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By rdnewsNOW Staff

REPORTS AND BYLAW UPDATES

City council recap: March 10

Mar 11, 2025 | 4:42 PM

In the regularly scheduled Red Deer city council meeting on March 10, municipal representatives received policing and utility reports and updated bylaws.

Accepted as part of the consent agenda, Superintendent Holly Glassford presented the Quarterly Community Policing Report for the third quarter of 2024 (October to December).

Some highlights of the report include:

• Persons crimes decreased by 19 per cent and fraud-related crimes are decreasing, however, RCMP are continuing to prioritize taking investigatory and public awareness steps.
• Property crimes decreased by 17 per cent when compared to Q3 of 2024.
• The Crime Reduction Team (CRT) spent significant time conducting covert patrols in hotspots in the downtown, resulting in 12 street-level drug enforcement files and the arrest of 12 individuals. CRT also conducted a Targeted Response to Auto theft (TRAP) operation.
• The General Investigation Section and Intel Unit & Project Team proactively targeted drug dealers; two search warrants of note lead to the seizure of over 464 grams of illegal drugs, including fentanyl and meth.
• The Youth and Community Action Team continued to foster community-building and education with a number of in-person events with school boards, students, parents, seniors and newcomers to Canada.

Council also received and accepted an Annual Compliance Report from the Electric Light and Power department, as mandated by the Alberta Utilities Commission Code of Conduct Regulation.

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A joint report from the City of Red Deer and Red Deer County was also presented, outlining updates to the Terms of Reference for the Regional Collaboration Committee (RCC).

The RCC is a council committee established from the City and the County’s adoption of an Intermunicipal Collaboration Framework. Its purpose is to facilitate ongoing discussions between the two municipalities.

The Terms of Reference were adopted in 2021 and this first update was approved by Red Deer’s city council during the Mar. 10 meeting. Red Deer County must now approve it as well, before it can come into effect.

It is currently on the County’s March 11 council schedule for approval.

Finally, council passed first reading of an update to the Off-Site Levy Bylaw.

Off-site levies are charged to developers to fund infrastructure like roads and utility systems when redeveloping existing areas and building new ones.

If second and third readings are passed, the average off-site levy rate in 2025 would be projected at $164,605 per hectare, down from $204,816 per hectare in 2019.

The City says this change has been proposed in response to engagement with the development community, development trends, growth projects and updated, realistic project staging for infrastructure projects that influence the rate.