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LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: SCHOOL DISTRICT’S DEFICIT

Board ‘surprised’ by $2.8-million deficit Grant Granger

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Back to school meant back to the cutting board for New Westminster school trustees in 2012.

When the board of education members headed off for summer holidays after their final meeting in June they were feeling pretty good about the district’s finances. They’d been told it appeared the 2011-12 budget would be balanced and the previous $521,000 deficit that was

carrying over would be covered.

Hopefully they enjoyed their summer vacation, because their first day back they learned appearances were deceiving and the district’s finances had a failing grade in 2011-12.

Instead of a balanced budget the district was actually headed for a deficit of more than $2.2 million for 2011-12. Combined with the previous deficit they were looking at a shortfall approaching $2.8

million overall.

That’s an F on any report card.

This was nothing new, however, since it was the district’s third deficit in 11 years. Parents demanded to know what happened. The answers were vague.

The board’s composition wasn’t exactly harmonious to begin with, and they were divided on how to deal with it. Board chair James Janzen and vice chair Michael Ewen, now chair, proposed a consultant be

hired to look into what happened and how to fix it. Other trustees weren’t so sure it was the right way to go since consultants had been hired previously and the problems hadn’t been fixed. It took a while for the board to decide to go ahead, meeting several times behind closed doors to hammer out the consultant’s terms of reference.

At the end of October they finally decided to go ahead and announced

a couple of weeks later former Ministry of Education finance employee Joan Axford had got the gig at a cost of about $15,000.

In late November, her report painted a picture of the district’s financial management tracking procedures leaving a lot to be desired. Axford warned the board if the district kept on operating the way it had it would have an additional $2.2 million deficit for 2012-13, on top

of the one it was already grappling with.

Also in November, the New Westminster parent advisory council passed a motion of non-confidence in the board of education and senior administration for their handling of the district’s finances. The NWSS PAC also called for the provincial auditorgeneral and the Ministry of Education to intervene. The motions were backed by several other school PACs.

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New Westminster’s Downtown to more than a million potential Two giant construction cranes customers. People used it to get pierce the sky above Columbia out of town, rather than come to Street at Eighth. Another will town. soon join them across the road.

Except for the drug dealers, Hard-hatted construction workers who exploited the cheap transport scurry around, through and over and occupied Downtown’s the sites of the Anvil Centre and shadows and alcoves. the Trapp + Holbrook condo Over the years there have development like busy ants. been any number of hopes and There is life again in schemes that were to have been Downtown New Westminster. the catalyst for redevelopment, But will these two highthe spit that would bring the profile projects, along with the polish back to the Golden Mile: Northbank condo tower at the The parkade; a posh billiards east end of the Columbia Street club; a Russian submarine parked strip, be the final pieces in the along Westminster Quay, followed redevelopment puzzle that has by a riverboat casino; Antique stumped so many planners, Alley on Front Street; a giant schemers and entrepreneurs tin soldier; the refurbishment trying to reinvigorate the city’s of the Raymond Burr Theatre; historic heart? the relocation of the police For a straight strip of department into the former post pavement, it’s been a long and office; Hyack Square; and even winding road from Columbia recent moves to create angled Street’s glory days as the Golden parking and the licensing of hot Mile. Shoppers traveled from dog carts.

Vancouver and as far away as Along with each of those ideas Chilliwack to spend their money came optimistic business people at major retailers like Eaton’s, and retailers, each of them buying Kresge’s, Woolworth. In the into the Downtown’s “potential,” evenings, the street was alive with its unique blend of reasonable young people attending its lively rents, history, interesting spaces, nightclub scene, or a movie at the central location and easy access. inAl prices s orig seAr off to 60%Most up theatre. resplendent Paramount came and went, the AlwAys Malls tarnished the street’s potential unrealized.

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running backs that came before him: The list includes two pro football hall of famers, John Riggins and Gale Sayers.

From there he joined the Calgary Stampeders, at first playing on special teams and serving as a backup to American Joffrey Reynolds.

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It paled in comparison to previous ones, and was so good he not only blew away Canadian Football League defenders, he blew away the competition in being named New Westminster NewsLeader Newsmaker of the Year.

In 2001, Cornish took B.C. high school football by storm racking up the yards (2,136 yards rushing) and rumbling over his opponents in his senior season with the St. Thomas More Knights, which won two provincial titles with Cornish in the backfield.

