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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)
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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
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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.
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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".
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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
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pson - they are.completelyd
price,� �
In November of 1578 when the hall wai first
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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-
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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 -
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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�
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'�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. -
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"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
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happen next week.
"^-~'` said office
~~ `~~ was operated last week
and he was dvised it would bagain is *
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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
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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 `
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Town building inspector
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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
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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.
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