TNRD – Pinantan Lake fire brigade receives $15,000 volunteerism boost
PINANTAN – The Pinantan Lake fire brigade’s budget $15,000 to the good thanks to brigade member Rikki Ashley and her employer, Corix Utilities Canada. Rikki [Continue]
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TNRD – Boston Flats eco-depot back for more consultation after protests
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD A controversial plan for an eco-depot in the Cache Creek-Ashcroft area has been sent back to the drawing boards. The [Continue]
POSTCARDS FROM THE TNRD – Directors reject voting-system proposal
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Thompson-Nicola Regional District directors rejected a proposal on Thursday (April 18, 2019) to investigate a new way to [Continue]
TNRD – A point of privilege on director’s comments about pay raises
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD At the TNRD board meeting of March 28, 2019, the TNRD board of directors voted to give themselves pay increases of about [Continue]
TNRD – Finding a better way to record votes by the board of directors
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD People sometimes ask me how the TNRD board voted on a certain issue. While I can always tell them whether something was [Continue]
TNRD – Board directors approve increases to their remuneration
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD TNRD board directors gave themselves a pay increase Thursday (March 28, 2019). By a margin of 20 to 6, they approved [Continue]
TNRD – Board seeks support for online voting in civic elections
The TNRD will try to get support from other regional districts and municipalities for online voting in civic elections. At its meeting this week (Feb. 14, 2019) , the board [Continue]
TNRD – Board directors to consider ‘one-time’ increase in their pay
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Double-digit increases to TNRD directors’ stipends will go to the next regular board meeting for possible ratification [Continue]
TNRD – Water meters will take two years to install, says report
The installation of water meters in all TNRD-operated water systems will improve water conservation, ensure fair billing, and reduce costs, says a report to the regional [Continue]
TNRD – New regional district board sworn in during inaugural meeting
A board of newbies and veterans was sworn into office Thursday night (Nov. 8, 2018) to guide the Thompson-Nicola Regional District for the next four years. Of the 26 board [Continue]
TNRD – Regional district directors can disagree with each other, with respect
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD CAN POLITICIANS get along? At the federal and provincial levels, it would seem not. Even civic politics can be uncivil at [Continue]
CIVIC ELECTION 2018 – Big changes around the regional board table
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD Half the faces at the Thompson-Nicola Regional District table will be new when the incoming board is sworn in Nov. 8. As [Continue]
TNRD – Doors officially opened on new entrance to Kamloops library
The new front entrance to the main branch of the Thompson-Nicola Library is now officially open, though parts of the addition aren’t quite finished. Board chair John Ranta [Continue]
COLUMN – Disappointing result on City resolution but that’s democracy
By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD ONE OF THE MANY lessons learned during the sometimes bitter and always divisive six-year experience with the Ajax mine [Continue]
