the handicapped, the work-or family-bound individuals to spend

4 hours every Monday night sitting at City Council meetings in case
there might be something being discussed or decided on that they
should, need, or want to know about.

I feel an objective listing of the up-coming public City Council
meeting's business,in local weekly papers, is far preferable to the
idea of a monthly, or semi-annual newsletter after the fact, reporting
what alderpersons or City Council feels we want to or should know.

This is a serious issue. Our lives, life-styles, and livelihoods
are in the hends of these seven people on City Council. It is our
fundamental right to ask that they give us fair and comprehensive
information and input. Hopefully our present Council members believe
in veing democratic representatives of the people.

It is for this reason that I am forwarding these remarks and requests
to Port Coquitlam City Council, for their careful and complete
consideration at the weekly public Council meeting, Nonday,

April 28, 1980, 7:30 p.m., Port Coquitlam City Hall.

" "Hopefully, at their meeting on April 21, 1980, the members of

Port Coquitlam's City Council, including Messrs. Gates, Laking,
Traboulay, and Wright, will vote to maintain the 325-acres of

agricultural land in Port Coquitlam's "food basket," source of apples,
parley, beans, blueberries, carrots, celery, corn, cucumbers, potatoes,
peaches, rhubarb, lettuce, tomatoes, hay, beef, eggs, poultry, mutton, pork,
wool, manure ("liquid gold"), and other plant and animal material,
considering especially that Port Coquitlam now has over 700 acres

of vacant industrial land south of the Lougheed Highway, that.it

has “been trying for yeavs to get someone to use," to quote

Alderman Michael Wright.