es | NEWS photo Stuart Davis SEEN FROM the roof of the Kapilano 100 building at Park Royal, Vickye Wood and her students from the Anna Wyman Dance Schoo! trip the light fantastic in a strange shadow dance caused by the setting sun, Anna Wyman's dance troupe will be performing at Expo's Xerox Theatre starting Saturday. See story, page 21. HISTORIC SITE DEVELOPED Condos rise on Stoker Farm NORTH VANCOUVER’S historic Stoker Farm property has been cleared to maké way for a 140-unit strata-title retirement condominium. Work began on the 3.48-acre Upper Lonsdale site this week fol- jowing final North Vancouver City approval of rezoning on the prop- erty from single family to com- prehensive development. The property is being developed by new owners Polygon Properties Lid., who purchased the Stoker property from the Canadian tm- perial Bank of Commerce and the adjoining Grey residence from Tiber Enterprises Inc. By TIMOTHY RENSHAW News Reporter Rezoning was approved bv coun! after Polygon tendered its plan to restrict accommodation at the development to retired people <5 une over and that both Stoker and) Cirey properties would be combined in the project, “Hts the first of its kind on this scale in this area.” Polygon presi- dent Michael Audain said Wed- nesday. The development, he said, would afford ‘first class, secure accommodation’’ for active retirees and feature two guest suites, swimming pool and exten- sive workshop areas. Audain put the cast of the development at $8.5 million and gstimated thar the first 77-unit phase would be completed by June {9st Completion of the remaining adounics, he said, would depend on demand for accommodation i the development. Suttle prices, begin at $80,000, he said, would 3 - briday, September §. 1986 - North Shore News WEST VAN EDUCATION School board, teachers upset with WES1 CSB VANCOUVER School Board and West Vancouver Teachers’ Association say they are unhappy with the pro- vinctal salaries. Lovernment’s During the 1982 public resiraint program, the government created the Compensation Stabilization Board (CSB) to determine tinal wage settlements inthe public see: tor, Trustee Margot Furk said as a result of the CSHB, final wage set- Hement “is very much out of the control af the school board." “Poothink the Compensation Stabilization Board is performing a useful function in keeping a lid on wage settlements in B.C. but the whole process for the sector should be reviewed,."" said. “Em obviousiv in favor of in- creasing the authority of focal school boards in terms ot their management discretion and tor the parent community fo have yereater input." The CSB recently ruled against West Vancouver School Board, which claimed inability to pay an urbitrated teacher salary settlement of 2.2 per cent. Furk said as a result of that rul- ing, CSB in effect decided for the district how it would manage part of its budget. . “Obviously there’s money there, but the pie is only so big.’ she said. “If we give $60,000 to salary increases then it) wouldn't be available for other things like ad- ditional staffing.”’ (The actual teacher salary. set- tement will cost West Vancouver Schoo! District approximately $300,000, including increments.) “We don't have discretionary authority to decide how much we want to allocate to salary increases and to other services,’’ she con- tinued. ‘“‘This process proves we really don’t have that) in- dependence.’” Kit Krieger and Peter Lefaivre, co-presidents of West Vancouver Teachers’ Association, noted CSB commissioner Ed Peck, who sets the final wage settlement, is not a she “mutually agreed arbitrator’ for the district and its teachers. Krieger also said unlike the school district, che teachers do not have the right to appeal an ar- bitrated settlement to the CSB. “We have a fist of 265 people interested right) now,’’ Audain said. ‘‘Early indications are that there will be tremendous de- mand.”* The Polygon president added that the retirement market was becoming the biggest and most important in the real estate business. Formerly an historical site, Stoker Farm buildings, at 29th and Lonsdaie Avenue. fell onto disrepair tn che carts (SOs when che abandened iaim house Aas repeated|y sandatized, See Retirement Page 4 process education + for determining teachers’ | Hy RIM PEMBERTON News Repearter “les not equitable, It doesn't fall into the collective bargaining process,” he said. School board trustee Pat Boname said under former Educa- tion Minister Jim) Hewitt, last April, education, business and Sabor groups were invited to par- ticipate on a School Act Review Committee. She said since the new education Minister was posted, talk of mak- ing changes to the act have been shelved, but should be made a “high priority’? with the new gov. ernment. “We need a better process,”* she said. “Look we've been discussing this (teacher salary settlement) for six months. That is kind of unsettling.”” Action repealed MEMBERS OF the West Van- couver Teachers’ Association voted unanimously Tuesday to repeal its instruction-only cam- paign, which would have begun this week. Peter Lefaivre and Kit Krieger, co-presidents of WYTA, said the teachers voted last June to begin an instruction-only campaign after the schoo! district appealed an ar- bitrated teacher salary increase of 2.2 per cent, including increments. On Aug. 29 the Ministry of Fi- nance Compensation Stabilization Board ruled that the arbitrated decision should stand. Lefaivre said while WVTA won’t participate in any job action it does plan to write a letter to the School Board concerning the “‘post-confrontation. atmosphere’’ that may exist between the teachers and the board because of the ap- peal. a tlt] POLYGON Properties president Michael Audain...plans approved to vonstruct oan 88-unit con- dominium development.