I was most honoured to be elected as your mayor. I resumed as chair of the meeting and called for nominations for deputy mayor. Two councillors were nominated.
There became the interesting problem. Because there are only four of us, a tie vote was a certainty. We could find nothing in the MGA as guidelines for this situation so we decided to hold off on the vote until we get clarification from Municipal Affairs as to how to proceed.
I've heard of some municipal councils in this province having to badger and coerce their councillors to assume the executive roles so this is a good problem to have. I just want to be sure our election of a Deputy Mayor is absolutely fair. Stay tuned on this one!
Congrats are in order and a question. Are you going to maintain your sanity in this new job :)
ReplyDeleteHi Anonymous: Thanks for the kind words. My sanity has been in question many times since I was elected to council so I don't anticipate any changes.
DeleteMr Mayor,
ReplyDeleteWow that was formal.
I have been trying for a couple years now to get the traffic slowed down coming to us on highway 72. We have this year got more presence from the D.O.T giving tickets. But even for them it is confussing because of the multiple hours on the school zone sign. I have e-mailed the minister of transport to change the sign to play ground zone and that would make it 7 days a week from dawn to dusk. Much easier. But I need more people making that request from the minister. There have been semi trucks cloacked faster than 150 going threw here. Can you imsgine that truck trying to stop as a child tries to cross to the school playground? Please everyone e-mail the minister of transport or our own MLA Bruce Rowe and get this done.
There has been no accident here since we moved to Beiseker but I would not like to be here if there ever is one.
Leo - Please see my blog post on this very subject, posted today: Goin' Fast on North Road!
DeleteThanks for your comment and your work on this, already!
I guess I am just dissapointed in the non action on the train station brought into the Village. I was told before it came to the village that the people in charge of the whole thing would be here when the building was on site to tell us their plans. Well that did not happen. What is the truth behind it all? Is it going to become a TAX burden to the village? It was a very good idea but it seems the planning and organization is wanting of leadership or something.
ReplyDeleteRay, is the council going to let the building go to waste like all the equipment rusting? It does the village no good especially when the Village fines people for not keeping their yards clean.
I thought Fred Walters was one of the principal people in the Railway Museum Society, and was the main person involved in getting the station moved to Beiseker.
DeleteFred has been quoted in the Rocky View Weekly about the status of the Bassano train station, not too long ago - Restoration of train station continues in Beiseker