FRASER VALLEY MOSQUITO CONTROL BOARD

Box 20, Mission, B.C.

TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE FRASER VALLEY MOSQUITO CONTROL BOAKD

RE: COMPOSITION OF THE MOSQUITO CONTROL BOARD

Gent}.emen:

At the meeting of the Board held on the 14th March, 1974,
the following resolution was adopted:

THAT THE EXECUTIVE, THE MANAGER, FORMER MEMBER ALDERMAN
RUSSELL OF CHILLIWACK TOWNSHIP, .\ND SOLICITOR D. VERNON, IF THE
EXECUTIVE WISHED, VISIT THE DEPARTMENT OF MUNICIPAL AFFAIRS IN VICTORIA
REGARDING THE LEGAL CONSTITUTION OF THE BOARD AFTER THE GREATER VANCOUVER
REGIONAL DISTRICT HAS INDICATED WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS WILLING OR NOT TO
HAVE THE MOSQUITO CONTROL FUNCTION ON A REGIONAL BASIS.

It was ultimately conveyed to me that the Greater Vancouver
Regional District had agreed to accept Mosquito Control as a regional
function. The position then was that the Greater Vancouver Regional
District, and the Central Fraser Valley Regional District, and the

-Dewdney-Alouette Regional District, had agreed to accept the function.

The Fraser Cheam Regional District indicated that they were not in
agreement with the function regionally, and had indicated that the
Board should request the Provincial Government by Order in Council
to legalize the Board.

I contacted an official of the Department of Municipal
Affairs to endeavour to arrange for the executives to meet with
the Minister.

Subsequently I received a telephone message from the
Deputy Minister, Mr. Bob Prittie, and during that telephone conversation
I outlined to him the problem and discussed with him the alternatives.
Mr. Prittie was receptive to the idea of legalization.of the Board
by statute or Order in Council and he requested me to forward my ideas
to him so that he could discuss them with the legal advisor to the
Department of Municipal Affairs, and with the Minister.

I, therefore, wrote to Mr. Prittie suggesting that sub-sections
2 and 3 of Section 177 of the Municipal Act should be renumbered to read
3 and 4, and that the following should be inserted as sub-section 2.

"177 (2) In a by-law under sub~section (1), provision may be made
with the approval of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council
for (governmental) agencies other than municipalities to
participate in the exercise of the power conferred by the

by-law."

In full the section would then read as follows: