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Camp Delbrook

North Vancouver booking agent blasts
the program’s $5-million shortfall

A LOCAL talent bosking agent who claims that private
enterprise agencies have been locked out of the lion's share

of the entertainment dollars being spent by
ys the provincial

throughout the province s

Music “91
program's

budgetary process is out of control.

Sue Cook, a North Vancouver
resident and a booking agent with
Siegel Entertainment, points to the
requested addition of $5 million
worth of provincial money to the
Music ‘91 program as an exariple
of poor planning. The money is
needed to cover a shortfall on a
$27-million budget.

Said Cook, “This is totally ir-

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REACHING EVERY DO

By Michael Becker

News Reporter

responsible. ['m not blaming the
staff at Music (9b. But if this is a
project of the provincial govern-
ment, they are responsible for the
bookkeeping. You've pot to start

ee we

with ao plan. They should have
gone to all of the agencies, find
out what the prices would be. It's
sounding fike they’re just throw.
ing things together. They’ve just
announced for example that Bryan
Adams is) going to be doing
Revelstoke. He's not going to
come cheap. It frightens me that
we have a government that has
somehow been sold this idea and
they haven't even planned it: pro-
perly or budgeted the darn thing.”

Depending on whom you talk
to, Music "9! received the $5 mil-
lion months ago or the money is

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In May, NDP tourism critic Jan
Pullinger claimed the provincial
government allocated $5 million
from) general revenue (to cover
Music ‘91 costs. The provincial
music festival society has already

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received $12 million trom B.C.
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Music ‘91 spokesman Ray
McAllister would not confirm the
$8 million figure. But he said a

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