Maple Ridge council is filling out the last meetings of its first year in office with a list of topics such as farming, gravel and sewers, in that order.

Council roughed out its schedule for the next three months in which the next big issue will be discussion of the agricultural plan. That document attempts to make a blueprint for farming in the district for the next few decades and will be presented to council either Oct. 5 or 19.

Following that, on Oct. 19, councillors will dig into the topic of its gravel reserves and attempt to get to the nitty-gritty of the issue. That same meeting, they’ll review the construction of the sewer line to Fraser Regional Correctional Centre at 256th Street and Alouette Correctional Centre for Women on 248th Street.

Discussion of the Fraser sewer area, the area where Metro Vancouver deems sewer lines should run, will follow. After that, the district starts planning its planning – when a report on the sequencing of its area plans goes to council Oct. 26.

The meeting of Nov. 9, council will get an update on the Albion area plan, and on Nov. 16, it will discuss its environmentally sensitive areas mapping report which council has delayed accepting.

In late November, early December, budget planning starts, while Metro Vancouver’s new Regional Growth Strategy again lands on council’s desk late in the year.

Maple Ridge also has an extensive invitation list of those it wants to hear make presentations in the next three months.

It wants to hear from representatives involved with the Run of River Power Inc.’s plans to put turbines and small dams on eight creeks that flow into the Upper Pitt River.

It also wants both provincial and federal response on water licences for the North Alouette River.

Metro Vancouver and its waste-to-enegy garbage incinerators, TransLink, RCMP, school district and transportation ministry will all be called on to the carpet.