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SCHOOL NEWS

WV board delays
smoking decision

AT THE superintendent’s advice, West Vancouver School
Board delayed passing a motion banning smoking entirely
or partially on school board property.

“YT would like to consult with
students and others,’’ superintend-
ent Bill May told the board Mon-
day.

By ROBERT BEYNON

Contributing Writer

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May said the board could make
a decision at a July meeting, and
asked for board advice. He said 29
staff members and approximately
130 secondary students now
smoke.

“But there’s been a dramatic
drop in smokers over the last

students would not be allowed to
smoke, neither should teachers,
even in their staff room.

Said May: ‘I consider what
teachers do in a staff room is
private."”

But board member Barbara
Howard said allowing staff but not

year,’’ May said. students to smoke would create
May recommended a smoking hostility.

ban for students, allowing staff to

smoke in the staff room. May said he would return to the
But board member Michael July board meeting with a final

Smith said that was unfair, and if recommendation.

WV trustees award
themselves $1,000

WEST VANCOUVER school trustees voted themselves a
$1,000 honorarium increase at the board’s Monday meeting.

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Board chairman George Suart
said the increase is deserved. He
said that at the former honorarium
level of $4,000 per year he was
receiving 78 to 79 cents per hour
for the time he worked.

West Vancouver was B.C.’s only
school district not to raise the
honorarium after the education
ministry, which regulates board
honorariums, allowed an increase
from $4,000 to $5,000 earlier this
year.

Suart, who stepped down from
the chair to move the motion, told
the board: ‘‘} think it’s ridicu-

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By ROBERT BEYN
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lous...that we should withhold that
amount.””

Board member Michael Smith
said if the city’s aldermen make
over $10,000 per year for a similar
workload, the board should receive
$5,000 with no pangs of con-
science, .

West Vancouver Teaching
Association co-president Kit
Kreiger said the board deserved the
increase.

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