Yesterday pouring rain & today White Rock, Saturday 16, 2010 Sunnier than Sunny! Wow and Now to My letter to You, Monique

The Old BIA and the New BIA http://www.whiterockbia.ca  Saturday Letter 16 Jan. 2010

Dear Monique

Our beautiful sunshine this Saturday morning 'help sooth my sore emotional bones and soul'. Wish you were here. Our garden is the 'beaches and promenades of the Pacific Ocean..gorgeous and the weather is like on your riviera..We have the Canadian Riviera.

My thoughts wandered and this is the sad result this Sat. morning. I've got to hit the sun soonest. It's five past noon.

I ask 'What the heck is wrong with the world and in particular with White Rock business community and its Old BIA? Transparency.. my love..just lack of transparency. That's all. I will call you later but just read what I am 'getting off my chest this grand morning inviting to contemplation and some brisk walks on the beach and seaside of my White Rock.

Friends, residents and businesses, of White Rock BC

Waking up this lovely sun drenched beautiful crisp morning; a Saturday morning filled with ambiance only the coastal area of our Semiahmoo Peninsula can offer visitors, tourists and residents, I just had to unload some of my stuff I have pondered upon for a couple of days.

There is presently only one BIA assigned, legal and frozen in its administrative and executive structure. This until the BC Supreme Court has made its verdict and order. I am speaking of and referring to the New BIA. It was born on July 7, 2009 according to the Government of the Province of British Columbia.

What brought the Supreme Court of BC into the picture was not just for 'arguments sake' but it was the former [old and redundant dysfunctional problem ridden BIA of White Rock and its directorship which was replaced by a due legal process provided by our Provincial Government in 'Victoria'..]

The Old BIA now ousted, decided to dispute and question actions which resulted in the old BIA's demise and replacement by a new up to par entity of motivated persons urging for a change and improvement of the five year old organization which had turned stale, trite and nepotistic in its attempts to pursue a mission impossible. They ran out of gas in spite of the funding provided by tax-payers of $250,000.00 !!

With a BIA membership as is, spoon fed special events created by a 'self-proclaimed event executive and planner and some indifferent directors on a unproductive Board of the Old BIA, as an onlooker and many with me could see the disaster and the train-wreck to become a fact in short time. The future for the Old BIA was bleak from the start.

The lack of creative and productive leadership capacity was written all over the murals in White Rock. An intensive battle ensued to cover up the fallacies in implementation of mediocre target practice. Using loose rounds of ammunition to cover up the lack of results and engagements one may expect from a merchants community, did not work.

Swiftly, the movie and graffiti 'phenomenon were introduced to keep the 'troops calm and in order'. Those events became the hall marks of result based events and were quantifiable. But it had nothing to do with stimulating business, per se.

A business grad student could have assessed that fact in two minutes.

The Old BIA was set to initially and continually improve the climate for businesses to improve their each business bottom-line and over-all sales. Old BIA did the filing of an action to dispute the dilemma the Old BIA found themselves in [after having been replaced by the New BIA by and after Registrar and 'Government' had resolute made the decision to have them all replaced. http://www.whiterockbia.ca/

Go to the website for your personal discovery process. You owe it to yourself.

The website will direct you to the present and by too many neglected facts of this debacle which so heavily is negatively affecting our community of White Rock and its reputation, tourism and citizenry.

Until the Court so find reasons to do otherwise in its review of filed protest and grievances put forth by the Old BIA then the legal and authentic body of the new BIA [since July 2009], need to be listened to and recognized as a co-operative at least, and as a 'speaking partner' in the interim, one would think and this to be expected by all involved presently and in the past.

The former executive director of the Old BIA is fired. We should all recognize the fact his services ceased the minute the pink slip was issued by the New BIA, and the persons became aware of the fact he was terminated from his position as an employee of the Old BIA.

Still this very day in January 16th 2010 for some peculiar reasons the City of White Rock is not and have not put its actions and plans by by-laws on hold until the appeal made by the Old BIA is overturned or 'vilified approved by the Supreme Court of BC.

But instead the City has initially said 'it is not involved' and later by its own actions certainly documented the fact 'it is very much involved in the doings of the Old BIA as were and is performing to-date.

And the City officials and staff directorship has been involved in the Old BIA from the very 'get go' by having its [now Mayor Ferguson] own liaison then Councilor Catherine Ferguson [now a Mayor of White Rock] representing the then present Council and its members and staff.

As a bystander and entrepreneurial semi-retired marketing professional and business person I am anxiously waiting for 'some common sense and clarity' and transparent engagement to arrive in the horizon and to this community.

A seaside resort on the cusp to bankruptcy [Besides tax base it's only revenue is a parking lot the city rents to harvest parking fees from during intensive tourist traffic in summers. The revenues are not enough to cover the expenditures plagued by indecisiveness, nepotism and 'old boys' club attitudes. I say welcome to the new millennium and demand more from the Council and its Mayor today.

For the City to be proposing 'a new start over again' policy for a BIA that failed grossly in its implementation, strategic and tactic planning is truly astounding.

'Who is hiding what from whom and when'?, one may today ask oneself.

A 'Soap Opera' and a most embarrassing situation is allowed to progress. I am speaking of disrespect of the law and protocol; the neglect of judicial process and 'law and order' one may expect to be a natural consequences from all biased 'diplomacy' one can read about in the local press. [Old BIA and the City are two major advertising accounts for the owners of the local press]. Actively informing are local websites and in the 'papers' and documents and minutes provided by the City of White Rock, its Mayor and its Council and its Corporate Chief Executive Officer and delegated staff.

I conclude from the above we all live in a seemingly 'lawless' and non-responsive' society within which anyone can do as he or she pleases. I had better get used to it, I guess.

Correct me if I am wrong. My email is info@whiterockreporter.com

Welcome to the wild west and White Rock, BC and a most profound and interesting and relaxing tourist destination located by the Pacific Ocean. Only two hours north of Seattle, Washington State, USA.

Respectfully Yours Truly

Johan

PS/The phone to City Hall is 604 541 2100 and they now have only Council meetings every so often so you must call first to check out the dates./DS

Honey, Monique, that's what's on my mind besides you this morning. My new email is: info@whiterockreporter.com

CU