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Alternate Approval Process Quashes Regional District Borrowing Bylaw

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Thursday, December 16, 2010 03:57 AM

Prince George, B.C.- If there is to be a cemetery built in the Lakes District, it will have to go to a referendum.
The Regional District of Fraser Fort George held an alternate approval process to borrow the $33 thousand dollars needed to build the cemetery. That money would have been repaid through a special levy for tax payers in that electoral area.
The alternate approval process needed signatures from 187 eligible voters from the electoral area to stop the automatic borrowing. The final count showed 207 signatures had been collected.
That means, if the Regional District wants to move forward on this idea, it will have to hold a referendum. That is a decision the Regional District of Fraser Fort George will make later today at its regular monthly meeting.

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I'm fed up of seeing these 'Alternate Approval Processes' They sell it to us on the basis that it's cheaper than holding a full referendum, they make it as hard as possible for the public to complete the forms (having to pick them up from a small number of locations / having to return to locations) then, when it does not pass, they get another stab at it by holding a full referendum.

new2pg. it is an issue of the elected official and hired workers not listening to what the people want. Thinking that they know best, and the general public does not.
The alternate approval process is simply a bad law. It is one that can be undone by the province.

I doubt any of the BCLiberal leadership candidates want to make it an issue. Perhaps it can be put on the issues list for a provincial election.
"Alternate Approval" is simply wrong.
It allows governments on all levels to ignore the will of the people, if that will doesn't suit their agenda.
Anything that does that is wrong,and we see far too much of that on all levels of politics.
The Alternate Approval Process benefits polticians and poltical agenda's...not people.
It is political power.
The only way we will ever have fair and just government,it by making those we elect accountable to the people who elected them.
Damn well do what you are told by those who pay your salaries...and no,you don't have a choice!
Listen...or else.
Bravo Prince George'ers!

Alternate approval process should be buried 6 feet under. It is a scam and a sham.

Is there a funeral planned for the Alternate Approval Process which will kill the massive $38 million being borrowed for new PG RCMP headquarters?

Has City Hall tricked anyone by planning the deadline for dissent on December 31st? You know, when everyone trundles out on Christmas holidays to find those Alternate Approval Process forms and get them signed sealed delivered... And counted? Ho Ho Ho.
I do not care if they build a cemetery or not but I am solidly opposed to the A A P. If you vote yes that is fine. If you vote no then that is fine. If you choose not to vote, that is again your choice. In the AAP it assumes that anyone who does not vote, is a wanting to vote yes. That should be unconstitutional as it takes away my right to make a statement by not voting.
I've worked at the current detachment and believe they do need a new building, but being totally against the Alternate Approval Process I have signed my form simply in protest of the AAP itself.
That form and process is undemocratic but that's what I expect from liberals? I'm still finding too many people who know nothing about it.
Building a "cemetery? Gimme a break. Build a fence. Then dig graves neatly spaced apart with lanes connecting certain areas. I volunteer to undercut any engineering firm 50% when it comes to providing a "plan". If ya can't dazzle the folks with brilliance, then you can baffle them with bu--s--t. So they say.