"District secretary-treasurer Barry Piersdorff said
that after debt, servicing, capital allowance, accredi-
tation and local capital funds are subtracted, the
district is left with $33,483,000 in operating money,
about 80% of which goes for salaries and benefits.
_ The remainder is spent on supplies and services.
Although the district has held staffing at existing

levels for this’ year, Piersdorff said, that leaves the

question of what, lies ahead. The Ministry of Educa-
tion this year continued to subsidize some remote
districts with amounts above the provincial average,
but there is some doubt that policy will continue for
much longer, If the subsidy hadn’t been applied to
District 88 this year, he said, the budget would have
been about $.5 million less.

The total budget increase for this year was 4.4%
over 1991, which was 7.8% higher than 1990. The
board and district administration are expecting
approval of this year’s budget submission from the
minister any time.

‘On Wednesday the ministry announced capital

budget allocations for districts. Out of $582 million ©

for the province, District 88 received $134,000 to
- complete the exterior cladding of Caledonia Senior

Secondary School.
And that’s it.

NUISANCE STATUS |

If Terrace city council adopts a recommendation
from an April 22 Public Works Committee meeting,
a Prince. George logging company that bought and

clear-cut an 80-acre section of land on the bench will

be,given an opportunity at a public hearing to show
cause why its property should not be: declared a
. nuisance by the city. |

-Roba Holdings came into town during November |

1990 with a feller buncher and scalped all the
commercial timber off the property within a.week,

— leaving a few ‘standing alder trees and massive piles

of logging debris on an extensive plot of land strad-

dling Spring Creek and adjoining residential neigh-
_ bourhoods. Several property owners in the area
protested at the time, but the city said it was power-
less to regulate logging on private land and the
Kalum District Forest office said it was also without
jurisdiction in the matter unless the lot became a fire
hazard.

City: council received letters from Yvonne White,

J. Patrick Casey and Dennis Fisher, all of whom
expressed concern about the fire hazard from piles of
logging slash near their homes. Fisher also noted
- that a large pit gouged out by heavy equipment had
filled with water, creating a drowning hazard for
neighbourhood children.

| City council will consider the récommendation for

a show-cause hearing Monday night.

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Terrace Review — April 24, 1992 .