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Burning rubber: The Summer Stomp and Burnout got underway Friday on Main Street with high-flying stunts, music, vendors, the burnout competition and more. Clockwise from top left – Craig Latimer of the daredevil duo, the Eh Team, high fives the crowd while steering by foot; Darcy Backman burns rubber during the burnout event; Sicamous’ Serge Miller works on his traditional burnout smiley face on the road; Kris Foster of Global FMX reaches for the smoke-filled skies during his stunt performance; Kelly Norwood of Kelly’s Kustom Pinstriping of Westwold draws an appreciative crowd as he carefully details a splash guard. See page 2 for more on the Stomp. Photos by Lachlan Labere

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Mayor Trouton not seeking re-election

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

The name ‘Darrell Trouton’ will not be on the ballot for mayor in November’s municipal election.

Sicamous’ incumbent mayor announced Monday that he will not be seeking re-election, opting to focus on personal projects and family.

Trouton told the News this decision resulted from reflection with family, including his wife Jeannette, about his current volume of commitments, noting “you can only take on so much for so long, then you need to downsize, regroup, get grounded, before taking on projects again.”

“Jeannette and I are at the stage in our lives where our kids are on their own now – We are downsizing our home, simplifying our lives and will be able to spend more time with our family.”

Trouton describes

himself as a focused and dedicated person who never took the role of mayor lightly, treating it as a full-time commitment.

Reflecting on his time as mayor, Trouton says his greatest challenge and accomplishment resulted from the flooding of 2012 that put the District of Sicamous into a state of emergency.

“Taking on a new role and having to deal with everything, that would be it – dealing with the flood, the fact that nobody was seriously injured and trying to make a positive out of something that most definitely wasn’t a positive.”

Trouton says he’s proud of how council and staff have come together in terms of working with, and respecting one another, and he’s enthusiastic with the direction they are moving in.

This includes the work being done on what is currently the biggest undertaking in the district,

development of the new water treatment facility.

“Before you move forward with a project, you need to do the work first, and we’ve done that work. We’ve got a really good team, we’ve

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looked at all the aspects of it, we have a project management team hired to do that for us… we have the right people looking after it,” said Trouton. “Would I have liked to have had one more year, complete a few more things? Sure.

Of course, that’s the downside. There’s always a downside.”

Asked if the new four-year term the next mayor and council will be facing was a factor

in his decision to not run again, Trouton said no, though he would have liked to have had four years this term.

He said there are lots of projects, beyond the water treatment facility that he would like to continue working on, such as the Sicamous -to-Armstrong rail trail, various highway upgrades including the Trans-Canada/Highway 97A intersection and the dredging of the channel. He noted one of things he tried to do as mayor was make each of these projects front and centre before the right people in the provincial and federal governments.

To the upcoming candidates for mayor and council, Trouton says experience in business, especially as a business leader, is crucial.

“You’re the business leaders, basically, for the community,” said Trouton. “You have professional staff, but they also rely on you to

give them direction as a council for the community. We need business leaders to step up and help out for the direction of the community, and I don’t think there’s enough of that.

“It needs to be run as a business, it needs to be accountable, you need to be held fiscally responsible, and you have to take all the information in before you make decisions on moving forward. In any business, that’s what you need to do.”

Trouton is grateful for all the support he’s received over the past three years, and is appreciative of the opportunity, the people he’s met and experiences he’s had. He says he will make himself available to upcoming candidates for mayor or council to discuss all that he can with them about the work ahead.

“There’s definitely positives to it and it’s a good experience,” he said.

Police pleased with this year’s Summer Stomp

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

Solid organization, great music, good times and no major incidents.

This is a taste of the feedback local officials have received regarding this year’s Summer Stomp and Burnout Charity Party.

From a policing perspective, apart from the odd arrest for intoxi-

cation and a couple of noise complaints, the weekend event in Sicamous came and went without a hitch.

“Basically, we didn’t have any calls of note, everyone was pretty well behaved,” commented Sicamous RCMP Const. Dusty Miller, who is pleased with how the event went. “It was defi-

nitely well-organized and well-planned out, so any issues that did come up in the Stomp didn’t make it to us.

I’m glad everyone had a good time.”

