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
- 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.
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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.
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
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.
Cheers
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
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