It's that time of year when town councils around the foothills hold their organizational meetings.

that includes appointing councillors to various town committees and appointing citizens to also sit on those boards as well..

Joan Pletz with the Town of High River says it's easy to apply.

"They casn go to our website at highriver.ca and under the Town Hall menu you just go to Boards and Committees and the application form is right there and there's also Board and Committee Vacancies to show which boards have vacancies," she says.

She says the boards act as advisors to council.

"We have a liason from administration that sits and acts as the secretary and supports them," she says. "It's through them that council gets recoomendations, just advice and recommendations that they can bring forward to concil."

Council holds its organizational meeting Oct. 26 so applications need to be in before that.