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February 2021 CSRD Return to Work Policy

Updated

By Jo Anne Malpass

With one confirmed case of COVID-19 by a CSRD staff person, management was advised by WorksafeBC on Dec. 31, 2020 to review all policies and plans to ensure there are proper cleaning and reporting protocols within the plans and to ensure they are being followed. Staff is recommending a minor amendment to the chart within the Policy that better aligns with the Provincial phraseology to reduce confusion in interpretation.

A report from Jodi Pierce, Deputy Manager Human Resources said “The Board should rest assured that Management is diligent in following all rules, guidelines and protocols as dictated by both Interior Health and WorksafeBC and those guidelines and protocols are fully contained within the Recovery Guide which remains up to date and available on the CSRD website.”

Pierce said an employee tested positive around the Christmas break. WorkSafeBC recommended talking to people working closely with person. They were advised to self monitor and none of those individuals tested positive. Interior Health did tracing for personal contacts of that employee.

Live streaming - July 2020, the Board approved a six-month trial period to live-stream Board meetings and later approved recording Board meetings for a trial period. The Board agreed to continue to live-stream and recorded indefinitely.

Meeting with Greg Kyllo – The board accepted an invitation to virtually meet with MLA Kyllo regarding any issues and the CSRD’s vision for the upcoming year. After some discussion about which directors should attend, the board voted to accept the invitation and ask MLA Kyllo who on the board he would like there. Kyllo is meeting with municipal councils as well.

Anti-racism anti discrimination – At the board’s request, staff brought forward an Anti-Racism and an AntiDiscrimination policy. Lidstone and Company, Barristers and Solicitors

provided a draft Anti-Racism Policy that several local governments have used as a template for their organization’s policy. The board approved a policy to not refuse to employ, continue to employ or discriminate against a person because of the race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or age of that person or because that person has been convicted of a criminal or summary conviction offence that is unrelated to the employment or intended employment of that person. An acknowledgement will be proved to all volunteers, contractors, staff and elected officials to sign.

Grant-in-aid - Area F - $1,287 Shuswap SPCA (Landfill fees for demolition waste).

Economic Development (Electoral Areas ‘C’, ‘D’, and

‘F’) Service Amendment Bylaw - Bylaw amendment to remove Electoral Area E from the service, after receiving written notice from Area E to withdraw from the service.

Development Variance Permit (Simpson) - The board approved a DVP for six existing lots in Lee Creek, waterfront to Shuswap Lake. The applicant is proposing to vary the side parcel boundaries from 4.5m to 2m and the interior side parcel boundaries for accessory buildings from 3m to 2m for Lots 1-6 on Simpson Road. These lots were zoned CR-Country Residential. Many of the other residential zones in Bylaw No. 825, including nearby waterfront properties, have interior setbacks of 2 meters, however in the CR zone, 4.5 meter side parcel setbacks were implemented along with a 3 meter setback for accessory buildings. Area F Director Jay Simpson recused himself as he owns one or more of the properties.

Anglemont Zoning Amendment (Sahm) Bylaw - The applicant would like to convert the second floor of an aircraft hangar on Golf Course Road from a pilot’s lounge to a dwelling unit. An amendment to Anglemont Zoning Bylaw No. 650 is required because dwelling units are not permitted in the P-4 Recreation Zone. The Board gave first reading to the amendment, waived a public hearing and sent it to applicable agencies and First Nations. The owner has indicated that he has experienced break-ins and would like a residence on site for surveillance purposes.

Official Community Plan and Scotch Creek/Lee Creek

Zoning Amendment (Dodge) Bylaw - The applicant would like to subdivide the properties on Lee Creek Drive into nine lots with a minimum lot size of 2 ha. To facilitate the proposed subdivision the applicant is proposing to amend the OCP designation from RSC –Rural Resource to RR –Rural Residential and amend the zoning designation from RU1 –Rural 1 to CR –Country Residential. The Board read the amending bylaws a first time in January 2020 and directed staff to send referrals to applicable agencies and First Nations. The applicant was also asked to provide a groundwater feasibility study for the proposed subdivision. The applicant has submitted the requested study and referral comments have been received.

