Aldergrove Star
data provider: CONTENTdm
is part of: BC Historical Newspapers
contributor: Langmann, Rudy
issued: 2022-09-22
issued: 1979-01-10
aggregated CHO: https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/alderstar/items/1.0420915/source.json
format: application/pdf
note: CUT IN MILL RATE ANNOUNCED A -'■ ., 'Heavy band' not fehby By RUDY LANGMANN MURRAYVILLE - While other lower mainland politicians are ranting about the "heavy hand of big brother" government, township fathers here are quite reflective about the whole thing.. Vancouver's mayor, Jack Vol- rich, and the chairman of the Union of B.C. Municipalities, Abbotsford mayor George Ferguson, are but two of the lower mainland politicians who have come back at the provincial government's freeze of local militates making strong statements about senior government "interference", but here in Langley district it has failed to fire latent malcontent attitudes. Mayor and aldermen here just don't care. They are not the least impressed. "It (premier Bill Bennett's last week announcement that his provincial government in order to protect the local taxpayer has moved to freeze tax mill rates and ordered municipalities to use up surplus funds) doesn't affect this municipality at all," says Langley district mayor George Driediger. "We are not only holding last year's mill rate, we have actually cut it for 1979." The preliminary budget for 1979 had already been prepared long before the provincial government put the pressure on B.C. municipalities last week. And Langley councilors, in preparing this budget, decided to slash general expenditures which enabled them to drop the new year's mill rate by 7. The budget has not yet been approved, of course, but Driediger is adamant that the seven mill cutback will be retained. Unless Unless, that is, the local school district fails to hold the same line. But then, "...If we can cut that much fat, they can too," Driediger handily lops the ball into the school board's court. The mayor, who was clearly impressed by the local version of last year's California tax revolt, vowed early in 1978 that taxes would be cut in 1979 and now comes the payoff. As far as Bylaw proposes farm subdivision MATSQUI - A bylaw to rezone existing agricultural land within the urb…
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: 10.14288/1.0420915
language: English
lat: 49.0851
long: -122.4707
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Aldergrove : Central Fraser Valley Star Publishing Ltd.
rights: Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from the Digitization Centre: http://digitize.library.ubc.ca/
source: Original Format: Alder Grove Heritage Society
type: Text