Aldergrove Star
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is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1978-06-21
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note: ■HM legislative Library Jan 79 Parliament Bldg, Victoria, B.O, Did your taxes go down this year? around in this municipality in government cars collecting petitions. Smart asses. They can bloody well stay on their job next Monday..." Letter from Michael Robson, Dr. Bill Zwamborn, David Melnychuk, David Sands and Vic Pister, which appeared in last week's edition of the Star, has announced the intentions of the group to come before council with a delegation at 2 p.m. on Monday. June 26 "...to outline our dissatisfaction and to demand a rc-cvaluation of equal assessments." Melnychuk and Sands are civic By RUDY LANGMANN LANGLEY — Anybody out there notice that his taxes went down this year? According to Aid. Jock Lindsay this should have happened... somewhere...to someone...since the great Equalizer was rolled in last fall in the shape of the New Assessments. A number of people, not enthused about the way their property taxes have ballooned this year, have promised to stage a march on the Murrayville municipal hall, and the council- men, although reluctant to admit this fact, are waiting in trepidation. They are presently fortifying themselves by looking into mirrors and adopting suitable stern political expressions and forceful patterns of speech while they wait for the onslaught of 'Proposition 13' advocates. They tried it out this week in front of an audience of fascinated news types. Leading off, moderate Aid. Bill Blair pointed out that the old tax assessment system was "pegged to a five percent increase each year by old (W.A.C.) Bennett." And he admitted, before being forced into doing so. "...that when you get used to paying S300 (in annual property taxes) it's a heck of a shock to pay $600." The provincial government's new 15- 25.10 rule (15 percent of assessed value for residential. 25 percent for commercial, and 30 percent for industrial) was to blame, he said. Not local government. Finance expert, Aid. Art Brooks, took up the thread from there. People had been…
note: Title changes in chronological order: Aldergrove Herald (1957-10-16 to 1958-02-20), Aldergrove News (1958-02-27 to 1964-04-30), Central Fraser Valley Echo (1964-05-06 to 1964-12-23), Central Fraser Valley Star (1967-01-17 to 1969-02-05), and Aldergrove Star (1969-02-12 to 1991-12-31). Presented to the Alder Grove Heritage Society by Kurt Langmann and Family, July 1, 2021.
has type: Newspapers
spatial: Aldergrove (B.C.)
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0420797
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
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source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text