[0:21] okay folks good evening
welcome to sunny warm manitoba
[0:27] and we'll start our meeting off tonight
so check your phones down and
[0:33] put them on vibrate
and we'll begin with the
[0:38] minutes of our february 22nd council
meeting so if i can get someone to end
[0:42] the variation maybe minutes we'll do
them together
[0:47] so if someone would like to give us a
motion counselor williams sector
[0:54] house the gardener
and in discussion
[0:59] hearing none i'll call for the question
all in favor
[1:04] proposed
okay great thank you
[1:08] number two adoption of the agenda as
presented to you
[1:14] if there is any omissions and errors
uh let us know if not i will again ask
[1:22] for a motion to accept them as
presented officer baker
[1:27] second or please
dr collin
[1:34] in a discussion if not i'll call for the
question all in favor to accept the
[1:38] adoption of the agenda
kerry great thank you
[1:44] number three
finance we'll do these together they're
[1:48] not very long lists i'm sure you've read
them over the last couple of days so
[1:52] it should be not new to anybody
have a look at those
[1:58] and i'll get someone to make a motion
that we pay the bills as presented
[2:02] council williams counselor gardner
any discussion
[2:09] here and now i'll call for the question
that we pay our bills all in favor
[2:13] please
oppose
[2:16] kerry great
god we're just zooming along granted
[2:19] you'll get to that hockey game yet
okay number four recommendations from
[2:25] planning and finance
[Music]
[2:28] that's the way i will turn this over to
you i think first we are going to start
[2:33] with uh
liza has discussion for us on the mural
[2:39] agreement and the oil museum project for
my recommendations
[2:43] okay
are you there
[2:46] yeah can you guys hear me okay we can
okay i'm sorry i just don't want my
[2:51] video when i'm using zoom on my iphone
is all makes it a little
[2:56] less good so i'm just gonna keep my
video up off if that's okay okay
[3:01] um
so first the mural agreement so i think
[3:05] a copy of it's been distributed to you
so this is the agreement between us and
[3:10] the artist now
um
[3:12] you're you'll remember that we presented
an agreement between the town of verdan
[3:17] and the building owners for the murals
and recommendation from council was to
[3:22] have that mural or that agreement
vetted by the lawyer so previous to
[3:26] bringing this agreement to you we did
have the agreement vetted by the lawyer
[3:31] to go through um basically just outlines
the obligations of the artist
[3:36] um of ourselves and how we're going to
pay this artist and if they can't
[3:41] complete the work to let us know and
um they would have first opportunity if
[3:48] um there was any damages to repl to fix
on the mural
[3:53] um
and it's yeah it's pretty
[3:55] straightforward
is there any other points rhonda that
[3:58] you wanted me to touch on did you want
me to go through this whole agreement or
[4:03] i
don't think that's necessary to go
[4:07] through it word for word um like i said
we did part of me
[4:11] oh
yeah go ahead
[4:14] guys there's only one uh agreement here
is there not another one that
[4:19] you proposed we just showed you the we
just showed you this one it'll be a
[4:23] duplicate for the other artist as well
okay very good
[4:29] no i think it's pretty self-explanatory
so yeah i don't think we need to read it
[4:33] over
and we did take into account all of the
[4:37] of our lawyers suggested changes so
everything should be in there now we did
[4:42] run it past her a couple of times and
used her
[4:46] wording okay
okay nate well we are on the agreement
[4:51] thing that if nobody has anything else i
will make the motion that town of burton
[4:56] enter intramural agreements with the
artists that are painting the two murals
[4:59] and burden in 2022.
great so i'm a secular please counselor
[5:03] colin any more discussion
hearing now i'll call for the question
[5:08] all those in favor
opposed carrie great thank you carry on
[5:14] there
and then liza is going to bring us up to
[5:18] date on the oil museum project in
agreement too
[5:22] right so um i think you've heard me talk
a little bit about this oil museum um
[5:27] project
the um um and i give i gave you some
[5:31] notes but and i'll maybe go through
those though i'm not sure if you've had
[5:33] a chance to maybe read those those just
got uploaded i think recently
[5:38] so in february 21 i was approached by
christine steele the petroleum brand
[5:42] for assistance about basically storage
and support of the
[5:48] what has been the manitoba oil museum
um christine and barb have basically
[5:53] been the barb johnson were the only two
people operating the museum board at the
[5:58] time barb was set to retire and then due
to the pandemic christine was moving
[6:01] back to
vernon and out of the or back to brandon
[6:05] to work out of her home and out of the
burden branch
[6:09] so ultimately the goal of christine's
was for me to kind of reestablish the
[6:13] board for the oil museum locally because
over the over the years basically to
[6:19] keep the board operating
um and filing their
[6:24] their papers every year they were just
putting petroleum branch workers on
[6:27] those on those um
on the um corporation papers so she was
[6:32] hoping that we'd be able to establish
this you know get it going locally and
[6:36] and look at local projects with it
and then take the bank account over
[6:41] and
in the meantime they were working on
[6:45] side with the university of manitoba to
partner on
[6:49] research
and then bring that research to a
[6:52] website um
version of the oil museum
[6:56] so then
throughout the next few months of 21 i
[7:00] was a part of a lot of meetings with
christine and maya which is the
[7:03] university of manitoba researcher and
they put in a my tax application and to
[7:08] help fund maya's research which was
accepted
[7:12] and basically maya's research would end
up being the content for the development
[7:15] of the website
um i then assisted with getting them a
[7:20] quote from
a website company to develop the content
[7:24] to an online museum format we chose
pattern because they've been involved in
[7:28] many
museums um online versions of museums in
[7:32] manitoba and they're also very um
familiar with um
[7:36] the heritage grants that are out there
for online museums we didn't have time
[7:40] to apply for one of those and nor did we
need to to do this museum
[7:45] but in future they are they're very
familiar with um a lot of the grants
[7:49] that are out there
um i did contact a few
[7:55] past like past board members like 20
years ago board members
[8:00] on
and just to gauge their appetite to come
[8:03] back to the table local people um but
really with no clear direction
[8:07] of what the manitoba oil museum was
anymore and years of stagnancy they
[8:13] i realized it was going to take a lot
longer to build that capacity
[8:16] and again i was dealing with covid and
trying to make meetings happen and so i
[8:21] kind of just stopped that avenue and
forged through with um helping get the
[8:26] museum built um into a website format
so a portion of the funds in the oil
[8:32] museum bank account were gifted through
