doctors’ pension plan last year
will be taken back. .
_. One industry that got a nasty
shock was tourism — the govern-
ment’s support for tourism
agencies, associations
bureaus was cut by 30%, Another
area; that..got sayaged 'was: the
ministity’of econornic development,
which lost an assistant deputy

ministérand several senior offi-

‘ + ord. ‘ a 1 og
cials to’ Secure a payroll saving of

$3.9 million per year to the gov-

ernment.

Following the budget. ‘the
government: introduced a. wide
range: of. fee and licensing
increases, boosting a spectrum of
service.costs from ambulance fees
to motor vehicle licensing.

' One feature that stood out in
the budget by comparison to those
of previous years was the com-

plete absence of any major capital |
The total

spending . projects.
budget is $17.98 million, with the
projected current account deficit
for the coming year almost exactly

and .

_,. BUT NOT FOR THE LIBRARY -

Despondent is how Terrace
Public Library chairman Judy

Chrysler describes the mood of’

the library board of trustees.

Chrysler ‘says she talked to GO -
B.C. project, officer‘Ruth Miller on ©
Friday and determined for certain

that. the lottery fund grant appli-

cation for an expansion project
has not been reinstated.
Following a year’s organi-
zational work, the library's GO
B.C. application for one-third of a

$1 million expansion: project was .

filed in November 1989. In April

1990, however, Mayor Jack Tal-.

stra announced the. city intended
to take a $4.5 million community

convention centre: to referendum -

during the November election and
the library referendum would
have to wait until 1991.

In May 1990 the library board

was told by a B.C. Lottery official .

that their application had been
put on hold in favour of the com-

munity convention centre. In

_ February 1990 the city said a

better cost sharing arrangement
was needed between the city and |

the“ regional ‘district. before the |
_ library expansion could go ahead.

In July 1990, faced with a

stalled -community _ convention’
centre, the city agreed to endorse
an updated GO B.C. library appli-
‘cation. Last Friday, Chrysler

learned the application has never |

‘been reinstated. On Saturday,

March 28 the regional board gave
first ‘two readings to a bylaw _
outlining a new cost sharing form-

ula and approving a referendum.

A press release. issued Tues-.
day, March 31 from the Ministry.
of Government Services stated, ..

_ "The GO B.C. grant program, now

finishing its third year, has been
discontinued.” It goes on to say
that previously approved grants -
will be honoured. Those not
approved, or sitting in a hold

10% of that figure. oe,

Members of the Eighth Terrace Cubs were out on patrol Sat

) urday on the public trail
behind the Almarlin Building just off Lazelle Ave., cleaning up the area. It is used as
a through-way by local school students. The Cubs put the work toward earning the

prestigious Conservation Badge, which requires three years to earn,

Terrace Review — April 3, 1992