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By BARB JOY Oakville Beaver Staff Teachers and other unions involved with the education process in Halton have reached a deal to make a deal. They are now ready to hammer out details of local social contract agreements with the Halton Board of Education to meet the province‘s payroll reduction targets. In a special meeting Tuesday, the board ratified the unions‘ coming on board by approving a Memorandum of Understanding between the board and each of six unions involved with it. And it came just in time. We should now be able to receive a 20% reduction in the targeted amount," noted Sue Currie, Superintendent of Employee Services who answered questions from board members at the meeting. Reaching a consensus on time means the board‘s reducâ€" tion target will probably be shaved to $9.5â€"million from the $11.9â€"million target the province had originally stipulated, she said. Another reduction for teacher groups should further reduce its target and this should be in place by midâ€"August, she added. The meeting was held just hours before the province‘s deadline that would have imposed mandatory payroll savâ€" ings on the board had it not been met. Meeting the Aug. 10th deadline could pay dividends. Board‘s unions ready to talk e td En t Because the provincial sectoral "framework" was put in EWING General Manage" Would like to welcome ... ... Ewing McMeekin! Ewing has joined the staff at Black‘s OK Tire Service as General Manager. With over 10 yrs. experience in the field Ewing is a valuable addition and would like to â€"ucmeerm _ Welcome his old and new rai Manaser _ friends to drop by. 2470 ROYAL WINDSOR DR Between Ford Dr. Winston Churchill BLACK‘S TIRE SERVICE PRIDGESTONE place only on Aug. 1st, the board had only 10 days in which to act on a local level, said Currie, who noted that only oneâ€" third of the public service sector in Ontario have reached an understanding with their employees to convert subâ€"sectoral social contract agreements to local agreements. Just what steps the board and unions will take to reduce the payroll by the determined figure will, to a degree, be based on threeâ€"year subâ€"sectoral agreements reached with the government by other school boards, she said. Terms of these agreements include wage freezes between June of this year and the end of March 1996, nonâ€"replaceâ€" ment of employees who retire or resign, unpaid personal leaves without replacement of up to two years and the scheduling of unpaid leaves to meet the social contract cash target. The unions involved with the board are the Halton Elementary Teachers Association composed of branch affiliâ€" ates of the Federation of Women Teachers Association of Ontario and the Ontario Public School Teachers Federation); Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation, District 9, Halton; Professional Student Services Personnel, District 9 (representing such sectors as social workers and speech therâ€" apists); school caretakers under the Canadian Union of Public Employees; Office Personnel Association. The nonâ€" bargaining segment made up of superintendents and senior managers also submitted its plan which was also ratified by the board at the Aug. 10th meeting. Eg. SF402/All Season Dueler/Potenza HP41