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| Rainy day mayhem

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Monday: Cloudy with 60%
chance of showers High 9°C, low 2°C.

Deficit looms in
N. Van District 44

BLOCK FUNDING announce-
ments for provincial school districts
placed mere cash in the coffers of
local boards, but net enough to sat-
isfy them.

By lan Noble
News Reporter

North Vancouver received a projected
2.6% jump in block funding to $94.78 mil-
lion for the 1995-96 school year.

But most of that increase will, be
absorbed ina 1.9% increase in enrolment,
said North Vancouver School District 44 /
chairman Barbara MacLellan. :

She said the block funding does now’
address the inequities revealed in a 1993
government technical distribution report.

The report stated that North Vancouver
was underfunded by $1.5 million per year. ,

MacLellan said the technical report
pointed to operations and maintenance as
the main area of underfunding for the dis-
trict. Funding for that area will be reduced
in 1995-96.

MacLellan targeted special education
funding as another area that required more
money.

For the. 1995-96 year, the government
has earmarked $10.67 million for special
needs in District 44.

“We're already spending over $11 mii-
lion,” she said, adding that there will be
greater need in the future. :

She worries that if funding is not boost-

AMBULANCE ATTENDANTS help a driver out of her car following a seven-car pite-
up Wednesday. on the Upper Levels Highway eastbound at Main Street. Several
people were sert to Lions Gate Hospital with minor injuries as a result of the 10:40
a.m. crash which backed up traffic on the Second Narrows Bridge. Rainy condi-

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tions are suspected to have played a part in the mishap.

A NORTH Vancouver District request
to ban logging in the Capilano
Watershed was shot down by a 5-3
margin Friday by regional water dis-
trict committee members.

By Jan Noble
News Reporter

They also called for more information
before making a decision on an environmental
group's request to conduct turbidity studies in
local reservoirs.

Committee chairman Joha Northey said
only one municipality has asked for the ban, He
called. the district's ban proposal selfish. He
added such a ban would be detrimental to other

municipalities receiving water from the water-
shed.

North Vancouver District Coun. Janice
Harris, the municipality's water committee
member, wants logging based on “spurious”
reasons such as insect infestations and fire haz-
ards ended.

She said district council asked for the ban to
provide security for residents who are opposed
to logging in the watershed. : ; ;

Harris does not see how a moratorium on
jogging until an ecological inventory now
under way is completed can hamper the Greater
Vancouver Water District's (GV WD) watershed
management.

Committee members against the ban took
comfort in a report by GVWD water and con-
struction “manager John Morse. The, report

See District page 3

states no logging is expected to occur in. the
watershed for the balance of 1995.

Meanwhile Paul Hundal, the president of the
Society Promoting Environmental
Conservation (SPEC), requested permission to
enter the Capilano watershed. The issue was
not resolved.

Hfiundal wants to enter the watershed to per-
form experiments he said could help resolve the
issue of whether logging and road building in
the watershed leads to turbidity in Lower
Mainland drinking water.

Committee members asked for more infor-
mation about Hundal’s plan. Current: policy
striclly regulates who can enter the watershed.
During ‘his presentation, Hundal showed a

See SPEC page 3