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SlppHi Delivered j Free of Charge to 18,000 Homes in Clarington from The Publishers of Œ&e Canadian $tattsman - * Si: : l t mmmm --■ 8» mîMiissill mm * . - -5; , V * wi***»* »^sVsk&e - '-Aj : -V:. The Northumberland and Newcastle Newcastle Board of Education has approved approved a plan with its non-union employees under the provincial social social contract act before the August 1 deadline. The plan was approved at a special special in-camera board meeting held last Thursday night, July 29, at the board office in Cobourg. The plan includes attrition, further further central office budget cutbacks, a senior management reorganization reorganization and voluntary leaves to meet the provincial target of $252,325 for this portion of the board's employees. "The plan, however, achieves more savings than the social contract contract requires," said Dick Malow- ney, Director of Education. The proposal proposal translates into $341,000 of savings in each of the three years of the contract meaning "we've exceeded exceeded the social contract target by about $170,000 over the next three years. That extra money will be applied applied to future budgets as savings." Mr. Malowney said, in contrast to wage freezes or unpaid leaves, the savings at the board are permanent permanent ones. "In designing our plan, our major overall objective was the preservation preservation of jobs," says Mr. Malowney. The contract applies to managers, senior administration, officers and other staff who are not unionized. "Wherever possible, the plan will not affect existing or expected commitments commitments in compensation levels already already in the board budget." Mr. Malowney said he was impressed impressed with the co-operation and "responsiveness" of staff who voluntarily voluntarily scaled back their budgets even further. . "People are operating in the new reality of doing more with less. For example, we won't be hiring a computer computer hardware technician even . ' Please turn to page four A hoped-for partnership in which the municipality and a private company company would build the new Courtice community , centre has not materialized. materialized. "It was a new experience for us," said Clarington Mayor Diane Hamre in describing the process used by the municipality to find a potential partner. Ten to 12 companies answered the call for proposals and one company company chose to work with a committee committee in hammering out details. The proposed partnership would have allowed a private company to build the Courtice Community Complex and the municipality would have leased the space. The community centre is to be located on land, south of the Courtice Courtice Secondary School, on Courtice Road. Wrong Date for Beaver Lumber In Wednesday's Statesman, an incorrect date for the Beaver Lumber sale was given. The sale is this Saturday.. August 7, and not the following Saturday. For details, see the Beaver Lumber Lumber advertisement on page 10. The private company which built the complex would also have been requested to operate a fast food restaurant restaurant and a sports shop within the community centre, Mayor Hamre said. . The company was to have operated operated "businesses that would have complemented the complex," said Mayor Hamre. As it turned out, though, "all of the firms were non-committal" regarding regarding how they would set up shop, including the one picked by the municipality. As a result, the committee looking looking into the partnership proposal canned the idea. "It was not going to be to our advantage," advantage," explained Mayor Hamre. The committee decided that, in the final analysis, the "municipality could borrow more cheaply than a business," Mayor Hamre told The Independent on Thursday, Aug. 5. So, instead of working on the finer finer details with a company, the municipal municipal staff will be compiling a financial financial analysis of construction and operation of the proposed facility. In the fall, when council meetings meetings resume, Clarington councillors will review the details and make their decisions on the project. *7*tcCefee*tcCect£ Graham's IGA* Maxi Drug Clarington Book Van Belle* Newcastle Square Boy* (*lncllontoo partial dlotrlbutlon) For Information about Inserting flyers In The Independent, please contact our office at 623-3303 Three-year old Kristie Fiddler, of Caesarea, took part in the Children's Parade at the 61st Annual Annual Lake Scugog Regatta and Field Days. The homemade costume, the multi-colored balloons and Kristie's wild hair coloring were creative enough to stop our photographer in her tracks. . --Photo by Laura Richards Building Construction Figures Down At die midway point of 1993, the Municipality of Clarington had posted posted $21.5 million worth of new construction construction activity. The municipality's planning department department said in a report last month that permits had been issued to construction construction projects valued at $21,485,500 as of the end of June. That's down substantially from 1992, when permits valued at $48,651,550 had been issued in the first half of the year. The majority of construction occurred occurred in the residential sector. In fact, residential building permits accounted accounted for just over $19.5 million worth of construction activity in the first six months of 1993. A total of 189 housing starts had been recorded recorded up to die end of June. However, there was some substantial substantial commercial development activity activity under way in June, according to the planning department figures. Municipal staff noted that three commercial projects, including a store alteration, a farm equipment sales and service outlet and a commercial commercial plaza in Bowmanvillc had all received building permits. During June, commercial projects projects valued at $744,000 were given building permits and residential projects valued at $2.6 million were also launched.