‘Strings
attached’

_. FROM PAGE A1

think it is coincidental (to
the election).”

At Tuesday's meeting of
the North Van_ Board,
trustees were more direct in
their reaction to Bennett's
statements that they could
rely on “The commitment of
the Government as to
budget levels and _ related
matters,’ but only “upon re-
election of my Government.

Trustee Roy Dungey
protested: “This is a sup-
position that we will get
funding based on conjecture
of something that is basically
a very private thing -- how
people are going to vote.”

He said he was em-
barrassed at the way the

board learned of the
province's reply to the
school board’s funding
requirements — through a
political letter from _ the
premier.

Verna Smelovsky said she
had understood there would
be “no strings attached” to
the board request, “but there

seem to be strings attached,”
the re-election of the Social
Credit government.

School trustees had
plannéd to deal with the the
budget at the Tuesday
meeting, but accepted the
advice of Schools
Superintendent Rod
Wickstrom, and decided not
to act on the budget until the
next board ° meeting,
scheduled for May 10.

Wickstrom said the letter
from Premier Bill Bennett to
school board Chairman
Chief Phillip Joe promised
that School District 44 would
get the funding it asked for,
but Bennett declined to
supply the vital documents
until after the May 5 elec-
tion.

Trustee Dungey was
sceptical of Bennett's
promise of the requested
funding.

Trustees Jessup and Verna

Smelovsky agreed that
Bennett's letter seemed
“ambiguous,” while Chief

Phillip Joe said the board
would just “have to wait to
see what happens.”

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