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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

Feb 11th Council meeting

Almost the only ‘discussion’

Pond wants to get to ANBT ‘photo op’ --- or maybe honouring ANBT opening ceremonies with full Council presence

 

·        SunWave Termination

·        OCP amendments ‘debated’

·        ‘Dynamics (later)

 

Now that passed – may be time to take a long look at OCP – and what it tells us about the present City Council’s approach

 

Gordon Howie suggested to the Mayor the SunWave termination Bylaw be read before the OCP finalized as latter might take too long and meeting would close before SunWave dealt with

(or be late for ANBT)

 

The amount is almost 3M$ and that does not include 2008 --- now if we only knew what the legal term 'distrained’ means ---I bet it has nothing to do with CN

SUN Wave Termination

 

 

 

 

Only ‘action’/ discussion in meeting

Joy Thorkelson vs the rest

In the image above planner Zeno Krekic explains his reasoning for accepting or rejecting various proposals form Green Task Force for the OCP --- the sentence below was underlined because Krekic felt it was too prescriptive --- and should go back to Green Task force

While Joy speaking for the committee pointed out the City had accepted the Climate Acton Charter in September and thus it should be in OCP – a motion to amend was seconded by Bedard – and carried by Council

Climate Action Charter page; here is PDF of Charter (135K)

But htat was about all Thorkelson could get from Council – she attempted to amend subsequently without a seconder

-- here is the gist of Zeno’s reasoning

Thus a checklist might contradict and existing Bylaw etc – thus requires more thought

 

 

Still Joys win was significant

 

My pages on:

OCP Quality of Life – meeting

UMA Engineering presentation OCP

Further look OCP back in May

And West View presentation

 

I will return to this topic as OCP is perhaps most significant achievement of the present Council – ‘warts and all’  

Carbon Neutral by 2012

Local governments from across B.C. signed a Climate Action Charter with the Province and the Union of BC Municipalities, committing to a goal of becoming carbon neutral by 2012.—full press release Sept 26th 2007 w PR signing

By putting in OCP it becomes ‘weightier’ than just having Pond et al agree to sign a document back in September

 

 

Pond: this is a business friendly council – we have got rid of those (staff) who wanted to ‘go by the book’ --- or words to that effect  I’ll defend this thesis later when deal with the ‘dynamics’

 

 

Later – describing the dynamics

The Council has its own internal dynamics – Cote & Gordon-Payne (representing the Belsey Liberal party locally) Bedard will often support Thorkelson --- Briglio and Pond are in some ways ‘outsiders’ to either the NDP party of ‘Dan Miller’ or the Belsey Liberal’s --- Nelson remains Nelson --- 

But iin most votes etc it is Thorkelson who is ‘alone’ seen as too left wing by the others --- I have heard of previous NDP associated councillors that were practically isolated from the rest of Council

I will develop this theme later --- especially the Pond Briglio pair as seen at Regional District etc

Created by LG on 15/2/2008

Last updated on Friday, February 15, 2008