City budget goes before public
The date has been set for Vernon residents to speak out on the city’s proposed two per cent tax increase. On March 12, there will be a 2012 budget open house from 4:30 to 5:30 at city hall, followed by a public input session. Coun. Bob Spiers is pleased that public input will be received before council considers three readings of the proposed budget bylaw. “It gives the idea that there are some things we can still change,” he said. It’s anticipated three readings of the bylaw will occur March 26, with the financial plan adopted April 10.
Pedestrians demand improvements
Residents in one neighbourhood fear someone will be killed while walking unless action is taken. A 118-name petition calls for the City of Vernon to
build a pedestrian bridge across the creek on the south side of Okanagan
Landing Road, near Myriad Road. “It’s only a matter of time before we have another
serious accident,” said resident Fred Keber referring to a fatal
pedestrian accident that occurred there in January. Presently to walk east into Vernon, people must jaywalk
across Okanagan Landing Road before the creek and then go on to the
crosswalk to get on to a walking path. Keber said concrete barriers make the road too narrow to walk beside.
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