A series of methods have been developed for apportioning the costs. The first two methods do not deal with changes to UBCM or the FCM Executive members' costs.

1. Apportioning total costs of five "members at large" against all B.C. FCM members.

This results in the $15,000 cost being allocated to the current 52 FCM members in B.C. <A simple per capita assessment of $.007 was arrived at and then applied to their populations.

See printout Option 1 for the results.

Apportioning the costs against all 8.C. FCM members in two groups:

@ apportioning the costs of the “two "largest" municipal representatives against the three qualifying municipalities (757,755.population).

) apportioning the three representatives’ costs against the remaining 49 FCM members in B.C. (1,379,789 population).

See printout Option 2.

This results in a levy of $6,000 being borne on a per capita basis of $.00792 for "Group A." The $9,000 cost for the other three directors

[Group B] would be $.00652 per capita.

A variation of this option is that the costs of the first group could remain as under the current arrangements.

Apportioning the total costs of all representations (including the UBCM representative) against all municipalities and regional districts in B.C.

See printout Option 3.

This would result in $18,000 being allocated against all municipalities and regional districts in 6.C. at a per capita rate of $.08. This is approximately double the "cost" nmon-FCM members pay to UBCM for the UBCM representative to attend FCM board meetings. [An alternative method of apportioning these costs would be to use the sliding scale apportionment that is used for UBCM dues distribution. ]

Apportioning cost on other basis.

Chart 1 shows some of the range of options.

ANALYSIS

These options are put forward without evaluation in terms of their viability, acceptability or administrative ease, etc. They are merely for discussion purposes following the last meeting with the 8.C. Caucus on this subject.

Discussions of implementation would mo doubt consider the ease of implementing solutions that affect just the B.C.- FCM membership (e.g. Options

1 & 2).

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