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Visit us Today 1434 Columbia Avenue Castlegar 365-7365 elec - LUNCHEON SPECIAL “at the Downtown‘and South Castlegar Dixie Lee's Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. 2 Pieces of Chicken and French Fries or your choice of Coleslaw, Bean Salad, Potato Salad or Chicken/Macaroni Salad. Legislative Library, Parliament Bldgs., 501 Victoria, B. Ce Vav 1X4 MID-WEEK a» STLE¢ Published at “The ‘Crossroads of the Kootenays” In today’s CasNews Complete Listings VOL. 33 NO. 20° ! 35 Cents 3 Sections (A,B&C) A $5,832,840 budget expected to cost the average Castlegar taxpayer about $81 extra in 1980 won adoption by city council Tuesday. Ald. George Bondaroff, council's finance committee chairman, listed the city's provin- cial government-imposed budgetary restrain- ts in 1979, police costs and long-delayed pital works the r for the $1,335,283 increase — to be raised through an seem tax hike — over last year’s expen- itures, Bondaroff, who in March predicted a five-to ‘seven-mill . overall increase for Castlegar taxpayers because of works and services commitments, said the city's $2,748,760 portion of the budget represents $1,588,650 for operating expenditures, _ $1,003,740 for eapital.and $156,470 for fiscal services. CASTLEGAR, BRITISH .COLUMBIA, MAY 14, 1980 8.9-mill rate hike for Castlegar in 1980 Average $81 extra for city taxpayer The finance chairman ‘said the: $3,084,080 -other government portion of the budget includes $2,474,294 collected for School District No. 9, $408,270 for the Regional District’ of Central Kootenay, $136,486 for: the Central Kootenay Regional, Hospital District, $64,040 for the B.C. Assessment. Authority and $990 for the Municipal Finance Authority. The 106.478-mill overall levy consists of 44.112 mills, up 4.652 from 1979, for the city; 50.035, up 4.619, for the school district; 2.760, up .090, for the CKRHD; 8.256, down .265, for the RDCK; .020, up .002, for the MFA;°1.295, down .185, for the assessment authority, he said. The finance chairman said the city’s protective services largest expenditure increasé “due mainly to increased police cia) an : oe for a 4,652-mill increase this year.” : $8: and firefighting costs.” The police budget, funded entirely by the city, will allow the addition of a constable to “provide the extra manpower needed for increased surveillance” and a ‘ secretary to the RCMP detachment staff, he said. Noting the significant increase in the planning budget covers the city’s $28,000 community plan update, Bondaroff also pointed out the 1980 capital budget “exceeds $1 million for the first time” and allows for increased spending on strom .drain and road works as well as for the purchase of new equipment. x “City council has also set aside funds for the The finance chairman also told council the Dec. 17, 1979 destruction by fire of Kinnaird Elementary School was partly responsible for the similar mill rate hike by the school district. School District No, 9 trustees will impose a one-mill levy on local taxpayers over three years to teplace the $1.3 million .school, he said. : Supporting Bondaroff's report on the budget, Ald. Len Embree the finance it and city staff for holding the city's mill rate increase at 4.6 despite‘ the restrictions imposed by the province and “the pressure that came out of the community in regard to public works jobs that the people wanted done.” ie Embree added the long-term outlook for Castlegar taxpayers is vlatly bright” because of the increased tax base is ‘ded of a new works yard and engineering service for a second arterial roadway for future development,” he said. “Other capital funds are for new city street signs, traffic lights and par development.” : Water and sewer utility budgets “allow for normal operations” and Castlegar’s $20,826,190 five-year capital budget — which includes $3,250,000 for development of the soon-to-be opened industrial park at the south end of the city = "reflects the needs of a growing city.” While noting the ‘p i has i home owner grants by $50 this year to assist senior citizens, the finance chairman pointed out the province's imposition of a no-increase’ budget in 1979 “is something a growing. community cannot maintain and certainly is part of the reason said the figure was based on an average tax assessment of $9,000 although the = impact of the mill rate increase on city taxpayers “will vary on recent changes." of CanCel's pulp operation. “The proposed expansion could take care of as much as an increase of from four to six mills,” he said. Interviewed following council's vote to adopt the budget, _ fi i this year was among reasons for the 8,963-mill increase. “Next year, of course, there will be:no assessment increase so you'll just maybe have a low rate increase,” he said. “Last year there was no mill rate increase but we had to absorb all the police costs.” But further provincial government freezes on the city's budget would be unwelcome, he told reporters. “I feel the mill rate has to increase because we've got into a situation now where there's so many capital works projects to be done in the city that