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Challenger Reid cites violation
of West Vancouver style of life

AS MUCH as there are obvious differences be-
tween the two men seeking the mayor’s office in
West Vancouver, there is a single similarity —
both Tom Reid and Dernck Humphreys are con-
fident they will be the winner when votes are
tallied on the evening of Nov. 17.

Over the next two issues, the News will take a
look at the two men, based on interviews con-

ducted this week.

We begin today with Reid and conclude Sunday

with Humphreys.

‘‘P’ve attended about 95
per cent of the council
meetings in West Vancouver
in the last three years and |
attended spasmodically pnor
to that. What | observed in
the last three years has made
me feel that the administra-
uon of this municipality was
not what it should be.’’

That’s what makes Reid
run, says the former North
Vancouver City mayor

challenging Dernck Hum-
phreys for the municipality’s
top office this year.

Specifically, says Reid, it
was municipal council’s
handling of the transfer of
the foreshore lease from the
province to the municipality
that put him on the election
trail this year.

“The fact thar the council
voted unanimously and
spoke so strongly in favor of

this lease and yet not one of
them had read it triggered
the fact that the administra-
tion in this municipality isn’t
healthy,’’ Reid says.

The actual decision to run
was made in January after
he was approached by the
combined ratepayers associa-
uon and a number of in-
dividuals about the possibili-
ty.

According to Reid, the
groups protesting the
foreshore lease arrangements
represented 800 members
and about 200 businesses.

**‘When the attitude of the
council and your newspaper
was that we were a bunch of
people that didn’t know
what they were talking
about, that we were
dissenters, people looking
under flat rocks,

gallery orators, | thought

public |

since when is a group of
concerned people in_ that
number dissidents? Where ts
our democracy? It’s not a
dictatorship,’’ Reid says.

Reid identifies ‘‘the future
of this municipality’’ as the
biggest issue of the cam-
paign.

‘‘And then there are the

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spin-off issues that support
that statement and one of
them is the in-camera
meetings,’’ he says. Reid has
charged the municipality
does too much _ business
behind closed doors = and
that, as mayor, he would
open proceedings more to
the public.

‘*The responsibility will be
given to the aldermen. They
will be assigned respon-
sibilities and this will give
the opportunity to the public
to evaluate the people they
have elected and know
whether they’re getting the
correct representation and
whether they should be re-
electing them,’’ Reid said.

Reid, who ran an unsuc-
cessful campaign as an
alderman last year (**‘because
I don’t believe in acclama-
tion and that’s what wouid

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have happened’’) adds that
animosity that has been evi-
dent between he and Derrick
Humphreys is not of his
making.

“If you look back on my
campaigns you'll see that |
haven’t slung any dirt,’’ he
says. *‘Animosity started on
his part. (He was upset) that
I would have the
unadulterated gall to exercise
my democratic right to seek
office, that I would
challenge him.”’

“*l care,’’ he says in con-
clusion. ‘‘Il care for the
municipality | live in, for the
country I live in, and for the
people that live in it. And |
specifically care about the
style of life | enjoy in West
Vancouver, my family en-
joys. | have observed that
it’s being violated and |
care.’’

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