March 8th, 1976

Richmond; however, it was decided that Richmend be allowed to keep

20,000 of the 50,000 books to enable them to operate, with the balance

of 30,000 being on a rental basis only until such time as they were

needed by the FVRL branches; further, there was a proposition made to

Richmond whereby for $300,000.00 they could keep the books outright and

: the money used to stock the branches of the FVRL with new books.

{Ald.Keryluk re Alderman Keryluk referred to what seems to bea misunderstanding
icketing-cars parked

son City Sts. regarding parked cars in the street and the amount of time given to the

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wiicences people of this Community to move them if the cars were not licenced and

he commented that it was stated on a radio station there would be 7

days' grace given when no cars would be ticketed; however, he stated he

has reason to believe that this report did not originate with the Government
as a number of people in this Community, through a misunderstanding of

the 7 days' grace were ticketed and he wondered whether anything cculd

be done for them. Mayor Campbell stated that the City has a By-law

which does not permit cars to be parked on the street longer than 48

hours; however, he advised he would check into the matter tomorrow.

lAld. Traboulay re Alderman Traboulay announced that PoCo House has now been closed

closure of PoCo House
& its poss- and he suggested that consideration be given by the Building & Protection

ible use as
iDay Care Cen---
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Committee for use of that facility as a Day Care Centre in view of the

requests received from the PoCo "Happy Times" Parent Participation Pre-
School and the Children's House Montessori Pre~School Society for such

use of the present library building in the event that the City's library

is located in new quarters; and while it was agreed that continued
investigation of the requests by the Committee would include the possibility

of using PoCo House as a Day Care Centre, it was pointed out that use of

Mayor that facility. may be required for other purposes. Mayor Campbell advised

Campbell re liv-
ing accommod- that the former Director of PoCo House, Dr. R. Metler, had requested

ation-PoCo House-
aDr.R.Meiler that he be permitted to continue living there until say, June in order

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that he would have time to find other accommodation, and it was generally
agreed that the matter be referred to the appropriate Committee for
study and report to Council.
Ald.Mabbett re Alderman Mabbett referred to the ongoing construction in the Laurier-
construction-Laurier~
Regina area Regina area and advised there are not sufficient funds to complete the
overall project and he stated he hoped that at the Finance Committee

meeting on Thursday next, serious consideration would be given to providing

the funds required to complete the project.