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From the April 28^th Info package	Prince George Delegation
PG to Fly in and talk Port	Letter lists who is coming and who they are wanting to meet with – mainly Port expansion and transportation issues – note they are to fly into Terrace--- while they expect Cancer treatment patients to take Bus to PG?
NDI – New Era ‘welfare’ for investors(?) —Here is their site April 18th funded 20T of 73T$ Regional Container Market Opportunities Project	An interesting file and one of only many that sees the rules for NDI as unfair and boards as ‘unresponsive’ – Mayor Herb Pond is good local contact on this issue – both in experience (quit recently in disgust(?))and ‘short comings’ Note NDI newsletter in package that is not available to public on NDI site

These info packages contain a lot of information for those interested what is going on in town --- often City will get mail outs from lobby groups but also public interest info

The files are PDF and often 8 Megs size

Here is frame where files are listed – usually comes out weekly

	Real Estate
	Comments on a Seal Cove property requested too; understandably done in-camera – but this record of advertisements done for Atlin Uplands requests for development proposals – could/ should have been done in open meeting

Exempting Utilities from local Bylaws Idea is that IPP (Independent Power Producers) fall under purview of Cabinet not municipal	Links Privatized Power producers (IPP) And here is a Citizen Group warning about ‘clean energy’ sic etc – which should make Municipal councils worry	BC Civic Net issues for municipalities
		Seniors Housing Conference (postponed till Sept) (Down loading?) In 2004, the then Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women’s Services challenged local government to become more active and involved in planning and responding to the rising demand for appropriate housing and community support by the rapidly growing senior population. UBCM was charged with helping this happen. What UBCM has learned through initial discussion with local governments is that they want information and opportunities to discuss and interact with others. They want to know what other local governments are doing or have done and how they did it. This conference responds to those desires.

Links Competition Council web site The full 122 page report for re-vitalizing Woods industry is there---	Business Friendly New Era wishes to reduce costs for Pulp Mills etc and shift burden to residential tax payers (Rupert’s own Dan Miller part of this— He has gone a long way from people’s advocate to industry spokesperson)
	Councillor Briglio gave another view: as pulp mills etc aged their assessment went down—and Municipalities were ‘forced’ to rais tax rate to maintain cash flow—over years this became ever higher which made building a new mill cost prohibitive
More New Era rip off agenda—everyone dependent on forest industry??

Site/ agenda – includes Philosophy	Another Herbal Junket? Or Useful info?
	Development practices: re-generation
Gaining Ground puts emphasis on two features: an integrative, interdisciplinary model; and what Storm Cunningham of the Revitalization Institute calls the “Re” words: revitalization, regeneration, reuse, redevelopment, reintegration, restoration, remediation. As distinct from other events that many of us have attended, Gaining Ground is focused on regeneration strategies—“renewing the capacity of the built environment we’ve already developed” (Storm)—and on the application of whole systems thinking to development—in projects, policy, process and public thought.

Created by LG on Feb 1, 2006

Last updated on Monday, May 08, 2006