It was quite a historic meeting yesterday- The Greater Vernon Recreation
Facilities & Programming MOU was signed after many months of hard work by
staff and politicians. This brings us one step closer to the stated goal of
streamlining, responsibility, authority, capacity, and accountability in an
effort to deliver the best possible service at the least cost to Greater Vernon
ratepayers.
Now we have two MOU's, one signed (Nov. 21st, 2012) for the
establishment of a Sub-Regional Parks Service, and as of yesterday, this
new MOU (Sept.12, 2013) for a Recreational Facilities & Programming
Service.
This leaves Arts, Culture, and Youth, for now, under the umbrella of the
same Bylaw that governs Sub-Regional Parks (this will be the amended present
1648 Bylaw). This, as you know, has been a long time coming, and now opens the
way to the discussions necessary to iron out the final details of of Service
Delivery of Sub Regional Parks, Arts, Culture and Youth at RDNO.
Next steps will include, senior staff from the Regional District, Vernon,
and Coldstream, getting together to bring back options for service delivery
models and budgets for the Sub-Regional Parks, Arts, Culture, and Youth Service
that will remain at RDNO. This is very crucial and necessary piece of the
puzzle that needs to be completed quickly in order to inform, and allow the
individual jurisdictions to make critical decisions, about budgets and service
delivery, for the parks that now fall under their 'local' responsibility.
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3 comments:
Bravo!
It is about time, especially with the Parks, we ( Coldstream) should look after our own.
This is what co-operation looks like. It takes work and wisdom.
Some eager beavers in Amalgoland seem to think their group's ideology trumps a fair process and the wishes of content Coldstreamers. The squeaky wheel sometimes just keeps squeaking.
Oh, and MLA Foster gets extra points for respecting the identity of my community of Coldstream.
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