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May 18, 1983

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CITY’S

Park eyed for watershed

WATERSHED lands owned by North Vancouver
City may eventually be turned over for a
wilderness park if City residents OK council's plan
to abandon the municipality's long-time in-
dependent water supply system.

Savings of $4 million over the next 10 years could be

realized by City joining with the Greater Vancouver
Water District for its water supply, according to

Alderman Stella Jo Dean.

Voters in the November
municipal elections will be
deciding the future of “parts
of the City’s heritage and
autonomy.” acting mayor
Gary Payne told Monday's
council meeting.

Payne and his three fellow

TERRY LAVENDER

council members
unanimously adopted a
resolution to discontinue the
use of the Lynn Creek Water
Supply System, prepare an
agreement with the Greater

Vancouver Water Diristrict
for the City to get water from
the GVWD. and to negotiate
a park for the watershed
lands.

But approval of City
residents in a plebiscite held
with the November
municipal] elections will be
needed before the City can
join the GVWD.

Council members said
they did a lot of agonizing
before reaching the decision
to abandon the Lynn Creek
water supply. The City has
supplied its own water for a
long time, but the

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COMPARISONS ‘COMPLETELY ERRONEOUS’

Humphreysraps |
Blackburn on budget

SHARP CRITICISM of

Alderman Doreen

Blackburn by Mayor Derrick Humphreys marked
the final adoption Monday of West Vancouver's
1983 budget and rates bylaw.

te te eres ance On

WEDNESDAY
Cloudy, but becoming
sunny by afternoon

THURSDAY
Sunny with cloudy
periods, warmer

Reachin

“By our choice of the
variable tax rate in this

bylaw.” said) Humphreys.
“we have rehieved = the
commercial properties of
some ravo of taxes com

pared to last year, and I had
hoped = that Alderman
Blackburn would have been
conscious of this when she
voted against the second and
third reading of this bylaw
last week ”

At the previous weck’'s
council meeting Blackbur
had been the sole voice of
opposition to the $33 millon
budget which will cost West
Van taxpayers 317,134,000

- only 0.2 per cent higher
than last year's collection

On that occasion

Blackburn told council
“Having stood on the
platform of budget restraint
and a promise to work for a
pay-as-you-go policy, 1] was
presented with a budget
showing an increase to $14
million from $10 3 miulbon in
1979, an BO per cent increase
over four years

But the mayor charged
Blackburn Monday with
faulty reasoning.

“Alderman Blackburn had
made comparisons = trom
1979,” he said, “but. in truth
the increases in the years
1979 to 1982 were brought
about by high interest rates
by wage increases of up to 15
per cent in 1981) in the
Greater’ Vancouver
agreement. and. in those
years, up to 12 per cent in
the cost of hving index

“l consider such com

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salary

. NEWS photo Stuer Deve
KICKING OFF National Physical Activity Weck in North Vancouver Clr, five-
degree black belt holder Ed Kazaal ts pictured enforcing his no-smoking rule by
kicking a cigarette clean out of the mouth of karate student Paul Kincaid-Smith. The
demonstration was part of the celebrations which opened the week Sanday. Providing
support ls Malcolm McPhail, shown bearing the weight of the demonstration during
the Fimic at North Van Recreation Centre, where Kazaal bs chici karate instructor.

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