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. 9 retum fer his efforts in securin

g a grant to help the Native Music Heritage

- Society, Skeana MLA Dave Parker was recently given a framed portrait of
Tahitan elder Eva Carlin by music heritage society director Terrance Arm-

strong. Armstrong said the Tahitan el

, Society fas set out to accomplish.

der symbolizes many of the things the

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‘could, if'it wished, gut the con-
' tract.and force the new union to
start from zero, nullifying all the
gains achieved by teachers over

- years of hard negotiating.

The TDTA approached the
board with the concept of what

it ‘termed a ‘“‘bridging agree-

ment’’ which would extend
through the negotiations’ and
: Preserve portions of the existing
contract to provide a jumping-
off point for negotiating the
1988-89 contract. The board in-
itially baulked at making any
agreement with the TDTA which
would extend past the beginning
of 1988, when the TDTA will
' Cease to exist and some as-yet
unnamed organization will begin
representing teachers.

After concluding that a bridg-
ing agreement would be legal,
the board in fact offered to carry
over nearly all the provisions re-
quested by the TDTA. These in-

. Chide the salary agreement with

health care benefits, the seniori-
ty, layoff and recall agreement,
teacher transfer agreement, the
. deferred salary leave plan, leave
of absence for the TDTA presi-
dent, protection of sick leave
provision, and, some portions of
the personnel practices contract.

.What the board didn’t agree
to, and what teachers. are
prepared to strike over, is the
retention of regulation 65 of the
School Act that addresses the
manner in which teachers can be
fired, suspended or have their

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contracts terminated, a
Regulation 65 says that a

teacher who receives three: bad ©

reports in a period of 12 to 24
months can be dismissed subject

to certain procedures. That —

regulation will be superceded by
Section 122 of the Teaching Pro-
fession Act, which gives the
board unilateral power to in-
itiate the termination of a
teacher’s contract on 30 days’
notice for reasons that ‘“‘may in-
clude professional incompeten-

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cy, unprofessional conduct, im- -

morality, mental incapacity or
any other cause which, in the
Opinion of the board, renders
the teacher unsuitable”’.

The most recent offer made

by the board, released Oct. 15, 3

would, have suspensions, dis-
missals and terminations gov-
erned by the current contract un-
til June 30, 1988, after which
section 122 would be applied.
When asked why the board

will not agree to write the regula- ©

tion 65 procedure into the agree-
ment, Negotiating Committee
head Edna Cooper said the
board is ‘‘uncomfortable’’ with
going outside ‘the terms of the
legislation,

Section 122 is the crux of the |

issue for the TDTA because they
think it gives the board too
much power, Teachers relented
temporarily on the withdrawal
of services set to take place last
Monday, but they appear over-
whelmingly committed to op-
posing Section 122. .

Ramp — continued from page 3

ter Royal Bank Assistant
Manager S.C. Clark said,
. “While we can appreciate this
concern, we would have felt that
the city would not only have
_ been willing but eager to set a
precedent with regards to im-
proving facilities within Terrace
for the handicapped.’
Edmonds said the basis for
the problem is that the bank pro-
perty borders on the sidewalk,
but because the building also
borders the sidewalk the ramp
would have to be built on city
property. .
He explained that the ramp
would occupy a space about

three to four feet out onto the
existing sidewalk and parallel to
the front of the building for.
about 15 feet.

“It would be exactly like the
post office ramp,’’ he said.

*‘We have a number of han-

‘dicapped customers that would

like to deal with the Royal Bank
in town, but they can’t because
we don’t have a ramp,’’ explain-
ed Edmonds. ‘“‘But the public
works people in town said ‘no’,
so what are we to do?”’
Council has sent the matter to
the Public Works Committee for

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