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Pool telephone survey concerns noted

Writer believes all documentation of people surveyed needed

To the editor:

If a telephone survey is conducted as planned (to determine if there's enough interest in building a pool in 100 Mile House), the persons and any other entities involved in contracting and conducting of those survey services need to ensure all the documentation involved is in order and not just a situation involving hearsay.

And those persons should be aware that it may be subject to a legal challenge.

The names of the persons spoken to in the survey, whether they are the actual property owner, the property address, the assessed value of the property and the actual document filled out during the survey for each property may all be called into question.

Furthermore, if a referendum is held without ensuring a public hearing is held before a referendum, so property owners, like myself, are able to openly and publicly discuss the issues involved, this will be taken to a provincial and federal level as a start.

This is not an issue that property owners are going to permit themselves to be steam-rolled on.

Please be advised that in addition to the comments I’ve made above, I am formerly requesting the Cariboo Regional District (CRD) ensures a public hearing will be scheduled, well advertised and will be conducted prior to any referendum being held to deal with the pool proposal, borrowing money for it, and the taxation on property owners that would be involved.

The issue of excessive tax increases to fund a pool is not something the CRD should be pushing to referendum without actually hearing from those concerned in a public forum, and to do so, would be irresponsible on the part of all those involved.

Larry Badke

100 Mile House