School district to keep tabs"
on impact of four-day week |

By JENNIFER LANG
ANY DISCUSSION over
the four-day week took a
back seat to bussing head-
aches at last week’s
school board meeting, but
several teachers did raise
concerns about how the
new school week will af-
fect student tearning.

The shorter week is
supposed to cut the dis-
trict’s operating expenses
— in large part because
maintenance workers,
school bus drivers, and
other non-teaching em-
ployees represented by
CUPE are working one
less day a week.

“Ts there a way to ass-
ess the impact of the dev-
astation, and I call it dev-
astation, to CUPE

Rob Greenwood

workers?” wondered Walt-
er Thorne, a Kitimat
teacher.

He also asked the board
to offer assurances that the
four-day week will be
carefully monitored when
it comes to students. ~

"Will the board keep
tabs on marks?” Thorne
asked, adding the school

district should also closely.
monitor to see if students.

are completing homework,
and if there’s-a rise in van-
dalism.

“We would like wing

answers,” he said. “We
are really worried."
Letters inviling repre-
sentative groups to. join a
monitoring committee thal
will assess the impact of
the new school weck were
sent out last week,
Assistant Superintend-
ent Rob Greenwood said

representatives from
teacher, parent, business
and First Nations groups,

the RCMP and school. |
principals have bgen asked -@
to sit on the committee.

An organizing meeting
is scheduled for Sept. 25.
‘. The school board decid-
ed during a retreat this
summer to hald off on es-
tablishing criteria for mon-
itoring the impact of the

‘four-day week until parents

and others could comment.
Trustees wanted to en-
sure the process was open

‘to members of each com-

munity, said Greenwood.
“We heard toud and
clear last spring that wall
these groups want to be a
part of that,” he added.

Gov't defends log export policy

By JEFF NAGEL
PROVINCIAL government
lawyers were in B.C. Su-
preme Court recently de-
fending Victoria’s policy
of allowing limited raw log
exports from the northwest.

The Sierra Legal
Defence Fund, represent-
ing groups that include two
pulp workers unions and
the David Suzuki Founda-
tion, argues cabinet didn't
have evidence needed to
override the normal rules
of the Forest Act and justi-
fy its order allowing the
exports, .

Export critics say it puts
B.C. wood in the hands of
foreign mills, costing mill
jobs here.

Supporters say that with
proper restrictions, exports
keep local logging outfits
afloat in economic condi-
tions where no one would
have been able to use the
wood.

The IWA is not part of
the challenge and has
called it a publicity stunt.

“We're simply trying lo
ensure cabinet respects the
law,” said Lara Tessaro of
the Sierra Legal Defence
Fund, adding Sierra Legal
does hope the action raises

public awareness of the is-

sue.
“We're exporting jobs
and we’re exporting sus-

From front
Big land area

not needed

The land, right beside
the CN line and which its
already serviced, would

make an excellent loca-.

tion, he has said.

But Harris has been un-
successful in persuading
the British Columbia
Buildings Corporation
(BCBC), which owns the
jail building and property
on behalf of the provincial
government, to split it off

- from the jail praper and

make it available as a
stand-alone parcel.

That's because BCBC
is working with a figure of
approximately $100,000 to
pay for the division of the
properly into two separate
pieces, corporation official
Kathleen Elliot says.

“It’s not us. It has to do
with the municipality,”
she said.

City planner Dave Tra-

win said the vast majority .

of the cost has nothing to
do with the legal work in-
volved in dividing up a
parcel of land.

Instead, it relates to the

city's plan to ensure there |

would be an access route,
if needed some day, over
the rail tracks to connect
the south side’ of the city
with the north side where
Kalum Lake Drive meets
Hwyl6.

“It could be $60,000 at
least, to $100,000 depend-
ing upon how the route
would work out, The de-
veloper would have to pay
for thal,” said Trawin.

He said the current
routes over the tracks

could one day change or |

become congested with
traffic.

“ft could be 50 tc 60
years from now, but in the
future, if needed,
would be an opportunity to
over the tracks,” said Tra-
win,

tainability as well.”
Tessaro, who is from
Terrace, said the coalition
is not asking the court to
quash any cutting permits

so far have been far lower
~ because little logging is
happening during the forest
industry downturn here,
and because even inde-

there

pendent loggers are finding
export markets less lucra-
tive,

In the year and a half
since the order was issuect,
366,000 cubic metres of
timber has been exported,
according to forests minis-

already issued.

The February 2002 cab-
inet order allows the ex-
port of up to 35 per cent of
timber cut in three north-
west forest districts for
three years.

But the actual amounts

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