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Zurich Citizens News, 1977-11-17, Page 7Hope trustees get more involved Huron board change committee system The Huron County Board of Education made a move at its Monday meeting that should encourage greater involvement of trustees in board business in 1978 andresult in more debate during monthly board meetings. The board realigned its committee system dropping the present two committee policy and replacing it with a five committee one. The move was made after a three-day board seminar held earlier in November. Trustees met in a three day private session to review its organization and method of co-operation and agreed to give the five committee system a one-year trial period to see if it is more effective. Director of Education John Cochrane said Monday that the five committee system is designed to make more members of the board actively involved in board business. He said the new system should encourage more debate during board meetings and should make the public more aware of what the board of education does. Cochrane explained that under the old two committee system the bulk of the board's work was done at the committee level and only involved half the board mem- bers. He said seven of the 16 trustees sat on the education committee and seven on the management committee. The vice-chairman usually sat in on one committee's meetings and the chairman on the other. "When a committee made a recommendation to the board to be voted on it already had half the board voting in favor of it without the other half even knowing about it," said Cochrane. . "What usually happened is the other half would assume that if the other committee was in favor of it it must be good and voted in favor of it." Committee responsibility presented to the board by committee, Each will have a Cochrane after he worked with chairman and two appointed the four superintendents of members. education to break down board Cochrane said no trustee will responsibilities and set up sit on more than one committee committees to handle them. He ensuring that every trustee has said the committees will each be responsibilities to handle. He said given an area of business to the committee will have to handle and will work with a review any material offered on a superintendent at the committee recommendation and then sell it level, He explained that he to the board at the regular basically paralleled the com- meeting, It will then be up to the xnittees with the superintendents' remaining trustees to ask roles in the education system. questions on the subject and Each committee will consist of ensure that the decision will be a chairman elected by the board beneficial to their constituents. and two members appointed by a "The biggest criticism the striking committee made up of board receives is that it rubber the board chairman and vice- stamps things," said Cochrane. chairman and the four elected "This is bound to create more chairmen. An executive com- debate removing that criticism," mittee will consist of the board Cochrane went on record with chairman and vice-chairman, the the board as being opposed to the past chairman if he or she wishes two committee system. He said and one or two members of the the committees were too large board, whichever is required to and weren't working effectively bring the committee membership to make all the trustees aware of to four. what the board was doing. He Other committees, will be the said he wasn't going to com- fiscal and property policies pietely condemn the two com- committee, the instructional mittee system and say it was personnel policies committee; the ineffective in handling board school programs policy com-' business, but he would say that he mittee and the student policies hoped the new system would be better. He said that the recent Huron County school system evaluation report, which was completed in May, was not the reason the board changed its policy. He pointed out that the report "planked away at -com- munication problems" but it was not the impetus for the change. The five committee system will go on trial for one year and the board will evaluate its results in November of 1978:At the January meeting the committees will be established and should be func- tioning by February of next year. "We'll have to stub our toes and make some changes as we go along," said Cochrane. "We'll have to see how it goes." The board also changed the format for its meetings to permit more time during board sessions for debate. Meetings now start at 1:00 p.m. with committee of the whole and the public portion Bean crop a `disaster' A recent newsletter from the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board verifies what most people already knew, "this year's white bean crop was the worst crop disatter in over half a century in Ontario." The communique continues, "Going back through 55 years of records there has never been one year where yields over all our counties fell below 700 pounds per acre on average." An average of 700 pounds per The five committee system was acre would give a total crop of 1,120,000 hundredweight and the total harvested on October 28 was only 731,000 hundredweight. The estimates of crop potential for 1977 ranged around 2.5 million cwt. The conclusion to the Ontario bean crop situation was, "this year will be remembered painfully by growers, processors, shippers and canners. Seed to plant next year's crop is uppermost in many growers minds, because the disastrous weather also affects how many seed plots get combined. In order to get some firm idea of the total available seed for next year's crop, the board will undertake a survey of all seed growers and elevators to quantify volumes in-house and on the farm. 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And whereas the Corporation of the Township of Hay has agreed to stop up and close those streets according to Registered Plan 12, for the said Township of Hay, more particularly described, according to the attached marked as Schedule A — Pt of Dansereau Ave. Schedule B — Pt of Archambault St. Schedule C — Pt of Bissonnette Ave Schedule D — Pt of Picotte St. Schedule E — Pt of Picotte St. Schedule F — Pt of Swarts St. Schedule G — Pt of Georgianna St. Schedule H — Joseph Street Schedule I — Pt of Bissonnette Ave. Schedule J — Pt of Bissonnette Ave. And Further to convey the same to the abutting land owners, being the Estate of Valerie Cantin. Now Therefore, the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Hay enacts as follows: 1) That the portion of streets in the said Township of Hay, more par- ticularly described as per the attached schedules, be and the same is hereby stopped up and closed as a road allowance. Read a first and second time this 31st day of October 1977. Read a third time and passed this 31st day of October 1977. NOTE: The schedules mentioned in the above by-law are on file at the Hay Township Municipal Office and may be inspected during regular office hours.