Times-Advocate, 1985-01-16, Page 2Page 2
Tirnes-Advocate, January 16, 1985
Rec board members keep Pym chairman
A ceonip lishni en ts, strained relations outline d
An improvement and enlargement
of facilities and programs operated
by the South Huron rec centre board
of management highlighted a review
of the past year at the board's in-
augural meeting, Thursday. There
was also an undercurrent of the
strained relations that arise occa-
sionally between the board and Ex-
eter council.
After a dinner meeting at which
John Pym was re-elected board chair-
man and Carolyn Merner was again
nAmed vice-chairman. the next item
on the agendawas the approval of the
past month's accounts and that's
when the first debate arose pertain-
ing to council's position regarding
board affairs.
Exeter council representative
Gaylen Josephson wondered why the
list of December accounts had been
sent to council for approval at their
first meeting in January, when in fact
those accounts had not been approv-
ed by the board.
Secretary -treasurer Joanne Fields
responded that clerk Liz Bell had ask-
- ed that the rec board accounts be on
hand for council's first January
meeting and that request had been
fulfilled. T
Finance chairman Carolyn Merner
added that the board had authorized
the payment of all accounts that fell
within the budget until the end of the
year when they met in December.
Usborne representative Brian
Hardeman said that formality, was
Hospital change
pharmacy plan
tollowea ny counciis as well as they
authorized their clerks to pay payroll
and other accounts through to the end
of the year.
Ile suggested Exeter council pro-
bably did the same thing and then
also approved those accounts at their
January meeting.
Josephson said he wasn't certain of
that.
lfardeman said it was "just too
bad" that Exeter council met ahead
of the rec board and added that the
situation "just shows we have no
power".
Ile went on to say that when the
clerk or mayor .of Exeter asks board
members or employees to hop to it.
"that's what happens". He said no
one sitting at the table should be
criticized for fulfilling the request
made by the clerk.
Mrs. Merner added that the board
should still review the December ac-
counts and authorize them, adding
that surely if some problem was
found, council could take appropriate
action to correct it.
With the accounts approved, the
board then discussed the letter from
council advising that rec director
Lynne Farquhar and facilities
manager Cam Stewardson had been
reclassified in the salary grid system.
Stewardson asked Josephson, who
was a member of the town's
employee relations committee at the
time, whether the determination of
which step on the grade any employee
was placed was the responsibility of
the employee relations committee or
Pharmacology services formerly
supplied to South Huron Hospital by
University Hospital in London are
now being provided by Canada
Apothecary, a private company bas-
ed in the same city.
South Huron administrator Roger
Sheeler said he was officially notified
on October 11, 1984, that the London
hospital was unable to continue the
relationship beyond the next seven
weeks because of staffing problems;
University hospital's part-time
employee Cathy Hubbard, the phar-
macist who had been working with
South Huron, had accepted a full time
senior management position and was
not being replaced.
Sheeler intitially approached Big V
management, as that drug store
chain will soon be opening a store in
Exeter. Though supportive, they said
they were not equipped to take over
the service.
Sheeler turned next to Canada
Apothecary. The company already
-'ng„
homes, and is familiar with the doc-
tors and the people in this area.
The transition. which began
December 3, was accomplished with
a minimum of disruption, according
to Sheeler. A pharmacist still visits
the Exeter hospital once a week to
consult with the medical staff, and is
available by phone at other times.
Individual prescriptions are now
dispensed in blister packs rather than
by unit dosage. A quick glance at the
card shows how many pills are left.
eliminating the need to actually count
each one.
A cost comparison of the previous
and current services vvilrnot be possi-
ble until the first invoices are receiv-
ed from Canada Apothecary.
South Huron has been without a
speech pathologist since April 1, when
the professional providing that
assistance moved to Barrie.
The hospital's other shared services
- library and the pediatric clinic - re-
main unchanged.
Case dealers
Continued from front page
with a complete lack of rancour.
Speaking for 11. Lobb and Sons.
('ase dealers since 1971. Fred Lobb
said individual dealers handed ter-
mination agreements are in a quan-
dary-. If one signs. he has no legal
recourse later "if someone else down
the road wins a tremendous court
case On the other hand. a later deal
could he less appealing than the one
now being offered. he explained
Lobb knows of no IH dealers in the
area who arc being closed down.
Bill Becker confirmed that IH
dealer V Becker and Sons.
I)ashwoexl. has been offered a dealer-
ship agreement He attributes the
task force's decision to keep the
Becker dealership open partly to the
fact they have been selling 111 trac-
tors and equipment for 33 years. and
are "more familiar with the full line
Becker would neither confirm or
deny rumours that his family's
dealership would be required to locate
in Exeter Ile said it was "too early -
to make any comment". the Cana-
dian government has not yet approv-
ed the take-over. and Beckers have
not yet signed their agreement.
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MARCH
41 OF DIMES
if it should be up to the board. fact the step as well as the grade had
Josephson said that determining been approved by council.
the step on the grade was made in a Those two minor disagreements
joint agreement with the employee were quickly forgotten as members
relations committee and the board's reviewed the past year in their com-
personnel and policy committee. ments to close the meeting.
However, Stewardson said that Josephson led off the compliments
determining the step on the grade as he noted the board had made
should actually be the responsibility "great strides" in the matter of
of the full board. establishing policies -through their fre-
He was told by the Exeter council quent sessions with ministry
member that that specific question representative Melanie McLaughlin.
still hadn't been settled by council. He termed it a "tremendous
"Council passed it. That makes it achievement" and said the policies
right," he added in reference to the should help the board avert problems
PAST WINNER/HONOUR wring t e annual awards banquet
of the Huron Soil and Crop Improvement Association awards ban-
quet in Seaforth, Bruce Shillinglaw presented an Ontario Farm Con-
servation Award sign to last year's winner Bert and Tina Visscher
of Stephen township. T -A photo
In the future, or at least be in a posi-
tion to quickly respond to them should
they arise.
He commended chairman Pym and
the staff for their efforts during the
year and said that "hopefully things
will be as good in the coming year".
Stephen representative Tom Tomes
also commended the staff for main-
taining the recreation complex in a
high standard and Hardeman also
noted that great strides had been
made in a number of areas in the past
year.
"We've also shown the townships
and town can get along on the board
fairly well," he added.
"The staff has done a most ad-
mirable job," commented Mrs.
Merner, noting that they are respon-
sible for more facilities and programs
than ever before.
She said she was concerned with
the financial picture as overhead
costs are continually escalating, ad-
ding that she hoped some valuable
ideas on recreation costing would
come out of the joint meeting plann-
ed in the near future for seven area
municipalities.
Jim Workman and Kathy Whiteford
echoed the sentiments expressed by'
others, with the latter adding that now
that a new policy committee has been
named, further progress can be made
in that area.--- -
Chairman Pym said the board
would continue to have to wrestle with
budget as the facility and program
costs continue to mount.
"We struggle through each year,"
he commented.
He suggested the board would have
to set aside more money for
maintenance and repairs as "all the
facilities are getting older". "It's on-
ly common sense," he said in
reference to the added budget need-
ed 'for maintenance costs.
The committees for the new year
are as follows, with the first named
being chairman:
Personnel! and policy -- Josephson,
Hardeman and Workman.
Facilities - Whiteford, Workman,
Merner, Humphreys and Hardeman.
Finance -- Merner, Whiteford and
Tomes.
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