By Deana Lancaster
Contributing Writer
FOUR. North
Vancouver City coun-
cillors running for re-
election will not be
willing participants in
a local candidate evalu-
ation project.

“This is presumptuous,”
said Coun. Barbara Perrault.
She said she is not willing to
be rated by a group which she
has no information about. She
received a plain brown enve-
lope on her doorstep cuntain-
ing a candidate questionnaire,
and instructions on how to set
up her candidate interview.

The questionnaire requests
information about education,
previous employment, and a
criminal record, It also asks
for references. Coun. Barbara
Sharp and Coun. Darrell
Mussatto also said they would
not be returning the package.

“fam prepared to answer
any questions that this com-
mittee wants me to answer,”
said Coun. John Braithwaite
of the Vote Smart °96
Candidate Fvaluation
Committee, “Then on that
basis the community can
decide.”

But he is not pleased about
a system that would evaluate
him on the basis of his knowl-
edge, civic involvement, effec-
tiveness, and character, rate
him and then simply publish
the rating without the reason-
ing behind it.

At the council meeting on
Tuesday night Braithwaite
added the issue to the agenda.

Karen Milne, a member of

the Vote Smart "96 steering
committee, said she was sur-
prised by the councillors’
reactions.

“It's very strange ta me
that there’s so much emotion-
al reaction about this.” Milne
said that according to the
rules set up by the Municipal
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where the project onginated,
ail candidates will be rated
whether they pardcipate or
not.

“Its aot necessary tor the
Incumbents to agree to. be
rated.” said Mune. She told
the News that the steering
committee for Vote Smart “96

was made up of a group of

North Vancouver residents
concerned and involved with
neighborhood issues. In fact,
her name and steering com-
mittee member Vivian
Kranenburg’s name are on a
petition to the Supreme
Court of British Columbia

with the member groups of

the Wild Salmon Coalition
against the City of North
Vancouver for a decision to
allow — development — near
Mosquito Creek,

The petition was unsuc-
cessful and an appeal has been
launched, but Milne said she

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is not involved with the
appeal, She tald the News
that she has no involvement
with the groups at all.

Other members of the
Vote Smart steering commit-
tee include North Vancouver
District council watcher
Corrie Kost, Kitty Castle,
Diane Walton, and Seymour
activists Dave Sadler and
Chris Kwan.

But Kost said it’s impor-
tant to note dat the steering
comunittee will have no into
ence on the rating given to
each candidate.

They chose a4 selection
committee, who in turn,
chose the Candidate
Evaluation Committee, effec-
tively putting the steering
committee at “dovble-arm’s
length” from the evaluation
process.

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