{"id":2923,"date":"2013-04-24T08:13:24","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/?p=2923"},"modified":"2013-04-24T08:13:24","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T13:13:24","slug":"message-councillor-karen-stintz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/message-councillor-karen-stintz\/","title":{"rendered":"Message from Councillor Karen Stintz"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Thank you very much for contacting me regarding your thoughts and suggestions about how Allenby Jr. Public School accommodates full day kindergarten.\u00a0 Your collective correspondence\u00a0illustrates the complexity of this issue and the community&#8217;s commitment to implementing the best\u00a0solution when a perfect solution does not exist.\u00a0\u00a0While I am not a\u00a0decision maker, I have served this community for ten years as City Councillor and strive to facilitate discussion and collective problem-solving\u00a0of important local matters.\u00a0 I hope I can continue to\u00a0provide this support with respect to this issue.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In this capacity, I have\u00a0contacted Superintendent Jeff\u00a0Hainbuch to discuss my initial thoughts.\u00a0From my perspective, I feel that the community must do its\u00a0utmost to protect\u00a0services that at a minimum, provide\u00a0quality care to students before and after school.\u00a0 I understand too, how unpalatable it would be to have children of the same family attend school in multiple locations because of insufficient space at the school.\u00a0Lastly, I recognize that building new space is costly and the added student body will further stress the resources and amenities of a school that is already over-capacity.\u00a0 With less than 18 months to craft and execute a solution to this issue, I feel I must put my support behind adding two classrooms to the school provided it can be built in a\u00a0cost effective manner and that steps are put into place to craft a longer-term solution to the\u00a0enrollment challenges of the\u00a0school.\u00a0 We can not\u00a0&#8216;solve&#8217; the problems for today and\u00a0defer the difficult decisions for future neighbourhood families.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I look forward to continuing my conversations with local residents, sharing my opinion with those in a decision making capacity and should a new build be required, assisting with timely review of applications and other administrative matters pertaining to the City.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Please feel free to stay in touch with me with your continued thinking on the matter.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Karen Stintz<\/div>\n<div>City Councillor, Ward 16<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you very much for contacting me regarding your thoughts and suggestions about how Allenby Jr. Public School accommodates full day kindergarten.\u00a0 Your collective correspondence\u00a0illustrates the complexity of this issue and the community&#8217;s commitment to implementing the best\u00a0solution when a perfect solution does not exist.\u00a0\u00a0While I am not a\u00a0decision maker, I have served this community [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[170,140,160,76],"class_list":["post-2923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fdk-2","tag-councillor-karen-stintz","tag-full-day-kindergarten","tag-part-process","tag-space"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2923\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenbyparents.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}