TON ne Na a ee a SW Mm Oa ee Mh Ae Lanse TN SE ae er LO I rt one re el | | | ! TOE ene a a a eS Ret a TO: Mayor and Council DATE: March 22, 1974 FROM: L.D. Pollock, City Administrator 1. Appointment of Assessor I have given consideration to the appointment of an Assessor to replace Mr. Jim Buchan and I would like to recommend to Council appointment j an acting Capacity of Mr. Wayne Severn who is presently Appraiser II in the Assessment Department. Wayne is working towards a degree. with the Appraisal Institute of Canada and at the present time holds his Canadian Residential Appraiser Certificate. xperience in the private He has, however, interest and is on the executive of the B.C, I feel that his experience an own particular Assessment D for the position. 2. Pagers for the Fire Department The Fire Chief has included in his budget requests this @ our pre proved unreliable The control of the siren + and are linked to the We have had a number of occasions recently where t 8 due to a malfunction in the circuits and firemen have had to be called out by telephone. existing siren and possibly further fire siren on the north side. are now going to a system of paging using small portable radios es . or the purpose. The pagers are a small pocket unit that give off a tone signal and in addition, the Firemen «ee /2