computer buy

WEST VANCOUVER'S new
Caulfeild middle schaal will be
outfitted with state-of-the-art
computer system technology
thanks to District 45) School
Board purchases approved on
Feb, 14.

WEST VANCOUVER
SCHOOL BOARD
By Glen Anwick

The total package presemted to
buurd members by Trusteg Clive Bird
comes fo just over $1.38 miflion and
includes an all-encompassing ringe
of communications, computer, sound
systent and fibre optic technology
and applicable hardware and) pro-
grains.

Bird told the board that the largest
expenditure for the new middle
school was what he called “the guts
of the system” which totals just

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under $704,000.

Winchides fibre optic cabliag and
connections that will tie in all other
telated cducational-designed systems
and programs.

Hic added that the sucond-bizgest
expenditure will be $366,500 for a
Dynacons multimedia syste, which
wil feature classroortn access (ot didtit-
bases, CD ROM, cable television sind
satellite connections.

Other expenses inclide $79,500
for a computer date reuieval system
provided by IBM and BUC. ‘Tel. plus
SSO.000 fora public address. paging
and sound system and $90,650 need:
ed to move the updated telephone
system from Tfillside secondary and
add itto the Caulfeild middie school.

‘Trustee Michael MacDougall sup-
ported the purchases, which are being
paid through the
Education building fund, but said he
wanted more detailed information for
a proper and thorough review of what
the district is actually buying.

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GRANTS AND THE BUDGET

With the 1995 budget less than a
week away | have my fingers crossed
that it will include major cuts to special
interest group grants, including those
to business. We simply cannot contin-
ue, to hand out money via regional
development funds and programs such
as those run by the Social Sciences
and Humanities Council.

WESTERN ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT

You may have noticed a January
27, 1995 Vancouver Sun article reveal-
ing that “The $452 million Western
Economic Diversitication office is shov-
elling money into the city of the man
who runs the office”. If you did not see
it, | can tell you that WED figures indi-
cate that $12 million went to the
Winnipeg Riding of WED Minister
Lloyd Axworthy during the period of
Nov. 1,.1993 to Nov. 15, 1994 while
Vancouver received only $2 million. A
representative of Axworthy's office
later claimed that tne figures were
wrong because consideration should
be given to what had not yet been
spent, Fina! figures will show $27 mil-
lion for Winnipeg and $19 milion for
Vancouver. My word, isn’t that good
news!

Whichever set of figures you
chcose, they are way too high, espe-
cially when at least $110 million of
WED's budget is borrowed money, It
will add to our debt as well as to the
taxation burden shouldered by our chil-
dren and grandchildren. Thank you Mr,
Axworthy.

SS AND HC

The Social Sciences and
Humanities Council always seems to
“take the cake” when it comes to
grants, so | thought | would brighten
your day with Some 1994/95 examples.
Have a good faugh but don’t hold your
breath hoping this program will get the
axe in the budget.

* $12,000 to study the capital sin of
lechery in the philosophical, theologi-
cal, and confessional literature of the
later middle ages

* $34,720 for Orbits of Solitude: the
poetics of exile in traditional Chinese
poetry

* $54,272 to study medieval
German laywomen as book owners,
scribes and patrons

- * $44,000 to study the social con-
struction of feminist meanings
* $24,500 for White Men's Stories:
postmodern world

* $42,583 to study reassessment of
hegemonic critical discourses that
efface the specificity of Latin American
cultural phenomenon

* $48,000 to look at peasant orga-
nization and regional development ini-
tiatives in Nicaragua under structural
adjustment :

* $54,000 to study new ethnicity in
Canadian Ukrainian dance

* $60,000 for concomitants of
sedentism and female milk marketing
for Ariaal Rendile pastoralists of
Northern Kenya

* $120,000 to study Secwepemc
ethnobotany: expanding horizons

* $60,000 to study low involvement
learning in a cluttered media environ-
ment

OTHER GRANTS

The SSHC and WED grants are not
the only programs open to criticism.
Virtually every Ministry has a program
of grants hidden away in it somewhere.
Canada Mortgage and Housing
recently gave $9,000 to North
Vancouver - District . under the
“Affordability and Choice” program to
“modify municipal guidelines for in-
home rental suites”. | hesitate to spec-
ula‘e as to the real cost of taking
money from you as federal taxes so
that it can be sent to CMHC so that it
can be sent back to North Vancouver
as a $9,000 grant.

Canada’s Federal Debt reached
$548,366,825,766.25 today. We are
overspending by more than $110 mil-
lion per day and the debt per taxpayer
has now topped $39,000.

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