informaiton from April 16 PRRD Committee of the Whole meeting
The Powell River Regional District meets twice each month (2nd and 3rd Thursdays, 4pm) as Committee of the Whole. Here is where they discuss the issues and decide what to recommend to the Board. They meet as the Board on the third Thursday of the month (7pm), and consider their recommendations. This explains why the Board meetings are not very interesting.
Agenda packages for and minutes from meetings are available from the PRRD web site: http://www.powellriverrd.bc.ca/
As part of the PRRD Committee of the Whole agenda package https://powellriverregionaldistrict.civicweb.net/Documents/DocumentList.aspx?ID=33389 starting on page 83 is a report on 2015 Strategic Plan Priorities. Interestingly, it says under Public Consultation and/or Stakeholder Involvement: "N/A"! They "direct[ed] staff to schedule a special meeting of the Committee of the Whole to further discuss strategic priorities."
From the Strategic Plan Priorities:
From the Regional section, I'm only able to identify three items that affect Lasqueti, but there might be others:
p85: Squitty Bay Service
p86 Fire Services Review (with some sub-topics)
p87 Lasqueti 911 & House Numbering
Specifically for Lasqueti/Area E: (p92)
Lasqueti Arts Council Agreement
Recycling Centre Upgrades
Solid Waste Management Plan
Fire Hall
Repeater
on p93 Waste Management:
Consultation on Island completion date 2015
Land Fill Improvements per SWMP sub plan Not Started
Recycling Depot Improvements In progress
Recycling Containers In progress
Move Free Store
Recycling Centre move to Crown Land and infrastructure build
p 94
Area E LVFD
Fire Hall #1 extension/heating Investigation underway
Thermo-couple propane ceiling shop heater Investigation underway
New Fire Hall - Public consultation
Pages 53 through 56 are a Fire Services Review Status Update, which was received by the CoW
From the Area E Property Tax Guide brochure that will come with our tax notices http://www.powellriverrd.bc.ca/wp-content/uploads/Area-E-Tax-Guide-Final... is this information about our 2015 taxes:
residential taxes per $100,000 of assessed value
2014 2015
Grants-in-aid 5.54 4.31
Community Rec - LCA Grant 6.72 6.76
Lasqueti Waste Management 70.68 64.86
Lasqueti Library - VIRL 19.60 20.29
Lasqueti Marine Ramp 8.42 8.22
Lasqueti Fire Protection 33.61 57.87
Lasqueti Fire (Parcel Tax) 65.10 78.13
I've asked Merrick why the large increases for our fire department, but haven't received a good answer yet.
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