an inheritance and christine steele
[8:35] contacted the family
that um bequeathed the funds and that
[8:41] and they were very happy to hear that
this project was moving forward and that
[8:45] um it wasn't going to be a brick and
mortar museum but um they're happy to
[8:49] hear that it was going to be an online
website version
[8:53] the me the oil manitoba museum does have
enough funds to get this website built
[8:58] um the the idea that the town of verdan
would enter into the contract with the
[9:02] website company is to so that we would
maintain ownership of the website after
[9:06] it's built and then be able to make
changes and update more history and then
[9:10] also we'd be able to use the history and
information that's been researched to
[9:15] kind of form a base for potential future
storyboard interpretations that we could
[9:19] use within the town
and then i also
[9:22] want to be able to use it as a catalyst
to create conversation with the
[9:25] community to maybe reunite that
oil the oil museum board locally get
[9:31] people back not close the corporation
down get people sitting on that corp and
[9:35] get them
you know
[9:37] looking at further projects to tell the
story of oil in manitoba within the town
[9:42] of verdan in different ways other than
brick and mortar potentially
[9:47] so i did state that the town of virgin's
financial commitment to this project
[9:50] would be uh 25 000 in 2022 however this
is all being reimbursed by the manitoba
[9:56] museum
and then ongoing starting in 2023 would
[10:00] be an annual 660 hosting slash plug-in
license fee minimally unless we needed
[10:06] more support or time
for any um changes that need to be made
[10:10] on the website
[10:16] thank you anyone have any questions
arise regarding this
[10:22] may make a comment
yeah and i think like what liza was
[10:26] saying really hoping you know with
discussing with christina and that this
[10:31] will maybe reignite that oil museum
board because you know i have been
[10:36] approached by different um
senior oil field members spoiled sorry
[10:42] and you know who want to see something
done so maybe once they see this as
[10:46] being a start there might be
well being that we are the oil capital
[10:50] manitoba we should have something in
place and probably promote this yeah
[10:55] i'm thinking
not real real strong but it should be
[10:58] there so it's
obvious since we are the oil capital
[11:02] yeah and with colbit online was the only
way anything was going to get going in
[11:06] the last two years so the fact that this
got done while that was going on
[11:11] gave a little push right yeah and we
have looked liza has shown me some
[11:14] examples of this company's um website
development
[11:18] and very good very um
definitely
[11:22] and the oil rigs are up and drilling
their own words again so that is nice to
[11:26] see do we need a motion on this yes
okay um
[11:31] i will make the motion that the town of
vern partner with the oil museum
[11:35] and enter into the required agreements
for the preparation of the oil museum
[11:40] website and the ongoing maintenance of
the website with oil museum funding the
[11:45] cost of website development
secondary please
[11:51] counselor collin great thank you any
more discussion anybody have any
[11:54] questions council garner
[11:59] yeah i think this is a great idea but
excuse me as far as the 660
[12:07] annually coming out of the town coffer
funds
[12:10] i'm sure there's somebody out there that
would sponsor this other than the town
[12:15] yeah
the top
[12:17] associated with the oil field industry
me and christine talked about that too
[12:23] and i do think that there would be
lots of opportunity um
[12:27] and
even
[12:29] if we could get some local oil companies
to sponsor a little bit then you could
[12:33] put their logo on the website at least
the website would have an opportunity to
[12:36] give us some some value back to them as
well
[12:40] exactly if we could do something like
that that would be fantastic lisa
[12:45] any more discussion
every now i'll call for the question all
[12:49] those in favor
opposed
[12:55] carrie great thank you
okay and liza is going to give us an
[13:00] update on dennis county partnership this
doesn't have a recommendation to go with
[13:04] it but while we have her here she's
going to give us an update liza
[13:09] yeah i just um
i was
[13:12] basically my my updates pretty quick um
we haven't had a dennis county meeting
[13:18] yet this year uh we will be a financial
was just uh presented to us um
[13:23] the arm of pipestone looks after the
financial finances of the partnership so
[13:27] they just sent out a financial so
the board will be meeting to discuss
[13:31] 2022 goals and
any
[13:34] ask from the council partnerships
um however one thing that's come to
[13:40] light is the west western opportunities
leadership group which dennis county has
[13:46] a paid
seat at that table
[13:49] um that if you'll remember that group's
mandate was to at one point try to
[13:53] attract a soybean processing plant in
manitoba
[13:57] they haven't met for
well basically since covet for like two
[14:00] years they've been pretty stagnant and
so they're holding their first meeting
[14:04] on friday
um from two to four in brandon and so
[14:08] i'll be attending that
representing dennis county um
[14:12] and so some of the things that they're
going to be discussing is the future of
[14:16] this board and if they continue
to attract go after soybean attraction
[14:21] or if they broaden their focus into um
potential business development other
[14:26] like other business attraction within
southwest manitoba
[14:30] and of note they have a they have a
fairly long agenda here but of note um
[14:34] one of the one of the points they do
want to talk about is a coordinated
[14:38] approach
for library to lobbying hydro for
[14:42] southwest manitoba investments so i feel
like that's um
[14:46] uh we know that we've uh
we've been in we've had inquiries about
[14:50] our capacity for hydro and natural gas
and that that's maybe being an issue and
[14:55] so um
this group's actually got that on their
[14:58] agenda as well to talk about so i will
be attending that meeting on friday
[15:02] and um yeah other than that i don't
really have any 2022 uh
[15:07] updates um
some things i know is that we're working
[15:10] on website updating and plugins and
updating our features that was something
[15:15] that was approved last year we're still
those are almost done and set to launch
[15:20] and just making sure that new census
data transfers
[15:24] when it's completely uploaded in
whenever that is june um
[15:28] we pay a membership to town folio
through the three municipalities for all
[15:33] the census data to go
to town folio and then we upload it it
[15:37] uploads and so just to make sure that
comes over and is displayed and then
[15:41] we'll use that as a marketing
opportunity to upload to our own
[15:44] websites as well
and we're still working on one major one
[15:48] major investment inquiry that is ongoing
um
[15:53] another goal was a marketing plan but i
do feel like this board will be
[15:57] reevaluating its objectives
based on staff capacity and their goals
[16:02] going forward in 22.
