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City reluctantly approves Sportsplex funds

North Vancouver council unhappy with scaled-down version of Capilano College project

THE PAYMENT of a previously
committed $200,000) contribution
to. aew $3.4 million Capilano
College Sportsplex was approved
by Morth Vancouver City Council
recemly over the objections of
somz council members who
argued that the city should
justifiably renege on the payment.

By Pamela Lang
Contributing Writer

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NORTH VANCOUVER
CITY COUNCIL

Aldermen Stella Jo Dean and
Bill Bel! were against the payment
for different reasons, but both
agreed that city funds should
never have been committed to the
Project, which has been scaled
down since it was originally pro-
Posed.

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government representatives should
“pet off their butts and provide a
decent community college." Bell
said ina passionate plea to reject
the payment to the college.

“Capilano College has capital
works in the worst shape of any
college in this province.” he said,
adding that the college still uses
“temporary’’ portable classrooms
that were used in the *70s.

Bell said) community college
capital projects should be com-
pletely funded by the province,
adding that it is ‘shocking’ that
the North Shore has thre: high-
profile Social Credit MLAs, but
can’t get a Sportsplex for its
community college.

“Every other community has
sportsplexes funded entirely by the
provircial government,”” Bell said.

Dean said the city’s commit.
ment is ‘tmore or less a contract"
with Capilano College, but added
that because the city was nor

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Setting what was promised,”
council should not be bound by
the agreement.

But Mayor Jack Loucks said
the city was obligated to honor
the commitment made by a prior
council.

While he said that it wasn't fair
to the city that the project had
been scaled dewn, Loucks pointed
out that the colleee has made
plans based on a $200,000) city
conmmmitanent,

Not paying it now, Loucks said,
would be “unfair to Capilano
College, unfair to the students,
and unfair to the community."

Ald. Frank Morris said he
would honor the commitment
“reluctantly,” after being reays-
sured that the facility built would
allow expansion to the original
plan if more money was obtained.

The “net benefit to taxpayers”*
through community use of the fa-
cility makes the contribudion wor-
thwhile, Ald. Rod Clark said in
support of the payment,

Capilano College originally ap-
proached the city in) 1986, re-
questing a $200,000 contribution.

The remaining funds, according
to the college, would be provided

by the province. the other North
Shore municipalities, the collere
and through public fundraising.

The $200,000 contribution was
approved Nov. 10, 1886 by the ci-
ty.

Delays in the sportsplex project
resulted because of difticulties ob-
laining provincial funding, city
treasurer-collector A. Kenneth
Tollstam stated in) an Aug. 1
report to council.

Although the college has said
the project was scaled down
because of the delay, the budget
has been reduced by $550,000.

The remainder of the $3.4 mil-
lion budget wilf come from the
Ministry of Education ($1.1 mil-
lion); the provincial government
lottery fund ($400,000); North
Vancouver District ($400,000);
West Vancouver District ($60,000,
$150,000 was requested); Capilano
College ($1.014 million): and
public fundraising ($226,000,
$1.376 million was projected).

The facility will include a
14,500) square foot competition
gyninasium with two basketball
courts, two volleyball courts and
eight badminton courts; a 2,000-
square-foot aerobics gymnasium;

and an additional area including
training, f s’ aid, offices and
change rooms.

“The North Vancouver Recre-
ation Commission has been guar-
anteed by the college a minimum
of 25 per cent of the total
Operating time,"’ Tollstam’s report
stated.

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