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tm iii m economist sunsuntribune education saturday may 3 2003 11 parents want sdss improved from page 1 f the high school are caught in a catch22 the board wont build a school without the services in place but the services wont come without development of which a high school is a key part a high school provides a focus for the community arid we dont have that focus in east gwillimbury ms hackson said while the residents of york regions secondsmallest munic ipality wait for their own high school the regions changing demographics suggest their wait could be longer than expected between 1996 and 2001 the dates of the last two censuses york regions population grew 23 percent from more than 592000 people to almost 729000 the bulk of that growth occurred in me three southern municipalities with vaughans population alone growing more than 37 per cent in those five years by comparison east gwillimburyis population grew from 19770 in 1996 to 20555 in 2001 a rate of just 4 per cent only king at 17 per cent was lower georgina and whitchurchstouffville grew by 11 and 13 per cent respectively the boards 20032006 capital project list echoes those trends in march superintendent of cor porate planning ralph benson told trustees 29 elementary schools four secondary schools and three major school addi tions are either under construc tion or being proposed at a cost of almost 300 million of those 13 are in markham 1 1 are in vaughan and seven are in richmond hill newmarket accounts for three and aurora and stouffville will get one ele mentary school apiece f theres something about this situation that isnt right i understandably the board says it has to put the resource where the students are but east gwillimbury and whitchurch- stouffville trustee bob burrows says theres a growing feeling among his constituents their needs are being overlooked i think they often feel like theyve been pushed off to the side repeatedly he said mr burrows has received calls and letters from parents of students at stouffville district secondary school who are very concerned about the physical condition of their school with the fact he serves trie largest area of all 12 trustees mr burrows wonders if its time each of his two municipalities had its own trustee the fact is theres something about this situation that isnt right he said both towns often have different priorities maybe we can do with one less trustee in markham and have one more for east gwillimbury and whitchurchstouffville markham currently has four trustees the distribution of school trustees may have to change in the near future but not for at least four years and not in the way mr burrows may want with municipal elections coming in november trustees are required by law to report to the province any changes in the number of trustees they require york regions board voted in march to keep their number and distribution the same as the last municipal election which was held in 2000 that means the board will remain fixed at 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