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October 25th

Nice day but--

 

 

  Strongest winds behind System (2)

 

Pineapple Express

As pressure falls (right image) temperature increases(left image)  about 3°F after 9AM 

 

 

 

The Six questions – cut from Concerned Citizens Press Release 10/22/08
  1. Would the council provide full details on what activities were performed by Ms. Hess during the term of the contract and the actual output produced, reports, memo’s, position papers etc to address the committees request to ascertain whether value was received for the expenditures totaling in excess of one hundred and nine thousand dollars?
  2. Would the city provide a summary on what the services were for all 2006,2007 and year to date 2008 payments made to Mr. Gordon Howie as a supplier to the city, its affiliates, commissions and companies over and above his usual salary while he served as Chief Administration Officer of Prince Rupert? 
  3. Would the Council kindly provide the committee of concerned citizens with the legal opinions that address the legitimacy of the contracts and procedures followed in retaining Ms. Hess’s services?
  4. Would the council point the committee to the line items and internal breakouts in their 2006, 2007 and 2008 corporate administration and general corporate administration expense budgets wherein the retention of Ms. Hesse was contemplated and planned for?
  5. Would the council provide the committee with the same background material provided to Mr. George Paul on which he based his conclusions and observations on together with all correspondents between the city and Mr. Paul regarding this report?
  6. Would the city provide a summary of the number of FOI requests that have been received by the city over the past year showing the date of the request, the date the request was fulfilled, the time spent by staff fulfilling these requests and the compensation received by the city for FOI fulfillment.

For full press release – (I have converted their MS Word document to HTML)

 

For the earlier Concerned Citizens ask Council --- and the special Council meeting held last week

 

‘Council did not follow its own policy’

When I have pointed out infractions of City Bylaws such as enumerated in image on left– I was told by Mr Howie that ‘City does not have to enforce its own bylaws’

 

So why should they enforce their own ‘Policies’?? I ask rhetorically about the Hesse contracting 

 

Council is only forgiving the municipal taxes of the Museum portion of the building (thought the notice in paper implies all the building) --- though they allow businesses, liquor sales, rental accommodations etc in other tax forgiveness buildings --- I point out here the complete building is a heritage site etc

City Tax exemptions

 

 

SQCRD and Gas Taxes

I have previously mentioned the regional District has broken itself into smaller sub-groups like the Rural electoral areas etc --- I am told it was the use of Provincial Gas Tax rebate that was one of the driving factors – presumably there is a formula decided every year by province on a per capita basis

 

Lets say it is on the order of 95T$ for 5 thousand some population in 2008 --- Thus Oona River wants to use its Area C Gas Tax fund to pay for the Oona River Community Center refurbishments --- The irony of this is that most the Rural population is presently in 1st Nation villages – thus Hartley Bay and Kitkatla for Area C --- call it another form of Neo-Colonialism and see my earlier on Paddy Greene as using ‘code words’

 

 

Papa Jazzies went under last week

We See

Now that leaves falling we can see the ‘trash’ hidden before --  here at least 3 kitchen appliances thrown down bank from housing area above – more later

Created by LG on 25/10/2008

Last updated on Sunday, October 26, 2008