The Goderich Signal-Star, 1987-10-07, Page 3Cornmurtv News
Town of Goderich may be
paying too much in education
The Town of Goderich is among 300 On-
tario municipalities, nine in Huron County,
who could be paying large
overassessments to the provincial
Ministry of Education under an "anti-
quated," apportionment factoring system.
At their Sept. 28 meeting, Goderich
Town Council supported a resolution by
the City of Nepean, requesting the
ministry introduce new funding policies
that will use unconstrained equalized
assessment to fairly apportion local school
board costs in 1988. • ..
The current system utilizes a system of
factors, based on a town's assessment
base, which restricts equalization
payments to municipalities, deemed to be
in better financial situations than others: If
the factors were eliminated, as suggested
by the . Nepean resolution, Gaderich's.
education apportionment (over $2 million
annually, paid to the the Huron County
Board of Education) would drop by more
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than 50 per cent. Apportionments in Clin-
ton, Exeter, Seaforth, Wingham, Blyth,
Brussels, Hensall and Zurich, would also
be lowered..
If the system was changed, Goderich Ad-
ministrator Larry McCabe points out, the
extra costs handled by those municipalties
would not simply be picked up by other
Huron municipalites, but would become
part of a province -wide re -distribution of
funds. -
McCabe said the current system allows
for appeals, first to the county, then to an
arbitration board made up of clerks and
administrators within the county.
However, if an apportionment appeal iS
upheld under the current system, fund re-
distribution only occgrs within
municipalities in the county involved.
McCabe said Goderich officials are plan-
ning to meet with officials from the other
eight affected municipalites to consider
launching a joint assessment appeal.
Meanwhile, they are in support of efforts
by Nepean to change the provinces assess-
ment system.
"If we did away with the factors,it
would mean quite a shift in apportion-
ment," said McCabe, adding that the
Ministry of Education would still receive
the same amount of money in total from
the municipalites. "The pie could just be
cut up different," he said.
McCabe said it is important to note the
dispute is not with the Huron County Board
of Education, who are simply making their
apportionments based on provincial
regulations.
• -"It's 'not the Huron board's fault at all,
it's the province's regulations we're ques-
tioning," he said.
St. John's Ambulance is in need
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Charlie Knox, Goderich Raceway
manager, said there has to be an am-
bulance present or there will be no racing.
While any ambulance will do, he would like
something done to help St. John's keep
afloat. They do a good job, he said. He
gives an annual donation of $500.
Their mobile unit is a 1980 Dodge Am-
bulance, purchased used in 1983. It cur-
rently has over 160,000 kilometers on it and
will need replacing in the near future. Us-
ed ambulances cost between $12,000 to
$20,000 and a new one can run $70,000, said
Renaud. However, the.brigade must have
the money for another unit in the bank,
because, as he explains, they never know
when one will become available. The
money must be raised beforehand.
The brigade must pay for the general
maintenance of the vehicle as well. Gas,
insurance dnd repairs can be very expen-
sive, said Renaud. ,They recently had an
ereetrical problem that; along with some
general repairs, cost $3,700 to fix. '
Domtar Chemicals recently donated
. $2,000 to St. John's to pay for new paint and
• decals on the unit.
A first aid training program reduces ac-
cidents 20-40 per cent in industry and the
home, said Renaud. The Workmans Com-
pensation Board requires two people per
work area per shift be trained in first aid,
depending on the size of the workforce.
Domtar Chemicals, Champion Road
Machinery, the Signal -Star and other in-
dustries have employees trained by the St.
John's Ambulance.
They conduct their training programs
wherever and whenever they can—in
church basements, schools and in the
workplace. The Goderich high school pro-
vides them with classrooms at no charge,
as their donation for using the brigades'
services, said Herb Murphy, school.
principal.
St. John's will conduct a letter appeal -for
donations from service groups, businesses
and individuals. To help oiut send dona-
tions to P.O. Box 144, Goderich Ont.,
_ - _
It is important to remember, said
Renaud, that all money donated stays in
the community. We operate on whatever
people donate and there is no outside
New school will not be
required for subdivision
The building of a planned subdivision of
88 single-family residential lots on the
southern boundary of Goderich, will not re-
quire a new school site, according to the
Huron Cdunty Board of Education.
Goderich Town Council was informed of
the board's ' recommendation to the
Ministry of Education at their Sept. 28
Meeting.
Although the board's report noted the
three Goderich schools contain more than
the optimum amount of students, they are
not eligible for ministry funding for addi-
tional classroom space.
Robertson school's Sept. • 1 enrolment
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The report indicates a total of 295 more
students would be needed in Goderich
schools, "before the ministry would con-
template funding additional classroom
spaces".
The report- was referred to the Ad-
ministration and Personnel Committee by
council.
money, he added. They have applied for'
government- assistance but none was
received, because they are an established
organization.
Renaud, the District Chairman is
responsible for 17 area branches and is the
Training Co-ordinator as well as an am-
bulance driver at Alexandra Marine and
General Hospital in Goderich. He has 25
volunteers on staff and his home serves as
the branch office and storage facility.
It is always difficult to get people to
volunteer, he said, because they must give
up their nights and weekends. One way to
encourage volunteers is to provide them
with quality equipMent, because they do
not volunteer for themselves, he said.
The Goderich,Brigaderecently won an
Industrial First Aid Training award. They
competed against branches, such as Lon-
don, that have their own building and full
time staff.
"It is something when a volunteer
orga-nization=ea-n-walk a-wa3- with-this-k-i-tu_
of an award,''' said Renaud. .
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Thursday, October 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the town
Council Chambers.
Also on Thursday, October 8, there will be
a LACAC meeting in the town Council
Chambers at 7 p.m. "
Huronview Committee of Management
will meet at 9 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 8, at
Huronview.
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in the Court House council chambers,
Goderich.
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meet at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 13 in
the Court House council chambers,
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Committee will meet at 9 a.m.. on Wednes-
day, Oct. 14, in Wingham.
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Oct. 15, in the Court House ' council
chambers, Goderich.
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