(minutes prepared by Brandice Bator)
Attendees
In attendance: Brandice Bator, Eric Bjornson, Nigel Kerr, Valerie Soltys, Julietta Hardiman
Regrets: Heather Howdle, Kristy Vermiere, Lawrence Bertram, Reghan Langston
Minutes
All members send following information directly to Valerie:
- full name
- mailing address
- residential address
Meeting time changed to 11:00AM on Tuesdays
Agenda rejections/additions:
- motion to accept agenda: Valerie, second: Nigel
Item 1: Adoption of March Minutes
- motion to accept: Eric, second: Nigel
Item 2: Admin assistant update
- Lawrence to put together description – push to next meeting
Item 3: Shop Local flyers
- printed and will go out soon
- surplus flyers will be delivered to store fronts that will have them
- South Mountain Press distribution?
- hope to do reprint with additional members
Item 4: New Memberships
- No new memberships or renewals in the last month
Item 5: Development at Otter Lake
- did a presentation for Eric to tell about project
- will Chamber be willing to support project?
Presentation by Trent, Gord, and Ben:
- must needed project – hard to find campsites anywhere
- 25/180 acres will be developed, located up higher
- treated water, sewer system, 50 amp service
- development plan – there is already a designated area as seasonal recreational, public hearing is amendment to the development plan - moving it from that property over to the property looking at putting the RV resort
- want water to come from the town, but capacity is limited from town. Treatment facility will have to go in – if going on town water, the development group would pay
- trees and pasture on this land right now – 80 ft. drop to the lake – would build on top of hill. 300ft. from lake
- tiered so that all sites will have a view of the lake
- plant more and maintain existing trees
- water runoff? Retention ponds? – engineers will have the last say on how to do that – already surveyed land
- will be a lot of greenspace on the lots
- no ATVs, but electric golf carts will be allowed
- environmental impact assessment? - Confident that they won’t be causing a problem, rather the other land use and development around the lake are causing the issues
- will talk to Burns Maendel about Environmental Impact Assessment
- timeline – ready to go as soon as we get approval
- staged project or all at once? – hope to get as much done at once as possible
- contacted Co-op for contractor’s information – will be using things “from the area (Manitoba)”
- traffic – accessed from the road by the Hydro station – think traffic will be minimized because it will be a seasonal rental not daily short term rentals
- intentions to provide dust control going down that road? – depends on the RM
- don’t intend to increase beyond 100 sites
- would like to plant a lot more trees on the property
- in-ground pool or fibreglass pool – would take pressure off the lake
- plan to put in docks, but would have to get approval from the province
- Brandice: there are still a lot of environmental concerns, were not forthright about the docks, need to do more work on the Environmental Impact Assessment
- Julietta: will there be mixed feelings from the other campground in Erickson?
- hard for the Chamber to take an official position – members can chose for themselves if they want to support or not support
- important to hear these presentations and pass down to members of the Chamber
Group Discussion:
- Nigel: it’s an excellent project, very well thought out, will increase traffic, but from a Chamber perspective – we shouldn’t be cherry picking projects that we’re going to support/not support, should be looking for Environmental Assessment
- Valerie: the negatives always come up quickly, but the positive supporters haven’t taken as much time to make their voices heard
Item 6: Swedish Cultural Days
- No discussion
Item 7: Ag Weather Station
- gave green light to province to set up station on north portion of chamber owned quarter
- talked to leasee – asked to not block access to field, but gave the go ahead to put it up
Item 8: Digital Marketing Workshop
- currently have 5 signed up, would be nice to have some more attendees
- Won’t be a ton to set up – Eric will reach out to ADKs and finalize the number on Thursday morning
- Valerie will be at the Legion to open it up and put coffee on
Item 9: Leda Lake
- Steve Langston gave presentation to Clanwilliam-Erickson proposal as the Active Transportation grant requires municipal partner – agreed, but are not able to provide monetary contribution at this time
- Active transportation proposal submitted by Score store for Phase 1
- Closing registration noon on Thursday
Item 10: LED Sign
Nigel brought forward proposal from Dave McDonald
not strong support for pursuing the purchase of the sign
will not be purchasing at this time, but open to future discussion about having it on Chamber land
Meeting adjourned at 13:25