AZ - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 20, 1999

Muted trustee race

THE ONLY school board race this year is
in Terrace, since trustee seats elsewhere
have been won by acclamation.

The four Terrace residents entering the
race are current trustee Mar} Brown,
Diana Penner, Harold Stedham and Rain-
er Giannelia.

Winning by acclamation are Thornhill
trustee Gary Turner, Hazelton trustee
Charlie Willson, Stewart trustee Les
Deacon Rogers, and Kitimat trustees
Linda Campbell, Peter King, and Barry
Pankhurst.

Linda Campbell, who is also school
board chair, said she’s surprised no-one
else is willing to run for office, especially

with all the outspoken people who have.

been criticising the board’s decisions for
the past three years,

“What that tells me is that either
people are so disillusioned by the educa-
tion system [that they don’t want to run,]
or they’re giving the school board a vote
of confidence,” she said,

Wayne Jones, a vocal school board
critic who helped create MAGIC, a music
advocacy group, said not many people
are willing to put up with the pressure in-
volved in being a trustee.

“If you want to get beat up once a

- month, join the school board,” he said.

Terrace trustees Stewart Christensen
and Roger Leclere aren’t running again
and neither are Anthony Yao from Kiti-
mat and Angela Brand from Stewart.

Longtime trustee Leclerc, agreed it’s
time to give someone else a try at run-
ning the school district.

“[t’s been ten years,” Leclere said ,

“and that’s long enough.”

Newly elected trustees will havea
number of issues to deal with over the
next three years. Number one, and most
importantly to deal with is the budget.

The board has to balance the budget
by the end June, 2000. But it will remain
a strugele to keep the budget balanced,
‘said Campbell. :

“I don’t believe we're finished [with
cuts yet],” she said.

Campbell said the board can’t get into
a deficit position again, and the only. way
to avoid that will be spending only as
much money as what's generated.

Another issue to deal with for new
trustees. will be. hiring new administrators.
Four key positions need to filled includ-
ing superintendent, secretary treasurer,
director of instruction, and maintenance
and busing superintendent,

Another challenge for trustees will be
dealing with declining student enrolment
numbers. An education ministry audit
conducted last year concluded that in the
next five years the district’s student en-
rolment numbers are expected to de-
crease by 250 to 300 students.

That means under the district's current
fiscal formula, it will lose $2.5 million in
operating dollars, creating the need for
eliminating staff and perhaps closing
schoals, a

Designing the new replacement for
Skeena school will be another task for
new trustees. The board will also will be
deciding whether or net to expand Thorn-
hill Junior Secondary to offer Grades 8
through £2.

Veteran names return

THORNHILL REGIONAL district director
Les Watmough faces a challenge from
two newcomers to district politics, Mi-
chael Moore and Ted Wyatt.

Mocre lives and works in Thornhill at
Blue Ridge Ventures, a graphic design
shop he co-owns,

Moore, 27, says he feels dedicated to
the growing community of Thornhill and
its people and “would like the voices of
Thornhill to be heard, not assumed.”

The third contender up to the plate is
Northwest Community College profes-
sional driving instructor, Ted Wyatt.

Wyatt, 46, is a longtime legion mem-
ber and Terrace Little Theatre member.

He Says he decided to run for director
because it is an opportunity to see change
in Thornhill.

Area C

- The seal left empty by retiring director |.
Gordon Robinson leaves two veterans of =

local politics vying to replace him in Ter-'
race’s outlying areas.

Pegey Julseth wants to return after a
three-year absence. She represented
Thornhill at the regional district board

from 1993 to 1996,

Julseth now works as the regional
housing coordinator of Terrace Anti-pov-
erty, sits on the multiplex committee, and
is a Lakelse Lake property owner.

She intends to focus on land use, zon-
ing, and increasing utilities in unscrviced
areas,

Julseth’s opponent is fellow Lakelse
Lake property owner Bob Cooper.

Cooper’s experience in local politics
ranges from city councillor to regional
district chair in 1992,

Since then, Cooper and his wife Edna
(school district head in the early ‘90s)
have been active in the Lakelse Lake re-
sidents association.

Cooper says that’s what pave him the
motivation to run for local politics again.

“I'd like to improve the roads, sewer
and water supply,” Cooper said.

He added as the representative for area
C, he'd tike to put an end to’ bureaucratic
ted tape around issues such as land use:
issues, Beam Station Road, the place-
ment of septic tanks in rural areas ,and
preserving fish streams.

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