Paga A2 ~ Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 4, 1992

Public works has $5.7 million budget

Three aldermen worried

TERRACE ~~ A move by three
aldermen to restrict what they call
out-of-control spending of the
public works department was naz-
towly defeated at last week’s city
council meeting.

The motion by aldermen Danny
Sheridan, Mo Takhar and Darryl
Laurent would have frozen much

of the public works department's’

operations budget, halting about
$1 million worth of road, sewer
and water construction projects
set to go ahead this year,

But Laurent was not at council
May 25 when the issue came up,
and aldermen Bob Cooper, Ruth
Hallock and Rick King combined
to defeat it by a 3-2 vote. A scc-
ond motion was passed to have
council meet with the public
works department on June 15 to
discuss the issue:

*“‘We're talking about the in-
creasing formation of a
monolithic corporation that some
of us as council members really
don’t feel we have control over,’”
Sheridan said, adding the depart-
ment’s $5.7 million budget now
represents about 50 per cent of
the total city budget,

He said it was the overall
growth of the public works de-
partment -- not overspending in
any particular area -- that alarmed
the three aldermen.

King called the motion an at-
tempt to force the department to
contract out more of its work,

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“— don’t think privatization
solves anything,’ King said,
“‘and 1 think our experience with
highways is proof of that.” '

He said the motion was in-
appropriate, adding that if there
was a problem with the depart- -
ment’s spending, then council
should have met directly with
Stew Christensen, the director of
enginccring. .

“T don’t think he was doing
anything contrary to what we had
told him,”’ King said. ‘I don’t
think they had bitten off. more
than they could chew,’

“What some of the others
wanted to see was simply every-

local operators.

of private contractors.

thé contractors.” °°

thing being put out for contract.”

King said 60 per cent of the.
work already done by. the depart-
ment is ‘contracted out to smail,

“It’s perfectly proper that we
maintain a certain level of our
own work and independence,’
King said, Otherwise, he warned,

_ the city could-end up at the mercy

“All of a sudden, ‘you'll need
work done and pretty soon the
cost of the work escalates as these
contractors get busy, and pretty
soon you’re at the total whim of

~ Sheridan described contracting
out as ‘'a very minor part of it,””

And he said he’s not bothered
that the motion did not pass, ad- [f
ding it was more of a tool to bring
the issue up for discussion,

“T welcome the opportunity to
discuss this further,” Sheridan
~ added. .
.. ‘Hopefully, ‘he said, manage-
ment of that department can come

to a beller understanding of what
council wants.

“Or, if three aldermen totally
misundersiand everything, then
maybe we can be guided to un-
derstand things better.’?

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