ns) a : ~ week or retuming ‘to a stan-". wedard or adjusted five- “day. 1 e, Q 7 A2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, March 8, 2006 : - Schooi board rejects motion. REMANUFACTURED INKJET AND LASER CARTRIDGES RERAEDRE cece FEET E ces TT od Ty “HIGH ACHIEVEMENT __ ~. Royal LePage Terrace Congratulates Rachel — to bring in outside advisor - By DUSTIN QUEZADA ON THE eve of its first big " decision, as a new, board of district trustees, a.'motion brought | ‘forward by Kitimat trustee . -Huey-lin Wu during the board’s -monthly meeting March 1 proved to be hotly The: motion that called for the district “to seek assis- tance from an independent \ ’ financial advisor to review the district’s financial situa- ton,” came just three work- . ing days before. the board was to make a decision.on keeping or rejecting its four- _ day school week: . Trustees met publicly last. - “night at the school board of- fice to approve and adopt staying with the. four-day "week. Wa; . a ‘first-time. trustee,. oy from, _parents in meetings “Wu said parents in this can’t understand why other districts i in similar circumstances can operate with a five-day week. ~ “We don’t have the’ trust of parents,” Wu said. in ex- _plaining her motion. Individually. uustees ad- dressed the motion in an of- ~ ten tense environment. » contested and . divisive . before it was defeated by a 6-3 margin. ‘In particular, veteran board members Hal Sted-— ham of Terrace and Kitimat’s Barry Pankhurst were riled” _by what they perceived to be - a questioning of administra- “said she. was simply acting “on, what she heard repeated- | “that ‘took ‘place throughout~ “the district between Feb. 1. and March 6.°: ‘What she ‘heard, '. parents want a return to. the . five-day week without mak- * “ing the cuts the district had ~ outlined as possible ways to make up for a $1. 28-million ' shortfall. said. Wu, is that the majority . of | Those included closing “two. schools, cutting eight - staffing © ‘positions, lopping — * off $250,000 from ‘special ‘education programs, drop- » ping building: temperatures -by 1 C and. taking one bus route out of the system. ~ Three © years. in. “al for. . “sexual — assaults _ A KITIMAT man. has. been sentenced . to’ three years federal-time-for.a series of sexual: assaults - from the 1970s and 1980s. ° Remi” on Jean, 60, ‘Te- "ceived. a ‘three-year sentence © - from: Mr.- -Justice ‘Robert - - Bauman for one. ‘charge of . indecent assault on a female oy - and ‘three charges. of sexual | assault in’ Terrace Supreme. ° Court on March 1. . ” Jean was ordered to. pro-. vide a DNA’ sample to po- ... lice and to register a asa Sex offender. » . - ‘Bauman handed “ down’ his verdict after ‘a sentenc- ing hearing that: ‘saw some: ” of the victims testify i in open — court. preme Court jury July 19, 2005. He plead guilty to the remaining charges of sexual ~~ assault. - . Crown “counsel Barry “Zacharias asked Bauman for sentencing to take place fol- . lowing the sentencing hear-. Jean. had been found . guilty | of indecent ‘assault : against a-woman by a Su-:— ing for the remaining charg- - es, which Bauman granted. | Zacharias asked for a sentence of 2-1/2 years to 3- “1 years. Defence counsel Gordon Crampton suggested a con- . ditional’ sentence order that _ would be a maximum of two ’ years less a day. Zacharias said it wasn't known yet at which federal. - facility Jean will spend his time. Corrections chooses a fa- . cility when it receives a copy of the facts from the judge.” Each facility has‘ differ- ent programs, such as sexual offender: counselling, that a convicted person may be - able to take advantage of and determine where that person - _ goes to serve time. Between Jan. 1, 1972 and ‘Dec. 31, 1979, Jean com- mitted an indecent assault against a woman in the Delta and Surrey areas. Between 1982 and 1985, he sexually assaulted three women in the Kitimat area. “its limit. tion budget figures. > 1 have complete and utter ~ confidence in our secretary treasurer (Marcel Georges). Stedham said. “To. bring: someone else in.to make decisions arbi- tarily . to do what?. Count paper ‘clips and at the end of the day say. ‘This i is what you do.” » © Pankhurst questioned the wisdom of -bringing. some-_ somewhere else,” said Pan- khurst. ee “An impartial guy com- .. ing here would be to cut, not _, " increase funding.” a one from outside when the © district’s budget is already ¢ at “ “We? re going ; “Date -centered around - the to. pay “someone to come. in here? We can use that money ° Trustees roundly backed -. what -Pankhurst called the unbiased work of the admin- istration. | Terrace trustee. Diane Collins, who voted against the motion, said it should not be taken as a vote of con-. fidence: ‘Tl have a. ‘tremendous amount of trust in the ad- ministration, teachers and the trustees, ” she said. « Wu didn’t back down from the verbal storm. "She said she was simply performing her duty to relay. what parents — people who elected her — had said they wanted. | “This board has not t been : listening to parents for the last four years,” Wu added. ‘Beleagered secretary ‘weasurer Georges says he. . was taken aback by the de- data he prepares. “The info [parents] are after has always.been there,” Georges said. “They may not » L understand what’s ~ behind them but it’s not like the info was not. shared.” board so soon into its man- ‘date was not an easy one ‘and some of the new trustees made it. clear at the March’. 1 meeting they didn’t have the knowledge to answer all questions posed by parents. o during consultations. “There is a curve,” said second term ‘ chair’ Lorrie Gowen who was a new trustee when the . board first.chose to adopt a four-day week. “These are = the same issues.” Last year, trustees voted ‘unanimously to retain | the four-day week. Prior to last night’s vote. Gowen was predicting it wouldn’ t-be unanimous this year. Voting in n favour of the . motion were Wu, Terrace - trustee Art Erasmus and Ray Raj from Kitimat. * Those against were Gow- ‘en, Hazelton trustee Peter .. Weeber, Terrace trustees Stedham and Collins, Stew- | art Craig-Caruso and trustee Pankhurst from Kitimat. The decision facing the - learning . In Every Department _ ‘e Furniture ¢ Appliances -e Mattresses e Electronics NEW MACHINES & “SUPPLIES Northwest Cartridge Exchange 4833 lazelle Ave 635-2157 UL — Ts Tinaita Duriez . - Success on’ ‘attaining » “Platinum Award” “For the month of February PN Royal LePage Terrace Our Growth i in sales 5 means many — a 1 ROYAL LePAGE Gupenes TERRACE, al _ Satisfied home Buyers & Sellers slow down and pull os for to the right as you safely can to avoid.collision end to' reduce windshield damage. 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