A move to get big money out of local government garnered province-wide support during the Union of BC Municipalities convention this week. It took two passes at the case to gain that support.

Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps made a motion to bring the Wednesday motion back for review Thursday.

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The original motion and rewording were crafted by Coun. Kevin Murdoch, who brought the issue before Oak Bay , prior to the provincial election. Noting all three parties in the legislature had some plan for campaign finance reform, he sought support for similar changes at the municipal level.

The second pass, with rewording that clarified it would mean a specific design for local government B次元官网网址� not just a direct copy of provincial guidelines B次元官网网址� gained UBCM support.

B次元官网网址淭hat means there could be new financing and spending rules for the 2018,B次元官网网址� Jensen said Thursday (Sept. 28). B次元官网网址淵esterdayB次元官网网址檚 referral motion, if it had stood, would have meant the earliest we could have expected reform would have been 2022.

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