Whitecourt Town Council briefs

Mar. 12 meeting

The Community Services Department presented its 2017 Year End Report to Council at the March 12 meeting.

The report is prepared annually to provide Council and the Community Services Advisory Board with an overview of programs and services offered, and records major projects and accomplishments achieved throughout the year. Highlights from the report include:

• 102,815 scanned visits at the Allan & Jean Millar Centre;

• 1,816 people participated in registered programs;

• 66,678 visits to the ASAP Heating & Well Servicing Fitness Centre and Rotary Running Track;

• 2,043 people participated in aquatics classes at the Alliance Pipeline Aquatic Centre;

• 1,489 people were assisted through the Whitecourt Food Bank;

• 1,606 children and 1,296 adults attended Parent Link & Early Childhood Development programs;

• 22,990 passengers were provided service on Public Transit – double from 2016.

• A complete copy of the report can be viewed on www.whitecourt.ca.

Alberta Infrastructure is proceeding with an addition to the front of the Courthouse at 5020 52 Avenue to allow for Sheriff transportation units to park within the building. The project is valued at approximately $2 million and construction is scheduled to start this spring.

Rowen Camps-Daly and Alyia Dibben are this year’s Mayor for a Day initiative winners! Both students will be shadowing Mayor Chichak and attending the next Regular Meeting of Council on March 26.

Council has changed the date for the Regular Meeting of Council in August to Tuesday, August 21.