NVD junior council
targets environment

‘MAYOR’ JENNY Howie led
North Vancouver District Coun-
cil through a long and com-
plicated agenda in record time on
Monday evening as for one night
only the municipality had a new
slate of aldermen and senior
staff.

By MARTIN MiILLERCHIP
Contributing Writer

The occasion was the annual
chance for district high school
students to conduct a regular
council agenda as part of Local
Government Awareness week.

The junior council experienced
the different formats of the regu-
lar council meeting as well as the
less formal structure of a Policy
and Planning Committee
Meeting.

The students had done their
homework prior to the meeting
and came armed with a variety of
questions about agenda items.

A request to amend a devel-
opment permit to allow the siting
of a salvage operation on
Amherst Avenue instead of a se-
cond mini-storage warehouse was
deferred for a staff report on
siting, screening, noise and pollu-
tion factors.

The toxic dangers of using old
tires as a fire accelerant in con-
trolled burns of the Seymour wa-
tershed area was also debated.

Ald. Clayton Jones, a Grade
$1 Handsworth student,
demanded to know when curb-
side pickup of household
recyclables was starting.

He also wanted to know what
was being done to dispose of
hazardous household wastes.

Director of engineering services
Cheri Hamm confirmed that a
North Shore-wide curbside
recycling program would be in

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place by July or August and
(elected) Mayor Marilyn Baker
said that the province was work-
ing with the Greater Vancouver
Regional District on the problem
of hazardous waste disposal.

Jones thanked Ald. Ernie Crist
for spending prep time with him.

“We went through the whole
agenda point by point on Sunday
afternoon, familiarizing with the
background and all the docu-
ments and preparing positions
and questions. I felt very confi-
dent when [I came in,’’ said
Jones.

Asked how she felt about the
responsibility of chairing council,
Howie, a Grade 12 Handsworth
student who would like to be a
page in Ottawa, replied, ‘‘I was
really nervous to start with, but it
proved to be a really exciting
experience. It was a lot of fun.”

Howie noted that all the in-
terventions by junior council
were related to environmental
questions.

Said Howie, ‘I! think that
there is an increasing concern
with the environment in the
schools. All the schools have de-
veloped some sort of environ-
ment awareness group.”’

Other members of the junior
council were: Navida Shivji and
Simone Hausknecht from Carson
Graham; Jenny Ramsey from
Balmoral; Randy Johnstone and
Noreen Lalani from Argyle;
Gordon Morrison and Vicki Ferg
from Seycove and Brenda
Weatherhead and Tracey Crismas
from Sutherland.

West Van junior council
ponders budget priorities

JUNIOR COUNCIL members
got a taste Monday night of the

challenge West Vancouver
District Council faces every year
in allocating public funds
amongst competing projects and
services.

By MAUREEN CURTIS
Contributing Writer

With just $600,000 available
for additional services and capital
projects, the junior council
debated the relative benefits of
six different choices: additional
firefighters and police officers, a
road maintenance program, a
curbside recycling program, a
seniors’ activity centre expansion
and the library expansion.

The junior council, led by
‘‘Mayor’’? Rebekah Lawson of
Hillside, consisted of Ald. Kevin
O'Toole, Ald. Janice Dwyer and
Ald. Jennifer Tanton of Sentinel
and Ald. Jennifer Ryan and Ald.
Michael Mustard of West Van-
couver Secondary.

They were chosen from the
local Youth Advisory Commit-
tee.

The youth council could give
their approval to only three of
the six services competing for the

$600,000.

While Ald. Mustard argued the
importance of an essential road
maintenance program (something
that was also emphasized in a re-
cent citizen’s survey), Ald.
O'Toole gave top priority to a
curbside recycling program.

Municipal staff members,
pushing their favorite projects,
jockeyed for position in the
debate.

When director of operations
Barry Lambert pointed out that
road maintenance costs could be
defrayed by fee payment from

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are.

the residents affected, director cf
finance George Horwood inter-
jected that fees were ‘‘just
another form of taxation.’”

Parks director Kevin Pike
argued that the senior citizens
centre has been asking for money
for an expansion every year for
quite some time.

“If nothing is done about the
road system, the seniors won't be
able to reach the seniors’ cen-
tre,’ put in Ald. Michael
Mustard.

Ald. Kevin O’Toole argued
that the library is a facility used
by seniors and all members of the
community, while Ald. Jennifer
Ryan felt that the recycling
system, which is just getting
started, was more deserving of
funding than facilities already in
place.

Ross Petersen, coordinator for
the North and West Vancouver
emergency program, favored
supplementing West Vancouver
Fire Department staff and
otherwise enhancing the
municipality’s ability to respond
to emergencies.

In the end, each alderman
submitted a list of priorities for
the six services.

The recycling program and
library expansion program came
out clearly on top, with road
maintenance finishing third.

Expansion of the seniors centre
got fourth billing, while addi-
tional firemen: anc cove
policemen for drug er*orcemen,
crime prevention and trattic |
problems “nished last.

WEST VANCOUVER District
Council has endorsed two Greater
Vancouver Regional District
(GVRD) recommendations design-
ed to provide long-term, secure
markets for recyclable materials.

While the public has become in-
creasingly enthusiastic about sor-
ting and recycling household
waste, finding viabie markets for
such recycled material is a major
factor in assuring the success of
any complete recycling system.

In order to secure a market, the
GVRD board recommended that
all the newspaper collected in the
region be directed to a_ local
remanufacturer.

The move would be subject to
an environmenial assessment and
public review.

It also recommended that ail

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