Council Notes
From the regular meeting of Committee of the Whole Monday, March 29, 2016
Mayor Terry Yemen called the meeting to order.
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Councillor Tom Zariski spoke to Council about attending the Alberta Senior Communities & Housing Association (ASCHA) meeting on March 18. ASCHA represents 70% of the senior housing in Alberta, which houses over 30,000 seniors. There is now an online tool, to assist seniors with choosing their accommodations, housingdirectory.ascha.com, and this online site allows you to choose the area in which you want to live and the various amenities available at each seniors lodge. ASCHA’s main concerns and issues are the Provincial Housing Strategy, increasing costs at lodges, government relations, funding, budgets, infrastructure and stakeholder relations between Housing and Alberta Health Services. ASCHA energy program, powered by 8760, stated concerns on the increasing rates on natural gas and electrical utilities. Councillor Zariski also spoke of the valuable networking that was done with other communities.
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Meeting was adjourned.
