Jackson trustees approve union contracts
Patricia Faulhaber
Suburbanite correspondent
JACKSON TWP. During the regular meeting on Feb 9, The Jackson Township Board of Trustees approved a Negotiated Agreement with the Jackson Professional Firefighters, IAFF Local 2280 (Captains and Firefighters), and Jackson Professional Firefighters, IAFF Local 2280 (Fire Inspectors), during its Feb. 9 regular meeting.
Both contracts include a 3 percent cost of living adjustment each year with employees paying 14 percent toward their healthcare. The captains and firefighters’ agreement is effective Jan. 1, 2021 through Dec. 31 2023, and the fire inspectors’ agreement is effective Jan. 2, 2021 through Dec. 31, 2023.
Township administrator Randy Gonzalez said that the township’s safety forces are, “excellent and do a great job.”
New rating system: Changes coming for Napier City ratepayers
16 Feb, 2021 03:13 AM
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Napier Mayor Kirsten Wise and council investment and funding manager Garry Hrustinsky at a public rates policies consultation meeting in November. Photo / File
Napier Mayor Kirsten Wise and council investment and funding manager Garry Hrustinsky at a public rates policies consultation meeting in November. Photo / File
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Targeted rates for those who create more stormwater, and a new rate for properties considered rural.
Napier City Council today completed a revenue and policy review process by adopting rating structure changes that are set to come into force from July this year.
But the conversation brought to mind a date seven days earlier as the board and the public relived many of the same arguments that have dominated the body s discussion for months as it hashes out a new zoning bylaw to regulate the production of cannabis. I ve said this a half dozen times, I m amazed I have to say it again, Andrew Skinner said as he pushed the board to draft a bylaw that allows less canopy square footage for outdoor production. Planning Board members could be forgiven for feeling kinship to Bill Murray s character in the movie Groundhog Day as they heard many of the same arguments from some familiar faces.
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February 10, 2021
Zoom public hearing set for Lumberton area rezoning
The Regional District of East Kootenay (RDEK) board of directors Feb. 5 passed the first two readings of rezoning and official community plan (OCP) amendment bylaws that could allow the subdivision of a Lumberton area property.
The proposed OCP designation change is from RR, Rural Resource to LH, Large Holdings and the proposed zoning designation change is from RR-60, Rural Resource Zone to RR-2, Rural Residential (Small Holding) Zone.
“Although the proposal has some consistency with parcel sizes in the surrounding area, OCP policies identify RR, Rural Resource designated land as intended to be retained for low density uses. Sandwiched between the railway tracks and Highway 3 the proposed RR-2 zone will allow new residential development in a less than ideal location and likely require additional highway accesses,” a RDEK planning department’s request for decision report outlined.