Ae mses: © gagpiametartey eta 8 Oe age tll i re tein Sa tema bamna et Be stat oe etn atnam tie NN fe iar edie Rte gy “aboot tine pears de irarerm nt ' Terrace Review: | Wanted Misc, ee Looking for a roll-away - bed. Phone . 635-9392 betwean6p.m./d p.m. 3/31 Wanted to buy: Banana potatoes, English quall, Phone 635-7682 evenings. Bantam - chickens. nings, ask for Mike. Wanted To Rent ec ee Professionally employed single parent seeking 2 or 3 bedroom: house or duplex. Good references. Call 635-7840 days, G35-4010 eve p - Wednesday, March 22, 198 aly seomantisd bainrasecsiisdst Si acs aware lias ide makirpseagtins + Ad Bate any ptt nyt dita agyacas alt vas tee wttt at 3/29p - NORTH COAST ROAD __ MAINTENANCE LTD. TENDERS “ om Terrace Contract Area: Terrace and Thornhill Area Project or Job Description: Pick up and Deliver parts and stock The tender sum for this project is to include applicable federal and _ provinctal sales tax. The lowest ‘or any tender not necessarily ac- cepted. — | Tender Opening Date/Time: March 23, 1989 at 4:00 p.m. . | (File: NC-0-34¢) Surety Bid Bond or ‘Certified Deposit Cheque Is not required. Tender documents with -enve- lope, plans, specifications and conditions of tender are avail: . able free of charge from North Coast Road Malntenance Lid, . 4544 Lakelse Avenue, Terrace, B.C., V8G 4V1 between the hours of 8:30 and 4:30 p.m, (closed _from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.) Monday to Friday, except holidays. -, | Tenders will be opened at Main . | Office, North Coast Road Main- tenance Ltd., 4544 Lakelse Ave- nue, Terrace, B.C., V8G 4V1 at & 00 p.m., March 23, 1989. E. Nygaard Operations Manager Issued at: Terrace Date: March 7, 1989 TENDER FOR MORTGAGE FINANCING Sealed Tenders for mortgage financing will be received by Terrace | Health Care Society II, c/o Terraceview Lodge, until 14:0, local time, on Monday, April 17, 4989. The Tender consists of the mortgage renewal on a multiple housing project: for a five (5) year tarm at a firm interest rate compounded seml-annually and not in advance, effactive June 1, 1989, for a pro-.- Jected amount of $3,524,847 for the remaining amortization period of thirty (30) years. The NHA Insured mortgage must be administered by a an 1 NHA Approv- ed Lender in accordance with the requirements of the National Hous- ing Act, National Housing Loan Regulations and NHA Loan In- . surance Handbook. The project Is ellgible for federal social housing subsidies. ‘lf necessary, additional Information may be obtained by contacting | “ John G. McMynn, C.A. at (604? 635-6126. . The opening of tenders will take place at: Terraceview Lodge, 4103 Sparks Street, Terrace, B.C., V8G 5G9 at 14:00 on April 17, 1989. The Terrace Health Care Society II reserves the right to reject any or | all tenders. Too Late To Classify. & WANTED ’ CEDAR SHAKE BLOCKS A.M. Cedar Ltd. is paying up to $450. per cord. Call collect evenings 352-1773. Match Red Cross : end of the month. Ed to ri a | — —_ from page 4 have have any concern or voice as to the priority choices of their elected officials? CUPE signed a two year agreement with the city last year and got 50 percent payment on their new Employee Assistance Pro- gram, 50 cents per hour effective Jan. 1, another 25 cents effec- tive July 1, and Jan. 1 of this year there was a five percent across-the-board hike which has to go into the budget. Manage- ment, on the other hand, got 100 percent payment of the Employee Assistance Program and a five percent across-the- board wage hike effective Jan. 1 last year. Management wages now range from $27,500 for a confidential secretary to $59,480 _ for the administrator. And a committee report indicates they're already talking about how much they'll get this year. Council will have to budget for the 1989 increase. _ _ Last year, our taxes went up 10.61 percent, “This was made-up > of a combination of a 6.1 percent rise in city costs and a 20 per- cent increase in the cost of operating our schools. How much will they gO up this year? That remains to be seen, ‘but as far as last. ' year’s ‘increase was concerned, Mayor Jack Talstra said they were able to keep it down because they had a $500,000 surplus from the previous year to help out, So this year the increase may be steeper. At the sime time, in 1988 we saw council decline a request to -waive taxes worth a little more than $3,000 and similar requests from day care centers and the Legion. At the same time, it cost more to get your dog out of the pound and more to be buried. It ‘cost more to go skating and more to take a dip in the pool. The Terrace Youth Center got some help but there was an ef- fort to charge more to let kids into the ball park (that discussion still continues). CNR enjoyed a huge increase in their lease of Fisherman’s Park, we now pay $1,250 a year,but the Provincial _ Police building was dumped. The city estimated the cost of repairs to be about $120,000 and that was too much. (Don’t forget the $110,000 for revamping city hall mentioned above). Although there is much to be considered in laying down a ‘budget, and it’s easy to be critical looking back in time, this brings us to the final point. Heritage Park has been operating with volunteer management for five years. But the time has now — come, they say, that in order to.grow further they need a full tinie paid manager. They’ve asked the city for help, $11 per hour to pay the _ manager's wage, or about $15,000-for someone to work seven days a week for four months and five days’ ‘a week for another two. To employ that person for another six months, five days a “*. week would cost about $11,000 more but it could be a good in- vestment. Under B.C. Museum Society guidelines, any provincial- © ly recognized museum supported on a “regular basis” by the city, is eligible for some healthy financial support. In other words, the second year of operation wouldn’t cost $26,000. It would cost much less. Council didn’t