{ "segments": [ { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1360.165, "end": 1361.305, "text": "We get a roll call, please.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 1362.305, "end": 1364.185, "text": "Thank you, Chair. Confirm quorum. Councilor Tyres.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_12", "start": 1364.685, "end": 1364.945, "text": "Here.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 1365.145, "end": 1392.285, "text": "Thank you. Councillor Chabot. Thank you. Councilor Clark. Councilor Dollywall. Thank you. Councillor Schmidt. Councilor Ward. Thank you. Mayor Farkas. Thank you. Councillor Atkinson. Councilor Jameson. Councilor Johnston. Councillor Kelly. Councillor Pantasopoulos. Councilor Wyness. Councilor Ewell. Thank you. And Chair McLean.", "segments_merged": 12 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1392.745, "end": 1441.105, "text": "I'm here. Thank you, clerks. Um we have had a little bit of a mix-up, I guess, uh and I'm not gonna point fingers at anybody. Audit and uh IG are kind of overlapping today. So what we're gonna try to do is get this done meeting that as quick as possible so they can have the chambers. Obviously, feel free to ask as many questions if you want to, but uh yeah, we're gonna do it's not a lengthy agenda. Hopefully we can be uh disciplined and be done. As quick as possible. So could I uh having said that have somebody uh confirmation of the agenda? Councilor Ward. Uh any opposed? Seeing none, that is passed. What about a mover for the confirmation of minutes? Councilor I'm not", "segments_merged": 16 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 1441.105, "end": 1441.945, "text": "Make that motion.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1443.025, "end": 1481.285, "text": "I think uh Shabot Councillor Shabot uh supersedes the uh can the moving of the minutes. Thank you, Councillor Shabot. Anybody opposed? Seeing none, that is carried. Uh there's nothing on the consent agenda, no postponed reports. No items from officers or council, so we will move right into item 7.2, memorandum of understanding between Bearspaw First Nations and the City of Calgary. I understand from uh Ms. Coti that some of the members are delayed from being in Ottawa, but we still have the presenter. Mel is here direct. Is that right? Excellent. Okay, go ahead, Mel. Ms. Dorupt.", "segments_merged": 14 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_10", "start": 1482.685, "end": 1709.165, "text": "Mel is fine. Thank you, Chair. Tansei and hello, good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mel Derupt. I am an intergovernmental consultant with the Indigenous Government Relations team. I am here today to provide an update on work that was completed to develop the Memorandum of Understanding with Bears Poth First Nation, which was directed by the previous council in December 2024. Next slide, please. So the recommendation before you today is that the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee recommend that Council approve the Memorandum of Understanding on Communication and Cooperation and Direct Administration to begin implementation and request the mayor to sign the agreement at a future joint signing event with Bears Paw First Nation. Next slide, please. MOUs are also referred to as protocol agreements, and they set down legally non-binding frameworks between Indigenous nations and municipalities outlining how the parties will establish a cooperative relationship. Agreements vary depending on the aspirations of its signatories, and in this case include guiding principles, areas of mutual interest, and convening conditions for meetings. MOUs are an important foundational document that strengthen partnership. Across Canada, many cities have signed MOUs, and on this slide, you'll actually see an image of the protocol agreement between the Blackfoot Confederacy and the city of Calgary, which was entered into in May 2025. Next slide, please. The development of this MOU was initiated by an official request via letter from Bearspah First Nation to former Mayor Gondek's office in November 2024. In that letter, which is attachment one of today's report, Bearspaw Nation requested that the City of Calgary enter negotiations to develop a protocol agreement. In December 2024, that request was brought forward through Executive Committee and Council to seek direction to proceed. Since then, administration has been working with Bearspaw to develop the MOU before you today as attachment two. Next slide, please. The agreement we've developed is actually organized into two corresponding documents. The first is the Memorandum of Understanding itself, which provides the overarching and principle-based approach that commits to good intentions and future collaboration in areas of mutual interest and benefit. Once that agreement is approved, it will be signed by mayor and chief committing to the partnership. The second is an administration document, the terms of reference, which is attachment three of today's report, outlining the logistical details for meeting and implementation through the establishment of a technical committee. This committee will have senior administrative leaders from both parties as representation. And the benefit of having the terms of reference separate to but corresponding to the Memorandum of Understanding is that it allows greater administrative flexibility to update the terms of reference based on the needs of the work as they evolve. This format actually borrows from the city's intermunicipal committee's terms of reference for its regional partners. Next slide, please. If Council approves the MOU, administration will proceed with planning a signing event. This may include an indigenous ceremony, which would serve as a parallel process, marking a commitment of agreement between the partners. Following the signing, administration will convene its first technical committee to begin planning for implementation. This will include establishing collaborative working tables around areas of mutual interest. Next slide, please. In closing, I respectfully direct the committee back to the recommendation before you on this matter. This concludes my presentation, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have at this time.", "segments_merged": 13 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1710.145, "end": 1744.765, "text": "Thank you so much. Looking through the chat, see if there's any questions. Seeing none, I guess everybody's taking the the time loss uh seriously. Um, thank you so much for that presentation. MOUs are very important. I know uh when we did with uh Sixik and Blackfoot, I've really enjoyed the feedback, the pipe ceremony. The wasn't long. I think Mayor Farkas set up a really good meeting with Satina, our mayors and council. This is probably the best part about truth reconciliation MOUs. So thank you for all the good work you're doing.", "segments_merged": 11 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_10", "start": 1745.005, "end": 1745.925, "text": "Thank you very much, Chair.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1748.705, "end": 1753.245, "text": "Okay, do I have somebody who wants to move this? Go ahead, please, Ms. Mayor Farkas.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_04", "start": 1753.845, "end": 1785.805, "text": "Thank you, Chair. Happy to move this. And uh again, just so appreciative of the work uh that the team has been doing on this. Uh it's can be sometimes very challenging work, uh, especially on reconciliation. Things move at the speed of trust. And I just want to say it's uh um it's great hearing the feedback from council colleagues, each of you, your commitment uh to reconciliation, engagement with Catina, uh the other uh nations that uh we get the opportunity to engage with through Treaty 7. And just big kudos to city administration as well for uh getting this across the line. So happy to move that.", "segments_merged": 4 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1786.145, "end": 1809.145, "text": "Excellent. Any debate? Want to close? Close. Engage the E scribe, please. Clerks. And did you display the results?", "segments_merged": 6 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 1809.205, "end": 1812.365, "text": "Mayor Farkas, your boat, please. Thank you. Chair, all the votes are in.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 1814.225, "end": 1829.465, "text": "That looks like it's carried eight to zero. And that is carried. So we'll move on to 7.3. Alberta Municipal. A B Munis update. Let's go with that one from Councillor Chabot.", "segments_merged": 4 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 1830.225, "end": 2087.325, "text": "Thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman. I do have an update. Um, and the um uh intergovernmental affairs committee recommends that council receive my verbal report and distribution for the corporate record. My verbal report is as follows uh property taxes reimagined. Alberta Muniz continues to highlight its property taxes reimagined campaign as one of its key advocacy and public education priorities. The campaign is intended to help explain the pressures facing municipal budgets, including inflation. Infrastructure renewal, reduced provincial funding, and the limited revenue tools available to municipalities. Recent summer municipal leaders' caucus programming also included folk also focused on revenue tools municipalities can currently control, as well as examples of how municipalities in other provinces generate revenue. For Calgary, this advocacy remains relevant to ongoing discussions about the growing pressure on property tax to fund services and infrastructure that support population and economic growth. During Stampede, Alberta Muniz President Dylan Bressy, along with the Chief Executive Officer Dana Mackey, several Alberta Muniz board members and advocacy staff