Review your asphalt design. As we go thru a warming trend, we go thru a lot more freexe thaw cycles all winter long. Thus this is a major problem to the driving surface causing it to crack. Change the mix design, maybe we can make the asphalt last longer.

If you keep doing the same things, you will keep getting the same results.

Yes, he spoke, great point! Thanks for making it. So true and I would hope that they have been looking at this issue already.

Why dont they spend more time on how the infrastructure is is doing in our city.
Cheers

This report makes it sound like there has never been climate change until now. Hello council the climate has always been changing. History shows.

Warming, will it keep warming? Will the temperatures flatten for awhile? Maybe there is a cooling cycle on the way. There is strong evidence for that. What is the source of this report? What is their agenda? What would council do if they got a report on a cooling cycle? Why does this unreported report suggest increased precipitation? What is the evidence based on?

For those that may be interested here is an interesting read, kind of long but interesting

Oh by the way satellite records show global temperatures have not risen for over fifteen years now, actually a slight decrease.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/01/september-panics-and-smurphys-law/

Forget about replenishing depleted reserves.

Its putting money in these reserves that allows the City to manipulate where and how things will be built with little or no input from citizens. The purchasing of the PG Hotel, property and the demolition of same is a prime example. The City then gifted the property to the BC :Provincial Government for the Wood Innovation Building. So we are out approx $3/4 Million. We never asked for, nor do we need a Wood Innovation Building, however it seems we are going to get one.

Same thing with he Performing Arts Centre. It appears that the City purchased the Norgate Autobody property and property in the surrounding area for the PAC. So at a later date, they will sell the Playhouse Theatre property (tear down the Playhouse) and then use the money from this sale, and the property at Norgate, as the Citys portion of the PAC, along with the Feds, Provincial, and Regional money. The end result is we will have a $50 Million PAC, and the $300,000.00 per annum operating deficit.

This whole thing will take place without the taxpayers in Prince George having a say in the matter. In fact by doing it this way the City avoids having to borrow the money, and therefore avoids an alternative approval process, or a referendum.

Money from the sale of all City property should be **earmarked** to be split 60/40 between an Infrastructure Fund, and other reserve funds. This way we the citizens know where the money is going and how it is going to be used. The same thing should apply to any sale of City property and assets in the future. Ie; Swimming Pools, Skating Rinks, Golf Courses, etc;

We have to stop the City from manipulating these various funds to further their agenda’s before there is proper input from taxpayers.

We ask for roads, water, sewer, garbage, and we get, new offices for the City, Community Energy Systems, relocation of the Tennis Courts, ($800,000.00) Wood Innov Building, Boundry Road, etc;

If the City wants to fix the infrastructure its time to start moving all available funds into an infrastructure fund. Forget the **hoity toity** projects.

so the new mayor campaigns on fixing downtown and now says the job is done? Huh?

her report also looks more like an attempt to cover up the fact they drained a reserve and then realized afterwards that they broke their own bylaw which dedicated the funds for downtown improvements only. something tells me that there is more to this story.

I’m sure hizzoner Dan wouldn’t be a tough act to follow. He gave us the hot water heat under George Street for $17 million bucks. Maybe Sherri can find a wind turbine salesman to sell city hall a several million dollar bill of goods concerning a really neat wind turbine to be built way up top on Cranbrook Hill. Despite killing a few birds it could be the equivalant of taking 851 cars off Prince George Streets when it comes to saving our environment. How about it, Sherri? Hey? Are ya there?

I was thinking the “increased precipitation”claim was someone lobbying for a dike. :)

How dramatic is the weather going to change in the next 20 years… hardly at all.. what green should be worrying about is that cold wind blowing her out of office and back to her little store…

Hey Pal I have tears like you know what.(have to watch my language)These are dreamers we have at City Hall and they will probably never go away.
Cheers

“The end result is we will have a $50 Million PAC, and the $300,000.00 per annum operating deficit.”

PAC??. ….. not for at least 10 years, if ever. I predict other opportunities will show up as time passes to meet the needs/wants of finding a replacement for Vanier Hall.

Although PGSS is in much better shape than Duchess Park was, the SD will have to address a possible replacement for that school in the next 10 years. What they might do then will, of course, depend on a lot of things, mainly dependent on what the population of the city will look like over that time period.

How much did this “study” cost?

In the big scheme of things, I hope it was free, because its importance to this City’s survival as a livable place is nil to none at this time in our history of floundering what to do with maintaining the human built landscape.

I am not understanding why the people working on such programs were not laid off instead of a traffic engineer.