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OCTOBER 11, 2012
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Vol. 117, Issue 195
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PROUDLY SERVING THE COMMUNITIES OF ROSSLAND, WARFIELD, TRAIL, MONTROSE, FRUITVALE & SALMO
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Trail asks for bigger piece of CBT pie BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
The City of Trail needs a bigger share of the Columbia Basin Trust’s (CBT) annual community initiative program since it serves Greater Trail and not just the city proper, says one city councillor. On Tuesday night councillor Robert Cacchioni asked Columbia Basin Trust’s chief executive officer Neil Muth about the new funding formula the organization introduced last year. He said the current division of CBT cash—with every community receiving at least $30,000, with larger community’s apportionment based on population— leaves Trail a little short when it comes time to handing out cash to community groups. Cacchioni noted that, although the money comes to the city for the amount of citizens it comprises, as the hub of the Greater Trail region they end up handing out money to groups that service the entire area. “Many of these grants we provide … cross over well beyond our borders,” he said during the regular council meeting. “I’m concerned the CBT is not (funding) on a per capita basis. It is wrong. If you look at Warfield, one fifth of the population of Trail, they get $30,000. Therefore, Trail should get $150,000 by that understanding.” He asked Muth to take a closer look at community initiatives program under which Trail received $112,000 last year.
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JIM BAILEY PHOTO
Early Wednesday morning, workers Charlie Kain and Wade Blatkewicz, of B.C. Custom Aluminum, direct operator Carl Kwasnicki of Genelle as they repair the Trail dock at Gyro Park, after high water destroyed the pilings and shifted the structure.
West Kootenay honoured for transit leadership UBCM ‘best practices’ award for Trail marks two in a row for Silver City BY TIMOTHY SCHAFER Times Staff
The City of Trail cleaned up at the recent Union of B.C. Municipalities convention in Victoria, winning two major awards out of eight. For the second year in a row Trail won the tough Community Excellence Award in best practices, general, beating out 15 other communities much larger than the Silver City. The city was recognized for its work setting up the Downtown Opportunities and Action
Committee in 2011, and coming up with a workable Trail Downtown Plan released last spring. It was the first time in the history of the UBCM awards that a municipality has been honoured two years in a row with the award. And Trail was victorious in a very difficult category to win, said Joslyn Young, executive coordinator of the UBCM awards. “Local government always hear what they do wrong, so it’s nice to hear sometimes what they did right,” she observed. Last year Trail won the same award for the public process they used for shutting down and the continued shut down of the Old Trail Bridge and how they handled that from a public perspective.
“Local government always hear what they do wrong, so it’s nice to hear sometimes what they did right.” JOSLYN YOUNG
“It was a real pleasure to go up and receive this award on behalf of the DOAC,” said Mayor Dieter Bogs, noting that now councillor Kevin Jolly was the instrumental chair of the DOAC at the time. He also lauded the efforts of city staff members Michelle MacIsaac and Dave Perehudoff for their part in the DOAC. The city also shared in the
wealth on the UBCM Community Excellence Award in the partnerships category, with their work on regional transit with Castlegar, Nelson and the regional districts of Kootenay Boundary and Central Kootenay. “Nelson did the majority of the work in setting up the transportation corridor to get students to Selkirk College and to the hospital (in Trail),” Bogs noted. The Partnerships category recognizes two or more partners who have collaborated on a joint venture or initiative with outstanding results. The ability to break down barriers and identify and promote common goals is the measurement used in the category.
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