_, GOUNTH

Maple Ridge, B.C. NOV - 6 1972

November 1, 1972

City Clerk,

City of Port Coquitlam,
City Hall,

Port Coquitlam, B.C.

Dear Mr. Freeman:

As I have told you verbally, I've been unable to attend council meeting
during the month of October. As chairman of the Maple Ridge Advisory
Planning Committee it has been necessary for me to chair meetings on

Monday nights during the month of October at which the Planning Comittee
was presenting our planning proposals for the next five years to the public.

The applicaticn we have applied for is only to correct a typing mistake made
on our tarrifs when we filed them in 1969.

On the tarrifs we filed it states that we will charge four dollars per hour
_for waiting time, when it intended to read six dollars per hour. As almost
all taxi companies in the Province of British Columbia are charging. In

fact, our meters we are presently operating with are set for six dollars per
hour. So, technically inadvertantly we have breached our own tarrif since
1969. Public Utilitities Commission discovered the mistake in September, 1972
and asked us to refile to correct the tarriff legally to change a tarriff we
must write all municipal and city governments’ in the territory in which we
operate. Thus, a letter to your council. All other councils have already
approved the correction.

The company with which we compete in Port Coquitlam is also charging six dollars
-per hour waiting time. There will in fact be no increase to customers which

we serve. This application will have only corrected the mistake we made in
tarriff back in 1969.

Twould hope that your licence department would not, during the period of the
application, panalize us because of the typing mistake in 1909, You suggested
that upon receipt cf this letter, explaining the Situation, your council in its
wisdom might be willing to authorize the change without requiring a personal
appearance. If, however, your council wishes to discuss this matter or any
matter pertaining to public transport, we will be very happy to attend. any
council meeting after the first of December, as I will be on my annual holidays
until that time. :

Mas Wi

G. Robson

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