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NOW AVAILABLE comm AIDED DESIGN SERVICE FREE A move to put $500,000 of a $1.3 million, oneâ€"time restructuring By ANGELA BLACKBURN Oakville Beaver Stafl' * Decks booked before APRIL 11th. qualify for 15% DISCOUNT and you'll ENJOY your DECK sooner! * Book your deck now and SAVE eacner's retlrement IllIlCl gets FOR FREE ESTIMATES OR INQUIRIES To our deck customers grant into a Halton Board of Education early retirement/sever- ance incentive fund has brought a lull to stormy waters between board and staff groups. 3145 DUNDAS ST. W MISSISSAUGA (WEST OF WINSTON CHURCHILL BLVD.) 6073955 NOT, your ordinary meat g potatoJoinf/ APPETIZER WITH EVERY GRILLHOUSE SPECIALTY ENTRéI-z PURCHASED. OFFER VALID UNTiL APRIL 18, 1993. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER COUPON OR PROMOTION. “I think that the trustees have found a solution which allows the to recognize the considerable contribu- tions of staff, maintain the integrity of the budget process they have established and plan for future restructuring with subsequent cost savings for the’taxpayer,” said Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation, Halton dis- A notice of motion from board vice-chair and Halton Hills trustee Dave Whiting to put $500,000 from a one-time grant for restructuring from the provincial government (received last week), appeared to give staff, previously upset about Wiliams’ request, some breathing space. ~ After trustees approved the bud- get - $291.3 million or a 2% spend- ing increase and a 3.43% millrate increase - at Thursday’s board meet- ing, Williams was still looking for staff contributions but hoping against layoffs. To date, approximately 2,000 staff have contributed $500,000 or half of the $1.2-million still needed if threatened layoffs aren’t to become a reality. Towards the “end of its budget process, board education director Bob Williams went out to the board’s 4,000 full-time equivalent staff members asking for the contri- bution of one day’s pay to help bal- ance the 1993 budget at a reason- able rate for taxpayers. CHICKEN GRILL Currently the number of poten- tial layoffs sits around 30 (with half of the $1.2 million raised) however Williams is hopeful no layoffs will occur. Williams said no new tally has been made subsequent to that done for the March 22nd finance com- mittee meeting, and won’t be until early April. In the meantime, staff have been given an extended deadline to March 3lst to make their voluntary contribution of a day’s pay. Trustees are slated to vote on the idea at the first board meeting of April. The trustee said early retirement could work to save jobs at the lower end and allow the board to get on with concrete plans for downsizing. She said the fund is needed to assit the board in making changes to save the taxpayers money in the future. It was Burlington trustee Linda Glover who called for such a fund to be set up through the budget - something that would have taken the millrate increase from 3.43% to 3.68%. Glover was willing to settle on the money coming from the one- time grant. trict (OSSTF) president Sally Rewbotham. 500ml. BOTTLE WITH, EVERY GRILLHOUSE SPECIALTY ENTREE PURCHASED. GET A FREE 500 ML BOTTLE, OFFER VALID WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. NOT VALID WITH ANY OTHER COUPON OR PROMOTION. 3145 DUNDAS ST‘ W m MISSISSAUGA -. (WEST OF WINSTON v CHURCHILL BLVD.) 607â€"9955 Not your ordinary meat 8 potaToJoin’r/ NEW CRYSTAL PEPSI The teacher‘s union district pres- ident noted that teachers of experi- ence could benefit from early retirement, teachers with less expe- rience could retain and gain jobs, the board would be able to down- size and the taxpayer would eventu- ally feel a financial relief. “If they can establish an early retirement incentive, severance incentive plan quickly enough, the very spectre or layoffs can be avoided,” said Rewbotham. Rewbotham said people in the schools would now have renewed faith when they see the board has said that not only does it appreciate what they’ve done but are prepared to do on their part, a similar but not exact deed. “If it hadn’t been what happened tonight, it would have appeared that the board was not doing anything to recognize nor meet the gesture they’ve (staff) made,” said Rewbotham; place quickly. Williams said if, through incen- tives, people can be encouraged to leave in sufficient numbers, it could reduce the number of necessary layoffs. The director said in planning staffing for next September, deaths, leaves, pregnancies and other deciâ€" sions and actions by staff members will also have to be considered. oost