A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, April 13, 1994

Gaps found in service

Big daycare role sought

DAYCARE COULD soon take
its place along with tourism and
economic development as a part
of city council business, suggests
ancwly-completed study.

The study says the. need for
daycare is so great that planning
and encouragement of the service
be undertaken by a commiltce
that serves asa special advisor to
city council. .

Prepared by the
Women’s Resource Centre, the
study follows up on an earlier one
which indicates there aré gaps in
daycare services... —

The Kitimat-Stikine regional
district should also be contacled
to help develop daycare services
in the area surrounding the city,
ithe study continues,

One of the study’s authors,
Melissa Munn, says any com-
mitlee set up as a result should in-
clude a wide group of people and
organizations. —

“In order to be successful. and

Terrace

because of the role of the com-
mittee, it nceds those most direct-
ly involved,’’ she said.

One key area identified is the
need for out of school care.
That’s defined as a place for chil-
dren who need care before or
after school.

One idea is to use school
facilities for this type of service,
says Munn.

But it’s important to note that
care would be the responsibility
of a separate group and not be un-
dertaken by: the school district,
Munn nated.

“One excellent suggestion we
received is that existing facilities
be used as care centres, Intead of
creating new facilities, we could
utilize space that’s now avail-
able,’? she said.

Along with helping develop
daycare policy, Munn said the
comunittee could also provide an
information kit for prospective
providers.

That will be one way to help
those prospective providers deal
with the different levels of
governments and agencies who
have regulalory powers over ser-
vice, she said,

The study estimated that 40 per
cent of children are already taken
care of by parents throughout the
day while another 40 per cent are
in some type of informal arrange-
meni. .

In the West Horseshoe area, for
example, the study says approxi-
mately 72 children between the
ages of three and five need some
type of licensed care. ’

In the East Horseshoe area, the
number is 45 while on the Bench,
the number is 72 and in South
Terrace, the number climbs to 95.

A mixture of daycare services
could include smaller family ones
to larger centres developed as a
neighbourhood service.

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Chamber sponsors forest
industry information meet

LOCAL RESIDENTS have the
chance to hear more about the lo-
cal forest industry’s economic
impact tomomow evening at a
mecling sponsored by the Terrace
and District Chamber of Com-
merce,

Speaking will be Skeena_Cel-
lulose’s Derrick Curtis, the com-
pany's newly appointed
aboriginal affairs manager,

He'll lay out what logging lands
there are available now, what
could lands could be taken out for
other purposes and potential ef-
fects on forestry jabs.

Also at the meeting will be two
speakers from down south —

From front

Jack Munro from the lobbying
group B.C. Forest Alliance and
Share B.C. executive director
Mike Morton.

The last organization has been
very active in other parts of B.C.
in debates and campaigns over
land use,

It has within it more than 30
community groups, the closest of
which is based in Smithers.

Chamber of commerce presi-
dent Sharon Taylor said she
hoped a Share-type group here
will form here as a result of the
mecting.

Taylor said she preferred that
land use decisions be made by lo-

cal people and not by outside in-
volvement such as the Commis-
sion on the Resources and En-
vironment (CORE).

CORE tried but failed to come
up with a land use plan for Van-
couver Island that involved a
wide variety of interests,

Its own plan was opposed by
the forest industry and workers,
leading to a massive rally at the
legislature in March.

CORE has yet to work in the
Cariboo and it is also irying to

reach consensus = in_~—Ss the
Kootenays.

Tomorrow's meeting begins at
7 p.m. at The Terrace Inn.

Thornhill taxes may increase

plan, in accordance with provine
cial government directives.

More ‘than $120,000 comes
from grants from other levels of
government,

The total tax levy is $46,686 —
down 33 per cent from last year.

Levy: $5,216 from Lakelse
Lake/Electoral Area C, $2,494
from ThornhillfElectoral Area E,
$11,245 from Terrace,

BM Recreation and Cemetery:
$246,900 (42.5%). Almost ail of
the money gocs to pay for the
arcna and swimming pool. Tax
levy goes up $49,525 to $280,293
— an increase of 17.7 per cent.

| ‘Planning Services:
$242,000 (410%). Tax levy in-
creases 13.4 per cent to $174,915.

Levy: $70,732 (+16.5 %) from
Thornhili/Electoral Area £,
$36,558 (+12.9 %) from Lakelse
Lake/Electoral Area C, $13,400
(+120 %) from Terrace,

mM = Thornhill Fire Depart-
ment: $235,551 (+8.9 9%). Main
increase is in radio and equip-
ment maintenance. Thornhill tax
levy $213,502 (+5.7 %).

HZ Thornhill Dog Control
$110,000 (no change) Thornhill
tax levy drops 10.5 per cent to
£80,670 thanks to a surplus from
fast year.

mM = =6Terrace Library Cost-
sharing: $92,600 (+13.6 %)

Tax levy $89,591 (+14 %)

| Thornhill Parks and
Recreation: $83,255 (+41 %). A
series of special projects, includ-
ing a tof lot, tennis courts and a
third field at Thornhill Jr.
Secondary School, are planned
but depend on either receiving
pranis or the School District shar-
ing cosls,

Thornhill tax levy ts $54,000
(+2.8 per cent).

@ Kitsumkalum Mountain:
$75,792 (-95 %). Taxpayers
continue to repay thé capital debt
on the long defunct Kitsumkalum
ski hill. The regional district was
supposed to start receiving inter-
est payments from  Shames
Mountain Ski Corporation for the
Kitsumkalum lift equipment: it
sold to Shames in 1986, Shames
has failed to make a single inter-
est payment and has asked the
regional district to retire the debt
and instead accept shares in the

ski hill. The idea has been under
consideration. for more. than a
year, ‘but has not yet gained the
approval of the municipal affairs
ministry.

Shames is supposed to begin
making payments on the
$320,000 principal in 1996.

Tax levy: $60,456, down 12.6
per cent.

i | Thornhill Community
Centre: , $63,526... (+19. .%).
Thornhill tax levy unchanged at
$36,000.

@ Thornhill Street Lighting:
$60,100 (45 %). Tax levy
$60,963 (+11 %)

m = Economic Development
Commission: $59,556 (+3.6 %),
Levy: $42,500

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potential daycare centre is Mills
Memorial Hospital, according to
the study.
With bed closures and staff
cuts, more space is available.
Mills official Michael Leisinger
said that idea isn't new and was

‘considered four years ago as a

way of helping to recruit and to
keep nurses.

“We were going great blazes”

and spent hours working on a
plan under the direction of the
board which said we could do it
as long as it didn’t need to be
subsidized,’’ he said.

Although a budget was devel-
oped to have the service break
even, Leisinger said the plan was
abandoned when the Hospital
Employees Union (HEU) insisted
that daycare workers come under
its jurisdiction.

“With HEU certification and
then paying union scale, the num-
bers didn’t add up. It would have
lost a ton of money,’” he said,

Leisinger added that any new
plan would also require a shifting
of existing services at the hospital
to provide adequate space.

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