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City Taxes & Sun Wave---- Conflict??

Bylaw No. 3200, 2005 – Pulp Mill Tax Exemption Bylaw No. 3200, 2005 for Final Adoption--- on September 12, 2005
In mid-December the province gave approval to the city’s special tax deal.
Source Vassallo article PRDN June 15 2006

‘SunWave’ ‘negotiated a complex deal with the municipality under the province's new Community Charter legislation: Prince Rupert offered a five-year tax break to the company, tied future taxes to pulp prices and the mill's production volumes; in return China Paper Group will donate to the municipality an unspecified amount of money through an Economic Development Partnership Agreement.

This is cut from Belsey donations from last election: CGR link	CGR donates to Belsey 2005 Campaign
	PDF recounts Belsey’s role in Sun Wave _Skeena Pulp mill deal

Pond received donations from at least 21 companies/ individuals – by far the most in numbers and diversity of any candidate

Belsey donates to Pond 2005 Campaign

Points North Consulting (Belsey) donated $3,000 to Herb Ponds campaign for mayor in late 2005 (of 8170$ total)

This equals about 37% of total --- the courts would probably not find that number large enough to find ‘conflict of interest’ if Pond participated in a council decision that dealt with Points North or its contracts with Sun Wave (see p 21 of next item) --- If this kind of thing interests you read very interesting legal essay presumably for UVic course on Municipal Law – there is a section on conflict interest cases in courts --- presumably most deal with Real Estate

Created by LG on January 13, 2006

Last updated on Monday, January 15, 2007

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