Combative sports bylaw
Penhold town council is going to be reviewing its combative sports bylaw and potentially tweaking it.
Mayor Dennis Cooper said a contact who was recently involved in bringing combative sports events to Calgary has taken a look at Penhold's bylaw and found some errors.
“Mixed martial arts will be doing a presentation at the next council meeting,” Cooper said. “Before we get excited about it we want to talk.”
The council meeting in question was scheduled for May 28 after the Innisfail Province went to press.
Cooper said the bylaw is meant to be “sort of like a safety code” so “if and when we have one of these events, we can do it safely and properly.”
“Hopefully we can get one of those competitions,” Cooper said. “If we had an event [here] with three thousand or four thousand people, it'd be a great thing for Penhold.”
Non-residential tax update
Non-residential property taxes in Penhold are going up only due to the provincial school requisition according to the town's chief administrative officer.
Rick Binnendyk, the town's CAO, said May 18 that for the most part non-residential property taxes are going up about 2.5 per cent, an amount caused by an increase to the school requisition. The education requisition amounts are set by the province and collected by the municipality. The municipality has no control over the amount.
Binnendyk said previously that residential property taxes are going up about 4.75 per cent, 2.5 per cent of which is due to the school requisition.