There was an incident in Salmon Arm where one of the riders in the Stomp poker run, a 44-year old Manitoba man, was seriously injured after

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a Subaru driven by an 86-year-old Salmon Arm woman turned left in front of him. Police report his injuries are not life threatening and the woman is being charged for failing to yield the right of way.

Sicamous Mayor Darrell Trouton also had only good things to say about the weekend and the work done

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by the Summer Stomp Committee, the district and all the volunteers who helped make the event happen.

“It was just great music all weekend, it was very well run and organized and patrolled, and everybody did what they’re supposed to do on a weekend like this,” said Trouton.

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Rail to trail campaign picks up steam

By Barb Brouwer Eagle Valley News

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Retaining the railway right of way from Sicamous to Armstrong received strong support at the July 17 Columbia Shuswap Regional District.

Chief Administrative officer Charles Hamilton brought a letter from Electoral Area E director Rhona Martin to the board’s attention at the July 17 board meeting in Salmon Arm. Martin, who was away on UBCM business, told Hamilton she had arranged for a meeting with the mayors of Vernon, Armstrong, Sicamous and Council, RDNO, Shuswap Trail Alliance and a representative from the Splatsin Band.

“At the meeting yesterday (June 25), each gave a brief comment on their thoughts on moving forward and, although we are not quite sure how to do this,, it was determined that we must first speak to our own local governments to receive the mandate to be engaged in discussion about the rail line and what our next steps should be,” Martin wrote.

Hamilton told directors that Martin had been involved in initial discussions in 2009, talks that had stopped after the District of Sicamous determined the railway wanted more money than they were willing to pay.

“Work is now underway, the track material is being salvaged,” said Hamilton, noting the work was the impetus to get discussions back on the rails and Martin wanted the board to be aware and authorize her to represent CSRD. “She real-

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Opportunity: CSRD directors and City of Salmon Arm council view the decommissioned CP Rail line between Sicamous and Armstrong as regional tourism opportunity. Photo by Lachlan Labere izes the “rails to trails” concept is attractive but is also cognizant that we just don’t have the discretionary funds.”

Salmon Arm Coun.

Debbie Cannon was enthusiastically onboard.

“I think all regional districts and municipalities need to show huge support for this.

It would attract tourists from all over the world,” she said.

Sitting in for Mayor Darrell Trouton, Sicamous alternate Terry Rysz, agreed.

“We have been working on this for about six months and we are sending a resolution to UBCM,” he said. “With the province and community support, we may be able to pull this off.”

The resolution states the UBCM should become the owner of these transportation corridors and should ask the province to in-

stitute a province-wide parcel tax, similar to that levied by the Municipal Finance Authority on property tax notices, to help in their purchase and maintenance.

Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok called the trail a “brilliant and large opportunity.”

“I think we should get a committee struck, involving the CSRD, RDNO, municipalities and First Nations,” he said. “I think we need to be organized at our end before we enter negotiations – not do it piecemeal fashion.”

Mayor Nancy Cooper pointed out that the Healthy Communities Coalition and Shuswap Trail Alliance are also supporting this “healthy option.”

“I certainly will support whatever we want to do going forward,” she said.

The board voted

unanimously to support board member participation in future meetings to discuss the possibility of protecting the abandoned rail line for future transportation opportunities.

Last Monday, Salmon Arm council added to the push to preserve the rail line between Sicamous and Armstrong.

Council agreed to write to the province in support of local government acquisition of the deregulated rail corridor for the establishment of a hiking/ biking greenway.

Coun. Chad Eliason championed the motion, arguing council has to look to the future of the region and sustainable transportation. He said that while the rail line wouldn’t impact Salmon Arm directly, it could have positive ramifications of the region.

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OPINION

Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Eagle Valley News

Council a serious commitment

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f you knew your community would be rocked by natural catastrophe in your first term as a local politician, would you still seek to be elected?

Asked this question in an interview earlier this week, Mayor Darrell Trouton answered ‘yes’ without hesitation, explaining that while the 2012 flood represents the greatest challenge he faced during his first and, apparently, only term as mayor, the fact that no one was seriously injured and the way it brought the community together, also made it one of his most positive experiences.

Regardless, it was a heck of a way for a new mayor and council to get their feet wet. Year one typically revolves around learning the ropes of municipal government – policies, procedures, bylaws, etc., while developing a working relationship with one another and municipal staff.

