SEPTEMBER 6, 2000

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District
pays out
$27M

The following is the second
of thee stories an the top
municipal wane-carners on
the North Shore.

NORTH Vancouver
District’s municipal
employee payroll stood
at close to $27 million
for 1999.

Employees that made over
$50,060 took a $14,919,759
hire out of the budget while
those under the $50,000 cap
accounted for $12,006,651.
The total amount of money
paid to employees — over
and under $50,000 — in
1999 was $26,986,410,
according to district financial
records.

Monies over $10,000 paid
out to companies and indi-
viduals amounted to 2 total
of  $101,202,500, while
those paid under $10,000
accounted for $4,099,834,

District financial records
show a total of 231 zmploy-
ces that made over $50,000
in 1999,

The district employed
493 regular full-time
employees in 1999 within its
district hall, operations cen-
tre ands fire stations.
Including = part-time and
parks summer works crews,
the. number of employees
rises to abuut 600.

Of tte top 25 earners, five
— David Stuart (#2); Bruce
Ramsey = (#8); Richard
Burrows (#15); Cameron
Cairneross (#17); and
William Henry (#23) — are
no longer with the district.
Former municipal manager
Dennis Back (#19) has

changed positions and is now
the district's director of cor-
porate services.

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North Vancouver Chamber president fears
hike will exact a toli on small businesses

Jan-Christian Sorensen

News Reporter jsorensen@usnews.com
THE provincial government’s
planned minimum wage hike may
hurt most the people intended to
benefit directly from it.

That's the concern of North Vancouver
Chamber of Commerce (NVCC) president
and general manager Judi Ainsworth.

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The government last week approved a
nvo-step increase to the minimum wage.
Effective Nov. 1 the wage will rise from
$7.15 to $7.60 an hour with an additional
hike to $8 an hour effective a year later.

The hike is part cf a regular govern-
ment review of its minimum wage policies.

Ainsworth fears that the increase may
have a negative impact on students and
young people first entering the worktorce.

She beheves the hike will drive costs up for

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small businesses and force them to hire
fewer students to compensate.

“We're not overly impressed with the
move,” she said. “It makes it very tough on
students and young people in our commu-
nity to get chose jobs because the employ-
er ultimately has greater costs.”

“Those minimum wage jobs are the
ones that give young people an entry point
into the workforce and allow them to gain
experience. [t's very tough for young peo-
ple to get experience, so the harder we
make that the more difficult it is in the long
term for them.”

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