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October 26th

Over view of a pretty dull Council meeting

But Ashley did take back for Council the taxing initiative

Image from the online Video

 

Additions to Agenda – were the meeting

 

4A Wendy Prystay for NWCC and

 

Permissive Tax Exemptions changes

 

 

Withdraw the Referendum question on ‘Road Repairs’

 

Full Discussion later in week

Council takes back ‘initiative’ from staff

Last meeting the Referenda for different ‘Emergency Services’ building options removed from upcoming election --- Councillor Ashley completed the task by questioning the usefulness of ‘up to 4.5% tax increase for Roads reconstruction’ initiative

 


In hind sight from October 24th meeting is that proposal did not seem to have the ‘approval’ of Engineering Department – who apparently believes there are much more pressing infrastructure issues – like water supply  --- Discussion later

Here is the ‘infamous’ proposal from the September 19, 2011 Agenda package

My impression at meeting that this was a ‘staff’ proposal’ and was a surprise to some Councillors at the time

 

 

We have Questions (for the Community)—Link is to survey

More on this later – generated some good questions from Council --- Maritime Institute etc – but others are more skeptical (---‘we saw almost exact same format a few years ago – and what came of that?) More on this later

 

The water supply (Taylor Lake to Watson Isl. via old wooden ‘pipeline’) which was knocked out by a slide on September 6th could be crucial to selling/ leasing  Watson Island

The implications of this were not made public --- on one hand seems beyond the capacity of Port Ed treatment plant – on other to be made ‘permanent’ --- What the ‘back up’?— my excerpts from agenda pkg letter

 

 


I will return to this later in week – would have appreciated some assurances $$ not just going to Mall owner with no reduction in ‘rent’ etc (I note request was made by School District which implies negotiations on-going --- also unclear what properties included--- 2 items named in material  

Both of these generated some discussion – item starts 15:50 into video

Bedard questioned the ‘value’ to taxpayers of first --- and all Council wanted to be kept informed about Planner approvals in delegated powers

 

Almost time for year end reviews for fishing etc

I am told that there was some serious flooding this year on some salmon bearing watersheds –and note the 2 ‘record maxima with black arrow

See this EC and BC Env site for BC rivers etc – More later

 

Population changes in BC Regional Districts

Note this InfoLine article dates from January 2011 which before Census data became available --- As I ‘worried’ in last post on SQCRD meeting --- e need to be assured that decisions made in the late 1960s (RD system, voting, boundaries) are still relevant in 2011

More later in week

 

Another InfoLine article in May 2011—we never hear this – how ‘cheap’ natural gas is at this time etc

Here I will give the full quote from article:

 

‘The fact that the LNG facility in Alaska is shutting down because it cannot compete with offshore gas producers may give pause to the proponents of the Kitimat plant, but the initial planned capacity for the Kitimat operation is more than three times the size of the Alaska plant, with plans to double that capacity in the future.

 

 

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Created by LG on 26/10/2011

Last updated on Wednesday, October 26, 2011