Brady Fotheringham Contributing Writer NORTH Vancouver School District 44 Supt. Robin Brayne is confident that Seycove secondary school will receive funding for one of two capital projects aimed at alleviating overcrowded ciass- rooms and aging porta- bles. Education minister Paul Ramscy will decide in the upcoming weeks which one of two submitted projects will be approved. The = school district approved a five-year capital plan Tuesday night that included $4.38 million to build a Seycove extension that would add 275 seats to the school, bringing the total to 700. Two general classes, a drama room and a mult-pur- pose cafeteria are part of the planned project. Currently over 600 students are enrolled in Scycove. The school was originally built to handle only 425 pupils. Eight portable classrooms (cwo more will be added this summer) house 65% of Seycove’s students. Many of the portables leak, according to John Lewis, District 44’s director of facilities and plan- CARPENTER ANTS & INSECTS | COLLISION SPECIALISTS for Foreign & Domestic NORTH SHORE’S HIGHEST VOLUME ALL MAKE 1.€.8.C. VENDOR ° Trustworthy Service © LCB.C, Vendor Approved ° BCAA, ning. The project would add new classrooms to the school and do away with some of the older portables. A second project costing $1.5 million would renovate the downstairs section of the school and make better use of class space currently used for industrial classes. Industrial classes, which take up an eighth of the school’s class space, will be reconfigured to make room for general classes if the project is approved. Trustees are hopeful the $4.3 million addition will be approved by Ramsey over the smaller renovation project and are confident that a decision HONDA’S COMPREHENSIVE will be made in Victoria this fall — well before the normal April 2000 time frame for such decisions. District. 44 secretary-trea- surer Phil Turin said the min- istry of education has given verbal approval that the $1.5 million renovation will go ahead if the larger project falls through. Only one of the two pro- jects will be approved. “Ie is very optimistic the ($4.3 million) — Seycove upgrade will go through,” Turin said. “It would be very Nice to sce the renovation be approved too.” Seycove is expecting an increase in enrolment this fall SPRING CHECK-UP Sunday, June 27, 1999 — North Shore News — 43 Seycove seeking upgrade project approval from their feeder clementary schools Sherwood, Cove Cliff and Dorothy Lynas. Argyle and Handsworth secondary = schools, also stretched to capacity, recently received funding because their projects were higher on the education ministry's priority list. If the education minister approves one of the two Seycove projects in the fall, construction is expected to begin in December 2000. 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