Crowsnest Pass Council Highlights for September 7.

Understanding that its less than six weeks to the next election, it would be very easy for council to sit back and be a lame duck authority.
One thing about this council whether you or disagree with their positions, we have not been scared to make decisions and that will continue until the last meeting of this term.

Some issues we dealt with on Tuesday were:

Agricultural Services Board,

Presently the Taxpayers incur the bulk of the cost of our weed control Inspector and program. By establishing a weed control board the municipal can access up to $150,000 of provincial funding.

Ski Hill Groomer.

The ski hill groomer is running at about 10000 more hours than it should be, and costing substantial dollars to maintain each year. We had a plan to apply for a $60,000 grant from CFEP and for the Municipality to finance the other $60,000 to be repaid by the savings on maintenance costs occurred annually. Our Community Services Director asked that Council authorize him to pursue a different grant that would provide for the total cost of the groomer.

Environmental Reserve Policy

Council took the position that we are going to put in place a 3m wide easement where ever possible along water ways to maintain the public access to the rivers and the ability to maintain walking trails.

Development Agreement Security

Council put in place a policy to ensure that no development will proceed in the future without security in place. I was pleasantly surprised when all of council voted in favour of this policy, with the exception of our good Mayor!

Election Update both myself and Councilor Cole announced Tuesday night that we will be running in the election on October 18th.

Rumour of the day, I am being told that there is a group trying to put together a slate of candidates that would support reopening and refurbishing the Crowsnest Centre.
(Interesting the Nokomis Report in 1989 dollars stated somewhere between $4-7million)