Mayor and Council June 7, 1974

3. Civil Defence By-law

Council requested that we review the present City of Port Coquitlam Civil Defence
By-law to see if there was adequate authority to cover emergency powers of the
Mayor and Council. As a result of contacting Victoria on this matter they have

sent us a current by-law recommended to be adopted by municipalities and covering
emergency measures. After reviewing this by-law we feel that the by-law presently
in force in the City is adequate. The problem that we find with the draft for~
warded from Victoria is that it is not consistent with the present wording in the
Civil Defence Act whereas our current by-law does conform with this wording.
Council may recall that we revised our Civil Defence By-law last year. The body
delegated to deal with matters in an emergency is defined as a Control Committee
under the By-law and the amendments carried out in 1973 defined the line of
succession of members of this Committee with the Mayor being the Chairman. It
would appear that there is adequate power vested in the Mayor or Chairman of the
Control Committee under our current by-law and I would recommend that the by-law
be left as is. If the Civil Defence Act is amended in the future it may necessi~

tate amendments to our by-law.

4. Flood Control Program

Alderman Traboulay asked me to find out the reason for the sandbagging operations
on Colony Farm property. It appears that Colony Farm has undertaken to construct
some secondary dykes on a portion of their property. This area does not come under
the control of the Dyking Commission and there are apparently some dykes that are
not wide enough to drive a vehicle along to dump gravel for dyke protection in
times of high water. Rather than improve this piece of dyke to a standard that
would permit vehicular access they have apparently decided to back it up with a

secondary sandbag dyke.

At a meeting held with the Water Resources Branch, Department cf Highways, and
some members of our Council on May 8th the Water Resources Branch informed us
that. our dykes were in good condition and are acccessible to trucks via a road
along the top of the dyke and it is therefore not necessary to carry out any
sandbagging operations at this stage.