STEE CANDIDATES.

TED
ARCHIBALD
(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 65
Occupation:
Classroom teacher
in North
Vancouver for 26
years. Now retired

Key issue:

With limited fund-
ing and a $5.4-
million debt that
has to be paid
within 10 years, |
feel we must initi-

ate a review of

what we do and
how we do it to
ensure that the
services provided

¥ are offered in the
f most productive

and efficient way.
As a trustee, !

would provide

students with the

B® Opportunity to

develop confi-
dence, self

@ respect, and the
MG knowledge and

skills necessary

4 for them to
become responsi- .

ble citizens capa-
ble of applying
that knowledge in
making decisions.
{will provide a
common-sense
approach,

‘DEBORAH _
f KITSON
B(NVCity}

A Residence:

f North Vancouver
A Age: 45.

3 Occupation:

Business person
and manager with

Sa major interna-

tional personnel
recruitment ser-
vice

B Key issue:
a The major issue is

one of addressing
financial realities.

f Ensure that there
B are no unneces-

sary administra-

R tion costs, have a

¥ board that directs

the administration
and make sure
that the dollars
get to the class- -
room. The reason
we have schools

a is for the benefit

of the children,
we must make
them our priority,
not the last group
to be looked after

a in the system.

ED
BARNES
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 51
Occupation:
Lawyer

Key issue:
We can’t continue
as we have in the
past with insuffi-
cient funding and
resources for uti-
lization within the
education system.
We must see that
the best possible
education pro-
gram is offered to
the students in the
district. The
school trustees
must ensure that
funds allocated to
education are
spent on educa-
tion. The school
trustees must
anticipate the
need for and the
inevitability of
change at all lev-
els and prepare to
deal with them
effectively.
School trustees
must ask for and
utilize input from
all interested
members of the
community as to
how to dea! with
current problems.

MARTHA

: LEWIS

(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 45
Occupation: Staff
member, health
care union

Key issue:
The issue is sim-
ple — to replace
the incompetent
members of the
fired board with
new trustees who
can show leader-
ship, ability and
accountability.

~ Everyone
should have the
same goal, to get
the best education
for every child —
and everyone
should be aware
of the challenges,
to maximize rev-
enue, control
costs and pa
down the debt.

The fired

board decided it
was enough to
state the obvious,
“We're under-
funded” and then
wait for Victoria
to solve the prob-
lem. It’s time to
elect trustees who
can create a plan
and then fight for
the children.

COOK
(NVDistrict)

Residence:
North Vancouver
Age: 49
Occupation: Two
part-time jobs,
Clinique
Cosmetics cos-
metician and
Vancouver Art
Gallery

Key issue:
The cost of
administration;
accountability;
the “our way or
the highway” atti-
tude of our cur-
rent school dis-
trict regarding
employee con-
duct or perfor-
mance.

| have been
unsuccessful in
obtaining the most
recent public
Information Act,
but the one from

CHRIS
DORAIS
(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 26
Occupation:
Servicing
Representalive
with the Hospital
Employees Union

Key issue:
Work towards
bringing all groups
together in two
processes: input in
order to set a
responsible and
realistic budget;
review ail existing
programs in
School District 44
and look at ways
to enhance them
and run them
more efficiently.

| will be hon-
est, conduct
myself with
integrity and be
accountable to

1992 indicates 113 those who live in

people earning
tween $80,000
to $158,000 per
year.

the schoo! district.
t will ensure

equal access to

services and edu-

It is immoral to cational oppartu-

me that our chil-
dren should be
going without
while 113 people
are earning
above-average
salaries.

DOUG
MacKAY-DUNN
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 51
Occupation: Staff
Sergeant,
Vancouver Police
Department

Key issue:

The investment in
the education of
all our children is
the best way to
avoid social prob-
lems in our soci-
ety and provide
for the mainte-
nance and sup-
port of our social
safety net, while

nities for students
and endeavor to
ensure students
have the tools to
learn in today’s
educational sys-
tem.

