Re-Evaluating Fee for Service Contracts...

Over time - a local government (municipal council or regional district board) gets various request for funding throughout the year - sometimes non-profit groups or individuals get monies either through a "Grant in Aide", a Fee for Service contract or receives money through a special fund called either "Council Projects" or "Council Contingency".  I should note that groups that currently receive Fee for Service Contracts - either though City of Williams Lake or jointly between City of WL/CRD do great work and I'm not intended to criticize if they should get one at all - as all current Fee for Service contract holders do good work in our community with the money they receive from either the City of Williams Lake directly or jointly between the City of Williams Lake/CRD

For those that receive a Fee for Service Contract - it is one way that show that a local government recognizes that a service provided by a non-profit group is important to the municipality, within the jurisdiction of a City or Cariboo Regional District, and they (City of WL/CRD) wish to provide money towards that service.  Fee for Service contracts are reviewed on an annual basis and some have received "Fee for Service" contracts for a period of years.  As per the revised Fee for Service Policy in Williams Lake (see here) - part of the requirement is that groups that receive Fee for Service funding report out on how the money was used, as part of the annual Fee for Service contract, and goals/objectives for the following year be reported on.  This is also a requirement of the "Grant in Aide" policy...

I've heard from a few who say that sometimes this is done "within the spirit" of the Fee for Service Policy but the bigger issue of:

Groups meeting formally with either WL City Council or the Central Cariboo/City of Williams Lake Joint Committee to review annually what they have done with their Fee for Service funding and ask if what was intended is, in fact, being delivered and if perhaps there is a better way to deliver that service... or in fact, if the municipality should continue to fund that service, through a Fee for Service, ...?


is not necessarily being followed up on (either as per above or Staff meeting with Fee for Service group receiptants and reviewing the previous year's work, as per the revised Fee for Service Policy)


By an annual formal review of Fee for Service Contracts and whether or not taxpayers' are getting full value for money from those Fee for Service contracts (especially for those in place for years) it certainly could ensure that taxpayers' are getting full and fair value for the Fee for Service contracts and the intention of what those contracts were intending to deliver is, in fact, being delivered on

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