No tax breaks for traders

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Clark said the average tax
increase for small business in
North Vancouver this year
was 68 per cent, with many
businesses seeing their taxes
more than double.

He suggested council
either roll back taxes in the
form of a grant, or only ask
businesses for last year’s
taxes plus 15 per cent.

“This would be helpful to
those who haven't paid their
taxes yet,” and would help

‘equalize the tax load -bet-
ween commercial and
residential properties, he
said.

Otherwise “you will lose a

Wor

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schools will accept some
kind of rollback or com-
promise so we can rehire

those teacher aides,” he
said.

“But if they don’t, we can't
get caught,” he added.

That's why the notices --
among the first of their kind
in the province -- have been

‘load wou

very valuable commodity —
the small businessman,” he
said.

But council members
weren't about to take Clark’s
speech lying down.

Alderman Frank Marcino
said the speech contained
“some very vicious slaps that
aren’t warranted.”

City council knew what it
was doing when it chose its
assessment option last year,
Marcino said. At that time
homeowners were suffering
unfairly because of property
values, while the tax bills for
merchants were, for the
most part, decreasing.

Businesses aren't failing
because of taxes, he said,

sent out now, Sager ex-
plained, in order to give the
aides fair warning.

Teacher aides assist
regular teachers with such
chores as the preparation
and marking of lessons, help
for students needing special
tutoring, office work and the
supervising of recess and
noon-hour periods.

Aides are not required to
be qualified teachers but

but because of the recession.

City council can’t give any
tax relief, except in very
exceptional circumstances,
he told Clark.

Alderman Stella Jo Dean,
herself a member of the
Chamber of Commerce,
agreed with Clark that a
problem exists. About 10
businesses have closed in the
past month alone, she said.

But, she said, none of the
tax options available to the
City are equitable. And if
small businesses want
financial help, they'll have to
approach the federal and
provincial governments, not
the City

Alderman Gary Payne

numerous of them are, in
fact, qualified, according to
West Van school superin-
tendent Ed Carlin - some
even with master’s degrees.

West Van education
director Ron Fenwick said
the practical effects of the
layoffs are still being
studied.

In some cases, he con-
jectured, jobs done by
teacher aides simply

City too slow for trailers

A NOBLE cause has died at
North Vancouver City
council, with barely a tear
shed at its passing.

Council has voted to
withdraw a bylaw that would
have allowed recreational
vehicles to park on land
owned by the Recreation
Centre, because the bylaw
ran into too many com-
plications, and because
there was no longer any need
for the bylaw.

Council originally wanted
the bylaw so that a group

that travels around in
Airstream trailers could
come to North Van City this
summer, and possible spend
a few dollars during their
visit.

But the group came and
went — to Mount Seymour
Park where they didn’t have
to worry about a bylaw —
while City council and staff
pondered the implications
and subtletics of such a
bylaw.

Alderman Elko Kroon
recommended withdrawal of

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also took advantage of
Clark's delegation to talk
about taxation. He told
Clark the City has been
trying for a long time to get
the tax assessment system
changed, with no response
from the province.

Payne and City Ad-
ministrator Ed Raymond
told Clark the Chamber of
Commerce should be trying
to help the City in its efforts
to get the assessment system
changed, and should lobby
other municipalities to
support City resolutions on
taxation at the Union of

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Municipalities convention
next month.

increase

wouldn't be done any more.
In other cases, extra jobs
would presumably have to
be done by teachers
themselves.

“I guess you might say

teacher productivity will
have to increase,’ he
commented.

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