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Area “B” Official Community Plan Advisory Committee update

This first meeting was mostly for the purpose of  orientation and getting to know about each other.

Brian Mennell was elected Chairman and George Bush will act as Vice Chairman.   Monthly meetings have been scheduled for April 19, May 17 and June 21.  These will be held at Cawston Community Hall from 7 - 9 p.m.  There may be other meetings as needed and the community will be advised ahead of time as all these meetings will be open to the public.

Committee members were advised that this probably will take 60 to 70 hours of their life over the next year.

Technical and internet web work and information gathering will be organized by RDOS planner Chris Garrish, he will also help guide the committee through this planning process.  He has already established a web forum where all the 16 committee members have access to post comments and participate in discussions. This will be a public  internet forum available for all to read. Anyone can access the forum and the OCP process by going to the following address: http://areaf.rdos.bc.ca/forum/list.php?13.

There is also a link from the Electoral Area “B” OCP page on the Regional District’s web site, which can be found here: http://www.rdos.bc.ca/index.php?id=731 . This site is filled with a lot of reference material about studies and data about our community and is a good source of information about the south Similkameen Valley.

The OCP Advisory Committee was appointed by the Regional District Board on March 3.

OCP Advisory Committee Members

· Bob Bergen

· Celia Bush

· George Bush

· Dave Cursons

· Tony Dawson

· Paul Dhaliwal

· Pard Hogeweide

· Kevin Klippenstein

· Gurpreet Lidder

· Al McCormick

· Lee McFadyen

· Brian Mennell

· Lesley Pendleton

· Donna Stocker

· Andrea Turner

· Lee Vesper

-OCP Area "B" Press release