BILL BELL

WEST Vancouver
homeowner taxpayers
will be getting a break
in their school taxes for
a second year in a row
as trustees passed a
$18,759,101 budget for
1983, down $766,728
from 1982.

After the homeowners’
grant is applied, the average
taxpayer can expect a $60
reduction.

Trustees passed the
budget Monday to meet the
May 17 deadline, despite not
knowing what the eventual
outcome of teacher salary
negotiations would be. Nor
do they know if they will be
given permission from the
Ministry of Education to
close five schools in the
district.

“We do not know what the
salanes will be next year...
do not know what the
configuration of schools will
be,” said school board
chairman Norm Alban.

“This budget does not as
yet represent: an operating
plan to the District,” Alban
said.

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A3 - Wednesday, May 18, 1983 - North Shore News

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WV trustees
take credit
for tax break

Stull, trustees were quick
to point out that a recent
editorial in the North Shore
News was misleading when it
said that local tax increases
could be blamed on school
taxes.

Talking to the News
reporter during the regular
meeting, trustee Margot
Furk said, “We have
reduced our budget by a
substantial amount and you
can point your finger at the
Municipalities, not the
board, for rising taxes.”

Because of the uncertainty
of the budget expenditure
plan, Furk received
assurance that any surplus
would be forwarded to the
next year’s budget.

Despite the decrease in
taxes, the mill rate will
increase to 34.7 from 28.9.
This comes as a result of
falling assessed values in
West Vancouver, dropping
from $218 million in 1982 to
$217 in 1983.

Local taxpayers should be
pleased with the budget, as
the amount raised locally for
schools has dropped from a
high of $18 million two years
ago to $7.5 million this year.

Provincial grants of
$11,208,667 will make up the
difference.

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