Kenneth Brown
of The Clarion
The invoices are rolling in for the new aquatic centre and council has passed a resolution to allow invoices to be processed without prior council approval.
According to the resolution, council has given authorization to the administration to process and pay all certified progress payments and certified invoices related to the construction of the new aquatic centre when they become payable. The motion is in line with Bylaw 35-91.
The payments will be submitted for council review at the next regular meeting following the payment of said accounts. Bernie Morton, the town’s chief administrative officer (CAO), said the resolution will ensure the prompt payment of invoices for the project.
Morton said the builder, Pro-Bilt Structures Ltd., submits invoices to the town as progress is made. There is a process to review the invoices, and then they are sent to the CAO for a final review and to approve the payment.
He noted that as long as the invoices pass the process, cheques will be issued to the builder and the invoices will be brought to council for review. Morton said the prompt payment of invoices would ensure that delays in payment do not cost the town money, but the town has “a pretty rigorous process” in place to monitor the process.
Mayor Rod Perkins said he is confident in the town’s checks and balances, so it was just a matter of council passing the resolution to approve the process. He added that the town also has a committee of council members and the builder to monitor the process.
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• Council members have passed a resolution to request the Kindersley Regional Park Authority (KRPA) to make application to have its land boundaries altered.
The existing boundaries of the Kindersley Regional Park, aside from minor changes, have remained the same since 1968 when regional parks first came into existence in Saskatchewan. The town’s main recreational facilities are located on regional park land.
The West Central Events Centre (WCEC), four ball diamonds, new aquatics centre and a campground area are located on regional park land. All land within the regional park boundaries is owned by the Town of Kindersley, but the park authority has control over the land. However, the KRPA has never controlled land where the town’s recreation facilities are located.
Council passed a resolution to request the KRPA to apply to the minister of parks, culture and sport to alter the park’s current boundaries to remove the WCEC and its grounds from its control, though the lands have been operated and maintained by the Town of Kindersley.
Bernie Morton, the town’s CAO, said “excellent discussions” have taken place with the park board. He told council that the WCEC grounds were included in the regional park in 1968 as a way to access funding for recreation projects.
Grant funds were available to regional parks early on because they were just starting up in the province. Morton said the WCEC and its grounds are entirely operated by the municipality and its partners such as Kindersley Minor Ball, so the first order of business with KRPA is to revert lands the park does not want back to the municipality.
Councillor Randy Ervine, council’s representative on the KRPA board, said several people would not even know the WCEC and new aquatic centre are on regional park land. He said the KRPA just wants the lands it controls now and he believes the change is in everybody’s best interests.
• Council has awarded the town’s 2018 recycled concrete and asphalt crushing tender and an official says the cost is much lower than it has been in past years.
Kim Vogel, the town’s director of transportation and environment, said the town received a total of three submissions from companies and the administration is recommending that council award the crushing tender to Southern Coring & Cutting Services Ltd.
She noted that the company’s price for crushing materials is only $5.70 per ton and the tender price is a lot lower than in previous years. The cost was $22 per ton when the town last awarded a tender for concrete and asphalt crushing. According to Vogel, the lowest price since 2013 has been $17 per ton.
Vogel said all three tenders were much lower than the $22 per ton in 2016, but she was recommending that the tender be awarded to Southern Coring & Cutting Services. The town uses the crushed concrete and asphalt as aggregate to include in a road base.
Bernie Morton, the town’s CAO, said using crushed concrete and asphalt as an aggregate material for a road base is an “operational efficiency.” He added that other communities have to purchase and haul aggregate materials for new road base. The crushed material is also used in back alleys.
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