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looks to be about time

cs The provincial government’s Property Tax Forum will | hold: a three-hour hearing in Terrace a.week from tomor-

row. In-view of the manner in which residential property taxes have goné up in this aréa over the past-few years, there should be no shortage of interests and submissions

’ for the panel when they sit down and begin listening at.

9:30 a.m. at the Inn of the West: banquet room ‘Aug. 31.

_ by Michael Kelly

‘ ‘Local governments in British

Columbia — municipalities,

_ regional districts; and school: boards — get. basic funding *

grants from the provincial

governments to provide services. - . These local governments, head-

- ed. by locally-elected officials, are empowered to raise money

‘beyond the provincial grants

through: certain types of local taxes.

Any property owner. in this

’ area taking acasual glance at his

-or her tax notice will immediate-

_. ly see that the biggest number on

‘the sheet is the tax assessment for local schools. In the past five years that figure has gone from substantial to enormous.

In School District 88, from 1983 to 1988 the total amount of

‘money collected through ‘residential property. taxes,

according to the B.C. Ministry of Education, went from

$1,277,954 to $2,997, ‘411, an in-

crease of 134.55 percent, the. se- cond highest increase in B. Ci a bit behind the. neighboring Bulkley Valley district at.140. 39. percent. During that period the”

* provincial average was an. in-

crease of 42,91 percent. In 4 shorter-term view, figures

_ provided by School District 88. administration indicate that in:

‘1985-86, the district spent $21,478,770; in 1989-90 the

budget i is for $27,815,377. Dur-. ing the same period the portion - “of the budgets raised through

residential property’ taxation were $1,565,617 and $3,626,887 —all9 percent tax increase for a 27 percent increase in school expenditures.

What happened? Did the value of property in the district take a sudden launch into the Stratosphere? Not quite. In 1985-86 the total assessed value

of taxable residential property in, - the district

totalled $346,139,000; in. 1989-90 the

figure is $351, 280, 000: 2. 8 per-

cent. The cost of education in the

district did go up. In the 1985-86 |

School year the district enrolled 5, 158 pupils at a cost of $4, 164

* per pupil; -in-1989-90 the enrol-.

ment is ‘5,400 pupils ata cost of $5,151 > per. pupil. During that same. period the budget sharing ratio — the amount of the total

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Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 23,1989 3.

Analysis"

“budget paid by the province —

‘tax rate in School District 88, the

’ dollars “of assessed property

-cial government ‘is paying (to

school districts involves . the “ministry’s definition of. what * constitutes a good basic educa-

; Terrace Public Library Woolworths Clty of Terrace . Terrace Co-op Terrace Parks & Recreation Tillicum Twin Theatres: . C.F.T.K. B.C.G.E.U. Ministry of Forests

- McEwan Motors Alcan Shoppers Drug Mart Kentucky Fried Chicken Northern Drugs K-Mart

’ Totem Press ;

Terrace Bullders Centre

-. Wilkinson Business Machines Skeena Cellulose | . J & F Distributors

THE SIXTH. ANNUAL TERRACE CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL was a tremendous success! The Children’s Festival - would like to extend a big:

THANK YOU

to the following friends of the festival who's donations helped-make It all possible.

Paragon Insurance G & H Marketing Wightman & Smith Twin City Meats

. McDonalds Restaurant

Skeena Sawmills Canada Safeway Carpenter's Union

> Terrace Credit Union

Salvation Army Women’s Resource Centre

_ Totem Beverages ~~

Skeena Beverages Overwaltea

_.. Terrace Centennial Lions 2° Terrace Interiors _ Terrace Arts Council

Shriners Clown Corps

' N.W.C.C. Carpentry Department

Terrace Correctional Centre:

Margorle & Howard Cromarty -

A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO ALL OUR HARDWORKING VOLUNTEERS. We couldn’t have done It without your’ time and energy!

THANKS AGAIN EVERYONE! SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!

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Wilkinson Business Machines ‘All-Weet Glass | Woolworths Terrace Co-op Terrace Bowling Lanes Dairyland Bavarian Inn Ian of the West Raincoast Signworks Al & Nancy Richardson H. Lehmann Jewellers. Grace Feil Florist Rich & Lole McDaniela Petro-Can — Norm Holmes Overwaliea Rhonda's Hair Designs Abracadabra Terrace Travel . Terrace Builders”

Des Printere

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The Grads of ’69 would like to Thank the following for their, support in making the 20 year reunion such a success

Tillicumn Theatres Elker Auto Supply _ Dave Comfort Dan Rosangren-Pro Shop Northwest Sportsman Tim Horton's Jeans North All Seasons Sporting Goods Northern Drugs ; _ Dairy Queen © . Dave Parker, MLA -- City. of Terrace Terrace Infocentre inland Kenworth Forestry-Initial Attack Craw | . Northern Lights Studio Norm’s Auto Refinishing Jim Fulton, MP. Trans Canada Credit -. Skeona Sawmills -

‘Repap “Bert's Dell

Safeway

dropped from 91.74 percent to 88,52 percent. During ; that same period the

amount, , payable per thousand

value, ‘went from 4. 52308 to 10.32477, ..

The inevitable conclision is that local property. owners - are paying a-lot more to support public education and the provin-

them, at least) somewhat less. The:current formula used by.the Ministry of Education ‘to fund

tion, set at a rate per pupil, ac-

companied by some other Lyne Lagace, recently crowned Miss Terrace 1989, looked

esoteric calculations that con- confident and poised at the Terrace-Kitimat airport last

sider special education programs week just before leaving to compete in the Miss PNE continued-on page 22 Pageant in Vancouver.

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