qathet Regional District directors are recommending the regional board appoint chair Patrick Brabazon to sit as a member of City of Powell River’s liquid waste management plan monitoring committee.
At the regional district’s November 12 committee of the whole meeting, directors received correspondence from Powell River mayor Dave Formosa, inviting the regional district to appoint a member to the new committee. According to the mayor’s correspondence, the liquid waste management plan is intended to improve the city’s wastewater treatment, stormwater management and address municipal sewage, sewer overflows, stormwater runoff, septic tank contents, sewage treatment facility sludge and other liquid wastes detrimental to the environment.
On the committee, the regional district representative will join the city’s infrastructure services portfolio holder serving on council, one Tla’amin Nation elected representative and up to four members of the public at large. The city invited alternate representatives of the external organizations.
City director George Doubt said it was a request from the city for someone in one of the electoral areas to sit on the monitoring committee, and he’d like to see someone appointed so the committee can get busy and do its work.
Corporate officer Michelle Jones said the board would need to nominate a committee member and an alternate member.
Committee chair and Electoral Area D director Sandy McCormick said Brabazon, who is the Electoral Area A director, had expressed an interest in serving with the committee. Electoral Area C director Clay Brander nominated Brabazon and proposed Electoral Area B director Mark Gisborne as the alternate. The committee voted for the appointments, which will be affirmed at the regional board meeting.
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