| Sewage rates get review |

A number of complaints Monday
night from local businesses and the
Chamber of Commerce were heard
by Terrace city council, who
agreed to put a proposed change in
interpreting the sewer and water
rate bylaws on hold for three
months,

What that means is that every
residence and business in town
will still see a 16 percent hike in
sewer raies (there will be no
increase in water rates) but the
owner of a building containing
several different businesses won’t
be taxed out of business.

Hardest ‘hit if the change had
gone ahead would have been
Francisco Trigo. Trigo had no
difficulty making his point. He
simply explained to council that if
the change was implemented it
would cost him more to flush
water down the toilet than it does
for gas to heat his building.

The proposed change in billing
was straight forward. The bylaw
States that the owner of a building

containing more than one business

‘should be taxed under the sewer

and water rate bylaws for every
individual business licence holder
in his building. For Trigo, that
meant an increase of something
like 700 percent.

It would be unfair, said Trigo; all:

users should pay equally. Every-
one, including other business, city
aldermen and public works offi-
cials agreed.

City council has agreed to a
three-month period of grace, how-
ever. They have agreed to ignore

the extta levy for the next quarter
while they investigate a more
equitable sysiem, a system that
will have to be in place within the
next three months. If the city
doesn’t meet that deadline another

quarter for utility billings will be |

missed, and each missed quarter is
costing the city about $15,000 in

lost water revenues and $15,000 in

lost sewer revenues.

The city can afford to pay that
amount out of surplus for one
quarter, says director of engincer-
ing Stew Christensen, but not two.

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ever, ended Lovstad’s ambitions.

A petition was also filed against
the Tribruck proposal. This one
with 68 signatures.-One of the
signatotics was Ray Lovstad who
lives at 5012 Park Ave., about a
block from the proposed apart-
ment.

Another fact to be considered by

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ways maintenance yard are already
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And a final item for ongoing

debate is a second petition filed |

Monday night. This petition, with
37 signatures and apparently more
to come, calls for the creation of a
municipal park at the site of the
highways maintenance yard, as

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Park Ave. site abandoned,
For the time being, though, all

Tribruck application. That matter
ing of council, May 3. The hearing

committee did agree, however, that
the concerns lodged by area resi-

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