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Board promises in-depth study of latest proposal

IF PERSISTENCE really paid off, then the North
Shore Independent School Society would have a
home for its planned school.

The Society went back to

the North Vancouver School
Board Tucsday with a new

proposal for the lease of
Hamilton Junior Secondary
The meeting attracted onc
of the largest crowds ever to a
regular board meeting, over
flowing into the hall and
down the stairway. Judging

By BILL BELL

from the reaction of the au-
dicnce, support and opposi-
tion was evenly distributed.
The board appeared recep.
tive to the proposal, promis
ing Society representative
John Humphries that it

offer in
after the

would study the
detail However,
meeting, several board
members expressed seep.
tucism at the monetary advan.
tage of the proposal

**We'll have to look at it
carefully and see how at will
effect the district,’’ said
Chairman Roy Dungcy

The new proposal offers

¢ district $54,000 a year for
58,000 square feet of use or
$78,000 a year for 39,000

square fect.

However, the District
could lose as much as
$210,000 a year in provincial
grants, if the new school at-
tracted ats estimated 240
pupil, 70 of which would
come from North
Vancouver

Sull, the $210,000 would
only be lost in the third year,
because the Ministry” of
Education has said tt would
be willing to consider cutting

only 50 per cent in the first
year and 75 per cent in the se
cond year.

Dungcy pointed out that
by the third year, the new
school estimates a 600 enroll
ment ‘‘That could really
hurt us financially,’’ Dungcy
said

Humphries argucd that the
society's proposal would
allow ‘“‘the best of two
worlds °’

"You will not lose your

ability to profit from the sale
of current facilities and you
will be obtaining revenue
prior to those actual trans
actions (sale of school pro-
perty) taking place,’’ Hum-
phries said

Humphries asked the
board to ‘‘show strength’’ by
accepting the inevitability of
an independent school on the
North Shore and recognizing
that independent schools can
and should work together.