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Councillor
Gordon Payne exited Council chambers after the 2+hour ‘in-camera’ meeting ---
and did not return for the regular Council meeting ---- all the real action ‘in-camera’ |
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A good meeting to miss ---- |
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Perhaps
too the Roosevelt Apartments ‘scandal’ was the real story |
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In the image above, where Councillor Garon is using her computer – I suspect to read the front
page Province
newspaper story --- For backgrounders I covered the meetings in late 2006,where
those apartments ‘stratified’ - at the time Thorkelson
was asking ‘But why?’ |
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I
will come back to these other topics later—but almost 1/3rd
meeting was taken up with the ‘report’ |
Show
and Tell --- |
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As
might be expected in a group this large – the quality varied between speakers
– from jargon ridden to rambling |
Monica
quipped that she would need a wide angle camera to capture this group image –
while I saw only their backs – you can see from front by going to City Site |
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Here
is the image from the Web camera |
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The presentation
is online at City site --- and as image left shows --- slide the selector
to 11:19 for the beginning |
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Also
spoke of ‘densification’ where put emphasis on Atlin
Terminal – Cow Bay area |
My
notes on presentation |
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There was lots of talk like: “—our (Prince
Rupert’s) authentic differentiating factors” – we are ‘results focussed’ and
now have to move into strategic mode ---- but did claim that 24 of 26 ‘initiatives’
met – presumably things like the 25 different Buskers etc. Plus a 20 page guide to PR that is
distributed before the ship arrives ---and others talked of Cow Bay Merchants
association meetings --- and a ‘scavenger hunt’ gimmick where get cruise ship passengers ‘stamps’
when visit each designated business There was also an emphasis upon using
alternate media to get the story out --- hopefully using young people in
Rupert to flood Facebook to guide walking tours – to answer questions --- I remember
the local girl in front of a sign that read ‘Harbour Ecology’ --- about which
she knew nothing she admitted – perhaps she should read my
stuff on
harbour or how
all our untreated
sewage goes into our harbour etc |
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A
fuller ‘end of year’ report will be done |
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I will go into this later --- but I
am sceptical if large cruise ships is where we collectively should be putting
our time, effort and, more especially, local taxpayers’ money --- Most of
these expenses from meetings to free bus trips to PR ‘pins’ etc never came up for budgetary discussion |
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Thankfully
there is always an election to ‘clear the air’ |
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More later in week on this meeting --- and
SQCRD
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The
latter has ‘wisely’ chosen not to meet until October --- unless something ‘important’
comes up --- they have to go to UBCM etc --- more
freebies |
Created by LG on July
27th
Last updated on Wednesday, July 27, 2011