Al0 - Wednesday, April 28, 1982 - North Shore News

inquiring
reporter

by
Ellsworth
Dickson

Yesterday Lions Gate Hospital announced
that 144 people were going to be laid off.
Some 55 beds will be lost and people now
waiting several months for elective surgery
will now have to wait two or three times as

long.

And only if their health has

deteriorated to the emergency level will they
be admitted. With the government cutbacks,
the hospital had no choice but to take this

action.

Today’s question is:

‘What do you think of
the LGH cutbacks?’

Stephen Perry
West Vancouver

I think the government
wants to put a price on
human _ilives. Their
priorities are mixed up. It
looks like it is money
first, health second. We
have to get rid of this
government.

Philip Statham
North Vancouver

There has to be cut-
backs in these hard times,
but health care should be
the last thing to go.
People are still going to
need good hospital
services whether there is
a recession or not.

Dave Matthews
North Vancouver

] think the priorities of
the provincial govern.
ment are wrong. Health
care is most important
and somchow the moncy
should be found = to
continue adequate health
care

Elizabeth Sanily
Nomh Vancouver

1 think the situation ts
termble The provincial
government has its
priorities all wrong
Health care should have
the highest pnonty

Bill Reid

North Vancouver

fm discouraged by Chis
news | think health carc
i8 More important than
most other things And to
cut staff will put a heavicr
burden on the employees
The patients will not
recetve the attention they
necd Also | think 1 Os
ternmble thar people wall
have to watt cven longer
lor surerery

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for those students who have
to repeat courses. Still, those
students might be faced with
a fee, currently outlawed by
the Public Schools Act, if
the board can receive
permission from the
Education Minister Brian
Smith.

Schools Superintendent
Ed Carlin wanted summer
school to be completely
discontinued, and that the
school board would then act
as a “broker” to help those
students who needed it to
find private tutors.

“Our obligation is winter

programs ... if there was a
user-pay I'd be happy,”
Carlin said.

The board’s decision will
save approximately $50,000,
while discontinuing summer
school completely would
have save $90,000.

- The fiscal restraint

program and the new
finance formula was also
blamed for the school
board’s decision to revoke its
own policy of serving one
year's notice of intent to
close a school.

Despite an emotional pied
from parents at the overflow
school board meeting, the
trustees rescinded its policy.
However, it put off closing
Cedardale Elementary
School, waiting one week for
a feasibility report on
keeping a combined kin-
dergarten to grade two class
operational at Cedardale.

Carlin explained that
under the new financing
formula, schools were no
longer cligible for grants.
This he acknowledged put a
strain on school boards to
close small neighborhood
schools.

“If am came to a decision
belween programs and
neighborhood = schools, |
would recommend closing
schools, this whole thing was
culminated by the decision
on the restraint program,”
Carlin explained.

The supenniendent said

For added conve
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that if the board did not start
making these cuts, “It could
be looking at a disaster” by
September 1983, having to
cut as much as $600,000 at
that fime.

Still, Allan Collier,
representing the Cedardale
Parents’ Association, bitterly
complained that it was lack
of any long term planning by
the board which was forcing
the closure on short notice.

“It (the one-year closure
notice policy) has existed
since 1973 ... we assume, for
good reason. We believe
that any rescision or
modification of this policy

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can only come in concert
with a comprehensive and
well though out plan, in-
volving the interface bet-
ween student populations,
educational programs and
school locations, now and
into the future,” Collier said.

If a kindergarten to grade
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