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NS Inc. #4 Free Money (grants)

Provincial and Federal Grant Applications The CSRD is looked upon like one municipality, one entity, and therefore can, in most cases, only apply for a specific grant one time during any grant intake period. This means it must prioritize a specific grant for only one of the 7 Electoral Areas (Area F North Shuswap is one of seven) NSInc. Could …

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NS Inc. #3 Other possible services

Things that NSInc. may have some have control over. Besides those things that we can have direct control over, there are other services, typically provided by the Province, where we would have more ability to control outcomes. One might be the provision of Health Services in our community. I look at small incorporated communities like Chase (pop 2400), Barriere (pop …

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NORTH SHUSWAP INCORPORATED #2

This is a bit of a long one.Things that NSInc. would have control over in an incorporated scenario. We would take a lot of the decision making out of the CSRD's hands and bring it to local people. Things like solid waste transfer would likely be contracted to the CSRD as they have economies of scale to handle that, but …

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NORTH SHUSWAP INCORPORATED #1

Taxes that will stay on our current tax notices. The following items on our tax notices would stay essentially the same. They would increase annually due to inflation or other charges, but they are outside of a municipalities control. The numbers shown are the total for the whole North Shuswap and are rounded for ease. $4m for Provincial School Tax …

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NS Incorporation

Many people in the North Shuswap have been frustrated with our system of governance (CSRD) for many years. I remember shortly after I moved out here in 2004, chatting with community leaders about the Regional District and its challenges. Over the years there have been various attempts to bring the North Shu population together and demand a look at how …

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