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Owners of a dormant hunting and fishing resort at Lac le Jeune are seeking to convert land title to allow individual units to be subdivided and sold. Woody Life Village was developed . . . ....
TNRD board chair Ken Gillis said the board did not know the extent to which spending occurred and called the amounts “surprising” and “somewhat distressing.” “We have to do better, we will do better,” TNRD chair Ken Gillis said during a digital press conference on Monday. The press conference followed an investigation by KTW into spending at the regional district, which detailed more than a half-million dollars charged in five years to former TNRD CAO Sukh Gill’s taxpayer-funded credit card. The expenses included big parties, high-end restaurants, regular coffee shop visits, luxury hotels and expensive gifts. Gillis took issue with classifying some TNRD events as “parties,” but admitted wine flowed freely at times. In addition, expensive tabs were uncovered amidst the expenses for Union of BC Municipalities convention events held by the regional district for networking purposes. ....
“Mr. [former TNRD CAO Sukh] Gill did not expense half-a-million dollars for his own purposes and walk away with it,” Christian said. “This is about how he paid for different things that we had.” Christian pointed to successive meetings as to a reason why dining expenses would be charged by Gill on behalf of directors. In those circumstances, Christian said, it wasn’t only Gill who charged the expenses, but also the TNRD’s finance director, Doug Rae, or director of development Regina Sadilkova. KTW did not analyze expenses via those staffers’ taxpayer-funded credit cards. Christian said costs for dining in such cases are subsequently assigned to directors and included in the annual statement of financial information report. Christian referred to KPMG audits and the regional district’s audit committee, upon which he sits. He would not comment on behalf of that committee, citing “consistency of messaging.” ....
KTW reached out to some other regional districts for their CAOs’ credit card charges. The number of restaurant/coffee shop/food expenses charged by CAOs in various regional districts in 2019: • Sukh Gill, Thompson-Nicola Regional District: 172 times. • Robert Lapham, Capital Regional District: 17 times. • David Sewell, Regional District of North Okanagan: 6 times. • Carol Mason and Jerry Dobrovolny, Metro Vancouver Regional District: one time. TNRD board chair Ken Gillis said the board did not know the extent to which spending occurred and has called the amounts “surprising” and “somewhat distressing.” In a five-year period of total TNRD expenses for meals and accommodations claimed by all employees, 2018 featured the most $92,706. In 2018, TNRD CAO Sukh Gill charged a total of $41,125 on his regional district credit card as a result of visits by himself and others to restaurants, coffee shops, wineries, liquor stores and grocery ....