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MRS. MILDRED CARDIFF
Mrs. Mildred Cardiff, of
Huronview, formerly of Brussels,
passed away on March. 9 in her
75th year.
. Mrs. Cardiff was the daughter
of the late Emmanuel Hilborn and
the former Rosette Detweiler, of
Blyth.
On October 16, 1943 she was
married to Clifford J. Cardiff and
they farmed at RR2 Brussels
before moving to - Brussels in
1956. In 1972 they moved to
Huronview.
She was predeceased by her
husband Clifford J. ,Cardiff in
1972, by two sisters and two
brothers.
Mrs. Cardiff is survived by one
daughter, Anne, Mrs. Frank
Hiemstra of Listowel and, three
grandchildren,
Funeral services were held at
the M.L. Watts Funeral Home,
Brussels, on March 12 with Rev.
Eric LeDrew of Brussels United
Church officiating. Interment was
in Brussels Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Jack Mitchell,
Elliott Bartliff, Harvey Dennis,
James W. Smith, James Cardiff,
and Alvin McDonald.
DAVID JOHNSTON
David Johnston, 86 on Feb.
28 1977 at Trail Regional Hospital
B.C., after a lenghty illness.
Born in Bluevale, Ont June
11th 1890 he farmed in
Saskatchewan until moving to
B.C. in 1956.
He served during the First
World War and was a member of
the Royal Canadian Legion
Branch 11.
He was -a memberr of the East
Trail United Chtirch, where the
funeral service was held.
Mr. Johnston is survived by his
wife Edith, four daughters all in
B.C., one brother Jim of Bluevale
and two sisters Mrs. ' Verna
Bishop, Ethel and Mrs. Laura
Souch of Wingham.
B of E needs *11 0 increase
Huron County board of
education adopted a $20,529,864
budget Monday afternoon
approving an 11.2 percent
increase in expenses over 1976.
The increase will m can an
average five mill increase in the,
county raising the municipal levy
to 34.7 mills. The increased mill
rate is an average each munici-
pality will have to face but board
chairman Herb Turkheim said not
every municipality will suffer the
same fate due to the increase.
"Some municipalities will be
paying two or three mills more
according to their assessment,"
he said, "and some will be paying
much more than five mills."
Business superintendent Roy
Dunlop outlined the budget for
the board citing salaries and
benefits as the major reason for
the increase. Last year's budget
slated $15,917,562 for ordinary
board costs such as salaries while
debt charges, transportation costs
it% and other extraordinary needs
/ required $2,549,548. This year
$17,386,000 will be spent on
ordinary items and $3,142,944 on / — extraordinary.
Mr. Dunlop said the budget
figures assumed that the Anti
Inflation Board will remain in
dperation adding that if the AIB is
'disbanded the board could be in
trouble as far as wage negotia-
tions are concerned. He said the
budget increase for salaries and
benefits, which total 74.2 percent
of the budget, was based on a 10
percent increase in wages.
"Of all the figures in the
budget that's the one I'm least
happy about," said Dunlop. "If
the A1B is intact and we are
successful in wage negotiations
we are all right but if that doesn't
happen quite frankly we don't
have enough money put aside to
pay the costs."
Salaries in 1976 cost taxpayers
$14,055,540 and in 1977 the
budget committee set aside
$15,243,290 to cover increases for
the board's 650 odd employees.
The business superintendent
said his concern was based on a
decision made by the budget
committee in 1976. He said the
committee decided to use about
$200,000 in reserves the board
had in an effort to keep the
budget in line with 1975 and the
move had left the board walk ing
a thin line between solvency and
deficit. He said he had budgeted
$50,000 for this year to be
returned to the reserve fund and
hoped it could be built back up
without the board having to use
it.
The budget calls for munici-
palities to turn over $5,609,007 to
the board which includes money
needed to correct errors in the
last two years' budgets. Mr.
Dunlop said "in 1975 the
committee had overestimated
grants by $89,088 and in 1976 by
$13,898 leaving the board short
those amounts in its requisition
totals. He said the municipalities
would have ,to pay those costs•this
year to enable the board to clear
its books.
The other major expense faced
in 1977 is the purchase of four
new school buses which the board
approved at its Februa0
meeting. The buses cost a total of
$98,000 which showed up in*
increase in capital equipment
purchases. Mr. Dunlop said the
committee decided last year io
keep capital costs at a ,.bare
minimum and this year had met
with considerable opposition in
that area. He said teachers were
concerned that equipment ‘.in
schools was deteriorating a'nd
needed replacement, and urged
the Committee to support the
increased capital• costs,.
Trustee John Henderson said
he felt the board needed throe
information on the„ budget before
it could make a decision on it. He
said the trustees who sit on the
education . committee make
decisions regularly with no idea
what those decisions will cost, He
said the board should have all the
information possible, claiming in
the past they used to get that
material.
Shirley Hazlitt supported Mr.
Henderson's claim, adding that
the decisions are made with no
idea as to hoW they will ultimately
affect the budget.
Director of education John
Cochrane said the normal
procedure is for decisions made
both cdmmittees meet' simul-
taneously and half the board sits
on education and half sits on
management. The .Colborne
trustee said the system broke
down due to that reason.
Clarence MacDonald said he
felt that the system the board
used now was the •best in, a long ,
time. He
said quite often in the past
meetings would extend until the
wee hours of the morning over
petty issues and those days are
gone. •
"The committee system sterns
from, a certain amount of trust and
if that trust is missing the board is
in trouble," he said.
The, budget was presented at
Monday's meeting and required
the board's immediate approval
or a penalty would have been
imposed by the ministry of
education. Mr. Dunlop said the
ministry placed a penalty on the
board's grants if the budget
wasn't submitted by March 15.
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14,,,THE BRUSSELS POST, MARCH 16, 1977.