|i: A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, November 9, 2005 ‘ ‘ ] Local realtors are upset _ city chose outside firm _ _ to buy Terrace Co-op land By SARAH A. ZIMMERMAN. | A GROWING chorus of | is voices’ are. upset over the “4° city’s decision to use an out- _ , of-town real estate agent to negotiate its $1,050,000 buy _ of the old Co-op. buildings '' and the land they sit on. ”. “Realtors are taxpayers in this town and [ just think it ". shows very poor faith on the | »» part of city council ‘to have’ ~~." so little faith in the capabili- . ties. of realtors here,” says _ retired realtor Dick Evans. _ ‘He and son John Evans, _,who represented the, sellers. ." Sof the Co-op property, Don Hull and Sons, have owned and operated the ’Terrace RE/MAX agency | since’ 198]. oe . The city: went to great _-lengths to keep its identity .-a secret'as it negotiated the deal over'the past six weeks. ' The city had its realtor, an oo agentfrom. Calderwood. transaction in his name until - _ the deal was done. ~~ It’s a way of doing trans- actions with larger. parcels: -. of land when the purchaser - _. . doesn’t necessarily want the -. “seller to know who they are. * «. Recent transactions’ done in Terrace that way include a.» Tire property buys. “os "Mayor Jack Talstra- de- . + fended the city’s decision --* to-use Calderwood, saying” .- if-it had chosen a local-real- . ». tor the city would have. been ‘perceived as “‘snubbing” the ‘Other, There: are only two * «’:. realtors:in town, the other is “.’ Royal:Le Page. og »» .. (Councillor Carol Leclerc said it was important to re- “main anonymous to get the | ““.. best price possible - using a ‘ “local realtor may have’led to the perception that the city was behind the deal. “By remaining anony- mous the buyer didn’t know at that it would be the City of - ‘the city had deep pockets,” Leclerc says. She’s sorry lo- cal realtors are upset by the i. decision but it was made in ~ the best interest of the tax- _.. payers. co 7 _ But Dick Evans says the - notion that using a local agent could have jeopar- dized the city’s confidential- ity is bogus.» _» “I worked with the Ca- - a. _ nadian Tire people for two - * . * and: half years and there : were lots of rumours going * around and there was never | a leak...confidentiality is of . ~ _, pfime importance and Jack .-.+. -.Talstra knows that damn "well," he says. » Incumbent’ _ councillor Marylin Davies says the de- cision wasn’t meant to cast any doubt on the abilities of in-town realtors, also:noting ~ _ that the sellers were already represented by a local firm. .. “Because ‘we felt ‘this “needed to be dealt with at arms length we decided to go with an out-of-town re- altor,” Davies says, adding — » .. council is often told it needs _to conduct business “at arms length” and now that it has “9. done-that, it’s drawing fire. “That’s a vicious circle, you know.” . Evans also takes excep- tion to Taltra’s reasoning. that Calderwood Realty had expertise in this type of transaction. “We have realtors in town that have proven that . they are very capable of han- _ dling transactions like that,” "he says. _ Evans questioned Davies at the Nov. | all candidates forum on whether or not city _ council supported the notion . of shopping local. She said “yes”. Evans then left a stack of » “shop local” stickers on the stage for councillors to take ‘home — making. the point that he is unhappy about its decision to go out of town. Evans . says realtors in Terrace have not only in- . vested in their own proper- | ties and pay taxes, but have contributed to charities, vol- . unteered and participated in local organizations such as Rotary and the Terrace and District. Chamber of Com- merce. “Here they are sitting on volunteer boards and con- tributing to the good of the ~ community and then to have this slap in the face from this mayor and council,” Ev- council.” At least three council hopefuls agree with Evans. Glenn Kelly says ‘the © move to buy the building is a progressive one, but us- ing an out of town realtor is “insulting to the people who ui = Y town, they could have gone to the other realtor, there’s © no reason to go out of town for it,” he says. - .Kim Croot ‘also said she. thinks the city should have stayed local. Candidate Brian Down- ie. said council’s decision ans says. “I’m just-glad it’s Realty in: Smithers, put the * » the Wal-Mart and Canadian, . Terrace and” think:.maybe: -* doesn’t necessarily reflect .. “f just think it. shows very poor= faith on the part of city council to — _ have so little faith in the capabilities . Of realtors here,” says retired realtor Dick Evans. . | ° said it was a wise move in anonymous. Robert Shku- ratoff was unavailable for “ comment. ° Despite the outrage, John Evans says it is still the right of buyers or sellers to choose whichever real estate agency they want for any reason. make their living from sell- ing real estate in Terrace.” Gordon, Oates agrees. “There’s two realtors in coming up now two weeks before the election because it’s time for a change on - its position on shopping lo- - cally - while Brad Pollard ' that the city’ could remain _ ' NOTICE OF ELECTION | ATTENTION ALL ISKUT FIRST NATION BAND MEMBERS LIVING ON & OFF RESERVE. ELECTIONS FOR CHIEF COUNCILLOR WILL TAKE PLACE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH, 2005 AT THE ISKUT: BAND OFFICE LOCATED ON THE ISKUT RESERVE. ° _ POLLING STATION WILL BE OPEN 9:00AM - 8:00PM FOR VOTING /' YOUR NOMINATED.CANDIDATES ARE: Carol Quock Marie Quock Ramona Quock . Voters will be: asked to vote in a referendum in regards.to Chief & Councils length of term in office. 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