March 11, 2021

To the Honourable John Horgan, Premier of British Columbia, the Honourable Jennifer Whiteside, Minister of Education, and the Honourable Fin Donnelly, MLA for Coquitlam-Burke Mountain,

This is a letter to request funding allocation for the much-needed blended middle/secondary school on Burke Mountain in Coquitlam.

My name is [X] and my family and I have been living on Burke Mountain for [X] years. We have [X] children, aged [X].

It is important to my family to have a middle/secondary school here on Burke Mountain because [X - please include individual concerns and experiences here. This can include anything from what you were told by builders/developers, to personal experiences of older children being split up from peers to go to catchment middle schools, to bussing far distances to go to middle/high school].

Burke Mountain residents voted for the NDP because a school was promised. [You many want to note here that you changed your previous voting strategy if you did.] Please see that commitment through by advocating for provincial funding for the future blended middle/secondary school on Burke Mountain. We trust that all efforts will be made to fulfil NDP campaign promises at the government level to support the growing Burke Mountain school-aged population.

Thank you for your dedication to this very crucial funding.

Kind regards,

[Your name]

[Your address]

[phone number]