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C, x4 Vay Tous 2 -CAST LEGIT Published Bright and Early Every Thursday Morning at “The Crossroads of the Kootenays” Vol: 31, No, 48 30 Cents In today's CasNews Section ''C"’ CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1978 ' Three Svetions (A,B&C) ‘Beard Endorses RDCK Planning Scheme _ 30,000 Bill Seen for Castlegar in 1979 By-RYON GUEDES CasNews Editor Central Kootenay directors ‘accepted in principle Saturday a report calling for Castlegar’s payment of at least $15,000 extra for + regional planning next year, Despite Mayor Audrey Moore's request that the regional district Poard delay action on the proposed planning scheme until the municipal affairs ministry reveals to what extent it will heed the newly-released findings of its regional district review committee, directors endorsed nearly all the 25 recommendations in the report, which proposes a 1979 budget costing the city at least $30,000 for the same level of service. The board's acceptance of the report anticipated a total of nearly $152,000 in taxation — which RDCK planning director Floyd Dykeman said reflects increased salary and capital expenses ‘— as well as adoption of a plan for the Arrow Lakes sub-region as ‘the planning’ department's first priority. Directors agreed to Nakusp director Ald. D. M. Morehouse's request that the report be accepted only in principle to “get the ball rolling” without ruling out further discussion of budget details. “The budgeting process is separate and has to be accepted ot its own merit at the time, because there are certainly going to be some changes coming forth from here,” he said. Area H director Norman Brewster, chairman of the board's planning committee, noted the objections Castlegar and other municipalities have raised in the past over planning and said he was confident that the regional district review committee's recommended changes on the apportionment of regional planning funds would be adopted by the provincial government. “I think the objection of the municipalities is primarily not against planning but what they view as thet inference of the division of costs,” said Brewster, who represents the rural Slocan Valley. “That is about to be changed and I don't think we ought to hold up any of our regional planning on those grounds because that question will be settled by the provincial government, not this board.” Grants Recommended Moore told the board “a substantial part" of the regional district review committee report dealt with the planning function and. the committee “makes a very strong pitch that the pal affairs fund the planning function at the regional district level far greater than it does now." The committee also recommended that the ministry cede to electoral areas per-capita grants “of a reduced nature” which would help pay for delivery of service in rural parts of the regional district, she Moore sai she was scheduled to discuss the regional district review committee findings in a mecting with Municipal Affairs Minister Hugh Curtis the day following a special convention of the Union of B.C. Municipalities Dec. 11. She said she did not wish to be “an obstructionist," but fell the board should assess the impact of the report's recommendations on regional planning and deal with the planning department recommendations in the new year. “T really feel we'd all be in a better position to make some decision earlier in the new year if we have some feeling for how those recommendations are going to be ri Moore suid. Brewster agreed with Moore that the bard should have adequate representation at the special UBCM convention, but added that delaying the plan until the new year would prevent the RDCK from adopting and proceeding with the regional p “Lthink it is essential that we get on with ii director said. “If we don't we/are in effect wasting the time and talents of the planning department.” Taxation ‘Doubling’ Discussing the report's funding formula for the planning department, Moore said Castlegar — which budgeted $24,650 this year for operation of its own planning department — made “little if any demand” on the function for several years but would be required to pay about $30,000 next year. The report's projected taxation of nearly $152,000 in 1979 represents “a doubling" of taxation this year, she said. RDCK administrator Reid Henderson pointed out that although taxation for planning was $77,650 this year, a surplus from 1977 offset costs. Without the surplus Cent Kootenay taxpayers would have paid $135,000 in taxes, he The city can expect to have money left over at the end of the year but should watch its spending closely in 1979, according to the chair- man of city council's finance committee, s In‘his year-end report Tuesday, Ald. Gerald Rust “predicted, “barring unfore- ‘seen circumstances such as major equipment break- downs or an abnormal snow- ‘fall in December" a budget surplus at year end, Rust lold council he was “not prepared to say at this time” how large the surplus will be because there were still two months remaining for the city accounts. Surplus Seen For Year End He said alldepartments, including capital works, managed to stay within the budget this year because minor overruns in some de- partment sections were off- set in other sections. Major overruns were adjusted by the budget revision bylaw passed by council at council's previous meeting, he said. + “On the-revenue. side, collection of taxes and water ., and sewer fees are over 95 _ per. cent regeived,” the. fi- nance committee chairman said. “With present favor- able interest rates the city's investment portfolio will See Page A2 New Policy Provides $100 Million Coverage A new blanket insurance package will provide up to $100 million liability coverage for Castlegar Airport and 36 other small airports across Canada, according toa federal transport ministry official. Al Bach, the ministry's * regional administrator, con- firmed reports that the con- tract.for the package, replacing as of