Tee rink

demands

jeopardize design
of Parkgate centre

Dear Editor:

The Disirict of North Van-
couver Council should proceed
with the Parkgate Community
Centre and Library Complex
(PCC&LC) without delay.

This proposal is the result of an
extensive five-year planning pro-
cess.

The proposed PCC&LC has
been carefully designed to serve a
wide variety of urgent community
needs in an efficient manner,

Further delay will cast doubt on
the credibility of council in adop-
ting a consultation process which
included Seymour residents and
tepresentatives of Seymour com-
munity groups.

Currently, Seymour residents
lack a seniors mecting facility, in-
fant to pre-school childcare
spaces, 2 full-service library, a
gymnasium for adult sports, a
safe meeting area for Parkgate
and Indian River youth, a public
attists studio, community social
activitics space and large mecting
areas.

The ?CC&LC has been design-
ed to deliver these services in a
cost-effective manner, as much
common space will be shared and
it will alleviate overcrowded pro-
grams at Ron Andrews and. focal
school activity rooms and gyms.

Every consultation process since
1985 has identified this complex as
the most urgently needed facility
for this community.

Residents of Seymour have
recently expressed a desire for an
ice rink to serve the children and
youth of the area,

Clearly, the District of North
Vancouver and the Reereation
Commission need to establish the
ice rink as a priority for 1994 cap-
al budget, but not at the expense
of the PCC&LC.

The PCC&LC should proceed
as planned without any further
detay, Phasing this project in will
jeopardize the integrity of the
design and the delivery of urgently
needed services.

Scymour is a rapidiy growing
and rapidly changing area. One of
the sharpest complaints from resi-
dents has been the failure of ser-
vices and facilities to keep up with
this growth and change.

The PCC&LC proposal at-
tempts ¢o rectify this situation by
Providing Mexible facilities suitable
to the current concentration of
young families and the future
concentration of middle-aged and
seniors.

Susan Brennan, chair
Seymour Services
Review Commitee

and = Facility

Return to fiscal responsibilities
needed at ali government levels

Dear Editor:

The recent articles in the North
Shore News regarding education
costs give more examples of. the
uncontrolled expenditure of scarce
public funds, and the fiscal privi-
lege afforded to employees at all
levels of government.

The cconomic realities of the
general population, whose taxes
support such largesse, do not ap-
pear to affect these pampered bn-
reaucrats and their employces.

Most of the recent revelations
focus on issues of salary. Howev-
er, there are numerous insidious
hidden costs associated with these
administratets and employees
which add significantly to the
costs of their services. A few ex.
amples, which should be in-
vestigated, include:

@ amount of holidays and other
paid leave, such as ‘'professional”
days,

@ hours of work,

@ extent of such perks as ‘‘ac-
cumulated sick leave,"* and

@ pension provisions, including
indexing, which are long term
liabilities.

A return to fiscal responsibility
must be enforced on all levels of
government and on those pro-
viding services, such as education,
to the general public.

This fiscal responsibility must
closely. relate to the realities of the
general economic situation and to
the abilities of the taxpayers to
shoulder the burden in a fair and
equable manner.

D.S. Jamieson
North Vancouver

Since when
are benefits
not mcluded
in package?

Dear Editor:

Regarding Dr. Robin
Brayne’s comments in the
Sunday, Feb. 7 issue of the
North Shore News where he
says that NDP MLA David
Schreck is all wrong when he
suggests that several NVSB
administrators are earning
over $100,000 per year, | feel
thar Dr. Brayne is trying to
pull the wool over someone's
vyes and it just may be the
taxpayers’.

{ don’: know what Dr.
Brayne’s PhD is in but it ob-
viously is not in either eco-
nomics or mathematics.

Since when are benefits not
included in a salary package?
Who does Dr. Brayne feel
pays these benefits?

And why doesn’t he come
clean and tell us exactly what
the benefits are and how
many dollars they are worth?

Then we may be able to
decide for ourselves whether
these administrators are paid
too much for nine months’
work,

Don D. McDermid
North Vancouver

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THE ONS Gate Bridge is
fooleg its age end the
pokicinns ere wondoring
what to do with it and how to
poy for it. Talk ef paying for a
new bridge with the proceeds
ot = bridge tol! has people
stuffing their piggy banks in
anticipatica of future
commuting costs

In a weekly random survey of more
than 500 North Shore residents, the
North Shore News survey team
asked the people this question: Are
you in favor of a toll on the Lions
Gate Bridge to pay for
improvements?

Of those who responded 58% said
Yes, 27.7% said No, 6.4% had no
opinion and 7.9% said they didn't
know.

For more on the subject see
Inquiring Reporter page 10,