8 - Friday, December 11, 1992 - North Shore News

Legislative duties
kept Mitchell away

Dear Editor:

As policy chairman for the
West Vancouver/Garibaldi Liberal
Riding Association and one who
was actively involved in organizing
the forum, I wish to congratulate
your writer Kevin Gillies on his
reporting of the events that took
place Nov. 21 at Cedardale
School.

As. Gillies reported, our party
wants to develop its editcation
policy based on society's needs,
not just the needs of the various
special interest groups as has been
the case in the past.

1 also wish, however, to fore-
stall any mistaken assumptions
which may arise as a result of the

Not much
room left
for growth

Dear Editor:

Shame on the News for waiting
until Dec. 2 to print news? from
a West Van School Board meeting
of Nov. & (‘School renovations
report presented to WL Van
board’’),

Not only was the story printed
after a story on the Nov. 23
meeting, it also requires some
elaboration regarding your com-
ments on the 400-student addition
to the proposed Caulfeild school.

If the board needs to build this
addition (and it looks as though it
might, since the district experi-
enced an influx of close to 200
students at the secondary level this
year from offshore and from On-
tario to bring the current number
of secondary students (o 3,011,
whereas the completed facilities in
1994 will have a capacity of 3,050
— not leaving much room for
growth) it will have to stand in
line for government capital funds,
along with other rapidly growing
districts like Surrey.

1 will be attending the Dec. 7
meeting at W.V. Secondary school
eager to hear why the board is
how saying that the public ought
fiot to be concerned about sec-
ondary capacity for the district.
Catharine M. Szibbo
West Vancouver

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last paragraphs in the article con-
cerning my MLA David Mitchell's
absence from the event.

As a member of the standing
committee on parliamentary
reform, David was required to be
in Kelowna Nov. 21.

The Legistative Reform Com-
mittee is touring the province to
receive public input on recall of
elected members and referendum
initiatives, which { am sure your
readers will agree are vital parts of
the democratic process.

Terry Lester
West Vancouver

Don’t pass off golf course as parkland

Dear Editor:

Thank goodness for some
common sense from district
councillor Janice Harris in’ her
recent letter to the North Shore
News.

Whilst the entire country is
suffering the effects of one of
the worst recessions in 40 years,
some of our councillors are
behaving like children fet loose
in a candy store.

Six million dollars on a wave
pool, $8 million on a palatial ci-
ty hall, $1 million on,a cultural
centre, $4 million on a recreation
centre and now something be-
tween $14 and $40 million on a

golf course (depending on whose
figures you believe).

Where will it end?

To help balance the books the
counci} stick the taxpayers with
one of the biggest increases in
the Lower Mainland — an in-
crease from which the coun-
cillors themselves are protected
by the substantial pay raise they
awarded themselves.

If the heritage fund is to be
taided it should be used to help
provide services and facilities
that will help improve the quali-
ty of life of a broad range of the
community or those in dire need,
not the 3% of the population
who regulasly play golf and can

afford to pay $25 a time to do
50.

One final point for the coun-
cil: please don’t insult the tax-
payers by trying to pass off the
golf course as parkland.

The non-golfing public wiil
only be allowed to fook at the
golf course from the edges, not
walk on it or play on it with
their children.

There was more park space in
the original award-winning
Northlands Plan, which, as
Coun. Harris pointed out, would
have generated $48 million in
land sale revenues.

P. Rawley
North Vancouver

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