BARB
MacLELLAN
(NV District)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 48
Occupation:
Director of
Volunteer and
Information
Programs

Key issue:

In the face of
shrinking revenues
and a weakening
of the commit-
ment to public
education in this
province we must
find new ways to
maintain an
enhance the

ensuring a healthy excellent educa-

future economy
and vibrant com-
munities.

This means
that all levels of
government must
stop the double
talk and start
working together
and provide the
proper level of
funding and sup-
port for education
so all of our chil-
dren are guaran-
teed a quality
education. Alt
political parties
must take the pol-
itics out of educa-
tion.

tion we have been
providing to chil-
dren; in this school
district for many
years. We can do
this by increasing
the involvement of
parents, students
and other commu-
nity members in
the decision-mak-

ne processes in
lucation; by
forming partner-
ships with busi-
nesses, municipal-
ities, other school
districts and other
organizations; by
continuing to put
kids first.

RICHARD
GAUNTLETT
(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 50
Occupation:
Manager of
administrative ser-
vices, Britannia
Community
Services Centre

Key issue:

Our school dis-
trict has an excel-
lent education
system which is
inclusive, diverse
and broadly
based. This is at
risk, threatened
by government
underfunding and
democracy
denied; by chal-
lenges to the prin-
ciples of full and
equal opportunity

HEAL
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 47
Occupation:
Homemaker

Key issue:
The trustees must
get right down to
work and provide
leadership for the
school district.
There will be no
race period for
learning the
ropes. The
trustees must
work to show that
the school district
is accountable to
the community.
Committees need
to be struck to
involve more peo-
ple in the deci-
sion-making

for all students; by process. Trustees

the undermining
effects of attacks
on staff, on pro-
gram choices and
on the intrinsic
values of a free
public education.
| will work hard
to preserve a sys-
tem where every
threat is confront-
ed, and every stu-
dent is encour-
aged to reach
higher.

GARTH
McSWEEN
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 39
Occupation:
Shipping execu- -
tive

Key issue:
The key issue is
trust. | understand
that the provincial
government was
aware of the inad-
equacy of funding
prior to firing the
revious schoo!
joard, What the
senior government
sought was a

spending plan that.

would demon-
strate how the
board was work-
ing to resolve the
current year's
deficit and accu-.
mulated long-term
debt. It would
seem that the
board ignored this
request and
instead continued
to ask for more
money.

We must elect a
new board, a
board comprising
individuals who
can effectively
work with the
provincial govern-
ment.

must open up the
budgetin process
and simp ify
financial report-
ing. Every deci-
sion must reflect
the question:
What is in the
best interest of the
students? Children
are our future.

TIM
MORRISON
(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 25
Occupation:
University rela-
tions officer at
Simon Fraser
University; educa-
tional consultant

Key issue:

Our schoo} district
desperately
requires account-
able leadership.
The ongoing polit-
ical bickering and
finger-pointing
between our fired
school board and
provincial govern-
ment is compiete-
ly counterpreduc-
tive. We need
individuals dedi-
cated to positive,
responsible and
cooperative
change. We need
someone to ensure
that students are
placed first. Born
and raised in
North Vancouver, |
was educated
entirely in the

North Van public

school system
which provides for
a first-hand famil-
iarity with local
student concerns.

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HEYWOOD
(NV District)

Residence:
North Vancouver
Age: 38
Occupation:
Director of trea-
sury operations
for The Loewen
Group

Key issue:
Deal with the
sense of a finan-
cial crisis in the
North Vancouver
schoo! district:
two ways, first by
going to Victoria
with a string man-
date to negotiate
equitable treat-
ment for North
Vancouver. The
Public Trustee
confirmed all we
said about the
impossible condi-
tions Victoria has
created. Now the
ministry will be
ready to partici-
pate in.a more
positive problem-
solving process.
Second, expe-
rienced trustees
must foster realis-
tic compromises
among all the
partners in educa-
tion in the district.

