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“While we have no
guarantee that the next
election will create a more
sympathetic council,
educators should have faith
that even the dullest. pupil
will at last master a lesson if
it is taught with patience,
firmness and persistence,”

“Some. of. our present
aldermen, therefore, should
be regarded as challenges
rather than obstacles.”

Dr. Jocelyn Boyanowsky
of the North Vancouver
Voters’ Association, said the
board should convince the
Minister of Education to
expropriate the land
required to complete the
Cove Cliff site.

School Board solicitors,
Ratcliffe and Company,
confirm that while the
school board cannot e¢x-
propriate land belonging to
District - which also has
expropriation rights — it can
request the Mimistry to do so
under the School Board Act.
The board could then lease
the land from the Crown.

This option had also been
mentioned “by a senior
ministry official. in con-
versation with community
members,” Boyanowsky
said.

She argued that “normal
reluctance might be lessened
by the fact that you would be
dealing with public land and
not inconveniencing private
citizens... and that the
Ministry is on record as
favoring the Cove Cliff site.”

She also suggested that
“the community has shown a
strong willingness to lobby
and make themselves heard
by government.”

Yet a third position was
stated by Cecilia McLaren,
who said she represented a
group of parents who have

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children enrolled at Burrard
View School.

RENOVATE

She says the board should
renovate Burrard View
School.

“Do you intend = to
procrastinate for another six
years and allow the school to
fall into further disrepair-and
decay? Or are we going to
proceed now and have
Burrard View brought up to
modern day teaching
standards?”

As well as listing specific
renovations, McLaren made
two other proposals:

Approach District council
for additional property west
of the existing school
building. “This will, in ef-
fect, bring the site up to
ministry standards and allow
additional play area,” she

A land swap of Cove Cliff
property for Burrard View
site deed and additional
property for school use only.

Trustee Verna Smelovsky
asked Killian if he really
thought a change of council
would make a difference.

“After a few more years, I
suspect all sides in this
controversy will get really
good at what they're doing,”
he said.

“And we may be able to go
through the motions with
practised skill... you don’t
know whether someone will
change a vote or stick to his
guns no matter what — all
you can do is persist.”

All three petitioners raised
objections to the others’
proposals. .

Of the suggestion to
renovate Burrard View,
Killian said, “It merely
passes the problem on to the
next generation, as Burrard
View was passed on to us.”

Of the same proposal,
Boyanowsky said, “It would

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disrupt the educational
process for months or years
and would make the school
environment even more
unsafe than it is currently. In
the end, the community
would be left with a patched-
up, somewhat safer school,
still in a bad location.” .

McLaren said she did not
want the issue to “come back
into the field”, and Killian
said expropriation would,
“amount to an abdication of
the board’s autonomy and
would involve the ministry...
in what remains and should
remain a local issuc.”

‘PLAYING POLITICS’

Boyanowsky told the
board that waiting in hopes
of a District council change
“would do little for your
image as leaders in
education (and) would lead
to further delays which we
would consider intolerable
in light of present con-
ditions.”

Another option, well
down the lists of all three
petitioners — though none
raled it out — is to build a
primary annex to Burrard
View.

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McLaren accused the
board of “playing politics”,
which she defined as
procrastination.

“Surely you don’t expect
us to spend money on
renovations when there is a
motion before us to tear it
down?” Trustee Don Bur-
bidge said.

McLaren replied that the
motion had been before the
board since 1974.

Chairman Lynas asked to
comment, “because I found
myself being addressed in
the North Shore News by a
supposedly very
knowledgeable alderman —
who also condemns our
board for its procrastination.

-“You may not be aware,”
she continued, “That bet-
ween 1974 and March 1980,
this school board has ad-
dressed the question of Cove
Cliff site and Burrard View
School 55 times... and that a
whole number (sic) of the
delays that were involved
were thanks to the District
council who saw no problem
in postponing public
hearings — and, this
doesn’t make a single move
without the approval of the
provincial government.

All-Sunday News, August 17, 1980

Things can lay on the table a
long time there.”

‘A RAT HOLE’

Nonetheless, both Lynas
and Smelovsky denied the
suggestion from Boyanowski
that the school board was
“feuding” with District
council.

“Fm not sure if that’s what
the District council feels
we're doing — but I would
hope that this is not a feud,”
said Smelovsky.

._There was very little
discussion of the three briefs
as Trustees Margaret Jessup
and Frank Warburton were
absent.

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Board member Burbidge
said that making renovations
to Burrard View was
“pouring a good deal of
money down a rat hole,”
while Craig urged the board
to “pursue a_ decisive
course”.

“People may complain
about the term ‘political
football’ — but I quite believe
that’s what it has been. And
part of it is political football
because it is not a clear-cut
decision - it’s a con-
troversial decision,” said
Craig.

Members plan to discuss

the issue again at their next
full board meeting.

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