Sackville Town Council will meet on Monday March 8 for their monthly regular council meeting.
On the agenda are:
- Proclamations for April as poetry month, and also Mountie Day on March 25, an annual event in honour of Mount Allison Athletics which will see the Mountie flag raised at Town Hall.
- Funding support for two projects proposed via Renaissance Sackville, for CHMA-FM ($4,000 for a new broadcasting console), and for Hardscrabble Press ($1,730 for the purchase of a new metal printing type.)
- Support for an additional liquor license application by Levee on the Lake organizers.
- The waiving of fees for public skates at the Tantramar Civic Centre.
- Approving the purchase of new PPE gear for the fire department.
- First reading of By-law No. 278, “A By-Law to Regulate Purchasing, Leasing, Tendering and Disposal of Surplus Property, Equipment and Materials.” Staff have proposed an update to the by-law, last updated in 1997. Proposed changes includes increasing the maximum spending limits for staff expenditures to $25,000 for public works and $10,000 for other, and increasing the threshold for required public tendering to $100,000, as per New Brunswick’s provincial procurement act.
- Approval of the Town’s 2021 asphalt patching contract to Von Industries Limited of Berry Mills, for just over $280,000.
- Approval of the list of town streets to be resurfaced this year using gas tax funding (not including provincially designated highways, which are still up for funding approval from the province):
- Walker Road Final Phase, 350 Meters
- Morgan Lane (Base & Seal), 120 Meters
- Ogden Mill Rd Phase III, 400 Meters
- Crescent Street Phase II, 400 Meters
- Balser Place, 330 Meters
- Raworth Heights (Lower only), 260 Meters
- Wright Street (Base & Seal), 90 Meters
One item not on the agenda for Monday’s meeting is a proposed revision to Sackville’s streets bylaw which would have seen the ban on skateboards on town streets removed. That item will now come up for discussion at council’s April meeting.
There are two question periods on the agenda, one near the beginning of the meeting and one at the end.
Monday’s meeting begins at 7pm via Microsoft Teams or streamed on Youtube. Links are available here.