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February 2021 The Success and Future

Plans for ‘Everything Shuswap’

Jim Cooperman holding up the first copy of Everything Shuswap when the books arrived on April 27, 2017.

By Larissa Lutjen

Jim Cooperman was perhaps not the obvious choice to chronicle the history and natural history of the Shuswap region. He grew up in Minnesota and graduated from university in California before he and his then wife joined a wave of young Americans disillusioned with living in a country fighting the Vietnam war and looking to get ‘back to the land’ in rural Canada.

Since moving to Lee Creek in 1969, however, he has been a Shuswap booster to anyone who would listen. In 2005 he began a project with bi-weekly articles in the Observer/Market newspaper which he planned to compile into a single resource of information on the Shuswap bioregion. 250 articles later he was ready to put the information into a book. With the help of $40,000 in donations, Everything Shuswap, was finally published in 2017 with profits from sales of the book going to School District 83’s Outdoor Education program. After two printings, $35,000 from sales has been made available for field trips and other outdoor learning opportunities for SD 83 students. Moreover, teachers in the district are now using the book as a resource especially in high school Social Studies classes. With Indigenous content a large part of BC’s New Curriculum and Place Based learning a popular trend in education today, the chapters on the geology, ecology and Secwépemc history of the area are all good resources for local classrooms. The many high-quality photos and illustrations have made the book a “big hit” with grade 9 and 10 students studying Traditional Indigenous Lifestyle, watersheds, environmental stewardship and sustainability.

Grade 9 student Ziana Mickelson of Lee Creek is currently using the book in her Social Studies class in a unit about the traditional ways of the Secwépemc people. Ziana has found the local content in Everything Shuswap to be more interesting than other textbooks used in her class, commenting, “I definitely preferred when we were learning from that book over learning about European wars and revolutions”.

One of the key principles behind Everything Shuswap is the definition of the Shuswap bioregion as the land comprising all the watersheds that feed the Shuswap lakes. The second major premise is the

February 2021 assertion that the Shuswap is a great place to live, perhaps, as Cooperman puts it, “the best place to live.” The first chapter of the book is a more detailed look at the individual watersheds, followed by an examination of the geological processes that led to the physical features of the land and an overview of the types of ecosystems that are found in the greater bioregion. Finally, there is a comprehensive look at the traditional life of the Secwépemc people, whose territory, Secwépemc’ulucw, included the Shuswap bioregion, and the history of non-indigenous settlement up to World War 1.

Recently a digital PDF version, or e-book, was made available for the cost of $20 through Cooperman’s Shuswap Passion blog site. Schools in the district also have access to the PDF version which could prove useful if Public Health measures require schools to return to learning from home. The cost of recent upgrades to the Shuswap Passion website was covered by donations and advertising support from Askew’s, SASCU, Winston Lee-Has, and the Brookes, Downs, Vennard Law Firm.

Cooperman is currently working on the second volume, which will include chapters on community, arts and culture, and the economy. He envisions the second volume including work that is a collaboration with high school students where they could participate in collecting research, doing some writing or contributing photos. For example, to understand the role baseball plays, and has played, in the life of people living in the Shuswap, students currently involved in the sport might have a unique ability to research the information needed to answer this question. In a Power Point presentation to a grade 9 class in January he urged them to look at Everything Shuswap as the starting point for their understanding of the Shuswap area with the potential for them to use existing resources, many of which are on-line, to delve more deeply into the ecology, geology and history of the area. He hopes that the second volume will come to fruition via collaborative efforts involving local teachers and students.

When asked about how he might deal with difficult or controversial local subjects in Volume 2, such as the stories that appeared in national news in the 1990’s of a white supremacist presence in Salmon Arm, or current problems to do with drugs and homelessness, Cooperman stated that his project is about presenting a positive view and celebrating the unique and often unrecognized aspects of the Shuswap, noting that even as the population begins to grow “we have many places here where hardly anybody has ever been!” Cooperman’s columns and a link to make a purchase of the digital edition of the book can be found at shuswappassion.ca.

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