The Brussels Post, 1977-09-14, Page 8357-3862
The Huron County Board of
Education delayed decision on a
recoMmendation to spend
$30,000 repairing and replacing
vocational equipment in 1977 and
$42,000 in 1978. The recommend-
ation was made to the board at its
Tuesday meeting after a commit-
tee looked, into board policy for
repairing or replacing worn out or •
Ward speht $12,457 for repairs to
equipment and allocated $18,308
of the 1977 budget for replace-
ment of equipment.
The principals or the schools,
after consulting with vocational
directors, .suggested that the
board budget $14,720 for repairs
to equipment annually and
$45,500 for replacement. The
committee recommended that in
1977 the board spend another
$12,457 for repairs and $18,308
for replacement and in 1978
increase the budget by $14,1001
and $28,200 respectively 'to
update equipment in the schools.
The committee also
recommended that a closer liaison
be established between the board
and the vocational directors and
that the committee set up to
investigate the matter beconie
permanent. .It suggested that a
closer scrutiny of the condition of
the equipment " be maintained
allowing directors to become
more involved with repair and
replacement of equipment and
the supervising of funds to meet
that end.
R.J. Elliott, Blyth trustee,
obsolete equipment in the county,.
schools.
The board set up the committee
in April to meet with commercial
and technical vocational directors
of the county to formulate a long
range plan to keep equipment in
the classrooms up to date and in
sound workingi order. The
committee met with directors of
the five county secondary schools
and found many shortcomings in
the replacement system used by
the board.
The cOmMercial and technical
classrooms in, the five county
schools have a total inventory of
$827,455 ba , cd on the original
cost price. 1)1 that about $97,000
worth of cc, ip:rlent is in need of
repair and a.'out $40,000 worth in
need of rel lacement. In 1976 the
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Each school to have
French classroom
The Huron County Board of
Education decided Tuesday to
accept an offer from the ministry
of education to equip one
classroom in each elementary
school in the county as a French
language classroom. The decision
will not cost the board anything
since the ministry of education is
increasing its support for the
teaching of French as a second
language.
Director of education John
Cochrane told the board that the*
ministry offered grants for the
classrooMs paying 1'00 percent of
the costs up to $1,000. He said he
did not know what the equipment
would entail but suspected it may
include a record player and
possibly • some posters and
artifacts conducive to a French
. atmosphere in the classroom. •
The classrooms follow a pilot
project sponsored by the ministry'
two years ago that set tip one.
classroom in the county for
teaching French. The change now
increases that number to 24
classrooms in Huron.
Mr. Cochrane said that the
decision would not require the
board to designate an *extra
classroom in each school but
would mean that• whatever room
was being used currently to teach
the subject would be the room
equipped by the ministry.
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