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| Ad Terrace Review — Wednesday, December 12, 1990

Board, teachers to resume talks

Cooper

re-elected
board —
chairman

Edna Cooper

Edna Cooper will be the chair-
man of the School District 88
board of trustees for another year.

Cooper was re-elected to the
chair position by acclamation at
the board’s inaugural meeting Dec.
4. Trustee Wayne Braid was
chosen vice-chairman. Stewart
trustee Kirsten Chapman will rep-
resent the board both on the B.C.
School Trustees’ Association pro-
vincial counci] and the Skeena
Union Board of Health.

On Monday Cooper said she is
still considering
appointments, and to her knowl-
edge no one has come forward
with proposals for changing the
board’s committee structure. She is
currently consulting with the other
trustees to determine where their
interests lie with regard to commit-
tee appoiniments, she said.

The appointment decisions are
made more difficult by the three
vacant seats, to be filled at some
point by the Minister of Education.
Cooper said she hopes the board
hears from the minister soon.

Although the minister could
make the appointments without
consulting the board, Cooper said
she expects the board to be
notified of the minister’s intentions
before the appointments are
announced. To date there have
been five names submitted for the
three seats that the board knows
about, three from Terrace and two
from Hazelton. Cooper noted there
could be others that were sent
directly to the minister without the
board’s knowledge.

Mary Spooner of Hazelton and
Stew Christensen and Terry Brown
of Terrace are among the nomi-
nees. The remaining nominations
have not been made public.

At the Dec. 4 board meeting all
trustees were sworn in. Taking
office were incumbents Cooper,
Chapman, Braid and John Pous-
ette, and new trustees Laurie
Mitchell of Thornhilf and Gordon
Sebastian of Hazelton. The next
public meeting of the board will

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TERRACE — The Terrace Dis-
trict Teachers’ Association appears
to have accepted a cal! from the
Schoo! District 88 board of
trustees to return to the bargaining
table. According to TDTA presi-
dent Rob Brown, talks will resume
when the two sides have set a
mutually acceptable date.

The board initiated the process
with a letter to the TDTA circu-
lated to local news media in the
form of a press release Dec. 7. The
TDTA responded with a news
release the following day, indicat-
ing that they have been willing to
continue negotiations all along but
citing the board’s lack of move-
ment on a self-imposed settlement

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vious breakdown.

The board has proposed the week _

of Jan. 7 for ihe next session.
Brown said the TDTA has no
objection to that but prefers to
negotiate on weekends. "I think
they’ll be amenable to that," he
remarked.

To date 23 items have been
Signed off. The board calculates
that 270 items are either at an
impasse or unresolved; the TDTA,
however, claimed in its Dec. 8
statement that there are 63. The
difference appears to be the man-
ner in which the two sides choose
to break down the unresolved
items, with the board apparently

viewing each issue separately and
the TDTA considering contract
articles, which may contain several
related issues, as single items.

The talks broke down Nov. 24
when the board’s negotiator, Ralph
Elke, told the TDTA bargaining
team that the board had set a
maximum — and non-negotiable

— settlement ceiling of six and
five percent for the first and

‘second year of the proposed con-

tract to cover all monetary items.
The TDTA, which had opened
with a negotiating position of 17
percent for salaries alone, walked
out, saying the board had placed
limits on its negotiating team’s
ability to bargain.

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