THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF PORT COQUITLAM

course or we could arrange special courses during the daytime
and require employees to attend. In either case the cost per
person for the course itself would be $15.00. However, in the
case of the daytime courses, the City's cost would include the
loss of time while away from work. The course lasts a total of
eight hours and is preferably covered in four two-hour lessons,
We would have about fifty drivers eligible to attend but could
obviously not allow them all to attend at the same time. They
would probably have to be split into three separate groups,

The disruption to our work due to employees attending
the course during davtime working hours would be very great and
is not recommended. The Committee secommends that all employees
be encouraged to take the regularly scheduled courses being held
at Port Coquitlam Senior Secondary School commencing March 6th
at 7:30 p.m. and continuing for four consecutive weeks, and that
Council agree to pay the $15.00 course fee for any employee
attending the course. We would expect that the participation
using this approach would net be anywhere near 100% but that
with encouragement from the Safety Committee and hopefully the
C.U.P.E, Local, we would still get a number of our drivers
attending.

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ITEM IIT

Re: Application for Secondary Highway Grant

Applications for grants for the construction and
maintenance of sccondary highways must be in to the District
Engineer by February 4th, 1980. As Council will not yet have
adopted a final budget by this date, it is necessary for Council
to consider the work to be includéd in this application at this
time with the understanding that it is contingent on the final
budget being adopted. ; .

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The provisional budget. includes the sum of $108,000
for secondary highway maintenance. This compares with $30,000
in 1979, However, it was felt that it was important to do some
major pavement Overlay on Pitt River Road between MacLean and
Shaughnessy, particularly in view of the possibility of the
secondary highway being eventually declassified. This section
of road rates high on the list of roads requiring overlay and
has a high priority in our overall road system. If our appli-
cation is approved by Highways, we would be recovering between
$43,000 and $54,000 depending on whether the work is seen by
Highways as being maintenance or capital expenditure.

Lhe Committees recommends that an application to Highways
be made in the amount of $LOB;OO0T00 to include the major resur-
facing of Pitt River Road from Shaughnessy to MeLean. ‘

m/e submitted,
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pon. “olrsls’ P. Eng.,

City Engineer,