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Newsstand Price 50¢ January 18, 1984

Newsroom 985-2131 Classified 986-6222

- WEST VANCOUVER School Trustee Michael
’ Smith angrily accused other board members of be-
‘ing a ‘‘rubber stamp’’ for the West Vancouver
Teachers’ Association (WVTA), saying the board
was “‘selling out’’ its public trust over the issue of
negotiating a layoff clause with the teachers, based

solely on tenure.
BILL BELL

Chairman Dawn Sikula
defended the staff document
saying “tt was on the agenda
of the special meeting as an
attempt to summarize the
various board opinion, not to
come up with a final offer."’

lt was then disclosed that

After angrily threatening to
give up his position on the
board, Smith told the News:
‘*All this board 1s, is a rubber
stamp for the WVTA, 1
looks to me hike at is a sellout
1 think this board should
represent the community, not
the WVTA.”’
Smith accused the board of
moving ‘‘too fast’’ towards a

settlement) over a layoff the administration and two

clause which was a ‘‘straight) board members had met fast

tenure’’ package. Thursday to go over the
“This district has done proposal.

some damn stupid things 1n
the past and I'm not going to
put up with it any more, I’m
fed up,’’ Smith said

‘*There is going to be a
public debate on this (semori-
ty), tf EF have to knock on
every door in the Dastrict °°

Smith had unsuccessfully
attempted to make public the
contents of an administrative
staff document at the school
board's Monday night public
meeting That document out
lined some alternatives
negotiating an

by MARK O'REILLY

CLAIMING DUNDARAVE
residents have no desire fora
netghborhood pub, West
Vancouver © ouncil has voted

for
exclusion

Clause from the Provincial against the possibility of

Government's controversial developing a pub for that

Bill 3 area in the near future
Smith called the proposal

“asinine” and said that af it In a Sd vote, with Ald

was lo pass, “it would have
such far reaching cffect: on
the public, «would control
the direction of education for
decades ""

Doreen Blackburn opposed,
Council decided to alter the
Munnipality’s Community
Ptan, deleting the possibility
of a pub in the Dundarave

Smith lashes board moves

That got Smith even more
furious.

**We discussed this issue
for four hours on Tuesday
night and I went away with a
warm feeling that it was
kaput for at least 90 days,
then on Friday I find it on the
agenda of tonight’s meeting
... [| might as well pack it in,
the whole thing ts ludicrous,
how the hell can we run a

distnct this) way?’’ Smith
asked.

Trustee Fran McDowell
countered Smith's allega-

tions, calling his statements
that the proposal 1s a
“straight tenure or seniority
package a ‘“‘gross misrepre-
sentation.”’

**A one line summanon of
the document 1s grossly un-
faur,’’ McDowell shot back

Pubs stripped
from Dundarave

arca at a policy and planning
committee meeting Monday
night

In all munkipally Commis
swoned surveys, Dundarave
residents have voted below
the 60 pet cent level required
toe a newhborhood pub

Mayor Derrick Humphicys
saad this decision would have
no bearing oo the well known
Sager pub applicanon, also
set for the Dundarave area

Council agreed atts stall
possible for the Sagers to
follow through with = the
plans