List of Agenda Additions and Handouts for March 14, 2017   

5.  Delegations/Appointments  

1:00 p.m.  Correction:  Service Alberta not Service Canada  

7.  Community Services    b)  Easyford Community Hall 

i. Correspondence from Easyford Community Centre Society (Page 2)  

8.  Corporate Services      d)  2016 Uncollectible Tax Write‐Offs     ‐ Request for Council Decision attached (Pages 3 ‐ 4)     26.  Pembina Sentinel Air Monitoring Society   ‐ email correspondence attached (Pages 5 ‐ 6)  36.  Meeting Dates      a)  Ratification of Telephone Town Hall Meeting with Minister Shannon Phillips 

i. Letter to Minister of Environment and Parks  

h)  Tourism Strategy Session March 28, 2017 (Page 7)  i)  Ratification of AUMA Mayors and Reeves Caucus March 7, 2017   ‐ report attached (Pages 8 ‐ 15)  

37.  In‐Private   a)  Legal:       vi.  Community Halls       vii.  Lease Agreement ‐ hand out to be provided 

viar, iu. Lull :tOrIVI [all) LAW OFFICE No, 1734 P. 1

Easyford CoMmunity Centre Society Box 52

Rocky Rapids, Alberta TOB 1Z0

March 8, 2017

Via Pax: 780-542-7770 Attention: Bad Guyon, Reeve Brazeau County 7401 Twp Rd, 494, Box 77 Drayton Valley, Alberta T7A 1R1

Dear Sir:

Re: Easyford Community Centre Society (the "Society")

Thank you for your attendance at the Society's meeting on March 6th. We appreciated your input and the County's support of the Society and the ongoing operation of the Easyford Hall.

The Board of Directors passed the following Resolution:

"The Society is hereby directed, authorized and empowered to enter into an agreement with the County of Brazeau to transfer the Society's land legally described as a portion of the SE 1/4 of 7-50-8 W5th and any such other assets as may be agreed upon and to sign the Transfer of Land and any other documents to give effect to this Agreement. The Agreement shall include the term that the County of Brazeau operate the Easyford hall as a community hall for one year from the date of the Agreement. If the County of Brazeau does not maintain the hall as a hall, and the hall is sold, it is requested that the sale proceeds be apportioned 50% to the County of Brazen to be held in trust to benefit the Easyford Community and 50% to the Drayton Valley Community Foundation for an endowment fund for programs and education to benefit rural youth."

We understand that the Easyford Community Centre is an item on the Agenda for the next Brazeau County meeting on March 14,2017. We look forward to hearing the outcome of your discussions on or before March 31, 2017,

Yours truly,

Easyford Community Centre Society

Per:

cc. Lee Chambers, Brazen County Director of Community Services

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BRAZEAU COUNTY

REQUEST FOR COUNCIL DECISION

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Brazeau County

SUBJECT: 2016 Uncollectible Tax Write-Offs

DATE TO COUNCIL: March 14, 2017

SUBMITTED BY: Colin Swap, Taxa'tiow6nd Assessment Co-ordinator

ENDORSED BY: Bren0a,; isye

, 'rector of Corporate Services

REVIEWED BY CAO: //// /

FILE NO:

Report/Document Attache' Available Nil

RECOMMENDED ACTIONS:

That Council approves the 2016 Uncollectible Tax write-offs as presented in the amount of $371,336.87.

1. TOPIC DEFINED

Executive Summary/Key Issue(s)/Concepts Defined:

In 2015 council approved establishing an allowance for doubtful accounts in the amount of

$326,756.25 for tax accounts that were deemed as uncollectible. Of this amount $170,690.64 has been collected or transferred with the sale of the tax rolls leaving the uncollectible balance from

2015 at $156,065.61. In 2016 $215,271.26 has been identified as uncollectible tax receivables and added to the 2015 balance.

Name >= 2016 2015 2014 Total

Anterra Energy Inc. 93,327.40 46,906.80 140,234.20

Detector Exploration Ltd. 77,182.01 68,980.05 146,162.06

Petro Globe Inc. 12,188.59 12,431.33 24,619.92

Sino-Western Petroleum Inc 11,590.67 18,216.43 29,807.10

Tallgrass Energy Corp 7,570. 78 9,531.00 17,101.78

West Isle Energy Inc. 4,941.60 4,496.85 3,973.36 13,411.81

Grand Total 206,801.05 160,562.46 3,973.36 371,336.87

Brazeau County - Request for Council Decision —2016 Uncollectible Tax Write-Offs

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Relevant Policy:

This is completed on an annual basis to seek Council approval of the write-offs as part of Administration's year end process.

