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Mayor Herb
Pond was absent & Corey was present by phone link --- Nelson Kinney was
alternates’ alternate for PR |
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It often
happens the agenda package items more ‘substance’ than the actual meeting ● Waste Management reports ISWAC – Cruise Ship – Plastics And Recycling Electronics ●Tlell new web site & Tsunami prep ● Checks over 5T$ -- controversy ● LRMP minutes and election--- $$ request -- Gas Tax rebate +
‘talking’ ● NMCA – carry Flag ● Tourism Funding requests ● Questions: 90.1? and 2006 Census implications for voting |
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Overview:
the firing of Janet Beil caused some outbreaks of anger: especially the rural
vs municipal members – and after meeting from questions from public Janet
mentioned in passing she would not have called a meeting in April as costs
$6,200 to bring over all the board members, and April is UBCM meeting too
which means Taxpayers have to pay for 2 trips in one month |
'Building effective regional districts' |
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There
was a 4 page summary of a UBCM workshop held in 2006 included in agenda
package – but not found on WWW --- shows that some of the ‘problems’ locally
are endemic in BC’s Regional District model --- several of the Board members
used phrase ‘thinking regionally’ – which was prominent in ‘report’ – as were
conflicts between larger and smaller jurisdictions etc |
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SQCRD has 2 segments waste
management: Mainland and QCIs |
Regional
Waste Management |
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ISWAC
meeting had report on imminent closure of regional landfill phase 1 which
will cost 600T$ See
the QCI Observer
account of meeting Included
also in minutes was KM complaining of Double billing – he pays for a local
contractor and is still billed by SQCRD for garbage – a IPSWAC motion was
passed to change RD Bylaw – but nothing at meeting mentioned perhaps because
the manager gave his opinion intent of original bylaw was all should pay and
no opt out |
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Cruise Ships
and Recycling Plastics |
Mainland Recycling |
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Cruise
ships want to recycle their plastic – but presently uneconomic as trucks
filled with plastic only carrying 5 Tonnes instead of 21 T paid for --- Question
then was to charge more etc More
interesting was the Hong
Kong company wanting to ‘buy’ scrap metal for recycling – a
product of new Container facilities—some talk about ‘trucking’ but Briglio
said Maier Terminals had agreed to all trucks not just RR delivery Also
Encorp Pacific
deal will allow recycling
electronic goods from this summer |
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TSUNAMI
prep Evacuate to
> 6 meters for safety |
TLLEL
minutes --
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Included
in Agenda Package --- notes they have new web site WWW.Tlell.ca (not online yet) Tlell
has a phone tree for warningand Emergencies--- I found the discussion that
need to consider anything <6 meters as potential danger – especially when
prolonged earthquake trembling etc --- this kind of material not discussed in
Prince Rupert |
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Rupert
used to give a similar listing in its ‘public’ meetings – but now must be done
in-camera |
Checks
over 5T$ |
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This
generated the most controversy in meeting as 2 checks to T Hesse as interim
CAO seemed much more than Janet Beil would make (>13T$ for almost a months
work—See the L Edwards
email)– TH reminded participants that GST was included – and T Briglio
spoke of similar experience with replacing Hospital Administrator and costs
involved |
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NC PIMC/
LRMP Minutes (PR
municipal hides this kind of stuff from general public) Eventually
minutes etc will be on their web site |
Karl
Bergman report on March 28th meeting in PR |
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He
presented both his own minutes and those provided by Brian Fuhr Karl
has roots in local logging as his perspective seems less that of a ‘municipal
rep’ and more a logging/ jobs advocate --- he was looking for SQCRD money
(from Gas Tax revenue or elsewhere) --- he saw his role as needing to visit
Hartley Bay first Nation to co-ordinate PIMC etc ‘and getting there from Oona
River is expensive’ (Doesn’t
his SQCRD area include Hartley Bay? How does he normally ‘represent’ their
issues/ concerns? --- For me this translates again into NeoColonialism
Rupert style i.e., Karl (and other SQCRD board members?) represents the
‘white settler’ community and not all people in his (their) electoral district) |
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Tourism
Grants sought |
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5
groups applying of which 4 from QCIs Generated
2 interesting items: Tlell Sustainability
Institute wanted grant $ to create a DVD which had 3 intended audiences:
tourists, potential employees/ employers/ and Marketing trade shows---Their
paperwork was most professional of items in Agenda Pkg PR Tourism—proposal brought
Nelson Kinney to speak to ‘need’ for a ‘gateway’ visitor center when PR
already funding a visitor center – |
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Taking Care
of Business |
R&F
= ‘Receive and File’ |
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But
it took a motion that Carol K would carry the SQCRD banner/ flag at the UBCM
meeting later in month Plus
there was paperwork that highway 33 on Haida Gwaii would be renamed in part
to Oceanview Drive within QC City |
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Pages
was brave to ask if any questions from Public |
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One
member public wanted to know under what sections of the Community Charter was
the ‘in-camera’ meeting being sought – Duh --- a pause then 3 letters given I
asked implications of PR loss of population to 12T instead of 15T+ on the
proportional voting as 2005 Census data was now available --- Seemed to take
them by surprise but Janet Beil piped in from the audience and let them know
PR would lose 1 vote and Area D would gain 1 vote --- Interesting as PR now
can’t control vote (in $$ matters) --- but requires more research to find
implications of 2005 census |
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Created by LG on
Apr 21, 2007
Last updated on Sunday, June 27, 2010