Comments?

Email

e-princerupert.com

Prince Rupert Regional Information Site

NATURE

Sea, land, river

PEOPLES

Community

For earlier materials see Table of Contents

January 27^th

2^nd look council meeting

Generational `battle` as Council works out new ‘modus operandi’

`

Discussion here begins online Video at 1:12:30	Generational
	As the photo above shows – City provides each Councillor with a laptop computer – but the newer and younger Councilors may prefer hand held mobile devices --- Plus those newer Councilors do not have the long term experience and memory of say a Kathy Bedard – who could be asked about `when did Council last discuss Garbage collection`--and Bedard would seem to remember – even if it had been years ago --- so the newer generation would rather just Google it – thus PDFs etc
I would suggest that just giving Council the PDF files would have been more sensible than reformatting all those earlier ones – and work from here forward with searchable PDFs

	Reformatting the whole web site to be Apple mobile compatible was more contentious – again generational
	Here I will just give the `bottom line’ `-- excerpt below
Jen Rice countered these examples using http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ I was unable to follow her direct comment --- Jen was able to get to the Forbes magazine articles on usage of Adobe Flash as in upper left --- here is that article in Forbes where it admits that Steve Jobs may have been right to forsake Adobe Flash --- and this 11 Nov 2011 updates: Adobe Flash, Steve Jobs, and mobile devices + More on Adobe Flash and HTML5

Below is record of ‘Community Grants’ over time	Racquet Club – again `generational’
	This precipitated a 40+ minute discussion (including their presentation) Golf course and squash courts product of another era in Rupert history --- Taxpayers ‘gave’ the golf course 140T$ in 2011--- Racquet club also wishing `capital grants’-- but not this year Presented themselves as not a `club` but a community group – annual membership is 425$ (and only 45 members) --- shorter term passes available --- there is a new 5 year lease until 2016 – but unclear if the requested grant covers that – there is also an unanswered question about 7T$ owing (paid) a Director

	Arctic Oscillation and La Nina
	For much of the US there is no snow and basking in mild temperatures --- Here is NOAA explanation from which images left taken – but while NW BC unlucky—Not as unlucky as Cordova Alaska where 18 feet snow `this year’ NOAA Arctic Oscillation (AO) – current info

Friday evening 2 hours of ‘debate’ --- more later	SQCRD --- more this weekend
	January 20-21, 2012 SQCRD Meetings Rescheduled Due to extreme weather conditions, the SQCRD Regular Board meeting has been rescheduled to Friday, Jan 27th in Prince Rupert at 7pm. The budget meeting has been rescheduled to Saturday, Jan 28th in Prince Rupert at 9am (1/2 day).  We apologize for any inconvenience.

	Racquet, class and race
	Joy Thorkelson brought the topic up --- how to get youth involved and more especially 1^st Nations

	What about a Recreation Committee
	Garon had mentioned this previously and Thorkelson generalized it to all the different sports facilities in town --- declining membership etc --- How to involve a new generation—and especially 1^st Nations’ youth etc ---

SQCRD – was a long meeting Friday night--- More Saturday	Surprisingly it was Tanker Traffic that was in play
	Oona River Karl Bergman ‘represents’ his constituents – NOT --- Majority oppose Enbridge Tankers – not Karl

More Saturday PM

Created by LG on 26 January 2012

Last updated on Friday, January 27, 2012