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July 15^th	We See
	Car allowances to fog

Fog and Rain --- Gordon Howie quipped: ‘Been a nice summer--- both days of it’---- Still this is price of living on coast where hot interior brings in the ocean fog etc

· Fog from clear weather to interior

· Hays Crk sewer diversion

· Car allowances and rationale

· Revitalization –boondoggle

· Street trees

	Hays Creek Sewer diversion
	Moving right along – we see the outside contractor drilling in the Civic Center lot --- perhaps approximate location of pumping station (see previous)

Is there any rationale for differences?

Class politics at managerial level???

As stated at recent City Council meeting there are 7 managers receiving a car allowance – with 2 top managers (Howie and Horne) getting full 3,600$ per year --- While Rodin only gets $2,100 (I learned exact figures thanks to an FOI)

The above 2 managers both on the airport ferry – presumably Pierce is the Captain and Rothwell the first mate --- note the >50% differences in car allowance--- I have also extracted their relative pay from the SOFI (statement of financial information)

Does the differences in Car Allowances reflect how much they use their car for the job? Or just ‘how much their car costs etc (I am being facetious)

At least here Horne does much more driving etc

$8,838 in Expenses?? --- I suppose all those expensive Hotels add up etc Only former Civic Center manager Michael Curnes even came close with his $7,052 in expenses

It wasn’t too long ago that Ling the Tailor building had the outside canopy removed by city worrying the snow would cause it to collapse – the old totem looks to be just as vulnerable --- but perhaps have better placed friends at City Hall (See my previous page and the links)

Boondoggle?

The downtown ‘Revitalization’ looks to me as a potential cash giveaway – presently the bylaw has no rules nor objectives – thus when Prince George went through this exercise they did it with the idea that getting more people living downtown would revitalize their older stores etc – thus to be eligible one option was to convert parts of building etc to housing --- The PRDN did a story on the PR revitalization in which they seemed to have been told that applications would need to be approved by October 31^st --- Who knows what is in Rupert’s Bylaw but 31 October is date that a renovation has to be finished so that BC Assessment can do a new appraisal for the upcoming tax year etc

Street Trees

At one time City Hall vexed itself with questions of what kinds of street trees to put in – pots or free standing as at left –well this one (among several others is dying/ dead) – But look what kind of tree it is – some sort of ornamental Oak --- probably grows well in California or some such

	Stimulus Package seems to be in the concrete pour stage

More on this local legume later – called Self Heal or some such

Though our local one is usually smaller than this – appears to be same species etc

http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/s/selfhe40.html

Created by LG on 15/7/2010

Last updated on Thursday, July 15, 2010

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