MICHELLE IS HOPING to , divide her time between interior design and & modelling in
the future. In the meantime, she spends as much time as possible on the beach, at
parties and horseback riding. In our last issue we mistakenly referred to our Sunshine
Girl as Laurie. It should have been Vivian. Our apologies. (Terry Peters photo)

Approval of a $5 million
court construction project
for North Vancouver was
jointly announced Thursday
by Attorney-general Allan
Wilhams and North Van.
couver MLA Angus Ree

In making the an-
nouncement. Williams
stated “that the provincial
court building to be
developed at 23rd Street and
St Georges Avenue will
provide full court rooms and
one hearing room

“The 41 000

Structure

square foot

will also Contain

accommodation for court

pdministration probation

oftheers crown counsel

sheriffs Services court

reporters, a law hbrary and
barristers chambers
The

temporary

facility will replace

courts presently

housed in trasiers in’ North
Vaneouves
The project as scheduled

for comple tion and On

cupancy imi the

19e3

spring oof

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Some North Van-
couver District
residents are now

beginning to wonder
whether it was such a
good deal when they
prepaid their property
taxes in January.

At that time it looked like
everyone would benefit from
the arrangement. Property
owners would earn interest
on their prepaid taxes at just
two per cent below prime
bank rate. At the same time,
the District would be able to
reduce its borrowing bur-
den. It uses the prepaid
amounts towards paying
school taxes - totalling $24
million. this year - which
have to be handed over
before property taxes are
collected.

The arrangement looked
attractive enough to
residents for the District to
receive more than $900,000
im prepaid taxes, compared
to $651,000 the previous
year.

Interest paid to advance
payers was set at 16%, based
on the bank rate of that time.

Now most banks are
paying close to equivalent
interest on savings, since
rates have steadily risen
since that time.

But property owners find

AS - Sunday News, July 12, 1981

that whereas it's possible to
withdraw their capital from a
bank whenever they choose,
refunds due from tax
overpayments are locked in
with the District until
August.

District hall has already
had some _ requests for
refunds of tax overpayments
but is refusing to bend from
its policy of making the
‘payments next month.

Deputy Treasurer Michael
Hoskin says that whereas
requests for refunds have
already been received, such
people must realize “this was
the offer accepted when
paying the money in.”

One resident who says no
mention of such a date was
ever made at that time is
Joyce Colley.

She maintains that when
she made out a cheque to the
tax department for $1,000
that she wasn't told she
would have to wait so long
for any refund that was due.

She says the letter sent to
her concerning repayments
mentioned an early July date
for refunds.

And she wants her $209
refund now.

When she approached the
District last week and asked
for her refund, she says,
“they weren't interested in
giving me my money back.”

Deputy Treasurer Hoskin
is insistent that notices were
distributed with water bills at
the beginning of January,
informing residents that
refunds would not be issued
until August.

Such refunds may be
obtained by “applying to the
collector in writing...they
will be issued the first week
of August,” the letter
read. Hoskins has told the
News:“Our priority is to
process the (tax) payments
we are receiving now. The

staff is working full time on
that.”

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