‘the east

Joanne Gagnon, Grade 7 stu-
dent at Copper Mountain
Elementary School. -

The Terrace Review asked:

What are your plans
for summer holidays? |

David Shand, Grade 1 stu-
dent at Copper Mountain
Elementary School.

Gary Waiker, Grade 10 stu-
dent at Thornhill Junior
Secondary School.

Our family is going
to Vancouver to see
Expo ‘86 and the PNE.

Glen Gough, student at
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School.

I't! be working over
the summer holidays
and taking time off to
visit Expo for two
weeks. | will also visit
Shuswap Lake in the
interlor of B.C.

I don’t know. | hope
it’s sunny so.| can go

swimming at the lake. _

Paulette Joel, student at
Caledonia Senior Secondary
School.

I’m leaving on July 4
for Alberta with the
Cadets, then to Ed-

monton for some great

shopping. I've already
been to Expo.

| hope to go to Van-
couver over the sum-
mer to sse Expo, and
maybe work after | get
back.

Melvin Pamy, Grade 8 stu-
dent at Skeena Junior
Secondary School.

| hope to find some
work over the summer
and visit Expo.

East side merchants get off-street
downtown parking regulation break

A new thrust to attract
business development on
side of
downtown Terrace has
resulted in the relaxation
of off-street parking
regulations in the area.

In most parts of Ter-
race’s ‘commercial core,
retail businesses are re-
quired to provide off-
street parking for
customers as a condition
of licensing. In adopting
a recommendation from
the Planning and
Economic Development
Committee, Terrace
council at its June 23
meeting temporarily
lifted those requirements
for both sides of Lakelse
Ave. from Emerson St.
to Apsely St., and for
Kalum St. from Greig
Ave. to Park Ave. The

municipal government
stated that it hopes in
this way to encourage
businesses to set up in
the area.

An unexpected side ef-
fect of the development
strategy became ap-
parent to council in a let-
ter from local resident
Jackie Brixton. She ad-
vised the mayor and
aldermen that the: pro-
perty taxes on a vacant
lot she owns on Apsely
St. increased by 300 per-
cent this year due to a
rezoning of the area.
Houses adiacent to the
lot were exempt from the
increase due to non-
conforming status, but
the undeveloped lot was
taxed under the commer-
cial rates, taking taxes on
it from the 1985 level of

$306.48 to $931.40 for
1986.

Council referred the
complaint to the Plan-
ning and Economic
Development Committee
for study.

Terrace council has
decided to change the
municipal summer
sprinkling policy in order
to allow more convenient
hours for local residents
to water their lawns. At
the June 23 meeting
council members voted
to increase the allowable
hours per day to four, 7
p.m, to 1] p.m., instead
of the previous two, 9
p.m. to 11 p.m. Reser-
voir levels will be
monitored to insure that
the water does not drop
below adequate supply
for fighting fires.

Terrace Review — Wednesday, July 2, 1986 §

- School Board and

teachers end negotiations

TERRACE — The
school year has ended,
and the dispute between
the board of School
District 88 and the Ter-
race District Teachers’
Association will be left
hanging without resolu-
tion over the summer
holidays. Trustees and
teachers will resume their
exchanges of proposals
in September, and Ter-
race students will return
in the fall term to schools
still under the restric-
tions of instruction-only
job action by teachers.

by Michael Kelly

Recent developments
held some hope that the
situation in Terrace
schools would return to
normal for the 1986-87
school year, but the June
25 proposal from the
board was rejected by
the TDTA and formal
talks were cut off until
the fall. The board had
announced a new con-
cept for controlling class
sizes in the district on
June 20. This was
answered by a counter-
proposal from the
TDTA, submitted to the
board at a_ special
meeting June 24. On the
following day the board
circulated an amended
draft of the original pro-
posal, but the TDTA re-
jected it on many of the
same counts that were
previously noted.

In its final offering the
board had changed some
of the numbers in the
goals section of the class
size agreement to con-
form with the TDTA’s
figures, but the balance
of the draft contract re-
mained substantially the
same as the June 20 pro-
posal. TDTA president
John Eades stated, ‘‘The
language is too loosely
worded and open to a
variety of interpreta-
tions; there are too many
safety valves for the
board and administra-
tion.”

There were, however,
several points of agree-
ment in the last round of
talks. The trustees and
teachers will draft a joint
statement to the Minister
of Education in protest
of the unfair burden of
increment increases born
by northern districts,
and another statement
will go to the Compensa-
tion Stabilization Board
requesting the reinstating
of isolation pay for
teachers in remote
district sublocals. Eades
pointed out, however,
that no joint statements
will be issued until a
comprehensive agree-
ment on all other matters
has been reached.

When the contract
talks resume in Sep-
tember, the subjects on
the table will be library

staffing, salary in-
creases, and a number of
specific points concern-
ing the class size issue.
Eades argued that if the
board is willing to go to
the CSB over the isola-
tion pay situation, it

‘should be willing to do

the same with regard to
total salary grid in-
creases. Eades said that
the TDTA is seeking an
increase which would
bring Terrace teachers’
remuneration up to the
provincial average.

The board’s primary
focus recently has been
on class size regulation,
and although the latest
proposal is far closer to

Clarification

TERRACE — The Ter-
race Kinsmen Club is
celebrating its 40th year
as an official organiza-
tion. Ernie Wade, presi-
dent of the local club,
said the true anniversary
is Dec. 2, 1946 but the
Terrace organization
holds their installation in
late Spring. The Terrace
Kinsmen held their 40th
installation June 7, 1986.

Baseball

Association

The Terrace Minor
Baseball Association has
been awarded $3700 for
a baseball pitching
machine which will be
used by players for bat-
ting practise. The money
will come from the Ter-
race Winter Games
Legacy Fund.

the -TDTA’s require-
ments than anything of-
fered previously, Eades

still finds it lacking in the ~

areas of implementation
and grievance procedure.
Five years, he said, is too
long a period to put the
agreed-upon goals in
place. He expressed ob-
jections to the fact that
only the teacher involved
can file a class-size
grievance, saying that
teachers new to the
district may be fearful of
taking on the board over
such an issue and that
the TDTA should have
the right to speak on
behalf of teachers. Eades
was also critical of a
clause which allows
school staff to suspend
class-size restrictions ‘‘if
the school staff agree
that the exception(s)
would be in the best
overall interest of the
students and the staff’’.
He contended that this
clause could potentially
give principals the right
to set their own
guidelines for individual
schools, effectively
defeating the purpose of
the agreement. This last
criticism is apparently
directed at a lack of ex-

actness in the terms; at.

the time the proposal
was released trustee Dan-
ny Sheridan stated clear-
ly that. teaching staff

would be involved in’

such decisions.

“To be honest, we’re
really frustrated,’’ Eades
concluded. ‘‘We had
hoped to have an agree-
ment this week, before
the end of the year.’’ It is
certain that the TDTA
membership is not alone
in those feelings.

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