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PRESIDENT'S REPORT TO THE
DOUGLAS COLLEGE BOARD, APRIL 15

 

A. External Matters - Municipal

Mr. Doug Manning, City Administrator
for New Westminster, informs me that
the City's solicitors are continuing
work on a draft agreement between the
City and the College regarding the
Simcoe Site.

Mr. Dale Alexander, Executive Director
of the Simon Fraser Society (Beacon
Industries) and I had a meeting with
the Assistant Planner of Coquitlam
District, regarding the possibility of
location of some or all of the Beacon
Industries activities in Coquitlam.
This is part of a process of assessing
the feasibility of acquisition of a
number of relatively small light in-
dustrial sites, rather than one large
facility that would require a signifi-
cant amount of acreage. In due course,
Mr, Alexander and I will be meeting
with Mr. Wright, of The First Capital
City Development Company, in order to
identify the most feasible course of
action in regard to relocation of
Beacon Industries.

B. External Matters - Education

I have accepted the position as Chair-
man of the External Evaluation Team for
Northwest College. This will involve
my absence from the College from May 11
to 14. I am pleased to report that Mr.
G. DellaMattia, Dean of Educational and
Student Services, is also on the Evalu-
ation Team.

Because of the desire of the Ministry

to see Douglas College substantially en-
large its commitment to Nursing Programs,
I attended a meeting of Lower Mainland
Post-secondary C.E.O's. to discuss and
consider the implications of this pro-
posal. As a result of the discussion,

 

 

 

I have accepted an immediate modest
increase in the size of our Nursing
Program, effective September. Dis-
cussions are occurring with Ministry
officials in regard to a possible fur-
ther increase.-

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We still have no final word from the
Ministry regarding their decision on
the Dental Program, but authorization
has been received to complete plumbing
and wiring of the Dental Laboratory to
the floor level.

I have had meetings with Mr. A. Wilkin-
son and Dr. R. Pridham of Kwantlen
College over the last month, to discuss
matters of general educational coordina-
tion and direction.

C. Internal Matters - Education
Deve lopment

A major series of meetings, involving |
Deans and Chairman/Directors of all
College Departments was concluded ten
days ago. We now have a fully detailed
and agreed upon knowledge of the exist-
ing College budget, which leaves us in
an excellent position to deal with what-
ever problems result from the budget we |
are assigned this month by the Ministry.
Special mention must be made of the mon-
umental amount of work done by Peter
Greenwood in this regard. I am satisfied
that all administrators of the College
now have a completely detailed grasp of
their own budget, and of the nature of
the overall College budget.

The administration held a vary successful
workshop, led by Peter Greenwood and Andy
Andrews, relating to the management of
Function 3 funds. In addition, Marshall
Price, Manager of Systems and Computing,
organized an excellent workshop on Word
Processing Systems.

Work on the 5-year Plan is continuing.
The first draft should be available for
review by the Board at its next regular