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NV School Board backtracks on portable decisi

AFTER HEARING strong argu-
ments from 2 group of upset
parents Tuesday, North Vancouver
District 44 Schoo! Board reversed
an g¢arlier decision tu relocate a
portable classrcom used by stu-
dents at Ridgeway Annex elemen-
tary school.

“The portable is in the best
position right now — as close as
possible to the washrooms, library
and gymnasium in the school,"’
parents’ group representative Raf-
fey Albinson told the board.

She pointed out that the propos-
ed relocation, which would cost
$6,500, would lengthen from 160
feet to 255 feet the distance the
school’s children must walk from
the portable to the main school,
adding to the already considerable
problem of children tracking
mud into both buildings.

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DISTRICT 44 School
Trustee Richard Walton.

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proximately cight homeowners.

And it would, she said, leave the
building facing the distractions of
traffic on Ridgeway Avenue and
require the realignment of the
school’s baseball diamond and
protective fence.

The portable, she added, would
also be closer to the school’s large
garbage bins, which are noisily
emptied once a week, and adjacent
to the lane where it would be more
vulnerable to vandalism and
maltreatment by loca!
skateboarders.

In addition, the portable’s
relocation would require municipal
board of variance approval.

Although the board was con-
vinced by the arguments, diagrams

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petition, Albinson argued that the parents, Trustee Richard Walton
proposed move was to satisfy ap- defended the board’s earlier sym-

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DISTRICT 44 Schoo!
Trustee Ann Macdonald.

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building withceut their having been
consulted,

He failed to persuade the board
to delay reversing its decision to
allow time for further considera-
tion. But he did move that
neighbors who had corne before
the board to request the portable’s
removal be sent explanatory letters
of the board's iatest decision.

“e's not fair to leave it at that
without addressing the needs of the
people of the neighborhood who
also gave a good presentation a
couple of weeks ago,’’ said
Walton.

Trustee Ann Macdonald sug-
gested that the school district plant
some shrubbery and trees near the
portable so it wouldn’t appear ‘‘so
bold and ugly.”’

‘‘And I don’t think it would cost
any $6,500,”’ she added.

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