Crowsnest Pass Fall Winter Guide and Ski Hill Pass sale.

Please check out the new Fall/Winter guide for the Crowsnest Pass, highlights all our various community groups, facilities, FCSS and Recreation programs etc .

https://cnp.recdesk.com/RecDeskPortal/Portals/149/Guide.pdf


Awesome deal on ski passes for the coming season.


https://cnp.recdesk.com/recdeskportal/Home/tabid/5158/Default.aspx

OFF-SITE LEVY in the Crowsnest Pass

Good news if you paid an off-site levy in the Crowsnest Pass during the period of 2001 to 2011 you may be eligible for a refund. Council recently passed a policy to refund this regressive, anti development form of taxation.

Check out the following:

http://www.crowsnestpass.com/public/download/documents/13193

If you feel you qualify or have questions contact the municipal office.


My opinion of an off-site levy is based on the fact that we has a community are not growing in the sense that the number of people utilizing our Infrastructure is not increasing. We are being forced to replace Infrastructure because it is old, antiquated and does not meet today's standards. Not because we have a population that is 20% higher than it was 20 years ago.
Communities that have tremendous growth impose off site levies because they are growing rapidly they have more people flushing the toilets, turning on the taps, driving on the roads.

Getting the answers you want! Alberta climate change

Remember the Prentice survey not too long ago, prior to his financial plan being released to the taxpayers. A blatant exercise in presenting the questions in such away to achieve the answers that fulfill your political objectives. (Would you be willing to pay more taxes? or shut schools, and throw seniors out on to the street, that kind of stuff)  

Well I didn't think Prentice could be out done until I got the email today on the new governments "climate leadership discussions".

https://climateleadershipsurvey.alberta.ca/

Check it out for yourself, if you believe that Alberta should increase taxes to subsidize green energy, allow Ontario and Quebec to set energy policy for us through "cap and trade". This is the survey for you, I am sure that every environmental group in the province and beyond our borders are filling out the survey as we speak.

At the end of the day these survey's mean nothing if 100% of the responses said expand the "oilsands" "build more coal mines" and "do not" use our tax dollars to subsidize green energy (check out Ontario if you want to see how well that worked). What do you think the government would do?

Annexation the answer? Why not?

I was recently asked why we had dropped the previous council's proposal to annex part of  the MD of Ranchlands.

I will comment more shortly but in the mean time I would draw your attention to the following links:

The first link provides numerous examples where annexation as been successful, if you click on the board order number it provides all the background on each annexation.

http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/abc_MGB_annexations

Please pay special attention to the following in particular Appendix "B" on Page 22:

http://www.municipalaffairs.alberta.ca/documents/mgb/MGB_Annexation_Rules_-_Jan2013.pdf