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MPP Berns-McGown: $205.6-M of Disrepair in Beaches-East York Schools

Dear MPP Berns-McGown,

Did you know there is $205.6-million of disrepair in the publicly funded schools in your riding of Beaches-East York? We wanted to share the following details of disrepair in each school in your riding in the hope that this detailed information would underscore the importance of developing standards of good repair for Ontario schools and also the importance of providing the adequate, stable provincial funding to school boards required for them to meet those new standards and eliminate the $15.9-billion repair backlog that plagues Ontario’s schools:

Total disrepair in each publicly funded school in Beaches-East York:

Canadian Martyrs C S $3,478,932
Notre Dame CHS $9,370,904
St Brigid CS $7,230,082
St Denis CS $2,469,126
St John CS $7,717,192
Adam Beck Jr PS $4,977,407
Balmy Beach CS $2,469,894
Bowmore Road Jr & Sr PS $17,501,229
Crescent Town ES $2,321,555
D A Morrison MS $10,870,628
Earl Beatty Jr & Sr PS $10,579,863
Earl Haig PS $8,400,976
East York Alt SS $574,757
East York CI $20,018,730
George Webster ES (JK5) $4,178,903
Gledhill Jr PS $5,873,960
Glen Ames Sr PS $5,546,692
Gordon A Brown MS $6,108,706
Kew Beach Jr PS $9,181,416
Kimberley Jr PS $4,227,501
Malvern CI $20,420,852
Norway Jr PS $4,740,082
Parkside ES $4,672,655
Presteign Heights ES $4,388,597
Secord ES $9,464,728
Selwyn ES $3,618,516
Victoria Park ES $2,392,544
William J McCordic School $3,089,391
Williamson Road Jr PS $7,044,210
ÉÉC GeorgesÉtienneCartier $2,659,210

School conditions matter. They impact student learning, attendance, and health.

We commend you for personally signing the Fix Our Schools Pledge leading up to the June election and ask that you help ensure the provincial government prioritizes schools as critical infrastructure. Please take the steps necessary to ensure that the disrepair in all of Ontario’s publicly funded schools is eliminated and that schools are safe, healthy, well-maintained buildings that provide environments conducive to learning and working. We look forward to hearing back from you with details on your plan to Fix Ontario’s Schools.

PLEASE NOTE: Fix Our Schools is relying on the most recent disrepair data provided by the Ministry of Education in Fall 2017 and has mapped postal codes provided by the Ministry for each school to riding postal code information from a third party. Therefore, it is possible that there may be small errors in the data provided here and we would be grateful if community members would contact us with any errors. 

 

“It could have been catastrophic”

Thankfully, nobody was injured after part of a pedestrian bridge collapsed in Toronto’s east end early Saturday morning, leaving a gaping hole and sending concrete to the ground. The bridge is 5 metres above the ground and is used by many children and parents to get to Crescent Town Elementary School.

“Mercifully it happened on a weekend morning and there were no kids or parents on or under it & no injuries,” Beaches-East York MPP Rima Berns-McGown tweeted. “It could have been catastrophic.”

The Toronto District School Board (TDSB) shares maintenance of the bridge with Pinedale Properties. According to CityTV, the part of the bridge that collapsed is owned by Pinedale. The TDSB has advised parents that the bridge is not accessible until further notice as it works with Pinedale properties to determine next steps.

For almost five years now, Fix Our Schools has been asking if Ontario’s infrastructure is safe for school children and if Ontario’s publicly-funded schools are safe for school children.

Malvern Collegiate Institute in Beaches-East York, needs $20.4-million in repairs. The urgent repairs this school building needs include new roofs, foundation, staircase repairs and replacement of fire protection systems, including sprinklers. With almost $16-billion of outstanding repairs in Ontario schools, of which $205.6-million exists in Beaches-East York schools, it is hard to imagine that some schools aren’t “accidents waiting to happen”.

All parties involved in building and maintaining any infrastructure – especially infrastructure used by children – must work together to ensure a high standard of safety and maintenance.