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Home My WebLink About1966-01-03 Council Minutes} a 6 .I it . Oath c 2 Electi 13 Electi A. Approv 5 Bankir. 6 Wages 7. Rates ,8 Dates 9 f Munici —10. By -La — 11 Repor for Cc �12. Dept. X13 Use c —14. Propc x'1.5 Rural \, y16. Cente X17. Mun. 18 ✓ Repor 19.f Mini X20. P. F. 21 ✓ City 22.L TrocY 23 . f,/ Harpe X24 Ken F 25. ,/E. R. 26 Y Peckc 27 Bri dg 2$.V Beve 29. r/ Ed S 30 / A G — 31 Repo 32.,' 1966 33 By -L, 34 Farm 35..-- Town FORM 149 -P SPECIAL MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES LTD. AGENDA FOR COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 3, 1966 f office for councillor for Div 7 - C C Campbell on of Reeve for year 1966 on of Deputy -Reeve - to June 30/66 al of the minutes of meeting of Dec 13/65 g resolution, if any change required for employees not under adopted agreement of pay for councillors- - and times for regular meetings pal committees for 1966, incl. A. S. Board w to set pay and expenses re members of Court of Revision t of the new General Assessment, procedure and dates urt of Revision of P,Tunicipal Affairs - i'�Zun. Assistance Act - census f office for F U. A. Workshop sed budget Trochu Rural Fire area, etc v Recreation Grants - Swalwel.11 Mount Vernon, Sunnyslope, Ghost Pine; Sarcee Butte nnial Grant - Linden Development & Loan Board - Grantville loan approved t of R Brown and C Poole - rural road study, etc. ter of Highways - Natural Resource Road application 1966 A. - 29 -20 -4 ineligible for 1965 assistance of Drumheller - Neuman welfare, report u and Acme - review of recreation costs rs Tire Ltd. - Lead Ballast sau - request for leave of absence Wacker - rocks in his field E/NE- 32- 29 -24 -4 ver & Halwa Adjusters - claim re 1961 I H C Travelall e Branch - In NW- 14- 29 -24 -4 Entice to be replaced with steel bridge from Taylor Siding S/5E- 1- 33 -25 -4 on # 27 - minor work to be done S /SE- l�s- 33 -23 -4 Trochu ?latest - details for 961' culvert, /In SW- 17- 29 -22 -4 - Sharples - further dirt work ly Hanses - application for work ewart - complaint re private culvert damaged T - Trochu west project t;ef C Poole & A Church - bunk car and A MacLean fuel supplies w # 488 - F U A Grant Leadership Awards - Bank of Montreal of Trochu - Centennial Project $1,364.00 the etc. -. r■ra FORM 149 -P SPECIAL MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES LTD, M D OF KNEEHILL # 48 COUNCIL MEETING JANUARY 3, 1966 Page 1 A st tutory meeting of the Council of the Municipal District of Kneehill # 48 was held at its office in Three Hills on Jan 3/66, commencing at 9 30 A M C 017 Mr. Mr. Mr Mr Mr. Mr Mr cillors present were A H Church Div Cliff Poole Ralph W Brown Dunc Peters Ralph Loosmore S C. Schmelke C C Campbell 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ( after 10 30 A M ) Mr G G. King, Sec -Treas , recorded the minutes of the mileting Mr D. C Dau, representative of the Three Hills School D vision, was present throughout most of this meeting I Mr C C Campbell, recently re- elected as Councillor, Oath of subscrib d to the required Oath of Office Office The Sec. -Treas advised that the first new business Reeve should be the election of a Reeve for 1966 Mr. Peters moved that Mr Ralph Brown be elected as Reeve for 1966 Carried unan. Mr Brown then took charge of the meeting. He thanked the Coun illors for the trust again shown in him and agreed t carry out the duties to the best of his ability. He also isked that they correct him at any time they consider him to be in error Mr Church moved that Mr Dunc Peters be elected Deputy - as Deput -Reeve for the period ending June 30/66. Reeve Carried unan. Mr Poole moved approval of the minutes of the Minutes meeting f Dec 13/65 as per copy mailed to each councillor Carried. Mr Brown brought up procedure to be followed in selects Road Stud an Engineer to do the Road Study for this Road sneer y District and suggested that the motion as made on g� Dec 13 5(requiring that Council make the choice) might unduly delay progress with the other Municipalities Mr Loo ore moved that the comm of Mr R. Brown and Mr C foole have authority to choose the Engineer for the Roac Study on behalf of this District Carried Mr Poole moved that no census be taken of this Mun. District at this time and that the Dept of Municipal Assistance Affairs be advised that the last census figures may be Grant used in connection with the Municipalities Assistance Grants or 1966 Carried. Th Sec. -Treas advised that he had received a request by