it is time that we did them.” “At some point you have to quit patching and you.have to start replacing. We've got a good equipment budget this year and we hope from now on we'll build the thing up through the years rather than waiting until everything falls apart and all of a sudden you're stuck with it.” ‘ . impact balanced by richer tax base, officials t of d say of pulp mill project When‘someone skips his curling team to the Senior B.C..Championship, he then certainly deserves Athiete of the Month recognition. However, in this case, we have someone that has done it for the last 4 years in a row. That's right, in each of the last 4 years, the Roy Stone quartet, which includes John Cameron - 3rd, Reg Stone - 2nd and Art Dafoe - Lead, has advanced to the 365-5304 $] 79 365-5353 $349°° CHECKING MAPS of flood-th d land by: C WANETA PLAZA TRAIL. = 8-team Provincial Round Robin Finals after winning their local zone Tovdondt Jef. d in Nelson).and the team has come away (this year victorious each time. Certainly a hard act to follow at the Provincial level. 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Wilson,’ who supervised the ‘Arrow La! Hydros Hugh Keenle: ide Dam. Residen they have y. its value and i Cr Hydro expropriation. Aimed at the proposed Murphy Creek hydroelectric project on th ; the workshop f d.as ih fand “Fi Braal, lawy: ett re made —News/Mirror Foto by Rik Hall _ Castlegar's yet- to-be-completed Ar- row Lakes water system will offer un- limited sprinkling rights to residents of the city’s north end this summer. But the watering practices of South Castlegar residents, despite their 9,654,560- gallon- per- month supply from the same system, must once more be sub- ject to regulation, according to Ald. Gerald Rust. Rust, city council's works and services chair- man, won support Tuesday for his motion authorizi force sprinkling regu- lations at any time that it should. become necessary in South Castlegar only.” *_~ While agreeing a sys- tem in which “one can and one can’t” would cause in- ‘convenience to South Castlegar residents, the. works and services chair- ° man said some degree of regulation will be. neces- sary for sprinkling because the area's consumption level has nearly reached the maximum 10 million gallons it can receive monthly from the new water system. “Certainly they will not be any more rigid — nor possibly near as rigid’ —as they were last year,” he said .of ithe yet-un- drafted regulations. “And they only will be put into force if. y." Sprinkling rules approved ‘for South Castlegar only’. - staff “to impose and en- Castlegar’s April water consumption from the Arrow Lakes supply was 29,579,700 gallons, “which amounts to roughly 985,990 gallons daily.” North Castlegar in April, used 19,925,140 gallons compared to its consump- tion of 14,605,800 during the same month in 1979, he said. “In the south we used from the Arrow Lakes supply in April 9,654,560 gallons and from the old . system, the wells which are still in operation, 5,272,000 galtons,” Rust continued. “This brings the total to 14,926,560 as com-: pared to 15,941,600 in 1979." “The maximum we could pump in a 17-hour period from the old well system to the south end is 1,400,000 gallons," the works and services chair- man said. “And the maxi- mum we could pymp from the north end to the south end to to existing lines is only 821,815 gallons per day.” He_ questioned whe- ther the city would be able to maintain the supply “that would allow people to * the compan =P -terview. with 1 and School ie Castlegar News that and other aspects of the anticipated effects of work to double the local pulp operation's production by 1985. The estimated peak labor force for construction of the new mill is 600, but the number could fluctuate, said Orjan h CanCel’s vii it ible for techni development. : “It's dependent on the labor climate,” Burchardt explained. “It's to our advantage if we can run a more even, steady crew but in many pulp mill projects you'll find in the third year in order to complete in time you have to increase - the force.” Roy Murphy, the "8 vic i for operations, said CanCel is still studying the “preliminary indications"-of the impact of a construction force of that size. But the 's past i with self- i construction camps similar to the one- planned to accommodate workers during construction at the Castlegar operation as well as the “demographics” of the work force has indicated “the social infrastructure of Castlegar as it is now could handle that kind of employment base.” “For example, when we rebuilt the sulphite mill in Prince Rupert we had over 1,000 people at one point on that site,” he said. & “There was very little impact on Prince Rupert. Sure, the hi Noticed a very positive effect while 1 was going on but nobody really built new during warm weather. “It is anticipated South Castlegar will be completely services by the new system by Septem- ber,” Rust pointed out. “And if the new (Park Road) tank which is being constructed at the moment is completed and put into use it will alleviate some of the ‘water shortage prob- lems for the area prior to September.” * machine shops or new motels or stores just on that fact alone, because essentially it’s temporary.” While such concerns as the impact of children of the construction force on local schools and the demand for mobile homes and recreational vehicle sites would have to be considered, “it’s not-as though you're getting 600 people coming in with their families buying up homes during that temporary period,” he said. Although CanCel has not. undertaken any study of the potential impact of the finished mill on the Castlegar area “we a ROY MURPHY ..