CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, April 20, 1978

An Alternative?

County System

+ Establishment of a shire or
teounty system in B.C, may be

without which

can't exist,” Brewster said.

lose sight of

ry as an to
:tegional government, the chair-
;man of the regional district
jreview committee said here last

{Th

1 Phillip Farmer told Re-
‘gional District of Central
‘Kootenay representatives his
{committee “may have to recom-
mend” a system similar to the
jone used in West Germany asa
{more effective means of gov-
‘erning rural areas.
Farmer said some regional
‘districts had already made
‘suggestions, during the com-
imittee’s series of hearings
ithroughout the province, on
thow the county system would
‘be run,
“You would have no muni-
‘eipalities within the county,”
(Farmer said. “And the rural
‘areas would become rural muni-
‘eipalities which could be tax-
levying authorities and would
then be accountable to the
people.”
Asked by Farmer if he felt
‘counties would be more effec-
tive in governing rural areas,
Area H director Norman Brew-
ster, who the rural

this.”

Told by the chairman that
planning under such a system
would be done at the county
level, RDCK planning director
Floyd Dykeman suggested a
different kind of planning
would be necessary,

in-

electoral areas, Mayor Audrey
Moore sald a district muni-
eipality in the Castlegar area
would involve providing ser-
vices to a population of up to
15,000 within.a 10-mile radius,

“Some way of financing
would have to be worked out,”
she said. “I think that it's a
good concept but the financial

volves rural planning in rela-
tion to municipal areas,” Dyke-
man said.

In addition to the county
system, the district munici-
pality system was also named
by committee members as an
alternate type of relationship
between rural and municipal
areas.

Asked by committee mem-
ber Ron Thompson whether the
system would be a more effec-
tive means of co-operation

are very, very
heavy.” 3

She said a scaled tax mill
rate with -limited service to
outside areas would be one way
of controlling the cost of
services,

City administrator Bill
Krug said Castlegar already
pays the cost of policing for
outlying areas, but such ser-
vices as fire protection and
highways “would have to be
covered by senior govern-
ments.”

MUNICIPALITIES

Continued from page Al
sophy .that the user pays for
services delivered.”

In 10 years of operation
regional districts have cost B.C.

Slocan Valley on the RDCK
board, said the system “might
work perfectly well in a fairly
populous area.”

“But the difference is that
electoral areas are hinterland

Pi an amount
of money for service provided
by “top-heavy administra-
tions,” she said.

“Why do we need large
administrations?” the mayor
asked. “It seems to me that the

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regional districts could provide
avery useful service by merely
providing the funding for re-
gional functions and letting the
municipalities worry about op-
erations.” 4

In an arrangement similar
to the way they operate their
hospitals, regional districts
could levy taxes for such
functions as recreation and turn
monies over to a municipality
which would be responsible for
the operation of parks and
recreation services, she said.
(See story on Page B1.)

Moore also said many re-
gional districts which include
too much territory in their
boundaries put local decisions
into the hands of persons who
“do not fully understand the
problem, have little if any
knowledge of the -area, and
perhaps most important really
don't care.”

After making her presen-
tation the mayor told the com-
mittee the Municipal. Act
should provide regional district
members with some protection
against being forced into over-
all regional functions by a
board's majority vote. She said
the only way the areas involved

in the Ootischenia function .

escaped participation” in ‘the
overall RDCK garbage function
was their defined-area bylaw.
“I think if there is an
operation of the regional dis-
trict and a number of repre-
sentatives who don't feel they
want to become involved or tax
people for that service, there
should be some way they would
not. be overridden,” she said,
Moore said she did not
object to paying for the RDCK
planning function but she was
convinced planning should be
limited to its statutory require-
ments of planning for the

region and the electoral areas. .

“What makes regional dis-
trict planning departments
grow out of proportion is
getting involved in planning
within municipalities,” she said.
“Somewhere along the line the
RDCK forgot the responsibi-
lities in its statutory functions.”

