{"id":130,"date":"2014-12-08T21:26:15","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=130"},"modified":"2014-12-10T21:21:14","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T21:21:14","slug":"mayors-council-to-decide-on-referendum-question-at-thursday-dec-11-public-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Mayor&#8217;s Council to decide on referendum question  at Thursday Dec 11 public meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayors Council is holding a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.translink.ca\/en\/About-Us\/Events-Calendar\/2014\/december\/Mayors-Council-Meeting-December.aspx\">public meeting on Thursday<\/a><\/span> this week (Dec 11) 10:30 a.m. &#8211; 12:30 p.m at the <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/GqGt1\">Anvil Centre Ballroom 777 Columbia St<\/a>. New Westminster &#8211; across the street from the New West Skytrain Station.<a href=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mayors-Vision-Cover-Wide.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-134 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mayors-Vision-Cover-Wide-300x205.jpg\" alt=\"Mayors Vision Cover Wide\" width=\"300\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mayors-Vision-Cover-Wide-300x205.jpg 300w, https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Mayors-Vision-Cover-Wide.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>At this meeting the Mayors&#8217; are expected to formally choose the funding source or sources they want to go to referendum. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/globalnews.ca\/video\/1709814\/translink-narrows-wording-of-transit-referendum-question\">Global News<\/a>, it is down to three options: 1) Regional carbon\/gas tax 2) Regional vehicle levy 3) Regional sales tax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/HRA-Backgrounder-Transit-Referendum-HandyDART-Dec-10-2014.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Our Backgrounder<\/span><\/a> explains more about the situation, and the importance for HandyDART riders. The Province Newspaper story\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/wp-admin\/%20http:\/www.theprovince.com\/news\/Mayors+council+TransLink+funding+referendum+ready+after+private+meeting\/10447297\/story.html\"><em>Mayors\u2019 council has a TransLink funding referendum ready to go after private meeting<\/em><\/a> also provides an update on recent events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mayors Council is holding a public meeting on Thursday this week (Dec 11) 10:30 a.m. &#8211; 12:30 p.m at the Anvil Centre Ballroom 777 Columbia St. New Westminster &#8211; across the street from the New West Skytrain Station. At &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handydartriders.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}