The Citizen, 2003-12-03, Page 27THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2003. PAGE 27.
Marcy once again chair of HPCDSB
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
Stratford trustee Ron Marcy will
chair the Huron-Perth Catholic
District School Board, returning to a
post he has held five previous times
since first joining the board in
1974.
The five-Huron-Perth trustees, all
of whom were returned by
acclamation during the recent
municipal elections, chose who
would serve key positions for 2004
during the board’s annual “inaugural
meeting” Monday, Dec. I.
North Perth//Perth East/Huron
East representative Vince Mclnnes,
another long-serving trustee, was
chosen vice-chair. Outgoing chair
Bernard Murray of Perth South will
be the management chair, Mike
Miller will fulfill the same role in the
personnel portfolio, and Mary-
Catherine McKeon will handle
education duties.
Asked if he’s concerned about the
lack of turnover in the trustee
positions during the recent election.
Marcy pointed out the board just
replaced both its director of
education and education
superintendent.
“We’re getting new ideas because
we’ve got a new director, a new
superintendent — new
administration,” he said.
Most recently. Marcy was Huron-
Perth chair three years ago. This
time around, he expects the newly-
elected Liberal government will
provide a new set of challenges for
the board.
“They’ll make changes. I know
that,” he said.
He’s unimpressed, however, with
some of the Liberals’ campaign
promises. Plans Io increase the
minimum drop-out age and decrease
the class size in primary grades have
yet to become reality and Marcy
wonders whether they II ever come
to pass, considering how costly
they’ll be.
In the case of the drop-out age. he
argues such a move would create
hardship for teachers asked to deal
with older teenagers who just don’t
want to be in school. And in the case
of the primary class sizes, he notes
such promises have been made by
previous governments, but never
realized.
As a board, Marcy says, Huron-
Perth Catholic handled the financial
challenges handed down by the
previous Conservative government
well. And he’s confident that will
continue.
Major developments facing the
board in 2004 include the
construction of new elementary
schools in Listowel and Clinton,
both of which will replace aging
facilities labelled by the province as
“prohibitive to repair.”
Marcy is confident the
construction in Clinton will
definitely be complete by the end of
2004, and with the board’s purchase
of property in Listowel within the
last couple of weeks, the relocation
of Hesson’s St. Mary’s school could
also be complete at that time.
Negotiations close
for AMD SB and teachers
By Stew Slater
Special to The Citizen
The annual exercise in creative
mathematics, which forms the basis
of the Avon Maitland District School
Board’s labour negotiations, drew to
a close last week as secondary
teachers agreed to terms and their
elementary counterparts were
expected to do the same.
A majority of the board’s 500 high
school teachers, members of District
8 of the Ontario Secondary School
Teachers Federation (OSSTF), voted
in favour of a set of amendments to
their 2001-04 contract, bringing
peace to the negotiations table until
at least Aug. 31. 2004.
Likewise, amendments to the
board’s contract with the Elementary
Teachers Federation of Ontario
received tentative approval, pending
the results of a teacher vote early this
week. Those amendments would
also bring that group of employees
into the fold until at least next
August.
The creative nature of the
contracts arises from the fact that, for
the last few years, boards have been
required by the provincial
government to sign three-year labour
contracts, yet they have not been
provided with stable three-year
funding. For that reason, many
boards tend to construct three-year
deals, but then return to the table
each year to hammer out so-called
"amendments.”
In addition, boards tend to
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Lighting of the lights
The annual tree lighting took place again this year at
Memorial Hall in Blyth. Residents gathered around in the
freshly-fallen snow to watch the lights shine bright. Thelma
Johnston and Bev Blair, both Citizens of the Year, were
honoured by flicking the switch and turning on the lights.
(Elyse DeBruyn photo)
The board is currently undertaking
a study of accommodation issues in
Stratford, with the most likely
outcome being a major addition at
St. Joseph's elementary to relieve
current and projected overcrowding
at St. Aloysius.
A similar study will soon be
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