Today's riddle:

=  MAIN ITEMS Jan 19th: NSh Family Court / Youth Justice Annual Report (2007); Lions Bay OCP; Fees and Charges Amendment Bylaw (three readings); Permit Applications for 25th & Marine (Capers) and 4768/4772 The Highway (Lower Caulfeild) to be considered Feb 16; Correspondence including new model for delivery of fire services, a tree-cutting application on Clovelly Walk with an interesting perspective, WV projects for federal funding support.

=  Vive le Canada (Viva BC); US ELECTION from Robin Williams's POV; ANIMALWATCH (pandas); from the EDITOR'S DESK (Donations; HERITAGE nominations/Week)

=  Ccl Mtg NOTES Jan 12th: 856 Anderson Cr; DVPs for 1350 Ottaburn and 610 11th St; Sponsorship/Partnership Policy Amendment; Cmnty Ctr Qtrly Update; $6M Loan from MFA for installation of water meters; Apptmts (WGs, Library); NSh Substance Abuse WG Report; Correspondence discussion on Library

=  Ccl Mtg AGENDA Jan 19th

=  NEWSWATCH (Zimbabwe, Canada); WORDWATCH (cartocacoethes, poodle-faker); LITERATUREWATCH (Rumpole; cell-phone novels); Quotations and Riddle Answer

===  Vive le Canada  === and Viva BC!

FRASER CANYON Campaign prevented Americans from annexing the colony of British Columbia -- Group re-enacts march that kept B. C. Canadian

In the dimly lit depths of the lower Fraser Canyon on Sunday morning, a small troop of men will file on foot through dense brush, rocky foreshore and unbroken snow past Hill's Bar to Yale. As members of the Royal Engineers Living History Group, they...read more... http://digital.vancouversun.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

===  ANIMALWATCH  ===  cute

        Panda Surprise (16 seconds):  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk

Pls give to whatever organization you wish.  Certainly we all want destruction and suffering to stop, and be eased.  Bishop Michael Ingham (Christ Church Cathedral) sent a pastoral letter asking for support for the Anglican Hospital in Gaza:

Diocese of New Westminster - Bishop asks Diocese to support Anglican Hospital in Gaza ... Diocese of New Westminster #580 - 401 West Georgia Street Vancouver, BC, V6B 5A1

The letter: http://www.vancouver.anglican.ca/Home/tabid/161/Mode/ViewArticle/ArticleId/798/Default.aspx

The 2009 Heritage Week poster features Ridgeway Elementary School in the City of North Vancouver.

===  CALENDAR to Jan 31st  === [mtgs at M Hall unless indicated otherwise]

= Thurs Jan 15th ~ 8:30am ~ Cmnty Engagement Cmte (CEC) -- CANCELLED

        Western Residents' Assn Mtg at St Monica's Church (Horseshoe Bay Roundabout)

There will be a presentation by Jason Bowman, Horseshoe Bay Terminal Director for BC Ferries,

Around the Bay: Update on some new goings-on around the Bay

        ~ 5:15pm ~ Measuring Up WG at Srs' Ctr

        ~ Wetland Partners at YAC

        ~ 8:15am ~ 2010 Leadership Cmte

        ~ 4pm ~ tentative for Heritage Achievement Award Selection Cmte mtg [925 7238 info]

= Mon Jan 26th ~ Deadline to reserve for WVCC breakfast with Mayor (Jan 28, see details below)

before that, in the morning ~ 7:30am ~

Guest Speaker: Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones

Join us as Mayor Pamela Goldsmith-Jones updates us on the latest news from the District Hall and provides insight into some of the major initiatives and projects now underway.  With the opening of the new community centre, a new council, and the countdown leading up to 2010, the Mayor will definitely have many exciting things to say.  Last year this was a sell-out breakfast, so please be sure to get your tickets early.

Sponsor:        West Vancouver Community Foundation

Where:       Hollyburn Country Club, 950 Crosscreek Rd., West Vancouver

Cost:          $25.00 per member/non-members $35.00

RSVP  INFO:  We ask that you kindly pre-pay by the deadline of 5pm Monday January 26, to ensure your breakfast and seat are reserved.  Please SIGN UP on our secure website www.westvanchamber.com or call 926 6614.

[Details were in last issue]  See http://www.westvancouver.ca/grants.aspx or call Leanne Sexsmith, Community Planner - Social Services (925 7178) or Cathy Matheson, Office of Cultural Affairs and Partnerships (925 7224).