[16:06] okay great thanks melissa
[16:10] anybody have any questions regarding
that matter
[16:15] no everybody happy
liza did you have anything else that you
[16:19] need to talk to counsel about or is that
it for you
[16:23] i think that's it for me okay thank you
guys have a good night
[16:32] oh but you didn't you get a hold of him
i
[16:42] um
so i have three recommendations for
[16:46] planning and finance
first planning and finance committee
[16:49] recommends to council
to provide a letter of support to the
[16:53] skate park committee for funding to the
vernon area foundation i will make that
[16:57] question
can i have a secretary for that motion
[17:00] please
counselor
[17:03] any discussion regarding this letter of
support
[17:10] hearing none i'll call for the question
all those in favor
[17:14] opposed
carried great carry on dear
[17:18] planning and finance committee
recommends to council to provide a
[17:22] letter of support to the curling club
for their their building sustainability
[17:27] building sustainable communities
application
[17:35] thank you in a discussion
counselor gardner
[17:44] yeah have we got any uh correspondence
back in the caring club or drawings yet
[17:50] uh what they're actually doing
um i'm not sure if they've sent anything
[17:55] to
to um our building inspector yet or not
[17:59] that's what he was supposed to be doing
[18:03] so should we be passing this request
right now
[18:07] well based on my direction of planning
and finance the letter has already went
[18:14] but we can find out yeah they still have
to do and it was along the side and
[18:19] along the like of course yeah they have
to get the ground
[18:23] they have to get the ground yeah
right and that's going to be with the
[18:28] leather support so yeah
kind of a big ball it'll work you can't
[18:32] build it without the permit from corey
right yeah it'll have to be approved by
[18:36] the building inspector yes
any other questions
[18:39] [Music]
oh that's fine
[18:42] great thank you
anyone else having a discussion
[18:47] hearing now i will call for the question
all those in favor
[18:51] opposed
carrie great thank you next please sir
[18:55] um planning and finance committee
recommends to council to provide
[19:00] a letter of support to the dog park
committee for their funding application
[19:05] to the co-op community spaces grant and
i will make that
[19:10] [Music]
[19:15] any discussion
anybody understands what's happening
[19:18] there
[19:22] here and now i have a call for the
question all of those in favor
[19:29] opposed
carrie great thank you
[19:34] that's it for you okay
five western caucus meeting rhonda i
[19:40] will let you handle that one please
okay thank you uh we received a uh email
[19:46] from
judy swanson mayor of boise morton
[19:50] uh to mayor reevan council regarding a
western caucus meeting to be held in
[19:55] boys vein
on march 18th
[19:59] uh the meeting will start at ten o'clock
and it will be a cost of twenty dollars
[20:05] per person for luncheon
[20:09] and so
um
[20:13] all right i'll turn it back to you um we
belong to this group last year um graham
[20:19] i went to one of the meetings and i went
to another one with
[20:23] with uh clayton's been at them so is
mark
[20:27] um it's all
approximately 10 to 15
[20:31] news pounds that meet we've had a member
from amm there
[20:37] and we discuss
things that basically affect all
[20:41] municipalities the employees see madness
and different things that we pass on
[20:46] supporting questions to the mm who take
them on to the provincial government
[20:50] myself personally i think it's a good
investment we get to find out what
[20:54] everybody else is doing in different
music valleys or similar things as we
[20:57] are doing
so my personal feeling is i think it's a
[21:02] like i said it's a good good thing to be
belong to for
[21:06] i think that twenty dollars uh yeah
cover supper or lunch or whatever but it
[21:10] might be
twenty dollars last year or should be a
[21:13] member of it too oh i'm sorry that's uh
it's not not an expensive thing other
[21:18] than a day of driving down there so
um
[21:22] i support it i guess that'll be up to
you people whether you want to or not do
[21:27] you want to go
do you
[21:33] that mayor wright and whatever members
of council would like to go with him
[21:37] right would
go to the meeting according to policy
[21:42] count have a second for that please
i'm so bigger
[21:48] in the discussion
yes councilmaker
[21:52] pardon me it says here um if we want to
add anything to the agenda i'm wondering
[21:56] specifically about the um
fire trucks and
[22:00] the
they're dropping the insurance rate from
[22:03] what was it 25 years to 20 years and how
that will affect rural communities that
[22:07] with fire trucks maybe that's something
that needs to be discussed
[22:12] that would be a very interesting
question to see how some of the smaller
[22:16] communities are going to handle that
smaller houses and i think we need to
[22:19] like lobby as a you know a bunch of like
our trucks don't get used as much as the
[22:23] bigger centers right
so i don't know how you get that on the
[22:28] agenda or if we can but i think it would
be a good thing to have around the table
[22:32] yeah
well that's something if we all agree to
[22:34] that
we can get jail to send it down
[22:37] and they can have it there for their
agenda
[22:40] any other questions
[22:44] yeah that's a good idea
okay
[22:47] all right if there's no other questions
why you want to speak on this
[22:51] no
okay we have a motion in place i believe
[22:55] yes so i will call for the question all
those in favor
[23:01] opposed
[23:04] carried great thank you
do you have to let people know ahead of
[23:09] time yes how many yeah okay
yeah i think uh
[23:13] i don't think there's a limit on how
many can go it's just uh
