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Council Faces Several Major Issues

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Monday, December 18, 2006 03:59 AM

    

Prince George City Council will have a very busy night as the long awaited report on air quality issues will be presented. Residents near the asphalt plants are already making it clear that although they think the report is a good one, its recommendations don’t go far enough.

Also on the agenda, a report on the Cameron Street Bridge which outlines the route that should be taken for applying for funding, and the financial capital plan for the City that would see the bridge completed in 2009.

Mayor Kinsley will also present a report to tell his side of the mountain pine beetle assistance news conference flap. He will present a chronological account which outlines the calls for assistance to municipalities. The M.P.’s say they were broadsided, that there was no request for funding for private property owners.

There will be a public hearing on the re-zoning of property off Queensway for the All Roads RV business. Neighbours say the notice of the public hearing was not properly placed, and that many had not been given proper notice of an open house. There is a petition against the rezoning.

There is also a request for rezoning for the development of a three story multi family structure on 7th between Vancouver and Winnipeg.

Council will look at fee increases for the Civic Centre for internet and phone connections, and some new rates for the use of schools, fields and parks.

There is also a report calling for Council to approve the applications for funding shares for four projects under the BC-Municipal Rural Infrastructure Fund. At the top of the list is the Cameron Street Bridge, $1 million from each level of government for a total of $3 million) followed by the Community Energy System then Asset Management, and finally, the Kin Arena and Site improvements.


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Glad to see the Air Quality report will be presented. I hope you will post a full story for us tomorrow.
Also hoping to hear that Prince George will be 'moving' the Pittman Plant and setting standards so that your valley can remain healthy for all residents and the industry folk can get on with its business as I am sure it wants to do. Consider that who 'ever' sold or leased this land to these ashphalt plants is really at fault as that is where theses type of problems begin for 'everyone' involved. Was it the city/province/private? Zone land correctly, sell land correctly and stop this problem from re-occurring! Fix this problem completely.
Good luck tonight we will wait to see if PG is going to give back its residence the privalge of clean air to breath from the neighborhoods directly effected by this mistake and for the bowl residents who may not realize yet how much they too are effected by the pollutants that silently make their way into the valley. This , I presume would include your mayor and council families.
Be still my beating heart....
Kinsley is actually going to be here....
Wow.....
Joke right....
He isn't off somewhere else doing some other thing with someone different at our expense?
Iam amazed, in awe and don't believe it.....
YET!
????? .. it is a rare occasion that the mayor is not in his seat at Council meetings.
As FYL indicated, the asphalt plants problem could receive funding as a "green" project.

It is too bad that the city did not go for federal funding for this rather than the cameron street bridge which was really not a project which fits the criteria. It is a lost opportunity.
Our city council elections are a lost opportunity.
I think we should try a platform system with candidates aligning themselves with those. Everyone on their own simply does not work. No one is accountable to a position taken. Its an olde boys network of self-protection that develops very quickly with a few girls thrown in every now and then. I find they appear to be out of the loop.

The other problem with the system is that the most popular councillors are most likely to run for the mayorality seat and if they lose, it is highly likely that good councillors are lost for a 3 year period, if not forever.

From my point of view we lost two experienced councillors in the past year who were not afraid to speak and speak from positions different from other on council when they felt it was necessary. That is showing loud and clear.
I feel that our mayor may possibly be taking a slight advantage, of using perks of the job, during possibly and probably his last term in office.
I hope he has to pay taxes on all these trips he has taken....
Maybe that should be suggested to the leader of our federal government.
as if he would listen either