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BECKER Equipment Limited LUCKNOW 529-799 Senior staff at county homes. move up the salary grid Senior staff at County Homes for. the Aged in Walkerton and Wiarton are getting raises. Finance chair Paul Eagleson de- scribed the move up the salary .grid . for the administrator and director of nursing at each home as a "very, very minimal increase. "It's quite acompromise from what Hornes and Social Services (committee) recommended to Fi- nance," Eagleson said. He explained that while the four senior staff moved up one to three grades, They dropped one to two levels on the grid. He predicted it will take those staff three years to get the salary level the homes committee recom- mended. Last month Bruce County Council was faced with a list of eight senior. staff who need job title and salary changes, according to a study by the county's director of personnel. Job titles in Bruce don't match ones used in other municipalities, the report said, while some admin- istrative staff make, . less: than the department heads they supervise. Eagleson said his committee is still working on correcting some of those problems. The county homes salary grid was 'thrown out of balance when the Ontario Nurses Association won an arbitration award that gave county home nurses a 29 per cent increase to match the pay of their hospital counterparts. That award closed the gap' between staff nurses in the homes and .their bosses. Eagleson said Tuesday's raise won't entirely solve the problem. "The directors of nursing moved so little they're still going to be making less than the clinical nurs- es," he said. "In 1995 they will make just a few pennies more." Meanwhile, nurses at the county homes have yet to settle their "Rae days" under the province's social contract. Nurses have a target of 18.5 un - '1 laid leave.days over 33 months, but are looking for ways to reduce that number while still following, the social contract rules. Question )ying costs fax," suggested Chair Barry Schmidt in response to trustees' questions about the expense. He also suggested switching maintenance contracts in favor of calling for repairs "as -needed". A similar move saved his company more than $4,000 in maintenance costs .for one computer, Schmidt said. Director of Education Paul Martindale said it was "a fair question" . to examine copier costs. But he explained that photocopied. material is widely used in place of textbooks, and predicted it will be hard to cut back on use of the machines. Photocopier costs are the latest expense to go under the microscope as the Bruce County Board _ of Education continues its battle to trim the budget. . At their January meeting, trustees questioned the $42,874.41 bill for maintenance of the board's more than 50 copier machines. 1 The ' charge is' a monthly one I based on the number of copies •, 'made at all the board's schools and at the administration centre. In the. same period, the board • spent $81,219.67 on textbooks and library supplies. "Maybe we could consider our. own repair person for copier and Future of planning office and library hours unknown Lakeshore municipalities have had their meeting with Bruce County's Agriculture, Tourism and Planning (ATP) committee, but still don't know the future of the Port Elgin planning office. A• delegation of municipal repre- sentatives met with the ATP com- mittee January 5. "The delegation felt that the office. was crucial to the future develop- ment needs of the affected munici- palities and that this level of service should be maintained," committee chair Winston Hollis reported at the January 18 session of Bruce County Council. Hollis' report says the -Port Elgin office will be provided rent-free to the planning department for 1994 and 1995, and possibly longer. Port Elgin now pays- the rent for the. office, located at, Maple Square Mall in Port Elgin. The ATP committee told council" it will "consider the information" and make a recommendation later. Meanwhile, a decision on reinstat- ing library hours across the county was also delayed this month.. Hours were . slashed 14 per cent last year as a means of dealing with a budget deficit largely created by . the county's pay equity proposal. The library director wants to restore at least half those hours, since the public was promised the cuts would be for one year. The finance com- mittee vetoed the plan, saying any increase in hours at the branch libraries will have to wait until the 1994 budget has been discussed. OPP report Bad weather causes many accidents in the area Bad weather resulted in a number of accidents in the area of County Road 23 and County Road 15 on Jan. 19. The first occurred at 11:20 a.m. when a' car driven by Glenda Webster, 35, of Kincardine stopped on County Road 15 because of a whiteout. She was struck from behind by a pick up truck driven by Flank Bianco, 27, of Kincardine. 'Webster received minor injuries. At 12:15 p.m. a tow truck from Weatherall Collision, Tiverton, was pulling a vehicle out of the ditch from the first accident, it was struck by another vehicle driven by Gilles .Trepanier, 53, of Tiverton. There was blowing snow at the time. Richard Weatherall, 35, the driver of the tow truck, received nxinor injuries and Trepanier received minimal injuries. Neither required an ambulance. At the same time, on County Road 15, a vehicle driven by Wil- liam Windsor, 54, of RR#3, Tiver- ton turned out to avoid a vehicle on .the shoulder of the road and was struck from behind by a vehicle driven by Linda Lozier, 33, of Kincardine. HEAD-ON COLLISION An 80 -year-old Chepstow man received minor injuries after 'an accident on Highway • 21 in Bruce Township. James Morris was travelling south in the north bound lane of Highway 21 on per. 19 at 10:10 a.m. when he struck a Purina truck driven by Jeffre Wieler of Walkerton. PEDESTRIAN STRUCK A Kincardine Township man received minor injuries after being struck by a car on Highway 9 near Kinloss. ' Arthur Koberinski, 53, was stan- ding near his car which had broken down when a vehicle driven by Kenneth Robertson, 23, of Kincar- dine entered a white out. He was travelling west on High- - way 9 when he drove into the white • out and onto the shoulder where Koberinski was standing. OPP Staff Sergeant Al Neville said the car was travelling slow and Koberinski. only received minor injuries. ' a Artistry by Mother Nature. (Pat Livingston photo)