A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 25, 1998

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WOODWORKING FOR WOMEN April | - May 6, 1998 6:30 pm - 9: 40 pm Wednesdays

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é am - 4 pm Saturday $75 + GST (rartkipants supply materials foe projects) . SAI5 ENGLISH fT MANAGEMENT SKILLS FOR t f b " PROFESSIONAL DIVER TRAINING hd My 18 SUPERSORS PART fi il 14-17, 1 axes O i U S i n ess e S a am - 130 pen Manday -Fiday se 4 10 pm Thursday 0 am - 4.30 pm Tuesday - Fiday . $425 Latest hold-the-line budget may be the last BACKHOH/LOADER OPERATOR FRAP CONTROL RAGEING VIRMFDIATE WORD 6 MOST BUSINESSES in town will see the $5.99 per thousand assessed valuc to $5.83, Som: 3 pm Monday - Friday Bam- 5 pm Saturday & Sunday March 30 & April 6, 1998 cily portion of their property taxes hold © Anyone whose property assessment went gL tardy S109 + texts wn 10 pm Monday steady or even decline, up no more than 3 per cent should pay the City council passed its 1998 budget Mon- same or less than 1997, EXCAVATOR OPERATOR mines A PPLICATOR /DISPENSER NTO day night and approved a reduction in the City figures indicate that will mean no April 6 - 17,1998 7 Sam. 3 pu Tuesday - Thursday Dee HERS, WINDOWS 3.1 business tax rale thal should translate into a change or reduced taxes for half of all city Bam - 3pm Monday - Friday $240 + study kit and exam fee on 38, 1998 . property tax break in most cases. homeowners, while 37 per cent will lave to 52250 am 10 am Wednesdays Although a few businesses saw their cough up no more than 5 per cent extra. ADVANCED WILDERNESS FIRST AID wee 50 , property assessments soar due ta the arrival Only seven per cent of taxpayers will face April 14 - 24, 1998 pel

of Canadian Tire and Real Canadian Wholesale Club, most escape unscathed.

Businesses whose property assessinents went up by 5.6 per cent will pay the same amount as last year. And businesses whose assessment increase was smaller than that will pay Jess for city taxcs.

Since ihe average assessment increase for businesses was 2.6 per cent, most businesses that haven’t embarked on a big renovation should see a lower bill.

The business mill rale approved in the budget declines from $22.50 per thousand assessed value to $21.30.

Residential taxpayers can also expect to pay pretty well the same amount this year.

The city drops its residential tax rate from

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increases exceeding 10 per cent.

The city reserved ils biggest tax break this year for utilities, where the tax rate falls nearly 18 per cent from $62.775 per thou- sand assessed to $53.250. The big benefi- ciary there is Pacific Northern Gas, which will pay $31,000 less than it did in 1997.

Major industry gets stuck for a small in- crease, with their rate rising from $47.90 to $49.75, but because of a dip in their assess- ments, West Fraser and Skeena Cellelose will end up paying basically the same amount. Light industrial operations also end up paying essentially the same amount,

The city tax rates affect about half of tax- payers’ overall tax bill. The next biggest chunk is the levy for the school board.

WORKERS IN WHITE suits. spraying the dirt across fram the Cedars Motel on Highway 16 last week weren't coveririg up a UFO crash. They were’ cleaning con- taminated soils at the old bulk fuel site, That's Norm Wiger of Nichols Environ- mental, an Edmonton-based company hired to clean-up the site. The process in- volves digging up the soil to expose it to the air and spraying it with hydrogen” peroxide, which speeds up the decomposition of contaminants.

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City predicts slump

THE CITY itself is predicting a significant slump i in new construction this year.

The City of Terrace has sharply downgraded its projections for revenue in 1998 from building permits and business licences as a result of the present econom- ic downturn.

Building permits produced $109,000 in revenue for the city last year. But the provisional budget pared the revenue estimate for 98 down to $100,000. And in the final budget passed Monday that was chopped down again to just $40,000 — which would reflect a nearly two-thirds reduction it construction,

Business licence revenue — which was $185,000 last year — was inilially projected at $184,000 for '98 be- fore being revised down to $160,000. That would be a 14 per cent drop.

Councillor David Hull said it’s expected business licence money will drop because some home-based businesses and other small businesses won’l renew their licences in light of the economy this year.

Construction starts to the end of February were down nearly 85 per cent from the level to the same point last year.

“Drive around,’? Hull said. “How many new foun- dations do you see being put in?”’

Building inspector Paul Gipps says some. housing starts will show up on his March construction report, adding there’s more commercial renovations so far this year than new commercial projects.

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IT’S GOING to be im- possible to sce what you’re being charged for the coun- try’s air navigation system.

Up untit March 1, the charge appeared as a sepa- rately listed tax on your air- line ticket — seven percent of the fare plus $6 to a max- imum of $55,

Bul that’s changed be- cause the air navigation sys- tem is run by a private cor- poration called Nav Canada.

Nav Canada now charges airlines directly for its ser- vices and the cost is being blended in with the airfare.

Half of the tax was phased out March 1 and the rest will follow by the end of year. But Nav Canada charges to airlines are in- creasing as the tax drops.

The result, says travel agency owner George Clark, should be a fare increase with a resulting tax increase.

Yet be says it will be im- possible to determine how much the air navigation cost to the airlines is because it won't be listed as a separate cost item on your tickel.,

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+ 57% of your donation supports BC cancer researchers working for BC residents » $17,382.58 was given to Terrace patients for their costs related to cancar treatment.

* 10% of your gift provides free materials lo the public, awareness about Breast and Prostate cancer and reducing tobacco use.

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