Minister Fassbender Meeting – Kelowna Airport

A meeting with Minister Fassbender from the Ministry of Community, dosage Sport & Culture was obtained by the Electoral Area Directors for us to bring forward our issues and complaints regarding the governance model currently applied to our communities and their residents.

It was the hope of the EA Directors to enter this meeting with a resolution of support from our Regional Board … no such luck. We tried for this support at both the August 22 2016 RDCO Board Meeting Audio  and the September 19 2016 Board Meeting Audio  meetings and were out voted on both occasions by our municipal counterparts.

As a result of this lack of Board support the EA Representatives found themselves going into this meeting arguing for a fair and impartial review by the Ministry. We believe this was not forthcoming nor even fairly considered by our own Regional Board of Directors. This was unfortunate as we would have much preferred to focus on our own governance options rather than the dysfunction and frustration at the Board level that is currently the perspective of the elected representative of these rural communities.

We provided the Minister and his Assistant Deputy Minister with documentation to support our position over the 45 minutes graciously allotted to us at this pre – UBCM Meeting by a very busy Minister. I was extremely impressed and pleased with the attention and concern that Minister Fassbender and his Assistant Deputy Minister Tara Faganello showed to our issues, thumb I and Director Hanson and her Alternate Mark Bartyik that were present can not thank them sufficiently for their interest.