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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

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GENERAL APPEALS have been launched by
North Vancouver District and West Vancouver

against property tax
municipalities.

North Vancouver City
isn’t appealing the
assessments.

West Vancouver alder-

men voted unanimously to
support the motion made by
Mayor Derrick Humphreys
and the lack of dissent made
that item one of the shortest
on the agenda.

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But District council didn't
reach the decision casily It
came after a long and heated

debate, during which
Alderman Peter Powell
threatened to sue _ the

municipality if the appeal
was launched.

“Leave me out or I'll sue.”
he warned, saying he

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thoaght his own tax
assessment, up 4.9 per cent
over last year, was far, even
though it has doubled in the
hast five years.

It's the responsibility of
the individual property
owner to appeal, not the

Powell and Allerman
Mary Segal were the only
council members to vote
against Mayor Dos Bell's

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surprise initiative, which
came up without warning at
the end of the regular policy
and planning mecting.

Segal warned council the
District may end up “with
egg on our faces if we do not
have our facts right.” The
motion came up too sud-
dently, she said.

“I'll take a lot of work to
make a good case, and if we
don’t have a good case then
we'll look very foolish,” said
Segal.

Bell admitted the motion
came on short notice, but
said he only got the idea for
an appeal on behalf of all
District taxpayers when he
read recent newspapers,
which related hew other
municipalities were doing
the same thing.

Deadline for appeal is
January 20, two days after
the council meeting, he
noted.

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Payment cuts,
daycare shortage

Welfare

squeeze
tightens
its grip

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By NEWS STA!

WELFARE allowance
cutbacks, soaring rents
and daycare lineups are
offering welfare
fu ilies on the North
Shore little to look
forward to and are
setting a pattern as
1982 being the year of
the squeeze.

One

complaint is that
while single parents on
welfare are having their
assistance cut back in an
effort to weed out em-
ployables they're also being
discouraged from finding
work by lack of day care.

Single parents on welfare
with a child over six months
can now be classed as
“employable”, undergoing a
reduction in benefits up to
$55 a month.

But at the same time there
are 500 parents waiting in
line for North Shore day care
centres, accordia, to recent
estimates, and day care rates
are going up.

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