reject their request, they put it on the priority list and Talstra told them with a smile, ‘‘We don’t know if it'll ‘make the list — we'll just have to wait and see.”” (Remember the polite building mentioned above?) But time could be running out. Museum society president Mamie Kerby says they must have council’s decision by the middle of next month. And if their‘idea is rejected, or the decision comes too late, =: they won't be hiring Challenge 89 students to run the park — it ~ takes a lot of time and effort to manage the park, do the books, and tun the errands. We'll revert to what once was, and with volunteer help, the park will be open but on a much reduced schedule. But of course there is still some money around. The city still has $130,000 of a $162,000 provincial grant to fix up our ‘pool . (the missing $32,000 was spent on a study to find out it would cost too much) but that’s going back out to tender, on a reduced scale, and we won’t know what the new w figures will be until the -been the fastest growing package in sales in southern” . (Canada for the past two years, it is only recently gaining | acceptance within the Northwest. At a retail price of . ‘| . $1100-$1200 (complete with Canadian Payroll), it falls mid. . ACCPAC at the high end. _ arithmetic and the balancing of the cross accounts. One user local accountant said to me a while back: ‘For me it’s the - made it a viable option for Northwest businesses looking for . something different from ACCPAC and Bedford. - computer resources and a user with a good understanding of _ _ -with a little bit of help. . pap pan ee YEN TE Te Commie | by Rainer Glannelia. Certified Data Processor NEW VIEWS — A different approach ' to computer accounting. New Views is is.a more ‘recent entry in- ‘the computer accounting field than ACCPAC or BEDFORD. Altho gh-it: way between Bedford at the low end and full-fledged: ~ New Views’ approach is radically different from. most: “otlier accounting programs. Whereas in Bedford and ACCPAC one follows sequential step-by-step procedures controlled by a. sequence of menus, the New Views user works directly on docunients, be they reports, ledger cards, or actual invoices and receipts. Using New Views is almost exactly like working _ on manual books, with the computer taking care of the . has likened New Views to a computerized ‘one-write’ system in that an entry anywhere in the system will automatically update all related items throughout the set of books. As a result, data entry in New Views can be from 40 percent to 70 percent faster than in most competing packages. New Views has a number of features which caused quite a stir in the accounting profession when it first hit the market. The most controversial of those is the user capability to edit (change) transactions after initial entry. This freedom to edit can be constrained by a multiple level password system whereby the auditor or comptroller can prevent changes to transactions prior to certain cutoff dates. Now that New - Views has been in use for a couple of years, most usersand = observers in the industry conclude that New Views’ complete flexibility in setup combined with its fully integrated ap- - proach and its analytical tools make New Views an extreme- ly powerful accounting and financial management tool in the hands of an experienced accounting” practitioner. However, users with more limited bookkeeping ability can run the risk of getting themselves into trouble with New Views’ flexible features (much like beginning drivers may have difficulty controlling high-powered sports cars). As one greatest accounting package on the market, but Ewouldn’t dare let some of my clients near it.. New Views has a couple of other drawbacks slowing its adoption. Because of its extensive features, it requiresa. 9 more powerful computer to run anything beyond a trivial set” of books. Although it will run on your bargain basement hard _ drive IBM-XT compatible, its slowness of response on such a machine can get annoying after a while. Therefore it is best to run New views on an AT level machine {i.e., 286) or higher. A set of books on New Views will require substantially more disk space than an equivalent set on ACCPAC or Bedford, so, depending on your other requirenients, you may need a , larger size disk. Local support levels are still not as good as j those for ACCPAC and Bedford in that until recently it was not locally available and even now is only stocked by one - computer retail outlet. Also until recently few local account- ants have had hands-on experience with it. However, recent increased adoption of New Views within the region has now In concluding this series on accounting programs, I want to stress that there is no perfect accounting package for all users. Each of the major contenders has its advantages and its drawbacks. In short, Bedford: good capability at a bargain price but restrictions in capacity that may rule out mid-sized and larger businesses; ACCPAC: unlimited capacity but expensive and awkward to use in some operations; New Views: mid-range price, great flexibility, but needs more accounting. When choosing an accounting package, whether it’s one of these or one of a number of lesser known packages, make sure that what you choose fits your busi- ness as the big cost in switching to computer accounting is not the price on the package but the learning and conversion __ time spent by you and your staff, There’s also $4,823 remaining in last year’s convention promo- tion budget of $5,000. This budget offered $1 for every partici- pant in a regional or provincil event hosted by a local club. The fund wasn’t over-used and the little left might be better spent on something that’s already working. And if you need a clue, Heritage Park hosted 4,500 guests last year, many from the prov- ince, but also a great number from the United States, the Orient, — Australia, Japan and Egypt. Sounds like it could bea winner |