Cariboo RD Area "D" Virtual Town Hall Meeting - February 18, 2026 at 7pm

For those who reside on or live within the following unincorporated communities in Cariboo RD Electoral Area "D" (north of Williams Lake):

* Soda Creek Road (past the City of Williams Lake municipal boundary)

* Mile 168 Road
* Commodore Heights
* Pine Valley
* Fox Mountain
* Wildwood
* Xat'sull FN (Deep Creek + Soda Creek Reserves)
* Deep Creek
* Tyee Lake
* Soda Creek Valley
* McLeese Lake/Duckworth Lake
* Macalister
* Marguerite

Your Cariboo Regional District Area Director will be hosting his annual Virtual Budget Town Hall meeting to discuss the Cariboo Regional District's 2026 Budget as it relates to those who reside in Electoral Area "D" (north of Williams Lake) on Wednesday, February 18th, 2026 at 7pm

Zoom call details:

Zoom Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82142696161?pwd=KjY300zNoxftUcVwEDuvfK6nrawiHs.1

Meeting ID: 821 4269 6161
Passcode: 081149
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Phone in option:
+1-780-666-0144
Meeting ID: 82142696161#
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Passcode: 081149

** PLEASE NOTE ** -- this is NOT the official public consultation that the Cariboo Regional District is required by provincial legislation to complete in respect of our annual budget. For those details, please go to

https://www.cariboord.ca/regional-government/budget-and-finances/budget-2026/

Also:

The Cariboo Regional District is mailing out a 2026 budget flyer for each Electoral Area as budget impacts will be different, depending on what services that each Electoral Area (or portion thereof) pays into.

For those in Cariboo RD Area "D" -- you can access that budget flyer electronically at

https://www.cariboord.ca/media/tm1lah5u/area-d-final-budget-mailout.pdf

Cariboo RD Finance/Budget Committee Highlights - January 15th, 2026 mtg

Present: Chair J. Glassford; Directors Oakes, Bachmeier, Massier, Forseth, Neufeld, LeBourdais, Richmond, Wagner, Pare, Anderson, De Vries, Rathor, Pinkney and Alternate Director L. Roodenburg (Quesnel)

Meeting commenced at 1:00pm 

The Chair recognized that the meeting was taking place on the traditional unceded territory of Williams Lake First Nation within Secwepemculecw and welcomed Alternate Director L. Roodenburg (Quesnel) and Director Oakes' (Area "A") to the Committee's meeting today 

Meeting Agenda adopted, as amended (allocation of Community Works Funds for backup power generator for Wildwood Fire Hall, at request of Director Forseth) - click here

Minutes of the previous Committee meeting was adopted

Business:

1) The Committee received the following Business Plans: 

* South Cariboo Recreation (2026) - Revised

* 108 Greenbelt (2026)

* Central Cariboo Recreation (2026) 

* North Cariboo Recreation and Parks (2026)

* 2025 Operational Updates from South Cariboo Search and Rescue, South Cariboo Highway Rescue, Quesnel Search and Rescue, North Cariboo Highway Rescue, and West Chilcotin Search and Rescue

* Quesnel Search and Rescue Contribution Service (2026) - Revised

* Streetlighting (2026) - Revised

* Red Bluff Sewer (2026) - Revised

2) At the request of Director Forseth (Area "D") -- the Committee agreed unanimously to allocate up to $20,000 from the Cariboo Regional District's Community Works Fund for a backup power generator to be installed at the Wildwood Fire Hall 

3) The Committee authorized Staff to initiate public consultation on the Cariboo Regional District's 2026 Budget and 2026-30 Five Year Financial Plan   

And then the Committee adjourned at 2:09pm