were on site at Stampede connecting with municipal and provincial partners. Key priorities for their meetings included eliminating GST on municipal franchise fees to reduce electricity prices without impacting municipalities' revenue streams. Advancing affordable housing policy through municipality led planning and collaboration. Addressing the decline in provincial support for preventative social services, like FCSS specifically, discussing the rise in property taxes due to external pressures and the decline in provincial infrastructure funding. Resolution The deadline for the resolution is to be considered Alberta Muniz's 2026 convention closed on May 31st. Alberta Muniz has indicated. Has indicated that submitted resolutions are now being reviewed by its committees and board with the 2026 resolutions book expected to be published by the end of July. There's uh a few that were contentious, and uh we'll be going back to some of the member municipalities that generated them in the first place for a final decision to be made within the next two weeks upon a conclusion of that um investigation and work. Once the list of resolutions is released and published, I'll be sure to share it with administration to seek input and comments for members of council to utilize in advocacy on behalf of the City of Calgary in the upcoming convention. Once released, administrators will review the resolutions book to identify items with potential implications for Calgary were appropriate. And as I said, hopefully we'll get some comments to be able to advocate for Calgary's position at the convention. Um upcoming dates. Registration remains open for 2026 Alberta Muniz Convention and Trade Show, which will take place on September September 23rd to the 25th at the Eventon Convention Center. AB Munis has indicated that the event will include breakout sessions, plenary panels, conversations with provincial ministers, networking opportunities, a trade show, and a QA session with the Premier. The overview agenda is expected to be available in July. Early bird registration rates are available until August 7th. Administration will continue to monitor the release of the convention agenda and resolutions book and will provide additional support to Calgary Avi Munis representatives as required. On a completely personal side note and self promotional side of things, I will be co chairing the resolution sessions. So looking forward to seeing many members of council present to help to support the city's position and advocate on behalf of the city. Because there's going to be some qu some uh contentious ones that I'm hoping some of my colleagues will be able to weigh in on because I won't because I'll be chairing. Um anyways, uh that concludes my report and happy to submit it and uh and uh have it uh received for the corporate record.", "segments_merged": 48 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2088.605, "end": 2103.885, "text": "Thank you, Councillor Shabot, for that fulsome and somewhat lengthy report. Just joking. Any questions for Councillor Shabot? Seeing none, can I seek a mover?", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 2104.665, "end": 2105.325, "text": "I'm moving it.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2105.625, "end": 2109.985, "text": "All right, Councillor Shabot. Any uh closing uh remarks?", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 2110.845, "end": 2117.385, "text": "No, like I said, look looking forward to seeing many members of uh council at the AV Unity's convention in the fall.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2118.045, "end": 2135.265, "text": "I agree it's uh something certainly worth going to in Everton uh this year. Okay, uh anybody opposed? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Moving on to 7.4, the city of Calgary City of Chester Intermunicipal Committee update. I believe we have Councillor Clark doing that for us today.", "segments_merged": 5 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_08", "start": 2137.685, "end": 2147.585, "text": "Yes, sir, thank you very much. Um yes, so the uh city of Calgary and the city of Chestermere Inter municipal intermunicipal committee met on June uh twenty", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "start": 2149.245, "end": 2150.765, "text": "nominating two people.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2151.045, "end": 2156.465, "text": "Sorry, if anybody is online, uh could you please mute yourself, please? If you're online, please mute.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_08", "start": 2156.905, "end": 2238.985, "text": "So, yeah, we met on June 22nd at the Calgary Water Center. It was fantastic. The City of Calgary was represented by Councillor Chabot, who just spoke, myself. The City of Chestermere was represented by Mayor Shannon Dean and Deputy Mayor Ratesh Narayan, and of course the incredible support of city administration on both sides. The meeting served as a forum for elected officials and senior administration from both municipalities to discuss shared intermunicipal priorities and government matters. The committee to that end we continued to discuss the regional water issues, exploring opportunities to reduce water loss through regional cooperation and new technologies. The committee was also discussed different options for how water services could be governed across the region and received updates on several operational matters from administration. We also spoke to the South Belvidere Area Structure Plan project, including opportunities to work with the City of Chester's administration and to engage Chestermere residents in developing a vision for the plan of this area. Finally, the intermunicipal development plan was discussed, which of course guides the planning along the shared municipal boundary and toward the new intermunicipal collaboration framework, which will support coordination of shared services between our two municipalities. Next meeting is September 11th. I look very much forward to that meeting. And that is my report. Thank you.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2239.605, "end": 2280.825, "text": "Excellent. Another great report. Any questions for Counselor Clark? Not about his hair, but about his report. Okay. Seeing that, no questions. Would you like to move it, Counselor? So moved and closed. Please uh do we uh just need a voice vote? Uh nope, uh anybody opposed? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Uh up to 7.5. So proud of everybody. See if you count your rocky view county evening simple committee update. Uh by Councilor Tyres.", "segments_merged": 14 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 2281.705, "end": 2390.545, "text": "Thank you, Chair. So the recommendation is that the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee recommend that Council receive this verbal report and distribution for the corporate record. The City of Calgary, Rocky View County Intermunicipal Committee met on June 29th, 2026, at the Calgary Water Center. The City of Calgary was represented by myself and Councillor Dollywall. Rocky View was represented by Deputy Reeve Wright and Reeve Samra, with Councillor Kevin Hansen attending as a guest. The meeting served as a forum for elected officials and senior administration from both municipalities to discuss shared intermunicipal priorities and governance matters. The discussion focused on a confidential item that's associated with a report to be discussed in closed session today at today's meeting. Nuance concerns related to aggregate extraction operations along the municipal boundary, and with both municipalities undertaking data collection and analysis for reporting at the committee's next meeting. A potential servicing request for McKenna's Estates, which is an existing residential development west of Elbow Valley in Rocky View County, requiring an amendment to the intermunicipal development plan prior to considering expanding the master service agreement between the City of Calgary and Rocky View County. The City of Calgary's North Central and South Belvedere area structure plans, including opportunities for administrative coordination and engagement with Rocky View County residents, and updates on the Omni area structure plan in Rocky View County and progress towards the joint intermunicipal development plan, which will include consultation with committee members in fall of 2026. Next meeting is scheduled for September 17th, 2026, and will be hosted by Rocky View County. And that's it. Thank you.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2390.845, "end": 2396.705, "text": "Excellent. Thank you, Councillor Tyres. Any questions? Seeing none, would you like to uh move that?", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 2398.445, "end": 2399.005, "text": "So moved.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2399.045, "end": 2400.925, "text": "So moved and closed.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 2401.505, "end": 2403.165, "text": "If there's no debate and closed.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2403.785, "end": 2420.045, "text": "Awesome. Anyone opposed? Seeing hearing none that is carried. And we're flying along to 7.6. Establishment of an intermunicipal committee, Foothills County in Rocky View County. By Jeff Robson. Come on down.", "segments_merged": 6 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_05", "start": 2420.905, "end": 2437.425, "text": "Good afternoon, Chair and members of committee. Good to be with you here today. My name is Jeff Robson. I'm a planner with the regional planning team. I have a four-minute presentation if you'd like to receive it on the establishment of intermunicipal committees for Foothills County and Rocky View County by bylaw. Otherwise, I can move to questions.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2439.305, "end": 2448.125, "text": "Anyone want to see a presentation? I think we can we briefed ourselves and read it already, so we'll go right to questions.