Page 18, May 9, 1979 - North Shore News

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West Vancouverites can
expect their property tax
bills to go down slightly if

individual assessments have |

not been increased.

‘Alderman Don McAlister:
Monday’s:
- council meeting that this is.

remarked at

the first time taxes have gone
. down rather than up since

‘he’s been serving council,”

some five years.

The -operating budget “of.

$19,111,800 is down from

2

the 1978 budget of $21,054,

935, later
$21,681,940.

_revised to

The collections for other .
agencies, such as_ hospital, .
GVRD and schools -have..

‘gone up slightly this year.
from: $11,891,543 in 1978 to
$12,156,400.

Municipal expenses and
collections combined add up
to a total of $31,268,200 for
1979 .as opposed to
$33,573,483: after the 1978
revised. budget: was handed

in — a decrease of over 6.8 -

percent. =. © -

McAlister said, municipal
expenditures are up three
per cent, however property
assessments are also up three
per cent. The mill rate
remains the same at 6.98. ~

“Uniess the provincial
assessment . authority raises

assessments, taxes should be |

‘down a dollar or two,”
Mayor Derrick Humphreys
commented.

-elected_ and meets
‘promise

. will

to

McAlister said the school |

mill rate has dropped by 2.76
per cent. This happened
after the province removed
the. burden of Capilano
College from property taxes.

_ And if the current
provincial government is re-.
its
of increasing
Homeowners Grants, there.
be another $100
chopped off taxes.

Mayor Humphreys said
the staff has been working

*. mine months on the present

budget.

' This year the municipality

began a new-format budget
itemize all municipal
services and their costs. This
was called a program-
performance, zero-base
budgeting program.

Ratepayer groups had
opportunities to discuss
municipal ‘sérvice priorities,
and this procedure is ex-
pected to continue in the
future.

_ About a dozen ratepayer
and other civic groups were
asked to study and comment

--on the budget this year.

More

on page 68

council news|

PLANTING FLOWERS OF HOPE for the. North ‘Shore Association for ihe. Mentally Handicapped fs popular
television personality Mike Winlaw, who has been named honorary chairzaan of the fundraising campaign running
on the North Shore from May 13 through 19 -- National Menta! Retardatiun Week. The appeal is being mailed to
over 30,000 North Shore homes.

District budget cut 3. 6%

North Vancouver District
council Monday presented a
1979 budget showing .an
overall decrease of 3.6 per
cent compared to last year’s -
budget -; down from
$41,882,902 in 1978 to the
current $40,359 424.

These figures take into
account the municipality's

own operating budget plus ©
_ collections

fer other
(e.g. éducation,
hospital, regional parks,
etc.) and miscellaneous
expenses.

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