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WESTVIEW CRESCENT TOWNHOUSES
Six per cent rent

argument thrown out

WESTVIEW Crescent
townhouse tenant David
Pratt, who said he would pay
a rent increase of only six
per cent, as per government
inflation guidelines, rather
than the 20 per cent
demanded by his tandlord,
has lost his case in court.

B.C. Supreme Court
Jusuce J.P Van Der Hoof
rejected Pratt's claim that
the Office of the Rentalsman
had been biased against six
per cent increases in its
finding in favor of — the
landlord.

The rentalsman’s officer
had told) Pratt that when
tenants counter a landlord's
rent increase figure by
suggesting one of their own
they usually suggest at least
10 per cent.

The judge found that there
was no bias and that the
rentalsman’s offlee was
acting within the parameters
of the legislation - the
Residential Tenancy Act.

North Shore Tenants’
Association President
Richard Blackburn, who
went to bat on behalf of
Pratt, says the = situation
underlines that the tenancy
act ais flawed and needs
rewriting

“It seems that six-and-five
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is fine to impose on wages.”

Blackburn adds, “but land-

lords’ rents are exempt.”
Meanwhile,

Pratt sell

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insists he has no intention of
paying the rent increase set
by. his landlord and says he
will probably move, or be
evicted.

AN ELEVENTH-HOUR
plea by North Vancouver
school board to District
council for early release of
$300,000 in grant money to
ease predicted 1983 school

budget problems has
received local politician's
approval.

And council's decision to
allow the school board
premature access. to
National Harbours Board

funds held in District’s bank
account will cost the
municipality about $36,000
in lost interest.

The money sought by the
school board was part of its
share of funds held in trust
by District, who in turn
received the money from the
federal government in the
form of a grant in lieu of
taxes.

Under the grant scheme,
the municipality applies for

NV crosswalk
accident fatal

A 74-year-old North Van-
couver woman, Marian
Smith, of 308 West Second
Street, died at Lions Gate
Hospital Monday night after
being struck by a car while
she was on a crosswalk at
Third Street and Mahon.

* The driver of the vehicle
which struck her, Robert
Anderson, 22, of Burnaby,
has been charged with
driving too fast for road and
weather conditions.

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5 - Wednesday, December 29, 1982 - North Shore News

funds to cover money owed
District on property owned
and used by the National
Harbors Board. Instead of
paying taxes, Ottawa gives
District a grant.

Once District is in receipt
of the grant, it allots the
school board its share of the
money.

According to Len Berg,
school board secretary
treasurer, there is an urgent
need for advance of the
$300,000 because “release of
these funds prior to
December 31, 1982 would
Significantly assist the
(school board) in dealing
with its 1983 budget
problem.”

What the school board
intends to do is use the
advance to create a surplus
in their 1982 budget and as a
result they can defer the
money and add it to their
1983 budget without being

penalized for the surplus by
the provincial government.
In essence, the school
board will have an additional
$300,000 in their 1983 school

budget.

Although council ap-
proved the advance, they
also endorsed a _ recom-
mendation from. the
municipal manager that

release of funds will be
subject to approval by
District's solicitor as well as
by the provincial education
ministry. « —

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