= Wed Jan 28 and Fri Jan 30 = Jeff Halper, Israeli Peace Activist, Cross-Canada Speaking Tour

"Ghettoizing Palestine -- Massacring Gaza"

~ 7pm ~ Wed Jan 28 ~ Unitarian Church, 49th & Oak

~ 5pm ~ Fri Jan 30 ~ UBC, Irving K Barber Learning Ctr (Main Library) Room 182

[For further info:  Sid Shniad, 604-314-5589, shniad@sfu.ca]

+++  WV MEMORIAL LIBRARY +++  See: http://www.westvanlib.org/

*  Philosopher's Cafe Thursday, January 22, 10:30am - 12:30 pm, Elizabeth Musto Room. This month's topic: Pets - When is it healthy to have a pet as your best or closest friend? Admission: $5

Royall works with images from the visible world transformed through the action of imagination on colour and form, to create autonomous paintings on canvas that offer their discovery to viewers.*

+++ SILK PURSE +++  www.silkpurse.ca  ***  January 20 - February 1  ***

        The Prints of Alistair Bell  to February 7, 2009

Printmaking in B.C. began to flourish in the mid-twentieth century with leading artists and art educators, such as F.H. Varley, J.W.G Macdonald, and Charles Scott influencing the next generation of artists. Wayne Eastcott, renowned printmaker and instructor, will give an illustrative presentation of the development of printmaking in B.C. and will profile contemporary artists who use innovative new techniques in their work.

Wayne Eastcott graduated from the Vancouver School of Art in 1966 and was one of the very few artists at that time who was actively involved in printmaking. [After] receiving a Canada Council Grant in 1968 for exploration in new printmaking techniques, in particular the Xerox technique, he actively engaged in working with Xerox Corporation in Rochester, New York and Fuji-Xerox in Tokyo, Japan.  In 1971, Wayne met B.C. Binning who established the Dundarave Print Workshop in West Vancouver (which is now operating on Granville Island) and became one of its founding members. Just after graduating, Wayne returned to the Vancouver School of Art to teach drawing, painting, and printmaking and in 1979 he joined the art faculty of Capilano College (now Capilano University). Wayne's ground-breaking exhibition at the Kabutoya Gallery in Japan in 1979 was highly successful, and he has earned a reputation as an outstanding artist, teacher, and mentor since then. Wayne has exhibited widely both in Canada and abroad, including the recent exhibitions in the Faulun Triennial in Sweden and Printmaking at the Edge in Korea.

To see a list of events: http://kaymeekcentre.com/on_stage/events_calendar

To see the electronic newsletter, the address is http://kaymeekcentre.weebly.com.  Getting onto the mail list: the simplest method is to call the box office (604 913 3634) or email tickets@kaymeekcentre.com

 http://www.westvan60.com/Images/The%20Torch%20Newsletter%20-%20Winter%202008.pdf

The newsletter is available to any non-member who is interested.  To sign up, please fill in the form at the bottom of the webpage, http://www.westvan60.com/newsletter.html  Please email thetorch60@telus.net, if you would like to submit an article, or if you have any questions or comments.

[We wish her all the best.  Her background in Australia and NV was given; I asked for a copy of remarks but not received yet.]

Amended: adding report, withdrawing Item 10, adding Correspondence 26.1

THEN

[I also requested a copy of this; well put but was told something approximate wd be on the DWV website.]

Mayor: Statement re Snow

difficulty to get to priority roads; garbage think caught up tomorrow

snowfall $270K a bit short last year, but usually more, expecting $1M over but think will be covered by contingencies

still probs in Brit Props; waiving limits on garbage

[from] criticism learning

responding to extreme wind, storms, snow new

checked on seniors, cared for nbrs

2.  MINUTES ADOPTED: Dec 8, 2008 Special Ccl Mtg; and Dec 15, 2008 Regular Ccl Mtg.

Mayor: something new: three minutes for public and five minutes for cclrs

time where?

SSch [indicated]

Mayor: discipline

3. Request for Reconsideration of Remedial Action for Excavation at 856 Anderson Crescent (File: 1605-07)

Mayor: Mgr of Bylaws will give background

Liz Holitzki: bringing back b/c owner asked for reconsideration of decision Dec 15.

excavation following demolition of house on site (listed required actions, given 15 days to comply or to ask for reconsideration; staff's recommendation is to reconfirm requirements)

[slides of site, slope down 25 to 30ft, gas line exposed, steepness, nbr's stairs can't be used -- total exposure of stairs of 866]

Sop: when a permit is issued for demolition, owner/contractor not have to be aware of property lines?

