Town council has clarified a couple of issues between itself and the firefighters concerning ownership of property.
During its regular meeting of September 11, town council said the firefighters “need to donate the quad trailer to the Town of Kamsack for use by the fire department or remove the trailer from town property.”
The firefighters raise funds for various purposes including the purchase of firefighting equipment, council said. The Kamsack Volunteer Fire Fighters purchased a trailer for the quad with funds from its fundraising activities and in the past equipment purchased by the firefighters has been donated to the Town (fire department).
However, in this instance the firefighters are requesting the Town purchase the trailer from them, but the budget did not include funding to purchase a quad trailer, council said in the resolution.
Because work and timelines required to make the recently-purchased rescue truck operational were far greater than anticipated, council decided that if the firefighters cannot complete the work by September 30, council authorizes the town mechanic to complete the necessary installation and upgrades to make the rescue truck operational.
Council agreed that a second callout on September 1 to a structure fire at House No. 67 on Cote First Nation is to be considered part of the initial call and not be invoiced separately.
This decision provides a large saving for Cote, Mayor Nancy Brunt explained following the meeting.
Council acknowledged a presentation by Ethan Richardson of Saskatoon on the findings from the Environmental Site Assessment Phase II study done at the Kamsack landfill and instructed administration to forward the final report and a corrective action plan to the Ministry of the Environment as soon as one can be developed.
Council was pleased to have learned that the municipal landfill is not as bad as we thought,” Brunt said. “We will be able to keep it going for a while because the study indicates that it is not a priority for attention.”
Brunt said that there is leachate (contaminated liquid) in the garbage pile which will be channeled into a nearby sewage lagoon.
It was agreed to drain the off-stream reservoir into the river after all testing and required permits are received from the Ministry of the Environment.
Council decided that the current policy of reimbursing homeowners $50 for roots removed from their sewer lines will be expanded to also provide the homeowner with a treatment of Rootx the following spring at no charge. The Rootx treatment is valued at about $50.
Because no changes are required to the current investment strategy in the community’s waterworks, council agreed that water and sewer rates will not be increased at this time.
It was decided to utilize the remainder of the 2017 revitalization budget to purchase as many trees as possible to delineate the walking trail, to replace elms that were removed from town property because of Dutch elm disease and to use in the sportsgrounds.
Council issued a request for quotations for insurance for 2018.
