[Bcma-l] Fwd: Not so good news

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Subject: 	Not so good news
Date: 	Wed, 23 May 2007 14:59:18 -0700
From: 	Oliver and District Museum <museumdirector@cablerocket.com>
To: 	<bcma-l-admin@museumsassn.bc.ca>, <canmuse-l@chin.gc.ca>, 
<NGrattan@museums.ca>, <pm@pm.gc.ca>, <Oda.B@parl.gc.ca>
CC: 	<atamaa1a@parl.gc.ca>, <tracy.souch@servicecanada.gc.ca>, "Jack 
Bennest" <jbennest@telus.net>, "Allan Patton" <apatton@rdos.bc.ca>, 
<arviebourgeault@cablerocket.com>, "Ernie Dumais" 
<e_cdumais@cablerocket.com>, "Frank McLennan" 
<fmclennan@cablerocket.com>, "Gordon Hahn" <gchahn@yahoo.ca>, "'Kurt 
Hutterli'" <hutterli@vip.net>, "Lynn Alaric" <odhs@cablerocket.com>, 
"Robbie Wight" <wightr@telus.net>, "Wendy Johnson" <psamead@hotmail.com>



I am happy for all of those organizations that received funding in this 
second round of distributions. The criteria used are still suspect, however.

This morning I received a letter from YCW saying that while our 
application was viewed favourably (essentially the same application as 
for CSJ), there was insufficient funding for our organization.

I spent much of this morning talking with various agencies, including 
the constituency office of my MP, Alex Atamanenko. I then learned that 
indeed funding was being released for non-profit agencies that received 
funding last year. This placed our organization in limbo, since we did 
not take the Summer Career Placement funding offered last year due to 
our YCW summer student grant. Because we are not considered to have been 
funded last year, we are ineligible for this suddenly released funding. 
I fear that in many cases, people who had been ineligible for CSJ 
funding took the YCW funding if it was offered. With the second wave of 
funding offered, these organizations that would now be funded by YCW may 
turn down the CSJ funding. Because this second wave is only applicable 
to those who received funding last year, our organization would not be 
considered.

Discussion with the local Service Canada organization confirmed that we 
are not eligible for the funding most recently released.

As with everyone else, the lack of funding stretches our existing 
resources, and will force the possible cancellation of projects, 
including some much needed facility and exhibit upgrades.

Surely there has to be other criteria in place besides those non for 
profit organizations which got funding last year are to receive funding 
this year! When a poor decision matrix is followed by another poor 
decision making process, it really makes you wonder what we can expect 
(or not expect) next…

Darryl MacKenzie BSc(CD), MA

Museum Director/ ODHS Administrator

Oliver and District Heritage Society

Box 847,

Oliver, BC

V0H1T0

250-498-0490