Al4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 31, 2000 Linear park project detours around contaminated site THE CITY's new lincar park along Hwy16 will have to detour around the contaminated site of the former Terrace Co-op bulk fuel plant. Work ‘has already star- ted on the project with the awarding of a. $485,326 contract to Vie Froese Trucking Ltd, The Terrace company was the lowest of four bidders at $485,326, Additional city costs — mainly project design, paving and landscaping materials — boost the total project cost to an estima- ted $708,500, That’s about four per cent over the city’s budget of $681,000 for the project. The biggest obstacle for the park has been the slow pace of environmental cleanup by Federated Co- op, Which had promised a clean site by June 1998. The city, which bought the land from CN rail, said it wouldn’t charge the Co- op lease payments for the land if it was clean by De- cember 1998, That deadline was mis- sed and extended to De- cember 1999, which was missed as well, says city planner David Trawin. Now city council has moved to terminate the lease, which Tarwin says is the simplest way for the city to let contractors begin work on the park, The ministry of environ- Skate park needs cash By SARAH GLEN THE CASH-STRAPPED skate park will have to wail a little longer before city council decides whe- ther to lend its builders almost $10,000 to finish the project. The delay comes after councillor Val George ta- bled a motion at council’s May 23 meeting calling for the city to pay out the skate park’s shortfall with a guarantee that the money would be repaid But he did it without first submitting the motion in writing. Because George’s mo- tion did not follow proper procedure, Mayor Jack Talstra postponed any de- cision until the next coun- cil meeting, June 5. The delay is yet another setback for the three-and-a half-year project. Ron Craig, a member of the Terrace. Youth Action Society, which oversees the skate park construc- tion, understands that council must follow proto- col, but he is concerned thal the park won’t be fin- ished for the July 1 dead- line. The skate park original- ly faced a $17,206 budget shortfall due in part when an offer by the Kitimat- Terrace District Labour Council to donate labour fell through. That donation commit- ment was made verbally by people who are no longer on the labour coun- cil and subsequent exec: utive members know noth- ing of any details. The donated labour, which would have seen the project completed on time and under budget, has now pushed the project past its intended finishing date and over budget, said city councillor, David D. Hull. _ But vafter revising. its budget, the Terrace Youth ‘Action Society was able to trim nearly $8,000, leaving the society short $9,602. That’s when the society approached council, “The city has put up $170,000 in, donated. ma~ terials and labor and that’s great, make this a- good quality park,” said Craig. “When you look atit [skate park] - all you see is pavement, but it's more than that.” Along Hwy16, Dave Wolfe, Fran Grelson and Jim Mante! are working hard con- structing the city's new linear park: the Grand Trunk Pathway. The park will by- pass grounds contaminated by a now-defunct Federated Co-op bulk fuel plant. ment is allowing the city to build the park on the clean portion of the site closest to the highway, and fence off the southern, contaminated southern portion. The city also demanded the Co-op pay $10,700 in back lease payments, which it did. 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