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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1978-04-27, Page 18• PAGE 18—GODERICH SIGNAL -STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 1978 $20 million educationbudget hikes rate 5.76 percent BY JEFF SEDDON The Huron County Board of Education ap- proved its 1978 budget in a special meeting Thursday night and increased the education mill rate by 5.76 percent in Huron. The $20,352,954 budget was presented to the board in public session and received little criticism by trustees. A few were concerned about small expenses at schools in their jurisdiction but those concerns involved minor expenses. The province picks up 69.5 percent of the costs for education in Huron and the remaining $6,217,938 is the amount paid for by the county's 26 municipalities. Superintendant of education Roy Dunlop explained the 30 page budget document to the board pointing out that after provincial grants the board's expenses totalled $6,178,399. An under levy of $39,539, brought about by the board's conservative requisition in 1977, made the total requisition this year $6,217,938, an increase of 7.72 percent. The bulk off the education costs are salaries which take up about 75 percent of the money collected by the board. The 31 day high school teacher strike saved taxpayers in the county $213,959. That amount is the county share of the $653,228 in salaries that weren't paid up to March 31 when the budget was struck. Dunlop explained that provincial grants on teacher salaries pays, about 60 percent of the wages. He said the province saved $383,981 up to March 31 and tuition fees paid by neighboring school boards toward teacher salaries totalled $55,288. The tuition fees are for students living outside the jurisdiction of the Huron board but attending Huron County schools. Each municipality in the county will have its share of the $213,959 returned. Goderich gets the lion's share of the return $32,500. Exeter will get $13,019, Wingham $10,424, Clinton $8,691 and Seaforth $5,621. The county's five villages and 16 townships will also be getting a return. Dunlop said he was surprised that the budget increase was as low as it was but pointed out that the small increase this year could create problems for next year if trustees are not wary. He said salaries for board employees account for 75 percent of the total requisition and that if trustees are not tough at the negotiating table bargaining on 1978-79 wages the budget could be up considerably next year. The biggest decrease in the budget was under capital oroiects. Those costs are down 46.9 percent from last year. In 1977 the board spent $225,990 for renovations to Exeter Public School and this year have earmarked $120,000 for work at Goderich District Collegiate Institute and Huron Hope in Wingham. Colborne township trustee Shirley Hazlitt raised the most objection to the budget. She wanted an explanation as to why a chain link fence to be constructed at Colborne Public School was not included in the budget. She said she understood the fence, to border the school playground along County Road One, was put off last year when the road was widened and resurfaced and was to be budgeted for this year, Hazlitt said the board balked at a suggestion from the county to trade a strip of lapd the board owned that was to be included in the county road MPP supports move to have novels banned BY JEFF SEDDON The Kingsbridge Catholic Women's League plans to bring a letter writing campaign to bear on the Huron County Board of Education to have three "objectionable" novels removed from the list of high school English literature books. The novels, all of which have returned to haunt the board for the past three years, contain language that is "filthy" and consistently refer to sexual activities according to the CWL. Exerpts from the books were sent along with about 200 letters that went out to board trustees, members of federal and provincial parliament, township councils, county council, minister of education Thomas Wells and area churches. Clarice Dalton, spokesman for the CWL, said the novels — The Diviners by Margaret Riders needed Laurence, Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger and of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck — were objectionable and should be removed from the list of books used in the county's five secondary schools. The women bolstered their request with letters of reply from Wells, Huron Bruce MP Bob McKinley, MPP's Jack Riddell and Murray Gaunt, and Stephen and Tuckersmith township councils. Both township councils endorsed resolutions to have the books removed from the curriculum and of the politicians only Gaunt spoke out against the novels. Dalton said the CWL's strongest support came from Gaunt who, in a letter to director of education John Cochrane, said he was "really BY JOANNE WALTERS WANTED: Bike riders and sponsors for the Goderich Great Ride for Cancer! The date for the ride has been set for Sunday, May 7 commencing at 2 p.m. at the Suncoast Mall on Bayfield Road. The Goderich Kinsmen Club has agreed to co-ordinate the 1978 bike-a-thon for cancer in this town. Interested riders should get in touch with' Mike Drennan of the Kinsmen Club at 524-6675 for all particulars. A route 15 kilometers long has been set entirely within the town, starting and finishing at the mall. Refresh- ments will be served along the route and various check points and rest centres set up. Sponsor sheets are available at The Bank of Montreal, Zehr's, Nakamura Pharmacy and Bill Kirkey's Texaco Station. RULES AND REGULATIONS Bike riders should ride single file, 30 feet apart. They should ride with the traffic, yielding to it when necessary and using signals to warn drivers of their "moves". Riders should adjust their speed to always ensure controlof their bikes. Participants are at their complete p own risk. If involvement can endanger a rider's health, withdraw from the ride: rider will be askedto that Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Proceeds of the ride should be designated Cancer Campaign of Goderich Branch. Canadian Cancer Society. Pledges when collected, should be taken to The Bank of Montreal in Goderich.The ride cannot exceed 15 kilometres. If you require help or further information, call the Goderich Kinsmen Club at 524-7307. Get out and do your part when the ride gets underway. You will not only be contributing toward a worthwhile cause, you will also be getting some refreshing exercise and there's certainly nothing wrong with that! See you en route. See the 2 H.P., 4 H.P. & 6 H.P. EVINRUDE OUTBOARD MOTORS AT �.