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_05", "start": 2448.585, "end": 2464.285, "text": "One thing I'll note is I'd like to alert the clerks that there are revised bylaws. We've made note of it before, so that should not be a surprise to any of them. So if they could distribute them now, it's a minor technical change to the existing terms of reference.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2465.125, "end": 2481.525, "text": "We're gonna physically distribute those, or are you gonna just send them to our inboxes? Okay, perfect, perfect. Well, thank you for the good work and uh sort of cut your stage time short. But we might have questions. Any questions? Oh, Counselor Ward.", "segments_merged": 5 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_06", "start": 2482.265, "end": 2517.925, "text": "I bet you didn't think it would be me. Uh so a quick question, and hopefully somebody in the room can answer this. Uh my notes are a bit scattered, so we'll do as best as I can here. So uh my understanding is this agreement um dictates isn't the right word, but proposes that the entire all meetings be held in closed session. Now my understanding is MGA 195, you have to have 24 hours public notice of council committee meeting, and 197 requires that you meet in public unless specified under a specific Access to Information Act. How does that work?", "segments_merged": 4 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_05", "start": 2519.605, "end": 2522.765, "text": "Uh Karen, I see you queuing up the microphone.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_11", "start": 2523.545, "end": 2539.285, "text": "Okay, I um I I mean me maybe that's something I don't know if we have um the legal team here. I think when uh the this is by bylaw, so the terms of reference the meetings are are held in public. Um which is there a specific section that you're referring to?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_06", "start": 2539.885, "end": 2546.785, "text": "Uh god, I I'm probably not gonna be able to find it right now. Like you you mean of the terms of reference?", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_11", "start": 2546.885, "end": 2570.665, "text": "Yeah, so the terms of reference, so part of the of today's piece is that there's minor amendments to the terms of reference, um, but one of the changes is in the to bring it into legislative compliance. So we now need to adopt these by bylaw. There's no requirement as far as I I can recall from reading those that there that we that we would have things in closed session unless.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_05", "start": 2571.325, "end": 2579.585, "text": "I believe under the terms of reference that we can bring thing confidential items forward. That wouldn't necessarily be under closed session, but that's not the default posture.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_06", "start": 2580.325, "end": 2587.585, "text": "Okay, maybe I misread this because I had noted Rocky View's proposed terms of reference say all meetings are closed and all notes are non-public.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_11", "start": 2588.085, "end": 2597.865, "text": "Yeah, that is correct. That's the meeting between the the at the IMC itself, but when it comes back h here we would provide the update.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_06", "start": 2597.865, "end": 2599.885, "text": "Okay. We're good, thank you.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2601.805, "end": 2609.325, "text": "Excellent. Good clarification there. Any other questions for the presenter? Thank you again for all your good work.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_05", "start": 2609.785, "end": 2611.565, "text": "Thank you, committee. Have a good day.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2611.945, "end": 2617.745, "text": "Yeah, thank you. Um, who would like to move this? Councillor tires.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 2620.685, "end": 2621.025, "text": "Moved?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2621.485, "end": 2625.945, "text": "Moved. Any debate? Closed.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 2626.105, "end": 2626.765, "text": "And closed.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2627.465, "end": 2650.725, "text": "Okay. Uh that's closed. Does anybody have any objections? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. On to 7.7. Airdrie Transit Fair Integration, presented by John Lee. That's J-O-N, just if anybody needs to clarify.", "segments_merged": 7 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "start": 2651.905, "end": 2683.045, "text": "That's correct. Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, members of committee. I'm John Lee, Senior Leader of Transit Service Design. With me today, Sharon Fleming, Director of Calgary Transit, Lori Boyczyk, Manager of Service Planning and Strategy, Jordan Zukowski, Acting Leader of Strategy, Alex Predi, Calgary Transit Executive Advisor. We have Karen Holtz, Manager of Regional Planning. Kelly Kote, Manager of Government Relations, Carolyn Gaines, Leader of Intergovernmental Affairs. And if desired, we can present presentation on item 7.7.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2684.405, "end": 2688.205, "text": "I know I have read all the materials. Does anybody want a presentation?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 2688.465, "end": 2689.485, "text": "I that's why I'm here.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 2690.445, "end": 2695.805, "text": "This is important, so I hate to rush everybody level. We're doing great, so go present away.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "start": 2697.865, "end": 3028.585, "text": "Thank you, Committee. Next slide, please. So the recommendations before you today are to recommend that council direct administration to collaborate with the City of Airdrie to develop a scope of work for transit fair integration, returning with an update in Q1 of 2027 in conjunction with the Calgary Transit Fair Strategy. Request the Mayor send a letter responding to Mayor Spearman in Airdrie, indicating Calgary's support for exploring the potential for fair integration, and keep attachment too confidential pursuant to the Access to Information Act. Next slide, please. Exploring regional transit fair integration aligns with Council's strategic priorities and City of Calgary direction. Under Council's priority of trusted and collaborative government, the city collaborates with partners and other orders of government to enhance our operations and deliver services in more efficient ways. Calgary Transit's 30 year strategic plan, Route Ahead, also contains direction to work with our neighbors to develop a regional fair strategy and to promote growth in transit service in the region by connecting with partners to collaborate on initiatives. In addition, the recently established regional table highlights Calgary's focus on collaboration to support the entire region. Next slide, please. Over the years, we have worked with our neighbors in various ways to grow transit in the region. We have provided fleet to Cochrane when they first established their Colt Transit Service. We currently provide space for regional transit service providers, including Airdrie, at our stops and stations to facilitate smooth regional transfers to and from Calgary Transit's network. And in 2021, with Council Direction, we partnered with the City of Chestermere to extend the Max Purple Line to Chestermere, supporting intermunicipal travel while ensuring cost recovery for Calgary Transit. Today, with Council Direction, we are also discussing the potential to connect Calgary and Cetena Nation with transit service. Other regional initiatives like Prairie Economic Gateway in partnership with the Rocky View County support regional economic development, positioning the Calgary region as a significant industrial and logistics hub. These initiatives not only support the region as a whole, but support Calgary Transit ridership and Calgary businesses and communities by getting people around the region to work, school, appointments, and activities. Next slide, please. Airdree Transit currently operates intercity routes that bring employees and visitors right into Calgary's downtown. Other Airdrie Transit routes run between our Northeast Blue Line LRT stations, bringing Calgaryans to regional employment hubs on the northeast edge of the city in Rocky View County. Currently, customers pay separate fares when transferring between these two services. Next slide, please. Earlier this year, CAO Duckworth met with his counterpart in Airdrie to discuss regional transit fair integration. In April, Airdrie Council approved a new 10-year transit master plan, which includes both modernization of intermunicipal routes serving Calgary and exploring fair integration. Earlier in June, Mayor Spearman sent a letter to Mayor Farkas seeking Calgary Council support for our administrative teams to jointly explore fair integration. And Calgary Transit is currently working on a fair strategy and returning to committee in the first quarter of next year. Next slide, please. So, committee and council should consider some of the following factors up on the screen when making the decision to explore regional transit fare integration with AIRDRI. There are opportunities with this work to strengthen regional relationships and improve transportation in the region for Calgarians and regional residents as a whole, while also potentially supporting transit revenues. However, this work has the potential to affect other regional relationships, and feasibility studies may uncover complexities and costs to implement regional fair integration. It's important that