Strategic Relevance:

Write-offs are completed prior to the year end to adjust all tax receivable accounts to accurately reflect the outstanding accounts the County expects to collect.

Desired Outcomes: That the requested accounts be written off as Administration has deemed them uncollectible.

2. RESPONSE OPTIONS

Option Analysis

a. Council approves staff recommendation

Enable the year-end process to continue and accurately reflect the actual tax receivable balances.

b. Council rejects the request as submitted

Create a reserve for the uncollectible amounts but have them remain as owing on the tax rolls

c. Council requires more information

Defer/table request to a future Council meeting and

direct Administration on what further information is required.

Preferred Strategy/Outcome:

Option a. That Council approves the 2016 Uncollectible Tax write-offs as presented in the amount of $371,336.87.

3. IMPLICATIONS OF RECOMMENDATIONS

Organizational:

N/A

Financial:

If Council approves the 2016 Uncollectible Tax write-offs the balance of $215,271.26 will be booked to the uncollectible taxes account 02-97-00-921 and removed from tax receivables along with the $170,690.64 remaining from 2015.

Brazeau County - Request for Council Decision —2016 Uncollectible Tax Write-Offs

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Tina Kwirant

Subject: Meeting request

From: Maryann Thompson  Sent: March‐10‐17 1:51 PM To: Marco Schoeninger <MSchoeninger@brazeau.ab.ca> Subject: Fwd: Meeting request 

Please view the original request from Anita and add this to our agenda as per our brief discussion yesterday. Have a wonder filled weekend Maryann Sent from my iPhone Begin forwarded message:

From: PSAMS <psamsociety@gmail.com> Date: March 8, 2017 at 9:45:11 AM MST To: Maryann Thompson <MThompson@brazeau.ab.ca> Subject: Re: Meeting request

Thanks. I'll get back to you with the details as soon as I can. Have a great day, Anita

On Mar 7, 2017, at 10:12 PM, Maryann Thompson <MThompson@brazeau.ab.ca> wrote:

Good evening. march 15 will work for me.

Maryann

Sent from my iPhone

On Mar 7, 2017, at 8:28 PM, Pembina Sentinel Air Monitoring Society <psamsociety@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi there!

As the County representative and alternate for PSAMS, we would like to request a meeting with you next week.

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The public members of PSAMS have been meeting to review our monitor locations. With the slow down in the oilfield, our industry members are recommending reductions to our grid, which will greatly affect the coverage we are currently providing in the county.

We will be meeting with industry again soon, but before we go back to them with our recommendations on changes/removals of monitors the publc members would like to meet you to get your input. We are hoping that either Tueday (Mar 14) or Wednesday (Mar 15) would work to meet for lunch.

Please advise if either of those dates will work for you.

Have a great day,

Anita Berger

Board Administrator

780-514-9110

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AUMA Mayors and Reeves Caucus 

March 7, 217 at the Shaw Conference Centre 

Report by Anthony Heinrich and Rita Moir 

The opening address done by Lisa Holmes the Mayor of the Town of Mornville then turned over to 

Minsters. 

Minister Shaye Anderson – Municipal Affairs 

He addressed the MGA review. The amendments are still a work in progress and he does not 

think the document will be finalized until fall.  

MSI funding‐ he said that the province is committed to stable income and as he put it “they are 

not turning off the taps”. It may not be called MSI in the future but there will be funds in the 

Budget that is being released on March. Their goal is to protect infrastructure and have 

increased funding over and above previous government. 

He stressed that the province has a long term plan with the Carbon Levy monies and are 

presently looking at low hanging fruit –IE Light bulbs. 

There was questions about if the province was going to honor the monies currently owed to 

municipalities. There was no direct answer given.   

There was a question regarding the Bill Canada fund and when will they be available. No direct 

answer. 

Town of Edson brought forward a concern of now needing to come up with $42,000.00 for radio 

system regarding police services that the province covered in the past. No answer 

There were concerns about the Stats Canada report just done. Opinion was that it was not done 

properly and hopes the province will not change boundaries based on an incomplete report. 

Minster Darin Bilous –Economic Development and broadband 

He projected that Alberta would see a 2.8% growth in 2017. 

He suggested all councils lobby our east muni‐colleagues to support Alberta Energy.  

Darin listed the three Alberta Strengths as: Health Innovation, Clean Energy and Agriculture/ 

Agro Foods. 

They are working at creating more value added opportunities for the resource sector 

Promoted MCCAC for Alternative Energy projects and the success thus far and to look for the 

release of the details of more funding in the spring. When asked if there would be increased 

funding for smaller municipalities he did not have an answer.  

