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Home My WebLink About1971-12-15 Council Minutesis 6 1� E FORM 149-P SPECIAL UNICI PPLI The C was reconv at900A COUNCIL MEETING DECEMBER 15, 1971 (Cont?d from Dec 13/71) Page 8 >uncil meeting adjourned from December 13 and ,ned in the Municipal Office on December 15/71 1 with all Council again present A let er was read from the Kneehill 4 -H Council ex- KNEEHILL pressing t anks for the Municipal contribution in regard 4 -H COUNCIL to the exc ange trip with the Wyoming group Mr Bauer THANKS moved that this be accepted and filed Carried. ill Mr G had met at the hospit cussed at groups Th mainly pro requisitio: on an equa . of the M Trochu. Th, mention the tent would Council ap Reeve and of the Mun_ Counc culated re in the Tow that a cop but it is this is a this infor King and Mr R Campbell reported that they PROPOSED the Trochu Hospital with representatives of AGREEMENT 1 and with the Mayor of Trochu and had dis- RE TROCHU ength a proposed agreement between those HOSPITAL agreement would be quite simple and would ide for the right of the hospital to make a and that the requisition would be shared ized assessment basis between the portion in that hospital area and the Town of proposed agreement was then read but with t a few words might be changed but the in- v remain the same Mr Schmelke moved that rove of the agreement and authorize the ecretary- Treasurer to sign same on behalf cipal District Carried 1 was advised that a petition is being cir- NURSING HOME uesting that a nursing home be established PETITION of Three Hills Mr G King advised Council of the petition had been left at this Office of available for signatures at the office as 4. ontroversial issue Mr Church moved that tion be filed Carried Minutes of the Torrin` ton Recreation Board meeting TORRINGTON of November 24th were refer -ed to briefly Mr Poole REC. BOARD moved that these be filed as information Carried MINUTES Mr Tod Paquette, Public Works Superintendent, T PAQUETTE then also et with Council Mr G King advised Council there is no reply in regard to our application for assistance under the FEDERAL Federal In entive Program He also advised that the INCENTIVE,, regulations are changed so that any project now only 4' PROGRAM requires 1 man months instead of the previous 32 man months Mr Brown briefly reported on some information he had obtained in regard to Unemployment Insurance and stated that a salary continuance policy may reduce the premium to Unemployment insurance on the employers por- tion but this is not definite Council then discussed in detail the report of the Employee Committee meeting of December lst and dealt with same as follows in these Minutes Council was given a record of the estimated cost of various benefits re- quested by the employees and these were considered at the same t me as other matters Decisions agreed upon by Council are outlined briefly below 1. Claus4 2 - Request for travel time one -way Esti- mated cost 2 35% Not granted UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE EMPLOYEE COMMITTEE Claus _ - One -half hour to bus driver, etc re- garding getting gas, etc Not agreed due to the fact they can take turns doing this and also See Page 9 ,/ a �11 • 0 FORM 149-0 SPECIAL UNICI PPLI the COUNCIL MEETING DECEMBER 15, 1971 (Cont'd from Dec 13/71) Page 9 _fficulty in maintaining accurate records Clause 4 - Guaranteed Wage - Likely take this out duet changes in Unemployment Insurance Claus 5 - Annual Holidays - No change agreed to by Co ncil Claus 6 - Sick Pay - Requested 1 day a month allowance instead of present 2 day Not agreed by Council Claus 7 - Change in regard to Statutory Holidays Mr S hmelke moved that Council agree to offer pay for 1 days Statutory Holidays per year at 8 hours per d y for those entitled to same Carried Wage Continuance - To be reviewed considering Un- employment Insurance Banki - Nir Ferguson moved that Council agree to allow 2IVY— 'E'of.f on the Friday followa,ng pay day b arrangement with the foreman and Without ( pay or transportation D Consi erable discussion took place in regard to the need f -- and the wages that should be paid for a good mecha is and also in regard to the employment of a Shop Foreman and whether or not he should be a mechanic MIr Paquette adv_.sed that Mr Robert Cran- ston is the only present employee who would qualify as a mechanic but he might not be best at directing the men Mr Church moved that Mr Robert Cranston be interviewed by the Employee Committee and the Shop Committee n xt Monday in regard to the position of Shop Forema and that this be at 1 00 P M Carried Mr Pa uette advised ; hat Mr John Dorn is now mainly invo ved in work in connection with snowplowing. The wa with discus 10¢ an hour that any in all of the Council wai before coma: rates Car. Counci costs for p where same for Hudson' half day wo $384 21 and could incre moved that that this M ment and th 'co the comp Counci: until 1 00 ;e schedule was discussed at some length ion ranging in regard to increases of from to 1$¢ per hour An opinion was expressed rease granted should be fairly uniform for mployees affected Mr Poole moved that for the request of the road employees g to any final decision In regard to wage ied was given a break -down of the estimated •eparing the road south of Torrington iad been damaged by a seismic crew working Bay Gas & Oil Estimated cost for one - k for the machinery and men totalled it was suggested that miscellaneous items se the amount to $400 00 Mr Schmelke udson's Bay Gas & Oil Co be advised D will accept $400 00 as full settle - t a break -down of the estimate be sent ny Carried adjourned for dinner from 12 00 Noon M See Page 10 COUNCIL DECISIONS RE MECHANIC SHOP FOREMAN WAGE SCHEDULE HUDSONIS BAY OIL & GAS RE DAMAGE CLAIM DINNER a i 111 • FORM 149-P SPECIAL U ICI L SUPPLIES COUNCIL MEETING DECEMBER 15, 1971 (Cont?d from Dec 13/71) Page 10 Mr J C Jeffery, as Secretary of the Shop Commit- SHOP tee, then read the Minutes of the previous Shop Commit- COMMITTEE tee meeting of December 6/71. General discussion followed MINUTES and the general feeling of the meeting was to get specs on the following equipment 150 11 p crawlez tractor 1 motor grader and possibly 1 twin rubber scraper 2-way radio system post driver Sale en from various companies were then invited individually in to the meeting and asked if they had any new equipment to offer and asked if they could pro - q_de us with specs of the above listed equipment The Jollowing salesmen then 3ntered the meeting and prove ed the Council with brochures and a brief SALESMEN run -down if their various types of equipment Lorne Theil - Costello Equipment Phil McVeigh - Ferguson Supply Pat Malo - Coneco Equipment Bob Gowland and Jim Gerwin - Pardee Equipment Don Creighton - Vulcan Machinery Geor e Robbins and Cliff Showers - R Angus Ltd All of the salesmen outlined their various types of equipment for approximately 15 minutes each and Mr. Brown informed each of the salesmen that they would be receiving our invitation for tenders in the very near future The meeting adjourned at 4 00 P M ADJOURNMENT -' j Reeve Sec - Treasurer t I