| Uncle Len ‘hangs Bfarch 25, 1990 News 985-2131 Classified 986-6222 Distribution 986-1337 48 pages 25¢ HIGH-POWERED MEETING GETS COVE CLIFF RESULTS Creek moves for school LORI COLLINSON of Maplewood Fasm packs sunflower seeds in bags that will be given to children visiting the North Vancouver District attraction this spring. The seeds are part of an annual Farm contest. Children who grow the best flowers win prizes in the fall. &P THE NEW $3.5-million Cove Cliff School could be open to Deep Cove-area elementary school students as early as the spring of 1991 following a high-powered meeting of minds at the Vancouver Trade and Convention Centre Wednesday. Education Minister’ Tony Brummet, North Vancouver- Seymour MLA and Energy Mines And Petroleum Resources Minister Jack Davis, Environment Minister John Reynolds, North Vancouver District Mayor Marilyn Baker, North Vancouver School Board chairman Rev. Roy Dungey and North Vancouver School District assistant superintendent Pat Bell agreed to support the diversion, rather than the culverting, of Myr- ule Creek on the Cove Cliff School property. Concerns over the environmen- tal impact of culverting the fish- bearing creck to allow for the de- velopment of a schovl playing field had stalled construction of the school. But now, according to Dungey, the school board will hire engineers to come up with specifics on the diversion scheme. The process could take two to three weeks. The creek diversic:: plan would then go before North Vancouver District Council for consideration and then to a public hearing cither in April or May. “The window for actually diver- ting the creck is July or August, when the flow is the lowest," Dungey said. The 5$70-foot diversion add 170 feet to the creek. If school construction on the 5.2-acre site begins in the summer, the school could be completed in about eight months. Said Dungey, *‘The will was there to get it solved. Oceans and Fisheries are happy if we just don't culvert.’* Dungey said Education Minister Brummet ‘‘guaranteed money for the school was available for 1990- 91 (budeet).”” Parents of Burrard View stu- dents have been lobbying for 15 years {0 secure a_ replacement school for the aging facility. would NVD Council refloats Magnussen wave pool THE CHOPPY waters that sank the $5.2-million Karen Magnussen wave-pol sports centre last month were calm enough Monday to allow for a refloating of the proposal. During an in-camera session, North Vancouver District Council decided to support increasing the project's construction budget. The municipality has spent $330,000 to date on tendering and design costs for the pool addition. The project has already been tendered twice, with the best bids coming in each time at aver $5 mil- lion. Concerns over flawed bidding procedures and inflated prices resulted in rejection of the tenders. Bue said Ald. Craig Clark. the council member heading the technical committee for the wave- pool project, ‘We're back into business as far as considering the pool and trying to get it to move ahead. We did have a decision tn- camera, but) we'd prefer ro not have any auamhbers. The the bidding public are aware, the bet- ter. Bat we do have the authority to stutthe process again.’ Rather than automatically less re- “"AFFLUENCE & INFLUENC tendering the project, Clark said council will be exploring its op- tions: the project may be re- tendered, council could go back to those who have already offered bids, or the municipality could adopt a construction management process, in which a general con- tractor would be paid to manage sub-trade tenders. In February, four council members voted against an appro- printion bylaw that) would have permitted acceptance of a bid of just over $§ million. But said Clark, ‘AL this point in time we have strong support from. council — we have the majority with the ception of one person." The wave-pool sports centre would take about 10 months to buiid. e a 4 a5 :