?| Chamber of Commerce

lweonma tion serving ... Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody
—— 320 - 2755 Lougheed Highway, Port Coquitlam, B.C. V3B 5Y9
Telephone: 464-2333 / 464-2716

March 19, 1984

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Finance Committee,
Municipality of Port Coquitlam MAR 26 1984

Dear Sirs

On December 19, 1983, the Chamber of Commerce addressed the Port
Coquitlam Municipal Council to propese a fee for service agreement
between this Chamber and your municipality. The Chamber requested
your municipality to set aside in its upcoming budget the sum of
$14,310.00 to cover the cost of a proposed fee for service agree-
ment between the municipality and this Chamber. As you are aware,
your municipal council resolved to refer the Chamber's request to
your committee for further consideration. Since this matter was
referred to your committee, a number of circumstances have developed
which require the Chamber of Commerce to amend the nature of its
proposal to your municipality, and accordingly, we are writing to
advise you of these changes.

The centrepiece of the Chamber's proposal to your municipality

and the municipalities of Coquitlam and Port Moody was the estab-
lishment of a permanent tourist information booth and travellers'
rest area adjacent to the Trans-Canada Highway in the area of the
Port Mann Bridge. The total projected cost of this project was
approximately $30,000.00 and of the $14,310.00 requested of your
municipality, $5,115.00 was attributable to the cost of establishing
this project. It has become apparent to the Chamber that the
summer tourist season is now too clase upon us to permit us to
complete this project in its proposed form in time for this season.
As a consequence, the Chamber now proposes to proceed with a less
ambitious and less costly temporary tourist information facility
at this time, and to pursue the establishment of the originally
proposed facility along different avenues and on an extended time

frame.
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