Wednesday, July 12, 2023

North Coast Regional District to use Alternative Approval Process towards two funding programs



North Coast Regional District is looking to adopt two bylaws towards how they fund Arts and Culture through the Lester Centre and Tourism at North Pacific Cannery Historical Site and to seek the assent of the residents of the North Coast they will be using the Alternative Approval Process towards moving them forward.


Two notices were posted recently to the Regional District website, in the first they outlined how the District plans to use the AAP option towards their plans to provide annual financial contribution to the Lester centre of the Arts.


The details towards the Bylaw can be reviewed here, of note from the document:


The path forward for the AAP initiative came out a report from the June NCRD meeting





The details towards the Bylaw can be reviewed here, of note from the document:


The path forward for the AAP initiative came out a report from the June NCRD meeting

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Both initiatives have the same 10 percent voter threshold as the current City of Prince Rupert initiatives, the the totals will however be based on the regional electoral base not municipal. 

The details on the process for the Regional District AAP can be reviewed from the links above in red.

The deadline for response towards both AAP's is August 7th.

It's doubtful that the Regional District use of AAP will make for the same kind of conversation currently taking place related to the City of Prince Rupert's AAP ambitions.

That mainly to the lack of attention that Regional District efforts receive from the media and public, the body of government one that mostly moves forward with little interest or awareness from the public.

Short of their Agenda packages and minutes there's little to review from the Regional District information flow, unlike the City of Prince Rupert they do not provide for a video archive of their proceedings, leaving the bulk of their work for the most part out of sight and out of mind.

With that lack of a video record however,  there's no real background to any discussion that they may or may not have had towards the twin initiatives.

Past notes on Regional District themes can be reviewed from our archive page.

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