{"id":15,"date":"2016-05-04T04:57:29","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T04:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15.223.70.103.temp.anaxanet.com\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-06-12T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T01:31:24","slug":"town-office","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/?page_id=15","title":{"rendered":"Town Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n<h2><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Municipal Government<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Town Council<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>The Town of Birch Hills is governed by elected officials that are made up of one Mayor and six Councillors.\u00a0 The Town Office and Administration is your link to Council.\u00a0 The staff is there to provide assistance to meet your needs and bring forth any issues to Council in a\u00a0timely manner.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/15.223.70.103\/?lsvr_document=bylaw-15-2022-council-procedures\">Council\u00a0Procedures Bylaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000; text-decoration: underline;\">Council Meetings<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Regular Meetings of Council are open to the public for viewing and are held on the 2nd &amp; 4th Wednesdays of each month, with the exception of July, August and December.\u00a0 The meetings are held at the Civic Centre in the Council Chambers located at 126 McCallum Avenue or via a zoom link below. Please ensure you select the corresponding link for the 2nd or 4th Wednesday.\u00a0 Meetings start at 7:00 pm.\u00a0 <strong><em>It should be noted that any correspondence to Council must be submitted by 4:00 pm 2 days before the Council Meeting.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2nd Wednesday of the month: <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/83278359723\">https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/83278359723<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4th Wednesday of the month: <a href=\"https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/89168046654\">https:\/\/us06web.zoom.us\/j\/89168046654<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #008000;\"><strong>Speaking Before Council<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span>Individuals or groups wishing to make a delegation on a topic directly to Council should contact the Town Office for a meeting appointment time.\u00a0 Each delegation is required to fill out a <a href=\"http:\/\/15.223.70.103\/?lsvr_document=bylaw-15-2022-council-procedures\">Council Meeting Appointment Request Form<\/a> and submit it to the Town Office no later than 4:00 pm 2 days before the Council Meeting.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>Tips for presenting<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Delegations are typically placed at the beginning of the agenda, unless a specific time is requested and granted by Council.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Presentations are limited to 15 minutes, excluding time to answer any questions put forward by Council.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Unless otherwise permitted, spokespersons should be limited to one individual<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Please provide electronic copies of all required materials for discussion.<\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Councillors will ask only those questions which are relevant to the subject of the hearing and will avoid repetition.\u00a0 Delegations speaking to the subject will be restricted to the subject matter only.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;427&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Municipal Government Town Council The Town of Birch Hills is governed by elected officials that are made up of one Mayor and six Councillors.\u00a0 The Town Office and Administration is your link to Council.\u00a0 The staff is there to provide assistance to meet your needs and bring forth any issues to Council in a\u00a0timely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birchhills.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}