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Wednesday, March 6, 1985

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Newsstand Price 40° Vol. 48, No. 9

Boards back
o-cuts stand
for March 15 >
school budget

The Socreds will face the combined
defiance of dozens of school districts when
1985-86 budgets are submitted Mar. 15,
spokesmen in the public education com-
munity have predicted.

An emergency session of the B.C. School
Trustees Association last weekend voted
overwhelmingly in favor of a resolution cal-
ling on all school districts to submit “‘needs”
budgets that ignore the provincial govern-
ment’s education cutbacks.

Seventy boards were represented at the
meeting during which trustees passed a
number of motions that call for an end to
restraint in public education and a return of
autonomy to school trustees.

The board members who packed the
meeting also opposed “any legislation
which provides for referenda as a means of
funding social services.”

“The use of referenda is an attack on the
competence and integrity of elected person-
nel to do the job for which they are elected,”
declared North Vancouver school trustee
Dorothy Lynas during the vote. She was
applauded when she called the ministry’s
school tax referendum proposal, contained
in Bill 48, a means by which the government
hopes to increase taxes.

In response to Heinrich’s tax referen-
dums trustees have instead called for a
return of the taxing powers seized during
the introduction of the restraint program
back in 1982.

One motion demanded the Socreds
return by no later than Dec. 31, 1985, the
commercial, industrial and residential tax
authority to local boards, as well as grants
in lieu of taxation for low-tax based dis-

| Women’s
Day
- Mar. 8

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IOTO — JOSHUA BERSON

: tricts, “so that local school boards can
‘s stri ia Giovannetti (r) and Linda McFawn, shown here with Canadian Labor Congress representa- determine and develop budgets based on
ae eee Len Ruel, Lee at Vancouver airport Monday to begin a week-long tour in this province to ma aooinct ere < irene. =
boost support for the strike and the country-wide boycott of Eaton’s launched by the CLC. Although an airport rally ‘ ee - 10. oe = at wit : a —- u ee
had to be cancelled when their plane was delayed for seven hours, the two were to begin a hectic pace of activity : - an tis: palicg ee fie ac oe 1
Tuesday with a rally at Eaton’s Pacific Centre store followed by local union and plant gate meetings, addresses to the ions scbaee S$ according to their needs in
Vancouver and District Labor Council and the CUPE women’s conference. On Mar. 9 they will be leading the : oe ‘ 3 .: Es =
International Women’s Day march which assembles at Victory Square at 11 a.m. Duncan and Victoria are also on the see the eran: ca Pe oe —
itinerary which includes leafletting of the Eaton’s store in the capital city. res 0 urge boards to su as n z
: gets this month, trustees also voted that 4

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