The abrupt need of an education in disaster management and relief couldn’t have made the job any easier.

Who can say for sure that the next mayor and council won’t face similar drastic circumstances?

Hopefully not, but you never know. This possibility, however, does highlight an important point – running for office is not something to be taken lightly – even in a small and generally disaster-free community such a Sicamous.

As has been mentioned in the past, the job of mayor and council is pretty much a full-time commitment (with part-time pay). It is almost guaranteed that, as an elected representative, you will come up against adversity, controversy and the frustration associated with typically timeconsuming processes that are beyond your control.

And, try as you may, it is doubtful you will ever make a decision that will please everyone.

But such is life.

Obviously, there are rewards to being a mayor or councillor – perhaps the greatest being the opportunities these positions offer to give back to your community and help in shaping its future for the greatest good. Disaster or no, that’s still one heck of a job.

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Liberal’s debt free B.C. yet to be seen

By Tom Fletcher News Columnist

VICTORIA – When the audited public accounts confirmed a $353 million surplus for the last fiscal year, B.C. Liberal political staff were quick to remind reporters of the NDP’s main theme from last year’s election campaign.

Pages of election quotes from almost every NDP MLA were waiting to be distributed. It was a “bogus budget,” one of the more polite tags applied to the government’s pre-election fiscal plan.

Skeena MLA Robin Austin targeted health care in the budget debate: “Bearing in mind that our population is actually increasing, bearing in mind that our population is aging, I think it’s very unrealistic to think we can actually limit health care expenditures to 2.7 per cent.”

As it turned out, health care spending grew by just

over two per cent. It still went up by $360 million from the previous year, but after annual increases of six or seven per cent had become the norm, this is quite an achievement. New agreements remain to be negotiated with doctors and nurses, so we’re unlikely to see the same cost control results for the current year.

Ottawa’s health care transfer payment formula has changed, and increases are to be capped at three per cent a year by 2016, so this is the kind of spending restraint all provinces are expected to produce.

Education was the only other ministry to receive significant extra funding last year, up $299 million despite continuing enrolment decline. Like health, the education budget goes up every year, and these increases, along with strong student performance results, expose the rhetoric of the B.C. Teachers’ Federation about a cash-starved system

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But the biggest fabrication of last year’s election was the “debt free B.C.” slogan emblazoned on the side of Premier Christy Clark’s campaign bus.

The public accounts confirm that the province’s total debt rose to just over $60 billion, the latest of a series of increases since 2008. The much-touted balanced budget is on the operating side, while the province continues to pile up debt to pay for the Port Mann megaproject, hospitals, schools and other big infrastructure.

Finance Minister Mike de Jong emphasized the difference between capital and operating expenditures.

“We’re borrowing to build as opposed to paying for the groceries,” he said.

“Debt free B.C.” was not an outright misrepresentation, merely one of the most far-fetched promises ever delivered in the history of B.C. politics. The legislature is to convene in Octo-

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ber so the B.C. Liberals can pass a taxation framework for the nascent liquefied natural gas industry, which the government hopes will generate the revenues to ultimately pay off the province’s $60-billion mortgage.

Meanwhile, there is more capital debt ahead.

The cabinet is expected to green-light the Site C dam on the Peace River this fall, a decade-long project estimated to cost $8 billion.

Along with the public accounts, the finance ministry released a list of surplus land sales. The sale of 50-odd properties, some of them closed schools, netted the provincial treasury about $310 million, which accounts for most of the surplus.

Was this “selling off the family silverware to try and balance the books,” as nowNDP leader John Horgan termed it before the election? It’s certainly not a revenue source to be matched next year.

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tives, the NDP and the Liberals, with a box to be marked beside each one. On the other side is a space for the reader to fill out their name, address, telephone number and email address.

Mayes said the 10 per cent-ers are made by a Conservative support group which is paid by the party to put them out.

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“The Liberals complained about it.”

Another general issue was when some mail-outs went to ridings other than Conservatives, he said. The Liberals and NDP were not happy, the Conservatives agreed and the rules were changed – politicians can no longer send mail-outs to outside ridings.

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the 10 per cent-ers he could.

