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Anna-Louise Pentland
| Contributing Writer
.. NORTH Vancouver |
City council’s recent. :
decision to award
architect David W.
Nichols a contract
worth approximately
: $70,000 to fix up the:
~, administrative wing of
» city.hall has left one

councillor steaming.
“This is a'situation whe:
one: contractor: has: had ‘
"special “yeas The with the

- should be put’ out to tendc
The process: must: no y.
be open, honest and fair, but
‘it. must” look : open; honest

. and fair,” Con. Hob ‘Fearnley

‘money is spent.
: alt the © mid“ 1980s,

: ‘marketplace for long-term
~- eontract regarding: city: hall.
_/ That long-term ontract has
” stretche ;

than 15 years. “And ‘eamle
said that. contrac!

Rick Bruckshaw, purchas
ing manager for the ci
establishing * this

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Rosca project... We: fo!
consultant

"break when y you ‘consider the fact that you don't have
‘to pay acent until the sixth’ month. is it any wonder
why more and more: ‘people are now. banking on -_ :
 VanCity to get what they want? oo De Pe which ‘nigaliy ‘does'nat:have:
In fact, youll find the VanCity experience isalot wae attached. /.Ni
- different, since we ‘re responsible to our ‘members i in’ Py
a way that banks aren‘t to their ‘customers. Because
“when you're a VanCity member; you' re also an owner.’

So you get things that bank ‘customers don't. Like -_ =

‘a ‘rebate on. the ‘mortgage interest you've ‘paid, .

~ through oF our Shared Success program. Not to mention:

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