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Home My WebLink AboutTimes-Advocate, 1978-03-23, Page 3Board opens secondary schools Times-Advocate, March 23, 1978 Continued from front page the 1977-78 contract. The proposal by the board negotiating team caused concern amongst some trustees since the lifting of the lockout demands that the board operate bus routes March 28 despite what the teachers do. The trustees asked if a teacher vote was required for the OSSTF District 45 to accept the board’s suggestions, Some felt that if the vote refused the offer the board was in the same situation it was when it imposed the lockout. Board chairman John Elliott said he didn’t think the issue required a teacher vote. He pointed out that it was very doubtful there would be a vote before March 28 since many of the teachers used the March break to go on vacations planned prior to the lockout. The teachers are not re quired to remain in the coun ty during the school March break and Elliott said he hoped the teacher negotiating team would agree to the new terms and that the 274 members would accept that and return to the classes. “They (the teachers) will have to make the decision to go teach or stay out,” he said. “We’ve opened every avenue for their return and can only hope their concern for the students will in fluence their decision.” In the letter to the OSSTF District 45 president the board suggested that if teachers were “earnestly concerned about the educa tion of the students of Huron County they would agree that the dispute had gone on long enough”. The letter said it was time to set negotiating postures aside and “get on with the job of education”. Cayley Hill said that if the issue required a teacher vote he hoped the negotiating team would give its membership an oppor tunity to decide for itself. He said he hoped the teacher negotiating team would ask its members to vote on the matter without “a few making decisions for the masses”. Hill said earlier he was surprised at teacher reac tions to board offers and continual refusal by the teacher’s negotiators to send the offers to the teachers for a vote. Hill said the move by the Protection up, but cost down Town of Exeter employees had their life in surance coverage raised by $5,000 each this week, but the increased protection will not result in any additional cost to ratepayers. In fact, the cost will ac tually be lower than the previous policy. Mutual Life represen tative Gerald Godbolt was on hand to explain that the package provided by his firm for the 20 municipal employees will drop from $947.75 per month to $922.10. He explained this was due to a drop in the group’s average age, plus a volume discount. “It seems ridiculous,” he noted after outlining that the increase in life insurance from $20,000 to $25,000 would actually cost less. “I like to do business like that,” commented Coun cillor Ken Ottewell as coun cil approved the increased protection. Accountants merge firms Local accountant Arthur W. Read announced this week that his firm has. merged with G. H. Ward & Partners, an accounting firm which has over 80 partners and 43 offices in operation across Ontario. The merger was effective on March 15. Read, who became suc cessor to Banghart, Kelly Doig and Company earlier this year, will be the resident partner and the manager of the Exeter office is John McNeilly. In addition to the provincial partnership, G. H. Ward is represented nationally by Ward, Mallette & Co. and internationally through Binder Seidman International. A resident of Grand Bend, Read joined Banghart, Kelly, Doig & Co. in their Exeter office in 1973, after several years in hospital administration work. He noted that the biggest advantage of the merger of his firm with G. H. Ward & Partners would be in the type of service they could provide for clients. The firm has several specialists available through their tax unit, central personnel, appraisals and processing. board was “logical” and while it didn’t settle the dis pute it guaranteed that the current school year will be completed without interrup tion. He said it may allow both parties to take advan tage of a “cooling off” period before beginning negotiations in earnest for the next school year. The board’s proposal hinges on the teacher’s acceptance of a committee to establish pupil period con tacts which is the number of students a teacher is re quired to see in a day. The pupil contact is the main bone of contention in the dis pute. The teachers want the board to agree to a specific number of students per teacher and the board wanted the matter left to its discretion each school year. The saw off suggested by the board is a committee consisting of one represen tative from the teachers, one school board trustee, one senior education ad ministrator and a principal appointed by the principal’s association. The committee would endeavour to establish pupil period contacts working within the confines of the pupil-teacher ratio in the contract. The recommen dations by the committee would be screened by the director of education and Okay debenture for storm drain Exeter council