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Dear Sir;

Regarding your headline ‘‘Hey Buddy, spare $80 mil-
lion’’ in the Dec, 20, 1995 issuc.

In the next two years the federal Liberal government wil
cut $1.3 billion dollars of transfer payments to B.C. This
moncy was to fund education, health and social services.
To offset this offloading, B.C. has only two options: in-
crease laxes or cut costs.

Tax increases are not acceptable, School board“amal-" ~

gamation is scen as a way to cut costs by reducing admin-
istration without affecting services to students.

Reducing the number of school boards bad been sug-
gested repeatedly in past years. [is supported by the B.C.
Reform Party, The B,C. Liberals are on record as wanting
to reduce the number of school boards by one-third.

If one considers that the comparatively small school dis-
trict in Kitimat is only 60km away from Terrace and that
the Terrace school district includes Stewart and Hazelton;
then under almost any amalgamation initiative, by any of
the polilical parties, we are going to be prime candidates.

In fact, given the Liberal position that they intend to cut
provincial spending by $3 billion dollars, does anyone
really believe that amalgamation will not occur or that cuts
in services to students will aot follow as well?

The education minister has asked the people to comment
on his proposal. He has even given them some guidelines
as to what he is considering. Perhaps he should not have
slated his guidelines, but we now have the opportunity to
focus our discussions and comment on those guidelines.
However, without a recognition of the fiscal reality which
prompled this initiative those suggestions might not deter
him from the fallback position.

When the minister made his announcement he included
his fallback position along with the projected dollar
savings in the an.alzamated districts, Much of the allention

has been focused on the interpretation that (here will be
culs in special education. Whether that translates into cuts
in administration or to students at the classroom level is
open to debate.

A’‘significant portion of those funds are for adminisira-
tion. School boards currently also have the option of
spending, more on special education than just the targeted
funds from the ministry. School board do set priorilies as
they have for years,

‘Finally, if there are no administration savings in the
delivery of special cducation in the amalgamated district
then. the minister needs to have that proven to him. You
can not justify hanging on {oa particular administrative
structure by using the fear of a possible loss of special
needs funding. The minister has stated that be wanis to
maintain services lo students,

As the Dec. 13 meeting confirmed, the parameters for
discussion for the feedback to the minister are not narrow-
ly defined. If we think amalgamation of three districts is
unworkable and won't save money, we need to prove it. If
two are unworkable we need to prove that as well.

If we think two might work then suggest a government
structure and a transition structure which ensures com-
munity autanomy and merges the best of the existing struc-
ture. If we have concerns about the transition and the
people effected, we need to aggressively propose a people
sensitive transition process.

Don’t get me wrong. I didn’t ask for school district amal-
gamation to come up either. There have becn enough
changes ‘in education for a while. But then... I also didn’t
ask for the federal offloading which precipitated it.

Helmut Giesbrecht,
MLA, Skeena

sand? Writer begs to differ

Dear Sir:

For anyone who travels Hwy16 with any kind of fre-
quency, a ‘break’ is usually is a normal occurrence.

The average person would think getting a break would be
nice, but when it is your windshield or headlights or
driver's side window, courtesy of a passing car or a semi-
trailer throwing up a piece of ‘sand’, it becomes just a bit
of a nuisance, never mind what it does to your feeling of
well being when serenity is shattered by a loud crack.

The ‘sand’ the crews are using should be classed as

gravation caused by all of the above... Give me a break!!!

Vd sather have it the way it used to be when sand was
sand and gravel was gravel and a rock was something you
found anywhere else but all over the road.

This letter may be tongue ia cheek but I think it is getting
to be a serious problem. If your windshield or paint can be
that badly damaged by a flying ‘rock, consider what it
might do to an animal or a small child. Food for thought.

Charles Brunette,

multi-purpose. It could be used by the Flintstones for golf Terrace, B.C,
balls or David and Goliath could go al it again with David
supplied with ammunition by the ton.

Mind you, I guess it’s economically clever as it keeps the Oo S e t @ WO r S

local authorities working with road checks and vehicte in-
spections. Then you help out some more when they sug-
gest, rather strongly, that you have your windshield, head-
lights or other braken parts repaired,

I don’t really mind following this whole routine but it
seems every winter [replace some if not all of those items.

There used to be signs on the highways that used to say
‘Watch for rock on road’. Now it is just a picture. It didn’t
mean if you mailed the highways department a rock, they
would send you a Timex. Whal it meant was that ihere
may be objects (rocks) that have rolled down the hill and
laken up residence between you and your destination.

I am sure someone will make reference to privatization
and how much money if saves and how little we all want to
pay the tax man, but with the amount it cost to repair or re-
place various glass items, pits in the paint job and the ag-

FROM THE GROUND UP HOME IMPROVEMENT GUIDE

Dear Sir:

In regards to Rob Brown’s Dec. 27, 1995 column on the
closing of the Copper River. Yes, some of us still call it the
Copper River. I hope that’s okay.

That it should be fly fishing only — why nol just close
the river completely, 365 days of the year so no one can
enjoy fishing the clusive steelhead, For years this river has
been regulated for catch and release and bait bans to build
the stock. You name, it they’ve done it.

Now you want to close it because there are too many
fish, from the impression the column gave me, Why should
the elite fly fishermen be the only ones privileged.

Close it, Bob, close it all, What’s next?

Joe Zak,
Terrace, B.C,

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