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FRIDAY, OCT. 30, 2015 Your community. Your stories.
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NEWS PORT MOODY
$10.5M for work on city facilities SARAH PAYNE
The Tri-CiTy News
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Nhi Nguyen helped get Heritage Woods secondary school’s new Coditek club started and, recently, club members visited James Park elementary in Port Coquitlam, where they taught youngsters the elements of coding with a program called Code.org. For more on kids and coding, see articles on page 3.
SCHOOL DISTRICT 43
TC schools shortchanged: Shirra DIANE STRANDBERG Tri-CiTy News
Large school districts with inner-city populations of vulnerable students are short-
tricts, Vancouver, Surrey and Coquitlam, plus seven much smaller districts, show CommunityLink funding is not proportionate to student population.
changed when it comes to funding for special programs, a School District 43 report shows. A funding comparison of B.C.’s three largest dis-
SD43 is last out of the 10 districts surveyed, getting just $1.42 million for this program even though enrolment is 31,273 students. Next door in New Westminster, its district
gets slightly more funding than SD43, $1.48 million, even though its student population is just 6,918.
Port Moody council is borrowing $10.5 million to fix city infrastructure. The temporary borrowing bylaw takes advantage of the Municipal Finance Authority’s temporary borrowing program to lock in the loan amount once the projects are complete and the true cost is known. A staff report presented at Tuesday’s council meeting notes it’s “a way to manage the cash flow of construction without borrowing in advance monies that may not actually be required.” The money is needed to fund urgent repairs to city hall, the recreation complex and the Port Moody Arts Centre, as well as the Heritage Mountain bridge.
see CIVIC CENTRE, page 10
FALL BACK
Set your clocks back one hour on Saturday night when you go to bed
see ‘WE CAN’, page 19
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