ster VTL TEST TT TT ara eat a "That's not a necessity,” A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 15, 1995 From front City g green space coming together | Eby. St. east to the foot of Skeenaview Drive. City council tumed down a proposal by Howe Creek Investments for single fam- ily housing there two years ago. The trail already. skirts around this property. Owners offered the land to the city at well over ap- - praised value, Scott sald. m@ A chimp of four parcels of land at the west end of McCon- nell that developer Dick Coxford wanted to turn imto Juxury con- dos. Council shot that. one down as well, but Scott thinks the proposal should be revisited. Al- lowing the original proposal to proceed may be the best way to get city control of the land needed for the park, he says. Opponents of the project at the time didn’t realize the control the city has over development with its new development permit system. “This one is the key to the whale thing,’’ he says. @ A property fronting onto Thomas St, and close to McCrae Cres, is the ‘third gap. So far there has been litile discussion about it, . Scott says. WM The fourth is Otto Grund- man’s tree nursery west of Lan- fear. Scott says Grundmann has offered to sell it to the city, and it seems possible some kind of a trade for tree farm land elsewhere could be possible. Scolt is cau- tious about this property, because it would extend the park across the busy Lanfear Drive. ‘We're not 100 per cent sure we require it,” he says. ‘“But i's a very pretty piece of property.” *f don’t think these problems are insurmountable,’’ Scott says. “There are only a few chunks missing.”’ ‘The end result won't be a Jincar park with a single start and end Mediation meet set for next week cur E LOCAL, ‘2831 representa- ves are” “papas Rit “down oe iwith a mediator next week. ' And they will be going into the meeting armed with a solid strike mandate, Loca] 2831 represents clerical ‘staff, special services assistants and ‘library assistants employed by School District 88, Kitwanga, Hazelton and Stewart members cast their strike ballots Thursday, Feb. 2 with Terrace members taking their tum last Tuesday. Soules was not surprised at the ‘Yes’ result, pointing out the is- ‘sues were the same that took the local out on strike in 1993, Negotiations between the union and the district broke off Jan. 17 because there was still no resolu- tion of the issues of job descrip- tion and evaluation. Soules said some job descrip- tions had been settled but not all, adding the board’s position was it ', would not get into job evaluation until all descriptions are com- pleted. | said Soules, adding other jurisdictions have agreed a job evaluation sys- tem and started the process even when some job descriptions Temained to be finalised, And tied into both of the above and dependent upon their being settled first is the question of pay equity, she noted. 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