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Home My WebLink AboutHuron Expositor, 2002-05-01, Page 126 -THE HURON EXPOSITOR, May 16, 2001 Services You am invited to Wald these area churches St. Thomas Anglican Church Jarvis St. Seaforth 482-7861 Rev. Tim Connor Sunday Service at 9:30 am. Parish Assistance Call 522-0929 or 345-2023 First Presbyterian Church Goderich Si. W. Seaforth Rev. Vandermey WORSHIP SUNDAY 11:15 AM Sunday School during Worship Catholic Church Saturday - 5:15 pm St. James Parish, Seaforth Saturday - 7:15 pm St. Joseph's Parish, Clinton Sunday - 9:00 am St. Michael's Parish, Blyth Sunday - 11:00 am St. James Parish, Seaforth Father Dino Salvador ?i 1 Bethel Bible Church An Associated Gospel Church 126 Main St. Seaforth Sunday Worship Hour 11 am Guest Speaker: Norm Barlow Adventure Club for Kids & Youth Groups Wednesdays 7 p.m. Egmondville United Church Rev. Judith Springett SUNDAY SCHOOL Grades 2 to 8 - 10 a.m. Adults - 10 a.m. Nursery to Grade 1 - 11 a.m. NORTHSIDE - CAVAN UNITED CHURCHES Rev. Sheila Macgregor - Minister 9:30 a.m. Cavan 11:00 a.m. Northside Winthrop 54 Goderich St. W. 527-2635 or 527-1449 Sixth Sunday In Easter Northside - Sacrament of Baptism Wednesday, May 16: Northside U.C.W. Noon Luncheon I i UC News Smith tries to delay acceptance of director's report, criticised By Stew Shatter Special to The Huron Expositor A regular Tuesday, May 8 meeting of the Avon Maitland District School board began with Central Huron trustee Charles Smith finding no support in his attempt to amend the n: ght's agenda, and it ended with chair Wendy Anderson directing a sarcastic comment towards Smith about his conversations with the media earlier in the day. In between, criticisms of a personal nature found their way into the rift between Smith and much of the rest of the board, a rift which, until now, has been evident but not prominent in public session since the Seaforth industrialist joined the board seven months ago. 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Nursery stock, windbreak trees CROTed's Tasty Tomatoes NOW READY! )la bl(Horiinn perennial gardens are never the same — Come visit thern often ,44 —4 Pcoadms holesale & Retail R.R.#I hayfield, ON NOM 1GO 519-482-3020 f). J�.�G�: i ►hli�lj//%A,11L[LiWI.!« �!. i. �i/1i.. �/.�..at��.�LiU//.AuL meeting. "Because I've already heard those things in closed session and now the public gets to hear them." As has been the case several times in the past, Smith failed to garner secondary support in a couple of attempts to pass motions. First, he sought to change the night's agenda so that trustees would be allowed to receive a so- called "director's action report" as information or as a notice -of -motion, instead of as a motion to proceed with the next step of examining the board's future plans for student accommodation. Smith also distributed a list of reasons why he opposed the action report, which proposed establishing four community accommodation study committees covering the entirety of Huron and Perth Counties, and requiring they submit reports to the board by Sept. 30, 2001. Among those reasons were a belief that the board failed to realize its projected savings the last time a similar accommodation study led to school closures; that the disruption of an accommodation study will prevent the board's students from improving their scores in provincially -standardized academic tests; and that the board's review timetable means the community committees will lose their influence too early in the process. He also charged that board staff's commissioning of an independent consultant's report, which is referred to in the director's action report and suggests 15 schools to be considered for closure, "usurped my rights as a trustee and, therefore, has usurped the rights of my constituents." However, Smith registered the only vote against the action report. And near the conclusion of the meeting, he had a short exchange with Anderson about his comments regarding the consultant's report on a television news report earlier in the day. "And I assume you don't know how the reporter became aware of the consultant's report?" Anderson said. Smith responded that his first communication with the reporter was when he was contacted to do the interview. (In fact, though he denies contacting the television reporter, Smith did inform some media outlets about the report. Administrative staff have confirmed, however, that they released the report to trustees without requiring that it be kept secret, and that the only reason it wasn't included in the regular information packages for the May 8 meeting was that it would be prohibitively costly to produce multiple copies of the nearly 100 -page report. Full copies were distributed to the media at the meeting, but not to the public.) However, much of the meeting's personal criticism came during discussion about another topic, one which has peripheral links to the school closure and student accommodation issues but is generally unrelated. Smith cast the only vote against another director's action report seeking approval of a draft document setting out the board's "goals and priorities for 2001- 2002." He had another list to distribute for this portion of the meeting, which he presented as additional goals to be included as amendments to the draft. In this case, he succeeded in moving the amendments to the discussion phase, when Perth East and South representative Carol Bennewies seconded his motion. But that was the end of the support. South Huron trustee Randy Wagler began by arguing that few of Smith's proposals could be defined as "goals" or "priorities." suggesting they might he actions for discussion at a later date on a more specific basis. Stratford trustee Meg Westley reiterated Wagler's comments, turning to address Smith directly. In the end. all but Listowel trustee Donald Brillinger and chair Wendy Anderson (Northwest Huron representative Butch Desjardins was absent) spoke strongly against the amendments. Bennewies. who had seconded Smith's motion, took particular exception to the Seaforth trustee's request for full disclosure of the financial particulars of the hoard's distance education program. "I think the distance educatioh program is vital." Bennewies said. "I don't see how he can say that it's not of great value for education in the 21st century." Stratford trustee Rod Brown probably levelled the most personal accusation. suggesting Smith is only concerned about the preservation of Seaforth District High School. a cause he successfully championed before being acclaimed to the board. "Like many of the other documents brought before the board by Mr. Smith, I have great difficulty with the tone of this motion," Brown said. "I believe the only real inequity that's present here tonight is one trustee's concentration on one school at the expense of 53 others." "Looks like I've been voted off the island." Smith said with a shrug following the 6-1 defeat of his motion. Barbecue stolen from back porch A black Broil King barbecue was reported stolen from a back porch of a Tuckersmith Township home on May 7. 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