Association Communautaire
Fallingbrook
Attendees: Phil McNeely,
Herb Kreling, Ted Macias, David Villeneuve, Jacques Devertevil, Eric
Tousignant, Marc Cappelli, Zybina Richards, George Blake, Brenda Spearman.
Regrets: Paul Pelletier,
Don Pottier
Subject
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Discussions/Decisions
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Agenda |
The agenda was changed
to add one item on the Neighborhood Watch Program. The agenda was then
accepted on a motion by Marc Cappelli and seconded by David Villeneuve. |
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Minutes |
The minutes were
approved on a motion by David Villeneuve and seconded by Brenda
Spearman. |
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Treasurer |
The Treasurer's report
was deferred to the February Meeting. . |
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Neighborhood Watch
Program |
Jacques Devertevil
made a presentation on the Neighborhood Watch program. If the FCA is
interested in establishing a program, there are volunteers who would be
interested in patrolling the community and hand out cards. The neighborhood
watch group will also provide information sessions and presentations. Jacques
pointed out that areas with this program have significantly less crime in the
USA (statistics not available in Canada). Marc Cappelli will pursue
re-establishing a program with Jacques. |
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Councilor McNeely |
·
Arts facility
funding has been established. ·
Petrie Island
funding is established. ·
Proposals for
ice surfaces are in. ·
No increase in
taxes this year. ·
Assessments are
up but the increase should have the same value for tax dollars. ·
Widening of
Innes will take place between 2003 and 2004. ·
An
environmental study will be starting to look at the Inner Ring Road project
through the South end. ·
There are
discussions around a sale of Hydro One. ·
The Cumberland
Ward Community Builders Award Night will take place on February 22 at the
R.J. Kennedy Memorial Centre, 1115 Dunning Road. |
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Councilor Kreling |
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The Police
Services Neighborhood Watch programs are up and running. ·
The public
meeting room is available to the Community at the new Police Station. ·
Corporate communications
is an item, which needs to be improved upon in order to relay accurate
information to the Community. ·
The City has
changed numerous bylaws into 12 City bylaws. ·
The Bylaw
regarding the smoking ban was supported by 75% of the are constituents. ·
Traffic issues
on Charlemagne and both entrances onto Princess Louise are being looked at. |
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Petrie Island |
David Villeneuve has
communicated a financial report for the Trillium grant to Petrie Island. |
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Canada Day |
The first planning meeting will take place
in February. George Blake received a $ 3,000.00 cheque for a Canada Day grant
from the City. |
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Rink Report |
Paul
provided this report: ·
Things are going very well. ·
It took a while to find someone for Maple Ridge but that got solved Jan
3. ·
Each rink took about a week to go from nothing to base ice to
skate-able by the public. ·
Gardenway took longer though because we had the valve snap twice in a
row (the second time a Friday night just before the weekend) and lost 5 days
flooding. Fallingbrook's pipes froze
last week but Denis Guertin form the city was in the next day to fix the
leaky valve. ·
All rinks have very good ice now and city staff has sent a couple of
emails indicating we have got the best they
have seen here in years. ·
We are accommodating five regular 1-hour reservations (mostly minor
hockey) in total and have booked the Guides for Feb 3. ·
We were hoping to put a pleasure rink on the Maple Ridge tennis courts,
but that was turned down last week. ·
So pleasure rink creation has started now right beside the hockey
rink. Until now they have had signage
that 1 to 3 on weekends was for pleasure skating only. ·
They also have re-instituted the old idea of kid's 8 and under hockey
for an hour a week. ·
Public seems quite happy and are also giving lots of compliments. Paul is very pleased with the dedication
of the three managers - they have been terrific! ·
Paul has looked at the sign proposal Marc got from a vendor but the
total for 3 was over $2,000. Paul feels we can get by with cheaper
laminated ones From Home Depot. |
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Newsletter |
The deadline for
newsletter submissions will be Feb. 27th. The newsletter will go
out in early March. |
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Open Discussion |
The Cumberland
Community Resource Centre gave us a plaque and their thanks for the FCA
contribution. Corporate Returns:
Every year we get the Corporate returns forms sent to a past President, (Sean Crossins) from
1995. We keep sending corrections to the Ministry however the changes are
never made. David Villeneuve has completed the forms and has sent them to the
appropriate person at the Ministry. A package of the corrections has also
been provided to the President and the Secretary for future reference. Volunteer Awards
Evening will be on April 26th.
Please start looking for recipients. A winter event for the
Community was suggested. |
Meeting adjourned at
9:30 p.m. Next meeting Monday, February
17, 2003 at 8:00p.m, the Ray Friel Centre Meeting Room.
Minutes prepared by
Brenda Spearman