|
Comments? Email |
|
NorthCoast's Regional Information
Site |
||||
NATURESea, land, river ECONOMYRegional PLACEBooks+ PEOPLESCommunity Images this
page from Power Point presentation at last council meeting |
Lucky
Butterworth has left as City Treasurer and Jim Bruce (back and right of
image) will take over for a couple months while a replacement found – (I’m told
he is doing this as a personal favour for old friend Gordon Howie – center of
above image) |
|
Airport Ferry goes over budget There is a
problem here in accountability – see below Skeena Taxes 2005 ‘explain’ some of
the surplus – will need to be written off (1.025M$) Budgeted but
not done ‘explain’ why
balance sheet looks ‘good’ |
|
|
Accountability
issue |
|
Local
taxpayers are putting >864T$ into the airport ferry ‘We’
choose to subsidize it to the tune of 72$ per person – even though most don’t
use it --- plus as the Airport Society is ‘independent’ of the city there is
little accountability – I’m told this will change -- soon |
|
|
‘Savings’ |
|
Police force had fewer
members and there was some $$ adjustments from 2004 for ‘saving’ of 521T$
over what was budgeted Plus
many expensive public works projects were not done (budget freeze first half 2005) Thus
the elevator in city hall did not break down – but will – The roof at X
lasted another year etc – these are all expensive and will have to be done –
presumably in 2006 |
|
|
Here is the
Skeena Pulp mill figures from Power Point presentation |
|
|
|
|
Subsidizing?
|
|
While it is in
‘Accountant’ Speak --- looks to me like the water funds etc are used to
subsidize other operations— |
|
|
|
|
|
Created by LG on Feb/05/2006
Last updated on Monday, February
06, 2006