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j tw g ra n t regulations delay halton bqar d of education mem witliout knowing the amount of the bers last weelrcf ihcized thepro- vincial government for its delay in the release of the grant reu- latibns for 1969 the board is upset because it cannot complete its budget money it will be receiving in provincial grants at last weeks meeting the board completed a review of the expenditure section of its budget but cannot proceed with the revenue section until grant structure is known grant guides board chairman fredarmit- age said it is most unreasonable that the board does not have the grant regulations at this time rotating school board some time ago when the new halton county board of education decided to have its headquarters in the south of the county it was agreed that at certain times of the year the board should attempt to meet in various areas of the county in pursuing that policy one meeting has already been held in north halton that in acton two weeks ago with other meetings planned for the milton coun cil chamber thursday march 27th and georgetown district high school thursday april 24th above at the february 27 meeting georgetowns representative ernie bod- rtar discusses a point with fellow members clohecy and edwards i dont feel the department of education is helping us by delaying the release ot this information the board agreed it would not approve the expenditure portion of the budget without knowing what the grants will be it de cided to hold another meeting next thursday to discuss the budget hoping the grant struct ure will be released by that time finance and business super intendent bruce ondley said the grant regulations may be brought down in the legislature thisweek county director of education j w singleton said the delay might harm the boards relatr ionships with the public and municipal councils who want and expect the countys educat ion budget luuti warning singleton said the budget has been carefully made out and the administration is prepared to defend it but u the grant regu lations prove to be a disaster to the counties then the budget might have to be cut back he told reporters afterwards the grant regulations in other years were usually released in february and sometimes in january the board is expecting the province to pay the full cost of the december election which amounted to 22000 lindley led the board through a stepbystep analysis of the expenditure section of the bud get which was tabled at a meet ing last week total education spending this year of s32 mil lion is recommended the 32 million is an increase of 13 per cent over the combin ed 1968 budgets of the 10 local boards that the county board replaced increased enrolment accounts for seven per cent of the increase with the remainded taken up by increasing costs per pupil iindley pointed out that the 1968 budget of the 10 boards is up 23 per cent over the bud- ret of the same hoards in 1967 increased enrolment accounted for only 4 71 per cent of this increase with over 17 per cent the qiorgvrown hirhb thursday march 20 1969 page m taken up by increased per pupil costs- lindley said of every dollar to be spent on education in halton in 1969 725 cents goes towards instruction and educa tional services the remaining 275 cents is divided this way debt charges 12 cents plant op eration and maintenance 95 cents and other 6 cents singleton said any estimates of mill rates at this time would be purely speculative he said no one has the foggiest idea at this time of what the mill rate at the local level will be be cause the grant regulations are not known hospital occupancy 856 this year statistics show february was a busy month in the medical surgical and childrens sections of george town district memorial hosp ital according to a report on the hospitals operation in feb ruary just released the average overall occupancy for the year to date is 856 per cent however in the medical and surgical wards it is 943 and in the childrens section 913 the ov erall percentage of occupancy i 1f bulled down by the matern ity ward percentage 82 the february figures show ibs adults and children were ad mitted during the month and 21 births were recorded the precentage of occupancy for february alone was 825 in adults and childrens sections and 368 in the nursery the daily average patient load in february was 553 adults and children and 89 newborn other statistics included in the report emergency visits 298 major operations 15 minor operations 65 deaths 4 average ifngth of stay days adults children 9 newborn 7 ashgrove ashgrove boutique is new name for ashgrove 4h club the third meeting of ashgrove 4h girls was held in pineview school when fourteen girls told how i am going to alter my pattern in answering roll call the club name and cover de sign submittedby liz anderson was chosen the girls will be known as the ashgrove bouti que notes on using the pattern were discussed and during the work period some girls sewed while others cut out 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