LH: survey to be done

Sop: was it?

LH: yes

Mayor: one mbr of Ccl to speak and Mr Garrow

Staff: perhaps shd hear from the public first

Pam Price: I live in Vancouver, this is my mother's house and my son is living in the house

staff? said demolition permit same as excavation -- nowhere can I find same (dictionary, etc)

if he had a demolition permit he thought he had an excavation

[lists]

pt 3: did his excavation despite demolition permit on hold

did he have gas permit?

according to

[BUZZZ!]

Mayor: apologize

PP:...ten days...all underground

bylaw 9.2 ... notwithstanding ...  the owner must provide professional design, review ....

for geotechnical components

does the Horizons Company have ... prof insurance?

[..... angle .... geotech]

to ensure safety and this is more than a 45% angle, more a cliff

presumably Mr Garrow signed....

advised my ...[builder?]

did he actually tell his engineers?

a huge bin was placed; blocking access to the land; in case emergency vehicles need access; none b/c big bin there

demolish house and remove all the trees -- was .... removal of trees?

when owner of 866, that's me, .....

vehicle 856 no other way of leaving except by trespassing

keep more watch on construction

blocked by bin

what did Phil Garrow tell his workers

what was the plan?

what plan did he have?

I spent two hours cleaning up the litter

Phil Garrow: I reside in WV; am property owner

with a view to time, brief statement of facts, history, and reasons for dispute

excavation did not occur on the site within the bldg bylaw

responsibility of 856 Anderson to supply support to 866

Demolition permit Sept 8 2008 expiry Oct 8

wrt excavation; I was away for seven weeks, to Jan

reference to Horizons ...

related to a sediment control

new sgl-fam house dwelling .... in Oct; new dwelling and then follow with Horizons; soil removed

signif debris and demolition did transpire evidenced by the pictures, resulted b/c a berm dry-stack wall that extended beyond -- circled around M prop

those rocks were there to provide support to +/- 15ft; 9ft drop on stair side/east side

allowance for joists

loose concrete buried beneath the slabs

to complete demolition Horizons...

their report identifies that clearly -- berm rockwall that existed plus the cutline

dead trees, loose .....

existing house floor was 12 - 14ft below the finished grade tapering to 3 - 4ft .....

entirely supported by the pictures you just saw

speaking of bldg footprints, if you're going to demolish, going to be 18in over

re excavation, the ... operator said the bylaw ofcr

beyond demolition permit

concrete slabs still there, acknowledged demolition

856 Anderson to provide support to 866

on file with Bldg Permit; general sloping to the east, natural topography from 856 to 866

866 stairs were build historically above grade; above on west side

as a result, at some point a berm rock wall was created 4 to 6ft +/-

improvement was removed as part of the demolition permit

apologize, my lawyer cdn't attend b/c had to attend another mtg this evening

if requirement to quote ...... his name is Jonathan Baker

support to natural grade not improved grade

866 for some time had the benefit of a xxxxxxxx

that benefit no longer..... to 866

under Permit and conditions of permit itself; no special circumstance providing lateral support

dispute not meant to be highhanded; meant for zzzzzzzz

required for the clearing of the land

proposed under ...... submitted Oct 8

to accept responsibility for carrying out -- as I ... in my email when I was away

if and when stop work order is removed, I stand ready re safety; measures and make sure as safe as possible, however in item 5 of Ccl's resolution wd be to cast aside my responsibilities... case law

my resp to rebuild an improvement

obtained by way of a benefit

used prior to demolition of 856 wd not be acceptable in current code

wd be nonconforming and require approval of Bd of Variance

a number of issues raised by Pamela Price

jotted down as she spoke...

ME: what was the setback?

PG: was nonconforming, and ...

clearly showed that the bldg was nonconforming wch explains why cutlines had to be made

and clearly

reference to gas line

at its minimum, a skew of a lot, just under a foot and a half from the prop line

have to allow, 18 inches for footings

ME: not talking about footings

PG: but from a survey ...   18 inches over on either side then you're ....

Sop moved: THAT the report from the Acting Manager of Permits and Inspections/Bylaws be received for information.