As far as rural broadband. They have no strategy yet but understand that connectivity is both 

critical and essential??? 

Mr. Bilous went onto say that because of the work that the province as done regarding climate 

change it played a big part in the approval of the pipelines by the federal government! 

 

Shannon Phillips – Environmental, Sustainability and Climate Change 

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Stated that the NDP has increased infrastructure funding 15% over past government and will be 

30% by 2030 

15 municipalities have participated in retro fits and 18 solar projects have received funding 

from MCCAC. 

Provincial parks‐ regional plan will be bringing changes to land use  areas regarding OHV 

Castle Park will have a 5 year phase out process and a 5 year phase in process in other 

specified areas. 

Look forward to the release of the funding regarding energy efficiencies and she eluded to 

Geo thermal, solar and wind. 

Brian Mason spoke on Infrastructure, Water and wastewater‐ no new information other than to listen 

to the upcoming budget for funding opportunities, but, did stress that he is willing to meet with 

municipalities to try to address their concerns. 

The Greyhound bus situation regarding rural stops came up but the province has not come up with any 

solutions as the survey showed as few as 5 people riding on a bus. Not cost effective. 

Dave Hancock‐ Impact of Alberta/US future relationship Opportunities 

He described the political situation in the US as chaos but stressed that in chaos opportunity will 

always present itself. 

As deregulation is happening in the US our costs will increase and we will lose our competitive 

edge that we have had in the past.  

Our stiffer regulations as well as our focus on environment and the US backing away from the 

Climate Change initiative  may come with a cost 

He suggested that individual senators and congress people will have more power and will have 

the ability to push personal agendas forward 

Working relationships that are now in place need to be built on by stressing the good reputation 

Alberta has regarding the products we sell. 

With the restricted US immigration situation may come opportunity for Alberta to attract some 

of the smartest and brightest talent. 

The US is expanding its oil production added to the oversupply already in the market which is 

not going to help oil prices. 

There was an AMUA report discussed and one of the issues that was brought forward was the issue of 

RCMP funding and the continued effort to lobby the government for shared funding between urban and 

rural municipalities.   

 Panel discussion on the legalization of Marijuana  

This was very enlightening and eye opening to what is coming our way. As Ann Mclellan put it 

this is very complex and will touch upon every aspect of people’s lives. 

There is a necessity for all three levels of government to collaborate through the legalization, 

regulation and restricting access policies that need to be developed. 

 It was stated that it will be in our retail stores in 2‐3 years.  

BC’s solution to not being able to stop the shops from opening up is to charge them a 

$30,000.00 license and then look the other way as it is still an illegal substance. 

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One stat showed that in Colorado  47 children aged 0‐5 have died from an overdose of 

Marijuana and as you can see from the pictures I included how easy that would be to happen.  

 

Panel on Climate Change 

Binnu Jeyakumar from the Pembina institute gave a presentation on understanding Federal and 

Provincial Policy changes regarding Climate change. 

She spoke about the importance of economic diversification and opportunities. 

The importance of ensuring that the municipalities have bylaws that encourage responsible 

development. 

The importance of leveraging federal funding for innovative projects. 

Encourage innovative projects to help bring sustainability to communities through economic 

development and job opportunities. 

There was a picture of an electric garbage truck which would avoid carbon price on fuel, shelter 

from volatile gasoline prices, lower maintenance needs as well as quieter, less diesel emissions, 

reduced smell, improved driver and community health.   Interesting concept…… 

Wendy Booth from the Union of B.C. Municipalities 

In 2007 Climate Action moved to the top of the provincial agenda. 

Their goal was to reduce 33% of GHG emissions by 2020. 

There was about 1/3 of local governments that signed the Climate Action plan and today the 

majority of them have signed on. 

They had to commit to the goal of becoming carbon neutral and creating energy‐efficient 

communities. 

Three working groups were formed to develop policies and decide what the first steps were. 

Introduced $10.00 per tonne on fuels  to increase incrementally to $30.00 by 2012 

Back lash from local governments created a Special Resolutions to refund carbon tax paid to 

Climate Action Charter members. 

Amending polices has been ongoing over the last 10 years. 

 

There were about 18 people from rural municipalities in attendance and everyone that we spoke to was 

happy to see the rural represented at the caucus. 

We sat at a table with MLA Pat Stier and two mayors from the Nanton area. The mayor of Nanton 

shared how he started encouraging all of the neighboring communities to start to meet and build 

relationship They are now all helping out each other in areas where there is a shared need like snow 

plowing and garbage.  

 

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