Advance City Council Meeting Notes

City Council will be meeting held tonight at City Hall at 6pm.

DELEGATIONS

Two Delegations will be making presentations tonight including Columbia Basin Trust regarding their annual report and the Waneta Expansion Project Update.  As well, Tara Szkorupa of the Rocky Mountain Naturalists will be making a presentation regarding their work at Confederation Park.

CORRESPONDENCE

There are several interesting pieces of correspondence including a letter by the Putting a Book Under Every Tree Project which is being organized by a variety of local organizations including the Salvation Army, the Cranbrook Public Library, the Columbia Basin Trust Alliance for Literacy, Sunrise Rotary, and the Power Pioneers.  The goal of the project will be to provide all children with books under the Christmas Tree. They are asking the City of Cranbrook to be able to put a donation box at the entrance of City Hall. FYI There are other donations sights such as Key City Theatre, COTR, and the library. So if you can, please donate a book or two to this wonderful cause.

Other correspondence included concerns about the lighting around Mt. Baker High School and finally a letter from Fred Hoeschmann advising the city that the Downtown Business Association is donating the physical assets to of the Arches Project to the City of Cranbrook.  What a wonderful gift to the City of Cranbrook!

NEW BUSINESS

Council is being asked to send a letter supporting the UCBM recommendations regarding the RCMP.  The two key issues include the rapidly rising cost of the police services and the lack of accountability to local municipalities. The council is being asked to support this resolution and it will be interesting to see if it generates any discussion.  Certainly policing is vital to this community and issues of RCMP accountability have been a growing concern all around this province.

Council is being asked to approve a Commercial Development Permit to subdivide the old location of the Mitsubishi Motors which is in the same development that includes the TD Bank and Hot Shots Cafe. This would make this land more sellable according to the applicant.

ADMINISTRATION UPDATES

A good part of this concerns the Engineering Department including an update on the Waste Water Improvement Program.  Jamie Hodge Director of Engineering Services will provide a Powerpoint presentation.
See Saturday's (November 20th) post for photographs and short explanation of this project which is costing taxpayers a substantial sum of money.

BY-LAWS

Council will be voting on By-law 3117 which would provide the City of Cranbrook with the ability to borrow more monies in possible anticipation of cash flow problems over the Waste Water Improvements which have been ongoing. We do not know this yet.  Remember, its your money!
Why not spend your Monday evening with us at the Council meeting. The decisions made at council have a  a real effect on you.  See how your tax dollars are spent.

If you have not yet completed your Cranbrook Connected questionnaire information gained at council might help put issues into perspective.

If you would like to read the entire council package then please go here http://cranbrook.ihostez.com/Documents/DocumentList.aspx?ID=1215