Zurich Citizens News, 1977-05-25, Page 10Page 10
Citizens News, May 25, 1977
Board explains increase
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teachers could be branded with
the same stick. She said 85 per-
cent of them don't know what
their contract offers are until it's
time to vote on them explaining
that only a few, most of whom
are on the negotiating team, are
aware of the requests. She said
the committee this year would
be looking closely at class size
and subject material when
negotiating the contract and ask-
ed if the politicians and
ratepayers would support the
board in a strike situation.
Goderich clerk Harold Walls
said he was going through this
exercise for the second time hav-
ing accompanied his council to a
special board meeting once
before to discuss the budget. He
said he was made aware of the
problems facing the board when
they drew up the budget adding
that the increases to the
municipalities can some times
be deceiving.
He said he went back over the
Goderich budgets over the last
few years and discovered that
while the board of education re-
quisition goes up annually in
dollars and cents the percentage
increase does not change that
much. He said the board requisi-
tion and the town budgets can be
compared using about four sets
of figures and each comparison
would have a different result.
"There's no one given
answer," said Walls. "It's a very
complicated procedure."
Several officials conceded that
the board could do nothing about
this year's budget but said that it
certainly could do something
about next year's, The bulk of the
budget — about 70 percent — is
used for wages and the board
could give some serious thought
to evaluating its administrative
and instructional staff with the
intention of perhaps reducing the,.
amount of staff.
Board chairman Herb
Turkheim said salaries were a
touchy thing at this time of year
since the negotiating teams were
in the process of working out
1978's contract. He said the
board could not divulge any in-
formation on the proceedings
now but shared the concern of
taxpayers and officials that
education costs are going up an-
nually.
• A
BAYFIELD PANCAKE BREAKFAST — Joe Maman and Ernie Hovey made pancakes Sunday morning until
their arms ached from the flipping during the Bayfield Lions' Pancake Breakfast. Above they serve their fare
to Anson McKinley, Zurich. Photo by McKinley
Lack of rain a problem
Continued from front page.
One of the biggest problems
cited by Miller at the present
time is the uneven germination in
grain and corn and the fact that
herbicides applied to corn crops
have not been working due to the
lack of moisture.
On Tuesday morning, over 20
calls from Huron farmers were
received at the ministry office in
Clinton asking advice for a
solution to that problem.
Miller indicated it was a real
problem and predicted many
farmers would have weed—and
particularly grass—problems in
their corn fields this season.
While most of the corn planting
has been completed, bean
planting is just underway. Miller
said some farmers have been
holding off hoping for rain, while
others have put the seed into the
ground and hope that it will rain
shortly after.
This year's hay crop, already
damaged by late spring frosts
was described as "just fair" by
the agricultural official and he
said the heat has brought on the
alfalfa weevil faster than usual.
"They're (weevils) starting to
feed now," he said.
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