A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 21, 1998 The City Beat Byelection to be March 28 CITY of Terrace voters will go to the polls on Satur- day, March 28 to elect a new city councillor, The new councillor will fill the seat vacated by Tim Down, who moved to Chilliwack in December and resigned Jan. 9, Returning officer Elaine Johnson says nomination papers are available at city bail. Nominations close Feb, 20, Johnson said advance voting will take place March 18 and 25. It costs the city about $5,000 to hold a byelection. Mayor off to Victoria MAYOR JACK TALSTRA will meet with employ- ment and investment minister Dan Miller and Skeena MLA Helmut Giesbrecht next week in Victoria. On the agenda for the Jin. 26 meeting are oulstand- ing issues related to Sketna Cellulose, the city's at- tempt to acquire the airport Crown lands and to expand its boundaries to take in the airport, and to get a provin- cial grant to help build a skateboard park. Tax pleas rejected COUNCIL has said no to two businesses requesting extraordinary relief of their property taxes. The Terrace Bottle Depot had wanted an exemption for one ycar only of its taxes or a grant in aid because businesses a tax holiday, and then retroactively removed it. They were told the city has no legal avenue to grant a lax holiday. And local surgeon Warwick Evans requested the waiving of a 10 per cent penalty for late payment of his office property taxes. He said the cheque was mailed on Thursday, June 26. But because mail on Fridays is rerouted to Vancouver by the Terrace post office, the cheque didn’t arrive un- til July 8 — several days after the July 2 deadline. Task force rebuffed A REQUEST for the city to provide operating money for the Teamwork Task Force has been put on hold. 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