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mean that your decisions was an offer the board did more than one elementary
From Pogo 1 might be made not take up. school," she said.
But, the board granted without fully "We're here to help Steffler said Monday that
Steffler's request and after understanding all you," she said. Huron East council was
identifying herself as the the ramifications," With Grey and expected to deal with the
Brussels Public possible closure of Seaforth
mayor of Huron East, she she said.
asked the school board to Steffler also: told Schools also named District High School at last
look carefully at the report trustees that as reeve for potential closure, night's (Oct. 30) meeting.
before making any decisions of Seaforth two Steffler said every "I can't speak for my
school within Huron council. It's up to the
about school closure. years ago, she
"Life is full of choices and offered to assist the East but Seaforth councillors if they want to
I fear some of the choices board to find all the Public School could get involved. If the public
you might be making will be creative alternatives potentially be closed. wants to do anything, I'd
less than intelligent. I don't to closing Seaforth District "With a population of encourage it," she said.
mean that as an insult. I High School, adding that it 10,000, Huron East needs
opor.
lin Steffler
Week-long delay won't change process
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Board but was heartened by the apparent EQAO
improvements at Holmesville.
The applause Pritchard received was rivalled by that given
to Huron East Mayor Lin Steffler, whose commanding voice
and demeanor were more than enough to compensate for her
relatively short stature as she stood at the front of the public
seating area and requested the right to address trustees.
Board chair Wendy Anderson, after requesting the opinion
of trustees and receiving both an obligatory motion and a
second to that motion, asked Steffler to identify herself.
Steffler did exactly that, but then continued directly into her
presentation, without waiting for a full trustee vote.
It was a short presentation, but went directly to the point of
stating that Huron East is willing to assist the board in any
way to save the municipality's schools, including SDHS.
"We are here to help you. We don't want to see our schools
close," the mayor said, before noting that the area is hard-hit
in the current list of potential changes, and was also hard-hit
in the board's previous round of school closures, in 1999-
2000.
The crowd of about 100 fell considerably shy of filling the
extra chairs made available by school board officials, and was
much smaller than the 100s who packed the SDHS
gymnasium during the latter stages of the 1999-2000 process.
But, as both Gerth and Pritchard noted, there are many
more meetings to come this time around, with a final vote on
closure expected in February, 2002.
According to board officials, the week-long delay for this
vote isn't expected to force changes in the process. Reports
have now been requested from school councils from each
facility recommended for potential change, and trustees are
expected to vote on a shorter list of schools on Dec. 11.
Eight collective agreements reached
by Huron -Perth Catholic board
include three-year deals for teachers
approved by Huron -Perth
trustees at the regular board
meeting.
Two-year deals were also
approved for three separate
types of administrative staff,
for secretaries and
educational
assistants
represented by
the Canadian
Union of
Public
Employees,
and -for. ra,
custodian and
courier driver
based at the
board's Dublin
offices. The
board's lay
chaplain
position also
received a
three-year
settlement.
"For the
most part,
they're based
on two per
cent
(increases) for
the first year," explained
director of education Gaetan
Blanchette.
)Manchette went on to
explain that the increases in
years two and three of the
three-year deals would be
"formula -driven," using a
combination of the average
and median rates paid to
similar employees in all of
the province's Catholic
school boards.
For those employee
By Stew Slater
Special to The Expositor
The level of labour
stability was heightened in
schools of the Huron -Perth
Catholic District School
Board on Oct. 22 with the
approval of three-year
collective agreements for all
teachers.
But the board's top
administrator admits such
ratification is a risky move,
considering the -provincial
ministry of education has
given no .indication of how
much money it will make
available for teacher salaries
beyond this year.
Deals for both elementary
and secondary teachers were
among eight collective
agreements unanimously
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groups with two-year deals,
the second year's increase
would be based largely on
the increase given to
teachers.
Blanchette
between two -
Quoted
'Now, what
we've got to
hope for is t,
there's going
be enough
money in the
funding grants
to cover that
type of a
contract,'-
Goeten Blanchette,
director of education
said the split
year and three-
y�ear
settlements
prevents a
situation
similar to
what
happened
.this year,
when all of
tht board's
collective
agreements
expired at
once.
For this, he
blamed the
fact the
board felt it
could only
sign one-year
deals with its
teachers in
2000, due to
uncertainty
about how
much money would be made
available by the province
beyond the current year's
educational grant.
While that uncertainty
remains in place, the
province attempted to bring
labour stability to the
teaching profession earlier
this year by forcing school
boards to only negotiate
teachers' deals of three years
or longer.
"Now, what we've got to
hope for is that there's going
to be enough money in the
funding grants to cover that
type of a contract,"
Blanchette said.
In late September,
Blanchette had predicted
trustees would vote on a
secondary school teachers'
agreement at the Oct. 22
meeting. But the list of eight
separate settlements brought
forward for trustees
surpassed any hints he had
given previously.
"Everything was just
falling into place," he
explained following the
meeting, after being asked
how so many agreements
came together so quickly.
"Once we were able to
come up with a formula that
was suitable, we were able to
use that as a pattern with the
other employee groups."
The new three-year
contracts will expire on Aug.
31, 2004, while the two-year
deals expire one year earlier.
Only two Huron -Perth
employee groups weren't
included in the list of
agreements put forward Oct.
22.
Custodians currently have
'a tentative deal and are set to
vote Nov. 3 for ratification,
with Blanchette expecting to
seek trustee approval at the
board's November meeting.
And the director of
education says he hopes to
initiate talks with the board's
principals some time in
November.
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