AND will affirm ... by January 30

[Seconded by MS]

Sop: sometimes we get into...

the issue here is safety and that's what it's all about

CARRIED  [7:39]

4. Development Variance Permit Application No. 08-044 for 1350 Ottaburn Road (File: 1010-20-08-044)

At the December 15, 2008 meeting, Council received the report dated December 5, 2008 from the Community Planner.

Sokol: this is M-owned prop [slide with drawing of lot, just above Upper Levels Hwy near 15th and Cross Creek]; access Ottaburn

DVP needed to reduce width 80ft to 60ft; driveway access resulting in irregular bldg envelope so variance re bldg, pool/deck area

ME: you've said if the DVP lapses then null and void

Sokol: two years standard

ME: we're creating two lots so presumably in perpetuity

Sokol: wrt to ... wd lapse

ME: so same process in two years; find it odd; why not on a permanent basis?

Sokol: covenant wd be in perpetuity  ....

Sop: somebody who buys may want to change; whoever will come to us

Mayor: intention to make as desirable as possible

Sokol: once this is sold, wd be owner's resp to have this extended or changed

MS moved: THAT all written and verbal submissions ... be received for information.

and THAT DVP Application No. 08-044 for 1350 Ottaburn Road, which would provide for a subdivision creating two lots with a variance to the minimum site width requirement for proposed Lot 2 and a variation to the front yard requirement on proposed Lot 1, be approved.

CARRIED [7:46]

5. Development Variance Permit Application No. 08-027 (610 11th Street) (File:  1010-20-08-027)

At the December 8, 2008 meeting, Council received the report dated November 27, 2008 from the Community Planner

Sokol: [slide of Duchess at 11th]

Zoning bylaw requires two setbacks, 25ft resulting in 22ft bldg so requires DVP

lane; proposal has house facing onto Duchess

on slide, C shows bldg envelope, D shows house beforehand and A is proposed bldg footprint

meets setback from nbr on Duchess and on 11th, variance required ......

access from lane

reason applicant applying and staff think good idea; house wd hv to be moved up the slope

if garage sep structure next to lane also blocking views; therefore what's being proposed is better

Diana Seehagen: representing my mother who is elderly and not able to be present tonight

with no permit in place soil had been excavated that began to fill with water and no fence in place

raised with DWV within days, it was months before fence

kids and dogs; hole next to where without permit; equal concern for Mrs Seehagen

snowfall and now snowmelt

can't find any permit for..  drop off

we submit that until plans ......  commercial engineer.   ....

that DVP be deferred: the big concern today is there there is no fence, amazed that a child or a dog has not fallen in

R Sabhi [sp?]: designer of the house

Mayor: anything further?  Next is

Doug Hammond: we reside at 1084 Duchess, prop immediately to the south

house wd affect us in two ways .........

parking directly across from our home, basically our front door

we've resided in that home for seven years and prior to that lived in prop next for five or six years

fam with how nbrhd operates

we received notice of DVP on Wed on return from Christmas vacation; got ..... material

a lot of good things about this application; to go forward

some to ...... not had an opportunity

not had to speak to all our nbrs, talked to some

not had an opp to speak with the builder

tried to talk to builder; wd like opp to talk to builder -- if this application is as good as it gets of ....

frankly wd like to speak, then come to Ccl and say; ask to defer then come back and talk

Sop: Mr Sokol, the permit was given for demolition?

Sokol: yes

Sop: and permit for excavation?

Sokol: there was a basement

...

[laughter in gallery]

Sop: based on safety of prop; 610 considered unsafe?

Sokol: fence; concern took too long to be put up

not a fence along the prop line with nbr, thick shrub; applicant this evening said he wd put up a fence

Sop: is there no ...

Sokol: I have only been to the site once and not able to make ...

the other had an engg report  ...

Sop: wd it require a report?

Sokol: yes, fencing temporary along ROWs; not sure of retaining wall, to hold up that side; clearly intent of applicant, once approved able to ...

ML: that wd be part of the bldg plan process?

ME moved: THAT all written and verbal submissions ... be received for information.

CARRIED

Mayor: Cclr Evison, up to you further report or approval

ME: I wd

Mayor: prefer to have motion on the floor for Ccl to discuss

ME: you prefer the second?

