By Catherine Barr
Contributing Writer
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Wednesday, September 24, 1997 — North Shore News — &

D debate makes cents

Council watchers offer money making idea

By Martin Millerchip

Contributing Writer
millev@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver District Council
members went home richer after Monday
night's council meeting.

By four quarters.

AS usual, the fiscal handout came courtesy of tax-
payers, bur this time it was a voluntary donation

Eric Andersen and Alf Cockrill appeared before
council to present a novel scheme that they contend
could reduce the length of council meetings and dras-
tically build up the district’s Heritage Fund.

They suggest:
B any member of council who repeats what another
member of council has already
said, even if worded slightly dif-
ferently should pay 25 cents to
the Heritage Fund:
@ any member of council who
repeats what he or she has

already said, even if worded sligistly differently, should

pay 50 cents to the Heritage Fund;
8 any member of council who speaks i in excess of the
“time allocated by rules previously set by council should
~ pay 25 cents to the Heritage Fund;
“ino limits would be set te the number of times that a
| Rene of council would have to pay to the Heritage
un

‘Council’s current: debate procedure allows cach
member to speak for four initial minutes on an agenda
item plus a subsequent two minutes.

Whether.or not the subsequent number of swo-
minute speaking periods is regulated in council’s ruts:

of order,: Mayer FBon Bell has allowed innumeratle :
2 repestions by council members | this year, with the ©

fares set for

: Two North Vancouver men. |
. Charged in the execution style
aparder-in'a Lower Lansdale.
"Cinema made brief court
appearances on Monday. -. -
Jon, Ortelo Moroury, 18,
and. Michae! Caster, 19, are
charged with first degree mur-'
der, and conspiracy to commit .
~ first degree murder® in , the,
shooting - death of’
‘ Mohammad Mirhadi. -
““Mirhadi_ was 21. when he
was killed‘on Feb. 28.

custody.
Caster, -.

. according. to
Vancouver RCMP.

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Mon.-Sst.
expres Sept 30/97

result that most mectings finish at 11 p.m.

During the summer months, agendas
were left unfinished.

Andersen and Cockrill told council they
had calculated that their scheme should |
reduce the length of meetings by at least
half and “greatly increase the Heritage
Fund, thus eliminating the need for selling
more district land.”

They suggested two options for possi-
ble implementation at a later stage:

@a further 25 cents for any mention of

council indemnities, and/or lack of same;

and

Ba further 25 cents for any delaying, of dif-

ficult decisions by requesting a staff report

on something that nas already been dis-
cussed ad nauseum.

Said longtime council-
watcher Corne Kost: “If they
adopted Eric’s rules they’d all
go broke very quickly.”

Apparently cognizant of

thar possibility, Andersen and Cockrill .
handed four quarters io each councillor
“bearing in mind ticir respective financial
situations” in case they were “unprepared
for this proposal with an immediate
effect.” .

But they warned that members of the
public would reserve the right to start
waiving their wallets “when it is felt a quarter.is due by
any member of council.”

Andersen and Cockrill spent much of Monday’s
meeting waiving their wallets.

However, there.did appear to be a renewed com: -

mitment by Mayoc Don Bell to limit some of council’s

* usual repetitive debate with the result that Monday's

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