[23:18] they'd like to know this for the meals
and different things
[23:23] like i say this time i will be driving
it by your lord mark will be riding with
[23:28] me so we don't go make any more money to
the federal government like we did last
[23:31] time
anyway let's move on to
[23:35] number six
fcm rhonda please
[23:39] um thank you the
i believe i sent this out by email prior
[23:44] but the fcm annual conference and trade
show is going to be
[23:49] a hybrid it will be
in person
[23:53] and
[23:57] online
[24:00] so
i guess what we're looking for is
[24:05] if
any of you folks are going to attend
[24:08] and if so how because we do need to get
the
[24:12] hotel rooms are starting to fill up
quite quickly
[24:15] there's nothing really close to the
convention center anything is would be
[24:19] pretty much be driving distance
um
[24:23] and
if you do
[24:26] when you book your rooms if you cancel
them you're going to lose the first
[24:30] night as a deposit
um
[24:34] and it does run i believe from june
fortunately this attachment isn't very
[24:39] um
informative
[24:43] oh yeah the website's a lot better i
believe i'll just check with jill
[24:47] do we have any rooms booked for the fcm
it says june 5th we don't yet but we're
[24:52] hoping to go right away
[24:56] can anybody give in to any indication
that they would like to go tonight so
[25:01] that jill can get a jump on this
tomorrow morning and get some rooms but
[25:05] you can for me here well we did discuss
did we not discuss letting all council
[25:09] one of this i think so yeah you just
hadn't made it
[25:24] okay
travis you shouldn't be home from
[25:28] your holiday by then
[25:34] yeah sorry i couldn't get my mic working
but anyway uh yeah but i don't think
[25:39] i'll be attending okay counselor banker
[25:46] um uh to be honest i'm a little little
on the fence i think i probably
[25:50] shouldn't shouldn't attend if i'm not
going to run and i don't know if i'm
[25:53] going to run next election so
i don't really know what to tell you
[25:57] probably a no
okay would you like to attend online
[26:02] that's always an option as well yeah i
would rather do that
[26:06] and we could probably register you
later like you know what i mean closer
[26:11] to the time
yeah yeah if we can do that that would
[26:15] work a lot better
okay
[26:17] i would do uh online as well
okay
[26:22] counselors
yes and i might be interested online as
[26:26] well rhonda
okay
[26:29] well
[26:32] big question mark right now i i really i
really would be interested but i
[26:36] really honestly i forgot to think about
it
[26:43] there's some good workshops there is a
couple there's a couple things that
[26:47] right right i'm interested in the
landfills uh ghana
[26:54] regina is so close it's such an
opportunity to go without having to fly
[26:57] somewhere right like that's that's where
i come in like it's such a
[27:02] close rounding of the going i'm just
laughing i'm sorry i was thinking of the
[27:07] price of fuel driving might be as
expensive
[27:10] i'm sorry i shouldn't have been parked
should we phone the amish people and go
[27:15] with them
i don't know what about you
[27:23] i really like these conferences because
i think they give us an outside box
[27:28] thank you so much
so far i have murray and tara
[27:34] for wanting to be in person
[27:39] carl's gonna check you're gonna look at
it
[27:46] well you can go ahead and book two
i'm assuming ron was going yeah we can
[27:51] probably get out of them you know what
so before i would say yes and i will
[27:56] make a very quick decision
you just phone her in the morning
[28:10] okay this is being recorded guys
[28:28] that anyone anyone attend in the format
that they should prove
[28:33] okay because that that way okay
[28:38] all right i'll call for the question all
those in favor
[28:43] opposed
carrie great thank you all
[28:48] okay what have we got next here
[28:52] let's go to oh this is an interesting
one it's not going to cost anybody
[28:56] anything number eight retroactive
oh no
[29:01] next one
local solution to network number seven
[29:06] that's better
fcm local solutions to net zero sessions
[29:13] uh yeah they are offering fcm's
municipal stream at what's called globe
[29:17] forum 2022. it's march 29th to the 31st
and it's a special municipal stream
[29:24] um that
has
[29:29] understanding the role of municipalities
in reaching net zero
[29:33] so
i don't know if any of you looked at the
[29:36] program
the cost would be 195 dollars per person
[29:43] and it is online
[29:47] this is only for you know a portion of
that
[29:50] um
the whole global 22. it's only to do
[29:54] with
municipalities basically
[29:57] and um there's
um giving life old buildings a new life
[30:02] sorry i'm getting croaky
advancing community scale energy systems
[30:07] exploring energy poverty
um curing a more sustainable future
[30:13] and yeah those are all
and they like they're
[30:17] approximately an hour hour and a half
at each program
[30:24] i'm sorry in person is reach up sorry
online is 195 and i'm assuming you would
[30:29] be online because it's in vancouver
[Music]
[30:33] yeah and it's march 29th too
[30:39] okay good
and i don't know if anyone's interested
[30:42] in really interested in online with
sem solutions
[30:50] very good i'm interested in the
retrofitting of everything that says
[30:55] here from fire halls to libraries to
community centers um but i'm
[30:58] unfortunately on vacation but i think
that would be a good one for
[31:02] somebody anybody to attend
well maybe we could even um have staff
[31:07] register
that would probably be a good idea for
[31:11] giving giving old buildings new life i
think that one's a good one for us to
[31:15] look at sure i'll make sure somebody on
staff uh
[31:19] attends that
and if we can sneak in more than one we
