General Administration S100

-               Shared costs with Municipal and Rural areas

-               Staff expenses, Contractors

-               Contributions to First Nations for partnership projects eg.:

o   Traditional Use Study (TUS)

o   Goat River Water Sustainability Plan (WSP)

Rural Administration S101

-               Shared costs with Rural RDs only

-               Staff Expenses, Contractors

Sustainability S105

-               Generator of some of the non-core pilots or projects, eg.:

o   Climate Action Plan

o   Rural Mobility transportation initiaive i.e. low carbon, cycling initiaves

o   Kootenay Food Council (KFC)

o   ‘Future Makers’ video program for Schools through Wildsite.

o   East Shore Geothermal investigation project

Parks and recreation

-               Rec. Centre S224 Creston, B, C & defined A

o   Ball diamonds, soccer pitches, skate park, pickleball, tennis, volleyball, etc.

-               Parks S210 Creston, B, C

o   Parks (potential future support or agreements) e.g. Area B Mynott property, West Creston Ferry Landing, Riverside Park,

Resource recovery (Landfills) S186

GIS Public Mapping S102

Building inspection S103

Planning and Land Use S104

-               Areas A, B & C have indicated an interest in alignment of OCPs (Official Community Plan).

-               Will reduce the need in the future to expense of separate OCPs for each Rural District by combining into a Sub-regional OCP.

-               Local Area Structure (LSPs) insures local autonomy and charateristics are manintained

-               Standing request to the Province to ‘modernize’ Agricultrue land reservve (ALR) limits and restrictions on non-productive farmlands propmpted by Rural Directors.

Emergency Services

-               Jaws of Life S152

-               Emergency Communications S156

-               Emergency Planning S157

-               Fire Protection A, C, Wynndel S129

-               Fire Protection B, C S131

-               Fire Protection West Creston S291

Discretionary grants account S263

-               Zero taxation $ request 2023, 2024 & 2025.

-               2026 request for $25k for upcoming West Creston and Wynndel hall projects.

Shared Services

Shared services spliit (approx. varies) Creston 35%, Area B 30%, Area A 15 %, Area C 15%

Economic Development S108 includes:

-               Physician Recruitment program

-               Visitor Information Centre

-               Economic Action Partnership (EAP)

-               Visitor Information Centre

-               Creston Chamber of Commerce

-               Creston Valley Tourism Society

-               Fields Forward, Food Policy Council, Food Hub, Farmers Market supports

Creston Cemetery S174

Creston Museum S191 (partial with Area A)

Creston Library S193

Creston Transit S234

-               Public transportation Medical to Cranbrook / On-Demand transportation

-               Bus stop shelters

Creston Airport S240 Creston, B, C

Community supported initiatives through local and ReDi grants

-               Kootenay Columbia Discovery Centre

-               Blossom festival

-               Canada Day

-               Creston Theatre (High School)

-               Santa Clause Parade

-               West Creston Community Hall

-               Wynndel Community Hall

-               Area C school bursury for future education

-               Thunder Cats

-               Many smaller local community asks …