Central Okanagan West (COW) election 2011 candidates

Across the Province of BC, Local Government Elections are held every three years.

Saturday, November 19th, 2011 is the next Local Government Election day across the Province.

On General Voting Day, the following voting locations are open for qualified voters between 8:00 am and 8:00 pm

Central Okanagan West
Constable Neil Bruce Middle School, 2010 Daimler Road
Killiney Beach Community Hall, 516 Udell Road, Killiney Beach

consists of Brent Road located on the other side of Peachland, Trepanier, Native Reserves 9 and 10, plus Westside Road.

In 2007 and 2008 Brent Road located on the other side of Peachland, Trepanier, Native Reserves 9 and 10 voted and cancelled out Killiney Beach voting station where 2007-2011 Director Jim Edgson resides. In the 2011 COW election lets hope everyone at Killiney Beach voting station gets out to vote so we can override the other areas.

Is this maybe a reason why only two candidates ran in the 2007 and 2008 COW election?

Is the distance between North Westside Road BC and the Regional District of Central Okanagan office at 1450 KLO Road in Kelowna BC where Regional District of Central Okanagan Board meetings are held, which is a 45 minute drive each way on a very windy and dangerous Westside Road BC be a reason there were only 2 COW election candidates to choose from in the 2007 and 2008 Central Okanagan West election, and will this fact be a deterrent in future local government COW elections? This fact alone would be the sole reason why one person would not want to be a candidate. Driving in the dark or early morning is not the best time to drive Westside Road due to all the deer, and driving in the winter when the roads are barely plowed is just one more reason. Putting your life at risk is just not worth it!

Four-year terms eyed for councils
Kelowna Capital News - By Tom Fletcher - June 01, 2010

VICTORIA—A task force on local elections has recommended tighter spending rules for candidates, and a four-year term of office for those elected to municipal councils and school boards.

The task force of councillors and B.C. Liberal MLAs decided not to place limits on campaign contributions by individuals, businesses and unions. Requiring disclosure of all donations and placing limits on candidate spending is sufficient to allow voters to make up their minds, said Community and Rural Development Minister Bill Bennett, co-chairman of the task force.

Kelowna’s mayor, Sharon Shepherd, said she had no problem with proposals when asked about them Monday.

The task force also recommended against giving businesses a vote in local elections. Some coastal communities have seen an industrial tax revolt led by Catalyst Paper, which unsuccessfully argued in court that local councils have loaded too much of the local tax burden on their mills.

Bennett said another task force is looking at the imbalance between residential and business taxes in some communities, but the principle of one-person, one-vote was deemed more important than businesses being taxed without representation.

“You look around the world and you see that there is no corporate or business vote anywhere in the world, except for downtown London, England, and nobody lives in downtown London, England,” Bennett said.

NDP community development critic Scott Fraser said the B.C. Liberals didn’t want to impose limits on campaign contributions at the municipal level because they have refused to do so provincially.

Corporate donations have put the B.C. Liberal Party far ahead of the NDP in campaign money collected in recent years, and NDP leader Carole James has repeatedly called for a ban on corporate and union donations to provincial parties.

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