NVD council debate testy

Crist: $48,000 report doesn’t mention amalgamation savings

Martin PAillerchip

Contributing Writer miller@nsnews.com

NORTH Vancouver District’s $48,000 study of services shared with North Vancouver City has been referred to staff and the joint commissions and agen- cies for further reports.

The unanimous decision came Monday at the conclu- sion of another debate driven by Coun. Ernie Crist’s desire to investigate the amalgama- tion of the two neighboring municipalities.

“Nowhere does the report state what the city and district could save if we were one,” complained Crist.

But as Mayor on Bell

Penny bandit caught

A mentally ill man broke into a home in the 400-block of Montroyal Boulevard on Thursday and took a shower, changed into fresh clothes, ate some cereal and emptied jars of pennies into his pockets.

North Vancouver RCMP Const. Tom Seaman said a woman came home to find the man apparently going through house possessions. She left the house and called police by cellular phone.

Seaman said the man was confused and gave officers a wrong, name. He had_ been - living in nearby woods.The man was reported missing from a Vancouver halfway house for mentally ili people on Jan. 3

_The man was taken to Lions Gate Hospital. Police say he had not taken medica- tion for a few days.

Const. Seaman said the man’s family was thankful for his safe return to the halfway house. The family offered to pay for any damages commit- ted by the man.

Seaman noted that police in the Lower Mainland deal with “many. sad incidents” relating, to unmedicated men- tally ill people.

—— Aana Marie D’Angelo

pointed out at least twice to Crist and the television cam- eras, council asked for an investigation into shared ser- vices, not amalgamation.

The report by Coopers and Lybrand Consulting was com- missioned in’ August after council sealed down the terms of the original tender that asked for ao review of — the costs and benefits to the district “resulting trom exist- ing vr posible shared services between the city and district.”

The city refused to partici- pare in the study.

As previously reported in the News, the report con- cluded there were inequities in the funding levels of the RCMP, SP CA, fire dispatch

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However, according to Coopers and Lybrand, only the services provided by the SPCA favor the city. The other agreements all favor the district in some way.

Cristo maintained the report should have looked at the “truce costs” of shared facilities such as the recreation centres and playing ficlds.

Without land values and replacement costs being accounted — for, Crist argued that no true picture

can be drawn of

the benefits that city residents receive from district facilities.

But the rest of council (Coun. Munroe was absent from the meeting) quickly tired of Crist’s arguments and at one point entertained a motion to merely receive the report — a bureaucratic kiss of death.

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