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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
BEAVER COUNTY
(the “Municipality”)
IN THE PROVINCE OF ALBERTA
PROPOSED RESOLUTION REGARDING BEAVER MUNICIPAL SERVICES

 

To be held July 15, 2020 at 1:00 pm in Ryley, Alberta

PURSUANT to sections 75.1, 75.5, 230 and 606 of the Municipal Government Act, Revised Statutes of Alberta 2000, Chapter M-26, as amended and Section 3 of the Municipally Controlled Corporation Regulation, A.R. 112/2019, the Council of Beaver County, in the Province of Alberta hereby gives notice of its intention to incorporate and control a corporation pursuant to the Business Corporations Act.

THE PURPOSE of the proposed Resolution is:

A. Beaver County, Town of Tofield, Town of Viking, Village of Ryley and Village of Holden are the sole members of the Beaver Regional Waste Management Services Commission, also known as “Beaver Municipal Solutions”, (the “Commission”);

B. The Commission and the five municipal members, including the Municipality, wish to corporately reorganize the Commission, by transferring operations over to the proposed Claystone Waste Limited Partnership (the “New Waste Provider”), with these five municipalities being the sole partners in the New Waste Provider;

CAs the New Waste Provider is a limited partnership, a new municipally controlled corporation shall be created pursuant to the Business Corporations Act (“BCA”) to act as the General Partner of the New Waste Provider, to be called Claystone Waste L (the “MCC”). The same five municipalities will also be the only shareholders of the MCC;

D. The Municipality wishes to be a shareholder and jointly create and control the MCC under the BCA;

E.  Pursuant to both the terms of Division 9 of Part 3 of the Municipal Government Act (the “MGA”) and the Municipally Controlled Corporation Regulation (the “MCC Reg”), a municipality may only incorporate and control a corporation incorporated pursuant to the BCA if certain preliminary steps are taken, which include, but is not limited to, holding a public hearing as stated hereof;

F. The Council of the Municipality wishes to comply with all obligations under the MGA and the MCC Reg to cause the MCC to be incorporate

THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION will be disclosed at the public hearing:

(1)    the services the corporation and the New Waste Provider intends to provide;

(2)    the names of the five municipalities who will be the shareholders of the MCC;

(3)    the geographic locations in and outside Alberta in which the corporation intends to provide
        services;

(4)     the projected rate structure for the cost of service; and

(5)     the market impact analysis of the New Waste Provider’s provision of services

 

The public hearing will be held at 1:00 pm on Wednesday, July 15, 2020, at the Ryley Community

Centre at 5103-49 Street in Ryley, Alberta.

You are invited to attend the public hearing to express your views.

The materials to be discussed at the Public Hearing are accessible at the following link:

www.beaver.ab.ca.

If you wish to speak at the public hearing, please register in advance by contacting Beaver County, attention Cindy Cox, Executive Assistant, at 780-663-3730 or at cindy@beaver.ab.ca. Written submissions may be provided to Beaver County Council during the public hearing, however it is requested that a copy of the written submission be delivered to the Beaver County Service Centre on or before 4:00 pm, July 9, 2020.

If you submit comments regarding the bylaw in writing, the information you provide may be made public, subject to the provisions of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.

Cindy Cox Beaver County
Box 140
5120 50 Street
Ryley, AB   T0B 4A0 cindy@beaver.ab.ca

DATED at the Village of Ryley in the Province of Alberta this 25th day of June, 2020.