During a West Yellowhead candidates forum in Jasper in April 2012, Campbell said he supported the idea. Mayor Richard Ireland said that he doesn’t have any other updates since he and Home last spoke with Campbell in December.
Home phoned Campbell’s office, but said the lack of response might be due to the budget being tabled.
If Jasper were to get a cancer clinic, an Arizona doctor is interested in coming here, said Home.
Coun. Rico Damota thinks this issue should remain at the forefront of everyone’s minds.
“I think to get into that medical tourism aspect of bringing people here to help them heal and rejuvenate is definitely something that the community needs and should have.”
Bylaws
Before the third reading of bylaw 163 (utility rates) CAO Peter Waterworth explained that the bylaw received a provision to address a possible future increase in solid waste rates. Parks has yet to decide how much to increase the rates and when to implement them, so the provision enables the CAO to increase utility costs to the extent necessary “but only the extent necessary to increase those costs,” he said. Enabling this provision allows the solid waste rates to change without the bylaw needing to go through all three readings again. Council unanimously voted to pass the bylaw on third and final reading.
Bylaws 164 (“authorizing supplementary assessments to be prepared for the purpose of imposing a tax in the same year”) and 165 ( supplementary tax) also unanimously passed third reading.
Bylaws 169 and 170 unanimously passed first reading. Bylaw 169 stated that election ballots be printed so that each candidate will have their name at the top of the ballot an equal amount of times. Bylaw 170 updates the parking authority bylaw so it doesn’t have to be read again every year unless it’s being amended.
