1. Regional District of Kootenay Boundary 2011 Electoral Area ‘E’ Community Update 2011 Budget & Five-Year Financial Plan Bill Baird Area ‘E’ Director

2. RDKB MISSION STATEMENT To Provide a Professional Level of Governance and Advocacy Both Responsive and Accountable to the Needs of Our Regional Community

3. RDKB VISION To be Valued as an Essential Level of Government which Coordinates and Distributes Regional Services in an Effective, Equitable and Responsible Manner

4. MEETING AGENDA Legislative Framework Types of local government in B.C. What is the RDKB and how does it work? Overview of Services provided by the RDKB Funding of Services 2011 Budget & 5-Year Financial Plan

5. MEETING AGENDA Financial Process How much does the taxpayer have to pay? How do we determine levels of taxation? Chat with your Director-What have we been working on? Area ‘E’ projects and RDKB projects

6. THE BEGINNING: Legislative Framework Constitution Act, 1867 Separates powers between the Federal and Provincial Governments. Municipalities are the responsibility of the Province. Local Government Act & Community Charter Provides legislative and regulatory authority for everything local government does.

7. TYPES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT in B.C. Cities (Cranbrook, Grand Forks, Greenwood, Kelowna) Towns (Creston, Oliver) Villages (Midway, Cache Creek) District Municipalities (Armstrong, Chetwynd) Resort Municipalities (Whistler, Sun Peaks) Regional Districts (RDKB, RDCO, RDOS)

8. What is the RDKB? Primarily a service delivery system Developed and designed to promote regional and sub-regional cooperation Incorporated in 1966 1 of 28 Regional Districts in B.C. Over 68 active services

9. What is the RDKB? 13 Directors: 8 appointed from Municipal Councils & 5 Electoral Areas (elected) There is a lobby role for the Regional District on regional and electoral area issues

10. 31,000 residents 8,100 sq. km 17,383 homes

11. ELECTORAL AREA ‘E’ FACTS AREA4,308 sq.kms (Total Area ‘E’) 53.2% (of RDKB total) POPULATION (2006 Census) 2,234 (Total Area ‘E’) 7.0% (of RDKB total) ASSESSED VALUE (as at Dec. 31/10) BW Fire Protection Remainder Area ‘E’ $ 1,017,554,185 (Total Area ‘E’) $ 632,537,731 $ 385,016,454 19.9% (of RDKB total) 62.2% 37.8% # OF DWELLINGS3,178 (Area ‘E’) 18.0% (of RDKB total)

12. Services: Region-Wide All Taxpayers contribute equally to the cost of the Service and have similar access to the Service Taxpayers include residents of member Municipalities as well as Electoral Areas

13. Services: Region-Wide General Government & Administrative Services Building Inspection Planning & Development Feasibility Studies 9-1-1 Service (in partnership with RDCK) Emergency Preparedness Waste Management

14. Services: Sub-Regional Sub-regional services are any services which include taxpayer contributions from more than one participating Boundary community Taxpayers will include residents of Electoral Area ‘E’ and residents of one or more of the member municipalities and/or Electoral Areas in the Boundary and West-Boundary

15. Services: Sub-Regional Electoral Area Administration  All Electoral Areas A-E Boundary Economic Development (BEDC)  Areas ‘C’, ‘D’ & ‘E’, Grand Forks  Greenwood & Midway

16. Services: Sub-Regional Noxious Weed Control  Electoral Areas ‘D’ & ‘E’ Boundary Transit Services  Grand Forks, Greenwood, Area ‘D’  Specified Portion of Area ‘E’ Regional Recreation Commission  Greenwood, Midway & Area ‘E’

17. Services: Sub-Regional Emergency Road Rescue Service  Beaverdell  Greenwood  Midway Cemetery Service  Greenwood & Area ‘E’

18. Services: Local-Region Electoral Area ‘E’ Area ‘E’ local-region services are services which include taxpayer contributions from all or a specified portion of RDKB Electoral Area ‘E’

