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_ THE VOICE OF NORTH AND

Newsstand Price 50¢ January 16, 1983 Tel. 985-2131

STRONG ARM of the law in West Vancouver is backed up by !2-gauge pump.-action
shotgun, mounted on rack inside municipal police car. Phe guns are ready just in case
of trouble and have been sufficient in the past to prompt bank robbers to give up
without resistance Local residents do not appear to object to their pollce driving
around with the guns in the cars, rather taking the attitude that they are acceptable
tools of crime prevention. Vancouver police union ts campaigning for patrol cars
across town to be equipped with similar shotguns to that plctured beside ( oastabte
Poul Sinclair on duty in West Van

NEWS photo Terry Peters

In spite of looming crisis

“NOT Fe+sING LIKELY” was the only response

a representative of

the North Vancouver

Teachers Asseciation (NVTA) would give to a

proposal from trustees
teachers to return to the

who are pleading with
bargaining table in hopes

of reducing a 5.5 per cent arbitration award.

Fhe NVTA refused to
comment any further on that

proposal as well as other
proposals school trustees
passed Tuesday night

designed to
“financial crisis.”

The board's dilemma was
created by the provincial
government's restraint
program and the “high”
arbitration decision awarded
to teachers in December

The school board now has
a $2 2 omillhonm defieoit to
contend wath in its proposed
POM) budpet That

avert a

deficit

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might translate into over 60
teaching jobs. However. if
alternative action ts not
taken, it could mean an even
higher number of teachers
being sacked as any layoffs
would probably have to wait
untl September, when over
60 per cent of the school
budget is already spent

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breaking in

reduction of the school year,
and possible increases in the
pupil-teacher ratio.

Under the guidelines
presented to the board. the
school district will make
every effort “as long as it is
feasible,” to reduce the level
of service rather than
eliminating programs.

However, the guidelines
warn, “under present
limitations, employee groups

should continue to be ad-
vised that salary increases
must be accounted for by
staff reductions oor davs
without pay.”

Board chairman Philp

Joe would not comment on
what acthons would be taken
Weothe teachers resected the
proposal

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