“Some in my opinion are a little offensive as they have pictures of Mr. Mulcair or Mr. Trudeau… If you look at my budget from the last three years, I hardly sent out many.”

He said the communication is political, nonetheless.

“We’re definitely political – good things the government is doing. I’m sure the NDP says the bad things the government is doing.”

Mayes admits he

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Accusations that the federal New Democratic Party has used parliamentary resources for partisan mass mailings has raised questions about other parties’ use of taxpayer-funded promotions.

In May, the House of Commons Board of Internal Economy ordered the NDP to repay Parliament $36,000 for partisan mailings and a further $1.13 million to Canada Post.

In turn, the NDP has asked the Federal Court for a review of the decision.

A report from Commons Board staff is quoted as saying they “were not messages from the individual members as members, but rather were prepared by and for the benefit of the NDP as a political party and to advance electoral purposes.”

Okanagan-Shuswap MP Colin Mayes sends information to his constituents. He says he sends two types: one, a ‘householder,’ and the other, a ‘ten per center.’

He said there are two reasons the NDP has been taken to task.

Firstly, they used the NDP logo and, sec-

ondly, they asked for money.

The householders Mayes sends out are larger documents, while the 10 per centers, which are so named as they can be sent to 10 per cent of an MP’s constituents, are 8.5 by 11 sheets.

The most recent one states: “Our Conservative government is standing up for hardworking Canadian families.”

Further down the page is what looks like a small survey – the same format that was on a sampling of four other Mayes’ 10 per cent-ers.

The most recent one asks: “Who’s on the right track to support Canadian families?”

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Killer kitties and their wild kingdom

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Pussycat, pussycat, where have you been?

I’ve been up to London to visit the Queen.

Pussycat, pussycat, what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

I came across a cartoon a few years ago, where this guy was feeding his mutt and in the dog’s thought bubble was that his master is always so kind and addressing his every need and want, and that the man must be some kind of god.

The next frame was the fellow now feeding his feline, with the thinking the same except that it was himself that must a god. For those of us who cater to them, I’m sure that’s not too far off the mark.

So if Fluffy figures his human is here for his every whim, then surely he must think that nature is here for his own personal playground for the palate – a veritable feline feast where anything that moves is a munchie.

Let’s face it folks, your cat may be cuddly and cute, but that lounge lizard on your lap is really a killer kitty.

Cats can do a lot of harm in a hurry around you and your neighborhood, devouring birds,

mice, moles, voles, bugs, butterflies, bunnies, frogs, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks and all else in between.

It’s impressive (in a morbid sort of way) to watch a cat in action when it’s zoned in on a target. The approach is almost imperceptible, the eyes unblinking and tail ever so slightly twitching until the little wiggle before the launch. I’ve seen one catch a bird in midflight by leaping at it from a distance of 10 feet, pinning it against a fence then trotting away with the doomed thing still flapping away in its mouth.

Cats can also have a warped sense of fun with their victims by sometimes indulging in a little playtime first, like pouncing or flipping them into the air a few times, or simply chewing on them here and there before the fatal bite.

One of my childhood memories was of our family cat, Rudy, using a big, curled up wolf spider as a soccer ball on the dining room floor for a few minutes until he finally decided to dine on it. I don’t think any of us will ever forget those gross crunching sounds and the long hairy legs sticking out of his mouth before it went down the hatch.

Eeeeyuck!

Paul Gallico, author of the book Honourable Cat, defends them by saying: “It all boils down rather to who eats whom. Since the bird lover will sit down to a tasty dish of partridge, quail or pheasant, while his heart

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bleeds for the sparrow or the robin, the situation is likely to become confused. The cat is a hunter for food and the instinct has never been bred out of it.

“Games with an injured prey have nothing to do with the will to cause it pain or suffering. There are two main objectives; to keep the hunting muscles and speed and timing sharp,

or to bring a no longer dangerous specimen to its kittens for similar exercises.

“Almost all of a cat’s ‘play’ is not play at all, but practice. There are the hunter and the hunted, and let the hunted beware in the inexorable hierarchy of Nature. The cat stalking the field mouse in the meadow should not forget the eagle hover-

ing in the sky.”

True enough, but they can still wreak havoc where they hang out.

