~ TERRACE CITY council
Sand the regional district
* finally reached an agree-
«ment Saturday to share the
- costs of some regional ser-
« Vices,

+) The agreement means that
* taxpayers in electoral areas
~E and C, including Thorn-
+ hill, will pay about $75,000
~more this year for services
vlike fire dispatch that were
«previously covered mostly
* by the city.

* Residents in the outlying
sarcas will also pay 30 per
= cent of the costs for renova-,
tions and repairs to the Ter-
‘race Aquatic Centre. That
{will add another $120,000
*to the bill over the next two
= years,

« The cost-sharing arrange-
{ments were finally agreed to
‘at the weekend’s board
smecting of the Kitimat-
«Stikine Regional District.

+ At the previous board
meeting, Terrace mayor
Jack Talstra had asked for
*$70,000 to help pay for Ter-
‘trace’s 24-hour fire dispatch,
iswhich also services Thorn-
‘shill. The city contended that
'ylhe dispatch cost at least
$210,000 annually, yet the

‘Jobless
‘rate
‘climbs

i‘THE UNEMPLOYMENT

trate in (he northwesl edged

sup lo 10.8 per cent in Febru-

‘sary,

"4 That was a rise from 10.4
“per cent the previous month
in North Coast-Nechako, a
tegian covering from the
Charlottes to east of Bumis
Lake.

The unemployment rate
has climbed a long way
since April 1996, when it bit
a low of 5,7 per cent.

Local federal employment
analyst James Gilham says
10.8 is still not a high rate
for this region, noting it has
at times been up around 13
per cent in the past decade.

Province-wide, unemploy-
ment is at 9.7 per cent, up
from an average of 9.3 per
cent a month earlier. B.C.
was the only province to ex-
perience an increase.

The Cariboo was the
tegion with the highest un-
employment rate, at 13.6 per
cent.

Gilham says he doesn’t
see the unemployment rate
going down quickly. '

“Last year is going to take
a lot of time to recover,
from,”’ he said.

The region has been bard
hit by a downturn in the
woods industry.

' This was particularly the
case from Smithers to

Prince Rupert because of the
Repap (iow Skeena Cel-
lulose) financial melidown.

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-A6 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 25, 1998

Local gov’ts finally reach
agreement to share costs

regional district only con-
tributed $10,000.

At heated meetings during
the past few weeks, repre-
sentatives on both sides
fought over the costs,

‘Thornhill director Les Wat-

mough acgued that Thom-
hill residents should only
help pay for time that dis-

patchers . are. .actually.. ans-.

wering the phones, and not
doing other work for the
city.

“Their fire department
numbers were somewhat pe-
culiar,”’? he said Saturday.
“We'd like to know what
these fire department people
are doing while they're
waiting for the phone to
ring.’’

The cily dismissed that
claim, saying that the dis-
patchers had to be there, 24
hours a day to provide ihe
service, regardless of what
they were doing.

“If they were sleeping or
walching TY, they still have
to be there,’’ said councilor
David Hull last week. ‘It’s
not like they're filing letters
for the mayor. The only rea-
son they're there is for dis-
patch.”’

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On Saturday, both sides
finally agreed to a 76.4 per-
cent share for the city —
about $160,000, and a 23.6
per cent share for Thomhill
and the outlying areas —
some $49,581,

That’s less thaa the city
was originally looking for,
but Talstra said it was a
good beginning for future
cost-sharing deals.

The two sides also agreed
to jointly pay for several
services such as the arts
council, the volunteer
auxiliary RCMP
constables, Riverboat Days
and Heritage Village that
the regional district had not
previously helped = un-
derwrite.

**Thal’s just a start,’’ Tal-
stra said of the new cost-
sharing arrangement.
“There’s lots more to come
next year on both sides.”

Some of those services yet
to be approved for cost-
sharing include the REM
Lee Theatre and the cham-
ber of commerce in Terrace
and the golf course, fair
grounds, community centre
and rod and gun ciub in
Thornhill.

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discussed in detail because
of time limitations before
the regional district passed
its 1998 budget.

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