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How to pay CUPE raises? School district still seeking savings to pay bump Wanda chow
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cherie moses is among several residents on graveley street, near Brentwood mall, who are petitioning Burnaby city hall to conduct a planning process for transportation and parking in the area. The stretch between carleton and Willingdon avenues is constantly used as a commuter shortcut during rush hour and they say it will only get worse as major developments are built nearby.
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Cherie Moses moved two years ago to North Burnaby from Edmonton where, she says, vehicles usually stop at stop signs. That’s apparently not the case here, she said, at least not on Graveley Street, where she lives. Indeed, during an interview with
a NewsLeader reporter Tuesday There’s also an issue of people afternoon an SUV ran a stop sign parking on the street while they go to beat the traffic lights which had to work nearby or take SkyTrain. stopped traffic on “Everybody Willingdon Avenue. seems to know It’s a regular about Graveley cherie Moses occurrence on except city hall,” she i realized there were people Graveley, between on the street wanting change shouted above the Carleton and revving traffic near for a long time but they’d Willingdon avenues, given up. the Carleton end. said Moses, 64, as When her is speeding, revving up the steep hill complaints to Burnaby city hall on the Carleton end, and people’s didn’t result in any resolution, parked cars being damaged in hitMoses started talking with her and-runs. neighbours and learned she wasn’t
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alone in her frustration. “I finally realized there were people on the street wanting change for a long time but they’d given up.” They began coordinating efforts and last month a group of neighbours met with Coun. Sav Dhaliwal, chair of the city’s traffic safety committee, and two planning staff to show them the problem first-hand. Their concern is only heightened by plans for major new developments at Brentwood mall, and First and Gilmore avenues. Please see deveLOpMent, a3
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It will be another couple weeks before Burnaby school district announces how it plans to fund negotiated raises for Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) school support workers. District secretarytreasurer Greg Frank said the raises will cost almost $1.6 million annually and will be funded by a combination of surpluses, savings and efficiencies, and specific cuts. “There are areas spread throughout the district that we’re looking at,” said Frank, who was unable to provide details just yet. As for surpluses, the plan is to allocate just under $900,000 toward the wage hikes, although he stressed it’s a one-time use of surpluses for the 20132014 year. He said budget adjustments will be required to pay for the contract over the long term, which is yet to be ratified by CUPE Local 379, which represents support workers in the Burnaby district. see ‘budget’, a4