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Along with it will be a report requested by trustees on the impact on service of a 2% and a 3% expendiâ€" ture budget increase â€" something business superintendent Jerry Jenkins has warned trustees could entail the board breaking some of its staffing contracts. Spending cuts urged by watchdog group The preliminary budget is expectâ€" ed Feb. 15th, once the board‘s year end figures have been tallied. "We are in fact paying to train, employed people in large corporations," she said. The resident charged that she believed ACT teachers are grandfatheredâ€"over from high schools with declining student enrolment and lack of work for them in the school systems. "One ACT supervisor is paid $67,688, plus a supervisor‘s allowance per annum, according to the pro forma sheets ebtained under Freedom of Information access," said Reinsborouch. Love noted the absence of a preâ€" liminary budget from the board for the public meetings scheduled for Jan. 11th and Jan. 18th and advertised by the board. ‘"Note, we have no draft 1993 budâ€" get and the presentation of your expenditure budget is in a format which does not make it possible to identify individual programs and activities in order to determine whether such costs are reasonable and can be justified," said Love. : (Continued from page 1) Basic Skills in the Workplace. ‘"These funds go to private cor porations to train already employed personnel," sai Reinsborouch. Waving an ad for ACT, Reinsborough said the ACT cen tres advertise that employers can get back 50% of their retrain ing costs for their employee training. if nominal expense said Love‘s report So far the board‘s 1993 expendiâ€" ture budget forecast predicted a 4.65% increase to bring the budget to $298.9 million or $13.3 million more than 1992. January |THEOAKVIHE1 * St. Clair « Woolco * Shoppers Drug Mart * Foodland Ont. « Weall & Cullen The resident said the nonâ€"profit AC It was staffing 467 SPEERS ROAD OAKVILLE Telephone 845â€"9742 or 845â€"3824 Regarding any delivery problems DNLY THE NAME H4 omputer consultant critical of Board (Continued from page WIN a ©500° SHOPPING SPREE AT THE LOCAL MERCHANT OF YOUR CHOICE BARRIE Tel: (705) 728â€"7878 BRAMPTON Tel: (416) 457â€"9993 COLLINGWOOD Tel: (705) 444â€"2430 . s YES, each week to Jan. 29, you could I” $U . WIN a $500.00 SHOPPING SPREE at the local merchant of your choice by simply coming into any Manulife Bank of Canada Branch and filling out a free ballot, so don‘t wait ... COMe in t00AY ... (prew Detals in Bench) 199 mumnmâ€"mmums _/ N ) N/ .. cmewmmcmmemmemmmmi Manulife Bank of Canada CABOT« _ TRUST which accounts It looks bad Partial C MIDLAND ORILLIA (Main) SCARBOROUGH Tel: (705) 527â€"0106 Tel: (705) 325â€"2328 Tel: (416) 321â€"9510 MISSISSAUGA ORILLIA TORONTO Tel: (416) 279â€"8111 _ Tel: (705) 327â€"7056 Tel: (416) 966â€"2000 NORTH YORK OSHAWA WOODBRIDGE Tel: (416) 782â€"1169 Tel: (416) 436â€"2027 Tel: (416) 851â€"5888 DOWNSVIEW OAKVILLE Tel: (416) 636â€"4900 Tel: (416) 849â€"0655/6 %& %w&&d %fl T%wma/ entres for close to 80% of the expenditure budget â€" at which Love first took aim, recommending the reopening of staff contracts to rescind any 1993 increase to an individual above the nominal 2% increase of the contract and a similar rallhank nf 1909 incrances +70 increéase of the contract and a similar rollback of 1992 increases effective March 1st. "Similar rollbacks are in order for all other staff, Do this and your taxâ€" payers will accept that you are treatâ€" ing your employees and your employers equitably. Fail to do it and your employers â€" the taxpayers â€" will not accept that you are serious about cost restraint. That is the number one complaint of our members," charged While Love claimed the contracts negotiated with teachers last year, held up to a 17% increase for those on the lower end of the grid, Salary Committee chair and Ward 2 trustee Cheryl Reid said the figure was used out of context. Reid said 57% of the board‘s staff are at the maximum on the grid. "We don‘t have the money to pay a higher mill rate. You must cut expenditures to compensate," he said, warning of the "zealots", those from the taxpaying majority with no chilâ€" dren and no interest in quality educaâ€" tion, who see getting elected by ove CORPORATE OFFICES â€" ORILLIA HURONIA TRUST f t sh JDG..