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Teresa MALLAM/Free Press Just before they go on stage to perform their Bollywood Hits number at Canada Day celebrations at Fort George Park on Monday, Bollywood Dream Dancers Sarah Styler, Maya Duncan and Emma Bains get in a little texting to their friends.
Special meeting for CORE SERVICES REVIEW Bill Phillips editor@pgfreepress.com The core services review will be frontand-centre at a rare morning meeting of council Monday. The special meeting of council is slated to get underway at 8:30 a.m. Monday. It is not known how long the meeting will go, however councillors also have an incamera session at 4 p.m. to receive a staff report to council. They will be back at it at 6 p.m for the regular public meeting. The main focus of the morning meeting, however, will be to deal with staff
recommendations regarding the KPMG core services review report. Staff is recommending that council approve and/or consider more than 50 recommendations for cutting costs at city hall. The recommendations include reviewing the service agreements between the city and Initiatives Prince George and Tourism Prince George. They also call for increased fees for a litany of city services from business licences to parks, sports fields, and city facilities. Staff also recommends bringing back pay parking downtown with a rate of
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$1 per hour, something the Downtown Business Improvement Area has lobbied against. The staff recommendation to council also calls for the elected officials to approve continuing with core service review plans already underway, which includes such items as discussing a curbside recycling program with the Fraser-Fort George Regional Distrct and a commitment that city crews will continue to open driveways as part of its snow removal program. Last month council abandoned one of the more controversial aspects of the core services review by voting 5-4 to keep the Pine Valley Golf Course.
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