THAT Staff report back to Council regarding submissions received

looked at it differently than staff

in fact in your application you state the grade change is 3.5%, in fact I believe that is wrong and it shd be 35%; it's 18ft, 148- xxxx a grade change of 6ft or so; you'll find your calculation is incorrect

160 to 170ft wch faces 11th and Duchess; to accept a grass blvd not ... to nbrhd

Mayor: may I ask that you direct your comments to me as the Chair

ME:...

TP: my comments in light of the Nbrhd Character WG as we replace these older homes with new ones.

to follow up with Cclr Evison about .....

understanding of course that older houses

grass certainly an improvement over asphalt ...landscaping itself

Sop: interesting how we try to rewrite the bylaws

one thing that struck me as no massive overhangs over the balconies

positive note staff recommendation that the garage be put off Duchess rather than off the lane

putting house in centre rather ....

Some of these things staff make decisions good law .....

this has been thought out and presented recently

construction of the house will start sometime in the near future

Mayor: if we're debating a further report, say what

blvd deposit a standard amt?

certainly the house conforms and ...

more, really just Duchess; is that enough for the substance of a report?

CARRIED  [8:13]

6. Amendment to the Sponsorship and Partnership Policy #02-70-307 (File: 0942-00)

Cathy Matheson (staff):

RECOMMENDED: THAT the amendment, as follows, to the Sponsorship and Partnership Policy be adopted:

"New and existing facilities may be considered for naming but only if the financial contribution is significant and in-line with current market values;" and

Sop: certainly wd encourage, laying out a framework

CARRIED  [8:18]

7. Community Centre Quarterly Update - Volume IX - Nov 10, 2008 (File:  3002 04/0592-02)

CAO: costs to end of Sept; this is our ninth

[thought wd go over] 2.5% or approx; at present about 2.2%; these are gross projections

during this: budget first, quality second, and time third

... turn over to Josie Chuback and Basil Davis

JC: exciting time, challenges but working through them

BD: construction costs first,

set in 2005; from a cost point of view, tried to give projection of 2.5% last June and still holding to that ...

shuffling around of costs, some tighten up and some let you down

next few weeks.....

change orders, any moving around may take months, from my experience, I've had projects a year .... this has not been a particularly contentious....

still a lot  .....   come in in short order not

good loyalty in some of the trades

even got some come down between Christmas and New Years, eight or nine guys...

got 80, probably need/needed 100

now going into completion phase; got about 15 trades and all seem to be working in the same space

some room, three or four working on top of each other, tempers flying

pressure on everyone to complete

from a cost point of view one reconciliations being done, hope by end of Dec more; percentage of overrun

training a....  in an efficient manner

specifically those in gymnastics; ppl working with that equipment

come Jan and Feb working to finish off what we need, training period

need an occupancy permit; suddenly problems happen

still have a list of things that have to be completed

half a dozen to ten a day, things added to the bottom

our co-consultant, submitted it to the District for review, going by that, literally in the last couple of months consultant wrt fire stopping of all the various trades, found a competent person I've worked on [another project with?] and with his hawk eyes found ... things the other didn't

these are hiccups that come through

some we can handle on a reasonably short time basis

with next report in a couple of weeks shd be in ... wrt dates

that was schedule and costs, from the quality point of view have not been cutting into the muscle, original reductions

decisions made well down the way

when we get a pushback from any trade, going to cost $5, $10K extra we go out and find a smaller trade, to keep on schedule; ripoff season been v ...

here in the Dist priorities set best way -- No 3 ... going to get a good product

for those new to the Ccl, included.... Olympics and what they've been going through; hope in month's time

Sop: statement last portion, overage 2.5% or under; is it a reasonable expectation not require add'l funds?

BD: some things we've had to do for convenience or tenants coming in

if we, the construction folk, have ... to do a scope of work...  do something on behalf of centre

under floor ... Coastal Health ...  wanted a permit, ceiling,

and here wd hv bn this fellow coming back months later poking holes; we did, and he'll reimburse

coffee

I'd like to feel comfortable 2.5% not pie in the sky

[Hmpf]

Mayor: ask CAO

CAO: tenth qtrly report on Feb 2; be much further ahead

Mayor:

when you walk through it, there's a lot of asymmetry built in, a lot of appeal ...

a lot hate the exterior

someone who does not ... distracting ... looking like a warehouse .... the moment ....

trades, not meeting at corners

a lot of 572 clarifications, cleanups, ...

contention consultants, fix this, fix that; can't start fighting with consultants

BD: end of Dec, end of Jan

MS: but by contract

BD: have to be reviewed

MS: what I'm seeing today is that ppl are getting their invoices out pretty quickly

$2.4M now $3.8M are we continuing to pay ...?

