The Regional District board received a report from staff at the meeting that indicated that there had been no opposition to the proposed bylaw to authorize the borrowing of 500,000 dollars to support the capital upgrades at the Recycling centre.
As we have outlined a few times so far this year, Regional District had put the borrowing bylaw proposal under the Alternative Approval Process, which required residents to make any opposition known to the District by February 28th.
Had more than ten percent of the responses indicating opposition been received, the Regional District would have had to put the proposed borrowing bylaw to a referendum vote.
With no opposition noted in this instance, the borrowing bylaw was approved at the March meeting
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| A Borrowing Bylaw has been approved by Regional District, with plans now able to move forward for renovations to the Regional Recycling Centre on Kaien Road in Prince Rupert |
The Board also provided a resolution of support for the North Coast Regional District's application to the CleanBC Communities Fund to fund the installation of 57 level 2 charging stations along Highways 16 and 97.
The North Coast Regional District is taking the lead on that project, submitting the application on behalf of the six participating regional districts and the Community Energy Association will oversee the project management as it moves forward.
The timeline for the project will see capital resources being gathered through this year, with the deployment of the EV stations set to be introduced by 2020.
The total cost per station is expected to be $17,750 with local governments along the route to pick up 26% of the cost or $4,750 per charging station.
Some background on the work of the Advisory Committee towards the project can be examined here. More notes related towards moving the project forward can be reviewed from the North Coast Regional District here.
At the March 11th Prince Rupert City Council session, Mayor Lee Brain outlined some of the background to the EV station program, you can find more on that presentation to Council here.
The North coast fishery was also a topic of note from the March Regional District session, with the Board resolving to send a correspondence to the Honourable Jonathan Wilkinson, the Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Coast Guard reinforcing the District's opposition to a federal government proposal.
With Regional District Board members making note of their opposition to a plan that would allow for the processing of hake and Pollock catches at sea, with the Board members to call on the Federal government make the processing of domestic catch at onshore facilities to be a priority.
The Board also addressed three issues of note for Haida Gwaii, receiving a request from the Village of Queen Charlotte for a letter of support for their Imagine Grant application with Northern Health.
Regional District members also heard an update on the Haida Gwaii Tsunami Pole project (see here) as well as provide a resolution of support for an application towards development of a Solid Waste Landfill Gas Flare project for the Islands.
You can review the notes from the March Board meeting here.
For more notes on Regional District see our archive page here.
Cross posted from the North Coast Review
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