The fight over Greater Vernon governance is heating up.
The Greater Vernon Governance Society is demanding the provincial
government review actions taken by Coldstream council prior to it
deciding not to support a study into possibly merging local
jurisdictions.
“Their actions of meeting as a quorum with the Coldstream Ratepayers
Association, and encouraging the 60 ratepayers in attendance at that
meeting to come out and support their position to not agree to any
study, clearly shows they had predetermined their decision because of
their personal biases toward not changing the governance structure in
the area,” states a society release.
“We believe, in common with other municipal jurisdictions,
councillors should not offer personal opinions in public forums, and
when a quorum of elected officials is present and speaking on a topic,
formal minutes should be taken and entered into the public record.”
The society is calling for all jurisdictions to hold a referendum this fall asking residents if they support a governance study.
Look for more in Friday's Morning Star.
Note: Representatives from Electoral Areas B and C are actually elected by taxpayers of those areas, in these cases they were elected by acclamation!
Note: Representatives from Electoral Areas B and C are actually elected by taxpayers of those areas, in these cases they were elected by acclamation!
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4 comments:
Oh to be a fly on the wall at amalgo amigos central...one can just imagine the painful intellectual contortions they endure as they careen from one failed strategy to another.
How about "conversion therapy" I've heard it's a thing in the States--worth trying on the bumpkins...
This farce has gone past its amusement factor. It's become tedious.
The time has come for Vernon Council to respectfully distance themselves from this adventure.
So, the power players have spoken:
“We believe, in common with other municipal jurisdictions, councillors should not offer personal opinions in public forums, and when a quorum of elected officials is present and speaking on a topic, formal minutes should be taken and entered into the public record.”
Richard Rolke Morning Star (today)
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Translation: democratically elected community leaders should stfu.
Community self-determination is a limiting and frustrating concept
for the machinators.
Really just what is the carrot they are chasing?
Is their penultimate dream, after they have neutralized the troublesome community of Coldstream, to have free reign of a North Okanagan fiefdom, where the real money players, the ubiquitous backroom seat-warmers: the committee/advisory old boys can pull unfettered strings with great abandon?
There really must be big, big money at stake here given their persistence.
How many readers believe they are pushing this for all the peasants benefit?
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