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IN RETROSPECT,

1992 was a 4

Sunday, January 3, 1993 - North Shore News - §.

istrict 44 still reeling from cuts.

year, of damage control for

the North Vancouver District 44 School Board.

“tt was a tough year with the
cuts that we had to make,”* trust-
ee Pat Heal said.

District 44 faced a $10 million
budget shortfall in 1992.

In April, the District 44 board
announced that 96 full-time
teaching positions would be cut in
the 1992-93 school district budget.

Heal said. it would be consid-
ered a highlight if-some of those
positions were reinstated.

"We had to do so much cutting

‘tn our budget ... a lot of things,
school- based | things,
suffered this past year,’’ trustee
Roy Dungey added.

‘The highlight is that the staff:

were able to persevere .and still
provide a quality education with
the kinds of cuts we've had.’’

The most common memory of.

By Kevin Gillies
Contributing Writer

these things without being fund-
ed,”’ Heal said.

“Then last year just came to the
crunch.’*

Trustee Marg Jessup. said
District 44 has a unique music
program that is over and above
what ‘is minimally demanded ’ by
the Ministry of Education.

Another one of the
pleasant. accomplishments

year’s
iden-

: tified by the trustees was the Ar-

tists for Kids pragram.

“We've got: original works of
art from major artists like Gordon
Smith and Bill Reid, and. we're
selling their prints,’’ Jessup.said.
The money raised by the sale of

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jectives For the future.

“‘we've had! administrative
staff, teachers, and a variety of .
committees working on .this
document which ,is| now ‘our

. strategic plan,” Iessup said, a

The initiation of a daycare cen- -
tre for teen mothers was another
positive development for the year.

“Yo think that js a-step in the...

right direction for the school
district,’? Dungey said.

“It was a very tough year,”
Jessup said.

“We've never had to face actu-

“ally, cutting | those kinds of: pro-

grams ever before! We were really
disturbed by it.” |

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the prints goes directly into. the
district’s extra art programs.’
Another of the year’s highlights
was the completion of the Every
Learner a Promise study which
outlines the district’ s aims and’ ob-

among . North Van-
couver’s school trustees was the
cuts to the popular band. and
_ Strings and the. outdoor school
programs, and the parents and
other community. members who
rallied to help save them.” i
{The two programs .were not
funded ‘by the gevernment,. but
were carried by the school district. -
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Weekly meetings |

- NORTH VANCOUVER District Council is returning to
a weekly meeting format'in the new year. :
“Starting on Jan. 4, 1993, regular council: ineetings will _
ibe held on the . second and fourth Mondays; of each
month : with standing committee meetings held on the
first and third Mondays. : «°°
: Regular. council ~ meetings include ‘all, members of
council, while’ standing committee meetings are compris-
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committees. *: ,
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