AS - Wednesday, December 3, 1938 - North Shore News Time to speak out The thin margin by which matters of major highrise development in West Van's ap2rt- meut zone was defeated on 2 3-3 tie vote with would have been passed by a vote of four to three. A further irony was the fect that the wishes, now is the time for the community to speak out. In any event, the voting pattern No. For Lower Maintanders it’s something evem worse: the season's first snow warning’ sunday news north shore . 1434 (Onsaate Ave Worth VarTk Quver ff ( Nene ie) 604 9385-2131 C1 ASSE ED 986-6222 PeMer ope.» CRRTIUR & TRON 386 1337 980-0511 1 Pubishe Associate Pubitrshe: EdnorenCine! 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But it’s taxes. in West Vamcouwer the opemmeg salwo is scheduled for tomghi (Dec 3) at a 7 WO represeniauves of Vancouver-based Human Acpon to Lim ‘HAL T) orgamzabon HALT launched a yer oF Teo ago with mavernca Vancouver taewyver Wahler Bovunckh «3 one af as icadinge adwocais draws moch of ms mmsprranon from the tamous 1978 Proposman ta rewon om Cablarma HALT spokceman Nach Moldomann sxy the HALT people a1 the mecting sil] anadyec the) local sttuzDon witb thr and propose mribods = al reac TCR Tazes tan andhepcr specific fighktamg) tas 710% TAX BIKE A bn ell Gcpend af course on the sux of the aodckc moe om bore max Wen Vancouvwone|a realy care Unst mech 2s dred trom grumbimg and sul ferimg © private West Van as also scomncthing of a spexan) cas m he mane of school tasabon winch cazcocth total coomcapal taxation Bar Mm mosapge om applcabée rpudiiaed famm to Marth WV an schoo! tanpeEycr a wed) Owned Ube past docadGe tonal schom! carmobecet oe Wes Nan bus Gropped by arcund thoupht for a minute m 1974, thai Pierre Trodeav. who lzvghed to scorn the Roberti Stanfield recipe for mflahon North Shore councils and school boards will not be formally maugurated until next already clear that popular discontent over the property tax hikes forecast for the coming year ts hkely to be one of their major headaches. In particular, mcreases m the school aet school taxes — after taking mio account the bormrcowner grant — have from $2.9 milbon to almost $9 muilbon By compartson the Comsumer Price Indes has men by a modest 115% And. ai tbe same ome. cbe propornon of West Van readents aged 60 and over (with oo direct involvement. therefore. oom the | school system |) has soared to around Che 30% mart Tbe ocothoot for 1981 5 even biczhear eA farther) projected Q@cchnec of up to 9% inp total carohnecnl. °A further projec icd wercasc of ap to 44% in oct school tarcs from aimast $9 milbon to abnust 313 enifbon On Ube tace af om ube Ogores arc couough to mahkc even the most doucile native resicss and prowde a happy bamtung ground for MAIL 1 Bo om rcahbty n may be a butke antan foo Ubeu etath to be comcemtreted of the bocal « bow! trasiec*ss SAVAGE CUTS Aa Ube figures sbue well ova hall af the 710% Wes Ven school tas caphonscmn Qarmng Ube past 10 yearn can be chalicd ap to mflanon Atthoegh cnrolmeni hai Cropped gute dramanc ally ax Dow aphocp cosm haven 1 You stl hha we ta ha vc roeghty (ae samc aroun of Mainicnancc re pains CANADIAN COMMENT BY PETER WARD PM has fooled us too often OTTAWA (SF) - in different of price and wage controls, would turn around = and impose them himself? There is reason not to trust Mr. Trudeau. and that is the lump which sticks in so many craws which are now being asked to swallow a constituuon designed by bimself. orchestrated through Parliament’ by himself. and hkely demgned to do things to Canada which are quite different from what Mr. Trodeau says they will EMERGENCY EXIT Who’s the school tax villain? focus Noel Wright patating landscaping hbeatung hbghung j)anttonal scrmces and sw of whether a school has 1 200 or 900 studcots Aside from inflation bowever the single biggest villain os the provincial government etach as steadily been reducing its) con tnbution to x hool budgets ever simce 197) quite savagely in the case of West Van dunng the past yearn two la 197 Victoma paid 4% of all West Van sc hoot costs By 19°R the provincial share eas down to 77% In 19 8a plummeted to 19% and then tn Ube Current year to |) 4% Neat vear it could be zens Phas as 2 tar ory from the avcrage prosincial con tnbuoon to all BO school @uincts atnch stared at 4am tn 1970 and dropped umty to BNP by 198Q The dis Mminavon against Wea Van has been Goxscrnume nt aalificd by sperheamen on “ia his book “The Northern Magus.” newspaper columnist’ Richard Gwyn says that Pierre Trudeau has no vestige of the English sense of fair play. He simply cannot understand the need to act fairly and to appear to act fairly. To Trudeau, it’s all logic. mental gymnastics and verbal trickery. Ourwit your opponent. polarize arguments, isolate your enemies and use your allies. It’s all- part of the game. It’s necessary to lead less- inspired mortals onto the chosen course by tnickery, derstand a ex- plananon. Imagine what Pierre Elbon Trodeauv could have accomphshed if he had the missing sense of fair play; if he had been less arrogant and more honest: less the confrontations! and more the concmbhator. Then he might have been able to use that charisma to lead a country m cooperation into a Rew consututon. But then. that would mean that today’s consttutional package would be in dif- ferent hands. the grounds that ut is a “wealthy” community. Maybe. up to a poimt. Bat try telling that to the thousands among the 30% of seniors in West Van struggling to get by on a shm pension. SINNED AGAINST Meanwhile. Victona — obviously keen to transfer. the school-funding burden as fully and quickly as possible to local property-owners — will nevertheless continue to impose many of the cost factors. The Education Minstry dictates curnculum requirements and aumcrous other standards winch local school boards arc forced to meet. regardless of the price In the matter also. of yearly wage seticments for teachers the province has left the school boards to be divided and = conquered. bach board has to bargain individually — instead of collectively with other school boards eather zonally or even province wide Asa result. a single = school dusincts setiiement with its teachers can the precedent for all other school dntincts All this ts got to say that set local cconomiecs could not be clfected. especially in the area of socalled “frills”, witbout impainng the basic quahbty of educabon But there s considerable evidence emerging that school boards Lhe West Van may be more sinned aginst ; than sinning To-antght's HALT mecung in West Van will doubtless gencratc a bealthy crop of jusafied beefs from long suflenng taxpayers But many of them should be addressed to Victona rather than to the financially hamstrung x bool trustees.