Friday, January 29, 2010

Local Government Elections Task Force

The Local Government Elections Task Force has a website up and is looking for input from the public.

The core issues they are looking for input on are:
  • Campaign finance, including contribution/spending disclosure and limits, and tax credits
  • Enforcement processes and outcomes
  • Role of the chief electoral officer (B.C.) in local government elections
  • Election cycle (term of office)
  • Corporate vote
The members of the task force are:
  • Harry Nyce, Nisga'a - President of UBCM (co-chair)
  • Bill Bennett, Minister of Community and Rural Development (co-chair)
  • Barbara Steele, Councillor City of Surrey and First Vice-President of UBCM
  • Mary Sjostrom, Mayor of Quesnel and Third Vice-President of UBCM
  • Donna Barnett, MLA, Cariboo-Chilcotin
  • Douglas Horne, MLA, Coquitlam-Burke Mountain

They will be taking written submissions until April 15th at localelectionstaskforce@gov.bc.ca

The task force will be making recommendations to the Province and the Union of BC Municipalities by May 30th.

I will be writing a detailed submission including the need for the task force to look at how we elect our local councilors, the committee members can add other areas to make recommendations on.

5 comments:

Antony Hodgson said...

Fair Voting BC invites anyone interested in working for voting reform at the civic level to join our working group at http://groups.google.com/group/fvbc-civicreform.

Anonymous said...

Hi there,

Glad to see you are going to make a submission to the task force. I am collecting as many submissions as possible and posting them to my website at www.kennedystewart.ca. At the end of the reporting I will summarize and post a summary. It would be great if you could send me your submission and tell others as well. Thanks so much. Kennedy Stewart

Bernard said...

I will try to get it to you once I am done with it. I suspect I will have it done the week after the Olympic Games - I am not sure I will get much work done till the games are over.

Anonymous said...

Cheers

Unknown said...

Hi,

Fair Voting BC and Think City are gathering citizen input here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/civic_electoral_reform to submit to the task force.

The deadline is March 1.

Neil Monckton,
Think City Chair