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Adopted As Amended. CARRIED Minutes Meetin Regular Council Date 2 July 2019 Time 7:00 PM Place Munici al Hall - Council Chambers Present Mayor Martin Davis Councillor Bill Elder Councillor Sarah Fowler Councillor Lynda Llewellyn Councillor Josh Lambert MarkTatchell, Chief Administrative Officer Janet StDenis, Finance & Corporate Services Manager Public 9 members of the public A. Call to Order Mayor Davis called the meeting to order at 7:01 p. m. Mayor Davis acknowledged and respected that Council is meeting upon Mowachaht/ Muchalaht territory B. Introduction of Late Items and A enda Chan es Delegation "01" to be removed. C. A rovalof the A enda Fowler/Elder: VOT 342/2019 THAT the Agenda for the July 2, 2019 Regular Council meeting be adopted as amended. CARRIED D. Petitions and Dele ations Josie Miladinovic, Tahsis Community Paramedic Re: Community Paramedic Program Good Evening Mayor, Council and staff, Thank you for the opportunity to share information with you tonight about the Community Paramedicine in Tahsis. My name isJosie Miladinovic, I am a Tahsis paramedicand I am the newly certified community paramedicfor Tahsis and here with me tonight is my mentor Rachelle Cole, the community paramedic attached to the Uculet Station which was also 1 of 9 first prototype communities in BC over 3 years ago. We are now 1 of 99 rural and remote communities to receive a community paramedic. Community Paramedicine is not a new concept as it has been practiced for decades in many provinces and countries around the world. However in BC we are just over 3 years into establishingour program and are 95% to capacityin our first phaseas an additionto rural and remote care. Our mandates are community education, outreach and awareness, health promotion, wellness checks and clinics. Although Community Paramedicine is in the infancy stage for our organization we already have many tools under our belts including home health monitoring and we are always expanding and updating our knowledge to include not only chronic health issues but more recently we have added palliative care training and as with all paramedics in BC mental health. We are looking forward to an expansion of our scope to even further serve our communities in the months and years to come. I look forward to collaborating with all the disciplines and services providers in our community along with all interest groups, stake holders and partners. Thank you, Fowler/Llewellyn: VOT 343/2019 THAT this presentation be received. CARRIED E. Public In utffl Members of Ecologic Environmental Consultants introduced themselves to Mayor, Council and Staffand gave an update on the McKelvie Watershed Assessment Project. A member of the public complained aboutthe words used by a council member at the previous meeting. F. Ado tion of the Minutes 1 Minutes of the Regular Council meeting held on June 18th, 2019 Llewellyn/Elder: VOT 344/2019 THATthe RegularCouncil meeting minutes of June 18, 2019 adopted as presented. CARRIED G. Rise and Re art None. H. Business Arisin Island Coastal Economic Trust (ICET) - Economic Infrastructure and Innovation Program (Stage 2) Grant Application A brief discussion followed. Llewellyn/Fowler: VOT 345/2019 THAT this Report to Council and draft grant application be received. CARRIED Fowler/Elder: VOT 346/2019 THAT Council approve the grant application as prepared by staff and CARRIED submit it to ICET Municipal Finance Authority of BC (MFABC) Re: Updating List of Authorized Signers Llewellyn/Elder: VOT 347/2019 THAT this information be received. CARRIED llewellyn/Elder VOT 348/2019 THAT Randy Taylor and Jude Schooner be removed from list "A" as signing authorities for the Village ofTahsis. CARRIED Llewetlyn/Elder: VOT 349/2019 THAT Mayor Martin Davis, Deputy Mayor Sarah Fowler and CAO Mark Tatchell be added to list "A" as signing authorities for the Village of Tahsis. CARRIED 3 Service Provider Agreement for Climbing Wall Volunteers Llewellyn/Fowter: VOT 350/2019 THAT Council agree to provide liability insurance for contract volunteers who form the Climbing Wall Volunteers, through the Municipal Insurance Association's Associate Member Program; AND THAT Council authorize the Director of Finance to enter into Service Provider Agreements with individual volunteers for the provision of liability insurance through the Village's liability insurance held with the Municipal Insurance Association of British Columbia. CARRIED J. Council Re arts Ma or Davis (verbal Report) I did attend a webinar regarding Powell River and their interactions with the community of Powell River and the local First Nations there. It was very interesting. I was looking for insight into how they work their community forests there and apparently they are two separate community forests so they have not exactly integrated them. First Nations want to buy Powell River's Community Forest. That's all I got from that. We had a Canada Day celebration which was wonderful. I got to give a speech and hand out cake. Councillor Elder No report Councillor Fowler (written Report) My report July 2, 2019 is heavy