Kerr says there is no way to

easily track the library applica-
tion. Terrace city administrator

Bob Hallsor, however, says he |

doesn’t think the application has
ever been re-instated. The appli-
cation needed  re-instatement
because it was derailed a few
years ago when the city applied
for a $5 million grant related to a
community/convention centre.

_ Re-instatement of the library
application, however, was prom-
ised by city council in July of last
year. This promise was
announced with a bit of a hitch,
though. Even with GO B.C. fund-
ing, the regional district was
going to have to accept their fair
share of about one-third of the
project cost. But under the exist-
ing funding formula, the regional
district would pay less than 20%.
This matter, said council, would
have to be resolved.

And this is about where we sit
today. Negotiations on a cost
sharing formula continue between
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district. The GO B.C, application,
according to Hallsor, is awaiting
the successful conclusion of these
negotiations hefore the city asks
the lotteries branch to re-instate
the application.

As of Wednesday evening
library board chairman Judy
Chrysler had been unable to track
down the status of the library’s
GO B.C, application. Indications
from Victoria have been that the
current government intends to
allocate a greater portion of the
lottery funds to health care.

The most recent chapter in
what could easily become a book
on a library shelf someday will be
written tomorrow when the
regional. board receives for con-
sideration a hand-delivered letter
from the city dated Feb. 11, 1992.

Attached to that letter is a council

resolution dated Feb. 10, 1992.

The city resolution approves a
June, 1992 referendum based on
an estimated expansion cost of
$1.75 million, on the conditions
that GO B.C. covers a third, and
the regional district comes up
with 30%,

GO B.C. will be an unknown
for several months, says Kerr. On
the other hand, there may be

‘some obscure hints found in

yesterday's provincial budget.
While we wait, we can still have
our referendum, though.
According to Hallsor, the result
would be valid for a periad of five
years, And if the result is a “Yes"
vote... Who knows? We may work
our way back up the lottery prior-
ity list while the referendum
result is still valid.

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