His play propelled him to a scholarship with the University of Kansas Jayhawks, where after a redshirt (training) season he saw limited playing time to begin with. But in his final year, 2006, he busted out big time, setting a single-season school rushing record with 1,467 yards.

What makes that fact even more impressive is the Jayhawk

What did they doubt? Well, there has been a long-held belief Canadians aren’t capable of being star running backs in the CFL. Cornish and B.C. Lions running back Andrew Harris, a native of Winnipeg, blew that myth to smithereens in 2012.

Just like he did in 2006, Cornish rushed for 1,467 yards to set a record for Canadian running backs that former Edmonton Eskimos rusher Normie Kwong had held for 56 years. It was also the first time a Canadian had been the CFL rushing leader since Orville Lee of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1988.

Cornish did it by running over and through opposing tacklers. He scored 11 touchdowns in the process as the Stampeders made it all the way to the Grey Cup. His play made him a big story on the national stage, and he brought his hometown along with him. During every Stampeders game on TSN the broadcasters would note he was a New Westminster native at least once. His on-field exploits earned him the honour of being named the CFL’s Most Outstanding Canadian, and he was a runner-up for the league’s Most Outstanding Player award.

Off the field, Cornish’s personality also captured the country, although not always in a positive way.

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His so-called Moon over Mosaic episode gained him almost as much national notoriety as his power runs through opposing defensive linemen and linebackers. Cornish was having a bad day at the office during a September game at Regina’s Mosaic Stadium at Taylor Field.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders fans were taunting him unmercifully.

Cornish responded by mario BarteL/NewsLeaDer pulling down his pants and New Westminster’s Jon Cornish returns to his old high school stomping grounds at mooning them.

St. Thomas More, where he embarked on a football career that’s taken him to the University of Kansas and now the Calgary Stampeders of the CFL, where he was the The next day, however, league’s best Canadian this past season. he was profusely apologizing for his actions to his community work, Cornish Cup, Cornish proved that head coach John Hufnagel, his talked openly with the national although you can take the boy teammates, the Stampeders media about how his mother, out of New Westminster you organization and the Margaret, an Anglican priest, can’t take New Westminster out Saskatchewan fans. had told him on one of his of the boy by being the marshal “It was a bad call on my Christmas breaks during his for the city’s Christmas parade part. It was an extreme lack of university days that she was a down Columbia Street. judgment,” Cornish said at the lesbian.

Returning to his roots was time.

He impressed reporters by a fitting way to close out a Along with such telling them it took him mere spectacular 2012 for the city’s accountability, his reputation seconds to accept this fact, and hometown hero. was more than revived during then said he’d like to see more It would be quite the feat if Grey Cup week. Already known acceptance of gays in society. he could top 2012, because he’s for being socially aware, and for Just six days after the Grey certainly set the bar high.

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A few bad seeds The federal government is bent on pushing medical marijuana grow operations out of residential homes. Crime and safety – home invasions, faulty wiring and mould – are the main reasons, and the plan has the backing of fire chiefs in B.C. An apartment fire in Maple Ridge on Dec. 13, which left dozens of people homeless, illustrates their concerns, as investigators found three grow ops on the second floor, where the fire started, and which they believe was electrical in origin.

But Health Canada has said that the proposed legislation, which would regulate medical marijuana grow ops and push them to industrial or agricultural areas, where they would be subject to inspections, will drive up the purchase price.

Would that not fuel illegal grows and trade, similar to what occurs now? Wouldn’t that nullify any changes to eliminate safety risks?

Part of the plan is to let Health Canada medical possession and grow licenses expire in 2014.

What if, under the new regulations, some who do need it for medicinal purposes can’t afford to buy from newly licensed growers? Who benefits then?

Ottawa’s plan seems only to serve those who can afford to establish commercial grow op businesses, and put those who subvert the process into prison.

Why not regulate, license and disclose small grows in homes, window-sill-type operations for personal, medicinal use?

Why not follow Washington and Colorado, and just legalize recreational use? Clearly there is much money to be made in marijuana, and in Canada, we’re wasting way too much money and time trying to curb what is beyond the control of our authorities.

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The good, bad and ugly of 2012 For better and for worse, it’s been a busy year in the Royal City.

