

[1:13:45] the community works funds um to do some works on the roof to make it to make the

[1:13:51] shell better because it there's a lot of leaking going on and a bunch of other

[1:13:54] stuff. And then we want to continue researching grants and and other

[1:13:59] opportunities for for larger cost items.

[1:14:04] » No, I'll just mention the growing community fund. We put 150,000 towards

[1:14:10] » We still have some funds in the growing communities fund um that we can discuss.

[1:14:15] Yes. Putting some towards this as well. >> Council.

[1:14:22] » Yeah, I just have discussion, but maybe we'll do the motion.

[1:14:25] » Is that your report? That's >> Yeah, basically. And actually, if if

[1:14:29] once you make a motion and then have discussion, Owen may have some

[1:14:33] » Okay. Someone want to make a motion? I don't know. Councelor Torbot.

[1:14:38] » Okay. I'll move that the condition assessment report be received as

[1:14:41] information and administration focus on shell repairs replacement in the

[1:14:47] immediate term using community works funds while continuing to research grant

[1:14:52] opportunities for the large cross. >> Seconded by councelor Herman.

[1:14:56] Discussions. Councelor Stevenson. >> Yeah. Um, I'd imagine everything is

[1:15:03] captured in here, but sometimes reports don't capture every little tiny thing

[1:15:07] that needs to be upgraded or updated or fixed. Um, so I'm just wondering about

[1:15:13] like specifically about the shell. So the exterior of the structure and I I

[1:15:18] did see that there like some throbs and things like that um need to be uh

[1:15:25] replaced. So I guess like my thought is like through the through the firesmart

[1:15:31] grant you if if that arena is deemed a critical infrastructure we can leverage

[1:15:36] I think like $25,000 through that to do like window upgrades,

[1:15:42] door upgrades, eaves drops and things like that. So there's definitely an

[1:15:45] opportunity there and I just wanted to share that. Um I think it just needs

[1:15:49] like your general firework assessment but

[1:15:54] » of course >> um

[1:15:57] about the ice making and all that stuff is that all work or is that

[1:16:08] great question. Um,

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