The following represents a summary of decisions from the Regular Council Meeting held by Salisbury Town Council on August 10, 2026. These represent highlights, and are not formal Council minutes, which are posted upon approval at a future Regular Council Meeting.
With the meeting called to order at 6:00 PM, Council began by approving the Minutes for the previous meeting, and also approved a three-item Consent Agenda.
Presentations
Plan360 Planner Sam Gerrand joined the meeting for his formal Public Presentation, in adherence with New Brunswick’s Community Planning Act, of the proposed By-law No. 16-2, A By-law to Amend By-law No. 16, Town of Salisbury Municipal Plan. (For more information in relation to this, visit https://salisburynb.ca/sunrise-twilight-subdivision/.) Proposed is the creation of a new zone called Residential Mix that would accommodate a proposed housing development for Town-owned PIDs No. 01089606 and No. 70568167. The formal public consultation process, during which there is a 30-day period for written objections to be submitted to the Clerk, will lead up to a Public Hearing on the matter scheduled for September 21, 2026.
Also on Monday evening, Council hosted a presentation by resident Rebecca Slocum, asking the Town to consider developing beach volleyball courts. Council passed a motion to direct staff to look into options and costs ahead of budget talks.
A Community Wildfire Resilience Plan was presented to Council by Kara McCurdy of Transitional Solutions Inc. TSI was contracted by Southeast Regional Service Commission to develop plans for Salisbury and five other municipalities that opted-in. Council directed staff to start acting on the recommendations in the report, including seeking funding partnership opportunities.
Staff have also been directed by Council to act on the preliminary recommendations in a report on Lot Size and System Capacity Assessment submitted by presenter Brennan Thorne of engineering firm CBCL. This includes prioritizing strategic investment along Fredericton Road and prioritizing the protection of private water supplies while managing growth and development, integrating a program to monitor wells.
Resolutions
Following a Reports section of the agenda for information only, with no decisions made, in which staff provided Council with a second quarter financial update, Council concluded the meeting with three resolutions:
– to enter into a funding agreement with the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in which an FCM program would cover 82 per cent of the costs to develop a Sunrise-Twilight Naturalized Wetland;
– to approve Mayor Campbell’s councillor appointments to Committees of Council;
– and to formally acknowledge that it received the petition in support of the beach volleyball courts request.
The next meeting of Council will be the Special Council Meeting on September 21st for the public hearing on the proposed amendments to By-law 16, the Municipal Plan, and By-law 17, the Zoning By-law, in order to create the new Residential Mix zone that would be applied to two Town-owned properties located east of Sunrise and Twilight avenues. Salisbury Lions Club, 63 Peter Street, will be the site of that Special Council Meeting, which will begin that evening at 7:00 PM.