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The projects included by the Board for 1993-1994 are completion of parking, new
park entrance and access at Tynehead; the new access, parking, picnic tables,
fencing and fishing bar development at Derby Reach; and the new park access road
at Belcarra. The last is the main project; $1.2 million of this loan authorization is
allocated to it. The balance of its $2.0 million cost is the remainder of the previous
loan authorization. However this Park serves a region-wide clientele, and is the

single major day use park in the northeast sector of GVRD.

Projects in 1994 are all within the 1994 Provisional Budget, i.e. that is there will be
no increase over the Provisional Budget if these proceed; if they don't, spending
will be reduced.

Other parks such as Capilano, Lynn Headwaters and several Fraser Valley sites do
not have rnajor projects proposed because of their existing base of facilities, the
nature of the park landscapes and the fact that we have been able to use our annual
appropriation for small scale projects and capital replacement to do work in both
sites, supplemented by many job creation prograrns and grants. _ bar

The last point it may be useful to mention is that the program of park development
has been reduced below the 1989 projections by one third to two thirds in the above
Sites. This is partly a result of land or other issues that have delayed development
and partly from a Board decision to reduce development expenditure in preference
to Purchase of critical park lands such as the Widgeon Marsh purchase in early
1992,

Yours truly,

R.A. Hankin
Manager
GVRD Parks

RAH/cac