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Numerous groups
took time to speak to Council – speaking from diverse sectors of community
from ‘Child Friendly’ to Poverty to New look forest industry I will look at
more detail later in week |
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Mussallem
absent for the 3rd straight meeting |
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We
were told he was away on City Business – but being mere Citizens we
apparently need not know anything more |
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I
will go into this later – but since Council went to meeting only 2X a month –
there has been much less public involvement --- and most those wishing
Council ear mainly wanted $$ so those meetings were done in-camera – at one
time all those would hve been public –more on this later |
But it was
good to see all these presentations – and good they were limited to 10
minutes each |
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Theme
– Is Council irrelevant? Or has the mode of interaction just changed? – Later
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A child
Friendly City?? |
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Glad
these people were limited to the 10 minutes as they played a Video of kids pictures
before their presentation – home movies at Council meeting – still their
presentation was most positive for role of Council to make a difference in
Rupert – and they were not asking for $$ |
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Forestry
Re-think? |
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Probably
the most informative presentation of evening---claims to be looking at a new
way of doing forestry regionally --- but while interesting ideas – looked to
me to be the same industry players without the large tenure holders – Sun
Wave, Skeena Cel etc More
later |
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Policy
change? Council
has had in-camera meetings to decide its goals and priorities etc – and thus
its move to change to ‘User Pay’ instead of home owner taxes emphasis --- more
on this later --- but represents the biggest issue before Council since the
cuts of Kumar Years --- and potentially a class issue where wealthy shift
even more fiscal burden to poor |
Innlander to
be gone by May 15th |
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later |
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Created by LG on 28/4/2009
Last updated on Tuesday, April 28, 2009