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we sit in management meeting of the total Department soctainly Post-Secondary &
education should be reasonably represented. Now I would like you to bear in
mind that post-secondary education, and we have done this very deliberately,
in that with post-secondary education management committee we are really
keeping two very important sections of post-secondary represented in that
those of you that are acquainted with Dr. Jack Newbury, who is the Assistant
Superintendent, and has a very great competence in certain program areas,
and myself as the Superintendent, I have hopefully some competence in other
program areas. And so both Dr. Newbury and myself will in fact sit on the
management committee to ensure that because of the expanse of post-secondary
education that we are not going to be heading down one road or the other
exclusively, but in fact there shall be proper and due attention paid to

the total program area that we expect community colleges will be addressing

themselves to.

There are eleven positions that I have yet to fill so you know how bankrupt
I am as far as being able to provide service out of Post-Secondary. With
regard to other relationships within the Department, I-think that the
Department basically is broken down into, as you know, at the present time,
Operations, which has an Associate Deputy Minister and Operations are headed
by Joe Phillipson who is the Associate Deputy Minister, and Programs is the
other breakdown, and that is headed by an Associate Deputy Minister, Andy
Soles. I think you can appreciate that the expense of the demands upon the
Department are much greater than anyone at Malaspina can visualize in that
the whole Province really looks on the Victoria offices of the Department as
a focal point from which "all good should flow" and it is really very diffi-
cult to cause that, because the volume is so heavy and the judgments that
have to be made in many cases can't be readily made on a singular basis.

In other words, if a request comes in that says we should start a sales

 

and merchandising program at Malaspina, I don't know if you have one, but
anyway, we should start one. Okay. Everything appears that yes this is
desirable. It will probably arrive on my desk, but depending upon your
budget and depending upon the nature of the request, I may have to lean
very heavily on the Superintendent of Finance and I may have to in fact
represent you that way on the basis of programs...that yes, Post-Secondary

has made a judgment in effect that we concur with your submission but now