No thanks
to thanks
motions

CITY COUNCIL shot
down suggestions it send
out thank-you letters to
local nurses and a depart-
ing doctor.

The idea came in the
form of two motions from
city councillor Lynne
Christiansen, who is: the
city’s Haison to the Ter-
‘race Health Watch group.

She first proposed coun-
cil “write a letter of thanks
and encouragement to the
local health care workers”.

But other councillors
questioned the need to do
that, who the letter would
be sent to and how it
would be delivered.

Mayor Jack Talstra syg-
gested it’s beyond the

‘city’s jurisdiction.

“I still don’t see this
body to be the dominant
body looking after health
care,” Talstra said, noting
that's the job of the hospi-
tal and. community health
council. _

Christiansen: said the
letter was suggested to her
as a way of dealing with
the difficult climate in
local health care.

“A number of people in
the community: feel alot
of people are under a lot of
pressure and a letter of en-

. couragement might help,”
Christiansen said. ;

Councillors Val George,
Rich McDaniel and David
Hull defeated the motion.

A second Christiansen
motion sought to thank in-
temal medicine specialist
Dr. Michael Kenyon, who
is leaving town and was
prominent during last fall's
doctors strike and as a cri-
tic of local health care ad-
ministration,

Councillor Hull said
thanking ‘just

bution of the city’s other
internist, Dr. Barrie Phil-

lips, who has been here at.

least 20 years,
“The other side of that

fair’'share as well,” he
noted. .
“I’m not a cold-hearted
meanie,” Hull added. “But
I’m wondering of our role
is to send out warm and
fuzzy messages.” Co
Talstra cast the tie-
breaking vote with Hull
and McDaniel ta defeat
the motion, which was

supported by Christiansen: =,

and George.

“They're not bad mo-”

tions, they're just not real
good motions either,” Hull
said.

Two more Christiansen - -

motions did pass.

One calls on council-to -
seek a meeting with B.C. -
Liberal health critic Colin |.
Hanson and the other is to :

write a letter of support for
plans to reintroduce a nur-
sing program at-Northwest
Community College.

2

Lynne
Christiansen

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A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, January 31, 2001

Kenyon
would overlook the contri-

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THIS ALLEY on the 4800 Block between Loen and
Olson is being used as a test case by the city to
determine if property owners want it legally closed,
A success here could ba repeated elsewhere.

City tests alley closing plan _

CHEAP LAND is being offered up to home owners on a said.

city block in the horseshoe,

And it could be the beginning of more to come.

City officials have picked the houses in the 4800
block between Loen and Olson Ave. and between Eby
and Munroe Streets to attempt to give back unused alley
land in between the backyards.

About 30 peopie went to a public meeting held Jan.
18 night to gauge local interest in the idea. The city is
also distributing questionnaires and hasn't yet decided
whether to proceed.

City special projects director Stew Christensen said
the move is in response to a long-standing desire of local
residents, co

Many alleys in town exist legally, but aren't used’

practically.

To locals, he said, that’s a waste.

“People would like to have control over
behind them,” Christensen said,

Unfortunately, the city can’t simply say it's yours,

Since the alleys are technically Crown land, he said,
the city must survey, register and advertise the changes,
making sure there are no disputes,

Often, Christiansen says, individual property owners
have unilaterally moved their fence and occupied some
or all of the alley behind them.

That sometimes has caused probiems, such as when
one property owner seized the entire alley, drawing
complaints from the neighbour who wanted half of it.

The fence, a shed and a wood pile were moved back
and forth twice and possibly three times by the two
neighbours over the course of their dispute, Christiansen

the alleys

“It finally got settled,” he recalls. So
In situations like that, he said, the city has no legal
tight to give either one an
part of the alley.
“All we could tell them was
to get off Crown property,”
he said, noting that leads to
a weed-infested 20-foot
wide strip of ground, unus-
able behind various fences.
Although the land itself will
be transferred for $1, the
surveying and other casts
will still cost residents
money.
Christiansen said doing the
bulk replotting will mean
interested home owners will
9 probably have to pay about
_— $600 to add 10 feet of land
to their property.

Stew Christensen “The piece of land they’ll
get will be worth clase to $2,000,” he said.

It’s more efficient to do the work in bulk than for indi-
vidual properties, he said.

“This is the easiest, most economical way it can be
accomplished,” he said.

“If this one works out, we'd look at other blocks that
might fit.”

“It’s council’s intent to do what the people want
here,” he added.

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