"It’s the 21st century. There’s just no reason that you can think of to be putting raw sewage into the ocean anymore" Judy Brownoff, Chair CRD Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee. (Focus Magazine January 2010)
Since the ‘90s CRD knew it must move forward on secondary treatment. A March 31, 1998 letter from the Minister of Environment, Lands and Parks raised a couple of key comments:
By Roszan Holmen - Saanich News
Published: November 17, 2008 9:00 AM
Updated: November 18, 2008 9:36 AM
Voters got their first opportunity to rate their mayor's performance at the polls since 1999 on Saturday and results indicate a decided but not resounding grade of approval for Frank Leonard.
A jittery group of council candidates gathered around Leonard as he wrote the final tallies on a white board about one hour after the polls closed.
November 15, 2008
The information below is in the following format:
candidate name - votes received, percentage received of total votes cast.
(Victoria, BC) The Conservation Voters of BC (CVBC) announced its municipal election endorsements today. CVBC has chosen to endorse only within three selected municipalities: Victoria, Vancouver and Saanich. We have selected 2 mayoral candidates and 12 city council candidates.
Lindsay Kines - Times Colonist
Monday, November 10, 2008
The Saanich Civic League bills itself as a rigorously non-partisan group dedicated to boosting interest in local politics and increasing voter turnout.
But Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard says "they've tripped over their two left feet" with their analysis of council's voting record and revealed themselves as a front for the "fringe left."
By Rebecca Aldous - Victoria News
Published: November 03, 2008 12:00 PM
Updated: November 03, 2008 12:26 PM
Seven in 10 citizens want the Capital Regional District to keep ownership of a sewage treatment system once completed, states a Environics Research Group survey.
The Environics Research Group conducted 500 telephone interviews with residents 18 years of age and over in seven municipalities in the Capital Regional District (Victoria, Saanich, Oak Bay, Langford, Colwood, Esquimalt and View Royal) from October 6 to 11, 2008. The survey primarily
focused on issues related to new sewage treatment being planned for the region, in the context of the November municipal elections.
74% of Saanich respondents to SCL Citizen Survey say they need more information to vote November 15. They asked for a snapshot voting tool, an unbiased, well-researched account of how Saanich Council members vote on major issues.
Since 2003 I have worked with CRD Board members, first as Chair of the CRD Board and then Director to continue to move this issue forward.
I was successful in getting funding for our first Energy & Water Management Plan, which saw 45 regional and municipal buildings have an audit down and then retrofits completed.
Then I moved to developing an inventory for our Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory. That got established.
CRD board agrees to stand by the decision not to “expand” the Highlands Urban Containment Boundary. The issue around the regional growth strategy and why a containment boundary is so important is a regional issue. We have not had any financial analysis what the costs will be to the rest of the region to supply water or sewer services, mainly for a business, the golf course. Plus, Highlands Council cannot even agree on what a realistic option would be. Stay tuned.
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