Organizations interested in the City of Powell River’s liquid waste management plan (LWMP) will be allowed to set up information tables at an open house.
Council passed a motion recently which permits groups to put tables in the upper foyer of the Powell River Recreation Complex. The open house, which will be held from 2 to 8 pm on Tuesday, May 10 in the Cedar Room at the complex, is part of the city’s public consultation plan for stage three of the LWMP. The open house will provide information about the LWMP and treatment options, either a consolidated stand-alone facility or co-treatment at Catalyst Paper Corporation’s wastewater treatment facility.
The open house will be followed by a dialogue event, from 6 to 9 pm on Tuesday, May 17 at Dwight Hall, which provides participants with an opportunity to share ideas, comments and concerns.
The suggestion that community organizations should be allowed to set up information tables at the open house came from the joint local-technical advisory committee.
The committee also asked for an apology for statements contained in a grant application for $7.2 million from the UBCM (Union of BC Municipalities) Innovations Fund for the co-treatment option. The application indicated that the project was going to start in April 2011 and that the option was selected in consultation with stakeholders. Committee members asked that the city correct the misleading statements because they had not chosen co-treatment as the preferred option. Council agreed and passed a motion to amend the application to make it clear that the committee had been consulted on the co-treatment option, but had not selected it as the preferred option.
Council also passed a motion to amend the committee’s terms of reference to allow committee members to appoint an alternate chair in the absence of the chair. Previously, council had to appoint an alternate chair. Council also approved another amendment to the terms of reference that allows three alternate committee members.
