NVD increases funding contribution to $425,000

“NORTH VANCOUVER

District has agreed to provide

an additional $115,000 towards

the renovation of the

Handsworth secondary, school

running track,

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* DISTRICT COUNCIL

By Martin Millerchip

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The district, alre? ndy i ies higgest-:
contributor to the project. will now
be funding $425,000 of the track's
estimaid $780,000 expense.
~ “We are delighted and excited.”
Kitty Castles director of
Handsworth | Secondary. Schoo!
Association (HSSA), told the News.

Castle, whose son was attending
Handsworth. secondary — svhool,
became involved in plans to refur-
bish the communily running track in

» 1990 after a secing a story in‘the —

News highlighting the dangers of
using the track, ‘

Mayor Murray Dykeman was the
only member of council to oppose
the additional grant.

“$800,000 . is an incredible
amount of money to spend on a non-
standard track facility for this com-
munity,” said Dykeman,

There ‘is: not enough room to
“accommodate an eight-lane track

and. bleachers -at the “Handsworth
“site which means it.cannot be sane: °
tioned for provincial competition.

‘District: plans call for an cight-

lane running track to be built aCits
Inter-River park site on the east
bank of Lynn Creek,

Other, members of council said
the Handsworth: facility was well
used before.it fell into disrepair.

They noted that. funding from
| North Vancouver Schad! District 44
($280,000) ‘and provincial funding
from B.C.°21 Community Projects”
“4$ 100.000) would probably be lost
"éf the project was delayed again. ©

Castle and her husband appeared
before council Monday night. to
explain the shortfall in the project's
budget and to ask for council's help.

They pointed.out that HSSA has

committed to raising an additional |

$20,000 beyond «its:

previous
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Tenders for the project were
received «wo weeks apo and an
anticipated shortfall in the budget
for the oft-delayed track heenme
reality.

The price of the American
polyurethane track surface Gipprox-
imately one third of the budget) has
been affected by the lower canadian
dollar.

Root damage to the old track is -

more. severe than
requiring tree removaland replace-
ment dandscaping at an additional
“cost of $17,006,

But. according to Castle, the sin-
gle biggest factor in the budgetary
shortfall is the (NDP's) Fair Waves
Act which has added an estimated
$60,000 10 the project.

Faced with these rising. costs.
HSSA hascalready removed wash-
rooms, fencing. storage shed and a
portable track curb from the project

Castle told council that the
school association would also
accept the loss of the pole vault

“first dhought

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non-standard track

facility... 9

— District Mayor
Murray Dykeman

facility to save $15,000,

But an amendment by Cour.
Don Bell was approved to keep the
pole vieult in the budget.

Construction on the track project
Will start this year.

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