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Prince Rupert board of education chair Tina Last looks on as Port Edward mayor Dave MacDonald signs the lease agreement.
School board, District of Port Edward sign lease agreement for new community school By ShaunThomas
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PRINCE RUPERT - With construction nearing completion, the Prince Rupert School District and the District of Port Edward formally signed the lease agreement for the new school in the community on Oct. 23. The agreement calls for the school district to lease the new three classroom school, which was paid for and built by the District of Port Edward along with $500,000 from the provincial government, to house elementary-age students in Port Edward beginning in the new year. With the move, the aging and massive Port Edward School building will
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be shut down. school in Port EdThe school comes ward’. The board’s after years of discusreaction was that sion between the Diswe understand and trict council and the it is not often you school board to keep see this type of rea school in Port Edlationship where ward, and both board you both recogchair Tina Last and nize a problem and Mayor Dave Macwork together to Donald applauded the solve it,” said Last, work that was done. acknowledging the Mayor Dave MacDonald hard work council “It was identified that Port Eddid in pitching the ward school was not idea to the provsustainable, so the ince. school board had to do this, we “Thank you can’t be enough had to close it. But this wasn’t for the school board and the way a dig in your heels and fight re- this came to be. There wasn’t gosponse from council, they said ing to be a school in town, but in ‘we understand, but we need a the end it all came together...I can
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hardly wait for the day we have kids in the school and the grand opening,” added Mayor MacDonald. According to Chief Administrative Officer Ron Bedard, the school came in on schedule and may end up costing taxpayers less than first thought. The referendum that was passed allowed council to borrow up to $2 million, but with the grant from the province that amount may drop down to $1.8 million. Along with the school itself, there was major renovations and a new floor put into the community centre and sprinklers installed in the district office as part of the work.