Here’s my take on the good, the bad, the ugly of 2012.

Good: Vancouver condo king Bob Rennie comes to town and says the “Royal City” moniker reminds him of the name on a can of peaches. It’s tired, he says—time to spice things up and get a new brand. Mayor Wright affably says thanks Bob, I’m not touching that with a 10-foot pole.

And Vancouver Sun columnist (and Moody Park resident) Shelley Fralic hits the nail on the head with a column (“Keep your mitts off the Royal City, Bob”) in which she writes “we’re all for progress, but it’s somewhat annoying… for you to waltz into town and declare that our muchcherished history is in need of Renniefication.”

The “Royal City” is about a name, to be sure, but it’s also about where we draw the line as this city rapidly develops and changes with the times.

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its soul? Most folks are happy to see new development begin to re-energize Downtown, for instance, and lord knows it was time for Hyack Festival Society to update its annual slate of events. But when does updating, invigorating and growth lead to throwing the baby out with the bathwater?

In some things—like whether to keep the Royal City name—we get a choice. In others, well, we’ll just have to ride it out, and hope for the best.

Good: More amenities, shops and services. Banks, drug stores and grocery stores are returning to the Royal City. Once the old Blockbuster Video store at Sixth Street and Seventh Avenue is redeveloped into a two-storey, 10,000-square-foot Rexall drugs, Uptown will have three large

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drug stores (I’m assuming the new Rexall will replace the little IDA three doors down, owned by the same company). Rona brought a hardware store back to the New West mainland this year. TD Canada Trust now has three branches in New West.

And in Uptown, an upscale restaurant is being eyed for the new Queen’s Park West building under construction at Fifth Street and Sixth Avenue. In all, there are a lot more businesses in New West than five or six years ago. According to the city’s licensing manager Keith Coueffin, business licences more than doubled between 2006 and 2011, from 1,762 to 3,805.

Licensing of trades and stepped up enforcement has played a part, but Coueffin says much of that growth comes from a lot of vacant space getting filled, and new commercial space at places like Queensborough Landing shopping centre, Plaza 88 and the Brewery District.

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mom and pop retail, but a lot of businesses have either shut down in recent months or are about to.

Some are retirements, at Quay Celebrity Lingerie in Uptown and Copp’s Shoes in Downtown, but many simply failed in a tough economy. Recent closures include Heather’s Boutique, Cone Zone, Modern Home Furnishings, Milli’s Pita Pizza, Kids Closet, Ranch BBQ, Farm Cottage Bakery, Shine Wellness, TINY and Emilio’s deli (at River Market) and Pearl Kitchen. I’m sure you could add a few more.

Good and Bad: Traffic. We should all be tense about the situation right now. Will the Pattullo Bridge replacement be four lanes, six, three with a counterflow, or will it be something different entirely? This was the year New West residents stood up and—after years of being frustrated with the 450,000 or so vehicles that blast through our 15-square-km city each day—said with almost one voice, maybe a bigger bridge isn’t such a good idea.

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Friday, December 28, 2012 NewsLeader A7

COMMeNT

This is a special community As I rush to finish holiday preparations, I’m struck by how many people in New West make a special effort to take care of people this time of year. The public employees that we and our families connect with: teachers who collect mittens and gloves so the kids who come to school without any can stay warm. Daycare staff who create a place where—no matter how the morning went—children feel special when they come in the door. Health care workers who arrive to take care of overflowing waiting rooms despite the snow. The police and firefighters who are on the job night and day to keep our

community safe. The volunteers— gathering donations for Christmas hampers overflowing with New West generosity. Serving meals to people without a home. Creating holiday cheer for people isolated and lonely.

And there are our local businesses who contribute to supporting our community—and those most in need—in so many different ways.

This really is a special community, one where families are connected by these people who care and pitch in.

At this time of year, let’s show our appreciation for those who do so much to make it all happen.

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Now we’ve got the South Fraser Perimeter Road, a tolled Port Mann... Hard to believe, but things could get worse. As a city, and as residents, we must be clear and firm.

Now is our chance. This city at the crossroads of Metro Vancouver is at a major crossroads on the issue of traffic. Let’s not screw it up.

Bad: School board (Think: $2.8 million deficit).

