Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Central Cariboo Joint Committee Highlights - Sept 14th meeting

Present from City of WL:

Mayor K. Cook (Joint Committee Co-Chair), Deputy Mayor SPS Rathor and Councillors L. Walters, S. Zacharias, G. Bourdon and T. Barr

Present from CRD:

Directors J. Sorley (Joint Committee Co-Chair) and Directors’ D. Bischoff and S. Mazur

Staff Present:

Brian Carruthers – CAO, City of WL
Janis Bell - CAO, CRD
Darron Campbell – Manger of Community Services, CRD
Geoff Paynton – Director of Community Services, City of WL
Deb Radolla – Manager of Active Living, City of WL
Cindy Bouchard - Manager of Legislative Services, City of WL
Ken MacInnis – Communications Coordinator, City of WL


Meeting called to order at 5:00pm
By Consensus – Minutes of June 23rd/August 4th, 2011 adopted
By Consensus – Items #4-5 to be considered together and Item #3 to be considered after Item #6

Delegation:

1) Stefan Hoezler, from Concrete Fitness Ltd, appeared before the Joint Committee to request a formal service review for all services provided by the CMRC (Cariboo Memorial Recreation Complex)

Presentation key points:

• City of WL/CRD runs fitness programs (ie: yoga) with no thought to existing businesses which offer the same service
• Commercial businesses pay more to Recreation than Policing
• Unlike WL, Dawson Creek does not have a gym at their local recreation facility (WL and Dawson Creek are similar in size, in terms of population)
• Time to review current fitness program to ensure it doesn’t put business offering same into negative position

A question and answer period ensued
Co-Chair K. Cook, on behalf of the Joint Committee, thanked Mr. Hoezler for his presentation

By Consensus – Delegation received and Mr. Hoezler’s presentation be referred to Staff for a report at the October 26th Joint Committee meeting

Business

1) 2011 Grant-in-Aide (Request to change use of funds)

Discussion ensued thereon
By Consensus – Derby Girls asked to specific date to use funds in April 2012. Failure to do so will cause the Grant-in-Aide money being requested to be returned

2) Sam Ketcham Pool Closure Financial Impact Report

Geoff Paynton presented his report to the Joint Committee
Discussion ensued thereon

By Consensus - Report received for information

3) CMRC Capital Expenditure Procedures

Geoff Paynton presented his report to the Joint Committee
Discussion ensued thereon

By Consensus – Report received and that the Management Contract be amended to include a policy on Communcations and that the Terms of Reference for the Central Cariboo Joint Committee be also amended to include a section on Communications

4) Sam Ketcham Pool Options

Geoff Paynton presented his report to the Joint Committee
Discussion ensued thereon

By Consensus – Report received for information

5) Recreation Facilities Priorities

Geoff Paynton presented his report to the Joint Committee
Discussion ensued thereon

By Consensus – Item received and that the Joint Committee endorse Option A (Status Quo for the pool) and Option ‘C’ (Full community planning for new facility)

6) 2012 Central Cariboo Recreation Business/Financial Plans

By Consensus – Item received and referred back to Staff to amend the Business Plan as follows:

• 2% requisition increase – 2011 vs 2012
• Allocate $500,000 into Capital Reserve for 2012
• Defer CMRC Parking Lot project until 2013

7) 2012 Central Cariboo Arts/Culture Business/Financial Plans

Darron Campbell went over his report with the Joint Committee
Discussion ensued thereon

By Consensus – 2012 Business/Financial Plans for the Central Cariboo Arts/Culture Function were endorsed with a change to the Business Plan to include a goal of:

• Discussion around Canada Day and other communities celebrations as “Deliverable Goal” in 2012

8) Letter from Margaret Alexander, from Australia, regarding Scout Island

Discussion ensued thereon
By Consensus – Letter received

9) Parks, Trails and Outdoor Recreation Master Plan

Discussion ensued thereon
By Consensus – Item received

Opposed – CRD Area 'D' Director Deb Bischoff

10) Late Item – Fee for Service (as requested by Joint Committee Co-Chair J. Sorley)

Discussion ensued
By Consensus - Item received

11) Action Page

Discussion ensued thereon
By Consensus – Action Page received with suggested changes by Joint Committee members to Staff


By Consensus - Meeting adjourned at 7:28pm


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