“We're looking at what that's all going to look like,”

“Nine billion a year comes out of their pocket and goes to the government. We're proposing that they keep that money and make the decisions on how they spend that,”

“Without relief for that debt, we just can’t make the improvements,” Parsons said.”

“Ultimately, the legislative delegation has requested that each community, each legislative branch of each community, pass a resolution in support of our request for relief from 2 ½,” Parsons said.”

“We recognize that communities such as Peabody and the other members of the district face really significant financial challenges, and even though that’s the situation, we’d be remiss if we didn’t come forward and present to you what our challenges are and work with you to try to find a solution,” Parsons said.”

“There just isn’t an opportunity to reduce our expenses by the amount we need to stay within Proposition 2 ½ without doing serious damage. It might not be on day one, but it certainly will come where we can’t perform our function,” he said. “So we’d have to try again.”

“ reported MyKootenayNow. But in his decision, Judge Sicotte described Wong as “a gentle soul with no criminal record” who has “suffered significant trauma in his life.” The Regional District of Kootenay Boundary told Castanet last November that Ferraby, Morris and Parsons were ”