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Home My WebLink AboutClinton News-Record, 1973-06-28, Page 7The Huron County Board of Education For the year ended December 3 1st, 1 972 Auditor's Report TO THE HURON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION: I have examined the Balance Sheet of the Huron County Board of Education as at December 31, 1972, and the Statements of Revenue Fund-Revenue and Expenditure, and Source and Application of Capital Funds for the year then ended. My examination included a general review of the accounting procedures and such tests of account- ing records and other supporting evidence as I considered necessary in the circumstances. ' In my opinion these Financial Statements present fairly the financial position of the Board as at December 31, 1972 and the results of its operations and the source and application of its capital ftinds for the year then ended, in accordance with accounting prin- ciples generally accepted for Ontario school boards applied on a basis consistent with that of the preceding year. A. M. HARPER, Municipal Auditor--4440. Goderich, Ontario, May 30, 1973. BALANCE SHEET as at December 3L ASSETS Citreeht"Adiezti "31?" ""("" j'' • '• -101 b9t)*MWTi ti) tLIti ,n.,:mmitownL nn Bin Cash Accounts Receivable Municipalities. Government of Ontario Other Due from Capital funds .. Other current assets . Total Current Assets ...... Fixed Assets Deficit as at January 1, 1969 reduced by Ontario Government Assistance in respect thereof ... . ..... . Total Assets LIABILITIES Current Liabilities Accounts payable Municipalities-over-requisitions Other Due to revenue fund Total Current Liabilities 550,247 141,973 Unmatured debenture debt 7,710,317 Reserve for working funds 200,000 Investment in fixed assets 16,710,001 Total Liabilities $ 750,247 $24,562,291 Approved on behalf of the Board, E. C. HILL, Chairman, D. J. COCHRANE, Chief Executive Officer. REVENUE FUND Statement of Revenue and Expenditure For Secondary Purposes For the year ended December 31, 1972 EXPENDITURE NOTES: (1) Other revenue includes transfers from the capital fund, proceeds from the sale of assets, insurance claims, earnings on temporary investments, reimbursements for services and other miscellaneous items that are in the nature of recovery of expenditure. (2) Local taxation includes the total of the 1972 requisition on muni-. , cipalities, supplementary taxes, license fees for trailers, taxes • levied directly by school boards and any other ardounts proVided'; by municipalities over and above the requisition: REVENUE FUND Statement of Revenue and Expenditure For Elementary Purposes For the year ended December 31, 1972 EXPENDITURE Business Administration $ 87,771 Computer Services 1,448 Instruction 3,665,432 Educational Services 78,592 Attendance, Health and Food Services 3,522 Plant Operation 418,194 Plaint Maintenance 49,096 Transportation 508,801 Tuition Fees 18,323 Capital Expenditures (Non-Allocable) 103,247 Other Operating Expenditure 33,272 Debt Charges on Capital Borrowing 616,168 Non-Operating Expenditure, excluding Transfers to Reserves Total Expenditure . ............. $5,604,746 RECOVERIES OF EXPENDITURE Other School Boards ... ..„ 13,766 Government of Ontario, Tuition Fees and Mis- cellaneous Government of Canada Individuals Other Revenue, excluding Transfers from Reserves Net Expenditure Net Expenditure financed by: Government of Ontario General Legislative Grants . ...... 4,153,614 Local Taxation: 1971 Over (Under) Requisition 37,981 Local Taxation raised in 1972 1,511,312 Decrease (Increase) in Reserves . .(103,000) 1,446,293 5,599,907 Net Under (Over) Requisition required to be applied to 1973 Taxation (23,696) 20,880 $ 42,463 $ 507,784 141,973 4,014 8,168 200 2,387 28,535 5,576,211 Business AdminiStration Computer Services Instruction Educational Services . Attendance, Health and Food Services Plant Operation .. Plant Maintenance Transportation Tuition Fees Capital Expenditures (Non-Allocable) Other Operating Expenditure . Debt Charges on Capital Borrowing Non-Operating Expenditure, excluding Transfers to Reserves Total Expenditure RECOVERIES OF EXPENDITURE Other School Boards Government of Ontario, Tuition Fees and IVIiacellaneous Government of Canada Individuals ...... Other Revenue, excluding Transfers from. Reserves Net EXpenditure . . • -Net 'Expenditure financed by: Government of Ontario, General Legistlative Grants Local Taxation 1971 Over (Under) Requisition Loeal Taxation raised in 1972 Decre'ase (Increase) in Reserves Net Under (Over) Requisition Required to be Applied to 1973 Taxation Statement of Source and Application of Capital Funds For the year ended December 3L 1972 SOURCE Unexpended Funds at Beginning of rear . $ 13,226 Long-Term Liabilities, at Par: $ 642,728 Sold to Province of Ontario Education Aid Corporation ..„. 250,000 10,818 250,000 14,847 Capital Expenditures from the Revenue Fund 242,012 18,042 Federal Sales Tax Refund 8,646 Total 513,884 APPLICATION Fixed Assets and Work in Progress: BuiIdingS ..... ............ .................... Furniture and Equipment 69,071 'Other Payments on Projects: Administrative Costs 5,059 School Sites---Administrative Offices Site 38,190 Mises. 