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There are many strange sights on Richmond’s roads and none more so than a family of Canada geese. Mother and father goose and their seven goslings were spotted waddling through the strip mall at No. 3 and Ackroyd roads around 8 a.m. Monday. Richmond Chamber of Commerce’s communications manager Matt Pitcairn spotted the family as he emerged from the nearby White Spot restaurant. “They walked towards No. 3 Road then turned right onto the sidewalk,” Pitcairn told the Richmond News. “No-one knows where they came from or where they were heading.”
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A family of unlicensed geese head toward No. 3 Road in the middle of the Monday morning rush hour. Photo by Matt Pitcairn.
Hands off our $26M: Trustees Sargent tells government squirreled-away cash is not a ‘surplus’ Alan Campbell
This is a huge policy change without any of us being consulted. - Donna Sargent
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“This is about as serious as it gets.” Richmond School Board chair Donna Sargent didn’t mince her words, either to the Richmond News or in an alarming open letter to B.C.’s Education Minister, Peter Fassbender. Sargent was categoric in lambasting an education ministry assertion that Richmond School District should be prepared to sacrifice an apparent $26 million “surplus” and the $41 million Steveston secondary sale proceeds to pay for 50 per cent of major capital projects.
The ministry has told school districts, including Richmond, that they must now use any surpluses they have to cost-share with the provincial government for significant projects, such as seismic upgrades. A letter from the ministry to the Richmond district identified a supposed $26 million “surplus” that it needs to consider using when the
time comes for the likes of seismic upgrades — needed in 23 local schools. However, in her pointed letter to Fassbender, where she accused the ministry of “abdicating its responsibility,” Sargent detailed, in painstaking fashion, how that $26 million should not be regarded as a surplus and how the money is already committed for essential
services. “If the ministry demands something by law, then we have to follow that,” Sargent told the News. “But the services that the $26 million is set aside for are significant and it would be severe if they were affected. In no way should that $26 million be regarded as a surplus.” Sargent agreed that the district is being punished for being prudent over the years with its budget, making sure it has enough funds for essential services and programs — programs that the ministry now wants the district to tap into to help pay for major projects, such as seismic upgrades.
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