Four years after the devastating flood that hit High River, the Town's Ad Hoc Disaster Recovery Program Advocacy Committee has been dissolved.

Members received kudos from town council Monday for all of their work in improving the DRP system, which councillor Don Moore called "a severely disabled system" with all of its work.

Council thanked them for going from being just an annoyance to the Provincial Government in the days, weeks, months and even years after the flood to becoming a resource for the government.

Chair Jim Ross agreed.

"You know, somewhere along the way we realized that senior Alberta Emergency Management Agency staff were taking us seriously and we were getting call backs from the Minister of Municipal Affairs, and at that point we knew that they realized that what we were doing had value," Ross says. "We knew there was a problem and we spoke to Mayor (Craig) Snodgrass and he said 'Yes, we realize there's a problem, could you kindly just jump in and figure out what needs to be done' and that's how it began."

Ross, council, and the other members of the committee, Tom Dutton, Debra Smith and Bill Fowler, thanked Sarah Bruinsma and Eleanor McDonald for their work dealing with the huge caseload.

Committee member Tom Dutton says the biggest changes to the program haven't happened yet.

"They (the provincial government) worked with us and we worked with them to help improve the system as it was," he says. "I think the biggest change would be they now say they're quite committed to improving the system, and if that gets accomplished and it includes the recommendations that we made, and others made, then I would say that's an accomplishment that'll take home, I'm pretty happy with that."

Debra Smith says reams of their work will be saved to hopefully help others.

"The Town is in the process of archiving all our material, so that's all our reports, all the reports from the outreach workers, all of the letters to the Premiers, the Ministers, all the stats are in there, all the reports from previous disasters that we used as a reference, were going to have our website in there, so that's all going to be saved forever and a day, so when the next disaster comes and a community has to reach out they can access all the material and that will be key, because we had nothing," Smith says.

Ross says their website will remain active for another five years for anyone who wants to check it out and gather information.

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