2 - Friday, March 15. 1991 - North Shore News

Clark offers no apology for making conflict charges

NORTH VA

NCOUVER City

Ald. Rod Clark did not

apologize Monday night for previously accusing two fellow
city alderrien of conflict of interest and will now face legal
action, according to one of the accused aldermen.

Derek Currigan, the lawyer for
Aldermen Bill Bell and Barbara
Sharp, had demanded Clark apol-
ogize fer what Corrigan said were
the inaccurate and defamatory ac-
cusaticns made by Clark about his
clients,

Put Clark was silent: when re-
cemideration and final adoption
vaies were called on the bylaw to
epprove the $410,000 acquisition

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

of three garbage trucks, so Bell
said he will instruct Corrigan to
proceed with legal action.

The trucks will be used for gar-
bage collection by city staff, fol-
lowing a Feb. 18 decision to
deprivatize city collections. During

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the March 4° counci) meeting.
Clark accused Bell and Sharp of
conflict, of interest in’ both the
Feb. 18 deprivatization vote and
the vote relating to the garbage
truck acquisition,

Clark said he considered Bell
and Sharp to be in a conflict of
interest on the garbage
deprivatization issue because both
aldermen were endorsed by CUPE

(the Canadian Unien of Public
Employees) and because Bell has
acknowledged receiving a $2,000
campaign contribution from the
union in 1990.

Six CUPE members will be
hired to handle the garbage collec-
tion as a result of council’s deci-
sioa to deprivatize the service.

Corrigan demanded the apology
from Clark after the solicitor for
the Union of B.C. Municipalities
stated that, in his opinion, Bell
and Sharp were not in a conflict
of interest.

Ald. Stetla Io Dean again voted

with Clark against the garbage
truck acquisition bylaw. And she
again spoke out against the fact
that the garbage collection con-
tract never went to public tender.

But Sharp said the issue should
be looked at from more than just
a financial point of view. Advan-
tages of deprivatizing garbage col-
lection, such as increased control
and flexibility, she said, were
Previously outlined to council.

The garbage truck acquisition
bylaw was passed in a 4-2 vote,
with Ald. John Braithwaite ab-
sent.

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