Carlyle Town Council discussed various topics at their bi-weekly meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 15.
Safety workshop
A safety training workshop for council members and Town of Carlyle staff will be hosted by Pinter & Associates. It will be a full day workshop.
New physician
Carlyle’s second doctor is expected to arrive in mid-March.
Land acquisition
The Town has purchased a portion of Stigings land in order to build a service road through the area.
Townfolio
Townfolio is a business, which provides research for the Town and would compile varying statistics on the community. For people looking to invest, build, or move to the area, this data would provide information on population, household income, number of dwellings, quality of life, etc… This information would then be embedded on the Town webpage. They use over 30 different municipal data sources to come up with the community profile. Typically each year the town administrator, Huguette Lutz, has developed a paper copy; but, the Townfolio project would be more comprehensive.
The Town is still discussing whether or not they want to use this service or not.
Contributions
With numerous locally hosted provincial youth competitions: youth curling last year, figure skating earlier this year, and Sask High School Association (SHA) Provincial Volleyball to be hosted this fall at G.F. Kells; the Town has decided that for a provincial tournament the town will donate $200 to the local host committee. An application for the donation will need to be submitted to the Town.
Asset Management Proposal
Although this has not yet been approved, Town Administrator – Huguette Lutz – explains that an Asset Management Proposal, an RFP, will needs to be completed. The Gas Tax Grant gives this community approximately $80,000 per year and as of March 21, 2018, access to the grant will be limited to communities with an Assessment Management Proposal. Communities without an Assessment Management Proposal will be unable to access the Gas Tax Grant.
Lutz would like to bring communities together to have the Assessment Management Proposal conducted as there would potentially be cost savings in communities working together. For example if Carlyle and another community had the assessment done together, they would each still be responsible for their own costs of maintenance in their own communities; the savings would come in having the assessment done together.
The assessment would map all of the Town’s assets: water mains, sewer mains, and roads are the main three they require you to start with and eventually it will encompass buildings, equipment, etc…
The company would come in and identify assets, mark the main three on a map, then identify the level of life left in the infrastructure. This allows communities to plan knowing that they will need certain funds to maintain or replace infrastructure according to a timeline.
Lutz explained that the asset/infrastructure deficit in any community is quite large and that this would assist in town planning and minimizing that deficit.
Council requested further information on the matter.