� SERICE V DOMINION NARC/WanE Turn clocks ahead Saturday quite shocked and offended to read some of this stuff". Gaunt said "of all the crap I have ever heard, that has to be it, and I can tell you that if that material is going to be taught in Huron County high schools when my children go to high school, they won't be going to the public system". Gaunt said he was fearful of the direction in which society is heading if "this kind of junk" is taught under the guise of freedom of education. The Huron -Bruce MPP said he hoped the board would use good judgment in warding off a situation which he described as a "moral decay in our educational ethics and standards". Gaunt said he did not want to sound "prudish or self-righteous" but he said he strongly ob- jected to that kind of material being taught in high school or anywhere else. "If we continue to,sow this kind of stuff 'in the minds of young people we will sow to the wind and reao the whirlwind," he said. Clarice Dalton said Gaunt's response was the most 'positive the CWL had received but added that the ladies had not received any negative opinions. She said all they were basically after was to have those three hooks removed from the curriculum list. She said they were not seeking total censorship of English novels. "Everything is censored a certain amount today," she said`. "We just can't do what we want. We're not imposing anything on them any more than they are imposing: on us but there's FLORIDA PINK OR WHITE GRAPEFRUIT 8a$1.00 lots of books available without using those three." She said she had not read the novels but that the exerpts from the three were "proof enough". She said the students didn't need that kind of material. She said of the three the Diviners was the most sexually explicit claiming it was "out of this world" with "nothing left unsaid". She said she realized that there is probably nothing in the novels that the students don't already know or haven't seen in movies but pointed out that by using the material in the classrooms the students could get the feeling the material was being condoned. John Cochrane said the letter from the CWL would probably come to the hoard at its Monday meeting but said the board would probably send it to the committee level. He said he wouldn't be "too upset" if the board took the Diviners off the list and wasn'tworried about the other two. He said the books would be up for approval or disapproval during the summer when the board's school programs committee met with board superintendents to discuss curriculum material .planned by school principals and teachers. Dalton said other Catholic Women's Leagues had been asked to support the request for the removal of the books but she didn't know how many had actively supported the Kingsbridge group. She said there are 75 members in the Kingsbridge CWL. allowance for a farm fence to be constructed by the county. She said the board decided then to take the $600 for the land and earmark the money for a chain link fence. She said the chain fence was more desirable for safety reasons. Budget committee member and board chairman John Elliott said the budget com- mittee considered all requests from school principals and approved those requests as money permitted. He said the $600 was grouped in with the funds available for school main- tenance and capital projects and that the $3,400 fence was not affordable. Hazlitt said she felt the money would be well spent since the safety of the children was at stake. She said the county road will be paved this year and has been widened and flattened which will mean cars will be travelling faster than when the road was gravel. She said children play alongside the road and the risk of an accident from one of them running onto the road to retrieve a ball was not worth $3,400. Hazlitt said she didn't see the merits of spending $750 for a colour television for the school when the fence was to be left. The budget includes a capital expense for a television for Colborne Public. The truestee voted against the 1978 budget for those reasons pointing out that she felt the ex- pense for the fence was justified. She was the only trustee to vote against the budget. Seaforth trustee John Henderson said he was curious about a request for fertilizer for F.E. Madill Secondary. School in Wingham. The request was for $350 for fertilizer for the playing fields at the school and Henderson asked if that wasn't a great deal of fertilizer for one school. Dunlop explained that the school fields had not been done for two years and that the money would buy two tons of fertilizer. He said he checked files for the last purchase order for the' school and it was also for two tons. Clinton trustee Dorothy Williams wondered why there was a $1,400 -spread between requests from two secondary schools for calculators when there was only three more machines in the more expensive purchase. She said Central Huron Secondary School in Clinton asked for five calculators costing $480 while'Goderich District Collegiate wanted eight costing $1,840. Dunlop said the spread was caused by the different abilities in the machines. He said the. two schools were not asking for the same calculators. SPRING SAVINGS FOR YOUR PAPER TOWELS 2 ROLLS 994 FOR • AYLMER STRAWBERRY OR RASPBERRY 24 FL. OZ. JAM WITH PECTIN STOKELY 14 FL. OZ. AYLMER 14 FL. OZ. FANCY HONEY PODT.69'llE0ARPTHIR694 PEAS PURITAN REEF STEW 24 FL. OZ. 99a PURITAN IRISH STEW 24 FL. oz. 994 AYLMER 28 FL. OZ. CHOICE CANNED TOMATOES 9941 BEST BUY PRICES CHICKEN LEGS ..89° 594 SUNSPUN SOFT 1 LB. MARGARINE 694 KIST 30 FL. oz. 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