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20% rise for WV residents;
16.2% for NYC residents

THE AVERAGE single-family resident in West) Vancouver
faces a cumulative 20% municipal tay increase this year,
while the average North Yancouver City) single-family res-

ident faces a cumulative 16.2% tax increase for 1992,

include municipal,
and Greater Van-
District service

The
school
couver
COStS,
The 1992) West Vancouver
budget will result in a 5.9% tay
increase for municipal services to
the average West Vancouver tax-
payer. But the municipality’s
$90.7 million cotal budget, in-
cluding collections for the
municipality, the school board
and the Greater Vancouver
Regional District (GVYRD), will
increase taxes for West Vancouver
residents by approximately 20%.
By comparison, a 5.24%
municipal tax increase was ap-

increases
board
Regional

proved Monday night by North
Vancouver City Council. The ad-
dition of school district taxes and
GYRD levics raises that total to
16.17% for the average single-
family resident in the city. Resi-
dents in city condominiums face
a 4.3% tax hike.

As chronicled in the April 29
News, a cumulative 11% tax in-
crease was approved by North
Vancouver District Councit on
April 27.

West Vancouver District
collect $31 milion this
through taxes.

The cost of running the
municipality in 1992 will be ap-
proximately $53 million. Addi-
tional funds will be coliected
through utility charges ($6.2 mil-
lion), the sale of services ($6.8
million} and provincial grants
($8.9 million).

An additional $15.7 million
capital program for 1992 will fund
such projects as the West Van-
couver library expansion.

Ald. Ron Wood, who introduc-

will
year

By Maureen Curtis
and Pamela Lang

ed West Vancouver's budget at
Monday night's council meeting,
said that much of the tax increase
results from ao new formula for
funding school districts and the
cancellation of the Supplementary
Homeowner Grant by the provin-
cial government.

“Council believes that this 1992
budget is a responsible budget in a
year when taxpayers are being
faced with huge increases from
other fevels of government and
when many traditional sources of
non-tax revenue are declining,"*
said Wood.

Ald. Wood said the budget in-
crease had been kept relatively low
by maintaining services at levels
similar to those offered in 1991
and by reailocating funds from
existing programs to allow for a
few new services.

West Vancouver District budget
allocations include:

@general government:
$4,393,200;

® protection: $14,578,900;
@environmental health:
$4,818,400;

@ public health: $822,100;

® transportation and
$8,195,6C0;
@recreation and
$9,283,400;

@ debt charges: $5,218,100:

@ sundry (fiscal): $1,408,000;

@ contingency: $621,000;

@ capital program, acquisition
and maintenance: $4,565,700.

Wood said that environmental
programs, which are provided
primarily through the GVRD,
continue to cause significant in-
creases in general tax levies and

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Rally protests cuts

PARENTS, STUDENTS and teachers turned out Sunday afternoon at Kinsman Stadium for a
rally to protest cuts to education funding in North Vancouver School District 44. The local
school district will receive $10 million less in education funding for the 1992-93 school year

than it did the previous year. See story page 3.