Dear Editor:
Suddenly, we have the unprecedented situation of both the District of North Vancouver and the City of North Vancouver mayors stepping aside at the same time.
What a shame they didn’t prepare for an amalgamated North Vancouver beforehand, when they know darn well this is what the majority of citizens want when so many of our programs and facilities are shared already. Now would have been the perfect time to only run one mayoral candidate for North Vancouver in the upcoming election, without doing anyone out of a job. Instead, we will once again be voting in duplicate slates for two municipalities, who will once again study the issue, but of course won’t want to give up their positions when the next election rolls around. And so the ludicrous situation of mini-fiefdoms will continue here. I’m disgusted and angered at their lack of foresight and for this blown opportunity to be running only one election in one North Vancouver for one mayor.
Cathy Payne
North Vancouver
Editor’s note: The Community Charter requires that before a new municipality is formed from two or more existing municipalities, a vote be taken separately in each of the existing municipalities, and that for each of those municipalities, more than 50 per cent of votes favour the proposed incorporation.
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