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Wendy Anderson, highlights short- falls in:,-Such funding areas as trans- portatio.. and special education. It also acknowledges the "bitter and divisive" nature of the board's attempts to cut costs by closing schools, admitting that it "detracts By, Stew Slater "Special to The Citizen The Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board and its approximately 90 elementary supply teachers have agreed to a two-year collective agreement set to begin September, 2001, but the board's director of edu- cation says it shouldn't be used as a bellwether for smooth negotiations to come. On the surface, the two-year deal, which runs through Aug. 31, 2003, is a step towards the provincial govern- ment's stated goal of encouraging collective agreements spanning more than a single year. In a recent media release, the government announced it would soon require school boards to sign three-year deals with its employee groups, in an attempt to minimize labour unrest and student disruption. Top Huron-Perth administrator Gaetan Blanchette explained the new deal, which was ratified by the Occasional Teachers section of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers' Association on Thursday, June 14, was negotiated before the govern- ment announcement. He also said it wasn't clear that occasional teachers would be covered by any new legis- lation. However, he said the only reason the deal could be stretched beyond a year is because the board's contracts with its elementary supply teachers By Stew Slater Special to The Citizen There should be one less vehicle travelling Hwy. 8 between Clinton and Stratford next year, now that the Huron-Perth Catholic District School Board has approved the hir- ing of a second high school chaplain. In the board's 2001-02 budget, approved Monday, June 18, spending for full-time chaplains roughly dou- bled, signalling there will now be full-time positions at both St. Anne's Catholic Secondary School in Clinton and St. Michael Catholic Secondary School in Stratford. Since the construction of St. Anne's in the mid-I 990s_one full:time chaplain has split his, time between the two schools on a 50/50 basis. According to Director of Education Gaetan Blanchette, a full- time chaplaincy at each secondary school was given the third-highest priority during a board-wide wish-list survey in 1998. The pro- from the board's education mission." Earlier, during explanations of enrolment projections for the Huron- Perth board, Director of Education Gaetan Blanchette avoided mention- ing Avon Maitland by name, but he did express strong sympathy for boards like it, which face somewhat greater enrolment declines than his own. He made a particular point of explaining why it's difficult for some boards, especially those with a lot of small schools scattered across a large area, to cut staffing costs at the same, rate at which enrolment declines while keeping all schools' open. Interestingly, both Marcy and Blanchette — as well as Superintendent of Business Gerry Thuss — acknowledged the Huron- Perth board might be in a similar situ- ation as Avon Maitland, if not for the government's "Small Schools Grant" and "Rural and Remote" funding allo- cation. Huron-Perth receives almost $2 million through those sources, while Avon Maitland receives a much have traditionally been tied to the rates of pay for full-time elementary teachers. That remains true in the new agreement. He said nothing has changed when it comes to the board's inability to successfully negotiate deals of longer than one year with other employee groups, despite the gov- ernment's recent announcement. "School boards have said they want to negotiate longer-term con- tracts," Blanchette told trustees. "In fact, it's in our stated goals that we would like to do that. "But it's like this. We don't need legislation to be able to negotiate longer-term deals. What we need is to know how much money we'll have two or three years down the road." He said the Conservative govern- ment continually keeps school boards in the dark about the level of funding they'll receive for the com- ing year, and has failed to establish a predictable process by which the level of educational funding is deter- mined. He added that a few boards bucked the one-year contract trend last year and signed two-year deals based on a one-time government announcement that public sector salaries could rise by a certain per- centage in 2000-01. That increase never materialized and Blanchette said some boards will now be caught footing the bill for a second-year pay increase. grams which received the highest priorities — elementary music and broad-based secondary technology courses — have already been imple- mented. Superintendent of Education Ray Contois says employing a full-time chaplain is the norm for Catholic secondary schools in Ontario. He says the bulk of most chaplains' workdays are spent counselling stu- dents on a wide range of issues, but they also work closely with staff and administration on such things as planning special events and co-ordi- nating spiritual education. "The chaplain is involved in the whole life of_ the school," Contois explained. The superintendent says the cur- rent St. Anne's/St. Michael chaplain, Nataneal Mateus-Ruiz, will be retained by the board. However, he said no decision has yet been made about which school Mateus-Ruiz will serve, once the new chaplain is hired for September, 2001. smaller amount. "If we didn't have that Rural and Remote and Small Schools Grant, I don't know where we'd be," Marcy said. "We'd be where a lot of other boards are. I guess." At a recent Avon Maitland meeting, some trustees expressed support for defying the government's require- ment that boards submit .a balanced — not a deficit— budget by June 30. In a closely-contested vote, it was decided to first complete two prelim- inary budgets: one which balances the books but highlights which programs and services have been lost from the previous year; and another so-called "needs-based budget" which runs a deficit but includes the expenditures which the board would rather leave in place. There was no such call for defiance at the June 18 Huron-Perth meeting. That doesn't mean, however, that there was no criticism of the provin- cial government. Blanchette, never one to shy away from attacking the ruling Conservatives, took particular offense to a recent media release from the education ministry, ostensibly "correcting" media reports regarding the level of provincial funding since 1995. The director of education used a series of statistics, including infla- tion levels and a province-wide enrol- ment increase, to argue the "real" value of educational funding has been severely inadequate. Likewise, Marcy chronicled a list of funding cuts and unprojected expenditures in the 2001-02 budget, which more than erase a recent gov- ernment announcement of $100 per Ontario student, A government press release described the- money as "flex- ible," in that it could be used howev- er boards chose, based on local situa- tions. "How can you call this flexible? You can't. Because the purpose of the board is to educate the students. And you have to transport them and pro- vide for their special needs," Marcy said. Those two expenditure areas are significant because the board's budg- et shows that transportation and spe- cial education most outstrip what the government provides in funding. In both cases, money is drawn from such areas as administration to make up the difference. Also in both transportation and special education, the govern- ment has frozen funding, either pend- ing the board's adaptation of a com- puterized transportation routing sys- tem or pending a province-wide review of the way in which special- needs children are identified and characterized. Several board members also point- ed to the education ministry's 2001- 02 allocation for textbooks, which is about half what it was last year. This is deVite the fact an equal number of new textbooks will be needed next September as were necessary last year, for the leading class in the new four-year high school program. In the new Huron-Perth budget, about $32,000 is taken from other sources to make up the difference and make sure next year's Grade 11 students have texts for the new curriculum. You Are Invited to attend Vacation Bible School at Zion Mennonite Fellowship Church 5 km. east of Cranbrook Monday to Friday July 2-13 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Ages 3 1/2 to Grade 8 welcome For more information call 291-9486 HPCDSB, teachers settle on 2-year collective agreement Schools get own chaplain