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Another look
at Budget --- Finalized Wednesday 7PM |
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Stories on the SQCRD
meeting and ‘down in the Dumps’ kind of stuff |
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Meanwhile –
another Business closing |
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NIS (Northern
Industrial Sales) is closing the storefront --- but items can still be
ordered online (catalogues etc) and picked up locally I was told Note some of the
background material where NIS
bought by Inuvialuit Development Corporation some years ago --- shades of
Rona? |
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Dollar Store
closing --- and?? |
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I
mentioned this Monday --- but now
there are rumours that another store in mall will close ‘when lease expires’ |
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Long reach –
more later |
Did you see
the crane on 3rd Avenue? |
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Looks
like they were doing some brushing --- and how much did that crane rent for?
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SQCRD
meeting |
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Appeal to minister gets
no $$$ -- letter used Lobster fishermen supplement in Maritimes as example
why BC salmon fishers should be helped |
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Excerpt from
the Minister’s letter |
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This item
brought lots of ‘where exactly is it?’ type discussion from Charlotte peoples |
SQCRD Land
Referral – Crown lands |
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Above is
general location across from QC Village etc near Alliford Bay
– see
here for map etc |
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Here are the
details of the ‘new’ Queen Charlotte Trading facilities |
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New Liquor
facility approval – Plus renew membership in Coastal
Communities Network after a couple years not being paid up |
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ISWAC and (the dump on Charlottes) – some background
info on this source of deficits for SQCRD |
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I
thought I had found a major problem --- note the Staff wages in 2008 --- they
seemed to disappear subsequent years Note
too the User Fees were budgeted to be much higher than actually collected –
but is twas as easy as passing a Bylaw to increase the fees--- as was
proposed for 2010 – but that was before SQCRD told to balance their book |
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Here was from
a 2008 budget proposal that was never passed |
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Note
the large increase in Tax Requisition proposed for 2008 – I am told the value
can not be changed ‘easily’ and is fixed as a percentage of assessed values ---
thus would have to change the Bylaw – not just charge more in Taxes --- but
note too the User Fees were intended to increase dramatically (did not
happen) Note
too the Staff Wages and Benefits --- this item ‘disappears’ in
subsequent budgets --- and I thought I had found a major ‘mistake’ – but just
broken down into different departments |
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Shucks – I
thought I had found an error --- the 3 different add up to about 210T$ |
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Note
the rapid increase in what the Villages are supposed to pay in 2010 for use
for the Dump on Charlottes --- while the ‘user fees’ rise only
insignificantly Was there any meaningful consultation? |
More on Dump later
--- like using Gas Tax when should be using reserves that were supposedly
‘protected’ by Bylaw to Cap dump etc (see this 2008 Observer article where
250T$ then in a reserves for this purpose) ---- and where ISWAC terminated by SQCRD More later |
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Stop that ‘tricycle’
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Created by LG on 30/3/2010
Last updated on Wednesday, March 31, 2010