DECEMBER 10, 1997 sega Bright Lights Business Classifieds Crossword North Shore Alert Sports Talking Personals Xmas Calendar Canaan Puokcations Mal Sais Product Agreement Ws Xi LYNN Valley resident Tatiana Matoff is angry because North Vancouver District council delayed a bylaw restricting tree-cutting by pri- vate property owners. She said her neighbors told her they cut their trees because the trees had too many needles. VD pay hike Martin Millerchip Contributing Writer miller@nsnews.com PROPOSED changes to the pay Jevels for North Vancouver District councillors will amount to an increase of approximately 32% if approved next week. The package will catapult the dis (1995) population 81.8483 to number three in the Lower Mainland pay stakes, ahead of Burnaby (175,811), Richmond (143,700) and Delta (100, 9-46), Councilors will col $24,345 as basic pay as well as an a $2,006 tor the two months cach councillor serves as act mavor, for a total of $26 145. In contrast the Burnaby pay rate, for a municipality with Toren Wig Eas me os oe Light solution p2 NV co. develops new thermal survival suit District councillors would vault to top three in GVRD if 32% raise is approved twice the population of the district, is currently set at $25,462. The district rate has remained at $19,810 since 1993. A controversial attempt to fink it to 50% of the mayor's salary immediately aiter the municipal election in] November 1996 ultimately failed, and the question of a raise was referred to the mayor for a report. Under the Municipal Act councillors do not receive a “salary” but are “remunerated” tor the the amount is tas -free. Mayor Don Bells proposals were presented to coun as capenses, One chird of +. “Grouse grill p38 Grouse Nest refines alpine experience Editor Andrew McCredie asks: Is there any Bono out there? p3 $1.00 Prickly ISSUZS debated Deang Lancaster News Reporter deana@nsnews.com TOO many needles. That, ». atiana Maloff, was the reason her new neighbors pave her for cutting down a half dozen pine trees on their prop Ww “These 5 : come te. the North Shore — they sav --- for the beauty of the North Shore, for the greenery of the North Shore. Then they cut down trees because they have too many nee dles? ft happens pine trees have needles. If they don’t want nee: dles vo ... samewhere else.” But the Lynn Valley property owners were within cheir rights when they cur down the needly nuisances. Unless a tree on pri- vate, nen-cavironmentailly sens- tive land has a diameter larger a mo than 75 centimetres, the owners i : do not have to ask for municipal NEWS photo Paul McGrath = permission to cut it down — yet. See Property paae S “avenda addenda” Monday, thus keeping the financial figures our of the public eve until the last minute. Bell suggested ro council that a one-time adjustment to the pay fevel would provide for “a catch-up due to the fact that the level has not changed since January 1, 1993 and to reflect the increasing workload and changing nature of the responsibilities and expectations of councillors at this tine.” Bell sad he had based his “catch-up” increase on an appli- cation of the Jones Formula to council's indemnity sine 1993. The so called 1988 fones Formula reated by a citize task foree formed by council to review council remuneration. ‘he formuta measured changes in gross domestic product, average North Shore income, the Consumer Price Index and population growth Rell said application of the tormula trom 1993 to 1998 See Crist purge 3