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Perhaps one of the most aggressive forward steps taken during the entire year was the decision to establish a compulsory garbage collection service. The service now awaits only the completion of the tepee type incinerator (at left) before getting fully underway. When fully operational, the service will provide twice-a-week pickup of garbage for city residents and will be extended to other areas on a cost basis. The private firm to which the collection contract was let purchased two trucks oi the type shown above.

A n o t h e r indication of Charlottetown’s

.\lr. Fox had wide expcricncc in this llt‘l(.T iiclore coming to the I. and capital.

The city embarked on a new tax assess. ment survey during the year that will he completed for 1964. Purpose of the assess. ment revamping is to evcntiially provide a more realistic assessment on city properties.

The city became more public relations minded during 1963 and realizing good pub- licity is good for the tourist trade. enlarged its program of gift souvenirs tor distinguished visitors. A wide variety of items are avail- able as souvenirs and this scene showing Agriculture .\linister Harry Hays receiving a gift at City Hall will be re-enacted many times.

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Mayor

Mayor A. walthen (iaudet ll!‘

his report said:

At yet another Year's e nd. this one our lmth as an incor- porated city. I assume that a relevant question each of you m'2ht put to the chief magis- trate of your city would be "What went on at city hall this past year .\'tr. .\iayor'.”'. and for my part i would ans w er as follows;

Your mayor and council have again attempted to the best of their ability to give sound and progressive administration in all nhases of civic affairs here.

Total civic revenues climbed to 31.702575, while civic expen- ditures ran to $l.698,7z8, leav- ing us a net surnlus on ordinary account of $3,847.

The civic tax rate remained unchanged at 3.33.

City assets increased as of Dec. 31, 1963, to $11,048.76?

city's debt stood at $7.l89.075. recresentinu an increase in 1963 of 3206032. fully explained in the midited financial statcnier.t for the year. .- in-i-c.~.~ar_v ‘nkni . ‘iill am: rt tlflii - ii 20-\: ‘Ah - ~ '

city '.\ as again evidenced by the 99.146 price obtained on a 51/: per cent coupon with n et

Tax collections ran to 97 per cent of our net levy of taxation for the year.

ROLL COMPLETED

The new assessment roll was completed by J. P. Coombe and Associates and will come into effect for this New Y e a r 1964.

Norman W. Lowther QC and Alfred J. l-lennessey were named as the city's represen- tatives on the board of appeal.

A total of 1.02 miles of city streets were paved, 3.8 miles of city streets were resurfaced. 3.712 lincul feet of new stic- vtaillts \\ei‘e laid. and 3.407 snuarc yards of new cnrh io side-\\:ilk parking areas vi cre reclaimed and paved for this use.

A total of 2.049 lineal feet of combination storm and sani- tarv sewers were la’d.

We regret the ' ' at years end of our competent and popular city engineer .\'orman Stewart. with the full knowled- ge that he will be a v e r y diffi- cult man to replace.

F. Sterns Webster rose

the retirement of his predecessor in that office. (‘. W. .\lacArtllur. with the addition of Constab- les .\tclnt_vi-c. Acorn and Mc- (‘ionncll during the _vc-zir. _\‘ our police force now stands at 24.

A lntzil (if 327 park i ll Q mclcrs were iii lulled. 1 a total now of T. . in {in Mint? to cope w i I ll our anniizi ' l v increasing: iin - town park 1 nf.’ problem. with those in the central business area raised to 10 cents an hour from the pre- vious 5 cents.

We li ad to stand up during the year and fight for our rights re our jail accommodat i o n s. but for the moment at least all seems back to normal in th at respect.

A new harbour patrol of t h e Charlottetown harbour was in- stituted in 1963 to meet the ob-

the year of the Canadian Auto- mibile Associations pedestri- an program appraisal special citation for program activit'~es among cities of 10.000 to ?5.(ﬁt0 population.

MASTER PLAN

Your town planning advisory committee under the dcp U i _v mayor had another active year ' i 0 ns ii 1! ll t

plan for the c i t v cont i n ii ed tinder >'lllll_V by that committee

housing conference reconvened, and preliminary application

Drevniion and in me use or I

sees year of progress

has now gone forward to the provincial government seeking its partic'pation in municipal low income family housing here.

Aimed at improvement in ex- isting housing, our new by-law passed in 1963 to compel ren-

fortable occupancy has already proved of real value in this im- portant field.

Cognizant of the citi1.ens'- re- port of two years ago regard- ing the eventual need of a new City Hall, with expanded facil- ities for almost all branches ot

ing the year, and the demolition of the former will, in the inter- val. provide a long overdue mu- nicipal park in g lot in th e Area.

In a spirit of good neighborh- ness. permission was given dur- ing the year to the Village of Sherwood to hook up to th e city's sewerage svstem on the

of $2.t‘.)0.

(‘AREFl'l. STUDY ‘ ’>aicd diirim: Cll(iFilril(‘ll)‘.\n har- bour pollution study carried on by J. L. Richards and Associa- tes. and that report recently re- ceived is now under careful study by all parties concerned. After repeated unsuccessful attempts to have the federal government share in the urgent- ly needed repairs to our Victoria ‘Park breastwork, perhaps the new Municipal Loan Fund will at last provide a partial ans- wer. But due now to our Confed-

With full knowledge of the in- evitable disgraceful condition of our so called city dump, n of really in the City at all. it was decided during the year to con- sruct a new type Teepee in- cinerator on lands up rLver. the kind gift of our provincial gov- ern m en t, and to institute a compulsory c i v i c prov i (1 ed twice - a - week gzirhage collec- tion servicc. This new incinera- tor shoiild be ready for use shortly. and it is hoped th at the same. together with the new service available. will ans-

wet all the needs of our city and metropolitan area in this respect. Thereupon the provin-‘ cial government has promised to level and tidy up the present dump site prior to our busy cen- tenniel and tourist season ahead.

In view of this being our Con-

council chambers here at City Hall, with the net result a cred- it to all who had a hand therein.

TREES COMPLETED Tree Forms Limited of Fred- ericton. N.B., engaged a few years back to carry out a 5-Year tree program here in the inter- ests of preserving our valuable and lovely trees throughout tne city. completed their task in 1963. Our volunt e e r fire devian- ment once again performed their outstanding annual service to

their handling of the explosive Seekonk incident on the water- front in June last.

During the \e.'ir we ex')cnti-

ed the sum of $13,211 on welfare in our community. represent- ing our 25 per cent share of that expended by our two wells re bureaux and shared by all lev- els of government.

The purchase of the to r mer Sports Arena by the city t o of place in 1% as well at a cost of $M.0M. to assure the con- tinued essential facilities there

and appoint its first direc t o r of recreation in the person of James Fox.

our liait committee super- vised the installation during 1%

lights at _this point to a gra nd total of 661.

In -1963 too, your City Coun- eil published for the first time our city's first tour'st brochure, and this will be followed in 1964 by our city's first industrial brochure. the latter in conjunc-

MAYOB ‘ A. W. GAUDIT

tlon with our good friends in the Charlottetown Board of Trade. our Charlottetown school Board, under its able chairman Dr. R. G. Len. again looked after all the educational need! of the $4! children in atten- dance in our city schools, w i It this important phase of cl vie expenditums running to ﬁoljﬂ or 29.4 per cent of all our civic revenues for the year.

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