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“Cant we all just get
along?”
Rodnev King.

SORRY, Rodney, not
in West Vancouver
these days.

Canada’s richest per capi-
la community used to get
dong much better.

A happy haven for high
achievers, it was —-
Pleasantville North.

Bur this past vear has
been tough on co-operative
neighborliness.

George Calf’s review of
municipal affairs as practised
by district hall picked open
some long festering burcau-
cratic wounds that the public
still hasn‘t been given a full
unedited accounting of.

Lots of confrontation, but
not much co-operation on
that front.

And now we have West
Vancouver flocking horns
with West Vancouver School
District 45 aver the issue of
school property — better
make that the taxpayers”
property.

According to reports in
the News, the municipality
wants to change zoning, so
that school property can’t be
sold for residential develop-
ment without municipal
approval.

District 45 board chair-
man Clive Bird has said the
move could cut school dis-
trict land values by as much
as $165 million.

No co-operation there;
not much getting along at
all.

But there is some light in
the confrontational gloom
west of Taylor Way.

District 45 school trustec
Ken Haycock has a proposal
for getting along and possi-
bly making more efficient
and effective use of West
Vancouver resources to boot.

Amalgamation.

Whoa! Hold it right
there, Haycock.

That idea is taboo else-
where on the North Shore
even though it makes buck-
ets of good sense.

Not a good subject to
raise With North Vancouver
City Mayer Jack Loucks, for
example.

But Trustee Haycock has
done his homework here.

His proposal’s subtitle is
the windy “Toward
improved integration of
municipal and school board
programs and services in
West Vancouver.”

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yarns

Its not new.

Its principles have been
on the West Vancouver dis-
cussion table for the past wwe
vears, but not much bas hap-
pened during that time.

Oh, there have been some
modest breakthroughs: the
municipality and the school
district have some kind of
collaborative garbage pick-
up.

You vawn? You'd be justi-
fied in doing so. Because it's
long past time to kick this
process into high gear.

As Cuffs report pointed
out, there is alot that can be
done to improve how West
Vancouver is being run.

Haveock diplomatically
states in his proposal’s pre-
amble that there is already
much co-operation between
board and council in West
Vancouver,

There might be much co-
operation in discussion of
the issues in his proposal but
there is scant co-operation in
making some significant
changes that make sense for
local taxpayers and those
who are serviced by either
board or council or both.

Hayeock is arguing for
some major shifts in thinking
trom both entities.

He is talking about
shared functions such as pur-
chasing, staffing, technology,
maintenance of facilities,
records management and the
like.

The school board has

ong in W. Van

endorsed the propasa!

Neat step: council dea
sion time. And it will have to
be more than tinmnd picce
meal side steps.

Amalgamanng the mow
ing of lawns on municipal
and Distnet 45 properties
alone just won't cut it.

The plan needs to be
Jocked atasa whole: how
can the sebool district: and
the manivipality co ordinate
and integrite resources for
the benefit of the communi-
tv?

The schoul district is, for
example, looking to move its
administrative offices.

Why do we need two
boardroom? asks trustee
Havcock,

Why do we anced tea of
any overlapping administra:
tive component, brother
Haveock?

Why net combine such
services as payroll, purchas
ine, banking and investment
dad the management of
information services under
ene root? Haveock further
asks.

And there is no good
answer forthcoming as to
whe not.

Bat Havcock is not sug
gesting that his proposal,
larded with good sense
though it is, be swallowed
whole without discussion.

His proposal, he says, is
anty a skeleton for discus
sion,

The responsibility for
putting meat on these bones
resides clewhere.

Hayeock suggests that an
informed and enlightened
citizens panel be established

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