Cowichan Lake Restructure information

Update;

  Here are the draft minutes from the April 28th meeting in Honeymoon Bay.

restructure-meeting-notes-of-april-28-2009

Now that the provincial election is over and the ministers have been named we can proceed with getting an appointment with the new minister responsible for municipal restructure processes.

More to follow

Joe

Hello Again;

  As promised at the Restructure meeting at Honeymoon Bay Hall last night (april 28th) I will post the information that was presentated. I have the tax info and the voting rules/weighted vote rules available and a copy of the map of the Cowichan Lake Area. I will post the rest of the information that was presentated as soon as I can. I included some links to the BC Gov’t website that has restructure information also. 

Enjoy

incorporation_district-municipality-power-point  This was the overheads that were presented at the meeting (new)

tax-info1   This is a simplified chart that show how much it costs to raise taxes in different areas

voting-and-weighted-rules This is how the voting structure works at the CVRD Board table.

fi-town-map Map of the Cowichan Lake Area

BC govt website information on restructure

http://www.cd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/boundaries/municipal_incorporation_process.htm 

http://www.cd.gov.bc.ca/lgd/gov_structure/library/municipal_incorporation_guide.pdf

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Hello Everyone…

Latest info….the Restructure Committee has met twice this month (april) with another full Community meeting tentatively scheduled for Honeymoon Bay Hall on the 28th of April.

Well I finally got the PDF files uploaded on to my site, another learning experience for me.

  preliminary rec   cowlk_restructure  issues_study1  1992-map2

Above you will find 1)Preliminary recomendations  2)Restructure study 3) Issuestax-info Study 4) 1992 Map of the area proposed.

 I think you can agree that the area proposed for the new municipality was not sufficient for a working tax base.   Enjoyable reading overall. 

 Also here is a copy of the recent Sunshine Coast Report

 full-2006-sunshine-coast-technical-report-with-appendices  please be aware the only similarity to Cowichan Lake is the 2 areas and one municipality that were covered in the report but it is a good read to get an idea of how much detail goes into a modrn report. One thing you will notice is that the Sunshine Coast study area is much more densely populated than our area is.

Enjoy

Joe

March 12th meeting

Very good turnout at the March 12th meeting, thanks to everyone who came out. A followup public meeting will be held in about a month after the new committee meets.

Initial Meeting;

Thursday March 12th, 7:00pn at the Lake Cowichan Town Hall

First let me say a special Thank you to Mayor Forrest for offering the Town Council Chambers for this initial meeting. Much appreciated.

I have sent out an e-mail to everyone in my address book and if you know of anyone else who may be interested please pass this info along. I will try and keep everyone updated as we get closer to the meeting. An agenda will follow soon. If you want to help in this project please feel free contact me at exdirector@shaw.ca See you at the meeting.