* She suggested to the com-
mittee that functions ‘common
to all 28 of B.C.’s regional
districts be made mandatory in
section of the Municipal Act.
dealing with regional govern-
ment.

“I suggest they be made
statutory and some attempt be
made to limit. the kinds of
things they are involved in,”
she said. “I think they should
concentrate on things that they
do well.”

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Continued from page Al
1977 first quarter. Experidi-
tures for snow removal on city
streets, Celgar Road and Col-
umbia Avenue totalled $36,-
894.42,

The works and services
committee's first-quarter re-
port said a total of 17 requests
—12 of them for water con-
nections—were received, in-

Volunteers are Sought
By Centre Co-ordinator

Peggy Reed is looking for
volunteers,

Reed, co-ordinator of the
Volunteer Centre—operating
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handicapped persons, and with
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and

Tanks and pumps were checked
daily and five new water con-
nections were installed, the
report said, i

The city signed contracts
for the construction of the addi-
tional water storage reservoir
and started on the water line
extension ‘on Third Avenue
North.

Maintenance of the south
sewer system included daily
checking of.the pump stations,

treatment plant and lagoon, the ,

report said. The city investi-
gated and corrected a total of
two requests, installed five new
sewer connections, surveyed
and dug out an area for the
treatment plant's new settling
tank, and completed the sewer
main extension on Third Ave.
North,

Other city works activities
during the three-month period
included normal maintenance of

-elty streets and lanes, renova-

tions and painting at the city
hall basement, community hall
and swimming pool, correction
of drainage problems at Seven-
th Avenue South, Twelfth
Street South and Sixth Avenue
South, 60-per-cent completion
of centrelining and traffic
throughout the city, street sign
maintenance and repair and the

purchase of a loader and a°

street sweeper.

RDKB?

Continued from page Al
Forks and the territory west of
it from the RDKB and including
it in Central Okanagan was one
way in which the RDKB area
could be reduced.

Area H director Norman
Brewster, who represents the
Slocan Valley on the RDCK
board, said the: city's inclusion

‘ in the RDKB would be “very

self-serving” because it would
result in the concentration of
two heavy industries in one
regional district. He said
Castlegar was put inside RDCK
boundaries in an effort to
create an “economically viable”
regional district,

“The city finds itself com-
plaining about a heavy tax
base,” Brewster said. “That's
like complaining about paying
high income tax because you're
rich.”

Asked by committee mem-
ber Ron Thompson whether
exclusion of Creston and other
areas east of Kootenay Lake
would be a feasible means of
reducing the size of the 20,000-
square-kilometre RDCK, Brew-
ster said it would not offer any
advantage to Central Koote-
nay,
The Area H director said a
north-south division excluding
areas north of Slocan Village
from the region might be more
appropriate than an east-west

:.boundary. He said the north-

south division would not re-
move much of the population
from the RDCK, but would be
inconsistent with natural wa-
tershed boundaries responsible
for the area's inclusion in the
region, :

Brewster said the north-
south division would also split
up the Slocan Valley, which he
described as “a perfect econo-
mic unit.”

RDCK planning director
Floyd Dykeman said the pro-
vincial government, in the ad-
justment of regional bounda-
ries, should not “sit in Victoria
with colored pencils and draw
lines.” He said a “sense of
community” should be the
criterion for setting regional
boundaries.

Members of the commit-
tee, scheduled to complete its
province-wide series of hear-

ings in May, indicated they -

would submit recommendations
on boundary adjustments ‘in
their final report, which is
expected to be completed in
July.

Committee chairman Phil-
lip Farmer told the RDCK
representatives they. “could
pretty well be assured” that
boundary adjustments of some
nature would be made.

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dents in “various human ser-

vice jobs.”

