Ai2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday November 16,

2005

‘Council grapples with Co-op land

~ MAYOR JACK Talstra says Terrace’s new city council will

have to decide what to do with the old Terrace Co-op build- ing and lands just purchased for $1 million.

He. expects the new council, to be elected Nov. 19, will likely hire a consultant to look at the area stretching from the Via Rail tracks to Lakelse Ave. and west from the Staples

building to the former Via Rail station, to examine develop- “ment possibilities there.

“Tt needs a bit of an uplift,” Talstra said of the area. ' The Terrace Tourism Society and the Terrace Economic

" Development Authority will be part of the decision making

process, he said. The 4.34 acres of land is in the heart of

"what the city has long wanted to develop as a downtown . tourism and commercial zone.

Talstra said he’s open to any ideas involving everything from retailers purchasing parts of the land, the entire thing or leasing property. Public-private partnerships are also on the

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list of options to.consider.

And while ideas from the public are welcome there is no

: formal mechanism in place yet to consider them.

Despite councillor Rich McDaniel’s assertions that the main building on the property “just needs a coat of paint,” Talstra has said the Jong- -term decision may be to demolish

the building.

McDaniel and councillor Carol Leclerc say they are open to the idea of allowing local groups to use the building.

“Tt wouldn’t surprise me at all that all sorts of groups are |

going to come forward and ask for the opportunity to use it and that’s something that council will have to deal with, ”

~Talstra says.

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There are no- -immediate plans to > demolish the buildings

. on the property, he says, adding city y Officials will soon draw UP a list of safety and liability i issues.

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El rules. loosen up. for area residents

CHANGES TO the employ- ‘ ment insurance program will

benefit ‘northern .. workers who’ “may have’ had differ- ent kinds of jobs at different rates of pay. .

‘Instead of. ‘receiving ben-

efits calculated on ‘a year’s . f those -- ~ workers. will. now be paid - based on their highest-earn-

. ing. 14 weeks | of employ- ' ment: ” : .

worth of income,

'“Let’s say a “person has

a service industry job, which

"pays less. And that job ends.

That person will now receive |

. benefits based at the higher

rate .of pay,”..said Shirley

'Kimery, a federal official

from Service Canada, the

new agency responsible for

employment insurance. “What this means is that

~ person won't be. penalized

_had a job, one in the.min- - _ing ‘industry. And then is. ‘unemployed and then: takes’

for taking a job ‘that paid”

less.”

“But Kimery said people will still need to accumulate 910 hours of employment in

order to qualify for benefits °

in the first place. “That “won't

benefit is calculated,” said Kimery of the three-year pi- lot project dubbed the “best 14 weeks.” | _

It came into effect last month in northern B.C. and in 22 other regions across

“the country. a

Also changing is a reduc- tion in the number of quali- fying hours for new entrants

_ into the workforce or. for

those re-entering. after an absence.

The number of hours they will need to work will be

840 instead of the standard

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910 and that takes effect as .

of Dec. 11. It is also a three- year pilot project.

. Those workers who meet,

the new standard will also

have to take part in employ-.

ment programming. - “Jt ‘appears that those

‘workers living in areas of

high unemployment ‘and in

rural and remote areas of the - country have had relatively:

greater difficulty adjusting to the requirements,” says a

federal document explaining.

. this reduced number of hours standard for. new workers or

for those returning. after an absence... - ° .A third employment i in-

surance change, also to come

‘into effect Dec. 11 in’ the

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before the ‘dollar for dollar deduction takes hold.

A person who now col- lects $400 in benefits, for in-

“stance, can earn up to $100

before deductions begins.

With the. change, the same

person. will be able to make up to $160 a week before

‘having the dollar for dollar

deduction begin.

“The pilot project is de- signed to encourage indi- viduals receiving EI benefits to accept available employ- ment without a reduction in their EI benefits, with’ the

‘objective to strengthen their

attachment to the - labour

'. force,” reads a document ex- ° plaining the change. The changes come at a

time when when. unemploy-

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