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SQCRD

Feb 22nd 2008

Interim financials & 5 year plan (budget) 1st reading

 

Meeting consisted mainly of verbal reports from ‘Islands’ Committee and another from ‘Electoral Areas’

 

The Budget and (un)audited financials hardly mentioned except in oblique references to ‘our earlier conversations’

 

Perhaps SQCRD is moving in a direction that makes mockery of ‘open meetings’ and ‘Transparency’ (more on this later

 

 

From the Verbal report at meeting

Here is the press release from province – Dodge Cove  and here for Port Clements

 

 

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Electoral Areas – met 10AM til noon ‘today’

3 items:

  1. The interim financial statements
  2. Prioritized projects list
  3. Funding for Dodge Cove water treatment (533T$ and for Port Clements water (650T$) – announcements made earlier in day by Minister Chong at a photo op

Doing an OCP on QCIs – Ian Hetman mentioned the project – that presently has 5 different consultants showing interest in ‘doing’ the proposal –

 

Link to Gas Tax agreement etc at Civnet

Which generated an interesting conversation on ‘how are you going to pay for it’?

Using the Gas Tax money --- which according to discussion amounts to 250T$ for the ‘Electoral Areas’ (presumably based upon population—including 1st Nations.

Kuelsha told me that QC City is entitled to something like 80T$ of Gas Tax $

 

There was some talk if a ‘Strategic Plan’ was required – and Holland thought not ---

Still the intent of Gas Tax looks to be aimed ‘to support local priorities that are in alignment with the desired outcomes of reduced GHG emissions, cleaner air and cleaner water’. --- Ah mere technicalities

Discussion:

Looks like the Electoral Areas have agreed to give themselves a raise --- I will look at this again later – I am dubious their raise is ‘sustainable’

 

Permission to borrow $ (up to 950T$) in anticipation of taxes which are not paid until next summer

 

 

 

A model idea for all our communities?

 

Will create 12 jobs --

 

Something strange here

 

Much of the 832T$ 2007 in previous document owing to firing Janet Beil etc

 

But look how much administration budget has shrunk – perhaps because $$ now under separate items like Islands Waste etc? Latter went from being billed 32T in 2007 to being billed 102T$ in 2008 for ‘Administration’ – plus some discussion need to hire someone ‘on Island’ etc 

More later

 

On firing Janet Beil– and previous budget see

5 year financial plans compared – 2007 with 2008

 

I will return to Island Waste again tomorrow

Island Waste shows a 300T$ over run in 2007

It was ‘agreed’ that a conference call would be used to ‘sort out’ ISWAP etc

 

I am dubious of some of the book keeping here – it will take time to sort out

 

 

Also the ‘New Format’ where Electoral areas report – as do Islands --- good idea or not?

 

 

Created by LG on 25/2/2008

Last updated on Monday, February 25, 2008