Next year could bring a solution--or the demise---of the Greater Vernon parks and recreation function.
It could depend on talks between the four partners which so far have made no progress. Vernon Mayor Wayne Lippert believes the differences can be ironed-out with new leases and operating contracts. Lippert says, "Most of the concerns we heard came from one or two individuals, and was more to do with the level of maintenance at the parks, and that can be addressed through contracts." BX Silver Star director Mike Macnabb is not as optimistic. He's tabled a motion with NORD to wind down the service by the end of next year. Lippert says his council also wants the voting structure on Greater Vernon Advisory Committee to mirror NORD's, meaning one director--one vote. "Someone is trying to look forward into a crystal ball to detemrine it's going to change and we don't know that yet until the census happens.It may or may not so until that time happens, then maybe we can look at it." There's concerns from Coldstream and the other outlying communities that Vernon may get an extra vote on GVAC, based on the next census, allowing the city to veto proposals.
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The Mayor must be kidding or he is totally out of step with the rest of the partners.
Vetoing proposals is just the half of it. Dragging partners into unwanted proposals is another potential problem.
Vernon has already changed the spirit of agreements when they refused to sign over recreation properties to the Regional District, such as Kal Beach, Kal Beach Parking, Marshall Park to name a few.
If the City had this position all along, I wonder why they carried on with the charade of negotiating from December, 2009 to November, 2010 bringing forward various proposals, including the one of wanting to remove the Recreation Complex from the agreement. A lot of money was spent on those negotiations and we all expected positive results.
Has Coldstream signed over Creekside Park?
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