A10 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 6, 1994

Council
Shorts

Fire chief
selected

RANDY SMITH will be the
city’s new fire chief.

And after his last position,
he'll likely. find Terrace
winters almost irepical. -

For the past four years
Smith has been director of
emergency . services at
Nqaluit .in -the North Wes
Territories.

And before that he was
fire department captain. in
Yellowknife. : ;

In “Iqaluit . Smith was
responsible fora 11 full-
lime, 22 part-time -fire de-
partment. as well as am-
bulance and the. equivalent
fo the Provincial Emergency

' Program,

Here he will double as fire
chief and. area co-ordinator
for Terrace Emergency Ser-
vices.

He’s been active In the
fire fighting service since
the lale 1970s. ;

Married with three chil-
dren, Smith will report for
duty here Aug. 2.

He was selected from 22
applicants for the job.

Auxiliary
gets break

THE CITY has relented on
plans to double a utility
charge.

Mills Memoriai Hospital
Auxiliary had been told it
would have to pay $45 per
quarler for future garbage
disposal at its Thrift Shop
on Lazeile Ave.

“This is the correct com-
mercial can charge,’’ the
cily explained, noling it had
until now been paying only
the residential rate.

However, Auxiliary presi-
dent Sandra Bullock pointed
_Oul, the shop was operated
by volunticers and all profits
went to purchasing equip-
ment for the hospital.

While conceding the $91
exlra a year might not seem
like a Jot of money, Bullock
painted out taising that
amount would translate into
a lot of extra hows of
valunteer work,

Council agreed to leave
(he ulility charge at the
residential rate. -

Subdivision

tried again
IF AT FIRST you don’t
succeed...

Having been rebuffed in
their first attempt, property
owners Michael Leisinger
and Barbara and Rod Ames
have come up with a new
subdivision formula,

They had originally
sought approval of a plan to
hive off part of their
Properties to form a new lot
to Front on to Bruce, St,

However, while the new
lot created by the subdivi--
sion will meet city regula-
tions, the shrinkage of the
exlsling properties would
have brought = them
murginally below. the mini-
mum lotsize. ..

Council lumed that ap-
plication down,

The mew proposal sug-
gests closing the lane abut-
ling the now lot and in-
corporating three metres of
the Jane into i,

That would. ensure all
(hice lots conformed to size
regulations.

The request has been sent
to the planning committee,

Sucking up
the bucks

THE FIRE department has
been given the go-ahead to
spend $1,200 on a new vac-
uum sysicm,

In a memo to council,
depuly fire chief Rick
Owens noted the existing
central vacuum sysiem was
inoperable - and — beyond
repair. :

Mohey for the replace-
meat will. camiig equally
from building maintenance
and fire department budgets.

Also approved: is - public
wotks spending  anotlier
$13,500 to extend a planned
water line along Keith Ave,

Pay hike postponed

COUNCIL HAS decided to again
postpone giving itself a pay in-
crease,

Under the terms of a 1985
resolution, the question of how
much mayor and council should
receive is raised at ihe first coun-
cil mecting each January.

Thal same’ resolution said in-
creases should be tied to the in-
crease in the Vancouver con-
sumer price index for the pre-

vious year, ©

However, if should nol be more
than the average increase given to
the city’s salaried staff.

Because of that last clause,

council again this January post-
poned a decision on its own pay
scale until it negotiations with
staff had been concluded.

That deal having now been
struck, last week’s agenda in-
cluded a resolution to up in-
demnities by 3.1 per cent.

Last. year the mayor reccived
close to $20,000 of which $6,555
was an expenses allowance. The

equivalent figures for councillors

were $8,572 and $2,857:

Al last Monday. night’s meet-
ing, however, councillor David
Hull asked the matter be referred
to a future committee of the

whole,

He suggested council should
look at a ‘‘performance system”,
noting the ~ Kitimat-Stikine
regional district indemnities were
tied to attending meetings.

Mayor Jack Taisira said he had
checked into. that idea but un-
derstood municipalities were not
allowed to use that type of sys-
tem.

He also asked’ administration

“ prepate a list of comparalive fig-

ures for like-sized municipalities
for the committee of the whole
discussions. Council unanimously
agreed to delay a decision,

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