Good: Westminster Pier Park. It rocks. If only we could get to it.

Ugly: The controversy around the city’s decision to build the office tower and borrow $59 million. If it’s sold soon, for say $60-$65 million, well, that’d be beautiful.

Just plain frustrating: Waiting to get the new schools built. There’s a plan, a schedule, and the first (the ‘St. Mary’s’ elementary) should break ground in 2013. But as we’ve all seen, things can go awry.

Well, enough pontificating from me. Happy New Year, everyone.

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LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: CITY DECIDES TO GO IT ALONE

A big loan, petitions and fear of a money pit Grant Granger

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As New Year’s Day 2012 dawned, there was a big hole in the ground at Columbia Street and Eighth Avenue. The pit was gradually filled in as a foundation for a civic centre, parking lot and office complex emerged.

But as the year

progressed there were many who feared taxpayer dollars were being dumped into the pit along with concrete and steel.

It was revealed in early 2012 the tentative agreement the city had with Uptown Property Group to take over the office complex part of the project had fallen through. With no other

private sector company coming forward, the city decided to continue construction without a partner.

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the risk, council decided it was worth taking on themselves.

Commercial real estate experts had told them the office space would be highly desirable because it’s so close to a SkyTrain station.

“Our view of the world is by the time that building is about half up we hope to

have the cost covered,” said Coun. Bill Harper at the time.

But to make it happen, the city had to do some financial shuffling to pay for the structures that are expected to cost more than $90 million. The biggest move to make it happen was council authorizing going to

the Municipal Finance Authority (MFA) to borrow up to $59 million. They asked the MFA for the financing for capital projects already planned that were supposed to be paid out of city reserves. That would allow the city to use the reserve money to pay for the construction.

At first, the decision didn’t create much of a fuss, although Coun.

Chuck Puchmayr said while the risk wasn’t extremely high, he wasn’t comfortable enough to support the borrowing.

Despite his concerns, at first it seemed to be just another bylaw passed by council. But then some residents began to take notice.

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by Aug. 7 just to force a civic its decision to go it alone on real estate consultant company referendum on the bylaw—a the project and still no buyer looking for a buyer, Avison and tall task considering it was has been announced for the Young, saying in August it had summertime in the city. office complex, council remains two potential large tenants— Crosty spearheaded the optimistic the city won’t be on New Westminster heads into campaign that gathered more the hook.

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LOOKING BACK/LOOKING AHEAD: SCHOOL DISTRICT’S DEFICIT

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They even received support from the board, sort of, with trustees voting to ask the auditor-general to monitor its handling of resolving the deficit.

Trustees head into the new calendar year still trying to figure out what they can do for the rest of the 2012-13 school year to reduce the deficit.

During December, superintendent John Woudzia came up with a 27-point plan that would cover all but $76,000 of the deficit. The trustees said that wasn’t enough, and told senior administration to go back to the spreadsheets and give them options over and above what would be required to recover the deficit. They wanted to have more choices to decide what could go and what could stay.

In addition, some trustees balked at one of Woudzia’s proposals to sell land the district owns in Queensborough to cover $450,000 of the deficit saying eventually it could serve as the district’s new works yard.

Although Ewen supports that sale, he admitted the district

A rendering of the new elementary to be built on the old St. Mary’s Hospital.

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would eventually have to deal with finding a new maintenance yard.

Woudzia also proposed deferring payments of other capital expenditures that are due, but some trustees are worried they’ll only be creating more problems for future school boards.

A week later, Woudzia came up with basically the same plan but threw in another $500,000 in staffing adjustments, which would see a lot of redeployment of staff to cover absences in the district instead of replacing them. He said there will be no layoffs and that the move would affect the classroom as little as possible.

The details of the “adjustments” still need to be

worked out with the board, the teachers union, the support staff union (CUPE), and other stakeholders. NWTU president Grant Osborne said the district has already cut all the fat and it will be difficult avoiding cutting into bone and muscle.

The board is trying to fast track the process of making the final decisions on how to recover the deficit, even soliciting public feedback online instead of at meetings. Both Ewen and trustee Casey Cook say the sooner they decide the more money they can recover.

Trustees may have put sharp knives on their wish list to Santa. They’ll need them as they put Woudzia’s line-by-line options on the chopping block in January.

