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4. That the Director of Labour Relations be requested to submit
his Final Report on Accreditation to the G.V.R.D. Labour Relations
Committee as soon as possible."

Some of the things brought up about it is that once a member is approved by
Council to this Bargaining Board, this Board would make decisions without
having to come back to Council. We seem to think there are inconsistencies
in the voting system because of the heavy voting of Vancouver and Burnaby
and it was thought that one (1) vote for each municipality would be fairer,
but I must admit that Mayor Phillips' explanation of heavy voting meaning
representation by population does make a lot of sense. For example, if
Lions Bay, with 600 people, would have the same vote as Vancouver with
600,000 people, a strike in these communities would have no similarity.
Alderman Marzari asked an interesting question of what was wrong with

the system now. There was an informal bargaining group of interested
Parties and why go to all the trouble of formalizing it. Nothing will

be done about this until a report is back in about one month and will be
shown to all Councils.

I brought up to the meeting a suggestion that, before we get into budgeting
we decide on guidelines so that staff will now how to set the 1976

budget. This idea will be discussed by the Executive Council and I hope
something will come cf it.