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Home My WebLink AboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1980-02-07, Page 1nw Bruce Su113x, president of Champion Road Machinery, unveiled a profit sharing plan for 'Champion employees Sunday night in a gala -ecesenmtion. Management of Champion gathered the firm's nasium at Goderich District Collegiate Institute and using sophisticated closed circuit television he urged employees to work "smarter not harderg to make the Champion ,�� standard wymouml6aoem In the industry. (photo by Jeff Seddon) 4‘. Champion BOad Machinery Ltd. -president Bruce Sully used a gala -presentation Sunday night to ;tell the firm's 1,5011 employees they Would be sharing Company profits in 1980; Sully turned the gymnsiurn of Goderich District Collegiate Instititte -into a marketing showplace to unveil his profit sharing plan, A scale 'Model Champion blimp hung sus:pew:led over the seated employees who - watched, and heard, Sully's message- over colour television monitors scattered througll the gym. Amidst an array of bunting, signs and music Sully told 'employees the profit sharing program he was introducing was "the most exciting thing to happen in Champion's history". He told employees the profit sharing plan was an opportunity fer them to make more by smarter_not-harder" -He said if each employee honestly assessed their performance and felt they were doing their job to the best of their ability Champion wduld soon be number - one in the industry. "We cChainpion), can be the standard of excellence in all areas of our business," he told Champion staff. He made it clear to employees that the • company philosophy behind the profit 'sharing plan was "teamwork". He said communication between employees and management had to improve. He said employees and management would have to work hard to establish dialogue that was vital to the success of Champion. Sully's warned that the only way employees l32 YEAR -6 Q� •~AV ~~ ~'~t� ` • THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7^i980 .` 021..11311119131SIMIMMIL ;��^rr�� '``�� star;conk! make the °profit � . � - » ` He said if an employee had an iglea, tOW »Ohc� `-uld ��--__'_r - ` • proved, tell someone," he exhorted. -“We've got • .4o have -professional quality at all levels of . ,_'-_ +h __ prof4s 50:50 with employees each year. He said . _ .profits will ve stovs have been ~v --- reasonable return - their invesanent and after expansion funds have been returned to Champion'. He explain ed•thateeriremployee• Will- have ' the option of taking half of their share of the profits in cash and putting the rest in a•tppmt fund orputting all the money in trtist. ."This means your Work is nOt]n said the president. "This mak sart a team that could make Chnrrpiopfun place mwvr^.- Sully told -him employees `!the world feet" but conceded after the presentation that it may take two' years for employees to realize that. " He said employees would be wary of the new ' plan b because they won't understand its im- plications. o- plioutiona.Boomi�dit�*ou'tbelougbefnrmthmy understand that by working smarter tb*v'lL make more money. Be noted that profit sharing can result in employees and coauugeo`eut demanding the best of work from their peers and themselves. . Employee reaction to the profit sharing was varied. Comments ranged from people won- ' derinQ what they could do to improve Cham- pion's product to others noting that the plan was (ou'ovordue SuUygave Caa indication of what' profit snaring can mean when he announced that if each Champion cxo`nany meets its budget he: will throw in $250,000 into the profit sharing plan". 35 -GENTS PER COPY . ` by . e the engineer �ag council still the amount that a com- pletelyproPosed hall could cost tbezu receivedAt a special meeting on January 28, council 11 applications runningfrom , .The -rices ruoclOm architect Wiwi eo��e Council agreed to negotiate with the lowest of the bidders, Genan, a Kitchener based firm at ith the � Thom- pson - they are.completelyd price,� � In November of 1578 when the hall wai first '�� ov� the proposed �� _' �n��ip�agk�ddo0ata$37�.00Ooozup�xaud lo{Jhrb council ' still �526� uonouudao�ux/ price of $400 ,000, Council�bo�p tou�odu�with Go an on alternate priCeS and options before any final ' deaision is made, When and if a"tender is ac- cepted, the township will then apply for any eligible grants which could include a Com- . and '--' Wintario file is being kept open govei- uo�ontuntU they^ tender andprice form of grant `aPpuoat/ou.• Along with the an tender, others receiVed ten-, ers by council inelnded: }�itbVaDpY. $510'804 3?�OOO and $S�!G8�c�oD� '� � - �ozo,//0; ConDi-n. $538,462: Van Bussel, $535.500;Gilbert, $s48,6l6 C.A. McDowell, $5G6,577;Wayne Stub6a .987. ' Council was Scheduled to .hold a special meeting with the township recreation cn mitte on January 31 to discuss the tender applications.