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For earlier materials see Table of Contents

April First

SQCRD & PNCIMA

First look

Most the directors attended by phone

 

A complex file

The regional District was given permission to run a deficit by Order in Council – though they had to balance the current year – the Order was given after 4PM the day of meeting etc

I will return again tomorrow to this file

 

 

More Later on unadvertised meetings etc

Small meeting with more onlookers than Directors present

I took the picture of the cars because several people have seen ‘meetings’ in past week that were not advertised – in fact I came by and took a picture of the cars one night – Legal and pay implications

 

 

I don’t understand the fine print but 2010 Administration (Exhibit 1) and Sandspit Water (Exhibit 17) now balance -- the QC Landfill remains (460T$) in debt from previous years – But note the Landfill Closure (Exhibit 22) --- More later

Local Government Act – 815.11

Making the current Financial plan for the year 2010 balance and dealing with previous deficits at later date

 

 

Left is from Administration (Exhibit 1)

Note the large Tax increase for this function – with Rupert alone paying 111T$ more – But Grants have been cut back dramatically from previous year

 

On Positive side charging more for Administering the different files (billing dump, etc) here increasing by over 100T$.

 Directors have held back by keeping salaries constant and reducing travel etc. Unfortunately not the same for Rural Area directors – but they pay for the increased Remuneration on Travel out of their own tax requisition

 

 

 

MIMC = Moresby Island Management Committee

I will go into more detail later – but a new residential/ commercial levy of 250$/ unit/ year will generate about 46T$ more income though I note the Parcel Tax reduced by 10T$ and a MIMC ‘transfer’ of $24,990 --- will have to see where MIMC got its money as I don’t see them with a budget sheet

 

More later

Waste Management fees upped by 2$/ month per unit which = about 25T$ and the Tax requisition going up about 22T$ -- The 2 1st Nation villages are to pay about 58T$ more in 2010

 

Meeting 6-9 pm at Highliner on Wednesday

By the time I arrived the meeting was in ‘break out discussions’ mode --- a summary was done and online forms are available for those that want input but were not able to attend meeting (link supplied later to the PDF) --- What was most interesting was Des Nobles and Joy Thorkelson presented an alternative view to how local communities should be represented – more later

PNCIMA on WWW 

 

 

We See

Supposedly this is the site of a future Wine and beer sale outlet – we have been here before and the site at Fiver Corners did not pan out which was rumoured to also be a beer and Wine store by same developer

Created by LG on 1/4/2010

Last updated on Thursday, April 01, 2010