averted A STRIKé at the North Shore’s Capilano College was narrowly averted Monday after 2 tentative three-year agreement was reached between the college and its 335- member faculty association following an intensive weekend-long bargaining session. The agreement, which provides for a cumulative wage increase of 21.2 per cent over 33 months, was reached just after 6 a.m. Monday. Members of tite Capilano Col- lege Faculty Association (CCFA) had voted §2 per cent April 4 to strike and were set to strike at 6:45 a.m. Monday. Chief negotiator for the college Geoff Holter said Monday he was happy with the (tentative deal: ‘It might sound like a bit of a cliche, but it’s truly a win- win agreement.” Faculty overwhelmingly ratified the agreement Tuesday afternoon. CCFA president Robert Cam- field said, ‘‘We are very pleased that we averted a strike. It's a very good collective agreement. And both parties worked very Cap receives $1.5 millien CAPILANO COLLEGE will receive $1.5 millioa to provide an additional 223 full-time equivalent (FTE) university-transfer po- grams and develop inw courses, according to cn announcement Mondiy from the provincial gcv- ernment. And the base funding for (as North Shore's Pacific Marin: Tralning Institute has also been increased by seven per cent. Caplinno College’s increase, which is in sddition to its base operating budget, is part of Ad- vanced Education sad Job Train- ing Minister Sian Hegen's new post-secondary education strate- gy to create 15,000 additional spaces in university programs over the next six ycars. A total of 1,800 full-time equivalent student spaces will be made available at Lower collegs and univer- sities this fall. Hagen said the $1.5 million will increase Capilano College's Operatizg budget to $16 million. The additional FTE positions will push the college's FTE total to 3,740, and the 360 FTE ia- czerse for the college’s unique evening credit course has also been incorporated in the college's base funding. In addition to the new FTE positions, the §1.5 million will help Capilano College develop such new programming as 2 cer- tifieate in computer cozmunica- tions, The base funding for the Pacific Marine Training Institute has been increased to $1.9 mil- lion, and the facility will also receive $63,000 to replace old equipment. Business ......... Classified Ads..... By TIMOTHY RENSHAW hard to get the zgreement.’’ Ronniug from April 1, 1989 to Dec. 31, 1991, the tentative agreement provides for a 2.5 per ceut wage increase May 1, a four per cent increase Aug. 1 and six and five per cent wage increases May 1, 1990 and May 1, 1991, respectively. , With the percentages com- pounded and a new equalized 14-step pay scale, which will add another two per cent to the col- fege’s facuity salary budget, the cumulati,. increase over the 33 months of the contract totals 21.2 per cent. The total cost of the ezreement will not have to be paid by the college until the 1992-93 fiscal year. Neo tuition increases will be needed to cover the cost of the deal. Instructor salaries will range from $34,330 up to $57,162 when the contract expires In 1991, As of August 1988, annual Capilano College instructor salaries ranged from $28,935 up te $46,539, based on a 10-month ear. Benefits in the contract include a complete vision care program for faculty, allowance for a paid educational one-term leave per year of up to nine, an improved life insurance package, and significant improvements in upgrading the job status of part- time faculty. A total of 20 iong- term temporary employees will be offered full-time positions. Bath sides also agreed to establish 2 permanent joint standing committee to identify wind resolve problems between the collcge and its faculty. “It’s a very fair settlement,’’ college spokesman Bev Greene sak Monday. ‘‘Everyone is pleased." Holter said the breakthrough in negotiations came when the CCFA agreed to a contract that was longer than one year and allowed wage increases to be spread owt over a longer period of time. The CCFA’s original economic package called for a one-year wage and benefits increase totall- ing 26.82 per cent to bring Capilano Coltege instructors up to parity with North Shore’s public school teachers. Ou Thursday, the college of- fered a 19.1 per cent cumulative wage increase over three years. Under the agreement, college faculty will achieve parity with 4 North Shore public school teach- j ers within 13 months and will, at the top of the scale, be above parity by approximately $1,200 annually by 1991. Holter said the college had set out in its negotiations ‘‘to create an sgreement that would benefit the institution, and certainly the faculty are our faculty.”’ Food.... Lifestyles North Shere Row Sports ..... TV Listings... .. What's Going Gn. eee eees serene SB [ Second Class Registration Number 3885 3 - Wednesday, April 12, 1939 ~ North Shore News NEWS photo Mike Wakefisld DON DAVIS, chairman of the newly-formed North Shore Public Golf Course Society and a self-described golfing ‘‘backer’’, wants to sce an 18-hole public golf course built in the Seymour area of North Vancouver. Local links are sorely lacking according to the society. Group starts ball roiling on new NV golf course A GROUP of North Shore residents pushing for more local golfing green space have started the ball rolling on a pro- posal for the development of an 18-hole public golf course on the Blair rifle range property in North Vancouver. According to Don Davis, chair- man of the newly-formed North Shore Public Golf Course Society, the North Shore is several holes short of sufficient golfing facili- ties. Said Davis of the lack of links: “Ht is a disgrace that two top suburban areas such as North Vancouver City and North Van- couver District don’t have an 18- hole public golf course."