Problems loggng on Agenda Meeting May 2011

I have had logging on as well my internet connection has been erratic and have not had a chance to always connect.

                Revelstoke were our Board meeting was held for the CSRD. Revelstoke is very beautiful with a heritage of over 110 years.  The highway was put through 1950s, and then the Mica and Revelstoke dams were built. Later the twinning of the tunnels through the Rogers Pass all the while; the railway, forestry and mining brought in a steady economic boom to the area.  In the 1980s forestry slowed, the railroad started to farm work off in other areas that was done in Revelstoke and the economic advantages of the area started to dissipate. Eventually the City started to work on tourism to help bring in economic health. The starting came from heli- skiing which was very small but over time built up and other tourism businesses spun off of the ski business to what Revelstoke enjoys today.  The change to a, resort community, has created some challenges issues not with the resort but the secondary, spin offs such as transit nature of the populations and the speculation on properties increasing values to beyond the reach of young families. These issues have changed and still young families are moving in, the prediction from a local store owner was; apparently 40 new babies but it turned out to be 80! She did not speculate if that was the long winter or the natural turn of events. There are comparisons to the North Shuswap in many ways such as going from a working community to more of tourism based community and yet in other was very different such as having heli skiing spur on growth in so many other areas.

Included was a trip to the Revelstoke dam and the railroad museum both very interesting and informative. One old duffer ran these steam engine and was incredibly knowledgeable on how steam trains worked.

CSRD has a new  Information Technologist (IT ) by the name of Brain Paine who has moved down from the Cariboo. It is the person who manages technology and spans wide variety of areas that include but are not limited to things such as processes, computer software, information systems, computer hardware, programming languages, and data constructs .