TNRD

POSTCARDS FROM THE TNRD – Board won’t include brigades in application

June 13, 2019 // 2 Comments

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD The TNRD board rejected an opportunity Wednesday (June 12, 2019) to go after provincial funding for society-run rural [Continue]

LETTER – TNRD directors display disappointing lack of transparency

April 26, 2019 // 2 Comments

Democracy works best with transparency, openness, and keeping the public apprised of how and why elected officials make decisions in the public interest. TNRD directors have [Continue]

TNRD – Boston Flats eco-depot back for more consultation after protests

April 19, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

April 19, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

April 18, 2019 // 2 Comments

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

March 30, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

March 29, 2019 // 0 Comments

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

February 17, 2019 // 3 Comments

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

February 16, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

February 16, 2019 // 1 Comment

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

November 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

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]

BEPPLE – The local government that nobody notices has an election too

September 15, 2018 // 1 Comment

LOST IN THE somewhat muted excitement of the elections for City councils here in Kamloops and across B.C. is the race for regional directors for the electoral areas of the [Continue]

TNRD – Heffley Creek residents mark completion of new bridge

August 17, 2018 // 0 Comments

HEFFLEY CREEK – The new Heffley Creek bridge wasn’t quite ready for general traffic but it received a champagne opening on Thursday (Aug. 16, 2018). Crews from [Continue]

TNRD – ‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ on biosolids, experts urge

July 21, 2018 // 1 Comment

By MEL ROTHENBURGER Director, Electoral Area P, TNRD The Thompson-Nicola Regional District shouldn’t rely on just one method for getting rid of sewage sludge, experts told [Continue]