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ailace delays decision
The . Huron County Board sof Education will
decide at its August meeting if it wants to stand
by a decision to sell six surplus school buses the
board owns. The buses were sold according to, a
board decision reached at the monthly meeting
Thursday but Goderich Trustee Dorothy Wallace
asked that the matter be given i second look at
the next board meeting which is in'August.
Jack Alexander, Wingham trustee and
management committee chairman, told the
board that it would be better business to sell the
six buses, two of which are 1967 models and four
1970. He said the buses were in serious disrepair
and would take more money to keep them road
worthy than they were worth to the board.
The sale was to give the board some return on
oa $98,000 investment it made earlier this year
when it approved the purchase of six new buses.
In 1976 the board approved the sale of eight
surplus buses that netted $7,965'.
Wallace did not dispute the fact that the two
1967 buses should be sold but took exception to
the fact that, the management committee ap-
parently failed to consider practical use of some
of the 1970 buses. The management committee
pointed out that the buses could be used for field
trips but that the board already had four buses
across the county that were used primarily as
backupvehicles in case of breakdown and could
also be used for field trips.
Alexander said the committee looked at leaving
some of the buses posted around the county but
said there weren't enough to go around so it was
decided to sell them all. He said the four back up
buses are in Stephen, Turnberry, Grey and Ash-
field townships. He said the locations allow any
teacher to go to the school where the bus is
parked: and use the vehicle for any field trips.
Wallace said she could see the logic in treating
all areas of the county equally but said if the
board planned its bus purchases it could provide
buses on an annual or semi-annual basis. She
said this year"- it may choose to keep two buses
and add another two next. year.
"We can't afford to just give them away," said
Alexander. "We have to keep them in shape,"
Wallace suggested that the central area of the
county lacked spare buses at its disposal poin-
ting out that by forcing teacher *orntiffeelntral
area to drive 35 miles for a bus for a field trip
was , an injustice considering teachers in "the
outer areas of the county have them much
closer.•. She said that field trips cost the board for bus
time and for stand over time for the driver while
the students do what they set out to do. She said
the costs would be less if the teacher could go get
the bus and drive it himself adding that the
.central area needed that service. She also' said
that a Goderich teacher had summarized the
costs of leaving a bus at the Goderich District
Collegiate and asked if those costs were used in
the decision making.
Alexander said he had only used the costs the
board may face to keep the buses on the road
adding that not all schools take the same number
of field trips and the board couldn't just give
them wholesale use of the vehicles. He said the
board should give each school a field trip budget
and tell them to confine any and all field trips to
that budget.
Two guests at the board meeting, an
elementary school principal and a secondary
school principal, both agreed that the schools in
the central area do not take advantage of the
cheaper buses because by the time they send a
teacher to get the bus and then take it back they
are farther ahead just calling a contractor.
Seaforth trustee John Henderson said the ..
board couldn't make a decision between the two
suggestions unless the costs for field trips could
be balanced against the cost of keeping the
required buses.
R.J. Elliott of Blyth said what the decision
boiled down to was adding extra costs to the
board's budget. He said the board had set aside
money for field trips but had not set aside money
to repair the buses:
Wallace lost her bid to have some of the
vehicles remain in the central area of the county
but by delaying the decision she said she hoped to
provide the board with more figures to
strengthen her arguement and have the board
reconsider.
"I'm inclined to pay more attention to what the
principals say about using the surplus buses we
no w have," said Wallace.
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Eight Godeilch Girl Guides received their Canada Cords,
the highest achievement in guiding on Wednesday, June 15,
at a special ceremony held at Robertson school. The guides
are, back row, left to right, Michele Buchanan, Brenda
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Sheardown. Absent for photo was Lori Jewell. (staff photo)
Searls and PUC
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that th` "' ntario section convention was a
technical ".nvention, possibly too technical for
commissioners to attend. He said he had been to
both the section and the national convention and
while the practical information learned at the
section the commissioners would gain more
from attending the national.
Rolston said he was at a disadvantage since he
did not attend the national convention this year.
The PUC sent all the commissioners and the ice
manager Don McMillan and their wives.
McMillan said he had been to section con-
ventions before but said he couldn't really
- compare the two now since he hadn't been to a
section cd°nvention in two or three years.
Ralston said the London effort was entirely
technical Wile in California equipment
manufacturers and sales companies had put up
display( of their wares and commissioners
wanting to know about such equipment could
have a firsthand glimpse of it.
Searles biggest concern about the commission
attendance at the . national convention is the
costa. This year the commission spent $6,000
sending its delegation, with wives,. to Anaheim,
California. Searles felt that the wives should not
have 'been included, that the delegation should
have been smaller and that at least 'someone
from ' the water department should have at-
tended. The section convention cost thwn $300
foriorterto go.
It* save $100,000 a year as the ,eot ti nission
ctat>ae:by,sending the commission to the AWWA
on then we must have saved a Mint over
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