the City of Calgary establish goals and principles for undertaking this work if it proceeds. Our key principles will ensure that we pursue service efficiency, reduce duplication, and ensure appropriate cost allocations. Next slide, please. While there is an opportunity and strong strategic guidance, there's no commitment at this time to regional transit fair integration. Further work is needed to establish a scope of work, confirm timelines, and explore feasibility to determine if it is a viable option, especially when considering fair payment collection technology and how cost sharing may work between the two municipalities. Council, of course, is the final decision maker on fares and whether to move forward with this work. If the work proceeds, administration is planning to provide regular memo updates to all of council on progress at key milestones once the scope of work and timelines are confirmed and as feasibility and options are explored. A progress update will also be brought in conjunction with the Calgary Transit Fair Strategy, going to Infrastructure and Planning Committee in Q1 2027. Calgary Transit's broader fair strategy work will include information for regional partners about the potential future direction for transit fair integration. And administration will also seek council direction before committing to or implementing any fair integration in the region. Next slide, please. Back to the recommendations before you. Given the alignment to strategic direction, current timing, strong focus on regional collaboration, and exploratory nature of the work at this time, there is a high opportunity and low risk. Administration recommends collaborating with Airdrie to explore the potential for regional transit fair integration. Thanks. And we can take any questions.", "segments_merged": 28 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3029.185, "end": 3040.445, "text": "Thank you for that update. And I'll just say it was nice about the stampede, is I think we all got a chance to talk with Mayor Spearman and a lot of the counselors are pretty excited about this. But I see Counselor Yule. Is in the queue.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 3041.665, "end": 3064.685, "text": "Yeah. Um just looking at slide number six. Um uh I'm just looking at the map here. So the current bus routes that Airdrie has is the nine oh one and the nine oh two. This is exploring a nine oh three and a nine uh hundred. Is that those the nine oh three and the nine hundred? Do those exist right now?", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "start": 3066.465, "end": 3074.925, "text": "Through the chair. They do not. They do not. And this is really just a uh from their transportation transit master plan.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 3074.925, "end": 3075.105, "text": "Yeah.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "start": 3075.105, "end": 3080.545, "text": "So not uh what we're talking about today, which is the fair integration, but this is showing what their future routes could look like.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 3080.545, "end": 3111.285, "text": "Yeah, no, and I I think um I'm very interested in this and that and I would I would say um Councillor Dollywell would also be interested in these talks. Um so I would hope that you know ward three, ward five would be included as these this future of the Air Dree Transit Plan would be um affecting our wards quite a bit. Uh I see an opportunity there as well. Um so just want to make sure that uh word ward three and ward five are included in the discussions as we go forward. That's it. Thank you.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3112.365, "end": 3127.385, "text": "That was a no, but that was a yes. Yes. No, uh that's great. I'm glad to see more transit going up to the north there since the green line might take a little while. But uh anybody else with uh questions for John? Counselor Tyres.", "segments_merged": 4 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 3127.805, "end": 3150.405, "text": "Yes, thank you. Um just looking at this, I didn't see any kind of like full report to go along with these recommendations. So uh I I understand what the recommendations are, but I don't understand the meaning behind it, like the numbers showing, you know, how many people actually do travel from Calgary to Airdrie, what the cost breakdown would be. I don't see anything like that.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_01", "start": 3151.525, "end": 3169.765, "text": "Yes, thanks for that question. This is to get approval for us administration to work with Airdrie, and at that point we would start pulling together all of those details, the risks, the costs, and then we would come back to council. So it's really just approval for us to work with a regional neighbor to start those discussions.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 3171.425, "end": 3216.545, "text": "Okay, but I I I don't feel like it's enough information for us to even like take that next step. Like, um Yeah, it duh like as far as like what it's actually gonna offer to Calgary versus what's going to offer Airdrie or you know, um it just seems to just come out of kind of of left field. So um uh at this point I'm just not I'm just not sure about like taking that next step because there's also um a request for the mayor to send a letter indicating support for the potential transit fair integration. So if we're going to as a council go behind the mayor and send a letter, I think we need I I don't know, I just feel like we need more information.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_12", "start": 3222.045, "end": 3252.705, "text": "Uh through the chair, Councillor Tyres. So so what we're asking for here is simply direction to enter into a scope of work in order to collect the information you're asking about right now. We normally don't engage with municipalities outside of council direction. So this would be the first step in starting those conversations. Once the scope of work is defined, then we would come back to council to talk about what you're requesting or asking about.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 3254.225, "end": 3260.105, "text": "Okay, like i is there an estimate for how much like that scope of work is going to cost?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_12", "start": 3261.545, "end": 3266.325, "text": "So at the time that the scope of work is defined, then we would have an estimate.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 3266.605, "end": 3270.725, "text": "But how about the the s the estimate for the scope of work for the estimate?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_12", "start": 3271.965, "end": 3297.945, "text": "If that is not typically how we approach things, we typically will work with our, well, in this case, we we're we're we'd like to work with them to define the scope of work and boundaries that perhaps we'd like to create or or or things we want to consider before we do so, but but we'd like to work with them to kind of map out what that would be because it's still a very vague process at this time. Yeah.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 3298.245, "end": 3300.445, "text": "Okay, understood. Thank you very much.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3302.505, "end": 3305.105, "text": "Uh Mayor Farkas had something to add.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_04", "start": 3305.985, "end": 3332.925, "text": "Yeah, the uh the the request of me to write the letter I think is relatively vague. I think I'm looking at I'm guessing about a paragraph. It's thank you for uh your correspondence. Our council committee voted to explore the scope of work and feasibility. And if I were to be a little bit sassy, I might say we want to make sure that we have fair cost recovery for for Calgaryans as such. So that's what I'm intending to put in the letter if you guys vote for that. Yeah.", "segments_merged": 5 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3334.725, "end": 3346.365, "text": "Okay, to be continued. Uh any other questions for representers? Seeing and hearing nothing none, I would look to maybe Councillor Yule to move.", "segments_merged": 4 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 3348.525, "end": 3405.305, "text": "Yeah, happy to move. I've done a lot of transit advocacy and for the Green Line in particularly. And one of the things that we learned back in 2014 is that a lot of our congestion along the Center Street corridor comes from other municipalities like Airdrie and Cochrane. And so if we can have a way of finding some integration, I think it goes a long way in clearing up the congestion on our roads as well. If an Airdrie resident is able to get on a bus and continue into the city through our system, I think that's a that's a win for both municipalities. So I'm happy to see that we're We're moving in this direction. I think there there's definitely challenges and things that we need to work out, but I think this just starts the it's very high level in in starting the conversation and I think we gotta all start somewhere. So I'm happy to support this.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3406.905, "end": 3414.365, "text": "Thank you. Any debate on the matter? Seeing oh, Councillor Shabot.