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City will look closely at group funding ARNE PETRYSHEN Rossland News Editor
Rossland city council will be taking a hard look at how previous councils have funded community groups when budget discussions take off in the Your Horoscope For the Week fewO’Connor weeks.inside withnext Michael Th is was during Monthe West Kootenay noted Advertiser day’s meeting when the Rossland Sustainability Commis-
sion budget request of $30,000. “Council is faced with many things as far as upcoming budget deliberations go, it’s nothing about the Sustainability Commission or the work they have done,” Coun. Jill Spearn said. “But I know we have had to at least think about some of the costs to the city of all of the service groups.” Spearn said the decisions on the groups should wait until they can look at the whole pic-
ture. She added that city staff feels it could do the commissions administrators duties. “I do recognize that we are going to have to tighten our belts so to speak on some things,” she said. “I know that there are some other things that we need to put some money towards in terms of sustainability.” Coun. Jody Blomme liked the spirit of trying to find ef-
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ficiencies in the money being spent. The problem she had was that the city would stop paying for someone’s job. She also didn’t like that they were singling out the Sustainability Commission, and attempting to make decisions in isolation. “There are other community groups, there are other efficiencies, perhaps, that we could see if we looked at the whole picture,” Blomme said. “Would
rather take a look at everything all at once instead of looking at this one thing in isolation.” Coun. Kathy Moore agreed with the previous councillor’s comments, but was concerned that taking on the administrative responsibilities may lead to increases in staff salaries, that could negate any savings of the in-house administrative work. She also worried that the commission’s work may slow See City on P. 3
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