2 Terrace Review — Wednesday, October 14, 1987

Agenda established to start [Sa

| regional development plan ‘el :

-. Parker gets North Coast

Premier. Bill Vander’ Zalm’s
surprise announcement Sept, 24
dividing B.C. into eight econom-
ic development zones was fol-
lowed late last week with the
designation of cabinet ministers
{‘‘Ministers of State’’) who will
be responsible for the regions
‘and an agenda for implementing
the stages in the plan.

Dave Parker, Minister of For-

_ ests and Lands and MLA for
Skeena, has been appointed
Minister of State for the North
Coast region, which covers the
Kitimat-Stikine and Skeena-
Queen Charlotte regional dis-
tricts. Parker will be assisted by
parliamentary secretary Graham

_ Bruce, MLA for Cowichan-Mal-
_ahat. .

' The remaining development

regions and their respective Min-
isters of State are: Nechako,
Minister of Intergovernmental
Affairs Stephen Rogers; Peace
River, Education Minister Tony
Brummett; Cariboo, Environ-
ment and:Parks Minister. Bruce
Strachan} Okanagan, Social Ser-
vices and Housing Minister

Claude Richmond; Kootenay,

Municipal Affairs and Transit
Mliriister Rita Johnston; Van-
couyer Island-Coast, Minister of
Advanced Education and Job
Training Stan Hagen; and
Mainland-Southwest, Provincial
Secretary and Minister of Gov-
ernment Services Elwood
Veitch.

Union of B.C. Municipalities in

Vancouver last month, Vander |

Zalm said the plan will address

the issue of government decen-.
tralization. ‘“We can accomplish

that best by having our people

and our resources out there on

the ground... in the communities ©
and regions... where the most

good can be done,”’ he said.

No details of the plan were
released at the time, but Vander
Zalm did say it will not be
limited to economic objectives
but will also include health care,

‘education, social services, agri-

culture, environment, the justice
system, highways and consumer
services.

' . The subsequent Oct..7 state-

In unveiling the program at
the annual convention of the

Board chairman hails
legislative proposals |

_ TERRACE — After returning
from the annual convention of
_ the Union of B.C. Municipal-
ities (UBCM) last month and
hearing about the structure of
regional ‘governments from
other parts of Canada and the

_ U.S., Les Watmough said he is.

‘convinced that B.C.. has one of
the best systems going, and. he
thinks it’s going to get better.

_Watmough, chairman of -the
board for the Kitimat-Stikine

. Regional District, said the.

UBCM convention included pre-
sentations on county govern-
ment systems from Ontario, Al-

- berta'‘and the state of Washing. -

ton, He indicated all three lack
the structural integrity and
responsiveness of the B.C.
Tegional district system, and he
Said that system’s ability to act is
going to be improved if legisla-
tion proposed by the Ministry of
Municipal Affairs is enacted,
‘There has been discussion
. about starting a county system
. in B.C.,”’ said Watmough, ‘“‘but
I agree with (municipal affairs
‘ consultant) Dan Campbell
-we’ve already got counties, but
we call them regional districts,’’

The proposed legislation,
summarized in a 50-page discus-
sion paper, is primarily directed
at allowing regional districts. to
act with a minimum of interfer-
ence from Victoria,

“It’ will make the authority
that we have easier to: use,’’
‘Watmough explained. ‘“‘Region-
al districts are service-oriented,
and mainly concerned with pro-

vision of things like sewer and.

' water systems, animal control,
Street lighting and the same sorts

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offer. We'll now be able to
undertake new services on our
own, .
“Under the :new legislation,
we would be able to read a bylaw
three times and send it to
Municipal Affairs, where it

- would be examined for confor-

mity with financing and. boun-
dary guidelines. It shortens the
old process: and frees. up
control,” hesaid. 9
Watmough also pointed out:
that the new legislation would
allow regional districts and
municipalities to enter into
agreements on exchange and
leasing of services. As examples
he cited fire protection, public
transit and sewer systems.
Regional districts throughout
the province will be expected to

examine the discussion paper —

and forward comments to the
Ministry of Municipal Affairs
over the next few weeks. No

deadline is indicated in the pro-

posal.

The legislation evolved from:

studies done in 1978 by the

Farmer Committee and in 1986 [|

by the Campbell Committee. -
Watmough commended Mun-
icipal Affairs Minister Rita

Johnston for her work in draf-'-

ting the proposal.

In Terrace provincial court on
Monday, September 14 Nicholas
Federenko was fined $25 for a
violation of a municipal bylaw,
and a total of $100 for three

counts of violating a second
bylaw. 2

grocerias,

“

ment contained an outline of 19.
procedures and deadlines to put
the regional plan into motion.
These address. inventory and

evaluation of services, iden-

tification of economic develop-
ment objectives, establishment
of local. working groups, mar-
keting and promotion of region-
ally produced goods, and other
studies and planning. The in-
itiatives will all commence dur-
ing November and have desig-

nated completion dates in the -

first quarter of 1988..

The plan has .been criticized
by opposition politicians and
other groups who suspect that
established regional structures
will be undermined by an addi-
tional level of government and
fear that local MLAs will be sup-
planted by the:newly designated
Ministers of State from cabinet. .

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This. map indicates the boundaries of the eight Economic Development

Raglons established

by Premier Vander Zalm in a statement Sept. 24.-The

key is (1) Vancouver island-South Coast; (2) Lower Mainland-Southwest;
(3) Okanagan; (4) Kootenay; (5) Cariboo; (6) North Coast: (7) Nechako; and |

(8) Peace River, For the cabinet ministers who

see story.

will administer each region,

Fees for waste permits

The Ministry of Envi-
ronment’s Waste Management

Branch has established a new fee

structure for issuing permits
allowing the disposal
pollutants. The permits were
previously free. .
According. to Kul Bindra, a
Waste Management spokesman,
- permit fees will cover the cost of
_ branch administration and salar-
ies, fy

and subsequent inspections costs
_ the government money, and the
‘emphasis is to make the permit
holder pay rather than the. tax-
payer, |

of.

He said. that issuing permits

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- According to Bindra, the fees
are structured to cover air
pollutants, effluents and refuse

_ disposal separately and take into

consideration the amount and
nature of production of the
licensee,

However, he emphasized that
the fees are not intended to
discourage discharges and do
not cover the cost of any cleanup

‘required due to the disposal of

pollutants. :
~ "We look after monitoring
discharges, and cleanup is still
the responsibility of the com-
pany,” he said. |
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