August 18,1982. Tel. 985-2131

MAYOR RAPS
VICTORIA

MAYOR Don ‘Bell appears

to devote more time to his But already he is looking
stand. aside at.

family life than is allowed back on his career in the

’ North Van District ap”
pears destined this

between the pressures of
politics and has been
considering a career change.

He has said in the past that
if he were to run again it

would definitely be his final:
term. His official reply.to the

question at the moment is

kind of retrospective terms
which signal a finale.

“I have served 12 years on
council, with six of them as
mayor,” he says. “I was on
the planning commission for
a year-and-a-half before that
and I would say, in

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could be halved

vance » "jst how:
Victoria’s reer
program may clobber
the municipality in
1983.

Eleventh-hour changes

last spring in provincial tax-

sharing policies had “a

severe effect” on West Van's

current budget, Humphreys

told The News last week,

even though the budget had

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