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Catharine Barr
Contributing Writer
NORTH Vancouver
City water and sewer
rates are going up, but
overall, residents will

actually end up paying
less. ;

In a series of reports pre-

sented Dec. 4 w council, stat?
reported that an increase of

three per cent is required to
keep. the water and sewer
rates in check.

This means that the aver-
age household will pay. $5
more for each service over
last vear’s rate.

However,

staff also

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reports that the costs associ-
ated with. solid waste‘ man-
agement have gone down
thanks to the vigorous use of
various North Shere recy-
cling programs.

This reduction in costs
means that staff have recom-
mended that the rates for
garbage collection can be
reduced by S5 for 2001 and

trimmings pick-up programs
can. stay. the same as they
were for the year 2000.
Garbage tags, which are pur-
chased and used when house-
holds exceed their two-bag
limit, will also remain at the
current level of $2.30 per
tag.

The good news is that

once these figures are’ fac-
tored into the formula, resi-
dents will actually end up
with a decrease in rates of
approximately $2.76 (or 0.56
per cent less than fast year).

The combined cate
includes the | residential
charges for refuse, recycling,
water, sanitary’ and storm
sewer services,

Wednesday, December 13, 2000 —- North Shere Mews - 27°

ity rales down

Water rates have risen,
according to staff, primarily
because the Greater
Vancouver . Water District
(GVWD) has increased - its
rates. North Vancouver City
residents get their water from
the GVWD.

A. sing!e-family's average:
sanitary-sv-er flat rate will be
approximately $166.