Full Text of Halton Education Boards Budget Is full text of the report on school in Ballon County for un which to the County Board of Educatkn by the chairman of the Ad Hoc Committee on finance J Noble last week FEB ALLOWANCES In accordance with the plan ned procedure the board con sidered of the budget in meetings held on February Febru ary IS and March of The budget drafted is in accordance with the discus sions and made at these meeting The budget providee for the continuation of all program that were operated In Per pupil allowance are id entical with those of 1070 with the exception that Ibe per pa pa allocation for library books has been reduced to from as at both the public and secondary school All of the existing ratios ap proved by the board have been maintained Tbe budget provides or a total expenditure of which amounts to an increase of over the am ount actually spent In 1970 presentlng an increase of 10 OS per cent Of this increase representing 373 per cent is because of the increase in tbe average daily enrolment of 1390 pupils The balance of 32 repres enting 834 per cent can be attributed to increased costs PUBLIC SCHOOLS Tbe total expenditure for public schools is 109 an increase of over resulting in the cost per pupil per year on an average daily enrol ment of This is an in crease In the cost per pupil per year of equivalent to per cent The total expenditure for the secondary sbcools ing the trainable retarded an Increase of over resulting in a cost per pups per year of 3117013 on an average dal ly enrolment of This is an increase in the cost per pupil per year of 22 equivalent to IB per cent On the revenue side tbe 1971 general legislative grant regulations have produced a very significant increase in revenue over The method of calculating the grants is the same as that used In and but the factors have been chang ed to Increase assistance to all Boards The regula tions are designed to produce a grant of per cent of the per pupil cost for Boards that operate within the provincial guidelines and have an assessment per pupil equivalent to the provincial average Locally for the public schools the percentage rate of grant Increased from 48W per cent to per cent for recognised ordin ary expenditures sod from per cent to per cent for the recognised extra ordinary expenditures For the secondary schools the grant for the recognlMd ord inary expenditures has In creased from per cent to S3 per cent and for recog nized extraordinary expendi tures from per cent to 73 per cent SET GUIDES The fact that the Board established policies in to control tho cost per pupil has resulted in 1971 in a cost per pupil which Is at both levels within the limits established by tho Department of Educa tion At the public school lev el the recognized ordinary ex penditure amounts to per pupil per year the gov ernment ceiling Is At the secondary school level the recognised ordinary ex penditure amounts to 33 per pupil per year the government ceiling is As a consequence the Board receives full advantage the Increased grants and la able to reduce tho to the municipalities according ly For the public schools the grants are estimated to bo which Is an increa se of 407 over 1970 and represents per cent of the costs In 1970 the grants amounted to 49 U per cent of the cost The secondary school grants ore estimated to be an increase of over representing SO per cent of tho total costs In the grants represented 04 per cent of cost This significant Increase In assistance from the provinc ial government has resulted In a corresponding redaction In the amount required to be raised by taxes at tbe lo cal level The amount to be appor tioned between the munici palities for public school pur poses amounts to 9551307 This represents 45 per cent of the cost compared to per cent in The apportionment for tho secondary schools amounts to s representing 43- per cent of cost com pared to 45 per cent of the cost In 1970 RECOMMENDATION That the Board approve the Budget in the follow ing amounts Public Schools 21 Secondary Schools In cluding schools for train able retarded 18741132 Total IN THE MAIL BAG Injustice to Teachers And Taxpayers Also MONTES COOK OF THE NOOK Jackson left owner of the Donut Nook Guelph Street looks over the fast empty lag racks of with Cy Could bakery service technician with Corp of Ameri ca on opening day last week wife also helps run the store They live at Grey- stone Crescent Spencer Wilson Heads Ball Club Executive The annual Hornby ball club meeting was held on Sunday night March at the North Trafalgar community centre with people attending The election of officers was held and are as follows past pre sident Bertram Stewart pres ident Spencer Wilson vice pres ident Leonard St John treasur er Mrs Bertram Stewart and secretary Mrs Jim Held The directors are Donald Cnlsbolm Earl McDowell BUI Schrelber Donald Chase Andy Trencs and John Wallace The third meeting Hornby Dairy Mates was held at the home of Tom on Monday March ID The roll call Some thing you have made using dairy products since the last meeting was answered by 15 present Janet Schrelber and Laurie Carrie made quick cheese and Lorraine Coo per and Christine Kreutx made sour cream chipdip Tbe girls sampled cheese cake which was made at tbe last meeting and honey nut flip and pineapple yogurt The North Trafalgar Euchre club bold their weekly euchre party on Saturday night March at North Trafalgar Com munity Centre There tables of euchre In play with the prises being swarded to ladles Mrs Joe Ellis Mrs Clare Wilson and Buck Burton playing on a pink card gents Bud Lome Lang and Clara Wilson The lucky draws were won by Tom Bousflcld and Mrs Jim Hamilton greetings are ex tended to Mr and Mrs Roy Break who will celebrate their wedding anniversary on Thurs day March 25 Birthday greetings are tended to following who are celebrating their birthdays PierreAndre on March Bruce Wilson on March Bobby on Hard IT Cam Eves and Harold Bather- ford March Laurie mas on March and to Mrs Ron