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NOVEMBER 3, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 132
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WASTE NOT IN WOODS? A call to end slash burning
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NEEDLE FOUND IN HALLOWEEN CANDY North Shore mom warning others to check goodies
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City projects come under budget by 5% ANDREA KLASSEN
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Kamloops’ two major summer road projects have come in under budget, according to a report headed to city council today. The Columbia Street widening, budgeted at just under $4.8 million, came in at $4.3 million, while work on Overlanders Bridge, budgeted at $10.3 million, came in about $300,000 under cost. Capital-projects manager Darren Crundwell said all of the city’s construction and repair projects for the year were five per cent under budget, costing the city $32.4 million rather than the $34.2 million expected. Seven of the 39 projects listed in the report — which includes work slated for completion in spring of 2016 as well as projects which wrapped this year — did go over budget, however. The new North Shore community policing office is the most expensive offender on the list. Renovations on the former Kamloops Kia dealership that were expected to cost $490,000 are now forecast at $800,000. Crundwell said a report will be headed to council in the near future to explain the “change in scope,” which has increased the office’s cost, and to ask for additional funds. Crundwell said the city has drawn on its existing budgets to fund the over-budget projects, unless the cost increase comes from a change in the scope. “For example, in the case of the Falcon Road project, old stormwater infrastructure was uncovered during excavation for the new sanitary sewer line, so the stormwater funds that already exist in the capital plan were utilized to fund some of the additional costs,” he wrote. See SOME PROJECTS/A6