A10 - The. Terrace Standard, Wednesday, duly 12, 1995

"RD
Shorts

Board joins

“Not a white elephant”

ibrery’s coat dotended’ |

THE LIBRARY expansion pro-
ject has been given a bad rap,
saya city councillor Val George.
He said the public perception
that the the project ran way over

And over and above that the
Credit Union and. Rotary. Club
have agreed to sponsor sections
of the library, providing furniture
and shelving to a cost of $30,000,

toward shelving, .
The city has agreed to extend

‘tp to $20,000 so the shelving can

be installed now until cnough
money is raised to repay that,

“We do pln to add some trees -

to replace the trees that did have
to be removed, ” he added, “That,

-will be’ done in the fall and they,

{across from Totem Fumiture)

VOLUNTEERING
OPPORTUNITIES .
MAAK your calgndar as tha SKEENA
VALLEY TRIATHLON Io faoking for
.volunteers for the upcoming RACE on

budget is simply false.
“Peaple seem to think it was
some great white clephant,’’ he
said.
In fact, the project has only

bridge chorus

‘KITIMAT-STIKINE regional
‘district wants to'see changes in
the way repair work. is carried

on the Dudley Little bridges. | come in about. $25,000 or
‘Terrace director Jack Talstra $30,000 over the $1.4 million

called for a letter to be sent to budget, George says.

the highweys ministry strongly Almost all the bills are now in

urging it to work “round the) ~~ and city. administrator Bob

clock” on the repairs. Nallsor confirms that estimate.

- However, ‘Thornhill director
Peggy Julseth wasn't sure how
much good that would do. She
pointed out the district had re-

‘‘Any of the overages are about
90 per cent dus to additional
professional fees,’’ Hallsor said.

The city fired the project’s ar-

quested double shifts when the | chitect last September and re-
ministry informed it last year placed him with a local-engincer-
of the planned project. " ing firm ‘after discovering that

She also pointed out it had |

construction: had begun without
taken. her. more than'an hour to

- the plans being. approved by an

‘travel from.Terrace to Thorn- |. engineer. ;
hill the week of the egional That increased design. . and
‘district meeting. engineering costs significantly.

-* Chairman and Kitimat direc-
tor Joanne Monaghan charged
those who made the decisions
on the project did not realize
there Were people in this area
who ‘make or break”’ on the
short summer season, —

~ She maintained in was just
another example of the provin-
cial goverament’s disregard for
the north.

‘Nuisance law
at the Lake?

AREA C director Sandy § Sand.
hais. wants. 10 know what it}
would take. to introduce a

Costs did come in close’ to
budget on the construction phase.

But that was after the city was
forced to hack various extras off
the project earlier on...

The money shortfall came
result of several factors;

A B.C, 21 grant ‘came “in at

. $200,000 instead of the nearly
$600,000 they had hoped for.’ -

The city decided to “include.
referendum nd borrowing costs:
. within“ the overall price of the |
project. .

And then the bids- from: biilders
came in hundreds of thousands of
dollars over what the city had to
spend.

nuisance by-law = covering | - The result: A basement meeting
Lakelse Lake, | room, air conditioning, book
Sandhals’ request. was] security system, front entrance

{| prompted by the condition of]
one property atthe lake which
he described as full. of old cars |
and other such scrap;

At present, he added, there
was no mechanism available to
force the owner to clean up the

overhang and: shelving. were.
‘chopped from the project.-

not in the budget were approved
_ separately by council.

’ They include $22,500 for the

reception desk area, a $25,000

‘queried whether it: would. be
possible to introduce such a
‘by-law for just part of an elec-
toral area,‘such as Lakelse, or
whether it would have to cover

_ eally said let’s add those. to, the.
contract,’?

Library board chair George

Clark said he's happy with the

the’entire area, ' outcome of the expansion, adding
Administration will report any cuts were largely cosmetic. —
‘back with its findings. ““Nothing was chopped that

Sandhals is the director for
the area that covers Lakelse
Lake.

Little theatre
gets support

The regional” district has
agreed to provide the Terrace
Little Theatre with a letter of
support for its new theatre pro-
ject. . -
In a letter to the district, TLT
president Gordon Oates ex-
plained the ability to show sup-
port from focal government
Was important to efforts to
taise money both privately or
through provincial government
grants,

The threatre group has ac-
quired a plece of land from lo-

really had an effect on the opera-__
tional side of the building,” he
" said,

But some items like the new -
shelving — necessary to meet the
provincial carthquake code — are:
being provided through the li-.
brary - board’s
campaign.

The library board originally
committed to raise $87,000 as
their share of the project,

They have recently committed
to raise a further $20,000 so new
shelving for the entire library can
be . installed now. It's much
cheaper to do it all at the same
time, rather than bring 4 profes-
sional installer back a second
time.

“The fund raising has gone
much better than we ever dared

cal businessman Glen | dream,’’ Clark said.

Saunders on which to locate its They have raised about $75,000

building, from members of the public
That property is near the new | towards meeting the library’s

bridges on Hwy16. commitment.

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Hallsor said a number of items -

property. city contribution towards: shelv-

Such a by-law exists now for]. ing and money for interior and

Area E (Thomhill) and the dis- |. exterior painting — ‘initially

trict recently hired Don Old- | ° dropped because it was thought it.

ham as bylaw enforcement oF) ‘could be done by volunteer

; ificet. mabe oe Po labour!) fence ad!
Administrator ‘Bob’ Marcellin "Those - ‘ “don't consider’ as *

Ltaaaieee eat

- overruns because council specifi- ” -

fund-raising . |

B.C. Hydro also donated $8, 000 Clark added, ‘will be semi-mature trees,”? . JULY 30. Phone us for further

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