County of St. Paul No 19

Council Meeting

Minutes

Meeting #:
Date:	Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Time:	11:00 A.m. - 11:00 A.m.
Location:	5015- 49 Avenue, St. Paul, AB T0A 3A4

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1.

Call to Order

The Special Meeting of the Council of the County of St. Paul was called to order by Deputy Reeve Cliff Martin at 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, September 22, 2015 at the County Office in St. Paul, there being present the following:

Councillor Glen Ockerman	Division 1
Councillor Cliff Martin	Division 3
Councillor Maxine Fodness	Division 4
Councillor Frank Sloan	Division 5
Councillor Laurent Amyotte	Division 6
Sheila Kitz	CAO
Phyllis Corbiere	Executive Assistant
Kyle Attanasio	Dir. Leg. & Comm Services
Dennis Bergheim	Agricultural Fieldman
Keith Kornelson	Assistant Ag Fieldman
Reeve Upham attended via Conference Call
Absent:
Councillor Dwight Dach	Division 2

2.

Additions to the Agenda and Acceptance of Agenda

Notice of the Special Meeting was posted in the County Office.  Councillors were informed of the meeting via letter, as per section 194(3) of the M.G.A.

• Resolution #SM20150922.1001

  Motion to adopt the agenda for the special meeting as presented.

  Carried

3.

Agenda Items

3.1

11:00 a.m. - Delegation, Glen Snethun, Senior Manager, AFSC

Glen Sneuthen, Senior Manager with AFSC, Jessie Cole, Research Analyst, and Connie Cherniwchan, with AFSC were admitted to the Council Room at 11:00 a.m. to give a presentation on crop insurance programs.  AFSC is currently reviewing the programs, in an effort to keep up with inflation.  The review process is triggered by stakeholders - industry groups, clients and government; environmental changes that could affect the program; increase in program costs; if it's been 5 years since the last review; and any other indication of an issue - decreasing participation rates.  Council was also informed that Clients can use their crops for any purpose at any time, that AFSC does not dictate that a client must harvest their crop and the client can use all or part of a crop for feed, which is a common misconception amount producers.  Following their presentation, the delegation left the Council Room at 12:30 p.m.

 

 

• Resolution #SM20150922.1002

  Motion to rescind Resolution No. CM20150811.1034 which stated that administration draft a resolution to bring to the AAMD&C Zone meeting regarding the Agriculture Assistance Programs.

  Carried

3.2

Resolution - Farm Assistance Programs

4.

Adjournment

Business on the agenda being concluded, Chairman C. Martin adjourned the meeting.

Time:  12:35 p.m.

These minutes approved this 13th day of October, 2015.

 

 

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Reeve                                                       Chief Administrative Officer