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AN AVERAGE OF $1.52 extra per week will be

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paid in taxes this year by the ‘‘average’’ West
Vancouver homeowner to maintain services at che
standard the community wants,

y CHARLES MAYER
NOEL WRIGHT.

That.” was
Monday ° night, from:

the “message: :
Mayor. -

Derrick. Humphreys in pres-
-enting the 1985 municipal
budget of $34.8 million.

_- The. -average commercial
property.owner, he said, will,

ring’ in ren

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pay an extra 99 cents per
week.

Over and above its own
budget the municipality also
collects a further $13 million
for school taxes ad-
ministered by the West Van

* Schoo! Board and for shared

regional services such as the
hospitals and the Greater

Vancouver Regional District.

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. Regional

Local taxes will provide
more than $17.4 million
towards the municipal
budget. The balance is made
up by provincial government
contributions (adout $6 mil-
lion), licences and user-pay
fees, rentals, investment in-
terest and interest and
penalties on tax arrears.

Most of the provincial
government funds to the
municipality's 1985 _ budget
are derived from ‘various
revenue sharing sources
($1.4 million), sewer facility
assistance (a $1.25 million
grant), and a transit

‘operating subsidy of $3.7
million.

. West Van council also an-

‘nounced the municipality’s

five-year capital expenditure
program.

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District has left

Under the CEP, the
municipality is slated to shell
out about $$2.3 million on
various projects.

“The five-year capital ex-
penditure program shows
(West Van) having total
sources and requirements
over five year sof
$52,354,000,°’ noted the
budget bylaw.

“The budget... presented
to council involves an extra
payment of $1.52 per
average taxpayer per week
and 99 cents additional per
average commercial! lan-
downer per week for

(1985),”” said Mayor Hum-
phreys. -

He also indicated that
under the 1985 budget the
level of police and fire ser-
vice in the municipality will
essentially be the same as in
1984,

Focus in 1985 will be on
road maintenance and
upgrading, Humphreys said,
and West Van will pay about:
$650,000 in 1985 on-road
maintenance and upgrading.

“Road maintenance ‘must
be one of the - highest
priorities this year and in-the
future years,’’ he noted.

N. VAN DISTRICT
BUDGET PAGE 1;

Greater Wancouver
North Vancouver

District mayor Marilyn Baker seeing red.

| ‘By DAWN BURKE |

Provinciai Environment
Minister Austin Pelton
distributed a press release at
that April 29 meeting an-
nouncing that a proposed
eastern tandfil} site in
Langley had been rejected by
the provincial cabinet.

And Baker has termed the
press release issued by the
government, ‘‘an em-
barassment.”

“It was an incredible slap
in the face to have done that
without even the courtesy of
us even having the opportu-
nity to sit down with the new
minister,’ Baker said. ‘‘It's

just an incredible insult and

shows a complete lack of
understanding of the whole
process, a disregard for the
process and is politics at its
worst.’”

_ The proposed landfill site
was one of the major rec-
ommendations of the Waste
Management Plan, the result
of two years of work by the
Lower Mainland Refuse
Projeci.

Three regional districts
comprising 30 politicians
had spent almost two years
and thousands of dollars in
staff time working on the
pian.

In reporting to North
Vancouver District Council
Baker called the decision
“irresponsible, irrational
and arbitrary."’ Baker add-
ed, ‘lt was obviously a very
parochial and very arbitrary
decision.”

The government press
release cites international,
environmental: and aesthetic
concerns. It states Industry
and Smal! business
Development Minister Bob

Baker hot over
letdown

McClelland, MLA for Sur-
rey, accepted a petition from
5,000 opposing landfill sites
in Langley.

An angry Baker called this
“government by petition.’

In a later interview Baker
detailed the two years of
hard work that had gone in-
to producing the Waste
Management Plan and the
implications the government
move has on North Van
District.

Over 30 municipal’ politi-
cians from the Greater Van-
couver Regional District, the
Dewdney-Allouette Regional
District and the Central
Fraser Valley Regional
District are involved in the
Lower Mainland Refuse
Project. The group hired an
independent consultant,
Keith Henry, to prepare a
treport on the direction
municipalities should take in
dealing with waste manage-

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