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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1978-12-06, Page 2- Page 2-.-Iagbow Sosamds Witsimodsy, Deitaber Mg County staff gets he: BY JEFF SEDDON Catch up wage increases given Huron County supervisory staff at Thursday's county council session resulted in pay increases for the 10 county department heads ranging from 1.5 percent to 15.2 percent. In a report to county council from the special committee given the task of negotiating wage packages for the county administrators council was given a salary schedule to be followed for the next three years that is designed to give senior administration wages comparable to neighboring counties. Warden Gerry Ginn, chairman of the special committee, told council that the committee "believed" the county must "keep up to date if it was interested in good young people" and to keep up to date it must "pay decently". He said Huron county supervisory staff had been victimized by Anti Inflation Board guidelines and had fallen behind in wages during the three year tenure of AIB. Ginn said the committee had checked into wages paid comparable staff in neighboring counties and had attempted to bring Huron county staff up to pfirity with those counties. He explained that in some cases the in- creases needed to bring some staff to parity were too great to be given at once and the committee had drawn up salary schedules designed to spread the increase over one, two or three years. Tice average increase was about seven pvcent but some staff were given more than twice the avenote and some no where near the average. The county development officer, Spence Cummings, was awarded a 1.5 percent increase while C. A. Archibald. ad ministrator of Huronview, was given a 15.2 percent hike. Ginn explained that Archibald's increase was given because the_administrator is one year away from retirement and would not be working for the county long enough to bave his increase spread over a number of years. He added that the committee decided not to award the development officer an increase because it was not certain the county needed the position and wanted to review the work of the development officer before deciding co a future wage. Ginn said he understood that the development officer had worked hard on the International Plowing Match held in Huron County this summer but pointed out that such an event will not happen again here for another ten years. He said the committee wanted the development office looked at to 'justify its existence". The rden told council that Huron County is one of three counties in the province with a development office pointing out that it was very difficult to find a comparison wage.. He said the committee just wanted to find out if the county really wanted the office kept operating. Morris township reeve Bill Elston did not buy the committee's reasoning and told Ginn that there may not be another •••-16•V•"0••*".•~0••••••••• •••••••"W4.0WWW*••••••••••WAAWe•-•. me. reases International in Huron for ten years hot there would be ether things going on - Elston said he had worked with Cummings on the plowing match and felt that the development officer did a "tremendous amount" for Huron County. He said Cummings had "brought a lot of dollars" to Huron and that he felt the job was necessary. Re added that what the county paid Cummings was another thing altogether. BiB Morley, reeve of Usborne township, did not like the reasoning used by the committee. He said that despite the need to review the job done by the development officer the com- mittee had "jeopardized" the job by giving Cummings only a one percent increase. He said the man stilt worked for Huron County and deserved the same as other employees. Be said the committee can't justify giving one employee 15 percent and another one PerCent suggesting that the increase could have been awarded compandie to other staff and then the jovi) reviewed. "He's still a working man in this county and this treatment is very unfair as long as he is an employee of this county," saidMorley. John Flannery, reeve of Seaforth„ told council he felt the increases given supervisory staff were hypocritical. He said last May council began negotiating with unions and were telling people the idea was in stay around four to si r. percent increases. Re said that this wage package given supervisory staff was "not telling CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 MacKenzie & McCreath announce new associate MacKenzie and McCreath Funeral Rom - es„ Incknow and Ripley,, have that Garry Carruthers of LI and KIM- edy of this area, will be associated with their firm as of January 1st. 1979. 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