A12-Wednesday, November 5, 1980 - North Shore News

IF VICTORIA CUTS GRANTS

‘Bleak outlook’ seen for local taxpayers

The federal sales tax on
natural gas, introduced last
week in the budget brought
down by Finance Minister
Allan MacEachen, could
have a serious effect on
municipal budgets and
taxation, says West Van-
couver Mayor Derrick
Humphreys.

If the provincial govern-
ment finds it impractical to
pass on the tax to its US
customers ~— who are
already showing strong
resistance to the high price
of BC natural gas exports —
Victoria stands to lose up to
$200 million a

year in
revenue, according to
preliminary “guestimates”.

In an interview on the
weekend Humphreys noted
a commitment made in

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September by provincial
Finance Minister Hugh Curtis
to increase provincial grants
to municipalities by 20-25
per cent.

Addressing the  con-
vention of the Union of BC
Municipalities, Curtis had

referred to the possibility of
reduced natural gas
revenues, but this had not
deterred him from _ his
promise of increased aid.

However, the mayor
continued, the past week
had brought a variety of
other statements from
provincial leaders indicating
a potential reduction § in
municipal grants.

Municipalities, said

Humphreys, are meanwhile
faced with at least a con-
tinuation of existing ser-

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vices, plus wage and salary
increases related to inflation
and increased costs of
materials.

The 1980 growth rate in
West Vancouver is ap-
proximately two per cent.
Without appropriate
provincial grants-in-aid,
Humphreys warned,
municipalities would be
faced with unavoidable
increases in local taxation or
a reduction in services to
persons and property.

The same problems, he

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pointed out, must confront
the school board, which had
already kept spending down
to a minimum this year.

“The present trustees are
to be congratulated on that
difficult task,” he said. “But
if further reductions in
provincial education grants,
as took place in 1980, are
repeated, the school tax
situation looks bleak.”

Humphreys suggested that
federal and provincial ex-
penditures on advertising
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Although local govern-

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the province doesn’t nor-
mally announce the size of
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Humphreys, “leaves elected
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