IN MY OPINION |§ Alderman Vic Joliffe looks at the Kitimat-Terrace \ ..Kitimat Mayor Thom's move to have Terrace ickup the total cost of Hnancing the cougtruction of e new Health Centre should not be viewed with too much alarm, he js, aftera!!, bringing to the attention of his Kitimat voters the increasing cost of their par- ‘dclpation in the Kitimat-Stikine Regional District operations by questioning his fellow directors on the Regional District, he is making us all ask why we are required to pay twenty percent of the bill, and we have yet to hear a satisfactory answer as to where this law . tame from. . The passage of Bill 13 in California should make all politicians think about the cost of government, and the: Kitimat Mayor appears to be giving leadership by calling for tax reductions in mext year’s budget. One suspects that where he leads others will quickly follow once they have taken account of which way the wind is blowing. Kitimat pays the lions share of the cost of running the Regional District; it also has two very strong representatives who appear to know what they -Gardinal Prepares for ~ Election of New Pope ROME (AP) — Paul-Emilte Cardinal Leger, who ve up his post as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Montreal to serve lepers for a time in Africa, arrived Monday in preparation for the conclave to elect the hext pope. . The 74-year-old cardinal said the church needs a pope who is sensitive * the needs of the poor and one who gan be equal’ difficult times facing the — THE HERALD, Tuesday, August 15, 1978, PAGES Controversy of Tax Sharing for a New Health Centre want and how they are going to go about it, That community is an established industrial centre, On the other hand, Terrace is in the throes of change, moving away from relying on the logging industry, Into being a service centre with government agencies which bring a stable payroll. We are now at about the sixty percent level in the change over, and this shows up ina change of lifestyle that the twelve hundred govern- ment employees presently living in Terrac ehave brought to cur area. Another example is the new shopping centre. There js no way under the old logging economy that a shopping centre of this size would have been built, and, as the percentage of non- logging people increase in cur community so will you see a change inthe people thatare in public office. --As the Terrace economy changes, 80 will its tax base. Actual tax bearing commercial development has probably reached a record already this year, and Terrace will begin to take on‘a larger share of: the Regional District tax load to balance up with Kitimat, .-At mes Terrace's two representatives an the Regional District appear to take opposite stands. An example is the situation of the propoeal to log-off the Umber in the area that is reserved as Terrace's -watershed some nine miles north of Terrace. Alderman Cooper, as a Director of the Regional District and a logging contractor who nas worked for the company that wishes tolog the area, supports the claim that clear cut logging will increase the amount of snow that will form in the catchment area, I, as the other Director, while admittedly knowing very little about logging, am not prepared to risk cutting the trees down first, only to find afterwards that we may have made a- mistake, and Terrace’s water supply may be jeopardizéd, ‘There is unfortunately, no prior way of proving who is - Regional District directors come from a spread out area - they rely heavily on the news media for their going to be right. . information, which is supplemented with that provided by administration. It should be remembered that the Kitimat Mayor will have heard or read about the debates by Terrace Council over the rezoning of a Piece of land for the Héalth Centre and cou::t facility, There have been contradictory statements made in this regard, and I will now review those statements in the hope that the Kitimat people, and the Mayor in particular, may take a more receptive view when the cost sharing formula is again debated this Saturday, at the Reglonai District meeting, and that the spirit of ¢o-qperation which has been very evident this year in } NOON PM 1800 11775 Curlo: Cabinet | 320 | 315 rroister Sofa & Chair 783 1775 Gold. Enterprise 347 | 344 30°" Range Queen Size Bailey chmitzsleeper 68a | 675 issant 3 Pc bedroom Suite 535 | 528 Bagget Brass Bed B72 | 863 Kroehler sofa & 664 | 657 Chair nasonic Micro ave 321 | 317 Sulte 3 Pc Bar 469 | 463 Re al 4 Pc Corner 923 9 Pc Dinette Suite 402 {Kroehler Cc Vallieres ? 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