Mar 1/2021 Cache Creek Council Meeting Recap

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. In Canada the National Human Trafficking Hotline, find out more information again at beamazingcampaign.org.

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Another out of date grant was up next, this time showing a re payment amount of $15,701.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.

One thing that should be taken into consideration is that any councilor or mayor that was newly elected in 2018 may not have known about these funds, and with the high turnover rate of high ranking village staff over the last 6 years, it is lucky that these issues were found now by the current CFO.