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MEMORANDUM Zs OPN

SEP 27 1976

TO: Mayor and Council September 24th, 1976

FROM: L.D. Pollock
City Administrator

1. Appointment of Treasurer

L have placed advertisements calling for applications for the position
of Treasurer to replace Mr. Gerry Forcier and I will be doing a review of
staff positions in the Treasury Departmen: with a view to possibly realigning
some of the staff duties. In the meantime, I am the only staff signing
authority for the City and I would ask Council to consider the rescinding of
all previous appointments of Treasurer or Deputy Treasurer for the City and
that I be appointed as Treasurer and Mr. Jim Maitland, Accountant, be appointed
as Deputy Tteasurer until such time as the Treasurer's position is filled on
a permanent basis. This would give us a back~up signing authority for this
interim period. ‘

2. Municipal Incentive Grant Programme

As Council is aware, there are funds available from the Provincial and
Federal Governments amounting to $1,000. or $1,500. per housing unit for housing
construction that meets A.H.O.P. standards and also meets certain density and
size of wit criteria.

I have some information on the Grant Programme, however I was hoping to
be able to advise Council as to exactly how the system would operate and just
what we would be eligible for. I have been advised that before we can even be
a party to the programme we must pass a resolution of Council along the following
lines:

"That the City of Port Coquitlam undertakes to use the funds received through
the Federal-Provincial Incentive Grant Programme to encourage and facilitate
the production of housing in this municipality."

I have not been able to determine just what qualifies as an expenditure
to facilitate the production of housing and I can only suggest to Council that
we submit whatever we are eligible for in the way of Grants, and then try and
determine how we are entitled to spend the tioney.

The Programme provides that the Grant is paid for any housing that is

eligible for A.H.0O.P. financing, however they have clarified this further that

housing will qualify that sells at A.H.O.P. prices, in other words, at $47,000.
or less and that it does not necessarily have to be an A.H.O.P. loan. The
important criteria is the requirement that the units must be at least 10 to

45 units per acre and that the units must not exceed a certain size. (This
information is attached for Council's perusal.) The new RS-1A Zoning that is
presently under review by the Council and that would provide 4000 square foot
lots, would meet the density requirements. Also 33 foot lots would meet the
density requirements. The only remaining problem is to convince builders to
build units that meet the suite area requirements and to sell within the A.H.Q.P.
range. We will be setting up a system in the Building Department to try and get
the terms of the Programme across to the builders and perhaps the Planning and