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The Huron -Perth Roman
Catholic Separate School
Board t HPitiCSS i members
elected an adhoc committee
at Monday night's board
meeting to recommend a
school closure policy for the
board. The school closure
policy must be established
by June 30. at the request of
the Ministry of Education.
Board members named to
the committee were chair-
man Ron Murray, John
O'Leary and Ernest
Vanderschol, the same
members who served on the
declining enrolment com-
mittee last year.
All school boards in the
province have been re-
quested to establish policies
relating to the closing of
schools. which will allow
ratepayers to comment on a
proposed school closure
before a board nukes any
final decision.
Board members are also
asked to establish a
minimum time period
between the identification of
a school as a candidate for
closure and the final deci-
sion of the board. Also to be
Consider
stipends
Mayor Bruce Shaw in-
dicated this week some
members of council have ex-
pressed concern over their
present stipend and he
suggested the matter be
reviewed.
He asked Councillors
Gaylan Josephson an Jay
Campbell to conduct a study
of the salaries received by
council members in
Goderich. Clinton, Wingham
and Seaforth and suggested
Exeter then settle on an
average of those.
He indicated his plan could
result in council members
"taking a chance" of having
their salaries go down this
year if they were if fact over
the county average already.
Shaw advised that salaries
may be one area that Exeter
should not be a leader in
Huron.
determined is how the board
can hear. in a session open to
the public. the effects a
school closure might have on
community activities of a
social. cultural and
recreational nature which
take place on the school
premises.
Other provisions on the
use of school buildings and
sites included in the
memorandum from the
provincial government dealt
with mothballing school
buildings until they are need-
ed again. the surrender of a
school building to another
board and alternative uses
for surplus schools.
The HPRCSS board
doesn't presently have any
schools within its' system
scheduled for closure in the
near future.
The board learned James
Snow. Ministry of Transport
and Communications, has
turned down a board request
for a stoplight at the Dublin
intersection. The board has
requested a stoplight due to
the number of fatal ac-
cidents at the corner and
because several school buses
travel through the intersec-
tion daily.
Mr. Snow said he'd
reiterate' thesame statement
he made to Hibbert
Township clerk Charles
Friend when the township
council requested a light at
the intersection. The
minister said. "it appears
driver inattention, drinking
drivers and failure to drive
according to prevailing road
conditions have been the
major cause of these ac-
cidents."
Mr. Snow added, "ad-
ditional traffic control
devices will havelittle effect
on this driver action." In
refusing lights at the corner,
Mr. Snow said his depart-
ment would continue to
monitor the location for any
deterioration in traffic
operations.
Also discussed at Mon-
day's meeting was the ques-
tion of sending delegates to
three upcoming education
conferences. The two con-
ventions which trustees can
attend are the Canadian
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Catholic School Trustees can
attend are the Canadian
Catholic School Trustees
Association convention , to
be held in Saskatoon early in
June and the Canadian
School Trustees Association
educational Showcase, in
Calgary later that month.
Trustee Ron Marcy of
Stratford said the
Calgary convention would
cost $200 for registration,
hotel fees would be about
$200 for four nights, and the
air fare would be $305
charter or $462 economy. He
said when a delegate's
meals were added to that, it
could cost almost $1,000 per
delegate to attend the
Western conference.
Mr. Marcy said he didn't
think "the convention is
worth that kind of money in
the present economic
situation.' He added costs of
sending delegates to
Sakatoon would "likely be in
the same ballpark."
Bill Eckert, the board's
education director told the
trustees vice-chairman
Vince Young, who was
hgspitalized and unable to.
attend Monday's meeting,
had expressed an interest in
attending the Calgary
convention. The board can
send as many' as three
trustees to each convention.
Chairman Murray,
agreeing with Mr. Marcy,
said "in light of the
(economic) situation,
perhaps it would be wise to
postpone it for a year."
When the chairman went
around the table, trustees
agreed the cost of attending
the convention seemed
prohibitive. Mr. Young was
to be made aware of the
trustees' feelings on sending
delegates to the convention,
board members decided.
