NV daycare Stando S District 44 sboard buys iCap portable By lan Nobie News Reporter | fa n@nsnews.com a CHE North Vancouver District 44 School Board will buy a portable — from Pemberton Heights Family Support Society, ending the Besocicty’s battle to mremain on Capilano elementary school grounds, The society, whose Wportable houses the North Shore Children’s House day- care, must hand over the building by the end of waSeptember under the negoti- lated agreement with the maschool board. A split in the school board wemover the daycare issue, threats Bato post guards at the day- wegecare’s door, threats of legal memaction and a rift between the Msocicty and the school’s par- ment ‘advisory committee We marked four months of effort Meby tke society to fight an order to move ‘the portable Raby july 31. ‘COLONY 1 .APPLIANCES | NEWS photo Mike Wakefield NORTH Shore Children's House daycare owner Judie Smith ((Jeft) won't be play- ing with her kias much tonger. The portable housing the business has been sold. The society's agrecmeni to sell the portable paves the way for the clementary school’s students to take up residence in the portable and another that will be placed on the school grounds. Currently, the studesits who will use the portables are taking classes in the school’s gym and computer room. Although school board chairman Guy Heywood wel- comed the agreement, not everyone is happy. Hes wood called the reso- FACTORY FiTON Enttance ia rear lane lution a “great relief" and said it’s important because it clarifies othe relationship between the school board and more than a dozen other daycares operating in district schools. “The principle chat has been reinforced is that the K to 12 education requirements of children have the primary call,” he said. “1 think that at the end of the day the process worked and hopefully satisfied 51% or more of the people.” 2397 — : P pend a > Uigle fuame core fetee, scstrh- guarded fotee "Covey, plots end piles Cavers. bide quzatthes fast ai Ist, ra Hon.- Set. 11-6pm Sunda 12-5 pm * Th 1am m ennai inn tia tl IQ) JMRAPIDLUBE Se) Judie Smith, whe owns and uperates the daycare, said she aad three others will lose their jobs, she will personally lose $13,000 and 24 children will require new daycare spaces. “The society will break even off of this. The school board gets a really nice build- ing with washroom facilities and the daycare gets to go belly up and gets a lot of debts 1 will have to pay.” she said, “fm just really disap- pointed that it had to come to ths end,” she said. “The only loser is the daycare.” Although the agreement between the school board and the society prevents them Pi Friday, September 19, 1997 — North Shore News — 5 iz ved city | trom commenting on the Fag prec, Smith district, paid well over SEOD oe ‘e the double-w: ae school bo: could not ¢ ure, but add was “sold at " She enticized the school board for not giving the day- Ar extension to tind and license a new day- care site. The society's lease expired in 1995 and since then, the space has been teased on a month -v-month basis. Smith said a schooi board offer to use the old Cloverly schoal in’ North ancouver on a month-to-month ba did not offer enough security to make the iuvestrients needed for a daycare worth- while. Smith, who's been run- ning the daycare for 13 years, added that eight kids in the daycare still don’t have day- care spaces elsewhere. Capilano elementary says it needed the three portables to house a student popula- tion that has grown from 200 to nearly 400 over the past 13 years. However, said = Chris Porais, a parent with direc students at the daycare, the school has only added four students this summer and now has 385. Heywood said ~—stthe portable purchased by the board is a double-wide, which will be clustered with another portable. Some conversions will be necessary before students can transfer to the portables, said Heywood. | City r aises council salary north vancouver City Council Jolanda Waskito Contriluting Writer NORTH Vancouver City council is giv- ing itself a 2% raise, making its council- lors the highest paid public servants of a municipality with less than 50,000 residents. The raise is retroac- tive to Jan. 3, 1996. For 1996, the indemn- nity rate works out to $19,075 for each council- lor and $57,225 for the mayor, with an extra $530 for each of the two months per year a coun- cillor serves as acting mayor. in 1995, the indemni- ty rate was $18,712 for councillors and $56,136 for the mayor. In compar- ison, West Vancauver’s counciilors receive $19,009; its. mayor receives $51,000. 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