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 3415.405, "end": 3480.525, "text": "Okay, no, just briefly I uh I know that um with the um purple line or extension out to Chester, uh that there was um a desire once we implemented it to increase the frequency. And then once we start we uh went down that path to determine what the cost implications would be for that, um and then Chestermere went, whoa, whoa, hold on a second here. Let's uh let's do a rethink on this. So as long as uh through this scoping report. Uh we make sure that the city is kept whole and that we are not subsidizing external customers to use our system because already our system is heavily subsidized by the mill rate. Um, you know what? I'm happy to entertain those kind of things to Counselor Gules' point. If it can reduce the congestions on our road, that's plus. But again, I don't want to see us uh further eroding the cost recovery that we're getting at the fare box by providing a service to our external customers. So, anyways, happy to support the scoping report and looking forward to uh seeing details around it.", "segments_merged": 9 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3482.105, "end": 3504.385, "text": "Thank you for that, Councillor Shabot. My two cents is I agree cost recovery and to be cheeky, as Mary Farkas said. I've often said when we send water or when we go to our our regional partners that we're a corporation we should make a profit, but that's actually if not if turns out not as popular as you think. So cost recovery it is. Happy to support as well. I uh the to close, uh counselor you?", "segments_merged": 10 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_02", "start": 3505.245, "end": 3505.625, "text": "Closed.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3506.245, "end": 3509.625, "text": "Okay, can we engage the E scribe?", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 3520.465, "end": 3523.485, "text": "Mayor Farkas, your boat, please. Thank you, Chair. All the votes are in.", "segments_merged": 2 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 3525.665, "end": 3547.045, "text": "Thank you. Looks like that has carried 8 to 0. So that puts us off the main agenda and looks like we're going into closed. Somebody to uh make a motion to go into closed, Councilor Tyres. Anybody opposed? Let's go to closed. Leave this meeting and see you in there.", "segments_merged": 7 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_00", "start": 4985.005, "end": 4990.745, "text": "The Intergovernmental Affairs Committee will resume an open session shortly. Please make your way back to Council Chamber.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 5157.605, "end": 5158.325, "text": "Roll call, please.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 5158.925, "end": 5162.785, "text": "Thank you, Chair, to confirm quorum. Councilor Tires. Thank you. Councillor Shabot.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_07", "start": 5164.005, "end": 5164.205, "text": "Here.", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 5164.465, "end": 5182.185, "text": "Thank you. Councillor Clark. Thank you. Councillor Dollywell. Thank you. Councillor Schmidt. Councilor Ward. Thank you. Mayor Farkas. Thank you. Councilor Atkinson, Councillor Jameson, Council Johnston, Councillor Kelly, Councillor Pentasopoulos, Councillor Yes, Councillor Yule. Thank you. And Chair McLean.", "segments_merged": 9 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 5182.825, "end": 5215.045, "text": "I'm here. Perfect. Thank you. Uh we need someone to uh rise and report. I think that was Councilor Yule. Per perfect. And then uh before we have a motion to move. Well, yeah, I guess we could do that now. I think that was councilor uh clerks. Could you put the confidential items up on the screen? The recommendations for counselor clerk to move? So moved. So moved. So can we please engage the e scribe?", "segments_merged": 13 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 5235.205, "end": 5240.125, "text": "Your vote, please. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Tyrers, your vote, please.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_13", "start": 5241.565, "end": 5241.905, "text": "Yes?", "segments_merged": 1 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_03", "start": 5242.005, "end": 5246.125, "text": "Thank you. And Mayor Farkas, your vote, please. Thank you. Chair all the votes are on.", "segments_merged": 3 }, { "speaker": "SPEAKER_09", "start": 5247.905, "end": 5294.345, "text": "Thank you. And that is carried 8 to 0. There is a briefing on establishing intermunicipal regional pathways. Uh be f I do want to say thank you to all the people that from the intermunicipal government affairs, who are everybody involved that helped put on the Stampede get together for all the regional partners. That was fantastic. I think it was a great success. We had ministers, we had the mayor did a great speech, lots of mayors and Reeves. It was a real full on stampede thing. So thanks, that was cool. So maybe we'll do that again next year. That's a shrug. So We we'll see how that goes. Okay, can I get a mover to adjourn? Councillor Clark. So moved, so adjourned. Thank you everybody.", "segments_merged": 14 } ], "full_text": "We get a roll call, please. Thank you, Chair. Confirm quorum. Councilor Tyres. Here. Thank you. Councillor Chabot. Thank you. Councilor Clark. Councilor Dollywall. Thank you. Councillor Schmidt. Councilor Ward. Thank you. Mayor Farkas. Thank you. Councillor Atkinson. Councilor Jameson. Councilor Johnston. Councillor Kelly. Councillor Pantasopoulos. Councilor Wyness. Councilor Ewell. Thank you. And Chair McLean. I'm here. Thank you, clerks. Um we have had a little bit of a mix-up, I guess, uh and I'm not gonna point fingers at anybody. Audit and uh IG are kind of overlapping today. So what we're gonna try to do is get this done meeting that as quick as possible so they can have the chambers. Obviously, feel free to ask as many questions if you want to, but uh yeah, we're gonna do it's not a lengthy agenda. Hopefully we can be uh disciplined and be done. As quick as possible. So could I uh having said that have somebody uh confirmation of the agenda? Councilor Ward. Uh any opposed? Seeing none, that is passed. What about a mover for the confirmation of minutes? Councilor I'm not Make that motion. I think uh Shabot Councillor Shabot uh supersedes the uh can the moving of the minutes. Thank you, Councillor Shabot. Anybody opposed? Seeing none, that is carried. Uh there's nothing on the consent agenda, no postponed reports. No items from officers or council, so we will move right into item 7.2, memorandum of understanding between Bearspaw First Nations and the City of Calgary. I understand from uh Ms. Coti that some of the members are delayed from being in Ottawa, but we still have the presenter. Mel is here direct. Is that right? Excellent. Okay, go ahead, Mel. Ms. Dorupt. Mel is fine. Thank you, Chair. Tansei and hello, good afternoon, everyone. My name is Mel Derupt. I am an intergovernmental consultant with the Indigenous Government Relations team. I am here today to provide an update on work that was completed to develop the Memorandum of Understanding with Bears Poth First Nation, which was directed by the previous council in December 2024. Next slide, please. So the recommendation before you today is that the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee recommend that Council approve the Memorandum of Understanding on Communication and Cooperation and Direct Administration to begin implementation and request the mayor to sign the agreement at a future joint signing event with Bears Paw First Nation. Next slide, please. MOUs are also referred to as protocol agreements, and they set down legally non-binding frameworks between Indigenous nations and municipalities outlining how the parties will establish a cooperative relationship. Agreements vary depending on the aspirations of its signatories, and in this case include guiding principles, areas of mutual interest, and convening conditions for meetings. MOUs are an important foundational document that strengthen partnership. Across Canada, many cities have signed MOUs, and on this slide, you'll actually see an image of the protocol agreement between the Blackfoot Confederacy and the city of Calgary, which was entered into in May 2025. Next slide, please. The development of this MOU was initiated by an official request via letter from Bearspah First Nation to former Mayor Gondek's office in November 2024. In that letter, which is attachment one of today's report, Bearspaw Nation requested that the City of Calgary enter negotiations to develop a protocol agreement. In December 2024, that request was brought forward through Executive Committee and Council to seek direction to proceed. Since then, administration has been working with Bearspaw to develop the MOU before you today as attachment two. Next slide, please. The agreement we've developed is actually organized into two corresponding documents. The first is the Memorandum of Understanding itself, which provides the overarching and principle-based approach that commits to good intentions and future collaboration in areas of mutual interest and benefit. Once that agreement is approved, it will be signed by mayor and chief committing to the partnership. The second is an administration document, the terms of reference, which is attachment three of today's report, outlining the logistical details for meeting and implementation through the establishment of a technical committee. This committee will have senior administrative leaders from both parties as representation. And the benefit of having the terms of reference separate to but corresponding to the Memorandum of Understanding is that it allows greater administrative flexibility to update the terms of reference based on the needs of the work as they evolve. This format actually borrows from the city's intermunicipal committee's terms of reference for its regional partners. Next slide, please. If Council approves the MOU, administration will proceed with planning a signing event. This may include an indigenous ceremony, which would serve as a parallel process, marking a commitment of agreement between the partners. Following the signing, administration will convene its first technical committee to begin planning for implementation. This will include establishing collaborative working tables around