[31:22] will well i was gonna like if a staff
member who does that kind of stuff was
[31:26] going to attend like i wouldn't mind
coming in
[31:29] because it's nice sometimes to
talk to a staff member during those
[31:33] programs right so we can kind of talk
about our point of view and staff
[31:37] members point of view when we're
listening to it
[31:41] could that be something that joe won't
be able to
[31:44] should probably get ron
[31:49] to listen to it yeah we'll see if ron
can attend
[31:52] i think that would be a good one for him
to yeah
[31:55] if he's able to so do you want to make
the most of that effect then
[32:04] okay folks we've got some people lined
up then and we'll
[32:08] yeah like
constant baker said there's probably
[32:10] some knowledge that we could receive
from that
[32:15] okay plus overall number eight
a retroactive pay increases for the rcmp
[32:20] which i said was going to cost us some
money
[32:24] i'm sure that all of you know what's
coming
[32:27] with our federal employees so but rhonda
i'm going to let you
[32:32] explain this one to everybody
uh yes we did receive our
[32:37] letter from the
federal government indicating
[32:41] just reminding us about that uh the rcmp
have
[32:46] joined the union and have negotiated a
contract that's retroactive to 2017
[32:54] and
with that it will result in um
[32:59] a retroactive pay requirement for the
town of burden
[33:04] of 105 to 150 000 i believe it was and
that's just an estimate at the time
[33:11] because what they'll do is they'll
actually go back and figure out how many
[33:15] members we were charged for during each
of those billing periods because
[33:19] sometimes we're only charged for three
and or four rather than the five members
[33:24] that we're contracted for
um it's been quite a while that we've
[33:28] ever paid for five members to be very
honest not to say that couldn't happen
[33:32] but for this they're actually only
calculating in
[33:36] what we were charged for at the time
amm is still working very hard on this
[33:41] file and are trying to get a meeting set
up it was supposed to be
[33:45] by now but it hasn't been held with all
the uh municipalities that are in a
[33:51] policing contract
so as soon as that meeting does get
[33:55] scheduled we'll be coming
[33:59] i'll be letting
mayor wright know so we can sit in on
[34:03] that
there are also too
[34:05] still trying to get the federal
government to assume all the costs
[34:10] because municipalities were never
allowed to have anyone at the
[34:13] negotiation table
so we did not get to have any say in our
[34:18] interest at all
so let's just
[34:20] so like i said amm is still working very
hard and nick continues to update us on
[34:26] where that file is so
and we have sent this letter on to him
[34:32] as well because he's
gathering all of this just to make sure
[34:35] he has all the information correct
murray
[34:39] sorry
um we have
[34:41] saved for this yes we have been carrying
forward this amount because we were made
[34:46] aware
back okay but we don't have
[34:50] as we don't have as much as like weren't
we told it was like
[34:55] five or ten per like were we advised to
put aways an amount but we not this big
[35:00] of an amount
um i think we will still be okay okay
[35:03] yeah because of what we we've been
budgeting for
[35:06] for our full members and we haven't been
being billed for our four members this
[35:11] will be a one-time shot
yes and then we'll be paying at the
[35:14] higher amount per member yeah
right yeah anybody have any questions
[35:20] regarding
what ronda just explained to us
[35:24] everybody understands what's going on
senior citizens don't get any more money
[35:29] but our champion you do
so carl you and i are hurting again
[35:33] everyone gets more money
okay good thank you
[35:39] uh
let's move along travis has got a
[35:43] question marie sorry sorry i didn't see
you travis
[35:48] turn your mic's on i'll hear you too
not a boy
[35:58] sorry about that my switch is not
working
[36:01] more comment than than anything uh we
should find out who negotiated a
[36:06] five-year retroactive pay increase we
could probably use them to negotiate
[36:09] with the province to get our streets
paved
[36:13] good plan you're probably a good
negotiator
[36:17] i would imagine that would be a union
operation
[36:21] great thanks travis
okay if there's nothing else we'll
[36:25] belong to number nine
man to see conference robert please
[36:32] uh yes we've received information
sorry i don't care
[36:38] about the men
manitoba sustainable energy association
[36:43] conference
and they're also calling their
[36:47] sustainable energy conference titled on
the road to net zero by 2050
[36:53] to be held on april 6 2022
at the william
[36:58] gillespie center at portage
[37:02] and i believe
yes forty five dollars for
[37:07] members or
um
[37:10] sixty dollars for non-members
on april six if anyone's interested i
[37:16] i believe mayor wright you and councilor
penner attended that conference
[37:21] three years ago when you were able to
yes
[37:24] i've been to it before i think yeah
yeah they're usually very um
[37:29] they're very informative and it's all
about energy savings and yeah how uh it
[37:34] was interesting to see a tractor that
feels polar competitor and nobody around
[37:37] the tractor
[37:40] is anyone wanting
is anybody uh showing the interest once
[37:46] you go to this function
i'd like to go if i'm able to
[37:50] okay counselor one day
um one day in portage yeah yeah i think
[37:56] it's just second here
there's some uh
[37:59] very very very smart people there i
believe travis you and i when we went
[38:04] there were some fairly smart people
there
[38:07] yeah it was uh
some of it was quite interesting
[38:10] actually yeah
[Music]
[38:13] so
can we get a motion then that whoever
[38:16] would like to attend
