Author: Chad Cardiff

In the fall of 2024, Council asked SaskPower to assess where trees growing around the power lines in the village needed trimming.  Trimming is necessary to ensure reliability of service and for safety purposes.

Over the past two weeks, a contractor representing SaskPower has been conducting this assessment throughout the village.  While most of the trimming required is around the primary line, on the road allowance, some trimming of trees interacting with the secondary (service) lines into properties may also be required.  Residents will be contacted to discuss the needs on their property, where appropriate.  Some residents have already been contacted.

The contractor conducting the assessment is aware of the village’s desire to maintain our tree canopy as much as possible.

Council has been advised that the work is likely to take place in the fall of 2025.

Resort Village of Sunset Cove Council 

The resort village wishes to remind our residents to only utilize the services of septic haulers that have received their Letter of Approval from our resort. We need to ensure that all haulers who attend into Sunset Cove have a current certificate from the Water Security Agency and that they carry adequate insurance in case of a mishap.

Currently, Aquarius and NorthShore are the only two septic haulers permitted to conduct business within our resort. The fines for both the home owner and septic haulers for violating our bylaw are substantial. We kindly request that all residents only use septic haulers off of our approved list. Thank you.

Recently, our minimum fire callout fee rose from $5,000.00 to $8,000.00. This fee is for any event that our fire service responds to, including false alarms. This fee increases by $3,000.00 if the fire service are on site for more than 3 hours and for every three hour period after that. If additional fire services or specialized equipment is required, there would be additional fees associated to that. (Kannata Valley had five different fire services respond to their 2018 fire).

While previously, having a $10,000 in insurance coverage for a fire response was generally considered adequate, this is no longer the case. One may want to consider increasing their insurance coverage here to $20,000.00 dollars, which generally should cover your costs regarding fighting a large fire. Remember, these costs are initially billed to our Resort Village, which then applies them to your taxes, if they are left unpaid.