We had some family members stay on the property for a year a while back, and in short order their two uncontrolled cats had wiped out everything around here, leaving See Up to on page 7

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Franson signs $3.3 million deal with Leafs

By Lachlan Labere Eagle Valley News

Cody Franson’s future is no longer an unknown following the signing of another oneyear contract with the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Leafs VP and general manager David Nonis announced on Monday that the club had agreed to terms with the 26-year-old dman for his third oneyear contract with the team, this one valued

at $3.3 million US. The last-minute deal kept the two sides from going into arbitration.

“Toronto is obviously where I want to be,” he said in a conference call with reporters on Monday.

Franson’s contract has been in limbo since last summer when his previous contract, worth $2 million US, came to and end, leaving him a restricted free agent. Franson

was rumoured to be looking for more than $4 million a season.

The Leafs, however, were said to have about $6 million to spend, prior to penning a oneyear deal valued at $2 million with teammate Mark Fraser. The stalemate between the Leafs and Franson led to speculation the team may look to trade the 6’5”, 213-lb. Sicamous product.

“I’m always hope-

ful there wasn’t a ton of truth to all those rumours. But it’s business,” said Franson.

Franson played 322 career NHL games with Toronto and the Nashville Predators, posting 28 goals, 105 assists, 133 points, 106 minutes in penalties and a plus-eight rating.

He was acquired by the Leafs along with Matthew Lombardi from the Predators in 2011.

He was originally se-

lected by Nashville in the third round, 79th overall, in the 2005 Entry Draft.

On the heels of the recent Sicamous Shootout, Franson and fellow NHL’er Shea Weber will be back in Sicamous between Aug. 10 to 17 to once again participate in the annual Sicamous Hockey School. For more details, visit http://sicamoushockeyschool.ca.

TRU Wolfpack welcome back Schneebeli and Walker

By Martha Wickett Eagle Valley News

The first CIS (Canadian Inter-University Sport) edition of the Thompson Rivers University WolfPack men’s soccer team once again boasts players with roots in Sicamous.

The WolfPack have a number of players returning from the club which captured the PACWEST title and the silver medal at the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association championships in 2013-14.

Head coach John Antulov and the WolfPack have welcomed

back two veterans.

Midfielder Colton Walker and defender Austin Schneebeli, both Salmon Arm Secondary grads, have rejoined the team.

“I’m thrilled to be coming back to TRU,” said Walker, who took last season off to travel. “The year away from school and the game helped me refocus.”

The 5’11” Walker initially committed to the WolfPack in August 2012.

“I had such a great experience my first year and I look forward to hopefully having

missed being with the lads but most of all I missed playing.”

Both players come back to the fold with both experience and youth on their side, and are looking forAustin Schneebeli ward to testing their TRU Wolfpack skills against the country’s best soccer players in the Canada West another stellar year,’ and CIS this year.

Antulov is ecstatic adds Schneebeli. He was forced to sit out to have both back in the the 2013-14 campaign fold for 2014-15.

“Colton is a solid because of an injury. central “Soccer is the big- box-to-box gest part of my life. mid-fielder with lots of Not being able to play energy. His skill, enerat all for the past year gy and ability to play at was extremely tough. this level will be vital.

I missed training, I He will be an impor-

tant part of the program moving forward.”

“Austin is a solid outside back with good skill and quickness that can jump into the attack and also get back quickly to defend. His experience playing for us previously will be vital moving forward.”

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Up to owners to keep carnage under control Continued from page 6

body bits and feathers all over the place.

I was choked because ours is restricted to a couple of hours of ‘runaround time’ in the late evening and, it took years for the critters to re-establish themselves again.

There was a story about a fellow in New Zealand who wanted to

rid the country of cats due to their threat to native bird species, but defenders argued that it was a two-sided coin because they said that cats actually helped the birds by reducing the population of rodents, which sometimes fed on bird eggs. That may be so, but the guy had a point.

Statistically, cats kill as many as four billion

birds, along with up to 21 billion other mammals in the U.S. each year alone, which is a lot of carnage.

We can’t knock them for what just comes naturally, but we can do our part as owners when it comes to damage control. Keep them indoors when the birds are active during the day and locate your birdbaths and feed-

ers out in the open, so there is no sneaking up on them. Your feline friend might think that having a field day of stalking birds and other critters is the cat’s meow. However, while they might have nine lives, everything else only gets one.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, you have had little luck regarding relationships of late. Rather than focus on what hasn’t gone your way, change your perspective and focus on the good things.

SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22 Your imagination is ready to run wild this week, Scorpio. Enjoy this burst of creative energy and put it to good use. Encourage others to participate as well.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you can be pretty stubborn when it comes to something that matters dearly to you. No matter your feelings, try to behave in a diplomatic manner.

SAGITTARIUS - Nov 23/Dec 21 Your mind is racing a mile a minute this week, Sagittarius. Things may be progressing so fast you can’t even finish one idea before moving on to the next one.

GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, be a shoulder to cry on for a beloved friend or family member this week.

Everything will ultimately work out for the best, but your loved one needs support this week.

CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20 Capricorn, express yourself when asked for your honest opinion this week. Keeping things close to the vest is not what people want to see, so don’t hesitate to offer your insight.

CANCER - Jun 22/Jul 22 Be mindful of what you say and do this week, Cancer. Your head may be telling you to speak up, but your heart is telling you to stay quiet for a little while longer.

AQUARIUS - Jan 21/Feb 18 Trust your intuition in a sticky situation, Aquarius. Panicking will only make the situation more complicated, so allow your instincts to take over.

LEO - Jul 23/Aug 23 Leo, enjoy the noisiness around you this week. This extra hop in your step is refreshing and encourages you to make some bold moves that will pay off in the long run.

PISCES - Feb 19/Mar 20 The time has come for you make your move, Pisces. You’re fully capable of making this transition and more than ready to do so.

VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 Virgo, address an issue with a clear head this week. Your advice has been solicited, and you know how to help, but some subtlety is a good thing in this situation.

LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 Libra, adopt an analytical approach to solve a puzzling situation at work this week. This way of looking at things is just what you need to find the right solution.

Your Suduko Complete the grid so every row, column and 3x3 box contains every digit from 1 to 9 inclusively.

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Wednesday, July 23, 2014 Eagle Valley News

CSRD board to mull over accountability policy

Electoral areas: Directors defer decision to update guidelines for travel/expense reimbursement.

By Barb Brouwer Eagle Valley News

SCHEDULE OF REMUNERATION AND EXPENSES – 2013 Elected Officials

Remuneration

Expenses

BENTY, Christina CANNON, Debbie COOPER, Nancy DEMENOK, Paul HABART, Gary MARTIN, Rhona MORGAN, Larry PARKER, Loni RAVEN, David TALBOT, Rene TROUTON, Darrell TOTAL

$15,288 $13,746 $13,746 $24,981 $21,344 $26,884 $24,970 $23,282 $37,899 $28,400 $15,200 $249,248

$2,935 $151 $219 $11,021 $7,519 $10,443 $11,923 $13,312 $2,649 $14,286 $942 $76,675

Silver Creek/Ranchero director René Talbot and area F North Shuswap director Larry Morgan asked that the policy be deferred, with Morgan saying it affects electoral area directors and needs examination and “sorting out” before getting approval.

Despite Golden Mayor Christina Benty’s observation that the policy is “pretty standard” for other municipalities and organizations, Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok supported Talbot and Morgan’s suggestion to defer the policy to the Electoral Area Directors (EAD) meeting.

“I applaud your move, Jodi; we shouldn’t have let this sit around so much since 1981,” he said.

“But I support bringing it up at the EAD meeting for a robust discussion.”

This did not sit well

with chief administrative officer Charles Hamilton, who questioned taking a policy issue that belongs before the board to a committee that has no role in creating policy.

“While I respect it may impact electoral

There are currently no guidelines that set limits on meal expenditures, room upgrades or partner programs. We have been paying out previously on the basis of submitted receipts, but there was a lack of consistency in how we process expense claims within the organization.

Jodi Kooistra CSRD financial services area directors more, we did a lot of work on this and the problem is, we saw some serious, serious issues with our current policy,” he said.

“By deferring this, is the flawed policy going to be in place until a new policy is adopted,

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or is it going to fall on the chair and administrator to decide what will and will not be approved?”

Hamilton said his recommendation would be to pass the policy, let the EAD directors have their

discussion and then amend it at the board level if needed.

