CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday, June 8, 1978

TRADITIONAL GRAD TEA oo. Was again a

The folowing article is the
fourth in a series on schoo!
financing, submitted by the
public relations committee of
School District No. 9:

The task of obtaining addi-
tional accommodation for the
school district is not easy.
There are ministry of education
rules, regulations and guide-
lines that schoo! boards must
follow.

Sometimes these regula-
tions do not reflect current
practice within schools, for
example; elementary  class-
rooms must have an average of
30 pupils per classroom per
school before an addition will be
considered. Ministry regula-
tions do not allow schoo! boards
to build elassrooms i in anticipa-
tion of i

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Finding Space for Your Child

sie room or bus garage ma-
terializes, It takes a minimum
of two years to go through this
process and may take longer
depending on ministry work-
load.

The preliminary capital
expense form goes to the minis-
try, then back to the board.
Permission is granted to hire an
architect, to acquire a site.
Estimated costs are submitted
that may be accepted or re-
jected. Sketch plans then go to
Victoria, to the board, to the
Insurance Corporation of B.C.
and modifications can be made
or can be demanded by each of
the groups.

Eventually, the board re-
eeives permission to instruct
the architect to prepare work-

" This has caused serious
accommodation problems for
schools adjacent to major sub-
division developments, espe-
eizlly when you consider it
takes in excess of two years
ffom the time the “new”
students appear on the door-
stép to the completion of addi-
tinal classroom space.

a Ministry guidelines do al-
low schoo! boards to purchase
portable units when no class-
réom space is available within a
district. Thereafter, the por-
tables must be considered per-
manent accommodation and
regular classrooms may not be
constructed in place of the
portables, The major disadvan-
tages are cost and limited
useful life.

All school districts main-
tain one-, three- and five-year
plans for school accommodation
or for major renovations, These
plins are updated each year
and submitted to the ministry.
You may call this the district
“want list.”

When the district “wants”
fall within the ministry guide-
lines presently in force, then
the school district receives
permission to proceed on what
is known as a capital expense
project.

There are now approxi-
mately 63 steps to follow before
the classroom, gymnasium, mu-

ing gs and the whole
submission procedure begins
again. The critical stage is
receipt of permission to call
tenders. If the bids do not fall
within the estimated costs, the
whole approval process must
begin again.

If tenders are within bud-

aa construction may begin
after ministry approval. The
main considerations now are
the weather and the season of
the year. Winter construction
involves an additional pre-
mium, yel delay may see a
further inerease of building
costs thereby taking the whole
project above the allowable
costs,

The only time we all can be
assured that a building will
appear is when construction
has commenced. In spite of
material shortages or labor
problems the building will be
completed eventually. |

We mentioned earlier the
possibility of changing ministry
regulations. This district is now
caught in such a change. Last
fall the board received per-
mission to call tenders on the
Ootischenia classroom, library
and gym and on the Kinnaird
Elementary change rooms.

Although there was a
delay in ministry permission to
award the construe-

Twin Rivers change rooms,
drawn up at the same time,
were delayed because of prop-
erty considerations beyond the
board’s control.

At the beginning of May
the board received notification
from the ministry that change
rooms and non-teaching areas
are now a low priority and thus
effectively cancelled for Twin
Rivers.

Future ‘construction or
renovations within the district
will mainly involve those,
changes ordered by the In-
surance Corporation of B.C. It
is anticipated that the ICBC
changes will be phased in over
the next three to five years.
Generally, these are costly
changes involving firewalls,
sprinkler systems and intruder
alarms.

School district buildings
are paid for very much like the
home mortgage spread over a
20-year period. The mortgage
payment varies with the total

tion began this spring. The

and the interest
rates. Unlike the homeowner,
the school district receives

Irate Father ‘Whups’
Daughter's Teacher

A father who spent thou-
sands of dollars on high school
graduation gifts for his daugh-
ter, only to learn she would not
graduate, has been charged
with attacking the county
schoo! superintendent during a
pre-graduation religious cere-
mony.

“I done what any other
father would have done,” said
Frank Lowman, 38, of Bucha-
nan, Ga. “I whupped him.”

Lowman spent the night in
the Haralson County jail and
was released the following day
after being charged with two
counts of making violent
threats, two counts of aggra-
vated assault and one count of
creating a public disturbance,
officials said.

County schoo! superinten-
dent Bob Watson was speaking
to seniors at the baccalaureate
service in the high school gym
when Lowman allegedly began
punching him. Several seniors
subdued Lowman and restrain-
ed him until police arrived,

Lowman said he had made
an agreement with the school
principal that his daughter
Debra, 17, could sit with her
class during baccalaureate ser-
vices and was trying to work.
oul a way for her to graduate
before the ceremonies.

Debra had been told she
would be unable to graduate
with the rest of her 122 class-
mates because she failed a final
ci examination by nine
points, according to her uncle
Mark Lowman.

from the ministry
with the yearly mortgage pay-
ments.