BD: cut off fees in Nov; not getting any fees; so extremely interested in finishing...

general conditions....

MS: going to get a magnificent bldg

charged with squeezing every tax dollar, how this project and others, Western Rec Ctr

how we execute....

not to point fingers, a learning experience ...

Mayor: wd you like to respond about cost per sq ft

BD:....

in Vancouver, extraordinary over water

Mayor: certainly our qtrly reporting part of our [process?]

MS moved: THAT the report dated December 18, 2008 from the Director of Olympic Services & Projects be received for information.

[MS added to Sept 30]

CARRIED [8:43]

Mayor: and we look forward to the final report on Feb 2

8. Markets for Recyclables (File: 1776-01)

Raymond Fung: decline in income and provided warning; staff felt compelled to clarify

while revenues have gone down, b/c of the way the prog runs on NSh, collect only highly valuable b/c way, highly sorted; rumours not true, won't cut back;  continue to support; diversion up to 70%; increase the penetration rate

Mayor: thank you for participation with Sch Dist

going up to Rockridge amazed not recycling as well as they cd;  ...

certainly NSh best record, tackling organics and woodwaste also significant; not just plastic bags, all kinds

will push to do more; cmnty ctr will be a flagship of zero waste

ME moved; THAT the report dated December 16, 2008 be received for information.

CARRIED [8:46]

9. Borrowings for the Universal Metering Project (File: 0890-01)

ML: in Dec pleasure of introducing sewer bylaw so this is a step up

RECOMMENDED: THAT Council approves borrowing from the Municipal Finance Authority of British Columbia, as part of their 2009 spring issue, $6,000,000 as authorized through Loan Authorization Bylaw No. 4407, 2004 (a bylaw to authorize borrowing for the acquisition and installation of water meters) and that the Greater Vancouver Regional District be requested to consent to our borrowing over a [15-year term] and include the borrowing in their security issuing bylaw.

ME: $6M at what rate? variable?

RL: fixed rate but don't know until they go to the market, under 6%; will be fixed for entire 15 years

ME: initially $7.5M [?] now down to $6M [?] cd be less than forecasting?

RL ...$6.8M now only $6M

don't anticipate will go lower than now

residents had option to pay in full therefore avoiding cost ..... that further reduced the amt we had to borrow

CARRIED    [8:50]

10. Establishment of Community Grants Cmte (File: 0115-01) Info to be provided.   WITHDRAWN

11. Appointments (File: 0115-01/0117-01)

RECOMMENDED: THAT the following appointments for 2009 be approved:

RECOMMENDED: THAT the following appointments to the North Shore Family Court and Youth Justice Committee and the West Vancouver Memorial Library Board be approved:

North Shore Family Court and Youth Justice Committee [to 2009 Dec 31]:

West Vancouver Memorial Library Board:

MAYOR: so [withdraw] 13 and 1 and 2

13. North Shore Substance Abuse Working Group Status Report to the Partners, September 2008 (File: 0180-50)

RECOMMENDED: THAT the report dated December 16, 2008 be received for information.

Sop: what are we going to envision? embark on a WG or something in connection with schools or?

Mayor: in general sense

biggest achievement, connection with the Health Authority, was nonexistent five years ago

... we've done that ... as a result so has Sch Dist...  perhaps Ms Mooi can comment

AM: for the past years been working with the School

[reading from report]

together to look at substance abuse all three partners

opportunity to look at all three fantastic

support cmnty-based agencies, eg West Coast Alternative Society

outreach services -- Ambleside Youth Ctr, xxxxxx

we work as much as possible with organizations across xxxx

Mayor: rewritten curriculum to replace DARE...

AM:

Mayor: WVPD wrt drug-dealing

those two bodies working together; safe from one another; their resources now go further

existing can deliver broader and cheaper

outstanding reps from .... met with... last week

wonderful environment made a mark; there's a lot to come

Sop: knew we were in the forefront

until we get to that level of action, we'll float along

how is it disseminated, go to forum and listen, talk about it, not action of their own; another year goes

social endeavour; form a working group of citizens 15 or 20 meet with staff and Police Dept; go and get at this, make it more meaningful than in past

Mayor: we'll be at Jan 29 forum

cd be .... certainly I've heard also, as you have, parents willing to get ......  org by end of Jan

9pm

14. Correspondence List (File:  0120 24) {full list in last WVM issue}

ME: is the Foundation free-standing so ...?

