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Photograph By Dave Eagles/KTW The inside of the TNRD Building, headquarters of the Thompson-Nicola Regional District, which is located downtown at Victoria Street and Fifth Avenue. Photograph By Dave Eagles/KTW Nandi Spolia (top right) and Sukh Gill (bottom right) have longtime membership ties to the Aurora Rotary Club and together organize the IndoCan Links Golf Tournament, an annual charity event. According to annual financial reports, the TNRD paid Nandi’s about $45,000 in 2018. Five years’ worth of purchases on Gill’s TNRD credit card show about $24,000 charged at the restaurant, most often on a Thursday or Friday night and including both TNRD staff and board directors. ....
KTW reached out to some other regional districts for their CAOs’ credit card charges. The number of restaurant/coffee shop/food expenses charged by CAOs in various regional districts in 2019: • Sukh Gill, Thompson-Nicola Regional District: 172 times. • Robert Lapham, Capital Regional District: 17 times. • David Sewell, Regional District of North Okanagan: 6 times. • Carol Mason and Jerry Dobrovolny, Metro Vancouver Regional District: one time. TNRD board chair Ken Gillis said the board did not know the extent to which spending occurred and has called the amounts “surprising” and “somewhat distressing.” In a five-year period of total TNRD expenses for meals and accommodations claimed by all employees, 2018 featured the most $92,706. In 2018, TNRD CAO Sukh Gill charged a total of $41,125 on his regional district credit card as a result of visits by himself and others to restaurants, coffee shops, wineries, liquor stores and grocery ....
In lieu of perusing council and regional district agendas, Ranta these days sifts through honey-do lists. “Working around the house,” the handyman said. “Trying to get some of the projects that my wife has identified done.” Quick-witted Ranta offers quips, but few details, when asked how he is doing. He is “better than nothing on a cold night” and also “trying to stay alive.” Among details left open for interpretation include whether he will again run for public office. The next civic elections will take place in October 2022. “I don’t have any plans at the present time, but it’s not something I would rule out,” Ranta said. “Every time I go to the post office, I bump into somebody that suggests that I should run again.” ....