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Dear Rutland Residents\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0June 19, 2019<\/p>\n
Hope everyone is enjoying the great weather and for those of you that hate hot weather my condolences.<\/p>\n
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Since our AGM in January, our association has\u00a0 worked on several important issues that are both ongoing and new.\u00a0 The two top issues are:-\u00a0the building of a new Rutland Middle School and- a stronger input and consultation channel between\u00a0our Rutland community and Council concerning new development in our area.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n
RMS:\u00a0 For over 20 years a new RMS has been at the top of the priority list for Capital cost projects with SD 23.\u00a0 However, irrespective of the dire need for a new\u00a0 school,\u00a0 the go ahead for construction is perpetually bypassed while other areas in our district have received\u00a0 the necessary funding for new middle school builds. The most recent new middle schools include, H.S. Grenda Middle School for\u00a0 Lake Country and Canyon Falls Junior Middle School in the Mission area. Our association will host a meeting between two school trustees and the executive of the\u00a0 PAC groups in the RMS catchment area. This meeting will provide these two stake holders to come up with more effective strategies to bring a fully modern RMS into fruition.\u00a0 At this point, the building is getting a washroom\u00a0 on the second floor, this small token is indeed small compensation compared to a new build.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Projects on Hyper Drive:\u00a0 Rutland has seen an extraordinary amount of growth\u00a0 that are,\u00a0 in some cases,\u00a0 pushed through in an inordinately quick manner. A number of these builds have garnered a good deal of criticism.\u00a0 \u00a0For example, Rutland has a disproportionate number of low barrier<\/strong> Supportive Housing builds when compared to other areas of Kelowna and there are more scheduled to come on stream.<\/p>\n Continuing the vein of supportive housing, our organization has had small forums in which the public has been invited to listen to the major groups involved in some of these more controversial builds to field questions regarding these projects. To this end,\u00a0 at our March\u00a0meeting we invited and were fortunate enough to have in attendance the Regional Director for BC Housing, the Coordinator for BC Housing and a Director for the John Howard Society.\u00a0 These guest speakers spoke to the rational behind these Supportive Housing projects and answered questions and concerns regarding the number of projects in Rutland as well as the vetting process used for people that will be offered\u00a0units in these complexes.\u00a0 Many of our members voiced concerns regarding\u00a0 safety issues for the surrounding neighbourhoods where these low barrier supportive housing\u00a0 units will be built.<\/p>\n The Rutland Residents Association continues to bring issues ranging from development to crime and safety to the attention of our Municipal Council.\u00a0 Although, we are small in terms of membership, we have been effective in terms of spotlighting major issues in the Rutland community for the past 25 years.<\/p>\n Hopefully, we can grow our membership to give us the capability of being even more effective in serving our Rutland Community.<\/p>\n Peter Pagliocchini (President Rutland Residents Association)<\/p>\n Email: info@rutlandresidentsassociation.ca or ppaglioc@hotmail.com<\/p>\n OR<\/p>\n Sharlene Drohomereski (Secretary) Email: secretary@rutlandresidentsassociationassociation.ca\u00a0 (for membership forms).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Rutland Residents\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0June 19, 2019 Hope everyone is enjoying the great weather and for those of you … Continue reading Rutland Residents Association: Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rutlandresidentsassociation.ca\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}