Chilliwack – At the Tuesday September 20 Chilliwack Council meeting, Council will talk about the homeless as well as get the numbers from the recent Chilliwack Fair and receive the Request for Proposal documents to the selected proponents for engineering services for the “Sardis Vedder Aquifer Groundwater Model Update Study.
Chilliwack city council is expected consider whether to seek a BC Supreme Court injunction to order to move the homeless persons off of the parking lot of the old Empress Hotel. The property off Five Corners is owned by the City.
The 2016 Chilliwack Fair by the numbers: attendance increased by 5% over 2015 and our highest to date.. Gate fees were $65000. Sponsorship monies from the business community in the amount of $28,000.‘Goods in kind’ from the business community in the amount of $73,000 and more than 350 volunteers worked at the 2016 Fair, for at least 5100 hours. At $10 per hour this would be valued at $51,00.
With regards to the Sardis Vedder Aquifer Update Study(From the City website):
