At the same time, for the pensioner for whom the telephone is of-
ten a life-line, but who makes limited use of the telephe~e, and
yet an 8¢ stamp might be a hardship we have exempted sma.t accounts
(under $10.00) from any penalty for late payment, and therefore
they can pay their bill every two months.

Furthermore, we have requested permission from the Canadian Trans-—
port Commission to give some of the above type of customers a 50%
discount. This will be discussed during our September 17, 1975

hearing.

I wish to apologize for the length of this letter, but I wanted
to explain what, to a bystander, could appear to be an arbitrary

decision.

I feel quite confident, that, as elected representatives of the
public who are also our customers, you will support any effert
that we make to control communication costs to our consumers.

Part of our costs are also municipal taxes. I thought you might
be interested in the enclosed summary of the taxes B. C. Tel ha
paid to your municipality over the last twenty years.

Yours tru

EON

T. R. Watson
_DISTRICT MANAGER

TRW:ilme
Encl:

Taxes Paid to City of Port Coquitlam

797% increase over 1955
141% increase over 1960
156% increase over 1965

186% increase over 1970