Nov. 15 the policies arranged for the airports indi- vidually, “is everything we've ever wanted it to be.” He said the contract for the’ insurance coverage was award- ed to Dale and Co. Ltd. of Montreal after seven major Canadian insurance brokers were invited to submit tenders, and will cost the ministry an annual premium of $126,667. The single insurance package represented significant savings over the previous individual policies, he said. “I expect the reason we've gone so far in our coverage was that the extra bit of premium required was so small and at no extra cost to the taxpayer,” Bach said. “It's a very success- ful conclusion to what was started several months ago.” The policy provides three to four times" the coverage under which small airports operate in the U.S., he said. Other B.C. airports re- egiving the increase in liability coverage are Grand Forks, Kelowna, Dawson Creek, Pow- See Page A2 STATING UNION’S REQUEST to motorist, this unidentified Tuesday's ‘classes at atte school. Also pictured In right placard bearer was one of about 40 members of Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 1298 whose reine of of Stanley Humphries y resulted In foreground Is Local 1288 president Leo Plamondon. —CasNewsFoto by Lols Hughes Classes at Stanley Hum- phries Secondary were can- celled Tuesday after about 40 non-teaching employees of School District No. 9 stepped up their strike action by picketing entrances to the school. District superintendent John Holden told the Castlegar News he shut down classes at SHSS after teachers were told by members of the Canadian inyginess as Usual’. Yesterday Morning Pickets Interrupt SHSS Classes Union of Public Emp they would not be allowed to cross the “mass” picket line at the school. “I advised the teachers that if they were unable to cross the picket line they should go home,” Holden said. SHSS students also went home as a result of his instructions to the teachers, he said. He said he expected “busi- ness as usual Lomorrow.” Committee Suggests Easing Costs of Regional Planning By RYON GUEDES f Hf Municipal Affairs Minis- ter Hugh Curtis implements the recommendations of his regional district review com- mittee, Castlegar taxpayers can expect a significant reduc- tion in regional planning costs. In addition to operating an in-house planning department for which it budgeted $24,650 this year, the city — according to a planning’scheme endorsed in principle by the Regional District of Central Kootenay board Saturday — faces a cost of $30,000 for a function that does not include service to member municipalities. But among more than 50 recommendations in the region- al district review committee report released early this month were proposals which if enacted would shift some of the tax burden from Castlegar. The committee, which was appointed ina September, 1977 cabinet order-in-coun heard submissions on heetehout B.C. this year, re- commended: © Separation of the cost of settlement planning from the cost of regional planning and the benefiting @ Allocation of small per capita grants to the regional Works Chairman Proposes New Bylaw districts for use in elector areas; e Establishment by the municipal affairs ministry of a realistic schedule and cost estimate for the preparation of regional and settlement plans with a view to arriving at a better formula for provincial funding. Elaborating on the separa- tion of costs for all regional functions, the committee said accounting procedures should be implemented “so staff time and other costs of providing See Page A2 Crowsnest Directors To Meet in Castlegar (_\, Castlegar will play host to fellow members of the Crowsnest The superi noted — Trail Monday and was rumored the mass picketing — replacing Lo continue in Rossland yester- the information pickets con- day. ducted at the school previously * Also contacted Tuesday, — was apparently part of the CUPE Local 1298 spokesman Fotating action which started at said picketers told neither J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary in See Page A2 Students Plan Funeral For Their Education A mock funeral is sched- uled to take place here at noon today following the breakdown of mediation talks last week between representatives of laying to rest. of School District No. 9 and its representing “educati non-teaching employees. ~ we t Kootena; The funeral, spi d by Selkirk College's student coun- cil, is scheduled to proceed from Nelson at 1] a.m. and arrive at the Castleaird Plaza at 12:30 p.m. in protest of a lack -of progress in provincial govern- ment mediator Clark Gilmour's efforts to send five Canadian Union of Public Employces locals back to the bargaining table with the college and four school districts and end a strike-lockout which has dis- rupted education in the West the death of William Hender- Kootenays for nearly five son, 43, of Calgary, the pilot ofa weeks. Bell 212 helicopter which crash- Spokesmen for the Student ed last, Wednesday approxi- mately five miles southeast of Castlegar Airport. Action Committee earlier this week said the demonstration, directed at all dents of the Castlegar dre include the hasn't gotten See Page A3 An inquest will be held into Hrewster pointed out that what planning has been done RDCK planning department “virtually all pertains to muni ties ‘ That is electoral areas," he sai @ reason why no planning has been do: “We have yet to perform our legi: task of creating a viable regional plan.” “We just can't afford the cost of the plaint by the City of Castlegar that they don’t want to participate in payi anything for which they are not getling direct benefit at the time,” he continued. Not Much Help Area J direetor Martin Vanderpol said he Castleg: 's planning cost problems and Mc determine what role the provincial government Goud take in funding the planning function before adopting a regional plan, but felt the board could not wait to enact legislation that would make any new funding available. “In the meantime this year we have a department that