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Wednesday 18 November 2015
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Cleve says goodbye to ‘favourite school’ New liquor
laws cost $50k more
Waimea Intermediate School principal Cleve Shearer is retiring at the end of this year after 42 years in teaching, the last 15 as head of his favourite school. Cleve was appointed principal of Waimea Intermediate in April 2000 after starting his teaching career with Volunteer Service Abroad in Tonga in 1976. He moved to Waiau Primary in North Canterbury in 1978 and then taught at four different Christchurch schools before being appointed as principal of Westport North Primary and then Waimea Intermediate. Although Cleve has no hesitation in naming Waimea Intermediate as his favourite school, he says another, Richmond School in Christchurch, was also very special. “I worked as DP at Richmond School in Christchurch for five years and learned so much there. It was a low decile school with a young female principal who was very good, so together we built up the school.” Although Cleve was delighted to get his first appointment as principal at Westport North, he says managing a school with 395 pupils during an era when “there wasn’t much support for new principals” was a steep learning curve. The early years of Waimea Intermediate were also challenging as he and his staff worked hard to “develop a more student-
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Simon Bloomberg The new liquor licensing laws, that are costing Tasman ratepayers an extra $50,000 a year after changes to the legislation that came into force in December 2013, will be on the agenda at this Thursday’s council meeting in Richmond. Administering the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Act regulations cost the council $342,482 in 2014-2015. It recovered $183,976 of that total in fees paid by users, leaving rate payers to pick up the bill for $158,506, an increase of about $50,000 under the previous legislation. The council’s environmental health coordinator Graham Caradus says in a report to be presented to the Environment and Planning Committee on Thursday that staff time required to administer new regulations has more than doubled from 1.3 full-time equivalents to “in excess of 2.6”. Graham says council aims to reach a target of a user pays to rates funding ratio of 60/40 for alcohol licensing work. In the last financial year, the ratio was 54/46 with rates funding paying for an increase of six per cent of costs. Committee chairman Stu Bryant says council has the authority to produce a bylaw that changes the fees it charges under the Sale and Supply of Alcohol Regulations 2013 and it will be discussing that possibility at the meeting. Waimea Intermediate School principal Cleve Shearer and friends at the school last Friday. Photo: Simon Bloomberg.
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