Local government
Salmon Arm, Kelowna, Kamloops all finalists in GamesTown 2010
January 8, 2010 by Lynn Knell
Filed under BC government, Business, Headlines, Kamloops news, Kelowna news, Local government, Recreation, Salmon Arm news
Salmon Arm, together with Kelowna and Kamloops, is among the 10 GamesTown 2010 finalists. This photo by James Rowe was the grand winner in Salmon Arm's photo contest. (Photo courtesy City of Salmon Arm)
After counting nearly 200,000 ballots, the BC Minister of State for the Olympics and ActNow, Mary McNeil, has announced that British Columbians have chosen 10 communities around the province to be finalists in the contest for the title of GamesTown 2010.
Congratulations to the top 10 communities of Houston, Princeton, Smithers, Quesnel, Salmon Arm, Dawson Creek, Prince George, Kamloops, Kelowna and Coquitlam.
Grants for municipal services to government buildings
November 17, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC finance, BC news, Local government
Municipalities receive $15.9 million in lieu of taxes.
The Province, through the Ministry of Citizens’ Services, is providing $15.9 million to 63 B.C. municipalities as grants-in-lieu of property taxes for 2009, announced Minister Ben Stewart.
In the past, it was the practice that one level of government did not tax the property of another level of government. However, beginning in the 1960s, the Province began to recognize its responsibility to compensate municipalities for local services that benefited these properties, such as roads, sewers and fire protection.
Golden recognized for innovative planning
October 22, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under Community, Feature stories, Local government
The Town of Golden received a Community Excellence Award from the Union of BC Municipalities at their recent Vancouver conference. What follows are excerpts from the award document.
Municipalities may lose control over spending decisions
October 9, 2009 by Council of Canadians
Filed under Business, Canada government, Canada news, Freedom, Local government
Action alert: oppose the Canada-US procurement deal now being negotiated.
Canadian and American trade officials are right now discussing a bilateral trade deal that puts local communities at risk. It’s not even really about trade – it’s about curbing the powers of local and provincial governments to spend public money on public priorities: jobs, environmental protection, public health and public services.
NDP-proposed ‘Green Fund’ would help rural communities
October 4, 2009 by Norm Macdonald
Filed under BC finance, BC government, BC news, Local government
NDP plan will return millions to rural communities.
B.C. Liberals have abandoned forest-dependent communities, says Macdonald.
The Green Fund announced today by the New Democrats would return millions of dollars to rural communities abandoned by the B.C. Liberal government, New Democrat forest critic Norm Macdonald said today.
The Green Fund offers hope to rural B.C., where the resource-based economies of entire communities have been devastated by the failed policies of the B.C. Liberals. Macdonald noted that the fund would invest $150 million per year in helping British Columbians live more sustainable lives.
Okanagan plans for drought
July 24, 2009 by ShuNews
Filed under BC government, Environment, Kelowna news, Local government, Nature, Penticton news, Vernon news
Areas south and west of the Shuswap have been experiencing their driest conditions in many years. Prompted by growing concerns the past 18 months about water shortages in the southern interior (from the Monashees to the coast) the Okanagan Basin Water Board held a drought planning workshop yesterday (July 23) in Kelowna.
