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Thursday, April 11 • 2013
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Your Horoscope For the Week Submitted photo with Michael O’Connor inside The Rossland Art Gallery presents an evening of Art and Fashion this Friday at 7 p.m. the West Kootenay Advertiser
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When the smoke cleared in council chambers Monday night the motion to ante up taxpayers’ money in a bid to keep kindergarten to Grade 12 education in Rossland was still standing. A 90-minute debate, emotional at times, raged across the floor in council, with a narrow vote—fourto-three—ultimately passing the motion for the City to offer a grant-in-aid of $140,000 per year for three years to School District 20 (Kootenay Columbia), with the condition kindergarten to Grade 12 grades remain in Rossland for the school years of 2013-2018. Councillor Jill Spearn spoke at length to introduce Inside: the motion—in front of a • The debate in packed council chambers of council 20 people—reading from her • Quotes from pages of notes on the merit of each councillor, keeping all 13 grades in the mayor Golden City in an attempt to • Prospects of sway the majority of coundeal with SD20 cil in favour of approving • See more, Page 3 the motion. But it was a late amendment to the motion, after over one hour of discussion, that courted the majority of council’s approval. The amendment by councillor Kathy Wallace—that if the grant-in-aid was accepted by SD20 a referendum would be held on the issue of raising taxes —quelled the fears of some councillors about community-wide acceptance. “I will say it again, this is not our responsibility ... ” Mayor Greg Granstrom began. “But sustainability is,” interjected Spearn, pounding the table. “When you speak to sustainability, is $140,000 sustainable when you have to raise taxes? What is sustainable?” he replied. Earlier in the debate, councillor Cary Fisher said the real balancing act for council would be to counteract the expected rise in taxes from all levels of government. “Down the road everything is going up,” he said, “and the town can’t support it. It’s not sustainable for the town to keep adding things on. • See COUNCIL, Page 3
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