council wayne i would make the motion
[38:20] that anyone who wants to go could attend
as per policy okay secondary players
[38:27] council garner
okay need more discussion
[38:32] okay hearing now i'll call for the
question all those in favor
[38:37] opposed
caring great
[38:39] now um i'm assuming you can when you
make this decision which should be
[38:44] fairly quick here
let jill know
[38:47] and then jill can uh get us booked in
who's all going so i would say with by
[38:52] friday
uh everybody should be organized enough
[38:55] to know what's happening then please let
jill know thank you can put me down now
[39:01] joe if you'd like
[39:09] okay
counselor baker did you want to go as
[39:12] well
i would um
[39:16] my husband probably is going to come
with me
[39:19] we are headed to winnipeg that night so
um
[39:23] i'll talk to jill separately about
enrolling him too if that's even
[39:27] possible and we'll pay for that of
course
[39:31] that's non-member of rice yeah yeah
something a lot of it's got to do with
[39:36] farming so you might find an interest
there too so
[39:42] okay
number 10
[39:45] the mgra banquet invitation ronda please
uh yes we received information about
[39:52] manitoba good roads association or
having their annual banquet at
[39:57] the municipal official seminar
in brandon tuesday april 19th
[40:04] starting at 5 30. tickets are 55
each
[40:09] we don't have we're we haven't been
nominated for any of the prizes this
[40:14] year for any of the awards but
um
[40:18] sometimes counselors especially if
you're going in and attending municipal
[40:22] officials
still do attend this banquet
[40:28] do in any performance go into that does
morris um morris might be interested
[40:33] i'll talk to him and yeah he can
okay we can let uh again let jill know
[40:38] by the end of the week
if anybody's interested in going
[40:45] if there's no more questions of that
we'll move along to number 11 amn issues
[40:50] and ronda
um i don't believe there's anything to
[40:53] report out of that other than what we've
already had okay
[40:57] number 12 the scrape part project
anything there to discuss
[41:03] um we do have counselor baker it's going
to give a little background and i also
[41:09] have
the spreadsheet
[41:12] and
ron's comments so counselor baker did
[41:16] you want to go first
yeah
[41:19] i am very excited that we're at this
point
[41:23] um so basically
uh we put out the rfp for these spray
[41:28] part construction and we got five
responses
[41:33] and ron had put them into a spreadsheet
for us
[41:37] um
in the order from top to bottom
[41:41] kind of
where he thought we would mark them
[41:45] for awarding and so the spray we met um
as town
[41:51] ron and drake
and we discussed all of this um it kind
[41:56] of goes into all the differences between
all the companies and
[42:01] um you know size number of features
buildings
[42:04] um
pumps all of that stuff ron and we kind
[42:08] of went through everything all the
different proposals with fine toothed
[42:11] comb picked out some things had some
questions
[42:15] um and then the spray part committee met
after that to review
[42:19] what the town you know thought that you
know they liked and then
[42:25] we had a meeting as the spray park and i
have a note here from the spray park
[42:29] that said
um two verdant council at the spray park
[42:34] committee meeting on thursday march 3rd
we have voted on the recommendation that
[42:38] the town of vernon awards the spray park
contract to park and play design we are
[42:42] very happy with the design submitted and
we thank all companies for answering our
[42:46] rfp and we look forward to working with
park and play and having our park built
[42:50] in 2022
um so
[42:55] i would make the motion that the town of
burden enter into a contract with park
[42:59] and play
for the provision of a spray park at an
[43:02] estimated contract price of 479
[43:08] 401.52 including
pst and you guys can ask me any and all
[43:14] questions if you'd like
okay i'll ask for a second or first
[43:18] please come to williams
okay now discussion go ahead found some
[43:22] garner
[43:25] whitney just a couple questions for you
um
[43:29] could your building be enlarged with uh
was a reasonable increase in your
[43:35] contract
or price like i just noticed the rest of
[43:38] the buildings here were
similar but
[43:42] larger than what they're
saying six by twelve
[43:47] sixty very big when you get in the
inside of a building keep it separate no
[43:52] it's not and we discussed the building
in length um
[43:55] the chemicals are actually going to be
stored outside of the building is what
[43:59] they had it
um designed as and because washrooms are
[44:03] hopefully being built separately we felt
like this just needed to house the pumps
[44:09] so
we've looked at the design it looks like
[44:13] it's kind of the bare minimum of what we
would need
[44:17] for this building and and i know where
you're coming from
[44:21] it's very small
yeah if you're in there working you
[44:25] don't have room to turn around in six
feet
[44:28] yeah
yeah it it did there was like a couple
[44:32] pages on the park and play design
that had like the size of everything and
[44:37] it isn't that big but it also there's
not a lot of equipment needed
[44:42] so
[44:45] i just want to see down the road saying
okay now we have to add on to this
[44:48] building because it's not big enough
yeah no you bet and the chemical is to
[44:51] be stored outside it's not inside and it
it wouldn't be able to like house any
[44:56] features if they came off or anything so
we did talk about that in length
[45:01] now the park size is 6 22 feet square
feet
[45:06] yeah
that's
[45:08] quite substantial larger than what the
other ones were
[45:12] proposing why
why the difference
[45:16] we went through
