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Morgan refuses to chair SLIPP meetings By Barb Brouwer OBSERVER STAFF
A Columbia Shuswap Regional District director has resigned as chair of the Shuswap Lake Integrated Planning Process steering committee. While Area F North Shuswap director Larry Morgan stepped down Thursday, May 23, he will continue to sit on the committee. “I resigned as chair of the SLIPP Steering Committee, as I did not want to continue to be drawn into an increasingly divisive debate over the direction of SLIPP,” Morgan said in a written statement. Created in 2007 in response to concerns regarding numerous issues impacting the Shuswap watershed, SLIPP is comprised of stakeholders from various levels of government and environmental groups, who committed varying amounts of funding to a three-year pilot project. The project is now in its third year. “They were trying push it ahead and I just thought we were getting ahead of ourselves,” Morgan said in a phone interview last
week. “I am reserving judgment on any decision on the continuation or funding of SLIPP for the future.” Morgan was opposed to a proposal to send out a survey to gauge public approval for SLIPP. “My argument was surveys can be manipulated,” he said. “It boiled down to the fact certain people are more supportive than I am.” Morgan said that at $90,000 a year over the
Larry Morgan Resigns fRom sLiPP ChaiR three-year project, Area F is the second largest contributor to SLIPP, after Area C South Shuswap, which is in for $142,000 per year. “Other areas are paying a lot less and Salmon Arm contributed a small amount last year and this year, and Sicamous is contributing nothing this year,” he said. “From the Area F
standpoint, we need to see funding done on a more fair basis in terms of population or a transition to some other organization.” Defending Morgan’s position, interim chair and Salmon Arm mayor, Nancy Cooper, says the steering committee does not yet have all the information needed to make decisions. “I am waiting to see and evaluate and bring that to council,” she says. Shuswap Water Action Team (SWAT) president Ray Nadeau, says it’s important to get a decision on moving SLIPP forward prior to September because the regional district will be in the budget process for 2014. Without a decision on funding, he is worried the project will simply slip under the waves. “So far the results of SLIPP show the water is clearly beginning to deteriorate and, in my opinion, we need a permanently-funded water board similar to what they’ve had for 40 years in the Okanagan,” he says, pointing out a healthy economy is dependent on a healthy watershed.
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