* North Shore golfers who are not members of either the private Capilano Golf and Country Club or the Seymour Golf and Country Club, have the local options of public golfing at the nine-hole Gleneagles Golf Course in West Vancouver, the nine-hole Murdo Frazer Par 3 Golf Course in North Vancouver or golfing Mondays and Fridays only at the Seymour club. The Capilano Club is not onen for public golfing. The club is cur- rently not taking applications for its new-member waiting list. The cost to join the club is in the neighborhood of $20,000 to $30,000. The Seymour club has 20 people on its new-member ‘‘waiting-waiting list?’ and 42 names on its waiting list. The cost te join the club is $10,000. Davis and his fellow non-profit society executive members, a group which includes North Vancouver School District trustee Anne Mac- donald, see a new public goif course in North Vancouver as a Necessary recreational outlet for the growing North Shore com- munity. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) and B.C. Ministry of Crown Lands federal-provincial partnership which controls the upper portion By MICHAEL BECKER News Reporter of the 671-acre Blair site determin- ed carlier last year that a golf course would be a feasible use of the Seymour-area Jand. A possible configuration of combined golf course and housing development is outlined in a feasi- bility study commissioned by the federal-provincial partnership. The scheine shows a golf course runn- “‘The scheme is one of several prepared. It’s preliminary at this point.”’ —Ministry of Crown Lands acting development manager Brian Clarke CR ing along a north-south axis, beginning at about the 500-foot contour of the property and ex- tending up the mountain to the 1,476-foot level B.C. Hydro ease- ment. Said Ministry of Crown Lands acting development manager Brian Clarke: “The scheme is one of several prepared. It’s preliminary at this point. All that has been determined at this point is that it’s feasible to put a golf course in there.” But the golf course envisioned by the North Shose Public Golf Course Society would run on an east-west axis, following the con- tour of the land, and would not extend as high up the mountain. The lower clevation would allow year-round play and according to Davis, would not make for a “cardiac arrest course.’’ Said Davis: ‘‘A golf ball is not supposed to run off of a course sideways.”’ The society proposal secs a golf course located between the 500- foot and 820-foot contour levels of the property. Because of the rough terrain, the society would need ap- proximately 200 acres of land for a 120 to 150-acre course. To extend the course westwards and eastwards, beyond the relatively narrow boundaries of the Blair property, the group would have to lease approximately 50 acres of land from the district. Golf course designer Philip Tat- tersficld has been retained by the society as a special advisor. Tat- tersfield envisions the public course including public tennis courts, squash courts and a clubhouse open for use as a com- munity facility. Meanwhile in West Vancouver, district council is considering two proposals for the development of 36-hole golfing facilities on 350 acres of municipal Jand located on Hollyburn Mountain. Council is in the process of setting up an advi- sory committee to evaluate pro- posals submitted by Cypress Bowl Recreations Ltd. and Hollyburn Ridge Golf Club Holdings, an An- core International subsidiary. Approximately 93,000 people used Burnaby Mountain Public Golf Course, one of the nearest public 18-hole golf courses to the North Shore, during 1987. For more information about the North Shore Public Golf Course Society calf Don Davis at 980-3655 or Mae Shugg at 985-1215. Cove pollution probe released From page 1 based the currents are going to br- ing it back towards the beach,” said Jack Bryck of Dayton and Knight, and went on to suggest that a single flush from a boat at Government Wharf could give rise to fecal coliform counts that would close the beach to swimming three hours later. The report suggests stormwater discharging to the west end of Deep Cove be collected and piped to where ocean currents are nor- mally away from Panorama Beach and where the assimilation capabil- ities of the ocean environment are better. The cost of such work is estimated at $500,000. The report concludes: ‘‘It is like- ly that with the elimination of fecal matter from boat discharges and with the relocation of the storm- water discharges that the risk of contamination of Panorama Beach will be substantially reduced, but never completely eliminated.” Council voted to seek the coop- eration of the Coast Guard in restricting anchorage in the area west of Parkside Creek and to prohibit the use of boat heads on boats utilizing moorage at Gov- ernment Wharf, Deep Cove Yacht Club and Seycove Marina. Staff reports were also requested on the possibility of closing creekside parks and other runoff areas to dogs, and on establishing a choice of some ‘‘control’’ sites where creek runoff pollution could be tested outside of the Cove.