with academic reports from scientific journals. But first, this is summer! We had our annual Canada Day Trivia Contest and sing-a-long. It was a honour to attend the delicious dinner put together by Sally for VIHA's Rural Site Visit Project. My big take away was that Cartes Island is doing some private care called home care plus. I think we could try to explore here. The summary of a report released February 13, 2019 read 'it has been identified that relationships are a foundation part of rural health.' Secondly, I received the following information from Uu-a-thulk fisheries program with respect to the drought conditions due to low water flow. Please include the documents for the minutes of public record of fishery sensitive watersheds These Pacific Northwest papers demonstrate forestry effects and ask larger questions about water demand. Mathew Bayly of Ecofish research group, a environmental consultant with a specialist in fish habitat modeling. 'I've seen increasing evidence of current FRPA legislation failing to identify, monitor and manage cumulative effects to fish habitat at the watershed scale.' Leiner river, Perry river, Tahsis River area km square 116 average elevation meter's 744 712 691 H60 Elevation meter's 860 819 838 average slope % 71. 8 69.1 68.5 road density for entire FSW km 0. 67 1. 19 0. 20 road density <100m from a stream km2 0. 35 0. 64 0.07 road density on slopes >60% km2 0. 16 0. 34 0. 01 stream crossing density #/km square 2. 41 5. 13 0. 08 portion of stream disturbed km/ 0. 04 0. 06 0. 00 portion of fish bearing streams 0 (5 attachments) LG\\n(-\'~w -\ u^->\u» G. ^rt'i'Ckw1^ HYDROLOGICALPROCESSES Hydrol. Process. (2015) Published online in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlindibraiy. com) DOI: 10. 1002/hyp. l0726 A 477-year dendrohydrological assessment of drought severity Bethany Coulthard* and Dan J. Smith University of Virtoriu Tree-Ring Laboratory, Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada Abstract: Summer strcamflow droughts are becoming more severe in many watersheds on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, as a result of climate wanning. Small coastal basins that are the primary water source for most communities and essential to Pacific salmon populations have been particularly affected. Because the most extreme naturally occurring droughts are rarely captured within shortinstrumental records water managers likely underestimate, and areunprepared for, worst-casescenario low flows. To provide a long-term perspective on recent droughts on Vancouver Island, we developed a 477-year long dendrohydrological reconstruction of summerstreamflow forTsable River based on a network ofannual tree-ring width data. A novel aspect ofour study is the useof conifertrees that areenergy limited by spring snowmelt timing. Explaining63% of the instrumental streamflow variability, to our knowledge the reconstruction is the longest of its kind in British Columbia. We demonstrate that targeting the summer streamflow component derived from snowmell is powerful for determining drought-season discharge in hybrid runoff regimes, and we suggest that this approach may be applied to small watersheds in temperate environments that are not . usually conducive to dendrohydrology. Our findings suggest that since 1520, 21 droughts occurred that were more extreme than recent 'severe' events like those in 2003 and 2009. Recent droughts are therefore not anomalous relative to the -400-year pre-instramental record and should be anticipated within water management strategies. In coming decades, worst-case scenario natural droughts compounded by land use change and climate change could result in droughts more severe than any since 1520. The influence of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation on instmmental and modelled Tsable River summer streamflow is likely linked to the enhanced role of snowmelt in determining summer dischargeduring cool phases. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. KEY WORDS dendrohydrology; drought; low flows; water management; Vancouver Island; British Columbia Received 4 May 20]5: Accepted 11 October 2015 INTRODUCTION communities on Vancouver Island, B. C., and are also the most vulnerable to summer water shortages British Columbia's (B. C. ) temperate rainforest coast is (Rodenhuis et al., 2007). Both snowmelt and rainfall considered water-rich, but seasonal water scarcity and contribute substantially to annual streamflow in hybrid streamflow drought often occur during summer when watersheds (Baton and Moore, 2010). The likelihood of demand for water is highest and storage is limited (Stephens et al., 1992). In 2014 and 2015 many streams protracted drought under future climate conditions makes experienced droughts that were more severe than any on an accurate understanding ofworst-case scenario droughts, record (B. C. Mmistry of Forests, Lands and Natural based on long-term natural variability, crucial for effective Resource Operations, 2014; B.C. River Forecast Centre, water management in these basins (Pike et af., 2010).
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