â€" <T N wC 1C profit and suggested any profits are "transferred to the "other side" of the ledger. Is this what the Halton Board of Education meant in their letter of Dec. 4, 1992, Page 2, "All Adult and Continuing Education programs support each other as necesâ€" sary, and the goal is that in total they will operate on a cost recovery basis"?" queried Reinsborough. Reinsborough asked how the program would $200,000 loan, staffing costs, teachers salaries an mall space rental, the $192,000 plus purchase ord high tech lab equipment in 1991, flyer costs and brochures. use of board facilities for printing. t accounting and Co Do they fail public purse for m Board busine couldn‘t commer hadn‘t seen it anc Monday‘s finance * Prerega Watson Invesruents Larrep promising to cut the budget if trustees don‘t get their act together. "We have seen the whites of their (the zealots) eyes, some are our memâ€" bers, and they scare us. Do you want to risk having them as trustees? Do somethine before it‘s too late," said "The board and community should stand together. We don‘t see it as a we/them situation," said Glen Abbey Residents‘ Association (GARA) viceâ€" president Brian Bell. Bell spoke of a zero percent budâ€" get increase but advised against a budget process that saves 75 cents here and a few dollars there. "There may be more cost effective ways of doing business," said Bell, noting the board should revisit its phiâ€" losophy goal and measure its expenâ€" ditures acainst that goal. During other Monday night busiâ€" ness, the finance committee agreed to recommend to hear a presentation next Monday on the feasibility of a board audit committee. The finance committee also agreed to recommend to the board, reâ€"establishment of its finance sub committee â€" a new committee set up last summer to bring board budgets in line with inflation rates and changing service delivery to achieve the goal. REGIONAL TRLST OVE RETIREMENT PLANNING w RRSP‘s &n INVESTMENVNT PLANNING Free Consultation are an independent Oakville firm specializing in 842â€"76(0)02 im would recover the printing, purchas and pensions, rder place for id advertising THE OAKVILLE BEAVER t next se he n unteer because its terms of reference were set up by the finance committee, recommendation to continue will to the board. And from that sub committ trustees also agreed to recommenk the board, not to accept any n applications for tuition fees for : dents to attend school outside Halton, including the National Ba School, the National Ski School . other arts institutions. Presently 43 students â€" 40 secâ€" ondary and 3 elementary â€" attend speâ€" cialized schools outside Halton. A study by school services superintenâ€" dent Betty Moore showed the board‘s cost of their education is presently $162,000 which would be saved if the tuition fee program wasn‘t in place. Trustees were told that while no new applications will be accepted, those students currently in programs will be allowed to continue in their programs until complete. Board administration is preparing a report â€" to be ready along with a report on Junior Kindergarten and its alternatives â€" on Kindergarten as an allâ€"day program on alternative days, instead of a daily, halfâ€"day program in order to cut transportation costs. However, that report won‘t be availâ€" able until May 1993 â€" after the budâ€" get process. The preliminary budget forecast, a 4.5% budget increase, allows for the maintaining of service and reinstateâ€" ment of portions of oneâ€"time cuts made last year, or $4.2 million including $400,000 for furniture and equipment, $500,000 to the reserve fund, $1.5 million for inâ€"class comâ€" puters and $750.000 toward tech puters anc studies. ird ird LN o The BEST FRESH FISH IN OAKVILLE (_ msum'u.s?do«u) Oakvilie, Ont. L6K 3T2 (416) 84248550 2LDDLLLTL T 4 trustees truste t U ubâ€"committe ontnun gbEf 4y X(,G and was chaired by heryl Reid. Although Penny Siebert voted 1ing the committee 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 o s Ski School and included nv new i1 Ball for stu h 238 SPEERS RD., OAKVILLE 845â€"5601 How much money do you want your money to make? Arthur Vaile Date: January 19th, 1993 Place: Hotel Oakvilleâ€"Howard Johnson‘s, 590 Argus Rd., Oakville (Trafalgar Rd. at QE.W.) 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