A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 12, 1994 LIBRARY Province warns of grant cut Ed Curell THE LIBRARY board has asked the city to hike its annual granl by $11,000 for 1994, But, even if council agrees, the board could find it only has an extra $1,000 to play with this _~year, That’s because provincial government officials have warned it will likely get less money from Victoria this year, Head librarian Ed .Curell ex- plained the library gets two provincial’ grants: a basic per capita grant of approximately $34,000 and an ‘‘incentive’’ grant of $10,000, It is the latter which is appar- ently on the chopping block. “What .we’ve been hearing is part or all of that will disappear,’ he said, adding officials have pointed out the grant was never intended to be a permanent one. Therefore, in drawing up its provisional budget, the board has taken the precaution of reducing provincial money by $4,400, However, Curell pointed out, until the final word comes down from Victoria, ‘it’s a guessing game’’. He anlicipated news of this year's «grant levels would be received in carly April. In a letter to council, board chairman Willy Schneider said - the $11,000 increase was needed to meet needs in three areas, . The first was staff wages where the board was proposing a three per cent pay increase. | “This is in kecping with the in- crease offered to city staff last year,”’ he noted. However, the hiring of replace- ment siaff at lower pay rates will mean the tolal wage bill will in- crease by less than two per cent this year. The budget also contains an cx- tra $3,500 for purchasing books and magazincs, what Schneider described as ‘ta modest increase to keep pace with book price in- creases,”” He pointed out the declining - value.of the. Canadian dollar-was driving up the cost of many items bought by the library. Finally, because library patrons make such heavy use of the inter- library loan service, an extra $2,500 had been iricluded to cover sharply increased postal costs. The total proposed budget is $409,000, up about two per cent overall From last year. Repap log chippers laid off NEW HAZELTON — Nearly half the employees at Repap’s whole log chipper were handed layoff notices with their cheques last Friday. Six full-time workers and one part-limer were let go-while nine employees, including two super- visors, retained their jobs. The operators’ of the chipper, Hamblin Wood Chips, blame the layoffs on low supplies of pulp: logs from Repap Carnaby and that company’s practice of delay- ing payment, “We've had our inventory cut back by almost two thirds by Repap,” said Bruce Hamblin. * : “The number two reason is that Repap is so late in paying their bills we can hardly afford to tun,”’ Out-of-work -employees are angry for a number of reasons. Not only were the layoffs un- North’s view is different WE NORTHERNERS don’t share fhe same opinions as our Vancouver kin on issues releted to the environment. A public opinion survey com- missioned by the provincial government on environmental at- titudes in Seplember. = * Respondents agreed most with the statement that the government should protect areas of B.C. where there are unique natural fealures. ‘The statement that ‘logging should not go ahead if it hteatens endangered species’ works very well in Vancouver,”’ the survey report says, ‘‘but is not nearly as effective outside the city, espe- clally in the North.”’ Vancouver residents are sig- nificantly more likely to agree thal ‘old growth forests should be prolecied, even if some jobs are lost’’, the report says. The general public does not ap- pear to be very concerned about issues related to protected lands, the survey says. . But for those people mosl con- cerned about the environment, protected lands is the single most important issue. More than one in six Brilish Columbians said they would be willing to accept higher taxes, jab loss and a. lower standard of living to protect the environment. “People working in the source sector are much less willing to sacrifice to protect the environment.” Members of — environmental groups and others pre-disposed to be more concerned about en- vironmental issues are mare like- ly than others in the province to make trade-offs to preserve the environment, (he report said, Among the other findings: « Eight oul of 10 B,C, residents give the provincial govemment an only fair or poor rating on the environment * Most British Columbians be- Neve that their local lakes and sireams are polluted. Northerners are least likely to feel water pol- lution js a major problem, + Exports af bottled water is considered OK, but B.C. resi- denis are overwhelmingly op- posed lo large scale exports of water, and in particular lo any diversion of B.C. water to mect the water needs of the U.S. * On air quality, Vanconver city residents believe their alr is. get- ting worse while northerners are most satisfied with air quality, expected, they say, but seniority apparently wasn’t taken into ac- count. Lee Lemky is fighting mad over the whole situation, “T’ve worked here for seven years, and J got laid off. They just hired a loaderman two weeks ago and he still has his job,” she said. “Most of us (laid off) are women, There’s been only. one woman kept on and she’s been put back on clean-up. “They gave me five weeks notice. That means they won't just lay me off and give me my - severance pay. They want me to continue to come in and work,’ Lemky said she and others are interested in challenging the layoffs, but as for now they are not sure how to proceed, Another employee, Jasmine Reid, said she asked her boss just before Christmas how things NEED To KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT YOUR NEW cay GUMMUNITY? “ete igor, Phone Elaine 635-3018 Phone Diana 638-8576 Phone Gilllan 635-3044 Our hostess will bring gifts and greetings, along with helpful communily information. looked for the New Year. ' “He told me it was fine — that I'd probably be moving up to - P y Sic 40,000 cubic meters of wood in work in the tower,’’ Reid said. She has been working at the chipper for ‘a little over a year, she said, to eam enough maney ta put-her husband through school. ~ She’ learned the day she got her lay off notice that his: Student loan ‘was cut back because of her in- come. | The other pariner in the busi- ness, Lance Hamblin, denies the ‘layoffs were a surprise. - “Some people may be -shocked,’’ he said, ‘“but others saw it coming. “T rejected this proposal a ‘couple of months ago. But now this ‘company simply has to change. the way it operates.”” He sald the company has been Struggling for two years to keep employment levels up. “But the main problem is we're having difficuity getting fibre. ‘At this time last year, we had the yard and 80 to 100 trucks coming in every day,”’ he said. ‘Right now we have 2,000 meters of wood and 52 to 55 trucks comitg in, and we don’! expect any increase.’”” Despite studies that have shown a preponderance of pulp wood in local forests, Hamblin believes the timber profile is changing as logging moves out of the valley bottoms and up. into ithe mountains. He said not all of the workers with seniority have the skills the company needed. Also, some employees who may know how to operate other equipment don’t have enough ex- perience to work under pressure, he said. 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