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Thursday, April 29, 2021
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Council approves projects review
ARTHUR WILLIAMS
The City of Prince George will be hiring external consultants to review the city’s capital management procedures, after council approved the move on Monday night.
LHEIDLI T’ENNEH PHOTO
Lheidli T’enneh First Nation member Regina Toth reads the Oath of Office to Chief Dolleen Logan during Saturday’s sweaing-in ceremony at Ron Seymour Memorial Park on the Shelley reserve.
BUILDING BRIDGES TOPS TO-DO LIST FOR LHEIDLI T’ENNEH CHIEF LOGAN TED CLARKE
The sun was beaming but the wind was blowing cold Saturday morning when Dolleen (Dolly) Logan was sworn in as chief of the Lheidli T’enneh First Nation and she was looking forward to the end of the outdoor
ceremony at Ron Seymour Memorial Park on the Shelley reserve.
It was an historic day for the Lheidli T’enneh, who on April 8 elected Logan as the second female chief in their history. Regina Toth, a granddaughter of Mary Pius, the first elected female chief, read
out the Oath of Office to Logan. Logan’s light summer dress and jacket wasn’t keeping her warm in that cutting breeze and she was thinking she should have followed Toth’s lead and worn her winter jacket for the occasion. See ‘THERE’S page 3
The decision came after council received a report that the city spent an additional $8.58 million on overbudget or unbudgeted capital projects in 2020. Completion of the new George Street parkade contributed $5.1 million of those costs, including roughly $533,500 to connect the parkade to the Downtown Renewable Energy System, city director of finance Kris Dalio wrote is his report to council. However, the city had 44 other unbudgeted or overbudget projects in 2020, ranging from five cents overbudget to $1.06 million in unbudgeted spending to compete the new firehall. “This is long overdue,” Coun. Brian Skakun said. “It’s really unfortunate we had to hit a bottom, if you will, to get to this point. The estimated cost of the review is $180,000, acting city manager Walter Babicz wrote in a report to council. On Monday, Babicz said the plan is to have the report completed by the end of the year. See STEP on page 3
• Only 4 units left for sale and 5 for rent • YMCA Daycare construction starting soon • Future Phases in planning stages
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