WV mayor also on ¢ committee

North Vancouver-Seym-
our MLA Jack Davis has
been appointed chairman of
a task: force established to

supervise rapid
development in the Lower
Mainland.

West Vancouver Mayor
Derrick Humphreys joins
the Socred backbencher as

. part of the nine-member

“Rapid Transit 1986
Committee.” -
The “watch-dog” com-

mittee will oversee. the
Advanced Light Rapid
Transit System and ensure
that the local. municipalities
and the province's interests
are met, Davis told the News
Wednesday. .

The
made jointly by Muncipal
Affairs Minister Bill Vander
Zalm and the Greater
Vancouver Regional
District.

“The committee has a
monitoring,
and watch-dog role,” said
Davis. Representatives from
most local municipalities are
present on the committee.

But for Davis, being the
only. ; Tepresentative and
a ¢ of the govern-
ment, “his primary concern is

“representing the province
which. is putting up *‘ the
money.”

That, also means ensuring
that “B.C.’s. interest as
opposed to Ontarid’s interest
is protected, " he said. The ©

‘transit.

announcement was |

coordinating -

contract between the two
provinces says that at least
one-third of all machinery
and equipment used for the
ALRT must be bought in
B.C. “It is the committee's

. responsibility to make sure

that that intention is honored
by Ontario,” said Davis.
Vander Zalm acted as
“moderator” in setting up
the committee — it’s first
meeting is scheduled for
Thursday. — and _ the
decision to appoint chair-
man was left up to him.
Davis is. a. former
provincial transport minister

-ahd a former federal en-

vironment minister. He has
an economics and politics
degree. from Oxford
University, is a Rhodes

,Burnaby Mayor

scholar and was Canada’s
Engineer of the Year in
1975.

He will continue sitting in
the legislature.

-GVRD appointees in-
clude: GVRD chairman
Allan Emmott, Vancouver
Alderman Don Bellamy,
New Westminister -Mayor
Muni Evers and Port
Coquitlam Mayor Jack
Campbell. The Urban
Transit Authority has
selected West Vancouver
Mayor Derrick Humphreys,
David
Mercier and Vancouver
Alderman Warnett Kennedy
as its appointees. The UTA
has to make one additional
appointment.

Care facility
a step closer

Plans for an intermediate
care facility at 19th Street
and. Mountain Highway
moved. a step;.closer- last

week .when District council

accepted an offer for the
land. |

An offer to puchase the
land for $1,260,000 had been
made’ by the North Shore
Intermediate Care Society.

Council accepted the offer
subject. to an application
being filed for‘a siting area
amendment to allow con-
structionn of the facility and
staff said such an application
had been made.

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