The Town of Vermilion will once again be a member of Community Futures Lloydminster and Region.
Council received a request from the organization as to whether they will be continuing their membership.
Administration said the town has other memberships that are beneficial to the community and the region.
Coun. Kevin Martin asked if the renewal membership costs changed.
“The Community Futures, I don’t have a history on that one, so I couldn’t find that,” said Mike van der Torre, Vermilion interim CAO.
Coun. Robert Pulyk spoke to his time with Community Futures.
“Community Futures really focuses on helping entrepreneurs in the area. It covers quite a broad area, there are 12 municipalities in our region within this organizations, we have Lloydminster, Vermilion, County of Vermilion River, RM of Wilton, RM of Britannia, Kitscoty, Marwayne, Paradise Valley, Dewberry, Lashburn, Marshall, Onion Lake Cree Nation,” he said.
Pulyk says the reason this is coming forward is because Community Futures is redoing its bylaws and is looking to see if municipalities still want to have an elected official appointed to the organization.
“I can tell you having been on this group, there is no fee for us to belong. But it definitely provides the elected official the opportunity to network. Network is the key here, with all the different municipalities that are involved with community futures to provide input as to where the funding should be directed for community futures,” he said.
Community Futures says if 75 per cent wish to give up their membership it would lead to a restructuring based fully on volunteer members at large.
Other Community Futures offices in Alberta have already made the shift to a volunteer board rather than having municipally appointed officials.
Vermilion council voted in favour of renewing their membership with Community Futures Lloydminster and Region.
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