Al0 - Wednesday, April 28, 1982 - North Shore News

inquiring reporter

by Ellsworth Dickson

Yesterday Lions Gate Hospital announced that 144 people were going to be laid off. Some 55 beds will be lost and people now waiting several months for elective surgery will now have to wait two or three times as

long.

And only if their health has

deteriorated to the emergency level will they be admitted. With the government cutbacks, the hospital had no choice but to take this

action.

Today’s question is:

‘What do you think of the LGH cutbacks?’

Stephen Perry West Vancouver

I think the government wants to put a price on human _ilives. Their priorities are mixed up. It looks like it is money first, health second. We have to get rid of this government.

Philip Statham North Vancouver

There has to be cut- backs in these hard times, but health care should be the last thing to go. People are still going to need good hospital services whether there is a recession or not.

Dave Matthews North Vancouver

] think the priorities of the provincial govern. ment are wrong. Health care is most important and somchow the moncy should be found = to continue adequate health care

Elizabeth Sanily Nomh Vancouver

1 think the situation ts termble The provincial government has its priorities all wrong Health care should have the highest pnonty

Bill Reid

North Vancouver

fm discouraged by Chis news | think health carc i8 More important than most other things And to cut staff will put a heavicr burden on the employees The patients will not recetve the attention they necd Also | think 1 Os ternmble thar people wall have to watt cven longer lor surerery

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for those students who have to repeat courses. Still, those students might be faced with a fee, currently outlawed by the Public Schools Act, if the board can receive permission from the Education Minister Brian Smith.

Schools Superintendent Ed Carlin wanted summer school to be completely discontinued, and that the school board would then act as a “broker” to help those students who needed it to find private tutors.

“Our obligation is winter

programs ... if there was a user-pay I'd be happy,” Carlin said.

The board’s decision will save approximately $50,000, while discontinuing summer school completely would have save $90,000.

- The fiscal restraint

program and the new finance formula was also blamed for the school board’s decision to revoke its own policy of serving one year's notice of intent to close a school.

Despite an emotional pied from parents at the overflow school board meeting, the trustees rescinded its policy. However, it put off closing Cedardale Elementary School, waiting one week for a feasibility report on keeping a combined kin- dergarten to grade two class operational at Cedardale.

Carlin explained that under the new financing formula, schools were no longer cligible for grants. This he acknowledged put a strain on school boards to close small neighborhood schools.

“If am came to a decision belween programs and neighborhood = schools, | would recommend closing schools, this whole thing was culminated by the decision on the restraint program,” Carlin explained.

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that if the board did not start making these cuts, “It could be looking at a disaster” by September 1983, having to cut as much as $600,000 at that fime.

Still, Allan Collier, representing the Cedardale Parents’ Association, bitterly complained that it was lack of any long term planning by the board which was forcing the closure on short notice.

“It (the one-year closure notice policy) has existed since 1973 ... we assume, for good reason. We believe that any rescision or modification of this policy

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