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providing munmeipal services

operates ata different level alto- gether, It allows a municipality to use full discretion in’ the CXETEISE OF ITS POWER to Meet Jocal conditions. This, Vietona

not prepared to de, howev

¢ bottom line is thar Bill Sis even more unwieldy than

the present act.

Bill 31 extends ne addition: al powers ta municipalities other than the power to invite the corporate sector te provide services tor profit,

Bill 31 is essentally retro: nressive, Twas concocted by a power hangry government at

the expense of homeowners and municipal democracy.

The ceal irony is thar the conservative gavernment in Alberta has been aicesstul in overcoming, a century of ba wardness and oso has Newtoundland and others. Gordon Campbell too hay wit

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abl -- Ernie Crist is a North Vancouver Distnet Councillor. Te North Shore News renu-

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based on cost to one er serv tor corporate profit, “This vill be che logical and inevitable outcome of Bill 31

Wile the councr of board remams the arunigipal govern ing bah. a new Section 176

Sts out lists of corporate pow ers. This inclides the power t engage in indust commer: cial or business undertakings.

Bill 32 allows manicipalities te enter info partnering agree: ments, A partnering agreement is benween a local government and another persop or public authority. Ir can provide tor the other party to provide a service

r the focal government example, a partneny ment can call for the prs SCCTOr TU Ope! a municipal Water system.

A partnenng agreement can

clude “assistance” to the other parn. * tance” is a grant benefit, advantage or other “assistance.” ft can include exemptions from a ray, fee er charge but not from a development cost) ch can also inckide sale or lea land or improvements for less than mir market value. The new rides also apply to assistance through tay exemptions.

Exemptions are permitted for land or improvements or both as specified in the bil granting the fay exemptions tax exemption can) only extended to land or improve: ments used tor pubhe purpose that are owned by a party to the partnering agreement. Loan Authorization Bylaws can now be used to authorize money thar is then loaned to a pariner under a partnering agreement.

Under Bill 31, a mun ty could make land available to a non-profit housing seciery tor a nominal fee of St, which would open up a new avenue for non-profit housing.

But on the whole, Bill 31 is nothing less than a cleverly dis- guised attempt to deny munic- ipa! government its righttul place as a legitimate level of government.

Ar the same time, it forces the ever cash-strapped munici- palities into the arms of the cor-

rate world. It absolves

storia from sharing cither power or money. Victoria can continue to siphon off tax money from local pockets, su as gasoline or liquor tax, with- out giving back a penny ; =

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