However. trustees did
approve a motion to send
director of education Bill
Eckert to a two week
symposium at the
University of Northern
Colorado in July. The
symposium is on the
educational needs of
exceptional children - the
first week will focus on
teaching gifted children and
the second week on teaching
children with learning
disabilities.
Mr. Eckert told trustees
schools in the system will be
planning programs for gifted
children in their classrooms
starting next fall.
Trustee Bill Kinnahan,
who asked the director to
estimate the cost of
attending the Colorado
symposium said he would
have difficulty in supporting
the motion to send the
director to the conference in
light of economic conditions.
On a vote. six trustees voted
in favour of sending Mr.
Eckert to the Colorado
convention. while four were
opposed. Mr. Young and Ted
Geoffrey were both absent.
The board received a
letter from the principal of
St. Ambrose School,
Stratford. asking for a
postponement of the school's
dismissal time by 15
minutes. to accommodate
students riding buses.
Mr. Marcy said since
parents were surveyed
before the dismissal time
was changed previously,
they should be consulted
again. He told the board
"you might have an awful lot
of angry parents" if they
weren't consulted before
dismissal time was changed.
The trustees decided to
inform the principal of this
and postone a decision on the
change until their next board
meeting.
The public session of the
meeting. before trustees
went back in camera to
discuss a personnel matter,
closed with trustee Bill
Kinnahan protesting the use
of the word "Ms." on board
mail sent to his wife.
Mr. Kinnahan said he
thought the use of Ms. was
'detestable' after he and his
wife had been married 28
years "and have a
certificate to prove it." He
added. "You don't fool
around with a person's name
until they ask you to change
it."
Mr. Eckert said Ms. had
been appearing on mail sent
form his office for some
time and said. "Ms. I
understand. is neutral for
Miss or Mrs. and doesn't
designate whether a person
is married or unmarried."
The director added he has no
strong feelings about using
the form of address one way
or the other.
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County aids hospitals
Huron County Council ap-
proved grants totalling $220,-
204. to two of the county's
hospitals when they met
February 26.
Wingham and District
Hospital will receive $119,-
250. for construction to ex-
pand the hospital's out-
patient area. laboratory and
radiology department.
Council also granted $100,-
954. to Clinton Public
Hospital for the redevelop-
ment of the ambulatory care
services at that hospital.
Application
cancelled
A special meeting of the
Exeter Planning Board
scheduled to hear an
application for a zoning
amendment for the northend
shopping centre was cancell-
ed last week when the
application was withdrawn.
Chairman Jay Campbell
told councill this week that
Terry' Sweiger had
withdrawn the application
on February 25 and there
was therefore no need for
the board to hold its special
meeting to consider allowing
an accounting firm to es-
tablish in the mall.
Firemen
called out
The Exeter fire depart-
ment members responded to
one of their first calls in
several weeks Monday after-
noon, but there was no fire to
extinguish.
They were called out when
gasoline spilled from one of
two vehicles involved in a
collision on Huron St., just
east of the Exeter limits.
A vehicle driven by
Matthew Tuckey, Exeter,
was backing out of a
driveway when it collided
with a vehicle operated by
Don Wilson, RR 3 Exeter.
OPP Constable Bob
Whiteford investigated and
listed total damage at $3,500.
There were no injuries.
In both instances the coun-
ty's share of the cost is 37
percent of the amount ap-
proved by the province.
The county has decided
however. not to take part in
a second project at Clinton
Public Hospital. County
council turned down a re-
quest for $54.500. to be spent
on renovations at the
hospital. The county is bound
by its own by-law which
limits county participation
to 37 percent of the amount
approved by the province.
The province is not con-
tributing to the rennovation
project at Clinton hospital.
The province's participa-
tion in the Wingham project
amounts to $318,000., and its
share of the Clinton project
to redevelop ambulatory
care services amounts to
$405.684.
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