Wednesday, January 11, 2012
Richmond Review · Page 7
Metro chair aims to cut meeting costs Greg Moore shuffles regional district committees by Jeff Nagel Black Press
Richmond representation on Metro committees
•Mayor Malcolm Brodie: Zero Waste (chair), Finance, New Metro Vancouver board chair Intergovernmental and Administration, Utilities, Mayors Greg Moore has slimmed down the •Coun. Harold Steves: Environment and Parks, Regional regional district’s committee strucPlanning and Agriculture ture as his first official act. •Coun. Bill McNulty: Housing The Port Coquitlam mayor pared •Coun. Linda McPhail: Port Cities former board chair Lois Jackson’s •Coun. Linda Barnes: Regional Culture 15 committees down to 12. Gone are separate Parks and Agriculture committees—they’re sues until a new bargaining sup- Langley City Coun. Gayle Martin, now merged into an Environment port agency can be formed. the former parks chair, as viceand Parks committee and a ReOne new committee is Aboriginal chair. gional Planning and Agriculture Affairs, although it really replaces North Vancouver District Mayor committee. the now-scrapped Lower Mainland Richard Walton, who was the board Eliminated altogether is a com- Treaty Advisory Committee, which vice-chair and chairs the TransLink mittee on policing issues, wasn’t directly under Met- mayors council, becomes chair of which Moore says will be the Finance committee, with Surrey ro’s control. handled by the Mayors’ Moore has also created a Coun. Marvin Hunt as vice-chair. committee, if required. Utilities committee, to be Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts will “I’ve heard from some we chaired by North Vancouver chair the Port Cities committee and had quite a few commitCity Mayor Darrell Mussat- Maple Ridge Mayor Ernie Daykin tees and we could look to to, that replaces the former chairs the Aboriginal Affairs comreduce those committees Water committee and will mittee. to save us money as well also oversee the sewage Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, as staff resources,” Moore system. who contemplated challenging MOORE said. The former Waste Man- Moore for the chair, emerges with He also capped the memagement committee be- perhaps the most influence of bership on each committee comes the Zero Waste committee, any other regional politician on at a maximum of 11 directors. focused heavily on garbage reduc- the board. Metro directors received a total tion and Metro’s pursuit of expandBesides chairing the Regional of $846,000 from meeting fees in ed waste-to-energy plants. Planning and Agriculture committee 2010. Richmond Mayor Malcolm Bro- (he was regional planning chair), Each director is paid $330 for ev- die will chair the new Zero Waste Corrigan is now also vice-chair of ery committee or board meeting committee. the Mayors’ committee (backing they attend, and that fee doubles Moore said he worked with board up Moore) and is vice-chair of the to $660 if a meeting runs longer vice-chair and Vancouver Coun. Zero Waste committee. than four hours. Raymond Louie to come up with Moore said he’s also looking for Also eliminated is Metro’s La- the more streamlined commit- ways to better engage citizens and bour Relations Bureau, which in tee system and to ensure proper inform them about what Metro the past coordinated bargaining geographic balance among ap- does. between cities and their unions, pointees. “We’ve started a conversation but fractured after the largest cities Vancouver Coun. Heather Deal on how we as a board look at web withdrew. Moore said the mayors becomes the chair of the Environ- streaming and at how we commucommittee will handle those is- ment and Parks committee, with nicate as a board,” he said.
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