CBPOA
Directors' Meeting May 6,
2020
Activities and Actions
Present: Andrew, Beryl, Jim, Liz. Bruce.
1. A Director's Meeting was held in lieu of a
General Meeting on May 6, 2020 via Zoom, due to the requirement for
social distancing to combat the COVID-19 outbreak.
2. The increased numbers of people coming
into the beach area during the COVID -19 outbreak was discussed. The general feeling was that, as long as
visitors respected private property and the posted hours for public areas
(basically from dawn to dusk), that people should be welcome to use the public
parking and beach pathways to exercise and enjoy fresh air. Concerns were raised regarding visitors
parking on private land, or blocking driveways; speed of traffic along
Sullivan, McBride and other side streets, and the need for all who use the area
to respect social distancing guidelines.
A letter was sent to Councillor Linda Annis outlining the concerns of
the CBPOA.
3. Alternatives to door-to-door canvassing
were discussed for July and August, 2020.
Bruce offered to research online payment options, and to draw up a form
that members could fill out online and submit with their payment. Members are
always welcome to mail their fee to Bruce or drop it into his mailbox. Person-to-person contact will be missed; we
will have to work in different ways to encourage membership.
4. Beryl introduced a potential CBPOA history
project. She is going through the CBPOA archives, organizing them with the goal
to preserving them. Beryl to contact the City of Surrey Archives and also the
Library to ask what they look for in such a project, Liz to research several
other websites to see how they have done it, Liz to source a CBSC 100th
Anniversary book.
The following is May 2020 The Blackie Spit Working Group’s
Update Report to the membership.
Regards
Ron
Blackie Spit Working Group Report -
2020-05-08
Action Items with updates
2019.01 Beachfront Path Extension
The Beachfront path should be
extended to the end of the parking lot in order to provide safe pedestrian
access to the Spit as suggested in the Blackie Spit Master Plan 1999.
Status: ONGOING
· 2020-05-08 Update
§ Assessed by environment consultan and
no show stoppers. Currently mapping vegetation so can submit notification to
provincial authorities.notification takes 45 days once submitted so potentially
could start in August unlikely to start before August.
2019.06 Support the Annual
RCMP Summer Weekend
Support for the annual RCMP summer
weekend initiative as part of overall beach and park security.
Status: ONGOING
· 2020-05-08 Update
§ District
5 RCMP advised that the summer weekend initiative is going ahead as in past
years.
2020.01 Pier Maintenance
Status: ONGOING:
· 2020-05-08 Update
- The Consultant Report has been received and
the Consultant is preparing the contract specifications in order to put
out to tender. Work is expected to proceed in Fall 2020
2020.02 Playground Upgrade (across
from Camp
A
Status: ONGOING:
· 2020-05-08 Update
§ Mark
Lepik - City of Surrey Park Operations Coordinator
2020.03 Closure of
Christopherson Steps and 101 steps
Status: ONGOING:
o 2020-05-08 Update
§ Mark
Lepik - City of Surrey
Park Operations Coordinator advised both Stairs are closed due to Covid
19. The Christopherson Stairs were damaged over the winter and even
if the COVID 19 restrictions were to be lifted
the Christopherson Stairs will remain closed for repairs.
Repairs are scheduled to begin May 19 and last 3 weeks