` In buaioewo, council rev� ^ u subdivision plan and 8»Dowingu site inspection of the plan,council agreedtbat access to the beach is not satisfactory; but could be made so with the installation of a suitable set of steps. orhali::-r:-- Council � permit to Bert Dykstra for. the f -a new dp�ybarn with |ii manure ��' '`' Wages were set for towpship employees and councilJ.a'~`~ to payAlexander~' -`''~ ~ �m ��0BIp �me�� und Buron County . Employees Pension. G. Neal will be paid $7 and hour but will not receive benefits untN afterthe age of 65. J. Potter Will receive *G.95un6our. along with ODIP.benefits ' and the county pension plan._ It was also decided that emloyecwould be - township' business and that employees would bn giventwo weeks holidays a,year, wfth pay - � fight ��~�� ties �� to ��'�Ginn �� [ �� with �� D /� war �� BY JEFF SEDDON If Gerry Ginn's reaction to Goderich town council's decision to study enutio of 1,145 acres of Goderich township. land is any in- dication of how the township feels about the issue thincould get stielty. - Ginn,former reeve in township and a member of the 'Goderich Housing Action Comoruittoo, made it Clear tocouncil Monday night he is not happy with tbe'to*o^s an- nexation thoughts. o'uoxutiuntbougbto. Ginn resigned from the housing action committee and in a letter to council made his feeling buovvo.v leaving the ooruro{ttaa'saying "1 regret that 1 cannot sMy tef see the senior citizen4 housing projectThe ior citizen's West Street was that doing and Ginn was a part of that since the committee was established nearly five years ago. The forrom, reeve told council the seniors' unit was a pei pi.uject. or nis adding he felt it was both needed and wanted. He said in serving on' the housing aCtion committee and in other areas he had "tried to promote what I considered to be a co-operative effort between the townships and the town". He said h'e felt his efforts Were "in vain" as a reSult of recent action bp the majority of members of Goderich town council. "It has been a learning experience however,' said -Zinn in the letter. have learned that when dealing with some members of your council you should have three hands, one to shake hdo .ouetobodootoyour*a}lem and one for the knife iri you back'. He saidb was a "sad situ Goderich township share of die senior citizen's project -was -paid anti ',`before orre- trirk-h-a-g been laid" that action has-been started to take the assessment base from the townthip "with which they (the township) are to raise their share". Ginn told council he did not intend to remain ° ^ week. He said he understood several people had idle. Besaid "now that war has been declared l must sever all diplornatic relations with such a - council-. Be added "my tirne Will be spent defending the boundaries of my townshi" A suggestion from councillor E|ooHoydon. Who ybjocted to the unocXo600 study, that council open. an annexation . fileplace Gion'x|aur init "as the first casua ^ was DuUyturnodd • Council receivecl and filed the letter and will send Ginn a letter accepting his resignation with regret. ~ License �� /@��m� Goderich town council learned Monday nigh.t that a temporary ffioe had been set up at town' hall 'to sell 1980 license plate stickers in Goderich. Town McCabe clerk Larry udd council that o � -' mookadding hudid not know what was going tnPohtics andeducation onJ mix been interviewed to sell the stickers but 'the provincial government had not indicated, who the XvcccsayuUapplicant was. Counci1to. impact �21�� ^/ doderich town council intends to form a speclal ,committeeqo investigate the amount, vo�ooadpoasib�/r��oony�mrvuodubmoqbothis �own.. ' The results of the Goderich study will be presented to council for comment and then passed on to Ontario Attorney -General Roy McMurtry to be considered in a provincial study of vandalism. That decision -``council xe�a^�m�, a. mf�ce� ' - ' '�u^,�"vy� �nuu provincially and inviting Goderich du par' dcipate. • Inhis letter McMurtry that vandalism was "one of the foremost•concerns of municipal councils or Ontario". He Said vandalism is a large problem' and usually forces municipalities to bear the 'brunt of the c ost for this uotiaooia|bobaviour^. The' province, in co-operation with the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto and the' City of North York, .established a rouuicipul' i miol , "" conducted "yJudge Lucien . and all municipalities are invited to Make submissions tothe judge. Reeve Eileen Palmer up a committee i d of a lawyer, judge, policeman, council member, social worker and taxpayer to Study problems resulting from yanda\isnninGodericb. ' Councillor E|au'Buydon felt such u'com- mittee wuaannvorreactkmbycooucU.Buydon conceded that vandalism is a .big probleno in .some areas butnoted that in Goderich it is not. Sbe'suid'rmoen:studies here indicated that vandalism resulted in "minimal" damage adding the town was "fortunate- in that regard. - ~ "l vmuld not want to see us (council) makea big thing out of this," she said Council decided by a 5-4 margin to set up the 3 happen next week. "^-~'` said office ~~ `~~ was operated last week and he was dvised it would bagain is * '~ . . � Towns to know��U�� throwing�� want who's ��N, BY JEFF S Municipalities sharing the land fill site in Holmesville feel the only way an accurate cost sharing agreement can be wOrked out is to determine who is throwing What into the dump. To do that the municipalities, which include the towns of Goderich and Clintora the villages of Bayfield and Lucknow, ,,the townships of Colborne and Gv"o^"^=^","="a.intend = - hire someone to monitor garbage. _The person hired for the job will•be checking in the refuse to see how much the people of each municipality put in the landfill site each year. Deputy -reeve Bob Allen told Goderich town council -Monday night the landfill site coo-, mittee wants to find out once and for all which muncipalit54. makes most use of the dump. He said that ie -the only way the committee can calculate what share of the costs each should pay annually. Allen told council that fact became obvious this year when costs where allocated to each -municipality. 