MAKING IT official and giving the farmers’ market a secure home | at its Davis St. location for at next five years through a lease signed last week is, at left, Tarrace mayor Jack Talstra and market rep Lynn Christiansen. Market lease clause Stalls official signing WHAT WAS to be a sign- ing ceremony to amicably end two years of wrangling over the farmers’ market localion nearly came off . the rails last weck, Lynne © Christiansen, president of the Skeena “Vailey « Farmers’ and. a candidate for city council, showed up al last. Wednesday’s ceremony Lo tell ‘cily counciliors the market wouldn’t be signing after all - because of con- cers aboul one clause in the proposed ‘five- -year lease. “That. clause says the . market: must “not create a nuisance or disturbance of any kind.” Violation of thal — or , any other term of the icase — would be grounds for the city to terminate the lease and evict the market on just 10 days notice from its Davis Ave. site. “That gives us 10 days security instead of five years security,” she tald council, j Cily directar of, ongina« } eering Stew Christensen” . Said the short notice might Elected To Council Mirch 1998 ON NOVEMBER 20TH img POWER A’ RE-ELECT Markel ° be justified in some ex- treme situalion, such as a major health hazard result- ing from the market, Council members were surprised) Christiansen hadn’t seen the clause on the draft version of the lease distributed earlier and called off the cerem- ony in advance. Christiansen: admitted she had seen the draft but missed that clause’ when - she read it. “It just got by me somehow,” she explained. Mayor Jack -Talstra urged the socicty ta take the lease, carefully recon- sider the wording, and come back with any pro- posed changes. Christiansen. did that and proposed the next day to replace the clause with one requiring the ‘society “ensure that the farmers? market is in compliance with city bylaws,” City ‘councillors agreed to the change and Christ- ': jansen: and Talstra signed “athe leasey Friday. She said the market ac- cepts the cily’s desire for a ) MacKay’s Funeral Service Ltd. 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Try Our Recipe In Your Home. 10-day with-cause termi- nation clause and also an- other clause that Icts the city terminate the lease for any reason so long as it gives the market one. sca- son nolice. Christiansen said she wanted: lo. act with ex- treme care in signing the lease because of the long dispute with council, which had backed city staff in arguing ‘the ‘site .may nat be the best per- manent market location. “Dealings with council haven’t been exactly smooth,” she said. “Half of council — Linda Hawes, David Hull and Rich Mc- Daniel — have. not been good friends to the market.” The market has put so much energy into fighting council, she added, it is now looking forward to putting that behind it and concentraling on buiiding the market on a secure lo- | cation. _ roads, Paving The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 3, 1999 - Al | policy — up for review THE POLICY of repaving residential streets needs to be reviewed, says mayor Jack Talstra. He made that camment after a council-initialed Local Improvement .Pro- ject (LIP) to. repave the 4600-black of Soucie Ave. was defeated by local homeowners there, Under the city paving policy, that block of Sou- cic, along’ wilh*most’ other residential streets, are only to be repaved if-residents - agree to pay 60 per cent of the bill, Only: streeis designated as “arterial” are repaved entirely at city expense. Twenty-seven of the 40 Soucie | properties affected voted apainst the LIP. Most residents wanted the cily to pay o higher portion of the bill, or else designate Soucic as an ar- terial road. Talstra suggests the pav- ing policy be reviewed in the new year. The city adopted the po- licy in order to stretch the city’s budget for road pav- ing and reconstruction. Cauneil had so far been firm in sticking to the po- licy and saying itll only repave the streets ahead of schedule when the resi- dents agree to cost share. However, in recent years most of the budget sct aside for the city’s share of thase LIPs has gone un- used. =” “Nobody is valing for these things any more,” Talsira noted. “It’s not working as well now as it has in the past.” While options range from holding firm on the policy to scrapping it alto- gether and simply raising everyone’s taxes some- what to raise the needed money to maintain the Talstra favours making the city subsidy Slightly’ more generous. He said that could mean: shifting to: an even 50-50 split of the costs, or even boosting the city subsidy to 60 per cent and requir- ing. ‘homeowners: to. pay just 40 per cent, ° Making even that degree of change. to. the policy would be tricky, Talstra said, because some people have bought into the pa- MAI GRADER THE SKEENA VALLEY FALL FAIR | GENERAL MEETING =, Fev name There will be the election of officers for the 2000 Fall Fair MONDAY, NOV. 8" AT 8:00 PM AT THE LIONS’ CLUB HOUSE - the 30th anniversary year. 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