TEENS REACH OUT TO POLITICIANS
Tri-City twin brothers Laef (left) and Alin Kucheran, 15, and classmate Stefan Clarinval, 14 (on the laptop screen) have created thegoodsite.org/ted to help spread a message to politicians about helping Syrian refugees.
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SD43 trustees paid more than Van. and Surrey DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News
School District 43 trustees are getting a pay hike this year that will see them earn more than: • Vancouver school trustees; • Surrey school trustees; • Port Coquitlam city councillors; • and Port Moody city councillors. According to information provided by SD43 this week, trustees will each get a 5% — or $2,000 — pay hike this year, with the chair and vicechair getting slightly more. The raise makes the nine Tri-City trustees the highest paid in the province, earning more than their counterparts who are responsible for many more students and much larger budgets. The pay will be backdated
TRUSTEE JUDY SHIRRA to Jan. 1 and is based on a SD43 policy that sets the stipends based on an average of salaries paid to councillors in Coquitlam, PoCo and PoMo. The wages are adjusted each year depending on the rate of increase among councillors’ salaries and the calculation is done by district staff and not discussed at a board meeting. That means SD43 trustees — who are responsible for some 30,000 students — will be paid $42,364.71 this year. see ‘FAIR AND’, page 14
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what do you do when you have too much bread? Port Coquitlam’s Nicole whitman is teaming up with local bakery owner Olivier Audibert to reduce waste and get bread to those who could use it most. Please see page 6
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