ALFREDO

SEPULVEDA
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: Not given
Occupation:
Professional social
worker, provincial
government

Key issue:
Restoring taxpay-
ers’ confidence

and managing the -

budget. The new
board will have to
try to restore tax-
payers’ confidence
after the failure of
the previous board
to stop the rapidly
increasing finan-
cial deficit and to

‘deal with it.

The deficit is
now bein:
addressed by the
official trustee and
a plan is in place
to repay the accu-
mulated debt,
together with a
realistic budget.

To manage this
budget, the new
team of trustees

_ still faces the chal-

lenge of setting
realistic goals,

bein
developing part-

creative and

‘nerships with

stakeholders and
the community.

JESSUP
(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: over 50
Occupation:
Retired, formerly
executive director
of Family Services
of the North Shore

Key issue:
The Premier has
promised support
for education and
health despite
financial problems.
As an elucted
trustee | endorsed
the board's position
that the provincial
formula for school
financing seriously
underfunded
School District 44
for some years.
The current
allocation for
North Vancouver
schools shows an’
increase of
$1,934,365 over
last year, support-
ing our complaint
of previous under-
funding. The for-
mer minister is
gone, the deputy
minister is gone. |
believe the new
climate will return
us to a mutually
supportive relation-
ship.

JOANNE
STEPHENSON

(NVCity)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 38
Occupation:
Communications,
financial strategist
for a biomedical
firm

Key issue:

North Vancouver
needs fresh new
school trustees
who are willing to’
take action an
manage in an
accountable fash-
ion. The current
deficit of over $5
million has
occurred over the
past three years
partially from
underfunding and
mostly from finan-
cial mismanage-
ment. To enable
the increased -
funding North
Vancouver
deserves we need
to rebuild the lines
of communication
with Victoria
which we have so
badly damaged
over the past three
years. The funds

‘ must reach the

classroom and the
students in a new
and better way.

“the boardroom,

CHIEF PHILIP
JOE
(NVCity)

Residence:
North Vancouver
Age: N/A

KRISTINA ,
VANDERVOORT
(NVDistrict)

Residence:

North Vancouver
Age: 48
Occupation:
Coordinator,
Hospital
Employees Union

Key issue:

As a concerned
mother raised and
educated in North
Vancouver, and as
a member of the
North Vancouver
District's | ~
Community
Services Advisory
Committee, 1”
believe that our. ,
education system
must be more
accessible to par-
ents, teachers, stu-
dents, recreational
organizations and
the community at
large. That means
taking trustees cut -
of the city’s harbor
view school board
office and back
into the communi-
ty. The fired
trustees choose:

but | will make:
sure we find new
ways to take our
board into the
community.

THE race is
on for can-
didates com-
peting for a
seat with the
North
Vancouver
School
District 44
school
board.

On Nov.
16 North
Vancouver
City munici-
pal election
voters will
have eight
candidates
to choose
from for
three avail-
able school
trustee posi- -
tions.

North
Vancouver
District vot- .
ers will have
11 ¢andi-
dates to
choose from
for four’.
available
school ;
trustee posi-* .
tions, a

The News .
asked the
candidates to
share their
views on
what they
considered ..
key issues for’:
the North ©:
Vancouver. . 0°
school board .i.°:
to address -. -
during the
next three

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WAYNE

WHETSTONE
(NVDistrict) .. °

Residence:
North Vancouver
Age: 47 a
Occupation:
Professional par:
ent (stay-at-home ©
dad) : :

Key issue:

The key issue of
this election for-
school board . |.
trustee is finances.
How to get more }
funds. How to get | >
the funds to pay |
the accumulated
debt. How to use];
the funds for the.
most advantage.
The accountabili-
ty, leadership,
communications,
planning and
direction skills of
new trustees ‘are

of prime impor-
tance and must

not be discount-

ed. The mainte-
nance problems,
supervision con- _
cerns, diagnostic

- centres, resource

centres, depart-

“ ment heads,

library funds and...
support services
we now provide
have all to be
addressed.