Ferry Schedule

SSI historical Archives 120 McPhiUiPS Ave Sa.t Sprine Island. V8K 2T6 Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Vol. 38, No. 36 Your Community Newspaper Salt Spring Island, B.C. $1 (incl. GST) Ferry Hiring of schedule drama 'disgusts' teacher islanders upheld By VALORIE LENNOX Doug Bambrough is going to keep Driftwood Staff his job at Gulf Islands Secondary A vote would crown the old School. Fulford ferry schedule the winner, Bambrough's hiring as a drama judging by comments given to the and English teacher over a local Salt Spring transportation commit teacher-on-call was upheld by arbitra tee. tor Judi Korbin in a decision handed Prompted by an August 21 down last Wednesday. Driftwood article, 65 people called The September 1994 hiring had in their comments on a proposed been challenged by the Gulf Islands new schedule for the Fulford- Teachers' Association (GITA) which Swartz Bay run between August 21 aigued that the teacher-on-call (sub and 26. Of those calling, 10 liked stitute teacher) had seniority over the proposed new schedule, 17 dis someone hired from outside the liked it and 15 said they didn't like school district the current schedule. But Korbin found the teacher-on- Thirty callers suggested return call did not have the required qualifi ing to the original schedule with cations for the posted position and sailings every 90 minutes. That upheld the process followed by the schedule was dropped last May in school district in hiring Bambrough. favour of the current schedule. "The union has argued that the "From where 1 live here on board acted in an arbitrary and dis Isabella Point Road I've been criminatory manner towards the watching with complete dismay grievor, in that it short-listed candi over the past several months the dates who did not have all of the poor old Bowen Queen struggling required qualifications," Korbin to maintain a hopeless schedule," observed. one caller observed. "There really However, Korbin found the griev- is no perfect system ... the old or's application did not meet the qual schedule worked as well as proba ifications for the position as well as bly any schedule could." those of the short-listed candidates. "The grievor would not have met the The same issues were raised required qualifications standard, even again and again by callers: on-time if... granted an interview." service, connections to and from Vancouver and a desire for later Before the current contract, GITA final sailings from Swartz Bay to president Larry Field said teachers- Fulford. on-call had a higher priority for full- Winner's circle time positions than outside applicants. "I'm totally frustrated with the Big Brother Brian Finnemore, front, shares a an off-island Big Brothers/Big Sisters soapbox But board chairwoman Allisen lateness of the ferry on all routes ... victory smile and trophy with champion driver derby. The two winners posed in Wolfgang Lambert maintained that on-call so what's the point of a schedule? Cris Poltorak, who placed first in his division at Krantz's 1936 Mercedes Benz to set the mood. teachers should not have seniority The ferries are not running on when applying for full-time positions. schedule no matter what and I'm Pfcoio by Derrick lundy really, really disgusted," one caller said. Ten callers commented directly New GITA job complex and acrimonious on problems with late sailings and three noted that the Bowen Queen This September, for the first time, Now in his third term, Field is Now he will be working as GITA between the government, the school should be allowed an hour and a serving as president of the Gulf responsible for representing district president full-time, with his salary board, senior management, staff and half between sailings in order to Islands Teachers' Association teachers and ensuring the provisions paid by the BCTF as part of the fed parents have soured. "It's hit rock maintain on-time service. (GITA) will become a full-time job. in the contract with the school board eration's policy to provide full-time bottom and it can't go anywhere but "Anything that will get these fer Incumbent Lany Field says he'll are followed. Last year he coped presidents for all locals. up," Field said. ries back on time will be greatly need the hours. with contract disputes, budget In addition to becoming more Even more than budget cuts and appreciated," another observed, "It's not the simple job it used to squeezing, provincial bargaining, complex, Field's job has been acri class sizes, he sees the relationship describing a trip to Vancouver via be. Over the years the job has amalgamation and the B.C. monious with two contract disputes between the board and the staff as Swartz Bay which took five and a become more and more complex." Teachers' Federation's (BCTF) going to arbitration within the past the most serious issue facing the dis half hours and a return trip which Complexity began building with the public education campaign. It was a six months. trict. took six hours. unionization of teachers in 1987 and full-time job, he said, and was in The acrimony reflects the mood "There's a very big problem with the development of locally negotiat addition to the 12 per cent of his in the district, he says. Heading into communication in this district." "As a frequent traveller from NEW JOB 4 Tsawwassen to Swartz Bay to ed contracts. time he spent teaching. a new school year, relationships Fulford, I'd appreciate the schedul ing where the two ferries — one waited for the other and vice- Legal action could result from planned rezoning versa," said one of 11 callers who cited connections to the mainland Rezoning of the 35-acre Salt Salt Spring Village Resort's the proposed resort were unsuc land's estimated value of $5-6 as an important issue. Spring Village Resort property proposed 116-unit development cessful. million if it is developed as a on Bullock Lake is going to the is possible under the present "We opened the door to talk resort. As seven single family "I think it's about time that who lots, Hauff estimated the prop ever is on the ferry committee from next step, despite a threat of zoning but under rural zoning, a and try and negotiate further," Salt Spring Island recognize that legal action by the property maximum of seven units would Andrew said. "We have warned erty would only be worth people do want to get to Vancouver owners. be allowed. Mr. Hauff all along that he is $900,000 to $1.1 million. and they don't want it to take six Salt Spring Island Trust Developer Brian Hauff has going to be in jeopardy with this Andrew said Hauff has hours. You can fly to Toronto in Committee has given first read estimated the down-zoning will development." promised legal action if the less time than it takes to get to ing to a bylaw rezoning the reduce the value of the property Last spring Hauff said his Trust committee down-zones Vancouver (from) Salt Spring." property from resort to rural and by $4-5 million. family invested $1.56 million in the property. But provided the Some callers welcomed the earli- has now slated a public hearing Trust committee member Bob the property. There is also a community supports the rezon- on the zoning change for Andrew said negotiations with first mortgage of $2.3 million DISGUSTED 7 October 3. Hauff to resolve problems with on the property, based on the BULLOCK REZONING 2 ^^•M 2 * WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 19% N E WS B E AT GULF ISLANDS DRIFTWOOD Trust turnaround doesn't prove ability to manage issues t may only stay with us until the Not that it's all over, but the advertise comments on the first draft are no less reas I November elections, but the modus ment the Trust published last week showed suring than the adoption of a reasonable operandi of the Salt Spring Trust just how much has changed. The attitude approach to consultation. They ought to Committee members — the two local ones, TONY toward public consultation has turned 180 give even the most vocal of Trust-busters a at least — has undergone a huge transfor RICHARDS degrees with the abandonment of a time shred of confidence that the next draft mation. frame for the plan's completion. The fall might be more palatable. Never intended to operate as a form of elections will come and go long before the All this is not to say that the Islands local government, the Trust's role has momentum, by which time loggers and plan becomes etched in stone. Trust has now proved itself able to manage always been seen by trustees as Protector poets were pooling their resources in an With Draft 2, "further drafts" and "final successfully land use issues on Salt Spring. of the Environment or Defender of effort to convince trustees they were seri drafts" being allowed for in the Trust's Far from it. The Trust requires either Ecosystems. Trustees do not have con ous in their opposition to the massive docu new schedule, islanders could be happily reform or abolition. Either it is redesigned stituents. They are not accountable to the ment. The positive reaction on the part of engaged in the draft review process for an to better represent the needs of a popula voters but to the mandate. trustees took rather longer. At first they indefinite period of time to come.

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