44 - North Shore News — Sunday. September 24, 2000

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THE developing Harbourside Business Park, as seen facing south, shows the
oval that will be surrounded by a 12 dealership auto mail.

Site cieanup cost $18 million

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with a more pedestrian-
friendly ambience.

“f think the concern that
existed in the past was that
there were perhaps too many
auto dealerships along
Marit Drive,” said Bell.

“I've heard descriptions
that it was sort of the
Kingsway of North
Vancouver,” he said.

To get to the Harbourside
Business Park development,
you must go over a new over-
pass over a rail line.

Concert Properties says it
has spent $1.6 million to
build the overpass and service
the property for light indus-
trial use.

The area used to be called
the Fullerton Fill. The last

business on the site was a
lumber miil which closed in
the early 1970s. The pollut-
ed, heavy industrial use land
was {eft abandoned until
Concert Properties bought it
in 1996.

Peter Martin, Concert’s
industrial and commercial
properties manager, said the
developer has spent $18 mil-
lion in environmental
cleanup from mills and cont-
amination from Imperial Oil.

The oil company used to
have a home oil distribution
site at the edge of the prop-
erty.

Development plans call
for 6.5 acres (2.6 hectares) of
park and public walkway on
the water’s edge and along a
slough on the west side.

Martin said the park will

likely be ready by the end of
the year. He said the auto
mall will officially open in the
spring.

Martin said that phase ovo
of the development, the lots
near the water’s edge, is now
being marketed.

For that area, mid to high
end restaurants as well as
business offices are planned.

Martin said the construc-
tion of a “boutique hotel” on
the eastern waterfront was at
the “interest level.” A ncigh-
bourhood pub is also a passi-
bility,

Meanwhile the auto mall
will have a free standing
150-foot (46-metre) high
electrical sign.

“North Shore Auto Mail”
will be displayed in a lighted
600 sq. ft. (56 sq. m) area.

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The following is the Inst of
three stories on the top
municipal wage-earners on
the North Share:

NORTH Vancouver
City shelled out nearly
$20-million to
employees last year.

According to municipal
records, city employees who
made over $50,000 in 1999
accounted for 32.64% of the
municipal workforce and
$9.75-million in wages, or
just under 50% of the total
payroll.

Employees who were
paid under $50,000 for the
year comprised 67.36% of
the workforce and just over
$10-million out of the city
budget — a 50.7% share of
the total employee payroll.

The combined salaries of
employees over and under
the $50,000 benchmark
amounts to a total of
$19,784,316.50.

The total of expenses tal-
lied by employees in the
$50,000+ bracket comes to
$296,913.96

Six employees, including
the top three earners for
1999 — former fire chief
T.D. Cumming; assistant
chief, administration, Barry
Sotham, and deputy finance
director Gilbert Tulloch —

are no donger with the
municipality.

Following are the top 2
earners in the City of North
Vancouvet for 1999
{amounts include retirement
allowances and vacation pay-
outs):

1. T.D. Cumming, (former)
fire chief, $219,786.58;

2. Barry Sotham, (former)
assistant chief — admin-
istration, $169,310.64;

3. Gilbert Tulloch, (former)
deputy finance director,
$141,271.33;

4. Kenneth Tollstam, city
manager, $138,199.89;

5. Alex Chisamore, ( former)
assistant communications
chief, $134,294.46;

6. Joseph Lavery, (former)
chief librarian,
$117,349.57;

7. James Laughlin, city engi-
neer, $111,273.26,

8. Terry Christie, director of

finance, $103,431.17;

9. Fred Smith, director of

development services,
$99,955.17;

10. William Susak, deputy
city engineer, $94,917.73;

IV. Richard Shore, director
of — human resources,
$92,189.04;

12. Isabel Gordon, deputy
director of finance,
$91,220.03;

13. Cynthia Ann Turner,
director of computer ser-

vices, $91,129.51

14. Richard White, deputy
director of development ser-
vices, $90,196.91;

15. William Granger, man-
ager of parks and environ-
ment, $87,262.38;

16. Bruce Hawkshaw, city
clerk, $87,094.98;

17. David Burgess, assistant
chief —- fire prevention,
$86,563.11;

18. Barrie Penman, assistant
chief = of operations,
$85,630.93;

19. Fredrick Bruckshaw,
purchasing manager,
$84,473.72

20. Margot MacFayden,
lands manager, $83,404.48;
21. Paul Bouchard, fire cap-
tain, $83,383.67;

22. David Howard, (former)
fire captain, $80,070.93;

23. Gary Palmer, superin-
tendent of. streets,
$79,114.32;

24. Janice Aver, financial
services manager,
$78,540.43;

25. Keith Atchison, fire lieu- |
tenant, $76,542.56.

— Correction: in the Sept.

6 edition o the News which —
outlined the top municipal ”
carvers in the District of

_ North Vasncenver, top wage.

earner #18 should have been

identified as Irwin Torry,.. _

who made $85,035 in 1999.
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