Despite the fact that the 2009 budget has not yet been completed and the deadline in rapidly approaching, there will be no FPCOW (Finance Policy Committee of the Whole) meeting until April 6.  The next Council meeting will not be held until April 20, when, if I am correct, the budget must be given first and second readings.  Given the evident lack of cohesion among Council for what to do with the budget in these trying times, one would have thought that there would be more public debate on this issue before the issue is forced by the schedule.  Maybe Council does not think that public debate on such issues is warranted?

This week will see at least two other items of interest, i.e. the Public Hearing on the Cable Bay/Island Timberlands proposal to replace our dwindling supply of industrial land by converting a large part of it to a resort/golf course (mare about this later) and the Meeting of the Association of Vancouver Island and Coastal Communities from April 3 to 5 at the Conference Centre.  It should be interesting to hear what this group has in store for us, but as far as I am aware, meetings and seminars are not open to the public.



 


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