New council gathers for first public meeting

Shannon LeClair

Times Reporter

 

The first meeting of the new town council commenced Oct. 27 and there was a request from council to have family members present at the swearing in. The first meeting was an organizational meeting to take care of a few things, such as figuring out who will sit on which committee. 

The deputy mayor is usually rotated every six months. For the first six months of this term, Councillor Bob Sobol will be the deputy mayor followed by Councillor John Rempel, which will bring them through to the next organizational meeting. 

The meeting times will remain the same as they were the previous term: the first and third Wednesday of every month, beginning at 7:30 p.m. All of the members must be part of the Subdivision Committee and the Disaster Services Committee. Council unanimously accepted the list of who is to serve on which committee. 

Residential Irrigation committee- John Rempel, 

Time capsule/Centennial Day- Bob Sobol, Rocky Blokland 

Municipal Library board- Pat Fule 

WADEMSA- Dave Hamilton, Rocky Blokland

Happy Gang – Earl Best 

WFCSS- John Rempel, Earl Best 

Wheatland Housing board- Earl Best, Pat Fule  

HandiBus association- Rocky Blokland 

Strathmore and District Chamber of Commerce- Dave Hamilton 

Family Centre Advisory Board- Bob Sobol 

Community Futures Wild Rose- Earl Best 

Communities In Bloom – Dave Hamilton 

Strathmore United Way- Steve Grajczyk 

Citizens on Patrol- Dave Hamilton

Strathmore Wheatland addictions team – Bob Sobol

Kinsmen Lake committee- while the committee and meeting times are not yet fully determined, councillors Hamilton and Fule volunteered their time to be a part of the committee. 

Bow River council – Rocky Blokland 

Names advisory committee- Earl Best, John Rempel

Strathmore and District Agricultural Society – Pat Fule 

Financial Audit Committee- Steve Grajczyk, Earl Best and Dave Hamilton 

Calgary Regional Planning partnership executive committee- Steve Grajczyk, Dwight Stanford will also attend some of the meetings for this committee, but there also have to be two other members going to the annual general meeting. For the two other people appointed, it can be either two councillors or one councillor and an administration staff member. Councillor Sobol has sat on the board for the Calgary Regional Partnership transportation committee, which is a subcommittee of the Calgary Regional Planning Committee. Sobol put his name in to continue to be a part of the executive committee, and Dave Hamilton also agreed to be a part of the committee.