Al4- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 10, 2000

City shuffles senior posts as Christensen announces retirement

A SHAKEUP of the city’s senior public works offi- cials is underway.

Driving the changes are director of engineering Stew Christensen’s plans to retire early next year.

Christensen, :57, moves to city hall-this-week-and- will specialize for the next _ year in a number. of time- intensive projects, such as closure of the city landfill, the city’s . composting pickup project, and future recycling initiatives. —

Taking over most of his former duties is assistant engineering director Herb Dusdal, who will now be director of public works.

He’ll oversee engineer- ing, roads, building main- tenance, the mechanics shop and the sewage treal- ment plani.

The change also means added responsibilities for city planner David Trawin.

Trawin will become dir- ector of development ser- vices — essentially an ex- panded planning depart- ment that includes draft- ing, building inspection, business licensing and bylaw enforcement.

“Development services tends to be the catch-all term for those kind of ser- vices in other communi- ties,” explained chief ad- ministrative officer Ron Poole.

Trawin, who used to re- port to Christensen, now

Chamber delays totem pole raising

THE PLANNED installa- tion of a totem pole at the Terrace and District Chamber of Commerce of- fice tomorrow has been postponed.

The pole was carved by a Nisga’a artist from the Nass while Terrace and area is traditional Tsim- shian territory,

This means the cham- ber and carver Horace Ste- vens have to work out the proper protocol first with people from the Tsimshian villages of Kitsumkalum and Kitselas, said chamber manager Bobbie Phillips last week.

“We have been advised that the proper protocol ~ must be followed,” she said,

The pole was first dona- ted by Stevens, who is from Lakalzap in the Nass Valley, to the city be- tween 1984 and 1986, Phillips said. ~

Somehow during this period it ended up at the chamber office and has been kept inside ever since.

The idea of installing the pole outside of the chamber office was broa- ‘ ched by Betty Barton of Barton Construction.

Her company then built a base and support for the pole in anticipation of to- morrow’s now-postponed installation.

reports directly to Poole, The change will mean some administrative cost savings, said Poole. Administrators taking on new dutics will see modest pay increases, bul overall, he said, the city

will save about -three-quar--- (2%

ters of Christensen’s salary by not replacing him.

““It-will be more effi- cient,” Poole said. “There will. be one: less’ manag- ment position.”

Poole said planned de- partures of city staff are treated as a logical oppor- tunity to assess city opera- tions and contemplate re- structuring.

Christensen first came here in 1969 as part of a

crew paving the last gravel stretch of Hwy16. He left

the area and came back a number of times before re-

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