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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Newsstand Price 50¢ February 9, 1983 Tel. 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

Casualties
of council's
cost cuts

By CHARLES MAYER

NINE firefighters’ were
canned and a mini-
pumper fire truck
-became redundant
‘Monday night when
North Vancouver.
District council
decided it could no
longer afford the jobs
or equipment during
lean economic times.

Taxpayers are expected to
save $300,000 from the
decision to discontinue a six-
month-old emergency
response program

Mavor Marilyn Baker :
announced Dnstnct’s resolve NEWS photo Stuant
to sac x we firefighters alter RESTRAINTS axe fell on firefighter Simon Jang and North Vancouver used to free victims trapped in badly crushed vehicles. The aine staff
tehberated the budget issue Dlstrict’s mini-pumper Monday when council voted them both out of will work thetr finat day Murch 8, Meanwhile, questions are being asked
at an in camera meee the fire department, along with another cight jobs, as a cost-cutting about a $150,000 bay built on to the firehall headquarters recently to

B measure. The mini-pumper is the only District firetruck equipped to accommodate the mini-pumper.

operate the jaws of life cutting equipment shown by Jung, which are

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‘Insufficiently justified expenditures’

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; a a principle that proposed

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