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SQCRD first
– then preliminary look Monday Council meeting |
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SQCRD has new CAO Joan Merrick ---
‘Quite excited to make this change’ she said by way of intro --- Helen Koning
presumably on ¼ time ‘taking her words literally’ The only
controversial event:: will Jean Martin be appointed to Waste Management ---
got tabled – Jack wants it done in-camera |
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Along
same lines at Friday meeting the chair said adjourn to closed meeting --- I pointed
out nothing in agenda --- ‘Oh, should be s 90.1
e and l ‘---I was told – well unless they have more lawsuits that should
be Watson Island update for Board --- or Audit? |
And speaking
of ‘in-camera’ meetings |
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I
was told by knowledgeable people that all their cars were outside SQCRD on
Saturday --- illegal? But they pretty well do as they please |
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All that
Recycling stuff too smelly |
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Presumably can move
the offending odours to Land Fill site --- but implies rental payments to –
get a report --- and budget for 2011 year |
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Another of
those no brainer items |
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Oona River gets back
the space they originally donated to SD 52 for a school --- ‘been more than a
decade in the doing’ commented one board member |
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Other Agenda
items |
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As
Always the QCI Rec report was excellent – 3 pages – how many attended each program
etc --- if only PR would provide even a tenth of this to public -- |
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Gas
Tax Money will also go into this --- Has been contracted to a Terrace Company
to do construction etc |
The Towns for Tomorrow
was funny --- The SQCRD already had the 400T$ in its bank account – but needs
to reapply as not built in 2010 |
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The
implication from just the above is that the meetings could be public --- but that
would never happen--- Still Mussallem has his point --- many of these items
Rupert taxpayers pay for Islands and electoral areas – we pay their benefits
and probably a lot more |
And this
schedule for doing the 2011 Budget got a chuckle |
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One Board member
commented that it sounded like a ‘Boxing Match’ with Round one etc ---
Mussallem felt the jibe an d laughed – he would unfortunately be out of town
for Round 1 --- meeting a minister in Vancouver |
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Coastal
Community Network?? |
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But membership
would be $3265 per year --- Mussallem again pointed out we need a good
‘strategic plan’ from them first ---so the matter Tabled |
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While
PNCIMA looms as a major issue – at least one of the stumbling blocks
‘removed’ as the funding raised to 15T$ per Regional District (from 10T$) ---
Des Nobles says he does not want to make a second career out of this BUT I will suggest
elsewhere that Coastal Communities and small boat owners like those at Dodge
Cove etc are ‘yesterday’ and presently fleet based mainly out of Vancouver---
will use Area A Crab as example since data available in recent reports |
Involving
Regional Districts good idea |
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The Zero Sum
Game --- excerpted from Oct12 1010 agenda |
Alarm Bells ringing |
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This
Council seems to be bowing to hoteliers demand and tying the sewer rates to
the metered water – in name of ‘fairness’ ---- But as previous reports have
warned --- will probably just mean a transfer of financial burden to
residential |
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These sewer
and water bylaws very complex and will need to be at meeting to ‘digest’---
lots of tables and numbers – proving?? |
And this
Council uses fee increases (5%/ year) to balance its budget – so not have to
admit raising taxes |
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Too bad the Green
Advisory Task force does not put its minutes etc up for us all to see ----
Meetings should be posted and open to public |
But first
the delegations |
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The Museum Northern
BC should be ‘fun’ – ‘we can’t possible be open when you wish’ etc |
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Not
only is water a problem but even more so is sewage treatment --- Businesses
should not get rates equal to water usage unless their sewage already
‘separated’ ---- plus if Residential not to be metered then commercial should
pay same rate ($0.80 per M3 instead of subsidized $0.60--- see the
October
12th City Council agenda for good break down) |
And I like
the irony of this |
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Yes apply for grants
– but one should have the ‘vision’ before one starts cutting user rates (for
business etc) |
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Historically
60-40 division between residential and commercial |
Maintaining
‘fairness’ --- from the October 12th 2010 agenda package ----- But
no equivalent given with ‘new’ rates |
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See my
previous on the Hoteliers wish to shift fees to residential etc |
More Tuesday
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December 7th when last before
Council And October 26th when addressed
Council Or the October 14th meeting where the
report mentioned given etc (scroll down) |
Created by LG on 23/1/2011
Last updated on Monday, January 24, 2011