The Regional District Board will consider who the fourth representative from the North Okanagan will be at their next regular meeting on Wednesday December 5th, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. The cost to convene a Board meeting prior to November 26th to consider this one item could not be justified. RDNO will send 3 representatives until the fourth is decided at the December 5th Board Meeting.
The above information was published Nov 22 but despite this it was not added to the Agenda of the Vernon City Council for their meeting of Nov. 26.
It is obvious by this oversight that the NORD members from Vernon will be voting without Council direction once again as they make this important decision. I argued at my posting of Nov 21 Coun. Gilroy or Cunningham to be appointed to Super Regional Committee appointment ? that the representative must be a Vernon Residential taxpayer.
'As both the Mayors of Penticton and Kelowna actually sit on their respective boards then it is obvious that either rookie Gilroy or rookie Coun. Cunningham will get some more valuable experience representing Vernon on this elite team who will forge the Valley's future. Our only veteran Councillors with Vernon Residency status Coun. Nicol and Coun. Beardsell will have been relegated to the sidelines by recent committee shuffles.'
Let us hope that our representatives insist on a Vernon Residential representative on this Super Regional Board and not get snookered by appointing someone else.
With all due respect to the other NORD members, the province has insisted on representatives from the 3 largest cities in the valley and as Penticton and Kelowna have 2 members each then it seems obvious that the residential taxpayers of Vernon should have at least one representative !
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