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The Brussels Post, 1978-01-18, Page 14kommittee chairman Donald McDonald told the board that the activity.days were to be. spent at m the site of the plowing atch. He said the comniittee recommends that attendance at the plowing match be a legitimate use of olio activity day for• professional staff subject tothe approval of the staff member's immediate supervisor. Mr. Allan told the board that the committee considered using one activity day for the plowing match but felt it may bedifficult if all Huron County teachers and students showed up at the site at th e .same time. • • • SELBY PUMA SAVAGE NORTH * STAR JOYCE WAKE BROS •1;.'7-HIE Special Groups of ... Women's SHOES MEN'S SHOES Children's SHOES REDUCTIONS 20% TO 70% OFF REGULAR 'PRICES M&n Street, All Winter Footwear, Reduced 2 -0% to 50% Seaforth Phone: 52.7-11 10 • G) CO 7C 0 • a 0 0. -4 70 0 • • • kr :P l IF 1 1: 6 1 1 1; r") C • • Starts THURSDAY Jan. 19 14 THE BRUSSELS POST, JANUARY 18, 1978 B of .E questions $4000 payment The"Huron County Board of Education members didn't know Wednesday whether a $4,433 membership in the. Ontario School Trustee's Council would be a duplication of a $3,521.30 membership they approved for the Ontario . Public School Trustee's Association. The board. decided to have John Cochrane, director of education, and Herb Turkheim, Huron's member on the Association, investigate the worth of Huron's membership in the council. The council, according to Mr. Cochrane, is the board's avenue to the ministry of education and is the only organized body of school board's in the province that the board recognizes. Huron has been a member of the council for the past five years The linron County Board 'of Education will be showing its wares at the 1978.lnternational Plowing Match being held in . Huron ,Counly. A plowing ma telt committee recommended to the board Wednesday that.' an educational display be budgeted for and ...et up at the site of the plowinL match. The ,mmadttee suggested that the board make the media centre co-ordinator D. J. Bieman responsible for the display and that Mr. Rieman be given money to Wart: with. Allan, superintendent of :0:41:at -ion and administrative advp-ot kin the committee. told the boart? that a very rough estimate Of motto\ needed for the dispiz\ ‘voirki be '•)l.000. \Ilan said that ale committee NI as thinking of pnrchas',np a In.1 /4.L.r for slide projectors to be used in display tc.idim.; that the rnachint• ICI, pionty ;if use tie board office. at Ley the plowing • N. -The thought was that if we k v pre go.t.:,.! iti 'have a priblic display ils•!•ou:d he decent.- Mr, hoard. looi2 nth the. suggestion that a hoidget be given the committee, l'el.MY1Melld tit ilth'N to have siwlents are teachers at the pittying mateh were also made, ,:on»nitt( t. asked that S. ptew 20 he made profe,kton..11 activity day lOr secov•klar ,. whocis and that Srptimher for elemental-, .furcherry Central Public 'ttto have September 27 threogh as rrofessiona Bluevale .Co rrespondtmt. IVIrs Walker 1558 !Or. and • Mrs -. Clarence llenning .entertained on ;January and' honored their mother. Me8:- Janet Walker. who was. celebra- ting, her birthday. Enjoying the occasion were Miss Margaret Wheeler .. Mr. and f\'lrs. dint 1Vvight...Mr,, and. Mrs, Ross Gray; 'Mr.. and. Mrs...10e Walker.. Mr. and Mrs, Ales MacTavis, Mr, and •Rayniond Wright. Mr. anal - Mrs. Gordon Wright and. Sherry, i•vria OtilL Walker, Nit and Nit's,. Rob MacTovisb,. tintni• and &brie. "K„td-i, andKevin Watll;t r, tatnil \ presented their 'tn. . v‘Ith a rocking chair. "The council is the only trustee group recognized by the ministry and is the umbrella the ministry uses to receive requests, resolu- tions and ideas from boards," said Cochrane. Goderich trustee Ca yley Hill raised the question of need for the Huron board to belong to both the council and the association. He said he did not mean to be critical of the organization but merely wanted to know if the board was duplicating services by belonging to both groups. He added that' in this time of restraint the board may be able to save $4,000 by joi ning just one group. "That will buy a lot of typewriters," he pointed out. Jack Alexander, Wingham's trustee, asked if anyone on the board knew if the Huron board got anything from the council worth the $4,433', Board chairman John Elliott said he had been to a convention sponsored by the council and said that it was worthwhile going to the affairs to hear speakers of the the calibre usually at the convention but he added that he didn't know if it was worth $4,000. Clinton trustee Dorothy Williams said she attended a convention designed to educate newly elected trustees in education administration. She said she found the covnention very worthwhile but didn't think she got enough information to merit a $4,000 expense. 'Mr. Turkheim told the board that he had been a director on the association for a year and explained that he knew nothing of the proCedure of the organization when he began attending meetings. He asisathe association provides' statistics for boards to use for salary negotiations and sponsors conventions designed to educate board trustees. he added that he was just beginning to understand association functions and that it took a year for him to "get his feet ' wet". "Over the past five years this board has paid $20,000 membership fees' for the council", said Mr. Hill. "I-lave we had that much worth of service? Mr. Hill told the board that he had been to two or three programs sponsored by the council and that he was very "Unimpressed!' with them and felt they were "virtually valueless". He said he hoped the board members weren't merely postponing the inevitable by not taking a firm stand on the matter and suggested that the board give full consideration to value for the expense before paying it. Mr. Elliott suggested that the board table the matter until it can be ascertained what benefits the board derives from membership in the council.. He added that the trustees should 'be given a clear. picture of, the pros and cons before making a decision, "If we don't know now we're not going to find out in 30 days," claimed Mr. Hill. "Some members of the board have been sitting at this table for a number of years. I'm not opposed, to tabling the matter but I would like to point out that the board should know now what the worth of the membership is." Mr. Cochrane explained to the board it was quite possible membership in the two councils duplicated services. He said the Ontario Public School Trustee. Association was composed of public school boards and was a member of the Ontario. School Trustees' Council. He added that the council was composed of all school sy stems, public, French and Catholic, not just public systems. "I can't say whether this board gets benefits from the expense," said Mr, Cochrane. "The council is an avenue to the ministry and the, question is can a board be an island, and stand by itself." He pointed out that the Huron Board can be a member of the association and not the council but that to be a member of the council it had to join the association. Under the association the Huron, board obtained the services of personnel relations co-ordiantor and have a two year pact with Fred Reeve who was hired to handle the job. Mr.Reeve handled negotiations between the board and its teachers this year' and has one year remaining on his contract. Mr. Reeve is also handling negotiations for Dufferin and Grey counties and the three boards are each paying one third of his salary on top of theIr membership fee for the association. Board plans match display GEORGE OF BRUSSELS is pleased to announce the appointment of Debbie Blake ' to our Blyth Salon. Call 523--4511 so. tItt4eiti1410;;P.11.14 i*11-31 P 4 Vtf • 4 .