Plant end Jack March It Mr and Mm Ted Walter of a r in honour of Mrs Ma- Anniversary greetings extended to Mr and Mrs Stan ley May who will celebrate their wedding anniversary on Thursday March Mr and Mrs Ronald Plant and Tommy spent the weekend at Beach Get well wishes are extended Ricky Plant who broke a bone his left ankle Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Vick of 3970 ngston Ave Victoria C on tbe arrival of the chosen baby son Jonathan Douglas on March A brother for Jeremy Gordon Mrs was the Marilyn Hornby and her many In the Hornby district their congratulations Anniversary greetings are ex tended to Mr end Mrs Gerald who will celebrate heir wedding anniversary on March 31 Mr and Mrs Garry HamUt in visited on Saturday night vlth Mr and Mrs Ken Barker if StreetavUie Mrs Jim Hamilton SNOW MOLD CAN KILL THE GRASS Snow mold is very at this time of year As the snow melts the lawn will be covered with a thick mold which If left untouched will result in dead patches In turf Snow mold la caused by a fungus and Is best control by spraying the lawn with a fungicide In the fall How ever If you did not take this precaution lost fall the mold can easily be controlled In the spring by brushing the webs off the lawn with an old broom As soon as the snow melts get your old corn broom or rake out and brush It off the grass It will only take a few moments to do and will re duce damage to a DID YOU KNOW Massachusetts was the first tatc to set up a reformatory or boys 13 Chelvin Drive Dear Sir- Attached please a copy of letters sent to Mr Whit ing for Halton and The Hon James Snow MPP for East Would you kindly print it in your col- mo Thank you Yours very truly Ciglen BA Nerval Public School Dear Mr Whiting As you are aware the Fed era government proposes leg islation that will Include teach- in the Unemployment In surance scheme This is gross injustice to tbe society a whole for the following reasons of which I am sure you are aware and if not should be We In this profession can not collect this Insurance be cause there is no such a per son as an unemployed teach er There is no scheme available to retrain teachers who have not teaching positions The tax burden to the rate payers In each communis will increase largely because school boards will be re quired to match dollar far dollar each teachers coo trl ballon to the scheme If legislation of this nature does pass In parliament then it should Include professional persons Induct ing doctors and lawyers and not single out teachers It is not an Insurance but a method of collecting social tax under an label Due to this increase In ex penditure by school boards the children will suffer as facilities one educational materials be reduced to keep withit the Department of Educn Lions expenditure guidelines If legislation or this docs be come law members of party will certainly not recelvi my support nor vote In next Federal election and sura that many Irate era will undoubtedly feel way Yours very truly Larry Ciglen B A Nerval Public School Will Seek foi Arthritis Research The annual meeting of the board of directors of George town branch Canadian Arth ritis and Rheumatism Society was held the home of Peter Hcslin The new board i Mr as campaign chairman Patrick deputy campaign chairman Bill Kent industrial campaign chairman Doug com campaign chairman and Dona Primer publicity chairman A campaign goal of as set for this year A door to door canvass will take place September 13th and Closes Store Business Combined at Lumber Mart A hardware store for close to on Georgetown Main Street Thompsons Hard- taade last sale its old locale on Saturday store purchased in Oct ober by Howard Is being combined with his Lumber Mart business at 17 Slderoad and tbe Line Mr is following the trend to onestop shopping end is combining his hardware and building supplies at the large Lumber Mart site which he established there a few years ago Lumber Mart features elec tric fixtures and plumbing sup plies hardware floor cover ings power tools paints and wallpaper garden equipment bunding supplies and lumber Earliest record of the Main Street store goes back to own ership by Moore before tho turn of the century In 1903 Walter Anthony and bis brotb- GEORGETOWN HERALD THURSDAY MARCH lf71 PAGE Inlaw Fred Howes took over business operating a partnership until Mr Howes moved to listoweL At one time Mr and Mrs Anthony had their living quarters over tho store Ray Thompson who was em ployed there for several years later became tbe owner and bought the property in Following his death Mrs Thompson sold the business to Mr TarxwelL Besides the hardware busin ess Tor many years the store employed a large staff engaged in tinsmithing cavestrougbing and plumbing work and in fur nace installing Fired at Policemen Ruled Mentally 111 An IB year old Georgetown youth was mentally HI when he fired four shotgun blasts at pol ice on the Georgetown District High School grounds February Robert Coullhard the Clark Institute of Psychiatry In Toronto test ified in county court in Milton Wednesday llmt the youth was criminally insane at the time of the incident MAXIMUM SECURITY Judge William Sharpe found the youth not guilty by reason of insanity of three charges of attempting to wound ARRESTED AT GUNPOINT The youth was originally char ged with attempting to murder Sergeant Frank Arthurs when the sergeant and three const ables arrived at tho high school Constable Charles Harrison arrested the youth gunpoint IS THE TIME tbe Industrial and commercial near Water Street as ho campalgn will begin week ted to flee through the wooded of September 1 valley behind the high school IS TBE TIME J H PHOTOGRAPHY Notice to Creditors IN THE ESTATE OF Bertha Barley ALL PERSONS having claims against Estate of Bertha late of the Town of Georgetown In the County of widow who died on or about the 14th day of Janu ary are hereby notified lo send particulars of same to tbe undersigned on or before 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