Monday, February 17, 2014

Council Votes To Support Return Of Weeping Cedar Woman


Resolution No. 45/14 Moved and Seconded by Councillors Thicke/Anderson
THAT Tofino Council work with local community groups and artist Godfrey Stephens in an effort to bring the carving known as Weeping Cedar Woman back to Tofino as a District-owned piece of public art;

AND THAT District of Tofino Staff be authorized to provide services-in-kind to support the return of the Weeping Cedar Woman including financial administration and finding a suitable location.
CARRIED

Resolution No. 46/14 Moved and Seconded by Councillors Baert/McMaster
THAT staff be directed to report back to Council on potential funding sources, other than tax payers' dollars, that could be used for the acquisition of the Weeping Cedar Woman, site preparation, organizing a community celebration and ongoing maintenance.
CARRIED

Resolution No. 47/14 Moved by Mayor Osborne Seconded by Councillor McMaster
THAT the District of Tofino act as the financial agent to accept public donations and issue tax receipts for the purpose of assisting community groups in purchasing the Weeping Cedar Woman and should efforts to bring the Weeping Cedar Woman to Tofino not come to fruition by April 1st 2016, donations of $250 or more will, at the donor's direction, be either returned to the donor or placed in a public art reserve fund and donations of less than $250 will be placed in a public art reserve fund.
CARRIED

Resolution No. 48/14 Moved and Seconded by Councillors Baert/McMaster
THAT the location of the installation of the Weeping Cedar Woman be determined by the District after consultation with the artist and the community.
CARRIED




14 comments:

Anonymous said...

great policy!
excellent use of planning!
this is cartoon government at its finest!

Anonymous said...

great policy!
excellent use of planning!
this is cartoon government at its finest!

Anonymous said...

Please tell me this is an early April Fool's joke ! Please !!

Ralph Tieleman said...

It's no joke.It's hard to believe that Council would support such a controversial issue in an election year !!

Anonymous said...

full speed ahead!
damn the public.
damn unknown costs.
the public must be shown this council is really stubborn and really stupid.
remember the parking meters?
guess not

Anonymous said...

get rid of these bums

Anonymous said...

bravo to these folks for standup for civil disobedience

Anonymous said...

as an exercise in personal taste in aesthetics, council members who mistakenly believe that they were elected to exercise same on behalf of all of us should maybe understand that if, right now, the electorate were to choose a fashion statement suitable for those council members it would be tar and feathers.

Anonymous said...

And our taxes keep going up and the sewage is still dumping in the ocean and we can't afford a by-law officer to enforce dog rules.

We'll spend thousands so we don't have to think about the millions we need.

Anonymous said...

What else would you expect from the council that fired Sally Mole at a great expense to the taxpayer ? Good thing it is an election year . They'll get the green vote and that's about it.

one voice said...

the cedar woman represents conflict, weather your for or against; the town was torn in 2, people lost jobs and had to move. I expressed this point of view and I was not in favour with any public money in any shape or form going towards this venture. no tax money, no RMI, DCCs, or any money that was available to Council to go towards this. I feel that the people who are in favour and approached council are selling themselves short, there are 10,000 people who are willing to give to this cause. not only could the group buy it they could build a park for it pay for the install and set up a maintenance fund for it as well with out using one cent of public (tax) monies. coming to council for a hand out is a short cut, I remember Ike tree and the money raised for that (70K+) I voted against any use of public money for this. those of you who are in favour for the cedar woman to come back here, please think bigger than tofino and go else where to achieve your financial goals for this project. two fold for my response, 1...to let your bloggers know I was against public money being spent and 2... to ask the people who are spear heading this to go raise your money else where not from council how about from the supporters who were here 20 years ago and since, if they all gave 10$ you would have 100K no problem. Garth

The Riddler said...

Q---What does the Weeping Cedar Woman and The Kennedy River Bridge have in common?
A---Both are made of wood.

What goes around, comes around.

Anonymous said...

nobody gets it.
our council is just about civil disobedience.
we honor as much as we can pertaining to doing what goes against the established rules.
for instance the sewer: screw everybody that thinks this is wrong, including the government.
right now we're looking at commissioning a 10 foot high sculpture of Sandy the mascot made out of recycled materials. this will stand right next to the weeping cedar woman.
that's why we're elected: to do the most annoying things that go against the grain of acceptable standards of everything.
you people just dont understand civil disobedience.
we are it. get it?

Anonymous said...


Garth Thank You,

We were in the Council Chambers on February 11th.
The performance of our Mayor & Council was Mind Blowing... and it felt like we were caught in a Dream. (a "South Park" episode gone Bad.)

Garth we heard You, Word by Word...
Last night We listened again to the Audio Recording we made during the Feb.11 meeting with all the Good Comments, Concerns and Questions that You brought forward....but Unfortunately, you only have One Voice.

Garth, Tofino Needs more People like YOU !