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Mike Scott

MP takes
hands off
approach
to grants

SKEENA MP Mike Scott
was among the Reformers
who last week found him-
self embroiled in the de-
bale over mismanagement
of Human Resources De-
velopment Canada grants,
Embattled human tre-
sources minister Jane Ste- |
wart named Scott and two
other B.C. Reform MPs
who she said “keep calling
my office saying can’t you
please hurry up and ap-
prove the application.”

She later said it was the .

MPs’ staff that had called
her office. “

Making public opposi-
tion MPs’ requests to. ac-
celerate grant approvais
has been a key strategy of
the Liberals in attempting
to withstand a firestorm of
questions and criticism
about accounting proce-
dures used to monitor the
grants.

Scott says he’s never
wanted to be in control
over local grant requests,
which he says is a giant
political slush fund used
by the Liberals.

It would be wrong for an
MP to exert political con-
trol over. who does and
does not get grants in the
riding, he said. a
, ,For that reason, Scott

says he appraves‘all grants

requests by organizations
from this region and sends
them straight -back. to
Human Resources Deve-
lopment Canada.

“I made a personal de-
cision that because there
were very difficult econo-
mic circumstances in this
area and because we did
not have the expertise to
review and. analyze the
applications that come in,
we take the view that it’s
not appropriate for the
Member of Parliament to:
be involved at all,” he’
said.

Scott said he doesn't
know what grants were is-
sued in Skeena, That’s be-
cause his office doesn’t
even keep the correspon-
dence from HRDC on the
grant applicalions.

“We really don’t want
to be involved,” he said.

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City ponders tax hike
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THE CITY is planning to boost its subsidy
of neighbourhood road reconstruction, but
it’s also contemplating a lax increase lo
help pay for it.

Right now the city pays 40 per cent of
the cost of rebuilding residential city
Streets, while homeowners are expected
to pay 60 per cent.

Councillors have agreed in budget dis-—

cussions to up the cily’s share for Local
Improvement Projects to. 60 per cent
while homeowners pay 40 per cent.

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dents agreeing to repave their streets.

For a number of years the money the.
city has set aside for its share of LIPs has:

gone unused because of residents refusal

to pay, despite worsening condition of-pa- .

vement in many parts of town.

Council .came up with the new 60-40
formula after considering even more gen-
erous options, such as 70-30 or 80-20
splits or even ending the LIP system and
having the city pay for all roadwork.

The problem with that is it would re-
quire a hefty tax increase of more than 10
per cent to ensure roads are rebuilt on
schedule.

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taxes shoot up but might not see their
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turn arrived. ~

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~ “There’s probably going to be some
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cents BS
He -wis among: the councillors: who fa-
vours even higher-city subsidies.

““T believe over time we should phase

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