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Cornwall, Ontario K611 6S3 101 Environment Canada Envlronnement Canada Parks Service Service des pares Canad1, Bruce County Board of Education Inereasing enrolment brings portapaks CSW -«The buildinig boon • that increasing enrolment has created for the Bruce County Board of Education continues with work now slated .for Wiarton and Tara chwols. At a speeial meeting on July. 24 the board let tenders for apenapak addition at Wharton Public. "The province won't let us rent portables anymore," said, trustee Batty Schmidt. That policy forced the board into 'a major building effort . to accommodate •• rising student ,numbers,. J & Ii< Herring. Contracting of Hanover was the lowest of five tenders for the Tara job at $400,000. That's well within the•$460,000 budgeted forthe job. In Wiarton, Grey Bruce Construc- tion will°do the foundation work at a tender price of $22,300, while eccavation and grading will be done by Ivan Heston Contracting., Both those tenders are also within ministry approved budgets for the Project ' Work onthe Wiarton addition itself Will be "mothballed,". accor- ding ccarding' to Schmidt until the province kicks in more grants. Schmidt admitted it's unusual to do the work in two stages, but said the board was forced to begin the project or lose the grant that had been approved. Once the •foun- dations are m they will be Used as footings for portables on the site until the addition is built. • HEAD OFFICE BURSTING The green light has been given to work on ;an addition for the main- tenance building at the Bruce Coun- mBoard of Education's • ad- instration centre in Chesley. Tnistee Craig Otto said the 20 - year -old administration building is "bulging at the . seams." "Call it the Amex," Otto said of the $108,000 frame and steel clad addition that will house some departments now squeezed into the main adminstration building. He said plans also call for $42,000 worth of renovations to the administration building to centralize departments and create more work space. Work on the addition is -to begin "as soon as possible" for completion by late fall. BUDGET PROTEST The Bruce County Board of Education continues to receive letters from municipalities "di- Mturay Elston to discuss the school funding issue.. IMPOSTER MEETING. Bre County Board of Education trustea went . into a dosed session after their July 24 special meeting to work on a brief they Planned to Present to Education Minister Sean Conway on'lhumday. Chairman David Inglis said the board intended "to pick a lot" into the half-hour session it had booked with Conway. Inglis wouldn't elaborate ahead of time on topics the brief would cover, but was happy about the chance to ask for .direct response from the minister. sgusted with the excessive increases in the board levy." Those blunt words come from Hepworth council. Its letter went on to say the increases "in themselves (are) causing hardships for the ratepayers of the village in paying their taxes." Similar, though less bluntly - worded, resolutions were tabled on July 24 from Greenock, Carrick, Tiverton, St. Edmunds and the County of Bruce supporting Elderslie Township's statement that council "can no longer concur to the annual high percentage increases to cover the education costs for Bruce County." Mildmay gave support to Southampton's opposition to the cost of school and county budgets. David Inglis, board chairman, referred all the letters to the finance committee. Later, Inglis said the board has helped the so-called Amabel com- mittee document the impact of education costs on local property taxes. "Their concerns are the same as ours," Inglis said. The board and some municipal dfi"icials blame the province for the increases because it orders new programs while cutting back on grants. ' Inglis said he expects to meet with the Amabel group to go over their findings, then meet with MPP • . o,I think it's a great opportunity. It doesn't happen very often that a board gets a chance to sit- down with the minister of education," • Inglis said. Individual closed _ sessions with the Bruce County, :.Grey County, and Bruce -Grey Sem boards were .setup with Conway at the separate board's education Centre in Hanover as part of Conway's swing, through the area. Conway's • itinerary included meeting With Bruce liberals at Mur- , Elston's nomination meeting in Kincardine that evening. SIX NEW JOBS • Senior .administration raises and . approval or six new jobs were ori the agenda at a special Bruce Coun- ty Board of Educationmeeting in • Chesley on July '24, Trustees okayed biring,of six new people at 'a net cost of almost $100,000 They include a buildings ° and maintenance secretary, an electrician, .a supervisor of records and occupational health ,and safety, computer supervisor, budget super- visor, and executive assistant for education superintendents. "We've been looking at -'these positions for a long time," said David , Inglis, board chairman. "They were in the budget when we approved." Inglis said there is definite need for all the new staff, especially in the business department. "We need information sooner, and we need to update the computer system. These • are necessary positions.". Trustees also approved 5.8 per cent salary hikes for superintendents and the director of education. That percentage increase is the same as teachers got earlier this year. The increase translates into a $336 a month increase for the director of education and $407 a month more for the superintendents. "Most of our non-union contracts were settled for the 5.8 per cent increase," Inglis said later. INLOUGH My May Boyle 11111ttl• Mrs. Glen Haldenby 'returned home from the Wingham and District Hospital where she under- went major surgery. Visitors with Edna and May Boyle were Marretta Hodgins and son Kenneth of Niagara Falls, and Mr. and Mrs. Clare Spaling of Walkerton. Mr. and Mrs. Randy Jansen, Scott and Clayton of Cochrane visited with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Percy and other relatives here. We extend sympathy to the family and relatives of the late Lulu Stanley who passed away on Friday following a lengthy illness in Win- gham Hospital. The funeral was held Monday at the Kinlough Pen- tecostal Church. Mr. and Mrs. Tom McDonald visited in Kincardine with Dr. and Mrs. Mae MacDonald and Jeffrey.