areas of mutual interest. Next slide, please. In closing, I respectfully direct the committee back to the recommendation before you on this matter. This concludes my presentation, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have at this time. Thank you so much. Looking through the chat, see if there's any questions. Seeing none, I guess everybody's taking the the time loss uh seriously. Um, thank you so much for that presentation. MOUs are very important. I know uh when we did with uh Sixik and Blackfoot, I've really enjoyed the feedback, the pipe ceremony. The wasn't long. I think Mayor Farkas set up a really good meeting with Satina, our mayors and council. This is probably the best part about truth reconciliation MOUs. So thank you for all the good work you're doing. Thank you very much, Chair. Okay, do I have somebody who wants to move this? Go ahead, please, Ms. Mayor Farkas. Thank you, Chair. Happy to move this. And uh again, just so appreciative of the work uh that the team has been doing on this. Uh it's can be sometimes very challenging work, uh, especially on reconciliation. Things move at the speed of trust. And I just want to say it's uh um it's great hearing the feedback from council colleagues, each of you, your commitment uh to reconciliation, engagement with Catina, uh the other uh nations that uh we get the opportunity to engage with through Treaty 7. And just big kudos to city administration as well for uh getting this across the line. So happy to move that. Excellent. Any debate? Want to close? Close. Engage the E scribe, please. Clerks. And did you display the results? Mayor Farkas, your boat, please. Thank you. Chair, all the votes are in. That looks like it's carried eight to zero. And that is carried. So we'll move on to 7.3. Alberta Municipal. A B Munis update. Let's go with that one from Councillor Chabot. Thank you, uh, Mr. Chairman. I do have an update. Um, and the um uh intergovernmental affairs committee recommends that council receive my verbal report and distribution for the corporate record. My verbal report is as follows uh property taxes reimagined. Alberta Muniz continues to highlight its property taxes reimagined campaign as one of its key advocacy and public education priorities. The campaign is intended to help explain the pressures facing municipal budgets, including inflation. Infrastructure renewal, reduced provincial funding, and the limited revenue tools available to municipalities. Recent summer municipal leaders' caucus programming also included folk also focused on revenue tools municipalities can currently control, as well as examples of how municipalities in other provinces generate revenue. For Calgary, this advocacy remains relevant to ongoing discussions about the growing pressure on property tax to fund services and infrastructure that support population and economic growth. During Stampede, Alberta Muniz President Dylan Bressy, along with the Chief Executive Officer Dana Mackey, several Alberta Muniz board members and advocacy staff were on site at Stampede connecting with municipal and provincial partners. Key priorities for their meetings included eliminating GST on municipal franchise fees to reduce electricity prices without impacting municipalities' revenue streams. Advancing affordable housing policy through municipality led planning and collaboration. Addressing the decline in provincial support for preventative social services, like FCSS specifically, discussing the rise in property taxes due to external pressures and the decline in provincial infrastructure funding. Resolution The deadline for the resolution is to be considered Alberta Muniz's 2026 convention closed on May 31st. Alberta Muniz has indicated. Has indicated that submitted resolutions are now being reviewed by its committees and board with the 2026 resolutions book expected to be published by the end of July. There's uh a few that were contentious, and uh we'll be going back to some of the member municipalities that generated them in the first place for a final decision to be made within the next two weeks upon a conclusion of that um investigation and work. Once the list of resolutions is released and published, I'll be sure to share it with administration to seek input and comments for members of council to utilize in advocacy on behalf of the City of Calgary in the upcoming convention. Once released, administrators will review the resolutions book to identify items with potential implications for Calgary were appropriate. And as I said, hopefully we'll get some comments to be able to advocate for Calgary's position at the convention. Um upcoming dates. Registration remains open for 2026 Alberta Muniz Convention and Trade Show, which will take place on September September 23rd to the 25th at the Eventon Convention Center. AB Munis has indicated that the event will include breakout sessions, plenary panels, conversations with provincial ministers, networking opportunities, a trade show, and a QA session with the Premier. The overview agenda is expected to be available in July. Early bird registration rates are available until August 7th. Administration will continue to monitor the release of the convention agenda and resolutions book and will provide additional support to Calgary Avi Munis representatives as required. On a completely personal side note and self promotional side of things, I will be co chairing the resolution sessions. So looking forward to seeing many members of council present to help to support the city's position and advocate on behalf of the city. Because there's going to be some qu some uh contentious ones that I'm hoping some of my colleagues will be able to weigh in on because I won't because I'll be chairing. Um anyways, uh that concludes my report and happy to submit it and uh and uh have it uh received for the corporate record. Thank you, Councillor Shabot, for that fulsome and somewhat lengthy report. Just joking. Any questions for Councillor Shabot? Seeing none, can I seek a mover? I'm moving it. All right, Councillor Shabot. Any uh closing uh remarks? No, like I said, look looking forward to seeing many members of uh council at the AV Unity's convention in the fall. I agree it's uh something certainly worth going to in Everton uh this year. Okay, uh anybody opposed? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Moving on to 7.4, the city of Calgary City of Chester Intermunicipal Committee update. I believe we have Councillor Clark doing that for us today. Yes, sir, thank you very much. Um yes, so the uh city of Calgary and the city of Chestermere Inter municipal intermunicipal committee met on June uh twenty nominating two people. Sorry, if anybody is online, uh could you please mute yourself, please? If you're online, please mute. So, yeah, we met on June 22nd at the Calgary Water Center. It was fantastic. The City of Calgary was represented by Councillor Chabot, who just spoke, myself. The City of Chestermere was represented by Mayor Shannon Dean and Deputy Mayor Ratesh Narayan, and of course the incredible support of city administration on both sides. The meeting served as a forum for elected officials and senior administration from both municipalities to discuss shared intermunicipal priorities and government matters. The committee to that end we continued to discuss the regional water issues, exploring opportunities to reduce water loss through regional cooperation and new technologies. The committee was also discussed different options for how water services could be governed across the region and received updates on several operational matters from administration. We also spoke to the South Belvidere Area Structure Plan project, including opportunities to work with the City of Chester's administration and to engage Chestermere residents in developing a vision for the plan of this area. Finally, the intermunicipal development plan was discussed, which of course guides the planning along the shared municipal boundary and toward the new intermunicipal collaboration framework, which will support coordination of shared services between our two municipalities. Next meeting is September 11th. I look very much forward to that meeting. And that is my report. Thank you. Excellent. Another great report. Any questions for Counselor Clark? Not about his hair, but about his report. Okay. Seeing that, no questions. Would you like to move it, Counselor? So moved and closed. Please uh do we uh just need a voice vote? Uh nope, uh anybody opposed? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. Uh up to 7.5. So proud of everybody. See if you count your rocky view county evening simple committee update. Uh by Councilor Tyres. Thank you, Chair. So the recommendation is that the Intergovernmental Affairs Committee recommend that Council receive this verbal report and distribution for the corporate record. The City of Calgary, Rocky View County Intermunicipal Committee met on June 29th, 2026, at the Calgary Water Center. The City of Calgary was represented by myself and Councillor Dollywall. Rocky View was represented by Deputy Reeve Wright and Reeve Samra, with Councillor Kevin Hansen attending as a guest. The meeting served as a forum for elected officials and senior administration from both municipalities to discuss shared intermunicipal priorities and governance matters. The discussion focused on a confidential item that's associated with a report to be discussed in closed session today at today's meeting. Nuance concerns related to aggregate extraction operations along the municipal boundary, and with both municipalities undertaking data collection and analysis for reporting at the committee's next meeting. A potential servicing request for McKenna's Estates, which is an existing residential development west of Elbow Valley in Rocky View County, requiring an amendment to the intermunicipal development plan prior to considering expanding the master service agreement between the City of Calgary and Rocky View County. The City of Calgary's North Central and South Belvedere area structure plans, including opportunities for administrative coordination and engagement with Rocky View County residents, and updates on the Omni area structure plan in Rocky View County and progress towards the joint intermunicipal development plan, which will include consultation with committee members in fall of 2026. Next meeting is scheduled for September 17th, 2026, and will be hosted by Rocky View County. And that's it. Thank you. Excellent. Thank you, Councillor Tyres. Any questions? Seeing none, would you like to uh move that? So moved. So moved and closed. If there's no debate and closed. Awesome. Anyone opposed? Seeing hearing none that is carried. And we're flying along to 7.6. Establishment of an intermunicipal committee, Foothills County in Rocky View County. By Jeff Robson. Come on down. Good afternoon, Chair and members of committee. Good to be with you here today. My name is Jeff Robson. I'm a planner with the regional planning team. I have a four-minute presentation if you'd like to receive it on the establishment of intermunicipal committees for Foothills County and Rocky View County by bylaw. Otherwise, I can move to questions. Anyone want to see a presentation? I think we can we briefed ourselves and read it already, so we'll go right to questions. One thing I'll note is I'd like to alert the clerks that there are revised bylaws. We've made note of it before, so that should not be a surprise to any of them. So if they could distribute them now, it's a minor technical change to the existing terms of reference. We're gonna physically distribute those, or are you gonna just send them to our inboxes? Okay, perfect, perfect. Well, thank you for the good work and uh sort of cut your stage time short. But we might have questions. Any questions? Oh, Counselor Ward. I bet you didn't think it would be me. Uh so a quick question, and hopefully somebody in the room can answer this. Uh my notes are a bit scattered, so we'll do as best as I can here. So uh my understanding is this agreement um dictates isn't the right word, but proposes that the entire all meetings be held in closed session. Now my understanding is MGA 195, you have to have 24 hours public notice of council committee meeting, and 197 requires that you meet in public unless specified under a specific Access to Information Act. How does that work? Uh Karen, I see you queuing up the microphone. Okay, I um I I mean me maybe that's something I don't know if we have um the legal team here. I think when uh the this is by bylaw, so the terms of reference the meetings are are held in public. Um which is there a specific section that you're referring to? Uh god, I I'm probably not gonna be able to find it right now. Like you you mean of the terms of reference? Yeah, so the terms of reference, so part of the of today's piece is that there's minor amendments to the terms of reference, um, but one of the changes is in the to bring it into legislative compliance. So we now need to adopt these by bylaw. There's no requirement as far as I I can recall from reading those that there that we that we would have things in closed session unless. I believe under the terms of reference that we can bring thing confidential items forward. That wouldn't necessarily be under closed session, but that's not the default posture. Okay, maybe I misread this because I had noted Rocky View's proposed terms of reference say all meetings are closed and all notes are non-public. Yeah, that is correct. That's the meeting between the the at the IMC itself, but when it comes back h here we would provide the update. Okay. We're good, thank you. Excellent. Good clarification there. Any other questions for the presenter? Thank you again for all your good work. Thank you, committee. Have a good day. Yeah, thank you. Um, who would like to move this? Councillor tires. Moved? Moved. Any debate? Closed. And closed. Okay. Uh that's closed. Does anybody have any objections? Seeing and hearing none, that is carried. On to 7.7. Airdrie Transit Fair Integration, presented by John Lee. That's J-O-N, just if anybody needs to clarify. That's correct. Thank you, Chair. Good afternoon, members of committee. I'm John Lee, Senior Leader of Transit Service Design. With me today, Sharon Fleming, Director of Calgary Transit, Lori Boyczyk, Manager of Service Planning and Strategy, Jordan Zukowski, Acting Leader of Strategy, Alex Predi, Calgary Transit Executive Advisor. We have Karen Holtz, Manager of Regional Planning. Kelly Kote, Manager of Government Relations, Carolyn Gaines, Leader of Intergovernmental Affairs. And if desired, we can present presentation on item 7.7. I know I have read all the materials. Does anybody want a presentation? I that's why I'm here. This is important, so I hate to rush everybody level. We're doing great, so go present away. Thank you, Committee. Next slide, please. So the recommendations before you today are to recommend that council direct administration to collaborate with the City of Airdrie to develop a scope of work for transit fair integration, returning with an update in Q1 of 2027 in conjunction with the Calgary Transit Fair Strategy. Request the Mayor send a letter responding to Mayor Spearman in Airdrie, indicating Calgary's support for exploring the potential for fair integration, and keep attachment too confidential pursuant to the Access to Information Act. Next slide, please. Exploring regional transit fair integration aligns with Council's strategic priorities and City of Calgary direction. Under Council's priority of trusted and collaborative government, the city collaborates with partners and other orders of government to enhance our operations and deliver services in more efficient ways. Calgary Transit's 30 year strategic plan, Route Ahead, also contains direction to work with our neighbors to develop a regional fair strategy and to promote growth in transit service in the region by connecting with partners to collaborate on initiatives. In addition, the recently established regional table highlights Calgary's focus on collaboration to support the entire region. Next slide, please. Over the years, we have worked with our neighbors in various ways to grow transit in the region. We have provided fleet to Cochrane when they first established their Colt Transit Service. We currently provide space for regional transit service providers, including Airdrie, at our stops and stations to facilitate smooth regional transfers to and from Calgary Transit's network. And in 2021, with Council Direction, we partnered with the City of Chestermere to extend the Max Purple Line to Chestermere, supporting intermunicipal travel while ensuring cost recovery for Calgary Transit. Today, with Council Direction, we are also discussing the potential to connect Calgary and Cetena Nation with transit service. Other regional initiatives like Prairie Economic Gateway in partnership with the Rocky View County support regional economic development, positioning the Calgary region as a significant industrial and logistics hub. These initiatives not only support the region as a whole, but support Calgary Transit ridership and Calgary businesses and communities by getting people around the region to work, school, appointments, and activities. Next slide, please. Airdree Transit currently operates intercity routes that bring employees and visitors right into Calgary's downtown. Other Airdrie Transit routes run between our Northeast Blue Line LRT stations, bringing Calgaryans to regional employment hubs on the northeast edge of the city in Rocky View County. Currently, customers pay separate fares when transferring between these two services. Next slide, please. Earlier this year, CAO Duckworth met with his counterpart in Airdrie to discuss regional transit fair integration. In April, Airdrie Council approved a new 10-year transit master plan, which includes both modernization of intermunicipal routes serving Calgary and exploring fair integration. Earlier in June, Mayor Spearman sent a letter to Mayor Farkas seeking Calgary Council support for our administrative teams to jointly explore fair integration. And Calgary Transit is currently working on a fair strategy and returning to committee in the first quarter of next year. Next slide, please. So, committee and council should consider some of the following factors up on the screen when making the decision to explore regional transit fare integration with AIRDRI. There are opportunities with this work to strengthen regional relationships and improve transportation in the region for Calgarians and regional residents as a whole, while also potentially supporting transit revenues. However, this work has the potential to affect other regional relationships, and feasibility studies may uncover complexities and costs to implement regional fair integration. It's important that the City of Calgary establish goals and principles for undertaking this work if it proceeds. Our key principles will ensure that we pursue service efficiency, reduce duplication, and ensure appropriate cost allocations. Next slide, please. While there is an opportunity and strong strategic guidance, there's no commitment at this time to regional transit fair integration. Further work is needed to establish a scope of work, confirm timelines, and explore feasibility to determine if it is a viable option, especially when considering fair payment collection technology and how cost sharing may work between the two municipalities. Council, of course, is the final decision maker on fares and whether to move forward with this work. If the work proceeds, administration is planning to provide regular memo updates to all of council on progress at key milestones once the scope of work and timelines are confirmed and as feasibility and options are explored. A progress update will also be brought in conjunction with the Calgary Transit