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May 21, 2010 Peachland, BC
Volume 06 | Number 20
Photo Joanne Layh
The removal of trees and boarding on the windows last week was the first step in the restoration of the Primary School.
Primary School beginning to look smart By Joanne Layh At the last Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting, members of council approved the recommendation by the Primary School Implementation Committee to spend 2010 budget funds to remove bat guano and asbestos as well as dispose of the stucco siding at the Primary School. The decision follows news that the Community Adjustment Fund (CAF) grant funding had been turned down. “I can see where the committee is coming
from on this with the bat guano,” Councillor Moberg said at the COW meeting. “The thing that we said as a council is we wouldn’t put the money in unless we had the funding. We didn’t want a 1/3 finished building or something started where people are in there and we end up trying to piecemeal this thing together,” he told his colleagues. “I appreciate and acknowledge that these things have to be done regardless,” Councillor Schierbeck said. “But how are we going to prevent it [bat guano] from
continuing and having the same problem in maybe 3 years? The bats are still there. I see them in the evenings.” “After the bat guano is cleared there may be a way of preventing the bats from getting in there by sealing it. The project would include getting rid of the bats,” Mayor Fielding said. As the removal of the bat guano would need to be done anyway, even as part of a demolition process, it was really just a matter of council deciding when to have it removed. “We would have to
spend this money in any event,” Councillor Condon said, also acknowledging that to do these improvements at this time would compliment the Centennial Way project that will see a major improvement to Beach Avenue. The cost for bat guano removal is estimated at $61,200, while removal of the asbestos is estimated to be no more than $15,000. The Primary School Implementation Committee will use volunteer labour to remove the stucco siding. Several days after the COW meeting, district
staff removed hazardous trees planted directly beside the school and later in that same day began removing some of the panels that were boarding up windows of the building. Plans to take advantage of a newly discovered federal grant are already in the works. “At the Primary School committee meeting, Loretta from the Chamber brought forward a grant that we qualify for, but it has to be applied for by the Peachland Community Arts Council because of who the arts council is [an arts orga-
nization]. The arts council now includes in its membership the Peachland Historical Society, in other words the museum, and this grant is an arts, culture and heritage grant . . . Keith Fielding suggested we go ahead and apply for it, and at our arts council meeting we unanimously agreed that we will fill out the forms and apply,” Richard Smith of the Peachland Arts Council told the View. The Canada Cultural Spaces Fund grant offers matching funds as well as equity (volunteered time).
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