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Meeting of 10 May 2016
Present: Loreto Doyle,
Ian Green, Merrill MacInnis, Anne-Claude Pépin, Rosie Smith,
Yvonne van der Zanden, Paul Weinberg, Jitka Zgola
Regrets: Vince
Forrestall, Angelo Spinazzola
- Call to order
- Approval of agenda as amended (moved: Loreto;
seconded:
Ian; carried.)
- Approve minutes of the meeting of 5 April 2016
(moved: Yvonne;
seconded:
Anne-Claude; carried.)
- Special Reports
- Connect2 grant and Active
Transportation Plan
- Vince Forrestall, County Physical Activity
Coordinator, submitted some information on the Connect2
grant programme, which seems more suited for urban areas but is also
intended for rural areas. This programme provides funds to develop
2-kilometre active transportation corridors between key community
locations. Recreational trails cannot be funded through the programme.
Half of project funding is provided by the grant programme, and the
remainder by the applying organisation. It is unclear whether our
portion can include in-kind contributions. Education and awareness
can be one component of eligible projects.
- Merrill and Vince have not discussed the Connect2
grant programme and how it may interact with the County's Active
Transportation Plan, and Merrill indicated that the subject has not
come up in Council.
- Strait Area Transit
- The transit service contract has not been renewed,
as there were too few passengers taking advantage of the service (1.1
passengers/day between Baddeck and Whycocomagh). The dial-a-ride
project is not going to be approved, due to the high cost and
anticipated low demand.
- Re-use Shed
- A $493,000 capital project is in place for the County's
solid waste facility in Baddeck, and a re-use shed (where usable items
can be placed and exchanged instead of scrapping them) is one component
of this project. The project will be completed within the next year, with a
new scale being installed first. The re-use shed will be located before the
scale, so users will not be entering the facility. There will be no staff
designated to oversee the shed.
- Financial Report (Anne-Claude)
- The current bank balance is $9,659.
- Since 1 April:
- A cheque for $1,000 was given to Terrie Zweep, along
with a cover letter, to accept a contact link from the community web site
to the Facebook site she is operating (letter appended to these minutes
as
Appendix 1).
- A grant of $3,000 was received from the County
for tourism marketing via our community web site
- A $750 installment was paid to Lisa Finney as
our listings coordinator, to sign up businesses to the community
web site
- $143 was paid to the Dancing Moose Cafe for
AGM refreshments
- $200 was paid to Ian McNeil for facilitating the
AGM roundtable discussions
- $60 was paid to the United Church for renting
the Tea Room for the AGM
- Some of the money included in the total bank
balance is allocated to specific spending. This will be reported on at
our next meeting.
- Motion: to accept
the financial report as read (moved:
Paul; seconded:
Ian; carried.)
- Action: Loreto will
resend to Anne-Claude the list of funds from grants that are allocated to
specific projects.
- Old Business
- Community web site update
- There is not much change to the web site in the past
month or two, with few new listings.
- Action: Anne-Claude
will talk to Lisa, our listings coordinator, and ask her for an update on the
project, to be distributed to the board. She will ask for another update
in time for the next board meeting.
- Facebook update
- No one has tried the Facebook button on the community
web site to see if it directs to the St Ann’s Community Facebook page.
- Action: Anne-Claude
will follow up with Angelo and make sure the pages are linked properly.
- Community survey
- Today is the final day the survey will be open. There were
38 responses as of a few days ago. Tom Wilson will submit the responses to
Jitka after the end of today.
- Action: Jitka will
distribute the responses to the board.
- Action: Rosie will
use a random number generator to select a prize winner.
- New Business
- Tips for Effective Meetings seminar
- This programme from Business Cape Breton
would be made available at an evening meeting, from 6:30 to 8 pm. Jitka
has invited other organisations and received a few responses. Fifteen
participants are required. An invitation will be sent to the community at
large once a date is selected.
- Action: Loreto will
ask the seminar instructors to pick an evening that works for them during
the week of May 30.
- Action: When a date
has been agreed, Jitka will send an invitation to the Events sheet, advertising
the seminar.
- Cruise ship passengers/tourism
- Loreto is arranging for Bernadette MacNeil, Marketing
Manager for Port of Sydney, to talk to the community about cruise ship lines
and what they and their passengers are looking for that our community may
be able to offer. This community can only accommodate cruise ship passengers
in small numbers and with enough advance notice, and the board was unsure if
there would be value in trying to attract cruise ship passengers to
the area.
- Action: Loreto will
book a meeting with Ms MacNeil.
- Land bank initiative
- Merrill has been asked to be a representative at meetings
to discuss land banks, which would set aside land to be used for
agricultural purposes.
- Letter of support for Re-use Shed
- Jitka submitted a letter to the County on SABDA's behalf in
support of the Re-use Shed at the Baddeck Transfer Station.
- Business training programmes
- Betty MacKenzie of the Department of Labour and Advanced
Education has asked whether we want to host more business training programmes
in the community. This is the time of year that they allocate funds. We can apply
for funding for a programme now, and offer the training at a later date this year.
As of right now, the 40-hour training sessions are still free to attend. It was agreed
that we would apply for funding.
- Action: Loreto will
liaise with Betty and let her know that we are interested in applying.
- Letter of support for Excellence in Community
Programming award application
- The Health Centre is preparing an application, based on the
Arts Builds Community project, for the
Governor General's History Award for Excellence in
Community Programming. They ask for our support.
- Action: Jitka will draft and
submit a letter of support on our behalf.
- Next Meeting
- The next meeting will be Tuesday 7 June
at 7:00 at Cabot Shores.
- Action: Jitka will send a
notice to the Events sheet.
- Meeting Adjourned (moved:
Ian; seconded: Paul)
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