Municipal News

NOTICE 

MEETING:               St Mary’s Municipal Council

                                  Committee of the Whole

DATE:                       Wednesday, May 21^st, 2025

TIME:                       6:15pm (Immediately following the Council meeting)

PLACE:                     St. Mary’s Municipality

                                  Council Chambers, Sherbrooke, NS

1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Additions to the Agenda
4. Approval of the Agenda
5. Approval of Minutes: COTW held May 7^th, 2025
6. Business Arising from Minutes
7. Correspondence:
   a. Letter Received Regarding Mi’kmaq Burial Grounds
   b. Letter Received Regarding Cell Tower – Indian Harbour Lake
   c. Community First Guysborough Housing Association
8. Presentation: RCMP, D’Arcy Doucette – Quarterly Update
9. Other Matters of Business
   a. Basic Income Guarantee Support Letter
   b. Tourism Website Launch/Reveal – Verbal
   c. Volunteer of the Year Nomination
   d. IDEAA Applicants
   e. General Government Grants
   f.  Road Names – Archibald Lake
   g. Transfer Station Fees - Construction & Demolition
   h. Recplex Compressors
   i. Inflow and Infiltration Phase 3 Chemical Grouting
   j. Selection of Code of Conduct Investigator

Adjournment

NOTICE

MEETING:         Regular Council Meeting

DATE:                Wednesday, May 21^st, 2025

TIME:                 6:00pm

PLACE:              Council Chambers, 8296 Highway 7, Sherbrooke

1. Call to Order
2. Roll Call
3. Additions to the Agenda
4. Approval of the Agenda
5. Approval of Minutes from:
   a.Annual General Meeting (AGM) held: April 2^nd, 2025
   b. Emergency Council meeting held: April 15^th, 2025
   c. Council meeting held: April 16^th, 2025
   d. Special Council meeting held: May 7^th, 2025

6. Business Arising from Minutes
7. Recommendations from Committees of Council:
   a. COTW held April 16^th, 2025
   b. COTW held May 7^th, 2025
8. Outside Committee Reports
   a. Guysborough Community Health Board – March 2025
   b. Eastern Region Solid Waste Management Committee – April 2025
   c. Guysborough Community Health Board – May 2025
9. Other Matters of Business
10. CAO Report

Adjournment

A 10-minute question and answer period pertaining to agenda items.

Culture Club Sherbrooke
Presents: “Literature Event” Book Reading with Linda Johns and Jeff Parker.
Both will tell the story from conception to completion
Sunday May 18, 7:00pm – 8:00pm, RSVP by Friday May 16!
In “STRONG ROOTS, Drawings and Thoughts in Praise of Trees” Linda Johns weaves together narrative prose and black and white drawings to highlight the remarkable resilience and brilliance of trees as “elemental caregivers”.
Linda Johns is a well-known professional writer and artist, as well as a naturalist. “Strong Roots” is Linda Johns’ seventeenth published book, written from the solitude of rural Nova Scotia.
Admission free – Donations welcome
17 Main Street, Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia, B0J 3C0 Phone: (902) 318-1699 Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Website: www.cultureclubsherbrooke.com 

The Municipality of the District of St. Mary’s is participating in Emergency Preparedness Week (May 4-10) in collaboration with the Department of Emergency Management.

Do You Have an Emergency kit?

Be prepared for at least 72 hours without power or running water during an emergency.
An emergency kit can help. Learn how to build one at https://novascotia.ca/.../emergency-kit-checklist-en.pdf
Emergency Kit When there’s an emergency like a bad winter storm, a hurricane, or a fire it’s important to be prepared. You need to be able to look after yourself and your family for the first 72 hours. Having an emergency kit prepared will help get you through the situation.

Things to remember when preparing an emergency kit:
• the kit should be easy to carry
• everyone in the household should know where it is
• check your kit twice a year and replace anything that is out of date
• replace the food and water once a year Things to include:
• your emergency plan
• at least 6 litres of water per person (2 litres per day)
• food that won’t spoil and that you can eat without cooking, like canned and dry foods • manual can opener
• first-aid supplies
• at least a 3-day supply of your prescription medicines
• wind-up or battery-powered flashlight
• wind-up or battery-powered radio
• batteries for your flashlight and radio
• money in small bills
• copies of important papers like your driver’s license, birth certificate, and insurance papers It is also important to always keep your car’s gas tank as full as possible and your cell phone fully charged.