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Sea, land, river

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Community

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

May 20^th	We See Audits, leaks and elections

Note 1 where large area presumably for concession stands – and 4 where the landscaping is rudimentary – note too the Elderberries in full white bloom

While Liberals won a commanding victory in election – it could easily have been different if Green vote in a mere 6 ridings had gone NDP – arguing for some sort of accommodation on the left needed see below

Cow Bay Parking lot – Pay and confusion

While it seemed intent of putting in parking meter was to keep this lot open for tourism – it ran into pot holes when Councillor Garon questioned if that was the meaning of earlier Parking Task force 2007 which she co-chaired and it’s Boulevard report (on City web site)

How the City could enforce someone only having to buy a ticket if parking >2 hours hard to understand – More later ---

Doesn’t city own the industrial site marked 3 image left?

Note too the Golf course still on City books --- but they will still have to advertise in newspaper if/ when the guaranteed any loan in 2008 – more later

From Audit

Note 3 says the loan to Museum is to be paid by June 30^th 2009, which could explain the recent sale of portion of Museum building complex to Kitkatla

	Leaky pipes
	Apparently this leak started when a property excavated their back lot to make parking space – it has gone on for over a month --- and will become a nuisance if not fixed before winter comes – but we’ll see

	Sidewalk on City Property
	I brought this up before – the sidewalk in front on Innlander is not supported on the far end – using the existing sidewalk – looks like City property and thus City will be liable if/ when the sidewalk falls

After STV

Assuming the tally remains 49-36 for 2009 election (as in Preliminary results) --- then looks like NDP and Greens have to come to some sort of agreement --- merger

I have sorted the election results for close votes that could have been won by NDP if they had the had green votes

Electoral District	LIB	NDP	REFD	CP	Green Party	IND	OTHER	Total Valid Votes	difference Lib-NDP	Percent win of total votes
Maple Ridge-Mission	8,393	8,195	0	0	1,300	0	314	18,202	198	1%
Saanich North and the Islands	12,513	12,118	0	0	3,016	0	0	27,647	395	1%
Oak Bay-Gordon Head	11,266	10,736	0	0	2,152	0	0	24,154	530	2%
Kamloops-North Thompson	9,351	8,798	231	0	1,317	0	111	19,808	553	3%
Burnaby North	9,351	8,727	0	0	1,211	0	0	19,289	624	3%
Burnaby-Lougheed	8,544	7,732	0	0	1,154	0	0	17,430	812	5%
Comox Valley	13,016	11,593	250	0	2,338	0	110	27,307	1,423	5%
Vancouver-Fairview	10,435	9,273	36	0	2,045	157	82	22,028	1,162	5%
Vernon-Monashee	8,493	7,129	72	1,836	3,677	0	1,306	22,513	1,364	6%

	Sports fishing
	We see the sporties boats being towed to some resort --- symbolism here is that the park used to be to commemorate local fishers – who have been almost totally replaced by outside interests – and now even the fish are going to sporties from down south etc

Created by LG on 20/5/2009

Last updated on Thursday, May 21, 2009

NATURE

PEOPLES

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

We See Audits, leaks and elections

Sports fishing