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January 25^th

First look Council meeting

Racquet presentation at City Council Monday

A very long meeting

This is first of a series – more tomorrow (Thursday)

Long meeting and its ‘main events’	From the latest Hula Hoop (fad?) to poverty in PR
	Ironic juxtaposition --- Lothar Schliese (spelling?) spoke about his lived poverty during public input of COW meeting and its degradations – while at other end of the affluence spectrum Apple’s I-phone and its capability to access PR City web site was central concern of newly elected Jen Rice

The BC Ferries Commissioners report was the other ‘big event’ this week

Se the CBC story here --- Here is the Commissioner’s press release with summary and links to full report etc – If viewing the Video of Council meeting – here are ‘start times’ different sections meeting

PREDC	2:00
Racquet	21:50
Web site	1:12:30
Grants	1:35:30
CM Report	2:10:05
Reports	2:18:00

	Derek Baker Presentation
	The Power Point presentation is available the video --- In presentation much was made of th success of renewed Invest Northwest BC Web site with over 27T hits in 2011-12 -- But for me the ‘surprise’ was what a high priority being given to finding moorage for Yachts on Rupert waterfront

Claims 1100 ‘itinerant vessels’ going by and a significant gap between capacity and demand—thus Rupert missing ‘economic opportunities’ --- thus an engineering study done by Harold Engineering

PREDC only asking for 90T$ ‘Community Enhancement Grant’ I am dubious of mixing ‘economic development’, tourism promotion, Library (thus the Big 6’ and real community enhancement grants like Hospice Society or Halloween Fest etc --- Do other Manipulates act similarly?? Google did not find me many of them PG Penticton etc	Providing moorage (subsidies) for the 1%?
	Moorage site looked for in ‘Cow Bay’ area – and also looking for 250T$ grant from West Cost Community Adjustment Fund ---- with Communities Future being main contact (from web site) –I am dubious this grant $$ still available or eligible (LG) And note that 40% of Total must come from proponents (thus 167T$)

His ‘comments’/ question begins about 1 hour and 1 minute into the meeting

Lothar and people with disabilities in PR

Joy Thorkelson brought up Lothars case at ‘Reports’ stage later in meeting – And Mayor Mussallem offered Lothar personal assistance if he came into City Hall Tuesday – so I will deal with this later – but note Lothar did start his comments off by pointing out the Energy Audits that Terrace providing owners --- and Rupert should be doing similar etc --- Here is the Terrace page --- and Rupert should hang its head in shame in comparison thus their Sustainability Planning; Energy Planning and Emissions Reductions; City of Terrace has set the following GHG reduction targets: · 5% below 2007 levels by 2015

There were several reports dealing with making the current Rupert web site more mobile phone accessible – Plus there was a demand to provide the PR originated articles in ‘searchable’ format – thus converting all th agenda and minutes to google readable format – While Council debates a 3T$ grant – it just blindly accepts a ‘huge’ project of conversion – it would be ‘saner’ to say from next meeting forward we will--- And give all the current councillors (those that know what a PDF is) give them searchable copies of all previous agenda, minutes etc – which are on staff computers anyways

Jen Rice and her I-phone

Carlick Pearson(who was on her cell phone form Vancouver) mentioned she too had just bought a new Apple (I-Pod??) Note just now Apple making huge inroads into the younger generation – record sales etc

	TK has new camera person
	Name is Grace Sullivan I was told --- also told Sahar has taken another job locally It also came out at the meeting that Nelson Kinney was PR’s newest grandfather --- and congratulations were given by all

	Contractors continue heaping snow upon sidewalks
	I was told the City ‘used to’ shove the snow to the center of streets etc – then remove – but now ‘policy’ to just push it up on the sidewalks --- real people drive cars

	But City did clear off some sidewalks
	Most those downtown were cleared (presumably by property owners adjoining sidewalk) But I did see that walks cleared from Library to Third Avenue on McBride – well it is a start

	More Important
	Another car same site blocking sidewalk today --- who cares?

Created by LG on 25/1/2012

Last updated on Wednesday, January 25, 2012