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Rae said Gill would have been celebrating 20 years at the regional district in 2019. A cheque request sheet dated May 13, 2016, also shows a donation by the TNRD on behalf of Gill for $300. The document shows it was “approved by board.” TNRD chair Ken Gillis said he has no recollection of a donation to the Sikh Cultural Society, but recalls approving a donation on behalf of Gill to the charity of his choice. “I’m 99 per cent certain that no request was made to the board to approve a donation to the Sikh Cultural Society on Mr. Gill’s behalf or anyone else’s,” Gillis said. ....
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. ....
Critics of animal shelter bill win with amendments A bipartisan group of Colorado lawmakers has introduced a bill to stop the euthanasia of healthy, well-behaved dogs and cats in pet shelters. and last updated 2021-05-04 08:07:41-04 FREMONT COUNTY â Two months after being introduced, the animal shelter bill HB21-1160 sounds much different than its original draft. âI consider it a pretty good win for the opposition!â said Doug Rae, the Executive Director of Fremont County s Humane Society and a critic of the bill s original draft. âThe language was incredibly vague and they only talked about saving healthy and safe animals⦠and that was a problem for me because thereâs another factor of animals called treatable animals, and they just need time to chill out and this bill was not going to save those animals, said Rae. ....
The review comes in the wake of a KTW investigation into spending at the TNRD from 2015 to January 2020 via the regional district-issued credit card of then-CAO Sukh Gill. Receipts from that time period show numerous charges for parties and to coffee shops, high-end restaurants, wineries, luxury hotels and liquor stores. Gill left the regional district suddenly in February 2020 with a $500,000-plus payout and a legal agreement mandating his exit be called a “retirement.” TNRD CAO Scott Hildebrand, who joined the TNRD last September, said during Thursday’s (March 11) board meeting that questions have been raised about whether some past transactions by the TNRD should have been incurred on the taxpayers’ dime and whether they were appropriate. He said his expectation as CAO is to continue to do business in a “cost-effective” and “fully transparent” way, with oversights and safeguards. He said the review process would be led by himself and legislative ....