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                            PRINCE GEORGE
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1995
Citizen
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Multiplex settlement hikes cost
                                                                                                          by BERNICE TRICK Citizen Staff
   Settling the labor dispute at the new Multiplex construction site is costing Prince George taxpayers about $270,000.
   But it’s the least expensive and most practical solution to the labor problems, Coun. Don Grantham, chairman of the building committee, told city council Monday.
   The dispute began Nov. 29 when union workers affiliated with B.C. and Yukon Territory Building and Trades Council (BCYTBTC) refused to work alongside those not affiliated with the trades council.
   The settlement allows Gracom Masonry and Flynn Roofing contractors to meet demands of the trade unions.
   The city is paying Gracom Masonry of Kelowna an extra
$145,000 to bring in another subcontractor and affiliated workers plus a non-working foreman.
   ‘The brick work should start tomorrow,” Grantham told council.
   Flynn Roofing is getting an extra $90,000 to pay out a current agreement with a sub-contractor, bring in affiliated workers and a non-working foreman.
   Hold Painting, a third unaffiliat-ed contractor, hadn’t started its work on the site so it simply withdrew from its $118,000 painting contract. The contract has been awarded to the lowest affiliated tender, Peak Painting, at a bid of $152,000.
   Hold Painting isn’t out any money except the cost of the tender process which could cost the city another $1,000 to $2,000, said Grantham.
   The settlement ended the dispute which caused a 6.5-day work stoppage at the site late last year.
   At that time union, city and onsite construction managers agreed on a process that allowed work to resume while talks continued.
   The dispute began when union workers affiliated with the trades council refused to work alongside Gracom brick workers, who are union workers, but not affiliated with the trades council.
   ‘The committee and city administration were surprised by this action since the fair wages policy was in place,” said Grantham, noting 20 of 23 contracts awarded at the Multiplex have been to trade union workers affiliated with the trades council.
   The fair wage policy, designed to ensure non-union workers are
Big subdivision, golf course proposed for Beaverly area
                                                                                                         by BERNICE TRICK Citizen Staff
         The population of the small rural community of Beaverly could n more th^n double if a proposal for a subdivision and golf course goes ahead. .        •
         Stoned Bay Holdings and Driftwood Contracting want to turn 200 hectares into 560 residential lots to be surrounded by an 18-hole golf course.
         The living units potentially could house 1,700 people. Almost 1.000 people lived in Beaverly in 1991, says Statistics Canada.
         Although Beaverly is in the Fraser-Fort George Regional District, the matter came to Prince George city council because of the location on the fringe of the city’s southwestern limits.
         The first step is to request that 65 ha. (160 acres) of the land be
 removed from the Agricultural Land Reserve.
    City administration does not object to the exclusion of the land from the ALR, but said Monday that further development will require study through a fringe planning process.
    The city planning department has some concerns about the lack of services in the area given its knowledge about servicing problems in that vicinity, Peter Bloodoff, director of development services, says in a letter to FFGRD.
    The city must be concerned for the future because, should the area become part of the city, all problems would become the city’s responsibility, pointed out Coun. Ron Thiel.
    Council was assured by Bob Headrick, chairman of the regional district board, that the idea is for
 the city and regional district to work closely regarding the proposal.
    “It’s a big project and everybody must have input,” said Headrick.
    The proposed project, located in North Beaverly with access off West Beaverly and Musa roads, would contain 198 urban lots, 209 half-acre lots, 13 two-acre lots, 146 townhouse units, 4.5 ha. of commercial area, and a 90-ha. golf course.
    Services would include upgrading West Beaverly Road and internal roads, a sanitary sewage system involving low-pressure pumping of effluent to a treatment centre and individual septic tanks, water from individual or shared wells, and storm water drainage collected for irrigation of the golf course.
Appeal of verdict pondered
                                                                                                    by MARILYN STORIE Citizen Staff
   Crown counsel here needs more information before deciding whether to seek leave to appeal a verdict which freed a 43-year-old Prince George man who shot his wife to death.
   “We will be getting an opinion and have our legal experts look at it,” Oleh Kuzma, deputy regional Crown counsel in Prince George, said today.
   Wayne Sullivan, 43, was found not criminally responsible by reason of mental disorder after he fatally shot his wife Maureen in the couple’s Valley view home Jan. 19, 1992. Immediately afterwards, he forced his wife’s childhood friend into a bedroom at gunpoint and
ordered her to take off her clothes.
    The Prince George man faced charges of second-degree murder and sexual assault with the use of a weapon. After a two-week trial, the jury reached a unanimous verdict Dec. 11, 1993.
    Expert medical testimony at the trial indicated that Sullivan, drunk at the time of the incident, had an unusual sensitivity to alcohol that had caused him to become dissociated or unaware of his actions.
    The Crown appealed the decision to the B.C. Court of Appeal in January 1993. It was accepted and heard two months ago by the B.C. Court of Appeal. With the release of a B.C. Court of Appeal decision Friday that upheld the verdict, that final option to appeal to the
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