- Call to order; Quorum and Roll Call/Acknowledgement of volunteers and Past Presidents in attendance/Introduction of guests. President Will Jones, Treasurer Robert Barnes, Secretary Lisa Schneider in attendance.
- Adoption of the Agenda. Moved by Will Jones, Seconded by Jeff Douglas
- Approval of the 2022 AGM Minutes, Business arising from the minutes. Moved by Jeff Douglas Seconded by James Romanow. No business arising from the Minutes.
- . Reports:
Fire department, Lawrence Heise *** (Roger Gillis)
3 proposed options Option #1 – purchase water rescue boat About $40Kfire department would coordinate, would store equipment, would facilitate communication, but would not perform water rescue, it would be done by a trained group of water rescue team6 fire fighters willing to take on the challenge.
Option #2Beach associations assemble a list of equipment available. For example is there a boat, where is it, does it have equipment needed (life jackets, etc)Beach association would put together a list of people with boatsLaurentia has 6 people with boats that have declared. Who will operate the equipment? Volunteers. If boat is used, gets damaged, how would this be looked after?Would need to come to some sort of agreement Expenses, fuel, etc.Fire department would still handle logistics and communication Phone contact names, lists, availability, etc.
Option #3 – do nothing. No money at the RM. RM is trying to recover RM Is in a serious deficit, and has been for years, dating back to 2021RM has no money in coffers to fund the boat/expenses
RM Of Woodlands
- Reeve, Doug Oliver Got through winter pretty well. Agreement with RM of St. Laurent for snow plowing fell apart, and does not exist. Union objected as contracting out. And the agreement was blocked. This year a new union agreement is being negotiated, and perhaps it can be incorporated. Got a new grader this year. Cost more than $500,000. Have a full staff of grader staff in place, as well as a group of retired people who help Snow, rain, etc has been very hard on roads in the RM. Applied for disaster funding, maybe some help will be coming, but province had denied assistance.RM is spending 100’s of thousands extra on repairing roads that was not expected. Twin Lake Beach road was graded and dust control added. Explored garbage pickup in winter, but it was too costly and was abandoned. Announced last year, entering project with RMs around us, for personal care home in Stonewall. This has been paused, have not been able to get a meeting with the province. Personal care home space is very limited and capacity is not expanding. Hydro poles put in, Valley Fiber installing. Taking their time. Still some hydro poles to install. Road encroachment problem still exists. Aug 1st there was a meeting, invited land owners, but only 4 people showed up. Over the winter hired a consultant, looked at moving the road over, during the winter, to see if the project is viable and the cost. The project is feasible, but now environment wants to pay compensation for disturbing the marsh. In discussions about going forward with the project. The discussion has led to suggestions that the private property should just be expropriated. Still working on it. Expropriation is not the preferred method. Most of the people who used to work at the province, don’t work there anymore, and its hard to find the right people to talk to.
Questions
Rumours that the province has shelved the northern drainage channel. Is the RM of Woodlands concerned at all? Yes, certainly. But its outside of our control. It needs to happen, and we will attend meetings when they occur – but nothing is moving at this time.
- Treasurer’s Report – Robert Barnes
- Financial statement & report was sent earlier by email. Reviewed contents with those in attendance. Record high membership this year. Thank you.
- Financial report moved for approval by Robert Barnes, Seconded by Will Jones, unanimous approval.
- President’s Report – Will Jones
see attached
5. Elections – Past President (conducted by Jeff Douglas)
- Current – President; Will Jones ; Vice President; Vacant, Treasurer; Robert Barnes; Secretary Lisa Schneider. By-law requires: President (elected), Vice-president (elected), Treasurer (elected), Secretary (elected)
- Election Results:
- President: Jack King, ACCLAIMED
- Vice President: Alice Dent, ACCLAIMED
- Treasurer: Robert Barnes, ACCLAIMED
- Secretary: Jan Presley, ACCLAIMED
Adjournment: Moved by Will Jones Seconded by Jeff Douglas
Adjourned approximately 11:45am.
Submitted by Robert Barnes
- Omitted from Minutes
Constitution: The vote for the new constitution was close, but did not achieve the 2/3 majority needed to pass. (cited from Facebook post)
Bylaw changes were not raised at the meeting.
- Replaced President Report (2023) with the (2024) Report attached.
****Note that the draft minutes were submitted by Robert Barnes. Editing was done by Jack King. Minutes is a draft document until approved at the 2025 AGM