- opens discussion haven't decided on its final product,” the CanCel operations vice-president said. * “Obviously we're not going to hire 1,000 more people. We're talking perhaps of a range of anywhere from 25 to 100 people more — in that sort of order of magnitude.” According to Burchardt, the findings of various engineering studies now under way to identify the most feasible size and pulp production method for the planned mill will ulti da the iP quired to operate it. “There would be an increased labor force compared to today, but you can't predict it until you have gone through the conceptual study,” he said. “It wouldn't be such a labor force increase that it would create any problems for the community.” Heavier traffic linked with both construction and the extra required supply demanded by an expanded mill is one effect of which the city can be certain, Murphy said. Despite rail’s major role in maintaining the fibre supply to the local pulp onerations, he said, “trucking is playing an do know we're not dealing with a major i to the employment base,” Murphy said. Even harder to determine, according to the CanCel is the number of permanent jobs the finished mill will provide. “It's extremely difficult to say precisely what that will be because we don't know the size of the mill at this point and we gly part in chip production." Pulp mitl manager Wilf Sweeney agreed the heavier traffic flow, including Salmo suppliers’ trucks which “would funnel right through downtown”, would increase the pressure on the city to develop an alternative to Columbia Avenue as an arterial route. More on page A2 _ Not part of deal — De Bane TRY US! MALONEY PONTIAC BUICK GMC LTD. Castlegar 365-2155 Get down here fast & get them while they last, there's a limited supply. We're Fully Stocked for the Season and they're ready to go Over 100 New & Used Boats to choose from NO REASONABLE OFFER REFUSED Call 353-2341 or 353-7777 and deal with the © “Built To Stay Tough’’ 1980 CHEVY PICKUP - 1980 CHEV % TON Fleetside box, 6-cyl., rear bum- con. ORNS. onaliies auto, per, side mirrors, 5 tires & rims, ne. ng. power Emerald Green, Stock #T038 brakes, radio, heavy-duty bei $ bumper, optional axle. Stoc! $5,980 #7061. LIMIT — 1 PER CUSTOMER $7,480 KAY MOTORS LTD. 2880 Highway Drive, Glenmerry Ph. 368-3301 A plea for pro- vincial government assistance was city council's reaction Tuesday to news that the bill for a $110,000 reservoir will not be covered by the one- year-old agreement providing Castlegar with $3 million for construction of its Arrow Lakes water system. Council approved a mio- tion to send the B.C. industry and small business develop- ment ministry a copy of an - April 24 tetter from federal regional economic develop- ment minister, which said the May, 1979 Industrial De- velopment Subsidiary Agree- ment did not apply to the water tank, located near Kinnaird Junior Secondary School + Ald. Gerald Rust, who as council's works and services chairman introduced the mo- tion, explained the reservoir was built before the signing of the joint provincial-federal agreement to prepare for construction of the new water system. “This was constructed in: an attempt to upgrade our water supply over the critical period prior to the signing of the agreement with the fed- eral government in view of letter. “And this may well sli, You're Getting our overall water expansion,” he said. ~ “So the federal govern- ment in effect is saying ‘you’ did this work prior. to the signing of the agreement and consequently we are not sup- porting you in this particular phase of the program.’ ” * In the letter minister Pierre De Bane overruled in- clusion of the cost of building the tank in the IDSA because the agreement is not retro- active. “Thave no doubt that the have been a factor in the province's decision to provide an additional $1.5 million of assistance over and above that which we are jointly providing under the IDSA.” “I do not, however, ac- cept that discussions be- tween the city and the prov- ince could and should bind this department to a course of action,” he continued, “When the department of re- ..8ional economic expansion ‘agreed to provide support . under the existing subsidiary P may have to you that the water res- ervoir in question should proceed and could be sup- ported,” De Bane said in the 8 it was made quite clear by my officials to pro- vincial officials that there would be no retroactive pro- visions in the agreement.” SUPPLEMENTS Woolco “Summer Living Days” Sears “May Value Days” (Not all supplements are included in all papars.) 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