58,471 Unexpended Funds at end of year Total $240,066 18,761 405,857 1.08,027 $-513,884 $ 82,658 1,364 4,004,322 68,488 8,513 492,207 18,354 401,590 276,200 11,273 38,829 379,075 32,806 $5,816,570 1972 Revenue Capital Fund Fund $ 104,391 $ ; 3,535 299,860 250,000 66,463 141,973 43,005 659,227 250,000 24,312,291 91,020 $750,247 $24,562,291 7,663 694,098 $5,122,481 3,820,042 163,378 1,254,828 (97,000) 1,321,206 5,141,248 Mrs. M. Cardiff a Hurortvlow resident makes the bean-big toss look like child's play as she sinks six shot* In a row to the amazement of on-lookers George 'Nicholson (standing left). Edgar Rowe, (centre) and Rey. A. Mowatt. Mrs. A.' Leyburne, (seated) is also watching the "demonstration", USED MACHINES:- REPAIRS TO ALL MAKES 37tfn C14..1iNT9N NIRWS-11EPOR,1). •Tlit-18$10.AY, JUNE 1,973"-'7 Bs jack niddell, nitro.) 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Rather lengthy debate was given the regional government bills. Many ammendments were proposed by opposition members but voted down by the government, The bills passed in their original form on the y strength of the majority government. A standing com- mittee discussed the Govern- ment's new planning act clause by clause and several ammend- ments proposed by opposition members were approved. Plans to control development in the Niagara Escarpment and a proposal for a parkway belt system to separate urban areas were given lengthy and often- times heated debate. There will be summer work for a large number of MPP's, Select committees on everything from land drainage to economic and cultural nationalism will be travelling, holding hearings and writing reports. The select committee in- vestigating the contract for On- tario Hydro's new head office building will almost certainly have to sit well into July. In connection with this in- vAtigation the cornmiteed.leaV that no study vp.sr9ade,,ofi costs for maintenance at tlie- new building by Hydro of- ficials. Hydro's manager of building office facilities testified that Ontario Hydra of- ficials haven't really studied whether Hydro could maintain its new headquarters building for less than it , will pay a private developer. His response surprised committee counsel Richard ShibleY and some members of the committee who noted that supposed savings in maintenance costs had been a major consideration in Hydro opting for a lease-purchase agreement under which the developer would manage the building. The image of the Ontario Hydro-Electric Power Com- mission as a body that rubber stamps decisions of its senior administratives emerged in a estimony of one of the corn, issioner's before the select !ommittee this week, The corn, ission was not consulted on a ecision by management to bandon a set of architectural lans for the head office uilding at a cost of nearly 1.5 illion, The commission was of advised of the likelihood of ydro proceeding with a lease- urchase agreement rather -Ian building the structure it- if. A 46 page analysis of com- titive bids from four velopers was never submitted LOVABLE PET SUPPLIES * Collars, Leads etc. * Brushes * Shampoos * Medications * Dishes, Treats etc, * Preferred Foods Your choice at - bulk prices Closed Saturday Afternoons Only DURST FARM it ARDEN CENTRE 22 Isaac St. 482-9333 CLINTON to the commission. The con- tract to erect the building was let to Canada Square owned by Mr, Moog, a close personal friend of Premier Davis. Globe and Mail reporter Gerald McCu iliffe testified before the committee that Donald Smith, president of Ellis-Don Limited of London, Ontario told him not once but twice that, "I was told to keep my mouth shut or I would never get another Government job" in connection with the deal to build Ontario Hydro's new office headquarters. Mr. Smith made the statement in a telephone con- versation attributing it to, an unnamed source close to the Ontario Cabinet and high in the Progressive Conservative Party, who called to tell him the Globe and Mail was in- vestigating. Ellis-Don Limited was one of the three firms that lost out to Canada Square Cor- poration Limited on the Hydro job, Mr. Smith flatly denied either making the statement or being threatened. John Cronyn, a director of Ellis-Don Limited and a senior vice-president of John Labatt Limited was iden- tified as the caller. In the period being investigated Mr. Cronyn was also chairman of Ontario's Committee on Gover- nment productivity. A committee of the Legislature tabled a report proposing wide-ranging reforms to break down the barriers it has found between schools and the communities they are sup- posed to serve. The Select Com- mittee on the Utilization of Educational Facilities would take the responsibility for the use of schools away from school boards and hand it to local community action councils. The Committee would abolish the requirements that teachers have formal certificates and would encourage the use of the provinces' system of education. Opposition Leader Robert Nixon criticized the provinces regional government legislation for Hamilton-Wentworth saying a sort of snobbery was tik.) involved inkeeping the town of lEtry,Ilin-gtorctout of the region. Mr. Nixon's speech was made mostly to empty seats. At one point only eight of the 76 gover- nment members were in the Legislature and there wasn't a single cabinet minister present for most of the Liberal leader's remarks, Mr. Nixon noted the lack of cabinet ministers including John White, Minister of In- tergovernmental