A7-Sunday News, June 1, 1980

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City might block new NV school

Dear Editor:

School District 44
.Proposes to vacate Burrard
View Elementary School,
which is located in the
Disirict of North Vancouver,
and to acquire land and to
construct a new elementary
school at Cove Cliff, which
will also be located in the
District of North Vancouver.
Many residents of the
District of North V Ancouver
are opposed to this proposal
and would prefer to have the
present school at Burrard
View modernized.

My first reaction was that
the council of the City of
North Vancouver has tls own
problems and should not
become involved in a matter
that involves only School
District 44, the District of
North Vancouver and the
provincial government.

Because of a strange senes
of events, however, the
matter can have a substan-
tial rmpact on the taxpayers
of the City of North Van-
couver. Under such circum-
stances it is an established
pohcy of the council to

inquire, to study the
situation and, where
applicable, presentour views
to the authorities that do
have jurisdiction.

The background is as
follows:

First, School District 44

covers two municipalities,
the District of North Van-
couver and the City of North
Vancouver, so the taxpayers
of both municipalities pay
the bills.
Second, Burrard View
Elementary School 1s an old
school, built in 1946, similar
to Queen Mary (1910)
Elementary School and to
Lonsdale Elementary School,
(1911). These latter two
schools. both located in the
City of North Vancouver,
were modernized so_ that
these schools continue to
function

Instead of modernizing
Burrard View Elementary
School, School Distnct 44,
decided to close that school
and to acquire land and
construct a new school at
Cove Chff. The maximum
cost of modernizing — the

Burrard View buildings and
grounds would be
$1,000,000, while the
minimum cost of acquiring
the land and constructior at

Cove Cliff wilt be
$2,500,000.
Now we come to. the
complication.
The provincial govern-
ment approved the new

school provided that School
District 44 sell the Burrard
View site and apply the
proceeds towards the costs
of the new school at Cove
Chiff. These proceeds have
been estimated at $600,000.

But School District 44
does not own Burrard View
site. It belongs to the

Corporation of the Distnct
of North Vancouver. School
Distnct 44 has a right lo use
the property for a school but
if School District 44 ceases
to use the property for a
school, full control and
ownership of the property
reverts to the Dnistnect of
North Vancouver

The taxpayers of the City
of North Vancouver,
therefore. have a substantal

Deep Cove school

opponents splitting
community

Dear Editor

Cove Chiff School
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tuciities is oagrecd upon

unanimously The question
iosttng How can aldermen
suggest that busy Deep Cove
Road ts a than
the Cove Chiff site? How can
they

“safer site”

even comsider as an

objection to Cove Chiff that
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on. three

sides by a huge body of

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2 blocks
proposed school and all the

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children hopefully
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interest in the next decisions
to be made. Is School
District 44 going to
modernize the old school or
is to acquire new land and
construct a new school?

Modernization of the
Burrard View Elementary
School would parallel the
recent modernization of the
two city schools but might be
dependent upon a decison of
the council of the District of
North Vancouver whether to
transfer tide of that property
to School District 44. The
solicitor for School District
44, Mr. Paul Reecke of
Ratchff and Company,
warns that it might not be
legal for the School Distnct
to spend funds to modernize
buildings that it does not
own.

Acquisition of land at
Cove Cliff and construction
of a school there will be
dependent on one of two
possibilities occurmng.

The Council of the Distnct
of North Vancouver could
transfer the Burrard View
property to School Dustnct
44. so that it could be sold to
provide funds for acquisition
of property at Cove Cliff

The other possibility
would be the giving. of
permission by the provincial
government to construct the
new without using
proceeds from the sale of the
old school site This would
provide a benefit for the tax
payers of the Distnct of

school

North Vancouver, who
would enjoy the total
proceeds of the sale. but

would be detnmental to the
taxpayers of the City) of

North Vancouver, who

would not receive any share

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of the proceeds of the old
site but would pay their
share of the costs of the new
site.

I intend, at the City
Council meeting at the City
Hall, Monday, June 2,
starting at 7:30 p.m., to ask
the mayor and council to
authorize members of the
council to attend the public
hearing on this matter, to be
held at the District
Municipal Hall on Tuesday,

transfer the property to
School District 44, to
request that the ministers

oppose the acquisition of
land at Cove Cliff and op-
pose the construction of a
school at that location, as
such action would ~be
detrimental to the taxpayers
of the City of North Van-
couver.

I also urge all City tax-
payers to attend the public
hearing on Tuesday, June 3,

June 3, starting at 7:30 p.m.,
where they are to advise the
District mayor and council,
that the City of North
Vancouver expects the
Corporation of the District
of North Vancouver to
honour the original
arrangement which was to
have each municipality
transfer all school properties
to School District 44.

I also intend to ask the
City council to authorize
letters to the Muntster of
Education and the Minister
of Municipal Affairs, to be
sent the Dastnct fails to

where they should speak up
to protect their interests.

Stella Jo Dean
Alderman
North Van n City

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