AS - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, June 25, 1997

Group asks city for tax break

CITY COUNCIL is leery
about extending a grant to
cover property taxes of a lo-
cal group.

Terrace and District Com-
munity Services has asked
for for a tax break on a
house it owns at 4734 Park
Ave,

The house is used to offer
a series of family services
programs the society has a
contract from the province
to run, under the name
Skeena Family Resources.

Director Mike Beausoleil

appeared before council as- mo

king the city to forgive a
portion of the nearly $5,000

a year in property taxes on-

the building.

He said budget cuts from
the provincial government
mean the society does not
have enough money to oper-
ate the services and pay all

the property taxes. City administrator Bob lors worry that will only en- ig 4 grant to the group. ° o & Ss ® | AW

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anywhere they can to cut they're prohibited from ar- ing by the province onto examined is putting a (all sizes) ORNAMENTS
cosis and I don’t think bitrarily reducing the city taxpayers. covenant on the property to

they’re too concerned about
services,’ Beausoleil sail

SKEENA FAMILY RESOURCES isn't in immediate
trouble, but its operators, Terrace and District Com-
munity Services, say they don't have money to pay
property taxes on the Park Ave. house that houses it,

of the province.

socicly’s taxes, but could
extend a grant to the group,

But a number of council-

“If we help here, all we're
doing is bolstering the in-

efficiencies of the provincial
govermment,’’ — councillor
David Hull said. ‘*We’ve
just stepped into the realm
of paying for provincial so-
cia] programs.”’

The province would be en-
couraged to cut local pro-
grams further, he said, given
the precedent that the city is
prepared to take on new
costs.

“Do you keep subsidizing
the government’s behaviour
without consequences to
their actions?”’ he asked.
“All we're doing is just
sliding another provincial
item down to the municipal
taxpayer.”

Council decided uot to ex-
tend immediate aid, but in-'
stead to meet with the
school board and regional
district to see if those bodies
would be interested in shar-

give the city security for any
grant extended.

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Kalum gets lion’s share of money

‘Last year we were at about
$10 million,”’ Wilson says.
“This year we're at $9.6
million. It's still a sig-
nificant amount, but it’s less
than we'd really like.”’

Even with the decrease,
the Kalum Forest District
still received the lion's share
of the enhanced forestry pot.
Among the six districts in
the region, the Kalum took
58 per cent of the total funds
available for silviculture.

The Kalum will also
receive 25 per cent of the
region’s watershed restora-
tion funding, or $2.4 mil-
lion. And Parkinson says
much of that money should
go towards work in the

bush, as opposed to
engineering and consultative
fees.

“We're anticipating this
year to be the work phase of
watershed restoration,’’ he
says.

Parkinson and = Colin
Smith also fielded plenty of
questions and complaints
from the floor about FRBC
taking too long to make
their investments public,
changing estimated invest-
ment levels and not doing
enough to help displaced
forest workers find jobs.

Smith responded by point-
ing out FRBC is changing to
a new ‘‘delivery model’?

FRBC watershed

this year. That is, they're
changing the way the Crown
corporation will band out
money.

Smith said the new model
will involve five year agree-
ments and provide up-front
funding, which will give the
industry the stability to
make long-term plans and
contracts.

“This is a_ transition
year,’” he said. ‘‘ We're very
excited about it.””

Smith also said a new pro-
ject called the Forest
Worker Agency, which is
supposed start up this year,
will be dedicated to helping
temporarily displaced forest

projects

workers.

The idea is to sct up a data
base that will match unem-
ployed loggers with jobs in
the area. Forest Renewal
will soon set up offices in
every region of the province
to handle the work load,

One displaced logger
badgered Smith after the
Meeting was over, saying
not enough was being done
for his ilk.

“T really empathize with
him on a personal level,’
Smith said after the logger
left. ‘‘And telling bim Rome
wasn’t built in a day will
make a pretty poor pillow
for his sore ass.’’

debated

FOREST RENEWAL BC FRBC, Parkinson said, representative Gil Payne centrate on fish habitat once
may have been promising to can’t say whether they were also had problems with ef- stocks had recovered.
dish out millions of dollars right or wrong.”” forts aimed at improv- Parkinson responded that

Friday, but that didu’t make
it immune from criticism.

Les Watmough, a retired,...wete welds

logger and Thornhill direc-
tor on the Kitimat-Stikine
regional district, suggested
some work under the
Watershed Restoration pro-
gram may actually be doing
more harm than good.

That program is intended
to repair damage done
through logging in years
past.

Watmough said any such
work should not be per-
formed in cutblacks more
than 20 years ald.

After 20 years, he ex-
plained, trees would have
re-established themselves on
old logging. roads and set-
tings, new growth would
have stabilized ~ — slopes
against erosion and any silt
that had been washed into
streams would have long
since been flushed out.

“These streams are run-
ning clear,”’ be said, offer-
ing to take FRBC regional
director Alan Parkinson ona
tour of one such cutblock.

Going in now and doing
work on these sites only dis-
turbed the soils again and
ran the risk of creating fresh
siltation problems.

“Anything over 20 years
old,
urged, adding it was best to
let ‘‘old Mother Nature’’ do
her job.

Noting that under the old
system, Watershed Restora-
tion projects had been ap-
proved by the Forests and
Environment ministries, tot

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