Affairs, who sponsored the bill. He said it was indicative of the arrogant approach of the Government and that Government Cabinet ministers don't give a damn about what is said in the Legislature. Michael Cassidy, NDP Ot- tawa Centre, criticized Regional Government in Peel County as being tailored to the wishes of developers rather than the voters, He called the Provinces' Peel proposal an unholy alliance between the Conservative party, developers and development-oriented councils in the region. Treasurer John White replying to opposition questions in the Legislature about former premier John Robarts criticism of Government housing policies said that he could give no assurance to the House that Robarts suggestion would be adopted. Robarts called for an end to provincial and federal sales taxes on construction materials which total 19 per- cent to help make housing more affordable. Ontario Liberals from the seven percent sales tax, The Ontario Government presented a green paper to the Legislature outlining 18 major proposals designed to give women more job opportunities both in and out of the public service. If the proposals are ac- cepted the Government plans to appoint more women to Gover- nment boards, commissions and the judiciary; improve equal pay legislation and broaden the interpretation of the equal work concept; speed changes in family law; take the initiative in developing a province-wide day-care program; and make family planning end birth control ser- vices more available, However, since the green paper is not Government policy, but only a suggested course of action, the Government has left itself with an out, During the question period in the House no Government member denied the disclosure by New Democratic Party leader Stephen Lewis that logging is to be allowed to con- tinue in Algonquin Park. He said the Government had decided to put an end to' private logging in Algonquin Park but would permit logging under a Government agency to protect jobs in the area, Leo Bernier, Minister of Natural Resources, announced in the Legislature that Quetico, a 1794 square mile wilderness park in the north western cor- ner of Ontario, is to be de- civilized. The Ontario Govern- ment is to spend $2 million over the next five years to make it more primitive, preserve it for future generations and make it more accessible to Canadians. The changes to the park will prohibit commercial logging, mining, and prospec- ting, eventually ban boat motors, eliminate car cam- pgrounds and restrict land users in three buffer zones spreading out from the park boundary. A bill introduced by John Clement, Minister of Consumer and Commercial Relations, was being reviewed clause by clause by a committee of the Legislature but failed to get ap- proval before adjournment of the House. The proposed act regulates those allowed to gather and disseminate infor- mation, places restrictions on the type of information, and gives consumers the right to look at their individual files and have erroneous infor- mation corrected. The bill will be reintroduced for further debate when the session recon- venes in October. The Ontario Federatioji, -Agiidt4tge ;pbriotion Hie aHeai6ab'efore a commit= `'tee `'tee of the Legislature examining Mr. White's bills to plan land use in the province. Mr. Hill asked the Government to provide for compensation to farmers whose lands drop in value because of land-use plan- ning. Treasurer John White said they aren't likely to get it. Mr. Hill stressed the fact that there should be compen- sation when Government designation of farm land per- manent agriculture use takes away their development. Mr. Hill said the O.F.A. supports the principle of land-use plan- ning but does not believe far- mers should have to suffer because of decisions made for the good of society as a whole. Adjournment of the House for the summer recess came in time for a week-long visit of Queen Elizabeth which begins Monday. Members of the On- tario Legislature will attend a welcoming ceremony for the Queen on Tuesday morning to be followed by a State dinner on Tuesday evening. Members and their wives are requested to be present at a special screening of the Ontario- produced film "Catch the Sun" at Cinesphere in Ontario Place on Monday afternoon. The Royal Party will be in atten- dance at the showing, The House having wound up its bitter session, with 180 bills being debated during the three month sitting, marks the end of Jack's Jottings until the legislature resumes sittings Oc- tober 2nd. At this time I will be baek to bring you the proceedings of the legislature as they occur week by week. I would like to take this op- portunity to Wish you all a very pleasant summer and a most enjoyable holiday. Even though the Legislature is not sitting I will be available to discuss any problems that you may encoun- ter over the summer months and hopefully we may be able to resolve such problems during My weekly trips to the office at Queens Park. LET MIKE LUCAS help you With your DECORATING PROBLEMS for FREE ESTIMATES for PAINTING and WALLPAPERING CALL CLINTON 482-3625 Phone 523-4272 R. Cook, Prop. Ellyth, Ont. WE HAVE A FREE PICK-UP AND DELIVERY SERVICE MARY'S SEWING CENTRE 17 ALBERT ST, CLINTON, ONT. AUTHORIZED WHITE - ELNA DEALER SPECIAL SEWING CLASSES ON LINGERIE KNITS and MEN'S WEAR. PRECISION SCISSOR SHARPENING