1-1e. -said the committee voted in Picking up Just under half the $124,879 tab for the landfill site. ~ The committee felt that since Goderich has the largest population and the most industry it makes greatest use of the dump. The town will pay 48 percent of the cost or $59,941. Clinton will . �� pay 20 percent or $2075, Colborne township 11 percent or $13,736, Goderich township nine percent pr $11,239, the village of Bayfield five percent or .$5,243 and the village of Lucknow seven percent or $8,741. Allen said Goderich disputed the assumption that industry in the town made a great deal Of use of the landfill site pointing out that some industry used scrap dealers to remove refuse. He said by monitoring garbage at the landfill site the speculation of who ma'kes most use of the service can berernoved ` ' Town building inspector ' ° resigns takingupduties�� Goderich town council hired and acc ted\b resignationof the town's building inspector without ever seeing him. Council as inforn'ied Monday night thatjim McQuire, 'who was hired in Jaouuzy, had resigned. Ken Bunter, commissioner of mmrks, told council of McQuire's he did not know why.' ` ' McQuire was to take up his position in Qnder|chmto*lk.000ayear wage. The 4lyear old, currently building inspector in Sarnia township,was to receive $17000 a year after completing his probationary probationary. period and was to get m$1OOamoontbcaraUom/arico. • BYJEFF 8EmDON A political campaign has no place in a board of education ,meeting according to Hen- derson,vice chuif,�i� of the Huron . � � County board of education. Henderson Bcnderaon mude that deur at the board session Monday when u report -from John Coohrnno, the director, cif education, outlined what the Progressive Conservative budget would cost the" board in ,the excise tax on gasoline., Town clerk Larry McCabe asked couoci/ what it wanted done about the resignation. He ••••"' said a committeeset uto.hire the building inspector could meet again and make a second recommendation to council if that was council's wish. He added h, did not know if that was proper under the terms ofreference cuunGi gave the coimittec replied.it," saki councillor John Doherty. " "Maybe we'd better put you on the corn% mittee if you can do a better Job," said mayor Harry Worsen'. ' "The last three people I hired stayed," Doherty The r*por, Prepared by the board's tran- sportation U manager R/l, -Cunningham and submitted by Cochrane, estimated the budget would cost the board � That estimate was based on what Cun- ningham called 'my understanding of the C,oshichudgrt" gr told trustees the hoard now enjoys a rebate of 1.5 cents per litre on gasoline pur- chased and a rebate of .3 cents per kilometer on ur'chnoedundnrehuteoYJcentsperbi|omoteron mileage paid.. Ho said both of those would disappear under the new' budget and gasoline would increase .four cents per litre, He said that would mean a comhined total- incrase of 5.5 cents per Iitre. • Cunningham noted that the contract with bus operators would require the board to pay an additional five cents per mile ^ B�.aaidthe .blAsts,travel8^04,oilem.a.dayfor 187 days meaning the additional five cents would total $83.345.90., The board purchases 315,317 litres of gasoline a year and at an in- crease of .055 that would total $17.342.44 an- nually. The board would also pay mileage for 422,661. .kilometres at .V03 cents totalling $1,267.98. The o» prepared at the request of chairman Donald MacDonald. The 'chairman said a taxpayer had asked -him what increased Lasoline osts would mean to the board and he promised to find out. McDonald said he did not mean the report to be ]iG l one but merely doing his job. Lucknow trustee Marian Zina Commented "if I was a party pooper 1 would take grievance with that rejiort". Henderson said he felt the report was corm- pletely out of order. He said the board haeRio business making statements of a political pature suggesting if a taxpayer wanted to know what the budget ho- go to Ottawa "That's of no concern to us let the taxpayer find out himself," said Henderson, MacDonald conceded that since the budget 'wuu never passed the inyhcmatiun was un- necessary. But he added that he was asked to get the inforrnation and got it Goderich trustee Dave Gower said the figures given the board were "probably' oorreut" but suggested the "mannerthey were exacted is questionable". Gower said he felt it was fair to estimate the costs when the budget was pertinent but questioned the need for them "As aairmati he6iiu the right -to ask," said - Gower. Seperate school trusteeEugene there was nothing wrong with thq requett except "the timing was wrong". He said "six months from now it won't matter a bit". ' "it nufS7' yet," replied the/chairman. �