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NEWS photo Mike Wakefleld

THE frustration of having your new $2 bill rejected by B.C. Transit fare
machines will be a thing of the past. Some of the machines have been
updated so new bills will be accepted. B.C. Transit officials say they hope
to have all of the machines overhauled by the end of December.

North Van council
gives itself a raise

NORTH VANCOUVER City
aldermen decided Monday to give
themselves a $45 raise.

City staff will bring forward a
bylaw that will raise the aldermen’s
annual wage to $9,645, up less
than’one half per cent from the
present $9,600 rate.

The mayor will see a similar hike
in his annual salary — his yearly
pay will now increase frorn $30,040
to $32,130, a hike of less than one
half per cent.

Mayor Jack Loucks reminded
council of an earlier motion to
have salary hikes considered year-
ly. This way, he said, council
would not be put in a position to
vote itself a large increase one year
after having no increases for a
while.

“1 couldn’t believe anyone
recommending (an increase of) one
half of one per cext,’’ said Ald.
Stella Jo Dean, who proposed the
increase not be accepted.

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now accept $2Z bills

NORTH SHORE ScaBus
commuters can now use new
$2 bills in a few of the
system’s ticket machines.

By TIMOTHY RENSHAW
News Reporter

Until this week, none of the 11
ticket machines located at the
north and south SeaBus terminals
were capable of processing the
bills.

But now three of the south ter-
minal's six machines and two of
the north terminal’s five machines
have been reprogrammed to accept
the new $2 bills.

B.C. Transit spokesman George
Stroppa said reprogramming all 90
of the machines along the
SkyTrain and SeaBus_ systerns
should be completed by the end of
December.

The new $2 bills were issued

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Stroppa said reprogramming (he
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“We didn’t get a copy...until
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read the old $5 bills was dropped

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when the new $5 bills were issued
April 28, Instead the machines
were reprogrammed to read old $1
bills and the new $1 bills that were
issued in 1973.

The majority of the machines
now read the old and new $1 bills
and the old $2 bills.

Stroppa said the machines will
eventually be programmed to ac-
cept only the new $1, $2 and $5
bills when all the old bills of each
denomination are out of circula-
tion.

He added that the machines will
have no trouble accepting the new
$1 coins when they are issued in
early 1987 because the mint for-
warded a sample of the coin to
B.C. Transit over a year ago.

With the hundreds of checks
each machine must make to verify
each bill, reprogramming all 90
B.C. Transit ticket machines costs
about $60,000, Stroppa said.

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