“>. cost overruns on the project and -. sHallsor-noted that the overrun a . $1.8 million budget and the prab- Library aided by city surplus THE CITY is dipping into its sur- plus: to help finance the library : ¢xpansion project. “Clty administrator Bob Hallsor’ - said-its going to use approximate- » Ly $65,000 to cover $23,000 in - + to pay for interior and exterior ~ painting and a front counter. Those latter two ilems were on . the list taken out of an original project plan last year to bring the basic: construction budget in line with the amount dedicated to the project, -isn’t a lot-when compared to the _ lems that have plagued the pro- _ We're more than 50 per cent ‘completed and I don’t anticipate “any more (over runs),’’ he said. -<* He added that the contingency - amount. approximately > $50,000 — in the basic construc- tion: budget has already been eaten up There was a suggestion a local service group would volunicer to . paint the expansion but that offer was timed down after deciding ~~ professionals would be better able to do the work within construc- tion timelines. 7 weak :. The city has also cut back from . $35,000 to $25,000 the amount allocated in ils 1995 capital * budget to buy shelves for the new section. . v2 That-works out to one-third of “the estimated $75,000 cost to pro- “vide new shelves. "In the meantime the library ~ board is buying for a token $100 old wooden shelves from the Kitimat library. That library doesn’t nced them “anymore because it’s moving into ~ a brand new facility. >. Library board chairman Dan Gilgan.said those shelves are ex- “pected next week and will be a temporary measure unlil new metal ones arc bought, The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 25, 1995 - AJ WATER WAS SERVED up fresh from the city's new weil last Wednesday by director of engineer- ing Stew Christensen, How deep down does the city’s new spirit of restraint go? Christensen says he got the shirt for 50 cents at the Mills Memorial Hospital thrift store on Lazelle, Lip smackin’ good FRESH CLEAN water straight from the city’s new well on Hwyi6é. West got good reviews from city councillors last week, Director of engineering Stew Christensen held the water tasting at city hall during a public works commiltee meeting. The city doesn’t yet know Low large the aquifer supplying the water is, but all indications are it will provide more than enongh. “It could be very large,” Christensen said, noting the draw down hasn't been great. ‘‘That well has got lots and lots of water.”’ Indications so far are that it will be able to produce close to 19 * million Litres per day, Christensen said, _ Right now the entire city is con- Hewitt Rand 486 DX2 - 66 Mhz 250 Meg H.D. 4 Meg Ram ex GD Rom BLACK KNIGHT _Sound Card - Speakers SVGA Moniter 363 Meg H.D. 4 Meg Ram (only one left) APTIVA 330 1 Meg SVGA Video Fax/Madem 14.4 Software Bundle ALL SHARP TELEPHONES Check out our Selection! 10h OFF SHARP VIEW CAM VLE36C. Save $100.00 1199.00 SHARP 19” TLV. CFIgMa 350,00 SHARP VIEW CAM VLH400, Save $200.00 $9199 PHILLIPS 53” * Picture In picture «Suiound Sound (with fear speaker oulputs 25 suming just over seven million litres. Even on the hottest day of the summer last year we never used more than 16 million Litres, he added. The city now gets most of its ., Water from the Deep Creek reser- i Be asties ee ee ae eg si a vende hots. a EAL Sn, ce Sa -vair and"pumps"outof the Skeent ‘Provinciat employment arid investment minister Glen Clark noted | “River to meet firefighting reserve, hw mt tis wy Tequirements whe." reservoir “levels drop in the sunimer, News In Brief Air travellers on the rise MJRE PEOPLE flew in and out of the Terrace-Kitimat airport in 1994 than did in 1993, reports airport manager Darryl Laurent. The 1994 figure of 89,249 passengers represents a three per cent increase over the 1993 total of 86,700. And that 1993 figure was a 3.8 per cent increase over the 1992 count, Airport manager Darryl! Laurent said he was satisfied with the 1994 figure. The airport’s record year was 1990 when 104,600 people flew in and out. Laurent attributed a lot of that figure to shift changes at Al- can’s Kemano Completion Project. The airport has new terminal facilities, giving it the capacity to handle 500 arriving and departing passengers an hour. . Library head transfers out LAST WEEK’S library board mecting was the probably the last one for chairman Dan Gilgan. He’s now B.C. Hydro’s area manager but is being transferred to the same position in Fort St, Jobn following a major re-organization of the provincial crown corporation announced last week. Gilgan’s been on the library board for nearly four years, the last one as Chairman, and says he regrets having to Jeave in the middle of its effort to raise $87,006 to help finance the expansion project. h we now have over $50,000 and the balance of the year to go,”’ e said. That $87,000 figure is needed to meet the basic construction budget of the expansion, Still needed is approximately $75,000 for shelves for the new section. The library board’s annual gencral meeting is in February. Board members will be looking to fill three vacancies, one of which is caused by Gilgan’s transfer. . Board members choose a chairman at the conclusion of each an- nual general meeting. Scott to get union visitors IT LOOKS as if Skeena Reform MP Mike Scott has a date next week with several union members. Norm Lavallee, president of the Kitimat-Terrace and District Labour Council, wants to learn Scott’s opinion of proposed changes to various social program. ‘ Lavailee and others held a rally Jan. 13 at the: Canada Employ- nent Centre, saying the changes are in reality spending cuts that'll harm seasonal workers when it comes to unemployment insurance, ° students when it comes to tuition fees and older people when it comes to Various other social programs. , Lavallee said he expects to meet with Scott Jan. 31 and may take a few friends along, Full time jobs increase NEARLY 80,000 full time jobs were created in B.C. last year, says Statistics Canada. _ That was enough to reduce the unemployment rate from 9.8 per cent in December 1993 to 8,4 per cent in December 1994, the feder- al agency added. , At the same time, the provincial government says the number of part time jobs fell by 35,000, , 7 : Sh aan that the December, 1994 iiemplayment rate of 8.4 per cent,is, the.}. lowest since July I99DL ee a at Ae 1? ? 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