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“We have heard loud and clear from NPA members and supporters that the actions of the Board and John Coupar do not reflect the standards of transparency, integrity and accountability we all expect from the NPA and each other,” said Hardwick in a statement.
“NPA supporters and Vancouverites deserve better, which is why the three of us are stepping away from the NPA to sit as a group of independents. Instead of a fair and democratic process to select the best mayoral candidate, the NPA Board and John Coupar sidelined the elected members of the NPA and made a backroom deal. By any measure, it was about as old-boys-club as it gets.”
“Preliminary research supports that the site has good potential to achieve community benefit while generating needed capital revenue to address Board commitments,” reads a recent VSB staff report.
In September 2020, a new $19.6-million seismic replacement school building opened at the north end of the school block at East 47th Avenue, allowing the 1912-built school structure to be demolished to make way for new gravel play field and a surface parking lot.
It is suggested that turning the southernmost parcel into a subdivision could generate mixed-use commercial and residential development on the site, similar to the newer low-rise, mixed-use forms at the southwest and southeast corners of the prominent intersection.
by Patti Bacchus on April 15th, 2021 at 2:06 PM 1 of 5 2 of 5
You’ve got to be kidding me.
After a year of hearing schools are essential to students’ well-being and absolutely must stay open during the deadly pandemic, several B.C. school boards are finding themselves
millions of dollars short in their budgets for the 2021-22 school year.
We’ve heard it over and over again: students need the supports they get at school as much as they need the academic instruction. Many rely on school meal programs and support from counsellors and education assistants. Yet many of those supports are on the chopping block.