Union head

calls it

TEACHERS HERE, in the
Hazeltons and Stewart
elect a new union presi-
dent May 22.

Frank Rowe, president
of the Terrace and District
Teachers’ Union, is step-
ping down after seven
years,

Rowe said it’s time for
a change on a personal
level — and at the union
level,

“l see many of the
things we fought hard for
over the years as slipping
backwards,” Rowe said.

"It’s time for someone
with more energy and
more passion than I have
to take a leadership posi-
tion.”

Rowe represented the
380-plus members during a
protracted contract dispute
between B.C.’s teachers
and their emplayers.

The dispute escalated
to a province-wide job ac-
tion last November, when
teachers — prevented from
striking under essential
service legislation — stop-
ped performing non-teach-
ing duties.

The provincial govern-
ment ended the stalemate
early in the new year with
a legislated settlement
that Rowe views as a step
back for public education.

While the three-year
contract included a pay in-
crease for B.C.’s teachers,
it restored the ability of
school districts to set class
size limits, among other
provisions.

Rowe presided over the
TDTU during other turbu-
lent times, including the
forced amalgamation of
the Terrace and Kitimat
school districts, an educa-
tion ministry efficiency re-
view of the district’s fi-
nances, and the loss of the
elementary school band
program in Terrace.

Rowe said the past year
eR es
eff Hit discouraged about.
MR bic seaiee!”
tion ‘arid “the ‘public sector,
he said.

“I do think this is a sig-
nificant position in the
culture of the community
and the politics of the
community,” Rowe said.

“Whoever succeeds me
is going to bring a different
perspective and way of
doing things.” ,

Rowe, meanwhile,
plans to return to the
classroom. He'll become a
special class teacher at
Caledonia Senior Second-
ary.

Rowe has been on
leave from Skeena Junior
Secondary since he was
first elected TDTU presi-
dent in 1995.

The vote for a new pre-
sident lakes place at the
TDTU annual general
meeting May 22.

Rowe said Copper
Mountain Elementary in-

Tax bite
stays same

THE PROPERTY tax bite
will be about the same as
last year for most city resi-
dents and businesses.

City treasurer Judy De-
gerness said most people
will pay close to the same
amount if assessments are
close to the average drop
of 4.5 per cent.

Properties with assess-
ments that dropped more
than that could pay less,
while an assessment the
same or higher than a year
ago means a tax increase,

Businesses with a 1,9
per cent decrease in asses-
sed value will pay the
same amount as last year.

The residential tax rate
for city operations will be
$7,646 per $1,000 of asses-
sed value, up 7.2 per cent.

The total tax bill also
includes school taxes and
that’s rising 5.1 per cent
to $5.881 per $1,000.

Once that’s added, plus
other levies for debt, trans-
it, the regional district and
hospital district, the total
residential tax rate will be
$14.7329 per $1,000 asses-
sed value, Other city fees
far water, sewer and garb-
age aré added at the end.

quits

structor Richard Eckert has
declared his intent to stand
for nomination, .

It’s possible he may
face a challenger; nomina-
tions can also be made
from the floor during the
mecling,

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, May 15, 2002 - Al]

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