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About the TNRD

The Thompson Nicola Regional District covers an area of approximately 45,279 square kilometers running from the former Toll Booth on the Coquihalla Highway, Highway No 1 south of Lytton through to Big Bar Country west of Clinton, 70 Mile House, Clearwater, Wells Gray Park, Albreda north of Blue River on Highway 5, Chase on Highway 1, east of Westwold on Highway 97c and Douglas Lake Country. The population of the area is 122,286 (2006 Census).

Regional Districts are local government authorities unique to British Columbia that exist to meet certain local government service needs that neither municipalities nor the province are well-suited to address. Every regional district is made of municipalities (member municipalities) and unincorporated areas (electoral areas). Member municipalities and electoral areas work together to enable regional districts to fulfill their primary purposes, to:

• provide services such as community planning, solid waste management, water and sewer, 911, fire protection, and regulatory services in the region
• manage administration functions, for example:
1. borrowing from the Municipal Finance Authority, the central borrowing agency for municipalities and regional districts in British Columbia, and
2. raising capital funds for hospital facilities in regional district boundaries in the role of a Regional Hospital Districts,
• provide the political and administrative frameworks necessary for member municipalities and electoral areas to collaborate in the provision of regional and sub-regional services.

At present, the Thompson-Nicola Regional District has 25 Directors, comprised of ten Electoral Area Directors and 15 Directors representing member municipalities. Each Electoral Area Directors appoints an alternate to provide voting representation at Board and Committee meetings in their absence.

TNRD Electoral Areas

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Area	Size (sq. km)	Population	Director
A - Wells Gray Country	7324.4	1,514	Tim Pennell Email: tnrd.director@gmail.com
B - Thompson Headwaters	5225.2	269	Willow Macdonald Email: willowmacdonald.tnrd@gmail.com
E - Bonaparte Plateau	6789.4	1,429	Sally Watson Email: director.watson@tnrd.ca
I - Blue Sky Country	5915.2	2,660	Steven Rice Email: steverice53@msn.com
J - Copper Desert Country	3428.7	1,867	Ronaye Elliott Email: ronaye@direct.ca
L -	1977.9	3,102	Ken Gillis Email: kengillis@ghostranch.ca
M -	4104.2	2,662	Randy Murray Email: aream@telus.net
N -	2378.1	1,291	Herb Graham Email: posts@telus.net
O - Lower North Thompson	5506.2	1,514	Bonnie CruzelleMyram Email: bonnie_cruzelle@mercuryspeed.com
P - Rivers and the Peaks	1,777.3	5,930	John Sternig Email: jlster@telus.net

TNRD Municipalities

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Municipality	Incorporation	Size (sq. km)	Population	Director
Ashcroft	June 27, 1952	54.0	1,664	Andy Anderson Email: ashirl@telus.net
Barriere	December 4, 2007	12.5	1,723	Bill Humphreys Email: mayor@barriere.ca
Cache Creek	November 28, 1967	11.0	1,037	John Ranta Email: admin@cachecreek.info
Chase	April 21, 1969	4.6	2,409	Ron Anderson Email: ronand1@telus.net
Clearwater	December 3, 2007	57.0	2,383	John Harwood Email: Harwood8@telus.net
Clinton	July 16, 1963	8.0	665	Jim Rivett Email: jrivett@village.clinton.bc.ca
Kamloops	July 1, 1893	311.0	80,376	Peter Milobar - mayor@kamloops.ca Tina Lange - tlange@kamloops.ca Pat Wallace - paws-1@shaw.ca Nancy Bepple - nbepple@kamloops.ca Marg Spina - mspina@telus.net
Logan Lake	November 10, 1970	323.0	2,162	Marlon Dosch Email: mdosch@loganlake.ca
Lytton	May 3, 1945	7.0	235	Jessoa Lightfoot Email: jlightfoot@lytton.ca
Merritt	April 1, 1911	24.0	6,998	Susan Roline Email: mayorroline@merritt.ca
Sun Peaks	Jun 28,2010	41.0	396	Al Raine Email: alraine@telus.net