Minutes – Jan 20 2011

Fraser Heights Community Association Minutes
Jan 20 2011

President’s report

• There will be 2 or 3 speakers presenting at the March meeting. Sheila Hui and Alicia Richards will be coming from TI to talk about the 156^th Street and the onramp access to Hwy 1. They will welcome questions and comments from the residents about this project
• There will be a presentation from Parks and Rec Surrey about the Fraser Height’s Community Centre’s expansion
• Hopefully, there will be a speaker to talk about the Transit plan for South of Fraser River – e.g., Guildford etc.

Treasurer’s report

• Financial statement – account balance is $4842.96

Police and safety update – Constable Dibblee

• There is currently a “rooming” house on 108^th around 158^th (15818 108^th Ave – on the south side of 108^th). It has housed anywhere from 15 to 19 adults. Several of the residents are known to police or are on parole. If you have any issues about goings-on in regards to this house, let the police know so they can keep track of the issues. The owners of this house have similar types of houses in other cities. This is one of the better ones of these houses. The Police are currently looking into the legality of this house. Please make reports if there are problems – police can only act if they get information. Parking has not been a problem as most of the residents do not have driver’s licenses.
• Constable Dibblee can be reached at: 604-839-6971, 778-593-3559 or at christopher.dibblee@rcmp-grc.gc.ca
• There was a spike in mail theft in Fraser Heights over Christmas. Advice was to make sure you pick up your mail nightly as this is still an ongoing problem.
• The Post office at Nester’s will be revamping their post office and will be putting in 60 new post boxes (they currently have 60 so this will give them a total of 120). (Note: Postage just went up 2 cents for regular mail.)
• Please note: Some areas are not receiving mail daily so there could be a lot of mail delivered at one time. Please make sure you check your boxes daily to clear mail from them.
• 2 vehicles were stolen last week. The first, a Dodge sedan, was stolen from 112^th Street between 163 and 164^th Streets. That vehicle was found abandoned by 107^th Ave and the 164B cul-de-sac where the second vehicle, an Audi, was stolen.

Traffic issues update

• 104^th Ave/160^th St – the south side intersection has a really high accident rate. TI will be looking at this intersection once 104^th has been rerouted under the 160^th overpass. They will then monitor the intersection and see what changes should or can be made. There have been over 225 accidents at that one intersection/ year so in 2 years that would make 450 more accidents. They don’t want to do interim measures because the whole intersection will be revamped when the new overpass and on/off ramps are built.
• There is signage that states there is no access to or from Fraser Heights via 152^nd and 110^th Ave (from the onramp to the #1 Hwy – it closed this past summer) are posted at:

a) 108^th Ave and 151^st Street

b) the corner of 108^th Ave and 160^th Street beside Quiznos/Scotia Bank

Rec Centre expansion update

• Tom Gill sent a letter/email saying the Fraser Heights Rec Centre expansion was passed.
• There is a model of this expansion in the lobby of the Rec Centre
• The weight room will be closing Feb 2011 (probably Feb 1) during the construction which is expected to be completed by the end of 2011. There will be a new 6500 sq ft gym, 800 sq ft for storage, 40 new parking spaces etc.
• The Rec Centre will remain open during construction and the downtime for programs is expected to be minimal.

Gateway noise abatement plan update

• Noise abatement walls – FHCA is in the process of finding out who got the contract to put in the walls. The contractor Kiewit hired is most likely the one who was at the open house that displayed the thin, frail wall. The wall is under construction on the Birdland side of the #1 if residents want to see what it looks like (you can view it from inside their community). It is not known how deep the posts will be into the ground, how stable the wall will be or what type of a finish will be used (a non-peeling one would be best). Mainroad Maintenance has 30 yr. contract to maintain the walls.
• The feedback collected from the Open house for the eastern part of Fraser Hts. should be available to us in a month or so – we want to review the input.

Next Meeting:

7 p.m. Wednesday, March 16, 2011 in the theatre at Fraser Heights Secondary School. This should be an interesting meeting – with 2 or 3 guest speakers!