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Ald - Wednesday, May 16, 1984 - North Shore News

WHILE SOME North Vancouver City firefighters were busy at Hose Reel

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NEWS photo Eric Eggertson to coworker on the street below a West First Street apartment where firemen

Festival competitions, others were hard at work. Fireman above throws rope were called on to deal with a smail kitchen fire.

BUDGET

Smith hits

WV teacher

absenteeism

FLU BUG or no flu bug, the high number of teachers booking off for illness has West Van- couver School Trustee Michael Smith upset ... not over the health of the teachers, but the devastating cost of providing substitutes.

By BILL B

In the first four months ot this school year, teacher absenteeism has eaten away $121,424 of the $195,000 allocated to providing substitutes. This according to Acting Superintendent Ron Fenwick was due to a very “*bad flu bug”’

But that was not good enough for Smith, who told the News that there would be no further altlocahion 9 of moneys ina very ight budget for substitution pay

“At Chis rate we will be $100,000 budgct." Smith said

“Bevery ofganizauion has to be very concerned about sick leave, we have to be cuthless. obviously we're not on top of iM

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Sameth asked the Superintendent to come up with some recommendations on how to deal with the problem

C usrtently the budgct allocates $650) per full criene teacher for substitution pay

“Maybe we need to think about providing germbol for Seuth said Asked if he thought Che

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