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North Van community schools’
programs face cancellation
NORTH YVANCOUVER’S nine community schools face

cancellation of their programs under budget cuts proposed
by the North Vancouver District 44 School Board (NVSB).

Representatives of the schools

have consequently banded
together to protest the cuts at
Tuesday night's District 44 board
nieeting.

Naney Stein, president of the
Boundary Community School

Association, said the community
school is ‘tte school of the

By Surj Rattan &
Peggy Trendell-Whittaker

gramming.

if Boundary Community School
loses its funding, Stein said she
doubts that volunteers would be

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CONCERNED PARENTS sign a banner/patition outside Boundary
School to protest any attempt to cut back on funding to com-

munity school programs.

future’? and that North Vancouver
pioneered the community school
concept in Western Canada in the
early 1970s.

A community school, she said,
serves the needs of all of its sur-
rounding residents, not just those
of the children who attend the
school.

Stein community school
services include Boundary's
seniors’ luncheons, which are
hosted by a different classroom
each month.

Under the program, seniors are
bused to the school from three or
four area lodges and have lunch
with the students, who use the
time to talk and showease their
school work or musical perfor.
mances,

“ft's really a very, very special
opportunity for both the kids and
the seniors,’” Stein said.

Other community school pra-
vrams include daycare, adult even-
ing sports programs, social ser-
Vices programs, youu groups, rec-
reation centre classes and Girl
Guide or Boy Scout meetings.

Stein said: that: cancelling com-
munity scheol programs, would
chap $300,0KK} ont of the schaol
board's hudget.

The funding is used tor salaries
for cuch community school’s
coordinator, secretary and extra
custodial hours that are required
as a result of the additional pro-

said

able to take on the “overwhelm.
ing’’ coordinator’s role. ‘‘We
would lose the ability to commu-
nicate and serve the needs within
our community,’ she said.

Coordinators and parents from
North Vancouver's nine com-
munity schools met Wednesday
night to discuss the budget cuts
and plan their response.

“We are hoping to have very

strong community support on
Tuesday night,’’ she notes.
The other North Vancouver

community schools facing budget
and program cuts are Highlands,
Lynnmour, Maplewood, Norgate,
Westover, Queen Maury, Andre
Piolet and Seycove, a secondary
schoal.

Last month the District 44
board submitted a “no growth"
budget of SYLISS418 to the
education ministry. In an April 23
News story, NVSB superintendent
Robin Brayne said the budget fiz-
ure is the total expenditure ceiling
amount imposed on the school
board by Victoria and included a
bloch-funding increase of 3.7%,
which Brayne said is E.7S40 below
the Consumer Price Inde.

The budget. he said. as nut
enough to maintain current
District 44 programs and services

On Thursday, NVSB chairman
Mare Jessup said the communits

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