The first order of business is the election of the chair and vice-chair. The Corporate Legislative Officer will call the meeting to order and conduct the elections pursuant to the CVRD Board procedure bylaw.

Sewage Commission management report dated February 2022 for receipt. [Item] 

The following items are presented for receipt:

- Minutes of the Comox Valley Sewage Management Advisory committee meeting held February 1, 2022 for receipt. [Item] 

- Minutes of the Comox Valley Sewage Management Advisory committee meeting held February 8, 2022 for receipt. [Item] 

The following are presented for receipt concerning the Sewer System Conveyance Project - Scope Confirmation Decisions:

- Report dated February 10, 2022 regarding a recommendation for the final Sewer System Conveyance Project design-build component scope,including construction of a new Courtenay Pump Station (CPS), alignment from CPS to K’ómoks First Nation (KFN) IR#1, construction methodology through KFN IR#1, removal of the horizontal direction drill through Comox Hill, and the Lazo Hill and Lazo Marsh alignment. [Item] 

- Technical reports for the Sewer System Conveyance Project design-build component. [Item] 

THAT the design-build components of the Sewer System Conveyance Project noted in the staff report dated February 10, 2022 with the technical reports be fully endorsed, including:

• Replacing the Courtenay Pump Station
• Upgrading the Jane Place and K’ómoks First Nation pump stations
• Installing a new sanitary sewer forcemain via:

- Cut and cover from the Courtenay pump station to the west boundary of the Town of Comox on Comox Road
- Horizontal directional drilling from the corner of Torrence Road and Lazo Road to the unopened Baron Road right of way off Morland Road
- Cut and cover from Baron Road down Morland Road
- Cut and cover across Lazo Marsh to the Comox Valley Water Pollution Control Centre

• Pre-digging of the cut and cover forcemain alignment from the west side of K’ómoks First Nation IR#1 to just east of Bayside Road to allow for due care and attention to all archeologically sensitive materials in this ancient settlement site;

AND FURTHER THAT Comox Valley Regional District staff be directed to complete negotiations for the project agreement with the Town of Comox, embedding the final alignment for the conveyance project through the Town of Comox and extent of surface restoration and improvements to be included in the project scope, and bring the agreement back to the Sewage Commission for review and approval in March or April 2022 as a design-bid-build procurement;

AND FINALLY THAT the revised Sewer System Conveyance Project capital cost estimate of $82 million be incorporated within the recommended 2022-2026 financial plan, including $30 million from reserves and $52 million from debt.

Report dated February 10, 2022 regarding the acknowledgement of concerns raised by local residents by developing a policy outlining mitigating measures that will be implemented to avoid impacting groundwater for receipt [Item] 

THAT the Lazo Hill Groundwater Protection Policy attached as Appendix A to the staff report titled “Groundwater Protection Policy” and dated February 10, 2022, be approved.

Report dated January 7, 2022 regarding an update on the Sewer Extension South Project. [Item] 

Note: The above-noted report was referred from the January 10, 2022 Electoral Areas Services Committee to the Sewage Commission for information.