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The board hopes to cut costs at the secondary school level by using board owned buses, driven by teachers from the schools, to transport students on field trips and school teams travelling to other schools for athletic competition. A year long experiment at Goderich District Collegiate Institute proved that costs can be cut by locating a bus at a secondary school and making it available to that school and elementary schools near it. GDCI principal John Stringer asked the board in. October of 1977 to give the school a surplus bus on a trial basis to see if money could he saved from the school's field .trip and transportation budget. In a letter to the board Stringer said the bus had travelled 3,492 miles since it was delivered to the school and that it had been used by Goderich Collegiate, Colborne Central Public School, Exeter Public School and two elementary schools in Goderich. The principal indicated that maintenance costs on the vehicle had been high ior the year but noted that some repairs were extensive and that the bus should be safe from major repairs for the next. several years. Despite. the unusual costs the board owned bus was cheaper than the con- ventional method of hiring a bus and driver for field trips and atheletic events. Stringer pointed out that the availability of the bus has enabled elementary schools" to retain worthwhile field trips and has made the Outdoor education program at GDCI much more .effective. The principal told the board the bus "remains a valuable asset to the GDCI students and the elementary schools that use • it.'' Seaforth trustee John Henderson asked the board to give Seaforth District Secondary School one of the better buses to permit that school to operate a program similar to Goderich. Henerson asked that the principal of the school be given the chance to have a bus if he wanted it stressing than it "be one of the better buses". Exeter trustee Clarence McDonald told the board that when the program was first . suggested he fought it but said that "if this is the way we are going to go we may as well have one at South Huron in Exeter". McDonald suggested that eat. h of the secondary schools be offered a bus stipulating- that if the principal took the vehicles costs to maintain and operate it would come out of the school's field trip budget. People in Brussels seem to be concerned about getting more police protection in the village or at least that's the way it seemed at the regular meeting of Brussels council held last Monday night. Brussels' 1;usiness Association (BBA) chairman Ken Webster wa:i at the meeting to tell council about a suggestion• that had been Director of education John Cochrane suggested that the board "put this can of worms to bed once and for all." He asked if the board intended to make it policy to give schOolsa surplus bus rather than sell the vehicles by tender. "I can't see us keeping a whole fleet of surplus buses," commented. Colborne trustee Shirley Hazlitt. Board chairman John Elliott reminded the board of the fina ncial problems it is plagued with. Elliott said the board faces restraint in many areas adding that , it already had several delegations of departments heads requesting more money for aCADEMIC areas in schools. Elliott said it was obvious that something had to be sacrificed to provide funds "Are we going to expand field trips or back up and use the money elsewhere?" he asked. "Where's our priorities?" Henderson pointed out that the move may be saving money the board is going to have to spend anyway. He said many elementary shcool students are being bussed to secondary schools for shop and home economics at a cost of 60 cents a mile. He said with little co-operation and manage- ment the surplus buses could be used to gain big savings to the board. "The board provides buses this year and has to make cuts next year and may be forced to cancel field trips," said Elliott. "Are we going to cut academic costs for more recreation?" Seperate school trustee Eugene Frayne pointed out that the only costs to the board was for the bus. He said the buses may have brought $700 to $1,000 through a sale but the money would have been used for field trips for Goderich. "It appears Goderich made it work," said Frayne. Board transportation manager R.L. Cun- ningham pointed out that the maintenance costs were absorbed by the school but that the board maintained fleet insurance on the bus. He said the insurance cost about $250. Elliott suggested that the bus located at the school didn't save a lot last year when everything is considered. He said the school may save standing time costs for a driver by having a teacher operate the bus but suggested that the board paid a supply teacher to fill in for the one driving the bus. He said the supply teacher costs the board quite a bit more than the four dollars an hour a driver costs. "I'm pretty sure that a principal would not take a teacher out of a classroom when he can get a driver for four dollars an hour," said Henderson. "I'm pretty sure they're bmader minded than that:-" pointed out that the police- didn't-like it when a case got thrown out of court any better than Brussels did. It was pointed out to the board that much of the success of the surplus bus program depends on luck. If the buses can be operated without major repairs the board will realize substantial savings. If costly repairs are need obviously those savings will be reduced. Zurich trustee Herb Turkheim told the board either "all the schools have a bus or Council hears about neighbour dispute At its regular council .netting last Monday night Brussels council heard through his solicitors a com- plaint from Doug Trollope regarding the condition of the Olympia restaurant. Council discussed a letter received from Goodall and Campbell, solicitors for Doug Trollope stating that Mr. Trollope felt the roof and other parts of the Olympia restaurant were unsafe for occupants in the restaurant and his own buildings. Council then decided to send a photostatic copy of Mr. Trollope's building permit to the lawyer along with a copy of council's previous motion allowing Mr Trollope to build only on certain conditions. Those conditions had stated that council would allow . him to make an addition to his building providing there would be no liability against the village of Brussels' council or any existing neighboring buildings by him or his successors.. Council also discussed the fact that Mr. Trollope's lawyers were also the village's lawyers. "They're in conflict" Reeve Cal Krauter said. Councillor Malcolm Jacobs said, "If they don't want to work for the town then they should say so. They either work for us or they don't." none have one." He said it wasn't fair to discriminate and offer Goderich and “Se,aforth a bus and the remainder nothing. He said the board has to decide to offer a bus to each school or sell 'the buses and forget the program altogether. "I fought against the program at the time because I knew this would happen," said Elliott, Council discusses police protection made to get a policeman to stay in Brussels three nights of the week. - • -. He said he knew the reason why they couldn't do that is because the pro- vincials arc policing the town. He said the reason the suggestions had been made were to cut down vandalism: Some council members then