Committee selects Palmer
At its meeting on Thursday, January 12, Powell River Regional District committee of the whole started its new year off by selecting long-standing Electoral Area C director Colin Palmer to serve as chair of the committee for 2017.
Lund society requests committee
Lund residents have requested that the regional district form a building advisory committee to look at the need for community hall space in the village. Directors of Lund Community Society penned a letter to the regional district asking for help to look at building a new community hall that can accommodate gatherings of 200 people. They state there is currently no building in the community that can hold that many people. According to the group, funds have been set aside to look into the new building.
Accounting software tracks debt
Committee of the whole recommended to the regional board that it approve the purchase of accounting software that will help streamline the financial services department, which will free up staff time and make it easier for the regional district’s utility customers to access their accounts and pay their bills online, to name a few advantages. The software will cost $117,000 to purchase and the regional district will have to borrow $100,000 from Municipal Finance Authority of BC.
Committee recommends conservation
Regional district directors who still receive paper copies of the local government’s meeting agendas and reports have said no to multiple paper copies of reports when they are several hundred pages long. Citing waste reduction, Electoral Area D director Sandy McCormick said that once she has one copy of the larger reports, she does not need to be issued additional ones each time the report is brought up in further meetings.