all of these because we asked the exact
[45:19] same question um
it came to i think that they use they
[45:23] don't use
a lot of subcontractors they do a lot of
[45:26] it themselves the
concrete thickness was the same the
[45:30] piles were the same
we reviewed everything um they design a
[45:35] lot of their own features this company
they build it kind of based on what
[45:39] you're wanting it's not all pre-fabbed
pieces
[45:44] so and it just seemed like they
were maybe hungry for the work and they
[45:49] gave us a good size and a good number of
features for a good price
[45:53] yeah i see their completion date is the
20th of june which is
[45:57] excellent timing
[46:00] number of features they have is 30 but
when you go down to
[46:05] the warranty the stainless and
structures is only 25
[46:10] why the difference there
um
[46:15] like for the stainless and structures 25
years that's pretty standard
[46:18] um there's only one company that was
less than that it was hard for ron and
[46:23] for all of us to
talk warranty
[46:26] because it's really because a lot of
people um there are a lot of different
[46:29] companies warranty quite differently so
it would be like
[46:32] one year on this feature but
two years on this and so like this is
[46:38] kind of a mishmash of of averages per se
so like that's why we tried to pick out
[46:44] the stainless structures versus the
nozzles versus the tank
[46:52] yeah so it struck me just like grant
that
[46:54] they're providing
almost three times what some of them are
[46:59] and
so my question is did you get references
[47:02] and are they providing bonding
yes they are we did get references and
[47:07] we did a lot of our the committee itself
did a lot of um
[47:12] i want to say nicely outside sleuthing
to look at reviews and stuff that might
[47:18] not be said that a reference might
provide
[47:21] and to be honest we can't we couldn't
really find anything
[47:25] too terribly bad
um
[47:29] we we had honestly we had the exact same
reaction as we were surprised it was
[47:33] almost double three times the size
but
[47:38] i feel like i honestly feel like we did
our homework on it
[47:41] and and you'll be requesting bonding
yeah rhonda you might have to speak to
[47:46] that because i i we had it in the rfp
and i can't think of it off the top of
[47:49] my head um
it's either bonding or letter of credit
[47:53] being provided by the bank i know ron
did say there was different
[47:58] either letter of credit or bonding by
the different f the five he just didn't
[48:03] put it on here which one was which
[48:08] i want to say theirs was maybe a letter
of credit because i did read that could
[48:11] be letter of credit yeah
as long as you're covered
[48:15] yeah
where are parks and play where are the
[48:18] they
[48:22] um i believe bc and i think they have a
regional office in regina i think if
[48:28] that sounds right yeah that sounds right
and they they do parks all across
[48:47] sorry here that's okay
um it says that that one doesn't come
[48:51] with uv disinfection but that does
require the public health would you just
[48:54] pay extra for that
[48:59] that was so we put it in the rfp that
had to comply to all public health and
[49:03] as far as we were told that it wasn't in
public health standards that it was it
[49:09] just in draft form
that the pub but the public health
[49:14] standards because we have a draft of
those
[49:16] guidelines but if we build before
we wouldn't need it
[49:22] we were required to put one in it
so okay
[49:27] just a thought
just
[49:32] anyone else have any questions i'm just
going to say for whitney their proposal
[49:37] and their i think once the spray park
releases the
[49:41] the design people are going to be pretty
excited
[49:45] it's going to be a maiden it's going to
be a maiden burden
[49:48] perfectly perfectly tailors to our
community and it's pretty striking
[49:53] not just when the features are running
but if you were to drive by and nobody
[49:57] was out there if the weather was bad or
in the winter it would be
[50:01] i think people will be very impressed
and i will say that we withheld back
[50:06] some of our budget when we put out this
rfp because we wanted to have enough
[50:10] money left over for sod accessibility
paths um shade structures and whatever
[50:17] you know might come up so this wasn't at
the exact max of our budget but we
[50:22] wanted to make sure we had everything
covered
[50:24] and contingency you guys yeah
yeah
[50:28] good
uh one question whitney
[50:31] the product that you were saying was
going to be sitting outside the
[50:34] structure that grant was questioning
what is that and is that accessible to
[50:39] people
[50:42] um
the product or the
[50:44] the
building
[50:48] yeah they're they're in lockable like
like everything's locked up completely
[50:52] and it shouldn't be it's just that it's
not within like there's more standards
[50:55] if you put chemicals inside a building
everything needs to be further apart
[51:00] and there's there's just a lot more
rules
[51:02] but yeah it'll be locked outside not
accessible
[51:05] i mean those cages
so this building wasn't intended to be
[51:10] the washer
things that we had spoken about right no
[51:18] okay any other questions
[51:22] okay we have a motion in the box
yes yes okay
[51:27] if there's no other questions i will
call for the question all those in favor
[51:30] of the motion
[51:33] opposed carrie great thank you
good job whitney
[51:39] we did it we did it
[51:45] yes they deserve it okay number 13 let's
move on to committee reports and council
[52:05] a joint meeting of council
[52:09] not was it an executive meeting prior to
this meeting
[52:18] also attended joint medium council and i
also attended
[52:22] a web meeting
[52:26] it's
councilor wales
[52:30] [Music]
transcanada west online meeting i think
