NV board OK’s
$113m budget

Jan-Christian Sorensen
Contributing Writer
THE North Vancouver District 44 Schooi Board

approved a final balanced budget of nearly $113
million for the fiscal year 1999/2000 at a Feb.

22 meeting.

The budget addresses the ongoing 16-year obligation to pay
down an accumulaied deficit of $5 million incurred by the
board in the 1996/97 budget. The current budget marks the
third straight year the board has made its $550,000 payment
toward erasing the deficit.

The majority of funds in the budget — 79% of toral budget-
ed expenditures, or $89.4 million — goes to cover salaries,
employee benefits and allowances, and services and supplies.
Operations and maintenance came in next at just over 10% of
total budgeted expenditures ($11.5 million), district and
school-based administration accounts for 7.6% or $8.6-million
of the budget. The district's overall final funding allocation
increased by $935,297 over the preliminary budget presented
earlier to the board, due mainly to an additional 148 full-time
students in the district as of September 30, 1999, and an
cincrease in the educator salary adjustment.

The increase in overall funding put the North Vancouver
school district 52nd out of 60 districts in the province. There
was also a decrease in the incremental funding for special edu-
cation grants, dite to a change in the number of students
enrolled in the various programs.

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THE following people
have appeared in
North Vancouver
court in connection
with drinking and dri-
ving, related offences.

Miche! Genest, 29, of
North Vancouver, was fined
$750 and had his driver’s
licence suspended for 12

months after he pleaded
guilty two having a blood
alcohol level greater that .08.
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Lori Jayne Hebner, 42, of
North Vancouver, was fined
$700 and had her driver's
licence suspended for 12
months after she pleaded
guilty to having a blood
alcohol level greater than
.08.

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ACCORDING to reports of
an NCAA investigation pub-
lished in the Knoxville News-
sentinel in February, an offi-
cial in the University of
Tennessee English department
last year claimed that a star
football player plagiarized a
class paper, but the university
concluded that an athletic
deparunent tutor had merely
misinterpreted the federal
Americans With Disabilities
Act. The athletic tutor said she
thought the act allowed a stu-
dent with a learning disability
to talk to her about a class-
room topic and that the tutor
could then draft a paper for
the student.

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Undignified Deaths: A 58-
year-old man was killed when
his small construction truck
accidentally fell inty a 25-toot-
deep hog-manure lagoon near
Laverne, Okia., in December
(though divers could not find
the body in the muck for 18
days). The same fate betell a
23-year-old man in December
when his out-of-control pick-

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up truck smashed through a
fence in Orono, Maine, and
landed in a 400,000-yalion
tank of raw sewage. And a 57-
year-oid oman accidentally
asphysiated in Duluth, Minc.,
in December; his body was
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In recent months, a New
York woman — and a
Massachusetts woman
received huge windfalls to
their checking accounts due to
data-pro. essing errors, and
now both are fighting to keep

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me the exam as well

the money, in both instances
citing their banks’ incompe-
tence. Susan Madakor, 40, has
spent $230,000 of — her
$700,000 that should have
gone to a United Nations
envirenmental agency, and
retired Centerville, Mass.,
schoolteacher Joan L. Phillips
has spent most) of the
$800,000 accumulated since
1990) when her pension
checks mysteriously increased
trom $800 a month to
$8,000.

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Lance Landers said it would
appeal a January Alabama
court decision barring the
diagnosed “emotionally con-
flicted™ student from public
schovis. His mother insists he
be mainstreamed into. the
school system under the feder-
al Individuals With Disabilities
Education Act, even though
he has allegedly assaulted his
mother, threatened to kill stu-
dents, punched the driver of a
moving school bus, spit in
cafeteria food, thrown batter-
ies at students, ranted during
classes, and regularly
addressed the __ principal,
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