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Budget hike minimal

NORTH VANCOUVER District Council has budgeted $30 million for its 1985 budget, a 5.1 per cent increase over last year.

| _By DAWN BURKE |

By a unanimous vote, council approved the budget Monday. |

Total expenditures are $30,490,724. Waste disposal will see the biggest spending ‘increase at 30 per cent followed by recreation at 13.7 per cent and public works at 10.2 per cent.

_ Council members were generally pleased with the

budget. Ald. Ernie Crist called the budget ‘‘first ‘class.””

“The budget is one we can ©

honestly support,’’ Crist said.. ‘‘It is based on the ‘assumption the public is en-

‘titled: fo. a continuation of -

‘’service.*”

Ald. Mary Segal agreed with Crist. .“‘It is very tight and, I think, _@ very good one.”

Council: will..be spending 147 per: cent less on debt charges and mew construc-

‘tion will help keep the tax. _ levy down. The increase. in.“

the tax levy is 3.85 Per cent

Plan.

Public works monies will be spent on street and drainage maintenance and mending the results of floods, Segal reported. ‘*We are now in a position to take good care of what we have,”’ Segal said.

A $690,000 contribution to the Premier Street landfill

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continue. - TALKS ARE continuing in ; . the B.C. Rail dispute. -

Provincial Mediator Fred Geddes, Deputy Minister of.

Labor Graham Leslie, and - _ Executive . Director of the’: Mediation . Services. Branch~ §

of ‘the Ministry’ of .Labor . Clark Gilmour’, met — with Norm Farley of the Council of Trade Unions Tuesday in. .an effort to settle the .dispute.. The -unions had served strike notice on B.C. Rail late last week. .

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Craig Gilmour. And George :[ Manager of Com-.

Dobie, munication Services, Ministry of Labor was misidentified as the Com- munications Officer.

The News also erred in quoting Dobie as. saying the provincial government . is making an all-out effort to stall strike action. In fact, the government is trying to help settle the dispute.

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Capital Cost Recovery Fund is behind the huge iacrease in waste disposal costs. The reduced life expectancy of the landfill accelerate? the capital cost recovery, said Michael Hoskin, of the District's finance depart- ment. The landfill is set to be closed at the end of the year.

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