TWIN LAKES BEACH
FLOOD ACTION COMMITTEE
MEETING NOTES and
COMMUNIQUE #4
August 3, 2011
7:30 pm MAINSTAY SUITES HOTEL
MEMBERS PRESENT:
GARY GRUBERT, ANDY
ZUBRYCKI, FRED PISCLEVICH, JACK KING, DENNIS TUREK
REGRETS: MARIO LEBAR, MATT LAND, SHERRAL LILLIES
AGENDA:
- INFORMATION SHARING: Discussion and Feedback from committee members
regarding August 2nd Townhall mtg. in St. Laurent. Committee felt that the meeting was well
attended and the panel received excellent feedback from the floor. Pertinent questions were posed to the panel
and responses varied from acceptable to not acceptable at all especially when
it came to Shoreline Defense Projects which are excluded from both MASC and
Water stewardship Programs. Jack King
submitted a report to the committee which outlined the over view of the
meeting. Jack’s report will be posted on
our web site. - FLOOD MITIGATION WATER STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM: The
committee went through the Guidelines and Program Overview of this Progam (can
be found on our web site) line by line.
We feel we have a good handle on the intent of this document. ACTION: Dennis will arrange a meeting with Steve
Topping to get further clarification on identified clauses and also to offer
our opinions and suggestions about the content and practicality of this
Program. The Minister in charge of this
program is Christine Mellnick. - 3. NEWSLETTER
SUBMISSION: Dennis submitted for review a report written for the upcoming Twin
Lakes Beach Assoc. Newsletter. The report
was reviewed and passed for submission. ACTION: Dennis
will submit the report to Sherie Turek (member at large for Newsletters) - ALMS: The next ALMS meeting is on August 16th. Dennis will not be able to attend due to
work commitments. Jack King and Fred
Pisclevich will attend. We will continue
to participate as members of ALMS but we will continue to work first on behalf
of Twin Beachers and we will share our endeavors with ALMS and invite them to
participate with us. We still believe
strongly that a unified voice is our strength in these challenging times. However, recent events are making us question
whether our voice, from The Flood Action Committee is appreciated or
welcomed. Jack and Fred will make
presentations to ALMS regarding initiatives that were generated at today’s
meeting regarding a further meeting with the Ministers Ashton and Mellnick to complete our meeting with Mike Yacentiuk
on questions which were beyond his authority.
These questions were not posed at the recent meeting with ALMS and
Minister ASHTON because this meeting only focused on the New Channel
Construction. We will also invite ALMS
to attend a meeting we are arranging with Ralph Eichler and Hugh McFaden to
determine what their platform stance is regarding the Flood of Lake Manitoba
and how the Conservatives are planning to respond to Mitigation if they are successful on Oct. 4th. ACTION: Fred P. will arrange the meeting with the
Conservatives and Dennis Turek will arrange the meeting with the Ministers
after his meeting with Steve Topping. - INITIATIVES:
In addition to the above ACTIONS the
committee also discussed in detail the need to have a PLAN B in case we are not
successful in convincing the government that they are responsible for the
design and construction of a permanent Shoreline Defense System along Twin
Lakes Beach North and South and other affected lakefront communities along the
shores of Lake Manitoba such as Delta Beach, Sandpiper Beach, Laurentia,
Pioneer, Johnson etc.
ACTION:
Dennis will arrange a meeting with
the Reeves of St. Laurent and Woodlands to propose to them that they begin
investigations and preparations to make application to the province for
shoreline defense in their respective RMS but will be continuous and similar in
nature throughout” the strip.” We will emphasis that without a lower
operating range on the Lake and with no shoreline protection there will be no
rebuilding or reconstruction because it will be a waste of money and futile. This would cause huge implications to the
operating budgets of St. Laurent and to Woodlands in a lesser degree but still
significant. Also the financial impact on
area businesses and services that is presently being felt will become permanent
if the beach development is gone or nearly gone.
This would be a precedential approach as the
RM’s along Lake Wpg. were able to get The Province to construct many earthen
and other forms of Shoreline Protection along Lake Wpg. Some stretched continuously for 10
miles!!! Our thinking is that if our RM’s
are successful then the other RM’s can do the same for the Developments that
exist along the Lake in their jurisdiction.
Meeting
adjourned at 10:00 pm
