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September 20, 1974
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Editon
The Provinee
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE

Re editorial Wednesday September 18, headed, Those "community" colleges.
Your chiefs concern seems to be regarding Loca autonomy. And quite rightky
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One of the terms of reference of the Task Force on the Community College

was to recommend a form of governance which 45 representative of a hegion
and which reflects a balanced regional and Provincial concern. Which then
naises the question are school trustees always nepresentative of a region?
Studies conducted across Canada say, no! In your own files, S41, you can
find startling statistics regarding the large number of trustees, "elected,"
by acclamation. One fairly Large school board holds the unenviable record of
forty years by acclamation: Many editorials, as you well know, have been
written on public apathy at the polls.

Under our present Legiskation a trustee can be chaiuman of both school
and college boards. What about that element of time and the matter of
priority? Whereas, a trustee receives an honorarium of $2,000. a cokkege
councillor receives no such stipend. Where would your priority Lie?

However, with the greatly increased reponsibilities of college board
members, (back to Local autonomy), the Task Force recommends that an
hononariun, per meeting, $2,000. yearly maximum be paid. Do you consider
it practicatky on prudently wise, Sir, for anyone to neceive two honor-
ariums? One resource we are not Likely to deplete 44 peopke.

Nevertheless, we do envisage five committees in addition to the Nominating
Boand Committe, on which we hope trustees will be able to pkay a co-
ondination hole between the schools and cokkeges. Also the term,"school
boards," appears at Least four times, on page nineteen, where we spell out
the composition of these committees which will, in many cases, Supply new
mnogrammes and services to the community. It 4 the desire of the Task
Funee that with such co-operation, the residents of a region wilh be
ensured of even mone efficient and effective use of existing educational
resources. An example would be the Media-communications services commitee.