Council notes collected from the regular meeting of Feb. 22, 2010. Councillors Joseph Hughes, Lenn Heppner and Cam Leitch attended by telephone.
In anticipation of the Kraft Hockeyville top 10 decision coming March 8, Andrea Coates has asked village council to keep the ice on in the arena for an extra week.
Coates wrote to the village that if we are listed in the top 10, CBC television will visit Nakusp for a nation-wide broadcast on March 19.
“The Nakusp is Hockeyville campaign and Nakusp Minor Hockey would like to request the use of the Arena Complex to host this special event if needed,” Coates wrote.
Village council agreed to extend the ice for another week in support of the village’s Hockeyville bid.
Historical Society and library working together
The Arrow Lakes Historical Society is moving forward on their new building to be added on to the existing Nakusp Public Library.
The only hitch they’ve discovered is the add-on at the back of the library would drastically slow down construction time.
Because of this, the historical society has asked to demolish the add-on and then rebuild it for the library once construction is complete.
The library said they were fine with this as long as they promised the add-on be rebuilt. It currently is used to store extra items for the library.
Coun. Ulli Mueller, who is working with both groups on this matter, said she met with the two parties and they both want the project to go ahead.
“It’s being handled,” Mueller said. “Everyone is happy.”
Coun. Mueller excused herself after her report, declaring a conflict.
Village council then agreed to have the add-on demolished for the duration of construction and rebuilt upon its completion.
Village looking into chamber fee for
service cost
Nakusp village council has asked acting CAO Linda Tynan to research villages and areas relative to Nakusp’s size to determine the general cost to run the chamber of commerce.
The issue stems from the chamber having to shut down its services for the winter due to a lack of funding.
The Province has also told the chamber they must work more hours for the same amount of pay.
The chamber maintains they’ve been hurting enough as it is, and unless they can get some more funding from the village, they don’t know what to do.
Tynan said the information will be available at the next council meeting on March 8.
Nakusp joins BizPal initiative
Prospective business owners rejoice as Nakusp village council has opted into a new online tool titled BizPal.
The initiative would put a bunch of information online for small business operators to look at and take off, instead of taking up staff time.
The information posted is up to the village, but can include licenses, permits and rules of the village. Maintenance is taken care of by the Provincial government.
Council unanimously agreed to join the program, and staff will be working on uploading the information as soon as possible.
Snow plowing route could be revamped
Village council might change the snow-plowing route to help out elderly tenants in such buildings as the Rotary Villa.
This comes as a response from the Arrowtarian Senior Citizens Society who wrote to council explaining the problem.
“We realize that alleys are not a priority but for half of our tenants the alley is their main entrance to their units,” Trish Cannon, village manager, wrote in. “Becuase the alley is the main access to their units, there is a safety issue. Would the ambulance or the fire department be able to access our tenants?”
Coun. Cam Leitch said there are about 10 to 20 residents who use alleyways that he knows of, so as long as the village makes the alleys the top priority after primary removal, he can’t support it.
Nakusp mayor Karen Hamling was hesitant to change the route since she doesn’t know if this will be a major change for the public works department or a minor one.
Council agreed to meet with the public works department to see how difficult this change would be before agreeing to change things around.