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Council Meeting	May 26^th 2008
	‘Identities’

Where the wilderness begins??
From docks for Yachts to ‘banking’ fish

	Dr Paul Kennedy makes an appearance
	He came to question if Council had thought through the re-zoning from strip mall to A1 amenities --- ‘Do you really want a ‘tire marshalling yard’? Joy Thorkelson took up the idea when question came to a vote --- after much discussion it was decided A1 would do until new zoning bylaws later in year put in place

	Commodores present and past speak to Council
	They interpret all those Yachts passing through with no place to moor as a lost business opportunity for the town – the number they gave actually shows declining trend from 1500 in 2005 to half that in 2007 --- but they do point out an important problem – but had no ‘easy answers’—Still much of the meeting was discussing surrounding issues and I will return to this tomorrow

	Chief Ron Miller needs permission to purchase/ or lease – new pumper truck
	While only general details given to meeting the accompanying paperwork gives details of the selection process etc --- I will return to this after see what is available on internet --- while no price tag mentioned in ‘public’ the paper work indicates 380T$ + taxes price range ---More later)

Mr Jay still ‘missing’

I was told he would be back by 26^th a couple weeks ago --- Has he been fired? Will he be? Will court cases follow? In meantime ‘election officer’ goes out for bids rather than being done ‘in-house’ as was done in past --- Mr Jay thought the whole thing could be done for 25T in his ‘premature’ submission --- I bet it will be much more now ---- Gossip is that Michael Curnes – the fellow who hands out free passes at Recreation Center – and asks for local charities to fund kids that can’t afford admission price – Gossip is that that Michael Curnes has replaced Mr Jay in short term – Qualifications? (See free passes above) more later

	No word on ‘Green Apple’ Presumably done in-camera
	Image left is sidewalk near the Innlander on 2^nd – like the 3^rd Avenue corner where Green Apple located – the street and sidewalk are on pilings etc well above ground level – and superficially this looks potentially much more worrisome than Green Apple ever was --- but hey – it is the Cities

Yacht Club + Docks discussion (commercial vs sports) + Skeena River fishery and conservation Rupert in transition form ‘Halibut Capital’ to ‘wilderness begins here’ tourism More later	Identities
	Joy suggested PR fish plants in jeopardy because of a meeting June 10^th to discuss DFO management of Skeena River fishery – a report by 4 independent scientists --- Thorkelson suggested they were ‘outsiders’ and ‘debate’ should be framed as ‘jobs’ and ‘local knowledge’ vs ---‘tree huggers’ Anyways Pond was delegated to attend meeting

Created by LG on 28/5/2008

Last updated on Wednesday, May 28, 2008