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Provincial and Federal Grant Applications Provincial and Federal Free Money An Example A recent grant – the Growing Communities Fund grant – was sent to each municipality and Regional District. Here are the amounts provided to local municipalities (rough numbers based on the calculations provided with the grant) Municipality        Population            Grant$Salmon Arm           19,342                    $6.3mRevelstoke                8,275                    $2.7mSicamous                  2,613                    $1.5mGolden                      3,986                    $1.9mNS Inc.                      3,200                    $2.3m (if we were incorporated) CSRD                      21,539                    $3.8m (what the CSRD actually got)All areas split this (Area…

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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 1765), Clearwater (2388), and each of them has an Interior Health community health facility and ambulance service. The North Shuswap…

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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 most other decisions would be made here. This is a list of some things that would come here… For more…

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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. BC Rural Tax – $965,000 mainly for road maintenance and repair. Each taxpayer pays an amount called the BC Rural Tax which is mainly used…

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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 we’re governed and what other choices there may be. This culminated in 2017 with a formal, private study, done on…

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