The provincial govern-
ment has been urged to get
together with local govern-
ments to jointly consider
possible tax
programs.

The move was proposed
by the-Greater Vancouver
Regional Distri¢t (GVRD)
Board, by a narrow 27 to 26
vote. A number of directors.
opposed the motion because
the government had already
taken a position in regard to
local government budgets
for 1979 and they said it had
no. intention of recon-
Sidering.

Provincial Finance
Minister Evan Wolfe
recently announced that the
government was freezing
municipal general purpose
millrates at the 1978 level
and that increase in
municipal, regional district
and hospital district budgets
would be limited to 5 per-
cent. |

(the order would not affect
the GVRD's 1979 budget
which ” i within the

limitations — set by the

minister.)

While some municipal
officials said the government
move was good politics if
constituted unwarranted
interference in local affairs.

Mayor Jack Loucks, North
Vancouver City, questioned
whether the provincial
government had the con-

stitutional authority = to
enforce the freeze.

Mayor Jack Volrich,
Vancouver, and Mayor
Muni Evers, New West-

minster, said Wolfe made it
clear at a mecting recently
that the government would
not reverse or reconsider the
order this year.

The motion passed by the
one-vote margin states that
the GVRD Board “express in
the strongest possible terms
its displeasure at (he manner
in which the program of
property tax control was
introduced and request that

FORBIDDEN PLATEAU is not lacking for people despite its name. This ski resort ‘only 23 Lilometres from Cour-
tenay on Vancouver Island is drawing more-and more skiers.

GVRD tells Victoria to.
think again on taxes

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the provincial government
suspend the implementation
of its program while it joins
the local governments
| through the Union of B.C.
Municipalities to determine

guidelines, and also what
controls, if any, need to be
established, both locally and
provin¢ially to assist
municipalities in providing
essential local services.”

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