Mayor: two Bd mbrs; but they are separate

ME: they're hiring an event coordinator

SW: b/c I chaired the croquet last year, the major Fdn

desired to hire; got help at end, this time at beginning

ME: Board re LEED certification for Library -- I understand what LEED is but

SW: part of

initiative across Canada, public bldgs in general starting to adhere to

ME: a bit strange, contract with .... writing  re LEED

surely we have staff responsible for broad base

a bit strange Library Bd own xxxx

Library won the Envtl Award last year, Cclr Panz

they're leading us; efficient Library is.... ; this is fantastic

Mayor: thanks to Cclr Walker for .. croquet last year, the most successful ever

9:05

(2) Hon. B. Lekstrom, Minister of Community Development, December 4, 2008, regarding Trees for Tomorrow Initiative

MS: hot on the carbon tax;  1% lives in WV so $300K; deadline Jan 16

planted along Marine Dr; Cclr Panz; get a letter in ... MLAs  ...  get our [share?]

Mayor: been incredibly successful on our partnership with Kiwanis

Tribute to trees

just win-win; pay attention to that as well

Sop: met with NV;  new enjoyed it as I did; workshop

ME: I represented [at mtg]

Stockwell Day ... benefit of TransLink $106M; some benefit to WV but....

Mayor: thank you v much for going on my behalf

9:08

Max Nikpay: here on behalf on a group of our mbrs BPAHA

first on snow removal; received number of calls

City has limited capability for removing snow; since stretches toward Rodgers Creek, more snow

RF: in event ie snowplowing or flood control, District does not budget for extreme events

as you mentioned recently...  only recent years exceeded that

given climate change, not quite sure

as you mentioned, look to cover those overages from previous years' overages

if more prevalent, perhaps with Olympics in 2010, we may consider [more/higher?]; up to now not budgeted for extremes

MN: second, electricity; in older part

health, security, heat; sometimes wire lines break, trees fall over them

lady called me she had to sit in car with heat turned on b/c no heat in house

recent snow a lesson, recognize a certain segment iof our cmnty more at risk, shut-ins, for example.

while our crews worked all out to plow out snow

cd have.... to address ... needs; we cd hv coordinated that a bit more

other ... external agencies

17.  ADJOURNMENT  [9:13]

1.  APPROVAL OF AGENDA

2.  ADOPTION OF MINUTES

3.  A. Van Eden, Chair, North Shore Family Court and Youth Justice Committee, regarding 2007 Annual Report (File: 0115-20-NSFC1)

4. Comments on the Lions Bay Official Community Plan Bylaw (File: 0190-04)

5. WV Community Grants Committee Terms of Reference (File: 0920-07-02) for approval

6. Fees and Charges Bylaw No. 4414, 2005, Amendment Bylaw No. 4589, 2009 (File:  1610-20-4589)

8. Development Permit Application No. 08-042 for 2490-2496 Marine Drive (former Capers Food Store site) (File: 1010-20-08-042)

9. Alteration Permit Application No. 08-047 for 4768 and 4772 The Highway, Lower Caulfeild (File: 1010-20-08-047)

10. Correspondence List (File:  0120 24)

       (a) Mayor G. Robertson, City of Vancouver, January 12, 2009

       (b) Mayor D. Watts, City of Surrey, January 12, 2009

       (c) G. McRadu, CAO, Dec 18 regarding DWV Infrastructure Projects Seeking Federal Funding Support

A sticky ending for the tar sands / Jan 15th 2009 | CALGARY  From The Economist

1

The Obama Buzzword* That Hit Pay Dirt:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/07/AR2009010703662.html

2

CARTOCACOETHES

Grant Barrett's Double-Tongued Dictionary (go via http://wwwords.org?DTWW) brought this nonce or neologistic word to wider notice this week. It was coined by John Krygier on his Making Maps blog last October. It's an uncontrollable urge, compulsion or itch to see maps everywhere, a specific example of what has been called apophenia, our very human tendency to see patterns in random or meaningless data. "Cartocacoethes" is formed from "cartography" (French "carte", a card or chart), the drawing or study of maps, plus "cacoethes", an urge or incurable passion to do something, often inadvisable (from a classical Greek word that means a bad habit). What provoked the word was a report that a supposed map of =C7atalh=F6y=FCk of 6200 BC probably wasn't a map at all.

