{"id":40574,"date":"2021-02-19T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=40574"},"modified":"2021-02-19T20:05:57","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T01:05:57","slug":"nanaimo-district-secondary-school-identified-for-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nanaimo-district-secondary-school-identified-for-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Nanaimo&#8217;s largest school &#8216;number one seismic priority&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nanaimo District Secondary School is at the end of its useful life and desperately needs to be replaced.<\/p>\n<p>That's according to Nanaimo Ladysmith Public School's a new long-range facility plan. It states the school needs significant maintenance, is a high priority for seismic upgrades and is environmentally unfriendly.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Walsh, the secretary treasurer for the school district says identifying NDSS in the plan is meant to send a message.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40574-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-NDSS.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-NDSS.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-NDSS.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The plan notes the ministry has supported new schools in other parts of the Island such as Victoria, Sooke and Cowichan.<\/p>\n<p>The plan also projects some schools could be seriously overcrowded in the next 10 years.<br \/>\nDover Bay Secondary and Pleasant Valley Elementary are already feeling the strain and are projected to hit over 180 per cent capacity by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh is recommending developers pay a School Site Acquisition Charge to help fund expansion.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-40574-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-SSAC.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-SSAC.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Walsh-SSAC.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The next step is for the board to discuss the plan with the community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nanaimo District Secondary School is at the end of its useful life and desperately needs to be replaced. That&#8217;s according to Nanaimo Ladysmith Public School&#8217;s a new long-range facility plan. It states the school needs significant maintenance, is a high priority for seismic upgrades and is environmentally unfriendly. Mark Walsh, the secretary treasurer for the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":40580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,221],"tags":[1100,1098,1101],"radio":[240],"origine":[280,265,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40574"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=40574"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=40574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}