No Referendum in Lakes Area Cemetery Plan

Thursday, December 16, 2010 06:00 PM

Prince George, B.C.- The Regional District of Fraser Fort George will not move forward at this time with a referendum to develop a cemetery in the Lakes District.

In October, the Regional District Board voted to enter into an alternative approval process for a proposed new cemetery service in the Lakes area. The process, if approved would have given the Regional District the Authority to borrow about $33 thousand dollars for construction of a cemetery. That money would have been recovered through special taxation in the Lakes District.

There were a total of 1855 electors within the affected area, and by the December 7th deadline, 207 response forms were received. This represented more than 10% of electors, and thus the service could not go forward without a referendum.

Neither the Lakes Cemetery Society nor the Regional District will be pursuing a referendum at this time.

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Posted on Thursday, December 16, 2010 06:00 PM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: supertech on December 16 2010 10:38 PM

33,000??That's it?? It would be a lot more money if our overspending council was involved. Probably in the neighborhood of 33 million. That building in the graveyard only cost us 8 million. Immagine if you can a building with no rooms, just a few shelves, for dead folks ashes. That's real good bang for our buck huh?