phone from a Mr Gerald Schuler of Edmonton asking ffor use of office space for 10 AM to 4 PM on Feb. 2nd, 3rd, and 4th for a workshop for F U A District, Directors, est attendance was 25. This was discussed Mr Loosmore moved that Council suggest use of the Community Centre if available due to limited space here, if not available, then grant use of our office Carried See page 2 /P l Use of office F U A 1 P 41- _1.1 I Petai: Community the full R, paid to ea COUNCL METING JAN 3, 1966 Page 2 _ed receipts from the Swalwell and Mount Vernon RECREATION Locociatio -s showed that each has now earned GRANTS )creation Grant of $£300.00, $500 00 had been ;h previously Mr. p ole moved that the final $300 00 be now paid to the Swa well Comm. Assoc for the Recreation Grant Carried. Mr L osmore moved that the final $300.00 be now paid to th Mount Vernon Community Association for the Recreation Grant Carried Mr Paters moved that $500 00 be advanced to the Sunnyslope Comm Assoc as its application for the $800 Recreation Gant has now been approved by the Province and the $8 DO paid to this District Carried. FORM 1N9 -P SPECIAL SUPPLIES LTD. Requests from the Ghost Pine Athletic Assoc. and the Sarcee Butte Social Centre asked for extension to the end of April, 1966, for completion of projects under the lecreation Grants Mr Loosmore moved that Council gTP nt exte7Dions to end of April in regard to any appro d Rec reation Grant projects if the addit- ional timbe requested Carried U V A letter from the Municipal Development and Loan Board advised that a loan has been approved for the water and sewer project for Grantville in the amount of $37,100 vjith interest at 5 3/$ %, subject to its regulations Mr. Peter moved that this be accepted and filed. Carried GRANTVILLE LOAN M.D.L B A letter from P -airie Farm Assistance advised that P. F. A. no portio (_f 2q- 20 -•!r qualifies for 1965 assistance. Mr. CamDb ll moved that this be accepted and filed Carried Mr loole moved that the request of Ken Esau for KEN ESAU leave of bsence until spring be granted as per his LEAVE request Cars_ _ed . Coun illo- iir S C Sc�hm -'..ke arrived at the meeting CN SCHMELKE at this t m� (i0 10 A M ) He had been delayed due to the extre. ely c )7 d weather. Mr Frown movea that Council approve of payment LINDEN to the Village of Linden of its Municipal allottment of CENTENNIAL $914 00, subject to assurance that the proposed Park, PARK etc , will be entirely within the boundaries of that Village Carried The $)ec -Treas left the meeting for a time while 1966 Council di-,cussed and verbally agreed upon 1966 wage offers to be made to permanent employees not covered in WAGES the Wage grenment with the roadmen The following were then each interviewTed individually by Council Wage Offer Remarks Mr. G G Ki-g Sec -Treas $8,000 Accepted- thanks Mr H J HaN_son Acst it 6,700 if Mrs Vi Jart Steno 4,000. " Mr Geo Park Assessor 6,100 " Mr Gordoa Park Ag Field.man 5,600 n Mr Lorne Boese Asst a 416201 *At 1 110 hr. with guarantee of 4,620 per yr. See page 3 R FORM 149 -P SPECIAL MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES LTD. L !l COUNCIL MEETING JAN 3, 1966 Page 3 Council adjourned for dinner from12 noon to 1 P M Mr and was o 1966. Th expected Mr Somme Rbbbins M which pay asked tha This was to set hi wage of $ working t case of r other day pay is to Mr. Somme Mr offerred He asked ($6)600 y to increa the $531. . R. Sommerville, mechanic, met with Council ferred a salary of $450 mo ($5,400 yr ) for s is to be a guaranteed wage for which he is o work an average of 208 hrs per month ville made comparisons of wage rates of Street, rrow Ltd. and Kirks Heating Ltd , each of $2 40 to $2 50 hr. to technicians; he then Council consider granting a higher wage iscussed at some length and Council agreed wage rate at $1 75 hr with a guaranteed ,600 yr ($466 67 per mo ) based on an average me of 208 hrs mo He may work long hours in .sh work but will then work shorter hours on ,to average out at 208 hrs mo ; no extra be given for hours over the 208 hrs mo. averagE ,ville accepted this revised offer, with thanks. 