School District No. 9's
current annua! mortgage pay-
ment is $326,000 for which the
district pays $163,000 or 2.77
mills and the ministry pays
$163,000. As you note, the
ministry shares the mortgage
payment on a 50/50 basis.

The sharing formula fol-
lowed by the ministry is as
follows:

(1) The ministry shares on

a 50/50 basis up to a 3
mill charge ‘to the dis-
triet taxpayer.

The ministry shares on
a 75/25 basis for the
next 1% mills charge
to the district tax-
payer.

For anything over the
4% mill charge to the
district taxpayer the
ministry shares on a
90/10 basis.

The district's current capi-
tal expense proposal No. 5 for
$600,000 will likely take three

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years to lete. The mort-
gage will increase as each
construction project is com-
pleted and is paid for; however,
as new debt is incurred, old
debt is being paid off.

For example, By-Law No. 8
of 1962 for $300,000 will be
retired in 1982 followed by
further debt retirements in
1983, 1984, two in 1985, 1986,
1987 and so on.

When the current altera-
tions ordered for the next three
to five years by ICBC are
complele and assuming our
schoo! population holds steady,
then there will be a steady
decline in the school district's
debt payments which now
amount to 2.77 mills annually.

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Local Court News

hi

In it court on
Tuesday “of last week Andy
Semenoff, 17, of Ootischenia,
pleaded guilty to a charge of
being a minor in possession of
liquor. He was fined $50.

_ *# #8

Douglas R. Weaver, 18, of
Slocan, pleaded guilty to a
charge of driving without in-
surance. He was fined $250.

* « 8

David Bradley Nicol, 19, of
Castlegar, pleaded guilty to a
charge of driving while im-
paired. He was fined $400. He
also pleaded guilty to a charge
of being a minor in possession
of liquor for which he was fined

00.

. 6 «©

Dannie Widener, 28, of
Castlegar, pleaded guilty to
driving with a blood alcohol
count over .08. He was fined
$400.

* *

. Lonnie Floyd Powell, 19, of

Robson, pleaded guilty to a

charge of failing to appear in
court. He was fined $50.

* « «8
Edward Adshead, 27, of
Castlegar, pleaded guilty to

‘ges of driving
with a "blood alcohol count over
.08, He was fined $50 on each
charge.

* . *

Bert Jesse Baron, 20, of
Castlegar, received a condi-
tional discharge after pleading
guilty to a charge of assault
causing bodily harm, He was
placed on probation for six
months. *

* . *

Mickey Katasonoff, 30, of
Winlaw pleaded guilty to four
separate charges—one for
breach of probation; one for
driving while his driver's li-
cence was under suspension;
one for driving while impaired
and one for refusing to take a
breathalyzer test. On.the first
charge he was placed on one
month's probation, with a fine
of $150 or in default 30 days in
jail; $400 or in default 30 days
and $250 or in default 30 days in
jail respectively.

* # 6

A male juvenile received a
suspended sentence for break,
enter and theft. A second male
juvenile has been put on proba-
tion for 18 months for a similar
offence.

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Public Works
Canada

INVITATION TO TENDER

SEALED TENDERS for the projects or services listed
below, addressed to the Head, Tenders and Contracts,
Pacifle Reglon, Department of Public Works, Canada,
1110 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6E 3W5
and endorsed with the Project Name, will be recelved
until. the specified closing time and date. Tender
documents can be obtalned through the above noted
Department of Public Works, Vancouver office on
payment of the applicable deposit.

Project

PR 087189 — Renovation and Addition to Post Office,
Fernie, B.

Tender documents may also be viewed at the:

Amalgamated Construction Assn., Vancouver; Con-
struction Plan Service, Burnaby; and the Southern
Interior Construction Associations at Cranbrook,
Castlegar, Revelstoke, Vernon, Kamloops, Kelowna
and Penticton.

BID DEPOSITORY: Subcontractors for ELECTRICAL
& MECHANICAL trades shall submit thelr tenders
through the C De clo

Interior Construction Assn., Ste. #204, "201 - 14th Ave.
N., Cranbrook, B.C. V1C 3W3, Not later than 3:00 PM
(MDsT), MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1978, In accordance
with the "Standard Ganadian Bid Depository Principles
and Procedures for Federal Government Projects,’’
Second Edition, 1 April 1970.

Closing Date: 11:00 AM PDST - 29 JUNE 1978
Deposit: $50.00

INSTRUCTIONS

Deposit for plans and specifications must be made in
the form of a CERTIFIED BANK CHEQUE to the order
of the Receiver General for Canada, and will be
released on return of the documents in good condition
within one month from the date of tender opening.

To be considered each tender must be submitted on the
forms supplied by the Department and must be
accompanied by the security specified on the tender
documents.

The lowest or any tender not necessarily accepted.

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