Cache Creek Council Meeting March 1/2021

The Pools future is still up in the air, sex trafficking is alive but under investigation, the Voyent Alert System gets approved and questions questions questions, budget budget budgets, during the Cache Creek Council Meeting.

The Council Meeting started with a delegation from Cathy Peters, who gave some sad, but interesting in depth facts in regards to human trafficking in communities, and methods to help protect communities. The website beamazingcampaign.org shares: "You can BE AMAZING. Start in your community. Learn about the issue. Share it with others. Alert your politicians that Sexual Exploitation must stop. Learn. Share. Alert. Human sex trafficking and sexual exploitation for the purpose of prostitution is the fastest growing crime in the world. It is a lucrative crime targeting the most vulnerable and our children."

Next up was an old funding pool surround the rural dividends grant that was given to the village in 2016 for a consultant to be hired to make up an economic development plan. The grant is worth 32,000 and the time allotted for this grant has come and gone. The council passed a motion to ask for an extension on the grant to complete the project.

Another out of date grant was up next, this time showing a re payment amount of $15,701. This grant was received back in 2017, and was originally worth $150,000. According to the report, the grant money was put into general revenue instead of aside in a project account and although $15,000 has to be repaid to the provincial government, $135,000 has to be repaid to the village of cache creek, by the village of cache creek, effectively putting the village into a deficit.

The $960 version of the Voyent Alert System was voted on and passed for the village to take advantage of. This system will send out app, email, and phone alerts if or when an emergency happens in the area. Once this buy in official, all residents have to do is sign up online, or with an app on their phone, to receive emergency potentially life saving updates.

The Cache Creek Pool was once again the topic that stole the show. This portion of the council meeting had three items; an attached letter from a local citizen, correspondence received from MP Brad Vis, and excerpts from the August 19, 2019 council meeting.