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“For a cost less than a cup of coffee,” (each month and for the next 15 years) Metro Vancouver residents can help the North Shore pay for an extraordinary $2.8-billion cost overrun for their new wastewater treatment plant.
That’s how Metro Vancouver director Lisa Muri, councillor for the District of North Vancouver, framed her pitch to the regional government’s board on Friday, to convince her political neighbours that everyone ought to contribute equally for the new $3.9-billion plant. Whether they will or not is still open to question. Metro Vancouver politicians couldn’t seem to come to a consensus on Friday as to how to their residents will foot the bill for the new sewage plant and will now require a third meeting to make a decision. The board had held a special budget meeting April 17 to look at the budget quagmire and directed CAO Jerry Dobrovolny to come up with options for the added tax measures, including those that could spread the burden more equitably across the region. Dobrovolny needs direction through the summer to craft the 2025 budget, which requires Continued on A25
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