NATURE

Sea, land, river

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Council Meeting 10/10/06	Thorkelson in chair
	Cote surprised me: Transparency’ advocate

While Briglio seemed to consistently argue for ‘investor privacy’ over Public’s right to know

See Bylaw for Tax exemptions below – needs public scrutiny

New Feature: score card

Rationale: ‘people are elected on name recognition’ –
And so long as not offend some vocal public they continue to be elected

Or that is the conventional wisdom in PR – score card meant to highlight both good performers and slackers

10/ 10 2006 MTG	Spoke	My Grade
Bedard, Kathy	4 times	C+
Briglio, Tony	14 "	B
Gordon-Payne, Sheila	9 "	B
Thorkelson, Joy	7 "	B
Cote, Ken	8 "	B
Kinney, Nelson	1 time	D
Pond, Herb	Absent	Absent

See https://www.zerocrashmonth.com/
the site has ‘crash rate’ for different communities

Prince Rupert (which is the lowest I saw – which may make hard to be winner)

Rupert: 29.43
Terrace 57.8

Prince George 59.7

Proclaim Zero Crash Month

While this was a no brainer–both Gordon-Payne and Cote were able to give the matter more depth--- The former suggested include the schools and Thorkelson agreed and extended to share any reward

--- Cote then to another level when ‘what else other than proclaim a safety month?’--- response: working w RCMP etc Here is 400K WAV

Lane closure

Again city lane property offered to people w adjacent lots – the person had assessed and a value arrived at: while Cote wanted the result to be made public Briglio felt confidentiality was needed

Note the attached image makes property unidentifiable too – though original documents were clear on location --- this led to an humorous exchange between Cote and Briglio --- Here is WAV

Prince Rupert

Date: Oct 17, 2006

Time: 06:30 PM - 09:30 PM

Venue: The Crest Hotel (BC Room), 222

http://www.bc-ebc.ca/

see Current page and STV etc

Public meeting on electoral boundaries

Councillor Gordon-Paye ‘volunteers’

Both Bedard and Thorkelson strong and relevant in pointing out pit falls for rural north vs populous south – in the end G-P is chosen/ railroaded into making presentation

1) NH & hospital update 2)RoyOP update 3) BC Hydro rezoning (??) 4) Rushton float and Pay parking 5) SunWave Pulp sent letter that tax free ends in 2008 if no pulp produced 6) Budget 2007 in works 8) List of NTI projects being done for presentation to Council 9) City hired a person dedicated to doing web pages --- = increased transparency

Cote again has public in mind

Had CEO prepare update on projects in PR --- and asked him to read it so everyone could be informed

Here is sound clip of CEO summarizing page

The Web site is great news –was promised for August – but only one person could do work and all the IT (Information Technology) too --- so nothing happened

2 items of correspondences added to agenda

Background: Council package used to include most the correspondence – but for some reason presently circulated among councillors before meeting and only items that interest a councillor put on agenda

In conversation w Mayor Pond he agreed to but correspondence (images) on the City’s New web site so public can see too – along with numerous other documents that might interest public but perhaps merely clutter information packages

Bylaw for Tax exemptions

This was hurriedly passed as Council wanted to leave--- but should be carefully scrutinized by public:

Along with all the churches etc are things like the Museum Building --- (including all those offices???) and things like the Curling Club—Gun range --- Golf Course – etc --- these need closer scrutiny as not clear of public role or why deserve to not pay taxes—then there is a day care listed – why one and not all?? Etc

Created by LG on Feb 1, 2006

Last updated on Thursday, October 12, 2006