2018 Annual Report

Annual Report 2018 36 OBJECTIVE STRATEGY MEASURE PROGRESS Maintain municipal fleet. Repair and replacement program planned and funded. Vehicle Maintenance Management System in use. Equipment Replacement Reserve Fund in balance. Replaced aged items as required. Used 36 retreaded tires. 105 heavy duty vehicles / equipment serviced and inspected quarterly in 2018 and 96 light vehicles serviced. 6 high efficiency diesel trucks, 5 hybrid cars and 1 electric car in service. 100% bio-degradable oil in 3 Parks mowers, 2 backhoes, 2 graders and 1 dump truck in Operations. Replacing standard mineral based oils with long-life synthetics oils. Completed over 3,100 repairs and preventative maintenance work orders in 2018. Manage airport lease. Manage airport lease. The airport operator presented Council with a 5 year business plan covering the period of 2017 - 2022. At this time, the focus is to extend the runway, as this is a necessary component to further the 5 year plan. This will take approximately 3 years to complete due to the cost and approvals required. Meanwhile, the airport operator has added new hangars and is in discussion with CEPCO about land needs for additional expansion. Protect the community from flood risk. Remove 230,000 cubic metres of gravel from the Fraser River annually and 100,000 cubic metres of gravel from the Vedder River every second year. No gravel removed by the Province from the Fraser River in 2018. Provincial Government reviewing Fraser River gravel management program. No gravel removed from the Vedder River in 2018 due to limited sediment accumulation between 2016 and 2018. Existing funding opportunities for flood studies and dyke upgrades maximized. Senior levels of government lobbied for additional monies. Received funding through the Province of BC for the $4.2 million McGillivray Pump Station upgrades; the design- build project is well under way with completion scheduled for early 2019. Applied for and received funding through the National Disaster Mitigation Program for $341,850 for updated floodplain mapping; work on the project commenced in 2018. Applied for and received $750,000 through UBCM (funded by EMBC) for Fraser River bank erosion protection and downstream CHIP location and Orchard Slough Check Dam location; work to take place in 2019. Applied for funding in the amount of $1,920,000 through the National Disaster Mitigation Program (NDMP) for raising the West Dyke (Right Bank) between Sumas Prairie Road and the Vedder Canal. EMBC has accepted the application and forwarded it to Public Safety Canada for federal consideration. Collaborated with Skwah First Nation and Shxwhá:y Village to review flood protection options in response to Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada committing $5 million in funding for the two First Nations communities. Continued support for the development of a regional approach to flood management to maximize lobby efforts to secure senior government funding opportunities. Open drainage watercourses and ditches in the floodplain cleaned on a 3 - 7 year cycle to maintain drainage integrity. The 2018 drainage maintenance program saw 90,000 linear channel metres being cleaned with DFO approval. Drainage pumping stations to be operable at all times. McGillivray, Collinson and Wolfe Road drainage stations inspected and operational during 2018 freshet. Transformer oil testing, infrared scanning of major electrical components, fire suppression system verification and control panel upgrades have all been completed in 2018.