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NV schools
seek $18.6m

District 44 submits capital plan

Liam Lahey
Contributing Writer

UNDER the pressure
of a provincial deadline,
the North Vancouver
District 44 Schoo!
(NVSD) board voted
unanimously Tuesday
in favor of its first Five
Year Capital Plan.

Researched and developed
by John Lewis, the district's

a projected forecast of finan-
cial needs for all of the dis-
trict’s schools starting in the
autumn of 1999,

Traditionally, school
boards submitted a one-year
plan to the Ministry of
Education. But due to a
change in governinent policy,
all school boards in the
province are obliged to submit
a Five Year Capital Plan no
later than Sept. 9.

Lewis said the pian is a cul-
mination of intensive research
made during the summer
months.

“The Five Year Plan could
also be titled how I spent my
summer vacation,” he joked
before the gathered board
members.

The school district will be
asking the Ministry of
Education for $18.6 miilion in
the first year alonc.

The provincial government
has an estimated $375 million
in its Total Capital Fund,
which it will share with school
boards throughout B.C.

Lewis’ plan, which ranked
the schools in order of finan-
cial priority for cach year,
ualled for Seycove secondar;
to receive $2.9 million for ren-
ovations, followed — by
Sherwood Park elementary at
$1.6 million, and Upper Lynn
Elementary at $1.4 million in

399.

Balmoral secondary is pen-
ciled in at $2.9 million for
2000-2001. Ridgeway ele-

mentary tops the list in 2001-
2002 at S14 million.
Boundary elementary is at the
top of the ladder in 2002-03
with $960,000, and Se

could get a $1.5

ift in 2003-0).

Over the projected five-
year period, the school district
will ask the government for
$43.6 million.

Among the priorities Lewis
had to consider when drawing
up his projections was the
climination of portable class-
rooms and the disposal of haz-
ardous materiu. such as fluo-
rescent lights which contain
cancer-causing PCBs.

“In compliance with the
Workers Compensation Board
(WCB), we’re focused on how
te improve the indoor envi-
ronment quality by conduct-
ing a comprehensive review of
cach school,” Lewis said.
“Not just the heat exchange in
the buildings, but the oenaee
in and around the buildin
the level of moisture in the
walls, and how to properly dis-
pose of fluorescent lights now
they’ve been removed from
our schools.”

Lewis believes the province
will look faverably on his
board’s plan, but cautioned
against having high expecta-
tions.

“There'll. be an over-
whelming number of requests
for additional funding for
schools due to the classroom
capacities being reduced,” he
said. “But we've done a very
thorough job here.”

The next public meeting
will be held on Oct. 6 when
District. 44’s program and
finance committees _ will
address their reviews of the
plan. The provincial goveri-
ment will review all of the Five
Year Capital Plans pitched iw
them and hand down thei:
funding decisions in January.

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