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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-12-19 Council MinutesrW IM N M RECREATION MEETING December 19th, 1977 A meeting of representatives of municipalities within the Municipal District of Kneehill #48 was held in the Municipal District Office, Three Hills on December 19th, 1977, commencing at 7 30 P M Those present were M D Kneehill #48 - Ralph Brown, Gilbert Berdahl, and G G King George Debney, Recreation Director - City of Drumheller Town of Three Hills - R Robertson, Gust Reinsch, Town of Trochu - Paul Gaboury, Raymond Frere, Dick Sommerville, Village of Carbon - George Bertram, Ted Schmidt, Carbon & District Recreation Board - Les Howlett and Archie Metzger Village of Acme - E V Rogers, H Van Der mark Village of Torrington - Mack Hutton and Peter Sol Village of Linden - Rick Thiessen and B Falk Roy G Archibald Alberta Recreation, Parks and Wildlife Miss J Malpass, representative from the Three Hills Capital A report of the recreation meeting of November 29th was reviewed It was noted that the name of Dr Roy Anccroft of Trochu had been omitted from the list of names attending that meeting Mr Rogers moved that the report of the meeting be accepted with that correction being made Carried The representatives present discussed the boundaries as drawn previously for discussion purposes A letter from the Village of Linden stated that the Village Council is satisfied with the boundaries as drawn Representatives from the Town of Three Hills stated the town is satisfied with the boundaries Mr Brown stated that the M D recommended two changes in the boundaries 1 That the line between the Trochu and Three Hills areas in Ranges 21, 22 and 23 be moved one mile south 2 That the line between Acme and Carbon be moved one mile east, south of secondary road 575 Three Hills representatives questioned the reason for the change in its boundaries and after hearing the explanation that the new line would agree with the Trochu Swimming Pool recreation area, stated they would have no objections Representatives from Carbon indicated that the Acme Carbon split appeared reasonable, but stated they should have something more on the east and or north A letter dated December 12th, from Mr Neil Wagstaff, Co- Ordinator of the Buffalo Lake Regional Resources Project with office at Elnora, requested consideration of some grant for the area adjacent to Elnora, but within this Municipal District They suggested a line east west 6 miles south of Elnora A letter from Mr Roy Archibald to Mr Wagstaff regarding the above was also read The meeting agreed it is most difficult to get adjustments between rural municipalities, but the letter was officially addressed to the M D of Kneehill and will be referred to it Mr King advised that the boundary changes as recommended by the M D would result in the following population phanges 2 ' N -2- as compared to the November 29th figures/ Trochu - increased from 1103 to 1150 Three Hills - decreased from 1642 to 1595 Acme - increased from 396 to 423 Carbon - decreased from 584 to 557 Acme representatives stressed that Acme needs help and stated that they have been unable to get any co- operation from the County of Mountain View Mr George Debnay advised that the City of Drumheller officially has no mayor or aldermen at this time due to the recent election being declared invalid As recreation director he belives the Regional Recreation Board is a good idea, and should definitely be followed up by Drumheller Mr Gaboury moved an informal motion that this meeting that all people in the M D be allocated and divided between the 2 towns and 4 villages of the area and that this exclude Drumheller Considerable discussion followed Mr Berdahl expressed strong opposition to the motion as he felt the money related to the people of an areashould go to the center which they use Others spoke for and against the motion Discussion also followed as to whether or not Drumheller needs money and Mr Debney replied he felt they needed it the same as any other area Mr Archibald asked permission to speak only as a resident and this was granted He stated that in his opinion Drumheller is providing recreation facilities for part of the M D and thus likely morally entitled to some of the people, but they do not need it as bad as our towns and villages in the fringe areas He especially referred to Acme where operating costs of a similar sized project would be as great as that of Drumheller but Acme does not have the assessment nor people to support it He suggested using that population from the south east portion and allocating it to others unless bordering rural municipalities agree to help Acme, Torrington, etc The motion of Mr Gaboury was then voted on and carried with 10 in favour and 4 against The special problems that appear to relate to Acme were discussed Mr Brown suggested that Acme and Linden should perhaps consider adding the two population figures together and splitting it evenly, because of the facilities, etc This would give each area between 619 - 620 people Linden representatives state this could be considered, but they were doubtful due to what Swalwell might want It was explained to them that other rural recreation grants from the M D have provided Swalwell with $2600 00 in each of the years 1976 and 1977, and this may be continued Trochu representatives stated that the new 1150 population will leave them 92 short of their needs They stated that their master plan revision would cause a delay of at least one year Mr Archibald stated that he did not agree with that as he felt recommendations from him for changes would carry a lot of weight with the department Mr Brown also pointed out that if Trochu had actually reserved one -third for rural areas, then their town should have only used about 900 to 950 people and this problem would not have developed Trochu stated that they had government information that the M D ruling was not effective, but Mr Archibald stated that he had never told Trochu to ignore the one -third ruling Further discussion took place regarding the 493 people as listed in the Drumheller area with ideas being 1 That the number there be allocated to the towns and villages 3 • -3- most needing them because they are serving more outside areas 2 That the 493 population be put in a pool for the towns and villages to apply for on a first come first to receive basis It was agreed 1 That the progress in use of the capital funds should be reviewed 3 to 4 years before the end of the 10 year program, with the aim of reallocating any funds which might be unused 2 That representatives report back to their councils regarding this meeting and that each council send written comments to the M D for it to consider at its regular Council meeting on January 9th 1978 Mr Brown asked that each also send up to date figures of its own equalized assessment and population figures Mr Sommerville from Trochu referred to a letter from Trochu to the M D dated May 7th, 1976, asking if they should continue to use the population figure of 1926 He had no reply and there was no information readily available Mr G King agreed to check in to this later The meeting then adjourned Secretary