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|battle over planning|

NORTH Vancouver School Board trustees hurled accusa-
tions of sloth and aimless board direction across the board

table last week.

In making a mouion to establish
a planning and development model
for District 44 schools, trustee Dr.
Ross Regan said in his four years
on the board he had never seen any
such planning model.

His motion, he said, would be
used to establish a means for
planning- and evaluating North
Vancouver school programs.

“It’s time we did some long-
range planning,” Regan said. ‘‘Up
to now this board has been taking
a backward approach to planning.
We look at money first and then
decide what we are going to do.”’

Kegan said a model for planning
and management of any kind
would be preferable to no plan.

ACCUSATIONS FLY

But trustees Dorothy Lynas and
Marg Jessup bristled at the accusa-
tion that the district had no plann-
ing model in place.

“I don’t object to planning
models,’’ Jessup said, ‘‘but the
implication here is that we haven’t
been doing any planning at all and
that is not true.”

In supporting Regan’s motion,

trustee Marjorie Goodman said_

that it did not. suggest no planning
had been done, ‘‘but this board
has done very little.”’

Goodman questioned claims by
exner trustees that the district had
a planning model: ‘‘If there is one,
where is it? I’ve never seen it.”

District 44 school superintendent
Dr. Leo Marshall explained that

- while the board did not have a

planning model like the one sug-
gested by Regan, it did indeed have
a plan,

RUBBER STAMP

” Again Regan and Goodman

denied ever having seen any plann- -

ing model. .
“This board has never evaluated
any program in. this: district,”
Regan shot back. ‘This board
does not review programs. Time
and again it is merely a rubber
stamp for any policy brought
down by administration.” .

Board chairman Verna Smelov-

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sky challenged Regan’s statements,
saying the district’s planning
model was alive and well, but may
have taken a lower profile during
restraint.

Regan heaped scorn or a pro-
posed amendment to his defeated
motion that would see a review of
the district's present planning
model, rather than the institution
of a new plan.

“IT fail to see the intent of the
amendment,’’ Regan said. ‘‘It’s
just another delaying action aimed
at doing nothing."’

The amended motion was tabl-
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