Vik Khanna

ALT White card with the VTCo logo. Headline: Data and stories together. Quote: A number can tell us that a school is full. A realtor can tell us how many families asked about that school before they made an offer. Credit line: VTCo Fireside Chats, conversations with realtors across BC, by Zahara Czar, 29 October 2026.

ALT VTCo diagram titled "The plan comes before the fee." Three bars drawn to scale compare school charges per new home: Redmond, Washington, single-family, $7,277 charged from 1 January 2026 (long black bar); the British Columbia regulatory ceiling of $1,000 at low density and $600 at high density (short blue bars). A note says this sets an amount charged beside a regulated ceiling, and the two fund school capital from different sources. Below, two chains of boxes. Washington: district plan with inventory, capacity, forecast and six-year financing; the city plan must gather the district's figures; a dated fee schedule set by formula; a ten-year clock, with money held in a separate account and spent or committed within ten years. British Columbia: a facilities plan of at least ten years; a sites proposal filed with local governments; a charge capped at $600 to $1,000 a unit; and a hatched box asking whether it applies inside the City of Vancouver, open on the record. Nine VSB trustees take

ALT VTCo spatial horizon diagram titled "One district. Four horizons." plotting Vancouver School Board enrolment projection horizons to true proportional scale from 2020 to 2050. A shaded blue band from 2020 to 2030 marks the BC Ministry 10-year minimum floor. Four horizontal bars show where each public record stops: 2031 (11 yrs, published May 2022 LRFP school tables, leaving 19 years unshown to 2050); 2036 (16 yrs, district macro tables in the same plan, leaving 14 years unshown); 2039 (19 yrs, the set carried into the December 2025 Sir Guy Carleton closure decision, leaving 11 years unshown); and 2050 (30 yrs, 16 June 2025 Facilities Planning Committee charts). A red bracket highlights the 19-year horizon gap between 2031 and 2050. Below, four schema blocks show the fix for the 2 Nov 2026 trustee swearing-in: Field 01 End year, Field 02 Producer, Field 03 Date produced, Field 04 Determination. VTCo logo bottom left; schoolguide.vtco.app.

ALT VTCo card titled "One district. Four horizons." about Vancouver School Board enrolment projections. Four rows of end years: 2031, published long range plan projections (May 2022); 2036, some district projections in the same plan; 2039, the set carried into the December 2025 closure decision; 2050, Facilities Planning Committee charts (16 June 2025). A highlighted line reads "Ministry floor: ten years, at a minimum. No ceiling." Below: "A horizon statement on every projection table, in four lines: end year, producer, date produced, the determination it serves." Sources: VSB 2020 Long-Range District Overview, 2021 Update (May 2022); VSB Facilities Planning Committee, 16 June 2025; VSB closure info session, 28 Oct 2025; Ministry LRFP Guidelines, April 2019. VTCo logo bottom left.

ALT VTCo School Guide card titled "Two new tables. One public record." Two dated rows: Saturday 24 October, British Columbia elects its next provincial government; Monday 2 November, nine Vancouver School Board trustees take office. A highlighted line reads "Every figure carries a public source and a date." Example: Vancouver DPAC LTIP review (children aged 0 to 17 in SD39, 10 Nov 2021), 39 per cent growth (BC Stats PEOPLE, 2021 to 2035) versus 5 per cent decline (VSB Open Data), and 5,434 fewer children in VSB Open Data than in the 2016 Statistics Canada Census. Sources: Vancouver DPAC LTIP Questions, 10 Nov 2021 (pp. 5 to 7, citing BC Stats PEOPLE, VSB Open Data and Statistics Canada 2016 Census); VSB events calendar. VTCo logo bottom left.

ALT VTCo Primary Sources card titled "The denominator was bargained". Weir Elementary, 379 students in 2024-25, reads 90.0 per cent against operating capacity, set by a collective agreement, and 81.5 per cent against nominal capacity, a Ministry design rule for a floor plan. A table lists the three receiving schools against operating and nominal capacity: Cunningham 71.6 and 64.8 per cent, Weir 90.0 and 81.5, MacCorkindale 66.2 and 60.0, all three 75.3 and 68.2. 152 places separate the two ceilings. Sources: Vancouver School Board slides, 28 Oct 2025; Ministry of Education Long-Range Facilities Plan Guidelines, 2019. VTCo logo bottom left.

ALT VTCo card titled "Where a province writes the next step for a surplus school site". Alberta: a reserve designation on the certificate of title. British Columbia: Ministerial Order M193/08, an approval to be sought. A table compares the two: what blocks a sale (the designation under s. 671; no Minister's approval), default destination (the municipality under s. 672; none named, the board holds), title to new sites (the Crown on 45 days' notice; the board in fee simple), and in force (27 March 2025, Bill 51; 3 September 2008). Sources listed; VTCo logo bottom left.

ALT VTCo Primary Sources card titled "Thompson and the Gordon Park swap". Two large figures: 86 per cent of 602 respondents backed the land exchange in 2019; $153.8 million estimated for a seismic upgrade, listed for 2030 in the VSB Sustainability Plan. A caption reads: David Thompson Secondary, 1,463 students in 2025-26; H1 seismic risk; a Year 1 priority in the 2027-28 capital plan. A table of the record: May 2019, School Board, swap approved subject to a replacement; June 2019, Park Board, equal-area swap talks authorized; June 2024, capital plan, seismic upgrade at $153,806,841; January 2026, Sustainability Plan, upgrade in 2030 at $153,806,841; June 2026, capital plan, feasibility study leans to the upgrade. A note reads: final approval is contingent on Ministry funding for a full replacement school.

ALT VTCo Primary Sources card titled "400 family homes on Kingsway". Two large figures: 1,082 rental homes proposed in five towers at 3410-3436 Kingsway; 400 with two or three bedrooms, about 37 per cent of the homes. A caption reads: a few blocks west, Sir Guy Carleton Elementary, 3250 Kingsway, Joyce-Collingwood Transit-Oriented Area. A table: August 2016, Carleton, fire, building out of use for classes; March 2024, VSB letter, development near Carleton would bring enrolment; December 2025, VSB bylaw, Carleton closure adopted 5 to 3; October 2026, Daily Hive, Safeway rezoning, 1,082 homes and childcare; October 2026, election, new School Board holds the forecast. A note reads: check which schools serve any Vancouver address free on School Guide. Sources: Daily Hive, 21 Oct 2026; 2025 BCSC 962, para. 392; VSB special board minutes, 18 Dec 2025. VTCo logo bottom left.