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Anna Marie D'Angelo

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

THE North Vancouver
District 44 school
board unanimously
turned down a request
on Tuesday to pay for
a full-time Iranian
school counsellor.

Board chairman Bar Heal satd
Trustees support the ideas but telt
the counsellor would fall under
sscttlement funding” tor Canadian
Newcomers, support wot covered by
ESL. money.

“ACS not an cdueagen sue
We hive fe problem with the idea
ota Farnispeaking worker in ihe
schools at ali” sad Eleal.

The school board rejected pas
ing fora Fars speaking counsclicn
vert five days after O00 groups af
Tranian- Canadian) Grade Tb bows
hada brawlon the frant steps of
Caron Gathast sccontary,

Several North Vancouver
Miountes and FO) Carson) statl

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Catherine Bar
Contributing Writer

WEST Vancouver Mayor Pat Boname
has put all her pieces back in place.

Boname, who came under heavy council tire cartier this
week, has now publicly released information pertaining to
her as contained within the Cuff report.

The repart was commissioned by council carher this year
and isthe first organizational review of the municipality in 25
years. George Cafl, an independent consultant trom Alberta,
supplied council with a final report, an cxccutive summary

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West Van mayor offers some
information earlier withheld

and a personnel report.

According to the mayor, the publicly: released versions of

the final report and the executive summary had to be edited

by fegal counsel to bring them inte line with the Freedom ot!

Intormauen (FOR) and Protection of Privacy Act. Vhe per
sonnel report is not scheduled to be released publicly.

The editing of the two public reports resulted: in several
blank spots and missing paragraphs,

NEWS photo Brad Ledwidge

KIM Cheng tosses diver Maria Primeau a rescue rope. The divers were among a group working to attain rescue certification at
Cates Park in North Vancouver Sept. 26.

Last Monday all six councillors took the mayor to task and
challenged her to stop hiding bebind the FOE They urged
her to put back the missing pieces.

Now, according ta a press release from the mayor on
Thursday, all af the report’s information pertaining to. the
mavor has been released to the public for scrutiny.

The report observed that the mayor:

@ needs to change leadership stvle and be more consistent,
@ lacks support or patience from couneil:

Baceds te be tully briefed on cach issue and be aware of a
desired solution:

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