ERRACE. The local
“tedchers’: Union is attacking
-sefiool . district ads in local

EE newspapers: about contract

: “Terrace District Teachers”

Association. president. Robert .

“Brown labelled -some informa-

“Hon. in: the ‘ads blatant lies —
“uch | as the: contention that
“some changes would alone cost

© $6'8 million, the equivalent of a

55.6 per cent wage increase.
“Either their adding machine

needs an’ overhaul, or they’re on
drugs,”* he said last week,

_- The -two.osides have been
bargaining since last March and

have so far agreed to. revisions

in‘; nine non-monetary: areas.
‘Their previous contract expired

July 1,.
: Brown also : ccriticiz
- trustee and ‘negotiations

spokesman Kris Chapman for

‘signing the ad and making other -.-

- accusations against the
- teachers? union. He said Chap-
man has...

has been at the table to observe
" the progress in months,
“How .can she. put things

-under her name ‘when she’s not’
" even.at the bargaining table?’
‘he asked. ‘Obviously she's just...

-. first-hand:
knowledge of the talks because |
neither she nor dny other trustee.

‘eacher contract
ruisin’ for a bruisin’

Rob Brown

acting as a mouthpiece for the.
administration. And why is the
schook- ‘board wasting taxpayers!
money on’ newspaper ads. when.
talks” haven't yet broken
down?”

‘Chapman said the $6.8
million ‘estimate is “‘veally a
conservative figure,’’ She said
the union's demands — not.

- counting’: salary’ increases :—

‘would ‘cost: the board that much

extra money,
Among the: union’s pro-
posals, ° - Chapman: ‘said, - are
numerous . demands.

“that.

‘Kris Chapman

teachers be required to spend .
less time in ‘ the classroom,”

‘through. clauses requiring more

preparatory - time, more con-

ferencing: time and increased
leave, Those’ ‘items ‘would force’
the district to» hife- more.

teachers,” she’ said, ‘and: would’

‘cost. .an : ‘estimated§2, 3 million,

— the largest single fattori in the.
board’ 8 $6.9 tnillion estimate...

That$6. 3 million would be’ a’

35.6. per: cent increase over the-.
current) $12. 3 million: ‘budgeted.
for ‘teachets’ -wages and-.
associated costs, added Chap-.

talks

man, *,

Chapman aid the extr :

money to run the. ads is: small:;
compared to what: ‘the- “negotia-

tions haye already; ‘cost the.

board, ‘and what it could cost it

if the’ union doesn’t: “moderate

its demands, © 2...

“This whole ‘process is
costing a: phenomenal. amount
of money,” she added. “We've

got a responsibility as'-a

publicly-elected board to tell the
taxpayers where their money’ s
going. [ don’t’ think that! 8 ir-
responsible.”

Not counted in the: $6.8
million figure.the board releas-
ed, Chapman also ‘said, is. a
large amount . of money | the
union’s demands. for decreased
class sizes coufd.cost. The cost
of the union proposal to reduce

the number of students in each
class is uncertain, she said, ‘but.
added it could cif takén to-its:

extreme’ cost the school board
-as-much-as $13 million, . |
‘She continued to. characterize

the. union’s - position « ‘as
unyielding on: numerous iterhs*
eSSéntial ‘to management ‘ con...”
trol. «They can’t put their hand »
inthe cookie j jar and -expéct to’:
get every last cookie,”’ she said,"
“They” ve. got ‘their hand: stuck. -

‘in the cookie j Jar because they”
won't let go.”

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‘for: the University -of Nor-

thern B.C. who is ‘familliar

with the concept of | ‘regional .

campuses should give the
northwest hope that the in-
stitution: will be more. than
just ‘a university for Prince
George, says Northwest
Community College’ presi-
dent Don Anderson.” »
He was responding to the
‘naming of Geoffrey Weller,
currently the academic. vice-
president’. at Lakehead
University’.in Thunder ‘Bay,
Ontario,
Land has been set aside for
a main campus in Prince
George, but university
spokesmen say the university
still plans to incorporate a
aystem of regional campuses
that could make colleges like
Northwest Community Col--
Jege here a full partner,
‘*Geoff comes from
Lakehead, which is a nor-

thern college which has’

regional campuses as well, so
I’m quite optimistic about
that,” Anderson said Thurs-
day. “I think the message to
him was quite clear that: it
had to be a university with

regional campiises, “and .
think that’s: why they hired.
* him.?!

Anderson said Northwest :
_ Community College has pro- |
" mised to cooperate fully with”:
‘the plans for the riew ‘nor-*
thern university and to share |
its resourcés and buildings.
“I’m: cautiously optimistic
now,” he said. ~ ;

Anderson earlier sald the”
university must be designed : |
for the needs of northerners, *:
and. not from some’.
academic's idea of what all:
universities must be like. :

“Of course we have to.
have qualified people,” he
said. ‘‘But hopefully they’ re
qualified with what’s up to
date in the real world and the
needs of the northwest.’?” .

Academics will likely :
dissapprove -of. the new
university at first, no matter
how good it is, he added.
“The academic community
won't give us any credibility
for the first 10 years
anyway,”

Weller is to visit Terrace
during the = university
council’s meetings here Nov.
20-21.

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Too much
surplus

seen as —
a danger

TERRACE — City treasurer
Keith Norman wants council-to
stop using surpluses as revenue
when drawing up budgets, say-
ing it could backfire.

He made the suggestion dur-
ing fast week’s committee of the

‘whole discussion on what to do

with the projected $360,000
surplus in this year’s budget.
‘Norman. - had,, presented,.,

» aldermen with. a.detailedsnemo.,-

’ items over-spent,

outlining those -1990 - budgel
under-spent
or, in many cases, not spent at
all. Major contributors to the
surplus were investment income
coming in $130,000 higher than
predicted and more than
$100,000 of planned projects
not carried out by the public
works department.

The report also outlined the
history of the accumulated
surplus over the past 10 months,
Al the end of last year it had
stood at $870,500. During 1990
budget. deliberations, council
‘had decided to draw $507,000
from surplus and put it in the

‘revenue column of this year’ 5

budget.

Subsequently, unexpected ex-
penses — the collapse of the
public works building roof and
replacement of the swimming
pool boiler — had reduced the
surplus by a further $125,000 to
just $237, 858.

Although that figure would
be boosted by whatever the city
received on its roof collapse in-
surance claim and could be fur-
ther increased by putting this
-. year’s surplus back into the pot,

it underlined the potential pra-

“> terget,’?.

. would: mean. - . $licing half’:

_ OF generate more revenue, . ©

* over. the: snext © two"
- eliminate the practic a
~ surplus as revenue..I

“be used for special pro

- blems of the present system,

If, he explained, this year’s
* budget had come in “right on
the accumulated
surplus would have dropped to. :

‘.. Only $363,000, -

And that was where’ the pro
‘blem would have arisen. If, in
drawing up the next budget,

ofeanel wanted to repeat the

- 1990 expenditure levels, it
* would not have had enough ac-
cumulated surplus to match, the
the $507,000 surplus-as-revenue
item in the 1990 budget. :

It would then have been faced
with-two choices. Either reduce .
- expenditure to reflect the. short?" .
fall — given some surplus ‘must: *
be carried by. the city, . feel |

million dollars off the budget

If the latter course’ were’
adopted, he added, it ‘would:
take a 9.4 per;cent. tax:hike to: -

genetate the $507,000.:

Norman recommended coun

ture,
” suggésted, surplus. should “only