Council Highlights: March 24, 2025
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PLEASE NOTE: Council highlights are not official meeting minutes. They are a summary of decisions and information from a Regular Council meeting. The meeting minutes are presented for adoption at the next Regular Council meeting.
PROCLAMATIONS
- Deputy Mayor Jas Payne proclaims the week of April 27-May 3, to be Volunteer Week in the Town of Sylvan Lake
- Deputy Mayor Jas Payne proclaims May 15, 2025, to be Moose Hide Campaign Day in the Town of Sylvan Lake
POLICY REPEAL
- Council repeals the Operating Surplus Allocation Policy F-003-013
FIRST READING
Council grants first reading to Bylaw 1920/2025, being a bylaw to amend the Town’s Land Use Bylaw to add Commercial School as a Discretionary Use within the Medium Density Residential District (R2) on Lot 11, Block 8, Plan 242 0906; sets April 28, 2025, at 6:00PM in Council Chambers as the date, time and place for the public hearing on Bylaw 1920/2025
LIBRARY BOARD
- Council appoints Mariah Dutton, Susan Samson, Corinne Pauluk and Jessica McMurran to the Sylvan Lake Municipal Library Board for a term to expire October 31, 2027
PAY PARKING
- Council instructs staff to explore paid parking on 50 Ave and Pogadl Park
TENDER AWARDS
- Council awards the Swimming Pool Filter Tank Replacement Project to Automated Aquatics Canada LTD of Edmonton, Alberta for the amount not exceeding $747,884.00 excluding GST
- Council awards the tender for the 2025 Roadway Rehabilitation Program to Border Paving Limited of Red Deer, Alberta, for an amount not to exceed $222,000, including $40,000 contingency and excluding the GST
BUDGET
Council amends the 2025 Budget by updating operating and capital projects to include carryovers from prior years and reallocating the budget to CP2408 for $160,000.00
Council directs administration to communicate to the public that assessment numbers have changed the discussion around the budget and further more that administration communicate preferred Option 1 to the public as well as all six options in Report AIR-1125; and further that Council table the decision on Report AIR-1125 to the Regular Meeting of April 14, 2025
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Council approves the request to release the developer’s obligation to the identified social care sites in the Sixty West and Crestview neighbourhoods
Council approves the Secondary Suite Loan Program and authorizes Administration to begin implementing the program; and pprove the Secondary Suite Loan Program Management Agreement as presented in AIR-1118; and approves an initial grant to the Homes For Sylvan Foundation from the Town in the amount of $170,000 funded by the Housing Accelerator Fund dollars received to date from CMHC to support the Secondary Suite Loan Program
E-SCOOTERS
- Council approves Administrations' request to execute the 2025-2027 operator agreement with Neuron Mobility to provide e-scooter services in Sylvan Lake