District of 100 Mile House Council unanimously approved the 2025 Council meeting schedule.
Council has scheduled Council meetings for 2025 on Jan. 14 and 28, Feb. 11 and 25, March 11 and 25, Apr. 8 and 22, May 6, June 10, July 8, Aug. 12, Sept. 9, Oct. 14 and 28, Nov. 25, and Dec. 9. Committee of the Whole meetings are set for Jan. 28, Feb. 11, May 6, Oct. 14 and 28 and Nov. 25.
Council meetings are scheduled to start on 5:30 p.m. on the day of the meeting, while Committee of the Whole meetings are scheduled to start at 5:00 p.m.
Development Corporation meetings will be held on a "as need basis" according to the schedule notice by the District of 100 Mile House, with meeting notice being posted in advance on the District website and notice board.
District of 100 Mile House unanimously votes to receive Commissionaires Report for November 2024
According to the report by J. Suggitt, during the month, four requests for service were received: a barking dog complaint, an incident at the dog park, a fire on the stage of Centennial Park, and a lost dog being reunited with its owner after a call from a resident. Other issues dealt with in November included parking, commercial property clean-up, a business licence application being delivered, and business sign issues.
Coun. Donna Barnett stated that the parking situation has not improved in front of the Red Cross building.
Third Street to be closed for What's Hoppening 100 Mile
The District of 100 Mile House has unanimously voted to authorize the temporary closure of Third Street from Birch Avenue east to the intersecting roadway behind the 100 Mile Community Hall on April 12, 2025, between 7 a.m. and 3 p.m.
The closure is for the 2025 What's Hoppening 100 Mile Easter event that is set to be held on that date, and was requested in a letter by Barnett, the manager of the South Cariboo Chamber of Commerce.
Barnett stated that she was not in conflict during the discussion.
District adopts new fees and charges bylaw
The District of 100 Mile House has unanimously voted to adopt Fees and Charges Bylaw No. 1434, 2024.
The bylaw "establish fees and charges for goods and services provided by the District of 100 Mile House" according to the document attached to the Council agenda. The bylaw's new changes include removing the charge for collector's certificate for transport purposes and increasing several fees and costs the district is in charge of.
This includes hiking the cost of the re-plan checking fee from $100 to $500, increasing the free for unfinished mobile home additions to $150.00 per square foot while finished ones are $200.00 per square foot, increases the Inspection Fee Cost Recovery to $300 per occurrence and introducing a new Cross Connection Control fees and an Electric Vehicle Charger Fee of two dollars per hour.
Numerous other fee changes were also adopted at the same time.
District reads new cemetery bylaw three times
The District of 100 Mile House has unanimously voted to read the cemetery bylaw three times.
In a report prepared by Sheena Elias, the Director of Finance for the District of 100 Mile House, she told them the current Cemetery Bylaw 1341 2019 had been amended four times. The new bylaw seeks to include all four previous amendments, as well as a couple of housekeeping updates on fees.
One of the changes to the bylaw is that winter burial fees are charged between Nov. 15th and Mar. 15th each year at the direction of the Director of Community Services.
District of 100 Mile House Mayor Maureen Pinkney commented that costs just kept going up.
