[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,
[1:16:14] it