Al6 Terrace Review — Wednesday, April 10, 1991

Aldermen caught up in tent

May 4 is a very special day at
Northwest Community College.
It’s Graduation Day. There is of
course all the usual ceremony with
cap and gown, and afterwards a

dance and social, But the NWCC
Graduation Ceremonies Committee
has a bit of a problem. They want
to hold the after-grad social out-
doors, but there is no guarantee the
weather will cooperate.

For this reason, committee mem-
ber Kim Saulnier made a request
to city hall: "We are hoping that
you would consider donating the
use of the large outdoor tent for
our social/dance. We anticipate
that this event will be well
attended and that the tent would be
put to good use.” And, "Should it
not be possible to waive the entire
rental fee, perhaps you would
consider granting us a formidable
discount."

This seemingly innocent little
request has created a monster of a
problem for city council. In the
end, a motion was eventually
adopted at council’s Monday night
meeting. The graduating committee
can have the tent for only $500
instead of the usual $600 rental
fee. And then there was another
motion from alderman Bob Cooper
that was passed. The city’s entire
tent rental policy has been sent to
the “appropriate committee" for
reconsideration.

But first alderman Ruth Hallock
wanted to know if such a conces-
sion had been offered anyone else.
Only the Northern B.C. Winter
Games, according to administrator

Bob Hallsor. Cooper wanted to im

know what a day’s tent rent was
worth. From superintendent of
parks and recreation Steve Scott,
$600. That includes staff, trans-
portation, a day to set it up, a day
to take it down... and $100 that is
supposed to be saved for the day

Correction
on Paul Hann

Children’s entertainer Paul Hann
will be performing at the R.E.M.
Lee Theatre Sunday, April 28, not
April 27 as indicated in the April 3
issue of the Terrace Review.

Our apologies to the Terrace
Child Development Centre, who
are sponsoring the concert.

Mrs. Geri Mantel
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Mayor breaks two tie votes

the canvas needs to be replaced.
This caused mayor Jack Talstra

to respond: "There’s not much

room there. I thought we were

going to recoup our cost in four to

five years.” At this point, Hallock
made a motion; decline ‘the
request. Cooper responded, "We

-could rent it for $500 instead of

saying no." But Mo Takhar
countered, "They’re saving only
$100... Not a great deal of money
and we're just setting it up for
other people..."

Hallock suggested that if council
wanted to make the tent available
to everyone in the community at
no cost, that was "fine and good".
But, she added, when they decided
to buy the tent, "We didn’t talk in
those terms." She then suggested
that any change or variation from
the present rental policy and,
"We're just setting ourselves up
for others."

From personal experience, Danny
Sheridan confirmed Scott’s assess-
ment of the amount of work
involved in setting up and taking
down the city tent and suggested,
"the city will never make any
money and that wasn’t the intent

anyway." He admitted that every

group in town is "worthy" of a
free rental, but, "I don’t know
where we draw the line."

Then came the vote on the

It’s Time for a Change

Helmut Giesbrecht
New Democrat for Skeena

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to attend our

motion to decline the offer. With
Hallock and Takhar in favour, and
Sheridan and Cooper opposed,
Talstra had to cast the deciding
ballot. The motion was, defeated. -

Cooper bounced back with a

motion of his own, rent the tent to ©
the college at cost, $500. "If we're |

going to do that we might as well
change the policy," Hallock
responded. But Cooper was pre-
pared. "If someone wants to rent it

for a beer garden and make money
thal’s totally different," he said.
Then came the vote on the
motion for rental at cost. With
Sheridan and Cooper in favour,
and Hallock and Takhar opposed,
Talstra had to cast the deciding
ballot, The motion was carried.
This still leaves an unanswered
question, however. Can the North-
west Community College gradu-
ation committee of 1991 afford a

rental dilemma —

$500 tent? They do, of course have
an option... If it’s not already
booked, the committee can rent the
arena banquet room for $240 (plus
GST) and they get a kitchen to
boot.

Which raises another question:
what do you do with a $40,000
tent that few groups can afford to

rent? This, apparently, is a ques-—

tion the "appropriate committee"
will have to answer when they
decide how the tent rental policy
should be changed.

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