UPDATE, March 12, 2025: Changed the amount for parkade lighting from $25,000 to $20,000 after confirmation of final amount in the AGM 2025 Agenda.
We’ll have more on this soon, but for now, the council meeting held on February 27, 2025, revealed the following:
The date of the next Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be March 31, 2025
Copperstone strata council is planning on asking for an increase of 10% to strata fees, after last year’s 5% increase
Council will be putting forward a special resolution regarding parkade lighting asking for an additional $20,000. This would come after owners initially approved $35,000 for the project a year ago.
Below is the explainer as a PNG image file. You can also find it as a PDF here.
This is still an important issue for Copperstone–there is a lot of money unaccounted for, budgets have not been presented accurately, and council has explained none of this to owners or residents.
Most long-term Copperstone residents will know that if we get a decent snowfall in the winter, something always follows: the four speed bumps leading into the guest parking lot and central courtyard get pulled out by whatever snow removal company has been hired.
The companies aren’t to blame–if they don’t know about the speed bumps and there is already snow on the ground, they literally can’t see them and will just plow them up.
The fault lies with our council.
Last year, in a conversation with me and my partner, our current strata president said the speed bumps getting plowed out was “inevitable.”
He’s wrong.
This year, council managed to come up with perhaps the worst idea regarding the speed bumps getting pulled out by the snow removal company: When snow was in the forecast, they called the company and had them remove the speed bumps in advance.
UPDATE: As of February 9, 2025 the speed bumps are still absent.
Why is this bad? Because council framed the issue incorrectly. They saw the problem as “the speed bumps always get accidentally removed” and found a solution to that (“we will intentionally remove them in advance”) when the real problem is “How do we keep the speed bumps in place so they can still be effective?” Instead of insuring the speed bumps stay in place so they can actually function, council did the opposite and took them away.
The speed bumps are a safety measure, to keep traffic from speeding in or out of the parking lot. If they are not there, there is nothing to slow traffic down. Wet, icy conditions (which we currently have) are when speed bumps are most needed–and our council had them removed because that’s the best they could come up with.
