2007-8 Kits PAC School Renewal - Seismic
Mitigation Committee (September through January)
Jan.
30, 2008 Kits PAC Exec comments to VSB re Commonwealth Report
Jan. 28,
2008 it
was brought to the School Renewal Committee's attention that:
A
report on VSB schools with heritage value will be going to Committee II
of the Board on Feb 05, 2008.
The Kits
Principal, Alex Grant, met with the Kits PAC School Renewal Committee
Jan. 16, 2008
Kits
PAC - School Renewal Committee 2008 Jan 16 meeting minutes
Comments
on the 2008 Jan 16 meeting from the Kitsilano Principal
JQ (single track
EFI program) and its annex, Queen Elizabeth Annex (dual track EFI K to
grade 3) are feeder schools to Kits Secondary (dual track FI program).
Seismic and Facilities Review issues that affect the future of these
two schools were the subject of meetings held 2008 January.
2008 January Notices re the meetings:
from
the VSB
from
JQ
The Kits
Principal, Alex Grant, met with the Kits PAC School Renewal Committee
Dec.
20, 2007.
The VSB estimated start of construction at this time on the Kits seismic
project is June 2009 or January 2010 depending on options chosen.
Kits
PAC School Renewal - Seismic Mitigation Report Back 2007 Dec 20
(Includes seismic
mitigation options and time frame)
Letter from Kits PAC
to VSB Dec. 6, 2007 re school renewal.
The 'School Renewal Committee' was formed at a meeting held by
the PAC executive Dec. 4, 2007 to
consider, among other things, the ongoing seismic mitigation. process
Chair - James Burton jburton@bwarc.ca
Volunteers:
Mary Chipman
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chipman@highlatitude.com
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Jacqueline
Stoeckler-Sihvonen
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jss97210@yahoo.com |
Thomas
Winkler
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tbwin@shaw.ca |
Larry Berge
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labenge@telus.net
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Lesley Wright
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grp98@shaw.ca
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Gwyneth Edgcumbe
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edgcumbe@shaw.ca
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| George Bryce |
gkbryce@telus.net |
Andrew
Larigakis
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aalarigakis@shaw.ca
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Tracy Monk
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tlmonk@telus.net
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Cathy Marr
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cmarr@istar.ca
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Diane Montgomery
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d.montgomery@telus.net
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Julie Bond
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jbond@vsb.bc.ca
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Derek von Essen
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vonessen@telus.net
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Liaison at General Gordon: Z. Smith
seismic@gordonelementary.ca
Some
groups/individuals possibly sharing an interest in this issue:
VSB Admin. -
Vancouver School Board Administration
VSB Trustees -
Vancouver School Board elected Trustees
Kits Principal
Kits Teachers
Kits Students
Feeder school
PACs - Feeder school Parent Advisory Councils
DPAC - District
Parent Advisory Council (for Vancouver District)
http://www.vsb.bc.ca/parentsfamilies/DPAC/default.htm
BCCPAC - British
Columbia Confederation of Parent Advisory Councils
http://www.bccpac.bc.ca
CPF Vancouver -
Canadian Parents for French (educational opportunities)
Vancouver - parent support group for French second language education -
both core French (French as a subject for students in the English
stream) and immersion French at Kits.
http://www.geocities.com/cpfvancouver
Ministry of
Education
Gordon
Campbell, as the Kits MLA.
Kits Community
Centre
City of
Vancouver.
Kits
Neighborhood Association
Also:
Kits SACY -
Kitsilano Secondary School "School Aged Children and Youth (SACY)
Substance Use Prevention Project"
http://members.shaw.ca/QPAC/K-PAC-FOCUS-GROUP-Drug-&-Alcohol.html
(a kind of log
of events to date on this issue at Kits and some related links)
and
Kits School
Health Nurse
vis a vis adequate hand washing and drinking water facilities
and
Kits School
Police
liaison
vis a vis what
if no auditorium (music or drama practice) and less gym space (sports
practice) to keep students occupied after school hours?
Maybe Parks
Board (a level up from Community centre) too re what would happen to
tennis courts and so forth. Why not explore the possibility of a pool -
the Kits community centre does not have one so Kits swim team looks for
time at Lord Byng and UBC?
Also:
Kits School
Safety
http://members.shaw.ca/QPAC/K-PAC-VSB-Safety-Procedure.html
(a kind of log
of events to date on this issue at Kits and some related links)
vis a vis
designing a building to protect against this problem
Also:
Bullying at
School
http://members.shaw.ca/QPAC/K-PAC-Bullying-at-school.html
(a kind
of log of events to date on this issue at Kits and some related links)
vis a vis
designing a building so there is less or no space that facilitates this
problem.
Also:
Does the new school building option have allowance for library floor
space to accommodate both English and French collections for
Kitsilano as Kits is a dual track school with both English and French
immersion programs?
Also:
Pedestrian
Safety - Trafalgar and 12th
http://members.shaw.ca/QPAC/K-PAC-Pedestrian-Safety-Trafalgar-and-12th.html
(a
kind of log of events to date on this issue at Kits and some related
links)
Also:
Families for School Seismic Safety
http://www.fsssbc.org
Also:
Green issues
- in building construction, i.e.. energy efficiency, healthy air quality
- in how students get to school, car, bus, bike, walk - i.e.. bike
storage at school
- in recycling
The Provincial
Government and the Ministry of Education are where the seismic
directive, the no auditorium with a new building (unless privately
funded) directive and the funding come from.
Note at VSB newer secondary school Magee,
an auditorium structure was
provided by the VSB via the matter of there is Provincial funding
allowance for some optional features, and which features a school gets
depends on the combined cost of the few chosen. At Magee the
community (PAC) funded the furnishings and equipment in the auditorium.
The Magee Alumni were a good source of support for funding the new
auditorium. Reported, but not
confirmed, is the information that the Magee
community (PAC) lobbied the Provincial government and 'another source'
of Provincial funds was found to help with the costs of furnishings
and equipment in the auditorium.
Also note that Kits currently does not have sufficient gym space and
the cafeteria must be used for phys ed. The Provincial directive
for a new building provides less gym space than currently at Kits,
meanwhile there is a Ministry directive to increase in the near future
the number of grades where phys ed is required.
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/capitalplanning/resources/1998_99/letter.htm
mentions Design Aid Sheet which is provided by the Ministry
regards new school buildings
http://www.bced.gov.bc.ca/capitalplanning/resources/areastandards.pdf
About the
educational value/spaces of a historic building. Perhaps someone knows
of a Canadian equivalent.
http://www.nationaltrust.org/issues/schools/school_success_stories.html
Site includes -
Historic High School Building Restoration Seattle Area
http://www.bassettiarch.com/portfolio.htm
Kits
Community seismic meeting
Kits
community residents have been meeting to discuss seismic upgrading of
neighbourhood buildings. Parents at General Gordon have been also
investigating
the topic. On Thursday, December 6th there is going to be a community
meeting
to plan how to move ahead. This meeting is open to all community
members as
well as parents from General Gordon and Kitsilano school.
When? Thursday December 6, 2007 7-9pm
Where? General
Gordon School,
in the Library. If you want more details, you can check the General
Gordon
website at http://www.gordonelementary.ca
http://gordon.vsb.bc.ca
General Gordon (dual track LFI program) is a feeder school to
Kits Secondary
(dual track FI program).
K-PAC
Seismic Safety 2006-7 and before
Kits
PAC Special Interest
Groups