[52:35] that was since our last council uh pnf
meeting
[52:38] um as well as meeting with our
valencia organization secure
[52:44] joint meeting um
ceo and public works foreman colonel and
[52:50] i had a meeting with um ryan conner
from the watershed about getting some
[52:57] help from them around town
with
[53:01] possible water issues or to solve
possible water issues or
[53:05] a bit of talk about the kind of funding
he has and
[53:09] trees becoming available and all sorts
of different topics like that
[53:13] and then i attended the rb online
conference um a cinema murder basin
[53:19] initiative
for two mornings
[53:22] and one day was more speakers and then
there was some talk from
[53:28] saskatchewan manitoba north dakota
so there was presentations from
[53:32] government officials in each of those
places as well
[53:36] it was quite interesting and you can go
back and
[53:39] see those online those were two and a
half hours for a couple days and they
[53:42] were quite interesting and some of the
other counselors i believe sat in on
[53:46] those as well
great thank you
[53:49] councillor
[53:57] okay uh planning and finance and secure
meeting on the first of march
[54:03] uh joint council meeting on the second
[54:09] third and the fourth they attended the
uh
[54:13] video conference of the aer bi
which i found very interesting
[54:19] a lot of good speakers there a lot of
good information
[54:23] saskatchewan and
[54:28] north dakota
are really
[54:33] worried about the drug
in their their provinces so
[54:38] they may be looking at a lot of damn
damning projects that they'll be looking
[54:43] at containing
water and that
[54:46] was very interesting presentation
[54:50] and uh
[54:54] that's all i have and school is
cancelled again tomorrow
[55:00] is that really are you joking
[55:08] yeah so um
library meeting was canceled last night
[55:12] uh we had weg yesterday
and um
[55:17] the planning and financing on the mark
on march 1st that's all i have
[55:21] good thank you counselor banker
i have uh transcanada west planning
[55:27] district we had a very short meeting uh
joint council the planning of finance is
[55:31] secure i also attended the rb conference
and then i had the spray park rfp
[55:38] meeting uh with town representatives and
then i also had a spray part committee
[55:42] reference or a meeting to discuss
everything you heard me talk about so
[55:47] it was been a very busy week
that's why we paid in the big bucks
[55:53] okay
rhonda
[55:56] so yeah definitely listening to
everybody else there um
[56:01] sorry um well of course we um
we welcomed some guests to our facility
[56:08] a couple weeks ago when the roads were
closed um not a very large number but
[56:13] like to thank
our
[56:16] weight coordinators for pulling
everything together our new fire chief
[56:20] and our rcmp sergeant our new fire chief
kind of got thrown into
[56:26] into the mix quite quickly and uh
yep he had his
[56:30] his members uh helping us out quite
quickly so it was good
[56:34] uh of course um
transcanada west
[56:38] uh
met with secure on the first um had a
[56:42] afternoon meeting with them and then
they came and met with council at
[56:45] planning and finance we had the joint
meeting of council
[56:49] i joined
deputy mayor williams with the meeting
[56:52] with
the watershed district to talk about
[56:57] water retention options and tree
planting
[57:00] we had a meeting about the airport and
the new possible regulations that are
[57:06] going to be affecting it and in
preparation for a meeting on march 17th
[57:11] murray we did get that march 17th at
noon
[57:17] we had our wake control
sorry the wake budget meeting yesterday
[57:22] and then the wake control group meeting
and then today we also had the executive
[57:28] committee meeting it's been a little
lonely in the office with all these bad
[57:33] roads a lot of our management team have
been working from home and
[57:38] or have been out on sick leaves so
um it's been a little quiet
[57:43] for our staff in our office but we're
still plugging along and getting things
[57:47] done um
yeah
[57:50] but we have to get going on our budget
so
[57:54] i look forward to tomorrow
is there any questions from anyone
[57:58] anybody have any questions
uh where are we at as far as this
[58:04] this thing about the housing for the
census for the population for the sense
[58:09] yeah we have to contact um the province
or sorry not the province federal um we
[58:15] have a name to contact but we have we're
wanting to do some internal work
[58:20] first just to
compare the numbers on the number of
[58:24] dwelling units before we
go and ask for a review and then find
[58:28] out that
maybe the previous numbers are right
[58:30] away well we don't want to miss the
there's a deadline on that yes it's the
[58:35] end of december actually is the deadline
so yeah for sure it's on the list don't
[58:41] that's really important for our grants
and
[58:45] good
okay for myself there's the most amount
[58:48] of people talked about
finally finance our joint meeting
[58:54] we had a
health meeting with somebody's palace
[59:00] [Music]
[59:04] basically like i said most of what
rhonda's gone through some other ones so
[59:08] hearing nothing else we will move along
to
[59:11] notice the motion
is none
[59:14] and we will get a motion now to go to
in-camera can i get someone to make that
[59:20] please counsel williams counselor count
all in favor
[59:25] okay great so we'll stop recording thank
you
[59:35] okay we're back into our normal meeting
i don't think there was anything came
[59:41] out in camera that we have to discuss
and or make motions on
[59:44] and if there's nothing else to discuss
tonight
[59:47] i will ask for a motion to adjourn
counselor gardner
[59:52] sector counselor talent all in favor
jerry
[59:57] we are
adjourned
[1:00:01] report again