Today at 2 pm the NORD Board will meet. Resolution No. 38 “That the Regional Board appoint one more representative to the Valley Wide Governance Committee.”
This resolution will be late in the meeting and it will decide if the fourth rep from NORD comes from the City of Vernon or another area.
The major Cities of Penticton and Kelowna have 2 reps each on the Super Regional Committee and the City of Vernon is represented by our Mayor Lippert (who happens to be an area C taxpayer) but who was picked in the first go around to represent the large sized community.
The medium sized community is represented by Mayor Gerry Oglow of Armstrong and Area C Director Stan Field represents the rural community.
The City of Vernon was not asked for a recommendation in the first go around and the Vernon's NORD representatives, Lippert, Cunningham, Gilroy (NEW) or Nicol (OLD) did not seek a council resolution on direction in this decisive vote.
An Editorial by the now departed Scott Neufeld of the Vernon Courier at NORD committee is a slap in the face gives the history and background of the original appointments.
It is imperative that Vernon speaks clearly and forcefully to ensure that this fourth representative be a taxpaying resident of Vernon. To disenfranchise the more than 35,000 residents of Vernon would be asinine !
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