A8 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, February 16, 1994

City forking over money
for RCMP phone system

THE LOCAL RCMP detachment
is going to get it’s new phone
syslem, mgardless of what coun-
cil may think about it.

Under the latest policing con-
tract between the federal and
provincial. governments, - mayor
Jack Talstra explained, '* We teal-
ly don’t have much say.’

He said the contract gives the
RCMP the power to decide such
mailers, make the necessary pur-
chase and then tell the city how
much it has to pay toward it.

However, he also noted the
RCMP will be paying the lion’s
share of the estimated $146,000
cosl.

Under the contract’ 8 cost shar-
ing formula, the city will have to
come up.with $38,000.

The RCMP claim major prob-
lems with the existing telephone
system make replacement. neces-
sary. It
Meridian Oplion 11 system.

Although unable to do anything

will now install a. P

about, several councillors ex-
pressed reservations about , the
whole affair,

Gordon Hull said he still did not
understand why ‘‘a few phones
breaking down’? required re-

- placement of the enlire system,

Given the - present one . had
lasted only six years, Val George
said, “I have a serlans concern
about how long this one will be
geod for.”’

Ruth Hallock said her com-
mittee had raised that issue with
RCMP = Inspector Lawrence
Yeske but received no clear ans-
wer, ,

Rich McDaniel was critical the
purchase had been negotiated
with B.C. Tel only rather than
going out to tender.

He suggested a bid process
might have resulted in a lower
rice.

McDaniel was also concerned
the system was not compatible

Teachers want
days off when
schools closed

TEACHERS HERE think they
should get the day off when
children are told to slay home
because of a snowstorm.

The Terrace District
Teachers Union has asked the
school board to review its
policy on closing schools.

“TE students can’t attend
school because they can’t
travel safely or that heat and
other services can’t be
maintained, then school
should be closed for every-
one,’’ union president Cathy
Lambright wrote in a letter to
the board.

_Assistant schools superinten-

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dent :Skip Bergsma said there:

miust'be teachers at the schools
or else studenis who don’t get
the message could struggle
against the weather and arrive

only to find the doors locked,
Individual teachers who are
snowed in or stuck at the end
of their driveway usually
phone in and explain they
can’t make it, Bergsma said.
“We're not expecting the
impossible”? he said. “But
various other employees in
town do get to work in these
situations. Nobody’s going to
be unreasonable, But I think
we expect that if it’s a day of
work, we'll all be at work.””
Superintendent Frank
Hamilton said existing policy,
calls for schools to be closed
to everyone when heat or other
necessary services cannot be
maintained,
Trustees voted to refer the
matter to the board’s policy
commitice.

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wilh the 911 emergency number
system.

However, Talstra said he un-
derstood it could be made so
‘with modifications’’.

Council agreed to include ihe
$38,000 in this year’s budget.

Still to be resolved is the ques-

tion of changing the air intake ,

system to ihe RCMP building.
The RCMP says the intake has
to be boxed in with a stack run-
ning up above roof level to end
the problem of car exhaust fumes
being drawn info the building.
That could cost up to $40,000.
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