Category: SCRD Updates
Thrown Under the Ferry
News Flash: As of April 30 the Summer Trial has been cancelled. There’s been a huge outcry against the SCRD for “approving” BC Ferries’ summer reservations trial (see Coast Reporter article), so here’s some background. …
The Good News About Water
The 2013 Comprehensive Regional Water Plan is hopelessly out of date after only eight years, and that’s a wonderful thing! I’ll tell you why. The Chapman water treatment plant was commissioned in 2004, and by …
Seniors and Property Taxes
Every year, when property tax increases loom, we hear from a lot of seniors who are on fixed incomes and are worried or angry about rising property taxes. I appreciate that it’s alarming to be …
2021 Budget – Brace Yourselves
As I have referenced in my Horsemen of the Tax Apocalypse post, the SCRD is facing huge costs, and a bunch of them are landing in the 2021 budget. Our CAO, Dean McKinley, gave the …
Elected to Receive Rational Pay
After all the loud complaining I’ve done about how SCRD directors are paid (see old post), I am extremely pleased to report that the Remuneration Review Task Force reported in on Jan. 14 and we …
Active Transportation in Area E
In November 2020, I started a consultation with residents in Area E to gather feedback about their priorities for active transportation—connector trails and paved shoulders. The SCRD is facing a huge budget crunch. This is putting …
Why Green Bins?
I’ve had a number of people call or email me to complain about the green bin program which requires residents to separate organics such as food scraps from the rest of their garbage. Here’s one …
Restarting Recreation Facilities
A constituent phoned me the other day. He had sat through the entire July 23 Corporate Services meeting (brave man!) and pointed out that we took almost as much time fussing over cuts to various …
When did we go to Stage 4?
Here is a great graph produced by SCRD staff showing the timeline of bringing in water restrictions over the last six years. Blue is Stage 1, yellow is Stage 2, orange is Stage 3 and …
My Ode to the SCRD Logo
There’s no other way to describe the SCRD’s logo: it’s ugly. Just for fun, I recently went online and reviewed the logos of the 26 other regional districts in BC and I defy you to …