10 - North Shore News — Wednesday, April 19, 2000

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Dear Editor:

Honeyinoon’s over.

Five months into the term
of the new city council, we
can now officially declare the
honeymoon period over.

Mayor Sharp has had her
picture abundantly displayed
in the press, paid for in the
main by the hapless taxpayer.

Her first act was to give

_ herself a $500/month car
allowance — enough to lease
a Mercedes.

Ms. Sharp is a promoter of
public transit, I guess for
other people.

She fives close enough to
walk to work,

Mayor Sharp's next act
was to renovate the mayor's
office and washroom.

The hapless taxpayer of
course foots the nearly
$40,000 bill.

She didn’t mention this
intention during the election
campaign.

Councillor Bell has asked
for a staff report on a bylaw
to provide for members of
council to have independent
legal advice be paid for by the
city.

He has also expressed his
hopes that this woufd apply
retroactively to Mayor
Sharp's legal bills in detend-
ing conflict-of-interest
charges in the last election.

Sounds a Jot iike Premier
Glen’s legal bills being footed

MAIL Box:
oting bill for Sharp’s honeymoon

by the hapless taxpayer dues-
o'r it? But then when Bell ran
for the NDP nomination in
North Van-Lonsdale, none
other then Mayor Sharp was
his campaign manager.

1 guess those NDP*ers
stick together.

Once again though the
hapless taxpayer gets to foot

¢ bill.

What about some tax
relief? At least holding the
line? Nope.

Call Brian Watts for an appointment

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Taxpayers get co pay a
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Surprise, surprise — Ms.

har surely hope the honey-
moon's over -- the hapless
taxpayer can’t take much
more.
Rod Clark
North Vancouver

Selling NVD land
only a ‘quick fix’

Dear Editor:

I disagree with Coun. Bill
Denault’s position in the
April 14 News article where
he wants to simply sell the
remainder of our district
lands in order to “offset tax
increases with available
resource revenue.”

Also, I wholeheartedly
support the News Viewpoint
of April 2 — and again dis-
agree with Coun. Denault —
that there was any deceit in
the Viewpoint article.

The selling-off of our
land assets, and the doing
away with any consultation
or notification for redevelop-
ments which increase the
height ofa home, i is indeed a

“worrying trend.” A policy
of selling public land to pay
for depreciating capital pro-

jects is clearly unsustainable.

The: two previous terms
of council saw it as such and
moved to rid ourselves of
this addiction by phasing out
the use of Heritage funds
(the place where profits from
Jand sales 89) for what was
essentially “paving our
roads.”

This was to be the last
year that land sale funds were
to subsidize our taxes in this
sway.
The re-introduction of

this outmoded policy would
be akin to a “quick fix” with
even more withdrawal pains
for future taxpayers.

Land sales shoufd be used
only to fund projects which

“have a sustaining future
value to the community.

If council is determined
to reduce our taxes I suggest
they get tc work, sharpen
their pencils, and find other
solutions.

Corrie Kost
North Vancouver

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