The Cats Are Away

But no mice feel like playing anyway.

It's the annual meeting of the Southern Interior Local Government Association, this year held in Kamloops.
And local government and regional district folks and bureaucrats are attending.

So why aren't the mice playful?

Well, for one thing it's yet another "rah rah" quasi-socialist (NDP-ish) organization borne of bureaucrats, a sister to the annual Union of British Columbia Municipalities.  The UBCM's slate of 2014 Resolutions are listed here.

One good thing may come out of the SILGA meeting in Kamloops.
And that is the plan to have attendees tour both the Waste Water Treatment on Mission Flats Road as well as Kamloops' Water Treatment Plant on River Street. 

The good thing might be that our area's officials (politicians from the Greater Vernon Advisory Committee and bureaucrats from Greater Vernon Water) might become the laughing stock of Kamloops -- amid whews! from other attendees who live elsewhere -- once GVW's water rates become known.

That would be a good thing indeed.

But maybe other jurisdictions would be envious...of the full coffers at Greater Vernon Water!  (egads!)

Rather than more yabba yabba from me, here's the SILGA convention agenda.
Everybody heads home Friday, May 1st.

"...and GVW officials leaned against a loose railing at the waste treatment plant," predicted Kia. 

Delegates feeling sorry for GVW customers

GVW customers aren't laughing.

Wonder what Kamloops' water rates and base rates are...
Their gas prices are always a few sheckles cheaper than here.