19. Services: Local-Region Electoral Area ‘E’ Area ‘E’ Regional Parks & Trails

20. Services: Local-Region 2009 Area ‘E’ Grants-in-Aid City of Greenwood $ 735 Greenwood Legion $ 1,900 Boundary Figure Skating Club $ 3,000 Kettle Valley Racing Assoc. $ 600 Beaverdell Community Club Ladies Softball $ 1,000 Beaverdell Community Club $ 2,000 Kettle Valley Bantam Rep Hockey $ 500 Less Folles Jambettes $ 1,000 Boundary Minor Hockey Assoc $ 1,000 Greenwood Board of Trade $ 1,000 BCSS Parent Advisory Council $ 3,000 Top-Up Woodstove Exchanges $ 2,500 Selkirk College Grand Forks $ 633 Greenwood Demolition Derby $ 500 Boundary District Curling Club $ 3,000 Community Futures Boundary $ 2,478 Mt. Baldy/Borderline Ski Club $ 2,000 Phoenix Mt. Alpine Ski Society $ 5,000 Big White Community Police Society $ 5,000 Greenwood Improvement Society $ 2,000 Midway Volunteer Fire Dept. $ 2,000 Kettle River Lions Club-Bursaries $ 3,000 Westbridge Community Society $ 1,500 Rock Creek Ladies Fastball $ 800 Friends of Greenwood Improvement Society $ 2,000 Okanagan Film Commission $ 800 Sky High Blues Festival $ 3,000 Discover Rock Creek Committee $ 400 Rock Creek & Boundary Fair Assoc $10,000

21. Grants-in-Aid Continued Grand Forks & Boundary Regional Agriculture Society$ 500 Big White Fire Dept. Auxiliary$ 2,000 Boundary Citizens Patrol$ 1,500 Kettle Wildlife Assoc.$ 1,510 Midway Trails Societies$ 4,000 Rock Creek Fairground$2,016 Boundary Central Secondary School$2,000 Beaverdell Community Club$1,000 Boundary Central Secondary School$ 500 TOTAL 2010 Area ‘E’ GRANT-IN-AID: $84,742

22. Area ‘E’ Advisory Planning Commission 2011 Appointments Diane ScottJames Haynes Art HarfmanJohn Condon George Delisle, Area ‘E’ Alternate Director

23. Services: Local-Region Specified Local Service Area A Specified Local Service Area is a specified area within Area ‘E’ which receives a particular service Only taxpayers living within the boundaries of a specified local area are taxed for the service

24. Services: Local-Region Specified Local Service Area Beaverdell Street Lighting Beaverdell Community Club Public Library Service Area ‘E’ Beaverdell Fire Protection Rural Greenwood Fire Service

25. FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN Salmon-coloured sheets: A portion of the overall Regional District Budget providing a summary of services and costs of services to Area ‘E’ taxpayers White sheets are budget exhibits of the individual services that Area ‘E’ participates in

26. FIVE-YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN All figures are PROPOSED. Plan to be adopted by RDKB Board of Directors end of March There are no budgeted deficits All services are funded individually through specified budgets

27. FINANCIAL PLAN PROCESS Begins in the Fall of each year Determine costs of operating service as it exists Determine any revenue sources Determine any requirement for borrowing Discuss Financial Plan with participants Determine service delivery levels Public Consultation (e.g. town hall meetings) Board adopts 5-Year Financial Plan in March

32. Significant Financial Changes for 2011 General Government & Administration Planning & Development Building Inspection

33. What We Have Been Working On Regional District-Wide Projects Building Renovations  Complete March 2011 Community Wildfire Protection Plans & Job Opportunity Funding Program  Complete March 2011

34. What We Have Been Working On Regional District-Wide Projects The Carbon Neutral Kootenays Project Partnering with Columbia Basin Trust (CBT) & Regional Districts of Central & East Kootenay  What have we accomplished?  What are we planning?  What are we trying to achieve

35. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU PUBLIC FEEDBACK Feedback sheets are available this evening and from the following locations:  RDKB Website: www.rdkb.com Hot Topics Tabwww.rdkb.com  RDKB Office: 250-368-9148 or 1-800-355-7352 202-843 Rossland Avenue, Trail, BC V1R 4S8

36. Chat With Director Baird Area ‘E’ Ongoing Projects Boundary Economic Development Committee (BEDC) Boundary Regional Agriculture Plan Kettle/Granby River Study & the Boundary Water Committee

37. Chat With Director Baird Area ‘E’ Ongoing Projects Branding for the Boundary  To be released in April 2011 Boundary website  To be released in April 2011

38. Chat With Director Baird Area ‘E’ Ongoing Projects Proposed New Services  Christian Valley Mosquito Control  Fire Protection in the West Boundary

39. RDKB Board of Directors RDKB Planning & Development Committee RDKB Environmental Services Committee RDKB Rural Caucus Committee RDKB Big White Advisory Planning Commission Area ‘E’ Advisory Planning Commission Committees & Meetings Your Director Attends

40. RDKB Protective Services Committee RDKB Boundary Weed Management Committee West Kootenay-Boundary Regional Hospital District Board (WKBRHD) RDKB Boundary Economic Development Committee (BEDC) Boundary Water Committee

41. Committees & Meetings Your Director Attends Association of Kootenay Boundary Local Governments (AKBLG) Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) Union of British Columbia Municipalities (UBCM) Westbank Treaty Advisory Committee

42. THANK YOU!