A commentary by a founding member of Amalgamation Yes who worked alongside regional districts throughout the province from 1978 and 2000.
Every day, or many times a day for those with enquiring minds, this newspaper, and the media generally, remind us of the need to merge and integrate our local governments.
I’ll suggest a name: Victoria Safety Authority. We know we live in Victoria, and a “Safety Authority” can accommodate services such as transit police and the 911 service. With the biggest single grouping in a new order, our municipal non-safety services in management, labour relations and HR issues can take the first step toward merging and integrating.
However, with zero mandate outside their boundaries, regional municipal issues like police, fire, wages and salaries were excluded. We lose the big picture, and we still have no regional approach to much-needed housing, or to solve Esquimalt’s policing concerns. Rural areas should not be in municipalities; they should be electoral areas in the Capital Regional District.
The CRD board controls water and sewer, and helps plan transportation and transit. Opportunities cry out for a singular regional housing body – the CRD already operates a department for supported housing – plus CRD-operated regional transportation and transit.Some residents imagine a loss of staff, their current local workers, and helpful community minded staff will be moved.
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