Saturday, July 31, 2010
sign story july,31
The sign pic that had to be removed was a sasquatch warning done like the Parks Canada bear warnings......there might still be some up at Chesterman's Beach...it was pretty funny....
Monday, July 26, 2010
Tuesday, July 20, 2010
District Website July 20, 2010
Met with district staff today and they assured me there was no scandal with the request for proposals regarding the district website.If you are interested in the project you should contact the district asap.....
Monday, July 19, 2010
affordable housing
Many years ago there was a problem with housing for the fish plant workers....the District of Tofino made available a property to private enterprise with the covenant that they would provide rental apartments.....hence Sin City ( Tonquin Apartments) was born and has provided affordable housing for 30 years at little or no cost to the taxpayer.....while the District of Tofino didn't get a high price for the land it has benefited from the taxation on the property and lots of people call it home....all without government subsidies....
Tofino Housing Corporation July 19,2010
The Tofino Housing Corporation is seeking board members !! Please consider applying....check out www.tofinohousing.ca
Currently there is only one board member from Tofino so they could use more local input...I have applied in the past and been rejected but I will apply again....you should too.....
Many years ago the original idea was to have a dormitory style building to house seasonal workers but it has ballooned into a 40 acre subdivision located by the Community Center.....many hundreds of thousands of tax dollars have been spent on consultants and planning over the past six years but so far no housing has been provided...
Please volunteer and have a say in how your tax dollars are spent !! Contact information is available at the website shown above. The project as proposed now has a budget of over ten million dollars......
Currently there is only one board member from Tofino so they could use more local input...I have applied in the past and been rejected but I will apply again....you should too.....
Many years ago the original idea was to have a dormitory style building to house seasonal workers but it has ballooned into a 40 acre subdivision located by the Community Center.....many hundreds of thousands of tax dollars have been spent on consultants and planning over the past six years but so far no housing has been provided...
Please volunteer and have a say in how your tax dollars are spent !! Contact information is available at the website shown above. The project as proposed now has a budget of over ten million dollars......
Friday, July 16, 2010
Sharp Rd, Water Treatment Plant July 16 ,2010
From the Westerly News Oct 16,2008
"Coun. Kendal Kelly wondered if the proposed plant is "over-engineered" and too complicated to run.
MacKinnon agreed the district will require highly trained staff to run the system. He also noted there will be a start-up and shut down period of roughly two weeks before and after the water is used. The contract for designing the plant was tendered by the district's engineering firm, Koers and Associates."
"Coun. Kendal Kelly wondered if the proposed plant is "over-engineered" and too complicated to run.
MacKinnon agreed the district will require highly trained staff to run the system. He also noted there will be a start-up and shut down period of roughly two weeks before and after the water is used. The contract for designing the plant was tendered by the district's engineering firm, Koers and Associates."
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