8 - Sunday, February 26, 1989 - North Shore News

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DOROTHY LYNAS SCHOOL
Power politics lesson learned

Dear Editor:

The residents of the District of
North Vancouver recently learned
a $400,000 lesson as to how
‘‘power politics’? is played in
British Columbia. The subject of
the lesson was the sale of the land
in Seymour required for the new
Dorothy Lynas Elementary
School.

The Ministry of Education has
been under pressure for some years
from the residents of the Seymour
area to build a new public school.
In the fall of 1987 three indepen-
dent appraisers were hired by
School District 44 to value the
proposed site of the school which
was owned by the District of North
Vancouver. The results of these
three appraisals were released in
January of 1988 with an average
estimated value of $1,687,000.
However, the Ministry of Educa-
tion refused to commit funding for
the project and in September of
1988 updated appraisals were ob-
tained from the same three in-
dependent appraisal companies.
The average estimated value of the
land as announced by School
District 44 had risen te $2,073,000.

In December 1988, the Ministry
of Education advised the district
that only funding of $1,687,000
would be available — the value of
the land some 15 months earlier.
The Honorable A.J. Brummet,
Minister of Education, wrote to
the district on Dec. 12, 1988, and
said ‘Should this level of funding
not be considered appropriate,
then further delays to the con-
struction of Dorothy Lynas
Elementary School will
result....This could lead to the
project being finalized in the next

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fiscal year rather than the present
year.’’

The District of North Vancouver
was faced with an unhappy choice
— either lose $400,000 or lose the
new school. The district decided to
accept the 1987 value of the prop-
erty in order that the school would
be available in September of 1989.
The residents of Seymour should
know that the land for the new

school was sold below market
value and that municipal funding
for recreational] projects in the area
may suffer as a result. On the
other hand, the residents of
Seymour have learned a $400,000
lesson as to how ‘‘power politics’’
is played in British Columbia.

Bill Rodgers,

Alderman

District of North Vancouver

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