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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1991
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Council puts off §
library decision

TERRACE — City council has put off any action on the Terrace
library expansion project until Feb. 18.

At their regular public meeting Feb. 11 council received a letter from
Terrace Public Library board chairman Willy Schneider dated Jan. 18
Monday night that requested some very specific answers. Alderman
Ruth Hallock noted, however, thata meeting with the library board was
already scheduled for Feb. 18 and it was decided to refrain from any
discussion until that time.

In his letter of Jan. 18, Schneider noted that city administrator Bob
Hallsor stated on May 4, 1990, that: "...the expansion of the Terrace ~
Public Library be considered for referendum in November, 1991." —

‘Schneider asked council in the letter, "In tight of that letter the board 7
has asked" me° to’ request’ Céuncil's early ‘response to the following é
questions: Which date in November 1991 is Council considering for the
referendum? Will Council unanimously recommend a "YES" vote? As a
we wish to minimize the cost to the taxpayer will Council remove any
impediment it may have placed in the way of our GO BC application?”

AGO BC funding application submitted by the library board about
two years ago for one-third of a $1 million expansion was rejected by
the province following the subsequent receipt of an application from the
city about a year later. The city’s application was for funding for a $5
million community/convention centre.

After the Feb. 18 meeting, the library board may still be in for more

delays. The following recommendation from a Jan. 28 in-camera
Committee of the Whole meeting was adopted by council Monday
night: "...that Council not consider referendum on any new facilities or
additions to existing facilities without obtaining capital cost-sharing or
grant contributions from the Regional District."

Examples of capital cost-sharing items listed in the recommendation
are a new combined Terrace-Thormhill animal shelter, a second ice
surface, and the library addition. A community/convention centre is not
listed; but as is pointed out by Hallsor, these are only "examples". Non-
capital examples are also listed. These include the Aurora Summer
School and the Art Gallery requests.

It may mean little, then, that these latter two examples have been
added to the city’s first round of budgetary talks. And as far as the
library expansion is concerned, it appears the board may have to re-play
tne old same game on a brand new court.

Construction firm
files bankruptcy

secured creditors. A list of all
creditors will be going out to each
of the individual claimants, he

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TERRACE — Impact Construc-
tion Ltd. of Terrace filed for bank-
tuptcy Feb. 4, with a total of about

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While some north Sparks St. residents ponder the

examination showed it to be rotten to the core.

$650,000 in debts.

The company, best known for
being the general management
contractor that built the Twin
River Estates seniors’ housing

said.
Impact’s assets come to about
$325,000, he added, mostly in
accounts receivable.
Fred Berghauser, a director for

' possibility of a real sidewalk, others wonder Now many other trees lining the park boundary complex, had been in business the Seniors’ Housing Society, sald ,

about the stately row of trees that lines the have been tagged with ted flagging tape, and since November 1988, David Impact’s contract to build Phase II

: perimeter of Skeenaview Park along Halliwell although city officials say they don’t yet have Wood, the lawyer who is handling of the Twin Project was complete |
Ave, and north Sparks. One tree blew down any real information, more tests may be required | the bankruptcy, said Monday there when the bankrupicy was filed.

during heavy winds in the first week of January;

to determind the health of the trees that remain.

is about $150,000 in secured
creditors and $500,000 in un-

"There'll be little effect on us, but
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