Hospital Capital Cost Financing

WHEREAS currently the municipalities within the Greater Vancouver Regional District do not charge their citizens a property tax for hospitals as the provincial government assumes their hospital debt; AND WHEREAS the provincial government collects property tax, for hospitals, from all other BC taxpayers on their yearly property tax notices: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the provincial government assume 100 responsibility of capital hospital expenditures for all municipalities in British Columbia and eliminate the hospital property tax imposed on taxpayers outside the Greater Vancouver Regional District area.