Fair Strategy, going to Infrastructure and Planning Committee in Q1 2027. Calgary Transit's broader fair strategy work will include information for regional partners about the potential future direction for transit fair integration. And administration will also seek council direction before committing to or implementing any fair integration in the region. Next slide, please. Back to the recommendations before you. Given the alignment to strategic direction, current timing, strong focus on regional collaboration, and exploratory nature of the work at this time, there is a high opportunity and low risk. Administration recommends collaborating with Airdrie to explore the potential for regional transit fair integration. Thanks. And we can take any questions. Thank you for that update. And I'll just say it was nice about the stampede, is I think we all got a chance to talk with Mayor Spearman and a lot of the counselors are pretty excited about this. But I see Counselor Yule. Is in the queue. Yeah. Um just looking at slide number six. Um uh I'm just looking at the map here. So the current bus routes that Airdrie has is the nine oh one and the nine oh two. This is exploring a nine oh three and a nine uh hundred. Is that those the nine oh three and the nine hundred? Do those exist right now? Through the chair. They do not. They do not. And this is really just a uh from their transportation transit master plan. Yeah. So not uh what we're talking about today, which is the fair integration, but this is showing what their future routes could look like. Yeah, no, and I I think um I'm very interested in this and that and I would I would say um Councillor Dollywell would also be interested in these talks. Um so I would hope that you know ward three, ward five would be included as these this future of the Air Dree Transit Plan would be um affecting our wards quite a bit. Uh I see an opportunity there as well. Um so just want to make sure that uh word ward three and ward five are included in the discussions as we go forward. That's it. Thank you. That was a no, but that was a yes. Yes. No, uh that's great. I'm glad to see more transit going up to the north there since the green line might take a little while. But uh anybody else with uh questions for John? Counselor Tyres. Yes, thank you. Um just looking at this, I didn't see any kind of like full report to go along with these recommendations. So uh I I understand what the recommendations are, but I don't understand the meaning behind it, like the numbers showing, you know, how many people actually do travel from Calgary to Airdrie, what the cost breakdown would be. I don't see anything like that. Yes, thanks for that question. This is to get approval for us administration to work with Airdrie, and at that point we would start pulling together all of those details, the risks, the costs, and then we would come back to council. So it's really just approval for us to work with a regional neighbor to start those discussions. Okay, but I I I don't feel like it's enough information for us to even like take that next step. Like, um Yeah, it duh like as far as like what it's actually gonna offer to Calgary versus what's going to offer Airdrie or you know, um it just seems to just come out of kind of of left field. So um uh at this point I'm just not I'm just not sure about like taking that next step because there's also um a request for the mayor to send a letter indicating support for the potential transit fair integration. So if we're going to as a council go behind the mayor and send a letter, I think we need I I don't know, I just feel like we need more information. Uh through the chair, Councillor Tyres. So so what we're asking for here is simply direction to enter into a scope of work in order to collect the information you're asking about right now. We normally don't engage with municipalities outside of council direction. So this would be the first step in starting those conversations. Once the scope of work is defined, then we would come back to council to talk about what you're requesting or asking about. Okay, like i is there an estimate for how much like that scope of work is going to cost? So at the time that the scope of work is defined, then we would have an estimate. But how about the the s the estimate for the scope of work for the estimate? If that is not typically how we approach things, we typically will work with our, well, in this case, we we're we're we'd like to work with them to define the scope of work and boundaries that perhaps we'd like to create or or or things we want to consider before we do so, but but we'd like to work with them to kind of map out what that would be because it's still a very vague process at this time. Yeah. Okay, understood. Thank you very much. Uh Mayor Farkas had something to add. Yeah, the uh the the request of me to write the letter I think is relatively vague. I think I'm looking at I'm guessing about a paragraph. It's thank you for uh your correspondence. Our council committee voted to explore the scope of work and feasibility. And if I were to be a little bit sassy, I might say we want to make sure that we have fair cost recovery for for Calgaryans as such. So that's what I'm intending to put in the letter if you guys vote for that. Yeah. Okay, to be continued. Uh any other questions for representers? Seeing and hearing nothing none, I would look to maybe Councillor Yule to move. Yeah, happy to move. I've done a lot of transit advocacy and for the Green Line in particularly. And one of the things that we learned back in 2014 is that a lot of our congestion along the Center Street corridor comes from other municipalities like Airdrie and Cochrane. And so if we can have a way of finding some integration, I think it goes a long way in clearing up the congestion on our roads as well. If an Airdrie resident is able to get on a bus and continue into the city through our system, I think that's a that's a win for both municipalities. So I'm happy to see that we're We're moving in this direction. I think there there's definitely challenges and things that we need to work out, but I think this just starts the it's very high level in in starting the conversation and I think we gotta all start somewhere. So I'm happy to support this. Thank you. Any debate on the matter? Seeing oh, Councillor Shabot. Okay, no, just briefly I uh I know that um with the um purple line or extension out to Chester, uh that there was um a desire once we implemented it to increase the frequency. And then once we start we uh went down that path to determine what the cost implications would be for that, um and then Chestermere went, whoa, whoa, hold on a second here. Let's uh let's do a rethink on this. So as long as uh through this scoping report. Uh we make sure that the city is kept whole and that we are not subsidizing external customers to use our system because already our system is heavily subsidized by the mill rate. Um, you know what? I'm happy to entertain those kind of things to Counselor Gules' point. If it can reduce the congestions on our road, that's plus. But again, I don't want to see us uh further eroding the cost recovery that we're getting at the fare box by providing a service to our external customers. So, anyways, happy to support the scoping report and looking forward to uh seeing details around it. Thank you for that, Councillor Shabot. My two cents is I agree cost recovery and to be cheeky, as Mary Farkas said. I've often said when we send water or when we go to our our regional partners that we're a corporation we should make a profit, but that's actually if not if turns out not as popular as you think. So cost recovery it is. Happy to support as well. I uh the to close, uh counselor you? Closed. Okay, can we engage the E scribe? Mayor Farkas, your boat, please. Thank you, Chair. All the votes are in. Thank you. Looks like that has carried 8 to 0. So that puts us off the main agenda and looks like we're going into closed. Somebody to uh make a motion to go into closed, Councilor Tyres. Anybody opposed? Let's go to closed. Leave this meeting and see you in there. The Intergovernmental Affairs Committee will resume an open session shortly. Please make your way back to Council Chamber. Roll call, please. Thank you, Chair, to confirm quorum. Councilor Tires. Thank you. Councillor Shabot. Here. Thank you. Councillor Clark. Thank you. Councillor Dollywell. Thank you. Councillor Schmidt. Councilor Ward. Thank you. Mayor Farkas. Thank you. Councilor Atkinson, Councillor Jameson, Council Johnston, Councillor Kelly, Councillor Pentasopoulos, Councillor Yes, Councillor Yule. Thank you. And Chair McLean. I'm here. Perfect. Thank you. Uh we need someone to uh rise and report. I think that was Councilor Yule. Per perfect. And then uh before we have a motion to move. Well, yeah, I guess we could do that now. I think that was councilor uh clerks. Could you put the confidential items up on the screen? The recommendations for counselor clerk to move? So moved. So moved. So can we please engage the e scribe? Your vote, please. Thank you. Thank you. Councilor Tyrers, your vote, please. Yes? Thank you. And Mayor Farkas, your vote, please. Thank you. Chair all the votes are on. Thank you. And that is carried 8 to 0. There is a briefing on establishing intermunicipal regional pathways. Uh be f I do want to say thank you to all the people that from the intermunicipal government affairs, who are everybody involved that helped put on the Stampede get together for all the regional partners. That was fantastic. I think it was a great success. We had ministers, we had the mayor did a great speech, lots of mayors and Reeves. It was a real full on stampede thing. So thanks, that was cool. So maybe we'll do that again next year. That's a shrug. So We we'll see how that goes. Okay, can I get a mover to adjourn? Councillor Clark. So moved, so adjourned. 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