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September 15, 1982

Tel. 985-2131

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Bigger problems loom on horizon

STUNNED teachers in West Vancouver received
the news Monday night they will be spared the
necessity of rollbacks in negotiated wages to help
cover the $454,746 funding cutbacks to the school

district ordered by
program.

Instead, the board at a
tense and crowded meeting
“attended by over 250 people
at Sentinel Secondary,
decided to terminate 27
teacher aides, drastically
reduce the schools supplies
account, maintenance costs
and the district accounts
budget.

The teachers had ex-
pected a request for a
rollback and were prepared
to take it to a vote at a
general meeting today
(Wednesday). However, the

the

provincial restraints

News was told the table
officers of the West Van-
couver Teachers Association
would have recommended
rejection of any rollback or
temporary layoffs.

Trustee Norm Alban
defended the board's refusal
to reopen the contrac&
saying that he “signed a
contract in good faith and
I'm not willing to renege.”

“We have a signed, sealed

and delivered contract and I
intend to live up to it,” Alban
said.

Board Chairman Mark
Sager, who was not pleased
with the layoffs of the
teaching aides, said the
president of the teachers’
association, Heather
Walker, “made it clear that
they were very much op-
posed to a rollback.”

Despite the board's
to seek a
rollback, not all teacher
aides will have to be ter-
minated as the school
district managed to find an
estimated surplus of
$196,700 in many areas
throughout its budget. This
included an _ overlooked
surplus revenue of $92,000 in

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MORTGAGE AGREED, TAXES PAID

Winter Club is
off the hook

Mat

weather

Sunny and clear
Thursday

Continuing clear

AGREEMENT to a
new two-year mortgage
term owas ratified
overwhelmingly by
members of North
Shore Winter Club
Sanday evening,
quelling the crisis
which had threatencd
to doom the club.

Payments on the $2.8
millon mortgage, ata rate of
prime plus one per ccat, are
to be met by a combination
of various measures by tho
membership.

The club's budget has
been revised and stripped to
tta barc bones, membership

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By CHRIS LLOYD

dues are increasing and the
proposal also relics on
membership participation in
the running of the club

Thanks to its vigorous
funding campaign, the club
has now paid its property
taxes. The moncy was ratscd
by membcrs opting for
whichever choicc they
preferred of cither handing
over $200 and having their
ducs increased by 35 per
cent or paying $450 and
having their ducs raised 15
per cent.

But the price paid in
getting the club off the hook

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MAKING THE MOST of whatever sunny days appear in the dying embers of summer,
many youngsters gather on the rocky sides of Capilano Camyon below the salmon
hatchery, to fish and add the fheal toeches to their lovingly cultivated tam. (Eric
Eggertson photo)

Reaching Every Door on he