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WV District 45 trustee, superintendent trade shots over Hillside controversy

THE WEST Yancouver

District

45 School Board’s

CWVSB) math does not add up when comparing the costs
of tearing down Hillside middle schoo! and replacing it
with a new $13 million school in the Caulfeild Plateau
area, a WVSB trustee has charged this week.

Margot Furk added that the
WYSB is taking a big financial
gamble by proceeding with — its
plan to sell the Hillside property
and build the Caulfeild school,

By Surj Rattan
News Reporter

Bui WYSR superintendent Doug

eA Ra ear

REACHING EVERY DOOR ON THE NORTH SHORE SINCE 1969

Player said Furk’s math doesn’t
add up.

Furk’s comments come one
week after the WVSB released a
consultant's report that said the
school board could generate $14.4
million it 1994 from the demoli-
tion of Hitiside and the subse-
quent sale of tiie Hillside site in 30
single-family lots.

But Furk has

now released a

teport of her own in which she
found that District 45 would be
faced with a $1;548,200 deficit if
it followed the recommendations
of Moodie Consultants Lid. to
replace Hillside with the Caulfeild
school.

Furk noted that the preliminary
projections used by the WVSB last
spring indicated the Hillside site
could be subdivided into 31 lots

and sold for $500,000 each for a
gross revenue of $15,500,000.
Minus total estimated site casts of
$1,675,000, District 45 would real-
ize a net revenue of $13,825,000.

The construction costs of a new
school were estimated at
$1! 356,500 which would leave the
school board with a $2,268,500
surplus.