Dunster Dilemma Subject of Meeting Today

Thursday, September 16, 2010 03:49 AM

Dunster, B.C.- The Dunster Fine Arts School Society is expected to meet with representatives from School District 57 today.

The meeting is to talk about how the Dunster School property might be transferred to a third party.

The Society has offered to purchase the property from the School District for a sum of $10 dollars, but the School District countered with an offer of $39 thousand, an amount that was too rich for the Dunster group.

Meantime, tents have been set up on property next door to the now closed Dunster School, and nine students are taking classes in the tents. The balance of the Dunster students have enrolled in either Valemount or McBride for the school year.

The Dunster school was ordered closed as part of the School District’s plan to balance it’s finances. The Dunster parents would like to see it reopen under the same kind of model as the school in Wells, where a third party owns the building and the school district provides the education component.

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Posted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 03:49 AM in News by 250 News

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Posted by: Don Wilkins on September 16 2010 9:14 AM

Correct me if I am mistaken but wasn't that land donated to the SD for a school. If that is the case, then if there is no school, the land should revert to it's original owner.

Posted by: gus on September 16 2010 12:40 PM

Donated or not, unless the land was in the hands of the public, such as the regional district, there would have been a transfer of title for a dollar or some other consideration and possibly even an appraised value set on it for which the original owner may have received a tax receipt.

Unless there were specific conditions attached to it and registered with the tile, there can not be an enforceable expectation, I believe.

Posted by: JohnGrogan on September 16 2010 7:12 PM

gus, you may be correct, but at the time of the donation we did not live in such a litigious culture.

I'd be more apt to explore moral implications... there are more than enough legal opinions already... IMHO

Cheers...