Council Notes - March 23rd
Public Hearing This week’s council session began with a public hearing on three bylaws relating to fences and retaining walls, and OCP amendment and zoning amendment related to Redstone’s Phase II. Holding the meeting in the Prestige Hotel’s banquet room this week in anticipation of potentially large crowds, ten folks showed...
Council Notes - March 9th
Golden City Manor Board Doreen Butler of the Golden City Manor Board spoke, calling on council to rethink the new Water and Sewer rate bylaws that passed first, second and third readings on Monday March 2nd. “The board respectfully requests council’s consideration around (the new Water and Sewer bylaws) to be adjusted,” said...
Water and Sewer Rates: A Change is Gonna Come...
Homeowners in Rossland likely noticed a pleasant surprise in January this year when they didn’t receive their annual water and sewer bills in the mail. No, the city didn’t have a compassionate moment, considering the economic downturn, and decided to provide free water and sewer this year. Rather, water and sewer bills have...
Council Notes - Feb 23rd
New Start Time After voting at the Feb 9th meeting to change the start time of city council meetings to 7:00 pm from the usual 7:30 pm it appears there was some confusion in getting the message out to councillors as Andy Stradling and Jill Spearn showed up at 7:20 ready for a 7:30 start only to find the meeting already in...
Council Notes -February 9th
City Audit Kicking off February 9th Council Meeting, Amed Naqvi, auditor of the city of Rossland, gave a presentation regarding the upcoming audit of the City of Rossland’s financial affairs. An annual process, Naqvi will be meeting with city councillors and staff as necessary over the course of the audit and will be assessing...
City Supports Old Glory Community Tenure
Initiated at the Friends of the Rossland Range AGM back on November 19th, the society is currently working with the BC government towards an application to establish community tenure in the Old Glory Alpine area. The land in question lies between the existing Red Resorts commercial tenure and the Big Red Cats commercial tenure...
A Good Reason to Go Out In Cold Weather: Amnesty Film Fest This Weekend
The RSS Amnesty International Club will be hosting Rossland’s first ever Amnesty International Film Festival this Sunday at the Miner’s Hall. RSS's Kailyn Nelson, one of the founding members of the club, agreed to answer a few questions about the event. RT: What is the Amnesty International Film Festival all about? KN: The ...
RCMP Seek Input From Council on Policing Rossland
Sergeant Rob Hawton of the Trail and Greater District RCMP detachment visited Rossland’s Planning Committee meeting at City Hall this past Wednesday night to seek input as they develop their annual performance plan for the area. First on the agenda for the night: the sergeant presented the six main objectives they had for...
City Finance Committee Discusses Water Rates
Rossland politics started to get back into the swing of things after a holiday break on Tuesday evening with a meeting of the city’s finance committee at Esling Park Lodge. Members of the finance committee, along with a number of property owners around town, showed up to talk about their concerns about what some felt were...
Nancy Greene Named To The Senate
Monday morning saw Prime Minister Harper appoint 18 new conservative senators to the Liberal dominated chamber filling all of the available vacancies. With Liberal-affiliated senators currently occupying 58 of the 105 available seats to the Conservatives 20, this move brings a measure of balance to the senate increasing the...
