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By. Jeff Seddon
County engineer Bob
Dempsey gave county
council a look Thursday
at what the 1979 road
committee faces when it,
strikes its budget for the
new year. Dempsey
submitted a preliminary
report for council poin-
ting out that with in-
creased costs and new
construction projects in
the budget the county
would have to raise 28
percent more money for
roads than last year.
The engineer told
council that the
preliminary budget was
an estimate only and
could not be firmed up
until early in 1979. He
said he lacked three vital
pieces of information
needed for an accurate
forecast of costs in 1979
and only intended the
draft budget to outline
projects proposed for 1979
as well as what main-
tenance costs are ex-
pected to be.
To prepare the budget
Dempsey estimated what
the province will allocate
'to Huron County fer roads
next year, what the final
Should
share
facilities
The Ontario
Association of School
Business Officials has
petitioned the Minister of
Education, The Hon.
Bette Stephenson for
action to require school
boards to share or
.transfer scht$61 facilities
whenever circumstances
permit.
In a meeting with the
Minister (November 16),
the Association said that
With the current em-
phasis being placed on
using limited capital
funds for additional pupil
places, ..;-ftitids for
regoyatiga and
replacement of facilities
were virtually non-
existent
While school boards
cannot build new schools,
if they have surplus
accommodation
available locally, the
Ministry still permits
boards to use funds to
build new ac-
commodations even when
an adjoining school board
may have surplus space.
The Association says
this can create un-
necessary duplication of
facilities and subsequent
whste of money. It
proposes legislation to let
school boards in different
jurisdictions share
surplus space and use the
monies saved for other
purposes.
' "We ask you to con-
sider the needs of the
students being educated
in substandard ac-
commodation, and we
propose that you
reallocate funds for the
renovation or
replacement of such
equipment by reducing
the wasteful duplication
of facilities," said the
Association brief to the
Minister.
The Association also
offered to assist the
Ministry of Education in
its current review of sick
leave and resultant
liabilities.
It sought Ministerial
support for Association
positions on copywright
regulations, school
supply tariff increases
and changes in sales tax
exemptions.
The Association is
made up of school board
business officials across
Ontario and is committed
to establishing and
maintaining high stan-
dards ,of ethics and ef-
ficiency in school
business methods.
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•
oats of 1978 will be and
what the county faces in
either -a deficit or surplus
for 1978.
Based en last year's
budget Dempsey
estimated the province's
share of the road costs to
be $1,892,000 but pointed
out that that figure could
go up or. down $100,000.
Using that figure he told
council the county share
of the 1979 budget would
be $1,643,500. He
estimated the surplus
from 1978 to be $77,500
and deducted that
amount from the county
portion to arrive at the 28
percent increase.
Dempsey made no
attempt to convince
council to attempt to
come up with the extra
money to handle 1979
expenses. He indicated
: I I,
t1
that the 28 percept in-
crease was hefty:. and
offered council three
alternptIves to trim costs
from.the budget to arrive
at a reasonable increase.
He told council it could
let the 'preliminary
budget stand and in-
crease the county levy to
meet those added costs or
the road committee could
go'. over the .budget to
establish priorities in new
construction and then
take some of the less
important projects out to
reduce the net,increase.
The third alternative
according to Dempsey.is
to re -work the entire ,
budget with the idea af
taking a little money. Oat
of each item' to hOPefkkliY
come up with an increase
that could be handled by
the county levy. To make
that point the engineer
said that with a six
percept inbase in. the
county share $437,500
would have to be shaved
while only $414,000 would
have to be chopped if that
increase were eight
percent.
Council accepted
Dempsey's report and
offered no in4ication, on
how the budget cutthig
would be handled. The
-incpming cilunty council
is expected to name its
1979 road committee this
month.
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