HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-05-07, Page 1BY DAVE SYKES:
The taxpayers of Huron County will
face a 14.65• per cent increase In public .
School education taxes this year.
The Huron .County Board of
Education approved itS 1980 budget at a .
special meeting Thursday, endorSing
expenditures . of $25;452,768. That
represents an increase of 7.9 per cent.
over $23;583,350 spent-by. thelfoar
in 1979. • I • •
Much of the almost $2' million in-
crease is blamed: on inflation and
declining enrolment whiCh sub-
sequently resulted in: less provincial
grants. .
The biggest portion of the budget'
goes to leaching instruction where the
board has set aside $18,637,191 an in-
crease. of 8.1 per cent over the- 1979-
allocation. '
The budget tendered lengthy debate
and much a. centered on the
proviiion cutting-the •board members
'honorariums by $600 to $3,000 a year.
Trustee, Dave. Gower, suggested the
and not the student,"' he claimed; honorariums was not imPortant but
John Henderson refuted Elliott's. that the principal Was:
arguments about the honoriarium "I am prePared for the reduction and
decrease claiming the board has to set further reductions of the. money is used
examples, -, in supplies, and services," he said.
"If we aren't willing to take a cut "Give the money back to the students."
then how ..can we talk about deereasing Elliott claimed that most municipal
the .budget,": he said. "If .you can't employees in the' county have recieved
accept'that well, it'o yclutdecisioa." increases this year: and insisted the
""Elliott said :.his complaint was that —board's cut in pay was a move just to
the board nickeled and limed the suit the taxpayer.'
budget arid services while greater Gower charged.' that board of
sayings could by realized with co- education trustees den"t do near the
operative. busing. Henderson explained: work of municipal councillors.
that there is the same amount of money' "There is rie comparison between.
allotted to each student in services but this • job and :.municipal one," Gewer
'deClining enrolment lias: forced the said. "We do not earn the $3,600: and I
budgeted figure downward.• would like the secretary • to prepare
Herb Turkheim claimed a cut in ,nPmber (on the number of meetings
trustee pay was bad *move and trustees attend),." . •
suggested that trustees who only attend Elliott made an arnmendment to .the
a few meetings:could donate some of motion calling for an ad Itional
'their. money. He .• later added that .$209,000 to be placed in the budget tolhe
trustees, perhaps, should have $50 or, used for supplies and services or if not
$100 taken from .,their pay for missed needed, to be placed in a reserve•furid.
meeting. Earlier' in the meeting; DimloP
Elliott said the re du c tion 'in pointed lout that the reserve aabluat
gratuities ,And benefits. ;
"It's a dangerons thing," lie said.
"And we know that money will have to
paid sooner or later."
knows ' He said that the board usually
a year in Advance • in a teacher is
retiring and the gratuities are included .
Move Was neoessary in reclueing costs.
"We shouldn't get emotional about
the cuts bat we better Start looking at
long term ramifications," he said. "We
haven't done any long range planning
and political aspirations aside 1114
board has, to look• at school closings to
reduce the bUdget. The honorariums is
just one step in cutting ba0h,"
----d-7-'-.1:irustee ;elm argued; that
board members spend 'a good deal of '
time away from their jobs and added
that he 'attended over 100 meetings a
year as chairman of the beard.
.."Now the budget committee says we
are, not worth the money and I think
they areover reacting," , he said.
"You've shrimped and embarassed the
trustees and at the sarrie time reduced•
supplies and services that hurt the
students. '
• Elliott 'was concerned about a 14.5
per cent• reductien in the education
services and supplies budget. ' He
maintained that cuts in that area would
only cripple the education system.
"We stress impact to' the taxpayer
was yin bad shape'. Ile indicAted that if
all the county teachers retired 'the
board would owe over , $2 : million in
ITEDTREOU'ri;
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Ne,w York police have arrested a Michigan
man in the connection with the discoveryqf
7 the.charred remains 'of a woman found in
Ashfield Township in ;March;.
Gene Woodward, 27, of Saginaw, Michi7„
gan Was:arrested on Sunday,' April 27, at the
home of his parents in. North .Merrick, Long
island.... •
Nassau County Police made the -arrest
acting On Information received .from the...
Michigan State_POlice, .
-:.Woodward has been charged with:murder
in the death of his ex-wife, Kimberley Jean
Woodward, 24, of CarrOlton, Michigan,
whose badly burned body:was found near a
woodlOt Ashfield Township oh March 25.
She had been reported missing by her sister,-
Lori McCauley; of Saginaw, on February 18.
The Yictini's daughter was staying with
her sister. in 'Saginaw at, the, time, she went
missing. Her son; 4, by Woodward; was with
his father at the time she disappeared. There
has been ati ongoing battle between the two
for custody Of ;the boy,
Wood Ward's second wife, whose name is
also Kimberley, was with him in New York at
the time of the arrest.
The murder charge has been laid on the:
basis of inforthation obtained in Canada and
through the co-operation of the Michigan
State Police. Police assume the murder was
committed in 'Michigan .and , the body later
dumped in Ashfield ToWnship. WOadWard is
in custody in NeW York, awaiting extradition
to` Ivlichigan.. . •
dead 'woman's :,identity .:remained''
unknown for three weeks after the body was
discirered:' Identity was finally • Made
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through ..:a matched set ot,'weciding;
found near the .victim's burned hand. The'
investigation• by ,Michigan State Police and
the Ontario Provincial Police, determined
the rings had. been manufactured in Akron,
Ohio, and sold in Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky,•_
Maryland and. West Virginia: Police traced
the sale of the rings to a jewellery store in
gagiaw,'POsitiye identification of the victim
Was made through dental chatts.., by Dr,
George 'Wysocki . of the Um isity of
Western
VolloWing th6 identification k‘f the ,vieti
the body was returned-to Saginaw• for burial.
Two school busesj3elonging to "Gordon T.
Montgomery Ltd. were stolen from the
tt parking lot At Montgomery , Motors sometime
Friday evening, May 2,
The .Goderich 'detachment of the' Ontario
Provincial Police reported finding an aband-
oned school bus on concession 12 of Ashfield
Township about 12;15 midnight.
Goderich OPP; later repotted finding a
second bus,. which had been ,desfroyed by
fires -a-West.-Wuwanosh-sidetoad-off-the
sixth concession,- around 9.15 Saturday
Morning. •
Kincardine and Oodetich detachments of
the OPP ,a'e continuing their investigation.
Andrew Carnes [Jim Laidlawbtleft, uses a little "gentle persuasion".
to convince peddlir, Ali Itakini,. [Paul Craig], that his proposal to take
Carnes' daughter away over night, is a proposal of 'Marriage) while
his. daughter, 4.4 Annie Carnes, [Lynne Ililverda]' looks on in a
dehuire way. The scene is froin the V. E. Madill drama production of
"Oklahoma" which played to enthusiastic audiences Thursday
through Saturday last week. A picture story appears hi today's
centrespread on pages 18 and 19. Sentinel SO root.]
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