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May 12, 1982

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THE VOICE OF NORTH AND WEST VANCOUVER

Tel. 985-2131

Classified 986-6222

orth Van City?

5% REDUCTION FOR ‘AVERAGE’ HOMEOWNER

GOOD NEWS BUDGI
FOR WV TAXPAYERS

TOTAL EXPENDITURES by West Vancouver
municipality in 1982 will decrease by two per cent
compared to last year and total gross property
taxes for the average West Van homeowner
should be around 15 per cent less than in 1981.

That was the good news in
the 1982 West Van budget
bylaw which passed all three
readings without debate at
Monday's council meeting.
Final adoption of the budget
will take place at a special
council meeting Friday
morning.

Total 1982 revenues and
expenditures are

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$48,461,700, down from a
corrésponding 1981 figure of
$49,317,200. This total
covers taxes collected by the
municipality for other
agencies - including West
Van School Board - as well
as the municipality's own
operating budget.

The two per cent decrease
in total expenditures and the

By NOEL WRIGHT

Significant decrease in
average residential property
taxes are the result of two
external developments
earlier this year.

One was the provincial

government's new _ school
financing formula which
transferred a _ sizeable

proportion of the overall
school tax levy to the in-
dustrial and commercial
sector. That part of the levy
will now be collected
directly by Victoria.

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fo LOCAL

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UT by jolmers at Burrard Yarrows closed the shipyard to all
1,200 unionized workers Tuesday morning. Dispute arose over work

functions when new yard manager Dennis Hall gave work installing
bulkheads tn the first of a number of

ebreaker ships being built for

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The new formula also
ended the transfer of a
percentage of West Van
school taxes to subsidize
school costs elsewhere in the
province -- a process which
last year cost West Van
taxpayers $400,000 and this
year could have drained
them of as much as $1.25
million.

The second development
was ai successful blanket
appeal by the municipality
against original 1982
property value assessnients
which resulted in assessed
values being reduced by an

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average of 23 per cent in line
with the recent dramatic
slump in real estate prices.

From the new year on-
ward Mayor Derrick
Humphreys and West Van
council played a leadership
role among other Lower
Mainiand municipalities in
pressing the provincial
education ministry and the
B.C. Assessment authority
for these changes.

A disappointment shared
by West Van council with
other councils, however,
was an unforeseen cutback

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Dome Petroleum to sheet metal workers instead of joiners. The matter bs

set for arbitration for June 22, by which time the ship bb scheduled to be
completed. (lan Smith photo)

SHOOTINGS
ON SEYMOUR

parents

By CHRIS LLOYD

TWO COUGARS were
shot near the entrance
to Mount Seymour
Park Saturday after
they had eaten a dog on
a horse trail there the
previous afternoon.

And
Wildlife

local Fish = and

Conservation
Officer Doug Adolf, who
shot them, ts warning
parents of babies and tod-
dlers as well as pet owners to
take special care when they
are in or near bush areas

Unhke bears. which Fish
and Wildlife sometimes
allempt to capture live and
then turn loose in remote
areas, Cougars are con-
sidered such a risk that the
policy ts shoot to them

“We dont fool around
when we get ao cougar
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