«cap this week was a fish, Pd throw it back.”

bate

‘no-one had-envisioned).

NOW). : :

_»- The only positive result that can.be hoped to comie out es

of this situation is greater mutual respect and under-

-standing between the teachers and their employers, and ;
. perhaps a ‘greater public appreciation of some of the .

“underlying difficulties in the education system. The

latter is hard to quantify, but experience in this district —
indicates that the relationship between teachers’ and
“board will probably not be improved by evena good and

hard-fought agreement. | |
. + The scope of the issues involved and the sheer number
- of items remaining make analysis almost.impossible, but
itis apparent that monetary items are not at the core. As
‘district secretary-treasurer Barry Piersdorff put:it; ‘“We
don’t know what ¢he issue is.”’ . |
Perhaps .this dispute is.about ideas: the idea of what a
~ teacher is in a professional sense, the idea of who should
control what elements of education, the idea of what

"protection staff require from: arbitrary management

decisions and what limitations would prevent manage-
ment from performing its function effectively.

- Representatives from both sides of the argument have
expressed regrets and sympathy for the children — who,
after all, are the object. of the entire exercise.

_. Both sides appear to believe that what they are doing
- ‘is for the ultimate benefit of the education system. —

- The problem is that at this point it just doesn’t seem —

to be working out.that way.

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Perspectives —

- by Bob Jackman

| Happy New Yeatl
And you thought I'd copped

out on my Fearless Forecasts:

column, just-because a couple’

_ of more important municipal
‘issues came up. We're here to-

have fun, remember? And
without bringing out the old
score card, how can faithful .
readers believe what. they read?.
- Just before the Mayor an--
nounced his committee chair-
manships, I fearlessly
forecasted that Danny Sheridan -
would retain Finance. Right
on, one point for the good —
guys. - re
Fearless Forecast No, 2 put
Ruth Hallock in Parks and’.
Recreation. Zap — comiplete-
miss! Interesting scehario =
here... the Library function
used to fall under the Finance
Committee, and there was a.

' whole separate committee for

social issues... Mo Takhar’s _
chairmanship has expanded to ©
Community and Recreation -
Services and includes these new
mandates. When I suggested —
the Committee had floundered _
over the ‘pool éxpansion and
Christy Park, I-expected the
Mayor might make changes —
he’s obviously happy with Mo-
and by inference, with what the
Committee-did last year. With

_ a library expansion proposal on

the drawing board, at a cost

- strikingly similar to that of the

pool ($860,000 vs $836,000 and
tising), could a sleight-of-hand
‘be in the wind? Did the pool
delay give the library pro-
ponents time to get their act
together? |

Or are.we seriously consider-
ing committing 2/3 of the
City’s available long-term debt
to the two projects?... Of all

the groups in town with. sugges-

tions for ways Council should ..

ITH NEN lephite We

spend our money, the'only-one
invited to the Terrace 2000
Think Tank was the Library’.
Board. pe EE Le

Forecast No. 3 suggested the
demise of the social services —
committee, or a rookie chair-"
man. Full points, see above.

I hedged on number four,
placing Mo in charge of Public

_ Works. but guessing Ruth as the.

Mayor’s second option. Looks

like 50%, but:I also added Bob
Cooper as a member... 2 out of
Zaintbad. =.

-. The Big. Miss? Number Five!
No points! Why would I have
_Suspected that the Mayor

would place Darryl Laurent, a

. guy with Economic Develop-
_ment experience as Chamber of
. Commerce vice-president and .

Airport Advisory Commission
member, at the helm of the
Tourism and. Economic Devel-
opment Committee? Too
logical? And then, the Mayor

appoints Alderman Laurent

‘rather than Alderman Hull —

who campaigned against the
-“committée-Shiffle”’ that scut-.

tled his rugby clubhouse — to .
keep an eye on the committee
shuffle. Rather than matching
abilities and interests, the |
Mayor throws a subtle curve.
Does the committee shuffle
perhaps serve a useful function
for the Mayor — like providing
a home for the really bad
ideas? Ss

~ Right on with Number Six.
I'm not alone in suggesting to
the Mayor that his Finance
Chairman is at a disadvantage
not being a member of the

- Public Works Committee,

which spetids the majority of
the City's operating budget.
But when one former alderman

told the. Mayor to guard the

es

henhouse, His Worship re-
sponded by putting the fox .in.
charge, placing: the: Public:

~ Works Chairman on Finance. ©

oe 1988 was a great year for..

Terrace! Tourism jumped. The
commercial and residential
building boom continued. The.

‘Highway. 16/Keith Avenue cor-
“ridor filled with attractive ser--
' vice buildings. The new Health
Care Society got a good start

on Terraceview’s Extended

-Care Wing, The Kermode

Friendship Centre launched.
renovations to house anew
Native Community Law Office.
Students began working ona

- major video and play address--. —
ing family violence and con- |

cerns about the role of drugs.
arid alcohol, which will come
to fruition before the school
year ends. Skeena Cellulose —

made a long-term commitment =

to our City with the opening of
their state-of-the-art sawmill.
The Okanagan Skeena group, -
owners of CFTK, announced

'-platis for'a $5,000,000 mall

which will drdmatically im-
prove the look at our .
downtown core. Mining activity
soared throughout the region.
And | got everything I. wanted
for Christmas! - _

Seems like everywhere you _
looked in *88 people were
charging ahead, promoting one |
facet or another of our
economic and social fabric.
That’s typical of the new Ter-
race — people working .
together to achieve our com-
mon goals. I’m looking for-
ward to an equally successful-

and rewarding 1989 — hope -
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