&2 - Wednesday, December 9, 1992 ~ North Shore News

WY council upbraided
for tax penalty charge

UPSET OVER rising West
Vancouver municipal taxes,
Ron Baldry has gone to bat
for a woman who was
charged a penalty for pay-

ing her taxes fate, even
though she didn’t reccive

her tax notice until after the
payment due date had pass-
ed.

By Maureen Curtis
Contributing Writer

During question period at the
Nov. 2 West Vancouver District
Council meeting, Baldry criticized
council for its Oct. 19 refusal to
waive the penalty for the
Millstream Road resident who did
not receive her tax notice in time
because it was incorrectly address-
ed by municipal staff, who then
did nothing with the notice for
some time after it was returned,

Canada Post was also blasted
for failing to realize thar the
woman received her mail at a
nearby address.

“For four weeks, the notice sat
at the municipality, with notk’
being done,”’ said Baldry.

He said he could not under-
stand the delay, when he was able
to look up the weman’s address in
the telephone book in fess than a
minute.

West Vancouver's municipal
manager Doug Allan said the
woman's notice was not dealt with
because staff is extra busy at tax
time, and deals on a first-priority
basis with those who have paid
their taxes but have made an error
in doing so.

But Baldry said, ‘“‘Either the
volume of tax material is so high
that extra help is needed at the
municipality, or the staff is not
efficient enough.”

Mayor Mark Sager said he lad
some ‘treal sympathies,’’ with the
case.

But he said the Oct. 19 decision
had been made because it was
assumed that residents know that
the taxes have to be pak! and that
it is their responsibility and not
the municipality’s to make sure
they are paid on time.

Baldry said the woman would
have arranged to have her tax
notice picked up had she known it
was at the municipality.

He also complained thai a letter
he had written to West Vancouver

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After the council meeting,

Baldry showed the News a fetter
in which he plotied his taxes from
i971, when chev were abour $500
— to 1992, when they were
S3 414.

By drawing a curve on his
graph and projecting it into the
future, Baldry projected that taxes
would double within the nent siv
years.

“T am accusing them of had
management,’” said Baldry, who
suggested that the municipality
spends money needlessly and
should be trying to reduce its tax
bill to reverse the current trend of
lax increases.

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