Benty then suggested the discussion take place at the board meeting. But the EAD directors were not of a mind to do that and the majority of the directors

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voted to defer the matter.

Following the meeting, Salmon Arm Coun.

Debbie Cannon voiced her opposition to the deferral.

“It was clearly an old policy from the ’80s and we need to look after the dollars better – and we have to have limits on what expenses can be,” she said, expressing her belief that, like Salmon Arm councillors, CSRD directors’ remuneration and expenses should be posted on the regional district’s website where it can be accessed by members of the public. “I totally stand behind Charles and the policy finance brought forward. I don’t think there is a need for it to go to the area directors.

I don’t understand why we couldn’t discuss it ...”

Area E Rural Sicamous director Rhona Martin was absent from last Thursday’s meeting, but the other rural directors were basically of the same voice on the need for further discussion at the Aug. 7 Electoral Area Directors meeting.

“Although it does pertain to board and staff, it has great impact on area directors and I think it requires some clarification and further discussion,” said Area B Rural Revelstoke director Loni Parker, following the meeting. “We’re having our EAD meeting in August; it’s not like it’s gonna be held up for any length of time, given that it’s so outdated.”

Morgan said he just needs to better understand the policy.

“I just got the material a week ago in the

agenda package and was surprised at the direction of the policy,” he said. “I felt I needed an opportunity to meet with other directors before approving it at the board level.”

“The feeling was the policies were really electoral area directorrelated and the process should have these policies go through the directors before being ratified by the board,” added Area C South Shuswap director Paul Demenok.

Talbot called the expense policy too vague on a number of points and wanted to make sure the regional district policy is in line with other districts and municipalities.

“What they brought to the board was, ‘this is what we want to do,’ with nothing to show comparisons,” Talbot said. “I agree that we have to be accountable, but let’s make sure we are in line with others.”

Talbot, Demenok and Morgan expressed similar concerns about amending the policy on handing out grants prior to elections.

“It is an electoral area director program and we did not yet get a chance to discuss it at the meeting before it came to the board,” said Demenok.

Talbot added that some mechanism should be in place in case a group has an emergency and needs a grant in aid during the three-months prior to an election.

“We don’t need to do this right away; it’s not a big deal, the directors are not going anywhere,” he said.

“And it’s not a big deal.”

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Directors derailed an attempt by Columbia Shuswap Regional District staff to introduce policies on expense accountability and giving grants prior to elections – with electoral area directors asking for time to discuss the issues among themselves.

Jodi Kooistra, manager of financial services, brought forward a policy to amend travel and expense reimbursement for staff and directors and a second one that would prevent directors from giving grants in aid in the three months prior to a municipal election.

Kooistra told directors at the July 17 board meeting in Salmon Arm that the travel and expense policy was adopted in 1981 and has not been amended since.

“There are currently no guidelines that set limits on meal expenditures, room upgrades or partner programs,” she said. “We have been paying out previously on the basis of submitted receipts, but there was a lack of consistency in how we process expense claims within the organization.”

Kooistra explained that some submitted receipts have shown total amounts, but no itemized details of the expense.

“Policy F-14 provides guidelines for consistency and accountability when travelling on regional district business, representing the regional district or attending conferences, seminars and other training opportunities,” wrote

Kooistra in her report.

“It is essential to have a clear and concise policy supported by sound procedures that clearly define the authority to attend, the permitted expenses, the payment limits and the reporting requirements.”

CSRD board chair David Raven supported the report, speaking to both policies immediately following the meeting.

“Over the past several years, it has become apparent that the regional district needs to clarify and revisit their policies around expenses and grants in aid to ensure they’re consistent, fair and transparent,” he said.

“In the case of the expense claims, the issues in the Senate and other levels of government provide a lesson that our expense claims must be reasonable and administered within defined policies.”

He said prior to the last municipal election, the board of the day wanted a clearer policy on grants in aid that would prevent what could be perceived as electioneering.

“It’s the same with expenses; if one director claims questionable expenses, it brings the whole board into disrepute,” Raven said. “Our opinion of the Senate, and all the honourable members that sit in it, has been tainted by the actions of a couple of people. I don’t want that on my watch.”

While they didn’t say they opposed the policies, electoral area directors clearly did not have an appetite to endorse the amendments in the public meeting.

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