costs us $150,000," he said. “If we're really concerned about the tax dollar that should be one of our considerations.” “It's all very well to say we'll sit and wait until the provincial government starts getting off its butt,” the Area J director continued. “But it's not going to give us much help.” Citing a local developer's proposed rezoning of property in Ootischenia and the lack of RDCK participation in plans for development of the Lower Arrow Lake as reasons for adoption of a See Page A2 Water Connections Freeze Still Possible Failure of senior govern- ments to agree on a funding formula for CasUegar’s planned Arrow Lakes pipeline in the near future could mean another water connections moratorium here this year, Mayor Audrey Moore said this week. v Commenting Monday on the apparent lack of progress in current talks between B.C.'s economic development ministry and the federal regional eco- nomic expansion ministry over financing of the new - water supply, Moore told the Castle- gar News if funding is not in plece carly enough to allow. the start of work on the pipeline thi pring, the city would be forced “once again-to look at closing down water connec: tions.” “I think everyone in Castle- gar is aware that the city is a water system away from being d area,” Moore said. yor noted that Eco- nomic Development Minister Don Phillips was scheduled to fii the matter with his counterpart Marcel Les- sard during the first ministers’ economie conference in Ottawa this week, and that “everybody to be in sweet accord ve will need special fund- “It has to be svttled pretty “she sa We're still convinced that we have to have our tender documents ii “at the beginning of the wi start construction in the early: spring.” Moore pointed out that the city applied in mid-October for ce for the planned tie-in to CanCel’s Arrow Lakes pipeline and has served notice The accident occurred 48 a.m. when a eo was received by the airport asking for landing instructions. The message was on all the ministries concerned of the urgency of setting the funding formula. “If the senior levels of government don't get it put together the city course but to go hi further negotiations with Can- Cel and B.C. Hydro, she said. An agreement between the two levels of government would be “far tidier," Moore said, and it would be “ridiculous if a municipality of our size has to start negotiating with Crown corporations over something it wus dispossessed of in the first See Paze AQ are Ferry Fire Still Under Investigation As many as 150 life jackets were destroyed late Saturday afternoon when fire ke out in the foot enger cabin of the Castlegar ferry. In keeping with city regu- lations the ferry had to come to the Castlegar side to allow the city fire department to extin- guish the b which gutted the cabin chief Rene Archam- hault said this week the fire was still under investigation, Meanwhile, tlegar RCMP. have asked the public's assis- tance in locating three male juveniles who were foot pas: sengers on the ferry just prior to the fire being discovered. ‘The ferry operator report- ed seeing three male juveniles riding back and forth three or four times before getting off on the Robson side. Inquest to be Conducted Into Death of Helicopter’s Pilot words reportedly received were “transmission failure. An already airborne heli- copter was instructed to search for the downed machine by John Kennedy, manager of the See Page A2 ae THE STORY Graffiti is ‘Pollution’ He said the store, Bob's Pay 'N Takit at 292 Columbia Ave. had so far failed to remove or cover up the graffiti, The writing on the wall says the city should consider an anti-graffiti bylaw, according to Ald, Albert Calderbank. Calgerbank, city council's works and services committee chairman, cited the delay in removal of graffiti painted on the wall of a store at the intersection of Pine Street and Columbia Avenue as a reason for investigation of a bylaw which would give council “some teeth to dosomething about it.” painted on the wall Halloween night, because the store owner was instructed by an insurance adjuster not to do so, After conducting an extensive inves- tigation of ‘the problem~ the committee received the owner's assurance that the writing would be removed “by the end of this week,” he said. The works and services chairman reported that. the owner of nearby Castlegar Drug at 50 Pine St.. another business t which had suc. ceeded in removing most of the writing. “We are y concerned that the graffiti is not being cleaned up quickly enough,” Calderbank said. See Page A2 Highway Association in March 1979, Ald. Jim Gouk said Tuesday. Gouk, who as the city’s representative was elected Saturday to the association's board of directors, told city council the next quarterly meeting of the board will be held here during the first weekend in March. He reported that in addition to his election as a director Saturday he was appointed B.C. co-chairman of the board's highway development committee. Questioned about his committee's priorities in the coming year, Gouk told the Castlegar News upgrading of mileage signs and standardization of highway curves would be major concerns in 1979, He said a major concern of the association in general would be reducing its list of priorities to allow it to become more effective in dealing with senior governments. The Ci Highway A is a group of councils, tourist hamb of and interested private individuals in B.C. and Alberta campaigning for upgrading and greater use of Highway 3, with which Castlegar was d by its highway link with Salmo in October. ee ea high for a volce ot our economic development. PARKING BI School District No. 9 trust- ees criticize city restrictions fear two local schools. Ann Landers . a Smiley and Automotive . Pages A8-A9-A10-AH Comics. Page BG Consumer Facts pee B2 Editorial. . Page B4 ‘ertainment rae at AS WEEKEND WEATHERCAST| CLOUDY SKIES today with periods of snow which could bring up to five centimetres of snow. 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