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WV SC

OOL CUTS

CLAPPED, BOOED

Board trims
budget by
$800,000

By NOEL WRIGHT

CUTS totalling some

$800,000 in West
Vancouver's school
expenditures became
law Monday evening
when school trustees
unanimously adopted
a reduced 1982
budget of $20.7
million amid polite
applause — and dis-
tant booing.

The applause which
followed the school board
vote and an audience ques-
tion period came from the
overflow crowd in the coun-
cil chamber’s public gallery.

Meanwhile, oufside the
building. the chymting and
booing of an _ organized
demonstration of over 100
students — barred from
enternng by the fire marshal
— were clearly audible in
the chamber throughout the
mecting.

The largely good-natured
throng, which had marched
on the municipal hall in a
body, displayed hastily
scrawled placards bearing
such messages as “Budget
Totally Unfair”, “What
about Us?" and “Don't Use
Us As Pawns!”

School board chairman
Mark Sagar opened by
noting Uhat certain “Misin-
formation” about the budget
had been nmfe in the com
munity He reminded the au
dience that “you have
clected us (oO make dec
sions”

AFTER W.VAN
EXPERIENCE

NV City
wary of
garbage
service
Savings’

By AVIS HOPKINS

RUMORS of huge
savings from private
garbage’ collection
are greatly exag-
gerated, North Van-
couver City council
was warned Monday.

That is the opinion of City
Engineer Alan Phillips, who
told aldermen the so-called
$250,000 saving in West
Vancouver from private col-
lection was the result of a
“modified” service.

City council is considering
a bid from the same firm that
picks up West Vancouver
garbage, but voted Monday
to defer any decision until
February 22.

Phillips said,''A
substantial part of the cost-
saving is from a change in
service levels,” he said.

One change, said Phillips,
is that prior to the switch to
private collection a blanket

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WEDNESDAY:
Cloudy. turning to

; . TALE OF TWO CROWDS at West Van school budget camp. Outcome of mecting reversed attitudes, with

Finance Commuttec Chair mecting Monday night b told in pictures showing council chamber aadicacec applauding budget cuts
man Margot Furk analyzed. solemn sobriety of audience in coancil chamber while while protestors jcered. THURSDAY:
CONTINUED ON PAGE Al4 the fun seemed to be going on outside in the protestor:

rain Of snow

(Eric Eggertson photo) Showers, Cont nuing
unsettled