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Looking Back/Looking ahead: PattuLLo Bridge’s future in the sPotLight

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The Pattullo Bridge celebrated a milestone in 2012. The big question is how many more will it be around to mark in the future?

The decaying structure turned 75 on Nov. 15, 2012 amidst a great deal of concern for its health. There were differing opinions

on whether or not to do major surgery on it, replace it with a newer model, or kill the crossing entirely.

The year started with TransLink, which operates the Pattullo for the province, proposing the narrow four-lane bridge be replaced with a six-lane structure.

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the community with several options on where it would cross and where the entrances and exits would be. But they were all minor variations on what’s already there. The transportation authority said the replacement cost would be between $750 million and $1 billion.

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While the trucking industry and the Surrey side seemed to be on board with the plans, a couple of workshops in February made it evident New Westminster residents and politicians weren’t.

The fear a six-lane structure would just serve to clog New Westminster’s already gridlocked routes with commuter traffic even further was strong. Mayor Wayne

Wright and several city councillors kept hammering New Westminster’s views with senior levels of government, and even set up a summit with Surrey officials in December to hash the issue out.

It would seem their concerns were heard.

Despite its warnings of the bridge being too unsafe to fix, TransLink relented and put the proposed

replacement plans on hold late in the year.

Instead, the transit authority announced it was doing a new assessment to see if it was possible to extend the Pattullo’s life by a couple of decades with safety and seismic upgrades which, if done, would reduce the Pattullo to three lanes.

The bridge was also front-and-centre late in 2012 with the new tolled Port Mann

Bridge opening. All year long many in the city feared commuters would flock to the Pattullo Bridge to avoid paying to cross the Port Mann, and anecdotally those fears appeared to be coming true when the new crossing was opened in early December.

The Pattullo made lots of noise in New Westminster in 2012, and the din isn’t likely to die down in 2013.

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Friday, December 28, 2012 NewsLeader A17

Looking Back/Looking ahead: city’s renewaL

For all its accolades, the new Pier Park is still isolated from New Westminster’s Downtown.

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Challenges remain in Downtown ⫸

continued from page a3

Save for the occasional special event, Hyack Square has yet to become the Downtown gathering place the city envisioned.

The parkade’s future is a divisive issue. Antique Alley is a shadow of its former self, outnumbered now by empty storefronts.

The River Market has become a jewel for Downtown and Quayside residents but has yet to be discovered by many who live Uptown or elsewhere.

The innovative Shops at New West Station has brought some much-needed mainstream retail energy to the area but at the expense of a huge three-tower concrete edifice that is more sentry to the Downtown than gateway. It’s also turned Carnarvon Street into a disaster zone with too much traffic and too many jaywalking pedestrians for its narrow lanes.

The Paramount’s showpiece marquee still advertises two-for-one table dances on Sundays, hardly the kind of entertainment demanded by sophisticated young urbanites and families.

The anchor retailers at each end of Columbia are a thrift shop and Army & Navy, decidedly downmarket. There’s too many wedding shops that are of little interest to residents and visitors beyond one visit. The proliferation of discount dollar stores has become a standing joke in the social media.

And for the next two years, construction activity connected at the Anvil Centre and Trapp + Holbrook will create huge gaps in the streetscape along the Columbia Street strip, and will be difficult for cars and pedestrians to navigate.

Nobody who runs a business in Downtown New West does so to get rich.

Many don’t survive. Jason McGill’s Urban Gypsy is the latest casualty after five years, and venerable Copp’s Shoes is closing due to the retirement of owner Terry McBride. They’ll likely be replaced by new shopkeepers, fueled by the

Downtown’s potential and their own boundless optimism that they’re opening at just the right time to take advantage With more people living Downtown, and the city and developers investing in its historical character, the odds are beginning to tip in their favour.

Mario Bartel has covered many of the efforts to revitalize New Westminster’s Downtown in his 21 years as the NewsLeader’s photographer/reporter. He now lives there.

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Charges including aggravated assault and assault causing bodily harm are also sought against two Langley men aged 26 and 20 and a 20-year-old

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Police say the trio attacked two Good Samaritans who tried to keep rioters from damaging a business.

One badly beaten victim suffered a collapsed lung and concussion.

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GARAGE SALES

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HOMES FOR RENT

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RENTALS

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