NATURE

Sea, land, river

PEOPLES

Community

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

New Council takes oath of office	Ready Fire Aim
	SQCRD appointments most telling

First impressions:

Ready Fire Aim

Problems could emerge --- under a Pond regime, this whole meeting would have been scripted--- but this inaugural meeting was spontaneous – see below

Pond & Briglio in audience. Pond said ‘I came in to clean out my office’

Pond & Briglio – almost same seats in 2002

Photo op outside Council Chambers after meeting

looks official

	Surprise move
	After appointing the Mayor, Jack Mussalem to sit on NTI board and leaving the alternate till next meeting – then it came to who was to sit on the SQCRD – 2 sitting and 2 alternates –or some such

Ready, Fire, Aim

The SQCRD was interesting – after Mussalem read the long winded ‘recommendation’, Councillor Ashley immediately put in a motion: Jack & Kinney for SQCRD with Bedard and Garon as alternates

Problem was that both Gordon Payne and Thorkelson appeared to want on SQCRD too. Ashley would not withdraw her motion – so voted on-- 3 to 3 tie with Jack casting the deciding vote in favour.

All the Business – after being sworn in

	2 meetings per month (only 1 in June FCM? and 1 in August) – secret meetings still scheduled 2 hours in advance --- we’ll see if Musallem uses closed meetings as lavishly as Pond did – I am dubious if only prescribed topics are dealt with ‘typically’ --- but this meeting was totally ‘spontaneous’

New Council’s chief problem: town in decline

During last meeting to condemn 511 Cotton, Cote commented that the subject house looked no worse than many others in town – as above

Interesting Times – a town in decline

DQ broken window fixed – but building has had little maintenance in years – and it is ‘seen’ by anyone entering downtown from McBride etc (what will the Tourists think?)

	Vandalism still rampant
	Window at TriCorp broken (presumably this last weekend)

	Downtown Parking
	A consultant working on the new Zoning Bylaw commented that some people wanted to be able to pull up ‘right in front’ of store to shop --- he was talking about ‘downtown parking problem’ --- but do we collectively want to ‘plan’ our downtown based upon car? – if so this fellow on left has the right idea

		And there is still Climate Change
		The Pine looks like almost ‘Pine Beetle attack’ – that is a yellow cedar beside the Pine – Cedar might be removed from East side of Vancouver Island in near future as Island heats up and goes through relative ‘drought’ --- So keep an eye on the Cedars – many ‘dying’ on side Mt Hayes (or so it seems from distance – would have to hike up to look closer as to species)

1st meeting Council in 2002

Here is the first meeting I have recorded o f ‘New Council’ in 2005

Created by LG on 01/12/2008

Last updated on Tuesday, December 02, 2008