1966 WAGES A R SOMMERVILLE Paquette, foreman, met with Council and was salary of $551.67 mo. ;$6,380 *yr) for 1966. hat Council consider raising this to $550 mo ) This was discussed but Council decided not e its offer as noted above Mr Paquette accepted 7 mo ($6,380 yr ) Mr Joe Dobler, gravel foreman, met with Council and was o ferred $467 50 mo ($5,610. yr) for 1966 He discussed his extra hours of work and asked for a further increase but this was not granted He then accepted he offer as made by Council. Mr lien Koch, foreman, met with Council and was offerred a salary of $467.50 mo. ($5,610 yr ) for 1966, together with 6 weeks leave to attend Tech starting Feb 14th to complete his 4th yr. course as Heavy Duty Mechanic - 11 wk of this will be considered as annual holiday so he would 6ave one weeks holiday left with pay during the summer. Mr. Koch asked that the rate be set at $500 mo ; this was iiscussed privately by Council It was a reed that the ffer stay as given until the end of June�66, then be reviewed and, if his work is fully satisfactory, that a further increase of $25 mo. may be granted as from July 166. Mr Koch again met with Council and was told of the revised offer, he stated that this was not acceptable - that he would prefer to go back as a Euclid operator He was given further time to think this over and so left the Council room. Mr Howard Boles met with Council briefly and asked that Council send representation to the Kneehill F U A sub-district meeting in Three Hills on Thurs Jan 20th, commencing at 10 A M After discussion, Mr. Brown moved that Mr Campbell, Peters, and Church be named to rep- resent t e Council at the said meeting Carried Mr Bole thanked Council and then left Mr Allen Koch came back to the meeting and finally agreed tj accept the revised wage offer as outlined above Mr intervie` made and Church moved that the 1966 salaries forthose ed at this meeting be set according to the offers accepted as per these minutes Carried See page 4 TED PAQUETTE JOE DOBLER ALLEN KOCH HOWARD BOLES F U A MTG ALLEN KOCH WAGES N FORM 149 -P SPECIAL MUNICIPAL SUPPLIES LTD, COUNCIL MEETING JAN. 3/66 Page 4 Annual holidays, provisions for sick pay, and work- men's compensation benefits, etc , for those on regular salaries were discussed earlier in the meeting by Council and the Sec -Treas No definite motion was made but it seemed agreed that the genial provisions correspond to the terms of the other Wage Agreement insofar as practical. Mr. Peters moved that the wage rate for Chris Weigum, ffice caretaker, be set at $135 mo as from Jan. 1, 966 Carried. The three foremen - T Paquette, Allen Koch, and Joe Dobl r - again met briefly with Council and the followin were outlined. South Ca p - clutch brake on old # 12 to be repaired, snowplowing to be done as necessary, some repair work being do re on older Cat tractor (2 -U) North Cr w - considerable snowplowing necessary, Div. 7 patrol tc operate from Three Hills during cold weather, old Austin has had some repair work done, Wagner snow- plow ready for demonstration. Gravel crew - to continue stockpiling when weather moderates, wants information as to how much gravel to put at C rrection line - old # 21 location. List of accounts receivable to Dec 31/65 for misc. items gi en to each foreman and councillor, no further work aut orized for anyone owing an account 6 mos. or older Mr R Brown asked that a copy of the account owing by Ed. G rlitz be sent to Mr. Ben 0 Brown It as suggested that some employees were being granted holidays too far in advance of due dates The 4 Sec.-Treas. agreed to have an up to date list for next meeting. Thelthree foremen then left the meeting. Mr. ISchmelke moved that the rate of pay for Council members and Reeve be set at $20 per day and 12¢ mile for meetings, supervision, and committee work, all within the limits of the Municipal District Act. Carried. Mr Poole moved that regular meetings of Council be held on he second Monday of each month starting as from Feb 14th/66, and commencing at 9 00 A M Carried. Membership on the Court of Revision, its duties, estimated time of app 20 days to be required in 1966, and othe committee membership was discussed briefly Mr Pete ;s moved that the present committees carry on until Jan 13/66. Carried Mr. Loosmore moved that 3rd Reading be now given to By-Lair # 488 to provide a grant of $100 00 to the F.U.A for 1965 Third reading was given and the By -Law was declared finally passed A copy of a booklet re Farm provided by the Bank of Montreal Councillor for consideration Mr Peters moved that this until Thurs. Jan 13/66 at 9 00 (Time fif adjournment 5 P.M.) Reeve Leadership Awards as was given to each FRINGE BENEFITS WAGES CARETAKER FOREMEN OUTLINE OF WORK MISC. ACCTS RECEIVABLE HOLIDAYS COUNCIL PAY MEETING DATES COURT OF REVISION, ETC. BY -LAW 488 GRANT F U A LEADERSHIP AWARDS meeting do now adjourn A. M. Carried �. -�,; �...1 fir' ✓" Sec -Treas �/ �_/, I I ✓1-