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City Hall Protest


We’ve began with protest public theory in City Hall tonight. Vancouver city counselor is making some unpopular cuts to deal with the 61 million dollars shortfall. Let go live to City Hall. Alan waterman, what’s happening now?

Natalie, inside city hall, they’ve just jam from a long list of speakers. More than 4 hours after tonight protest over budget cut first began. They started outside city hall, join driver’s attention to the closing of Stanley Park farm yard and Bloedel Conservatory. Jone Coupar’s father was the first director of conservatory when it opened in 1969, as far as the park board’s decision to close it.” They are really looking at a wrong head of way and I know there was tremendous support for it and I certainly supported, I’ll do everything I can to turn this around.”

The protestor and the signs were carried inside counsel chain ball along with symbolic 5 dollars donations to keep threaded facility to open.

“We are here tonight to hear from speakers regarding the 2010 operating budget.”

Counselor called the meeting to hear the public concerns about the city programmers related to be cut and counselor hear a lot.

“How can you say no to not letting stay open just on more year to approve we can do some to improve revenue and reducing cost and staff hours and give these animals a safe home”

Many speakers hope the counsel will turn the park board decision to shut down the farm yard and conservatory as well as the other facilities in programmes. The park board vote at the time was close four to three. Tonight park board commissioners on the loosing side of that vote try to restate their case to the counsel.

“We’re here tonight, many people ask you to save this or that particular service or menidity. I’m asking you to save them all.”

The mayor openly wondered whether the park board decision was hasty, whether there were other financial options.

“Private individuals, organizations, foundations. There are some new modems are possible here and the last few weeks since you deliveried this park board.”

A local      is offering a hundred thousand dollars to help to save the farm yard, another group is funding raise for the conservatory. And the meantime the clock is ticking, the counsel must vote on the cuts by Dec 18th.