3.

POODLE-FAKER

[from Michael Quinion's World Wide Words] Weird Words: Poodle-faker

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A man who habitually chooses to socialise with women.

     It's long-outmoded British army slang. A poodle-faker was a young officer who was disparagingly considered by fellow officers to be pretending to the role of a lapdog through being over-attentive to women. To suggest that he was a gigolo, as some have done, would be to go too far, though a ladies' man he certainly was.

     Somehow, perhaps because I've come across it several times in books about the British Raj in India, I associate "poodle-faker" and its relatives with hanky-panky in the hill stations to which British officers and their wives retired in summer to escape the heat of the plains. In several supposed memoirs, George Macdonald Fraser put it into the mouth of that erstwhile bully of Rugby, Harry Flashman, here in its verb form in Flashman in the Great Game:    

However, the word is recorded only from the start of the twentieth century. One of the better-known examples is in George Orwell's Burmese Days (1935): "As for social duties of all descriptions, he called them poodle-faking and ignored them. Women he abhorred. In his view they were a kind of siren whose one aim was to lure men away from polo and enmesh them in tea-fights and tennis-parties."

     Despite the assertion in dictionaries that it's a dated Britishism, it continues to appear in books and newspapers. Boris Johnson,** at the time a British MP and newspaper columnist but these days Mayor of London, wrote in the Daily Telegraph in October 2003 about Tony Blair: "How dare this mincing poodle-faker stand up and start confiding to the nation about his emotional journey of the past six years." It has a salaciously nudge-nudge, wink-wink penumbra that usefully implies more than it delivers.

     "Poodle", of course, has been used opprobriously for a lickspittle or lackey, an obsequious follower, a term that also dates from the beginning of the twentieth century. The poor old poodle has had a bad press because of its role as a cosseted appurtenance in ladies' boudoirs, though when allowed to be itself in high-stepping and unclipped confidence the standard poodle is an intelligent and companionable animal.

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* it's shovel-ready -- now heard used by Rex Murphy and some Cdn cabinet ministers

**  I predict Boris Johnson will go far; illustrious past, impish sense of humour and fun

o>  Sir John Mortimer, creator of feisty lawyer Rumpole of the Bailey, who has died.

http://www.penguin.co.uk/nf/Author/AuthorPage/0,,1000023047,00.html?sym=MIS

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/12/22/081222fa_fact_goodyear?currentPage=all

Warning: This is a long read!

NB:  with Japanese transliteration Mone (wch most Anglophones wd read rhyming with phone) is pronounced moh-nay b/c Latin values are give to vowels in transliteration.  This makes the connection with Monet obvious.

There's a major and a minor mistake in English wch is surprising for the New Yorker.  They used 'shrunk', the past participle that needs have/had in front, instead of the correct 'shrank' b/c simple past is meant.

The other is writing the possessive F's instead of the plural Fs.

The article is interesting from a sociological point of view (but you shd be interested in 'girls' and advertising, ie the 'pull').

Of course I immediately recognized Basho (involved as I am with some haiku assns) and had read Tale of Genji; wonder why they don't refer to her as Lady Murasaki.

Oh yes, another tense mistake: shd be 'if her name were' b/c subjunctive (ie hypothetical) and they wrote WAS wch is the simple past as if it had actually occurred.

Otherwise, found it fascinating -- do note that they refer to 'good grammar' so guess noticing the standard of language attracts the attention of writers everywhere -- from a literary and contemporary society POV.  Many social changes from when I was at Keio University.

I had already read The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon (both will be somewhere in my caches of books), and one of Banana's books is on a side table by the balcony door at the apt -- it heralded gigantic shift in the attitude of girls.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

                        -- Rebecca West

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

                        -- George Bernard Shaw

God defend me from my friends; from my enemies I can defend myself.

                        -- Proverb     

One day we will be people again, and not only Jews.

                        -- Anne Frank

Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country's virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest", but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is.

                        -- Sydney J. Harris, journalist and author (1917-1986)

Traditionally, Indonesians practised a tolerant, almost syncretic brand of faith, infused with the Buddhist, Hindu, and animist traditions of earlier periods.

                        -- Barack Obama; The Audacity of Hope; Crown Publishers; 2006

If the Third World War is fought with nuclear weapons, the fourth will be fought with bows and arrows.

                        -- Lord Louis Mountbatten, said in 1975