NORTH VANCOUVER CITY Illegal suite landlords fined TWO NORTH Vancouver City landlords were fined Jan. 20 in North Vancouver provincial court for operating illegal suites in the municipality. Lloyd English, the owner of an apartment building iocated in the 100-block of West 19th Street, pleaded guilty to operating seven illegal suites and was fined $700. Jules Zilahi, the owner of a dupiex on East 23st Street, was fined $159 for operating two illegal suites. But in giving his reasons for judgment, Judge J.B. Paradis said it was not for the court to invélive itself is the creation or enhance- ment of social policy or to com- ment on the fate of the tenants. The court concluded the city zon- ing bylaw existed and therefore bylaw violators had to comply with School supe By MICHAEL BECKER the law. Said Zihali of the city’s move to crack down on illegal suite opera- tors: ‘‘To enforce the bylaw selec- tively as they do now is very, very unfair. We personally feel discriminated against.’’ Zihali said he bought the duplex with four suites in place. ‘‘Our water and sewer bills show four dwellings. The city has known of these suites. We can’t make the mortgage if we have to close both suites."” NEWS photo Mike theld JOANNA AND Jessica, two visitors at the recent West Vancouver Montessori Schoo! 25th Anniversary celebration, look at a commemorative book coveriug the school's history. The preschool, located at Westcot School, is a feeder facility for the Grade 1 program at the Montessori school in Vancouver. But said city licensing inspector Percy Melville: ‘‘The next step has been taken and they have to comp- ly.” Melville said English has two months to remove seven suites and Zihali has two months to remove the kitchens from two _ illegal suites. The tenants living in English’s il- legal suites are generally seniors who live on fixed and limited in- comes. Said English: ‘‘V'll try to lobby the city board of variance to get them to approve the suites. If they’re going to ask me to take them out, they should be asking 3,000 other people in the city with illegal suites to take their suites out, too.”’ City action was initiated against both landlords following the receipt of complaints. rintendent passes away NORTH VANCOUVER School District 44 was thrown into shock this week with the death of district school superin- tendent Dr. Leo Marshali. Mr. Marshall, 60, died Tuesday following a long fight with cancer. “Education has lost a_ fine educationalist,’’ District 44 trustee Dorothy Lynas said Thursday. “It’s a tremendous loss to the district. There was no better super- intendent. He was absolutely dedicated. He believed that every child could learn, but they learn in different ways.”” Mr. Marshall emigrated to Canada from England in 1954. He moved to North Vancouver as an assistant District 44 school super- intendent in 1975 after teaching in Saskatchewan and serving as an executive assistant for the Saskat- chewan Teachers Federation. Mr. Marshall became District 44's school superintendent in June 1984. A memorial service for Mr. Marshall will be held Tuesday at Carson Graham Secondary School starting at 4 p.m. 3 - Friday, January 27, 1989 - North Shore News TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED IN NV WV teachers to get 13.7% wage increase WEST VANCOUVER School District 45 and its 300 teach- ers have ratified a contract agreement that will give teachers a 13.7 per cent wage increase over two years. And teachers in North Van- couver School District 44 signed an agreement in committee Tuesday with the district’s board on a ten- tative two-year agreement that calls for similar wage increases and benefits. West Vancouver Teachers Association president Kit Krieger said District 45 teachers voted unanimousty Tuesday night to ac- cept the contract, which he said should remove any reservations teachers might have held over unionizing. ‘Until we acquired full bargain- ing rights we would never have dreamed of having the things that we got in this contract,”’ Krieger said. He added that he was pleased the board had stuck to its promise to make teacher salaries in the district competitive with those paid in other Lower Mainland school districts. The board's decision to use a local negotiator rather than bring in a person from outside the school district, Krieger said, ‘‘was in large part why we settled quickly and amicably.”’ Under the contract, District 45 teachers will get initial wage in- creases of five and two per cent re- troactive to Sept. 1, 1988 and Jan. 1, 1989, respectively. The incrsases will raise the cur- rent bottom end of the six-level annual salary grid in District 45 to $22,270 by June 1989 and raise the top end of the scale to $48,940 over the same period. District 45 teachers will receive another 5.2 per cent increase July 1, 1989 and a further 1.5 per cent increase Jan. 1, 1990. The contract expires July 1, 1990. District 45 secretary-treasurer John Cassey estimated that each percentage will cost the district approximately $100,000 in the first year of the contract. Board negotiator Doug Player said another .1 per cent will go to adjusting the wage scale of four teachers in the district. In addition, the teachers will get a .16 per cent increase in their den- tal plan, and, as of Jan. 1, 1990, have their medical services premiums paid for by the board. Elementary teachers will also be guaranteed 80 minutes of class preparation time per week. Sec- ondary teachers will retain their current allotted weekly preparation Doug Collins Editorial Page Home & Garden News Reporter time, which is 12.5 per cent of their total class time. Player said the wage increase was higher than had been budgeted for by the board, primarily because of settlements in other school districts, but added that the district had maintained its management rights over teachers and in-class curriculum. District 45 superintendent of schools Bill May said, ‘‘There is chairman DISTRICT 44 board Don Bell ...‘‘a win-win situatiow.”* concern in the province that the ministry’s funding of salaries is unsufficient given the current trend of wage settlements. This board will make representation to the Ministry of Education about fiscal framework funding for local school boards.’’ Cassey said it was too early to tell whether the settlement would create a budget deficit for the district this year. Details of the tentative agree- ment between Liistrict 44 and the 1,000 members of the North Van- couver Teachers Association will not be released until both sides have ratified the deal next week, but District 44 board chairman Don Bell said wage increases will be in the same range as other set- tlements around the Lower Mainland. “It’s a good contract for the teachers and it’s a good contract for the school district,’’ Bell said. “It’s a win-win situation.” Friday, cloudy with afternoon sunny periods. Saturday, periods of rain. Highs near 7C. Second Class | Registration Number 3885