“I would like to reach
people in the community who
are not involved in anything,”
she said. “So that they can be
aware that they can make a
contribution to the lives of
other people.” s

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some degree of loneliness,” or
providing transportation ser-
vices for persons without their
own means of transportation. A
current project, still in an or-
ganizational stage, is offering
English language instruction to
Portuguese-speaking residents,
she said,

Persons interested in be-
coming volunteers can call the
Volunteer Centre at 365-2422,

Discusses Introduction

Discussion on the intro-

_ duction of Portuguese language

instruction into the School
District No. 9 curriculum con-
tinued Tuesday night between
city council, school board and
local. Portuguese community
spokesmen,

Ald. Bud Godderis, health
and welfare committee chair-
man, told city council last
‘Tuesday the meeting was called
to follow up the initial meeting
held early this month with
discussion of the needs of resi-
dents of Portuguese descent
and “the possibilities open to
them.”

School board superinten-
dent John Holden, involved in

Of Portuguese Language

posal, told the Castlegar News
Monday a total of 126 children
of Portuguese descent are
enrolled in district schools.
Twin Rivers Elementary has
85, Woodland Park Elementary
has one and Kinnaird Junior
Secondary has 10, he said,

At Stanley Humphries Sec-
ondary,- six are enrolled in
Grade 9, eight in Grade 10, four
in Grade 11 and 12 in Grade 12,
he said.

“On a grade basis we have
many who won't be with us
next year,” Holden said. -

Introduction of the lan-
guage into the curriculum may
require moving elementary stu-
dents who would be studying
Portuguese to Twin Rivers

the ion of the pro-

y, he said.

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“A" EVENT winners in the Kub Kar Rally
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Sponsor First Kub Kar Rally

The first annual "Kub Kar
Rally” sponsored by Castlegar
Rey Scouts of Canada, with
entries submilted by Cubs of
Robson, Castlegar, Kinnaird,
Blueberry and Ist Trai) Clubs
was held Saturday at the
Kinnaird Hall.

A “Kub Kar” starts out as
a rectangular block of wood,
four wheels and four axles,
carved into their own inter-

pretation of a racing car by the .

boys and their fathers. The car

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Cub Pack, No. 3 Steven Read of Blueberry
Cub Pack and No. 41 Duane Schultz of 1st
Kinnaird Cub Pack. ot

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MODEL EVENT during Saturday’s Kub Kai

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and No. 23 Greg Tkackuh both of the Rebson

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he cars are raced on a
track resembling a ski hill—the
one that gets ta the bottom
first, wins!

The day was reported a
complete success with each
section taking home at least one
winner, As always, when an
event goes so smoothly, there
are always special people who
give their time to help, and the
Scouts would like to thank the
following:

Mode! event judges—Rich-
ard Butz and Nick Sherstobi-

loff; Peter Cseppento and his
erew for making the track; Mrs.
L. Zurek for making po: A
Brian Morris for preparing the
charts for the races and man-
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for the use of their window to
display the cars and the use of
their office for the judging.

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present the winners with their
trophies, the highlight being
the presentation of the Ernie
Fitzpatrick Memorial Trophy to «
the "A" event winner.

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i plosive. to demonstrate that
‘terrorists could do the same.

“We have designed and
built a nuclear device, portable,
using declassified’ documents
and materials which are freely
available,” the newspaper re-
ported. ae

Joséph Rotblat, a profes-
sor of physics. at. London
University who worked on the

. Hiroshima A-bomb, said. the

newspaper had shown him a
picture of the device and details
of its construction. He said he
told the paper: '

“If 1 was a member of the
government and was shown by
a group of terrorists what you
have shown me, I would not like
to gamble with the lives of
thousands of people. I would
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Friday, April 26, 1978. ‘

complies with the following:

or cardboard boxes.
The following items WILL NOT BE PICKED UP:

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1. Rocks.
2. Concrete.

3. Any other objects that cannot be handled by one man.
Refuse should be put out on your normal. garbage pickup day and be placed at
the property line, close to the area where your weekly garbage pickup Is made.
Schedule will be the same as the normal weekly garbage pickup.

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