approved a debenture issue of $145,000 to pay for the nearly com pleted Alexander St. storm drain, Monday.. A representative of Bell, Gouinlock Ltd. appeared before council and indicated his firm could provide the debenture on a 15-year term for a total repayment cost of $279,822. L. Conn told council they should consider the deben ture immediately in view of pending interest rate in creases caused by the weakening of the Canadian dollar and uncertainty in the market due to the lifting of AIB controls next month. The cost involved in the debenture will be $4,712.50, which Conn said still left it below that which council would pay by acquiring the funds through the Ontario Municipal Improvement Corporation. CLOSED FOR rubber stamped by the board. The board feels that this method would not bind the board to a specific ratio it may not be able to live with in the future but still gives teachers considerable input into what the pupil period contact will be in a given year. The board agreed to the committee system and pass ed a policy statement Mon day night setting it up. Cayley Hill was appointed as the trustee member of the committee and superinten dant of education Don Kenwell as the senior ad ministrator. It remains for the teachers to agree to the system and appoint a member and the principals to select a representative. The board feels the system will allow for a pupil period contact ratio that will be as equitable as possible. The policy replaces the deleted clause concerning pupil period contact that is one of the reasons the teachers chose to strike. The other clause in con tention is sick leave gratuity and the board altered its stance slightly to try to amend that issue. The clause proposed suggests that a teacher who has com pleted 12 years of service and is 50 years old or is in receipt of a pension under the provisions of the Teacher’s Superannuation Act. The teachers want the age limit to be set at 42 years of age. r I i ¥ rt-; data > TOWN HALL DONATIONS Imperial Oil Ltd................................................ Verna Greenlee .............................................. Jake Lindenfield.............................................. John & Elizabeth Schroeder.......................... Jack Riddell ..................................................... Don & Audrey MacGregor............................. Stacey & Danny Purden ................................ One Anonymous Donation........................... Mrs. Dorothy Bullock....................................... Mrs. H. Rowdiffe............................................ One Anonymous Donation........................... John Spacik ..................................................... R.H. Mills........................................................... 3 Anonymous Donations of $25.00............. One Anonymous Donation........................... Two Anonymous Donations of $10.00....... $400 10 10 40 10 100 10 500 5 5 30 5 5 75 20 20 TWO WEEKS Wally's Chinese Garden $ r,? j MRS. DOREEN SPENCER Mrs. Doreen (Farquhar) beloved wife of Walter C. Spencer Hensail passed away at South Huron Hospital, Exeter Thursday March 16, 1978. She is sur vived by a daughter Mrs. John (Gwendolyn) Lewis, Sarnia and son Gregory Spencer, Bancroft. Also surviving is her mother Mrs. Charles (Emma) Farquhar, Hen sail; sisters Miss Dorothy Farquhar, and Mrs. E. ' (Mary) Knox of .Toronto; brothers Aubrey, Exeter and Ronald, Toronto; six grandchildren. Funeral services were from Hensall United Church, Saturday. Officiating were Rev. Don Beck assisted by Rev. Harold Currie, Sebringville. Interment Exeter Cemetery, The pallbearers were Eric Luther, Howard Scane, Ron Mock, Al Scholl, William Smith and Douglas Cook. GEORGE FAULKNER George William Faulkner passed away Monday, March 15, at Kingston General Hospital. He is survived by his former Barbara sons Brian and both of Oshawa, Harold, Toronto grandchildren. The funeral service was held March 14 from the Lannin Funeral Home, Smith Falls with interment in Hillcrest Cemetery. ISABELLE KING Mrs. Isabelle King passed away Wednesday March 22 at South Huron Hospital in her 74th year. The beloved wife of Samuel King of Crediton and the mother of Mrs. Earl (Eunice) Whalen, Cobden and Mrs. Marlene Mahoney, Cambridge. She is also survived by sisters Mrs. Mary Henry, Ailsa Craig and Mrs. Evelyn O’Neill, Lucan, a brother John Donaldson, Ailsa Craig and four grandchildren. The funeral will be held Friday, March 24 at 2:30 p.m. at the, Hopper-Hockey Funeral* Home, Exeter with Rev. Bruce Pierce officiating. wife the Harrison, Leonard, a brother and five SARA JEFFREY In St. Joseph’s Hospital, London on Sunday, March 19, 1978, Sara (Masse) Jef frey in her 91st year. Belov ed wife of the late Remie Jeffrey. Dear mother of Vin cent of Detroit, Dominic, Maxim, and Alphonse Jef frey, all of RR 2, Zurich, Gerald of Ottawa, Lucille and Cherie Jeffrey, RR 2, Zurich, Mrs. Robert (Doris) Mernovage, Royal Oak, • Michigan, 22 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren sur vive. The funeral was held Wednesday from the. 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