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2 SECTION A HIE HERALD Wednesday Martb Only 15 increase in 83 grants Grant pays 75 of computer costs Ministry wasteful trustee Although operating grants from the ministry of education to Ontario school boards increased by about five per cent they only went up by 1 per cent for the board of education The IBM ministry grant announced Friday Is treasurer Ron Warren told memb ers of the finance commit tee Monday night Trustees had been forc ed to cancel passage of their 1963 budget March because grant infor mation from the ministry was late The budget is expected to pass tonight Wednesday Mr Warren said Halton taxpayers have to raise 977 an estimated Increase of per cent to the net levy for the mill rate Of the total sum 165 la for elemen tary education and for secondary education he said In terms of total reve nues coming to the board elementary grants are up 33 per cent and secon dary grants including those for the trainable mentally handicapped by per cent Mr Warren said Our ordinary grants the basic grants by which we re expected to run the system have decreased This means the levy Increase the elements panel is up per cent and at the secondary panel per cent Mr Warren estimated Provincial grant increases last year to Ontario boards averaged 10 fl per cent However only received a 3 per cent increase for 1963 In ministry Relative to the rest of the province Halton Is judged wealthy and the province deems it better able to pay its education costs Since 1973 provin cial grants have been decreasing for Few boards will qualify Herald Staff Writer The ministry of lion is wasting tnxpay era money charged a board of tlon trustee Monday night Trustee Bill told members of the boards finance commit tee he was upset about a ministry announcement Thursday giving school boards a grant of per cent off the purchase cost when they buy micro computers that satisfy new Ontario specifics think we should qui succinctly tell the mini that think its totally off base and its throwing away taxpay ers money Mr Priest ner said pretty upset about it a Joke really Superintendent of schools Gary Grossman said a lab of 30 16bit machines will cost the board They re going to IS and 33 bit computers Ira not convinced why Mr Grossman said They re great for business and Industry but at the present time they have very little application to education They re very powerful machines and very costly to produce The ministry announced It will buy million worth of micro computers for the pro vinces and will spend another million to develop software for the computers With ministry grants the 32bit compu ters would cost the board WOOD Im a Utile ous about it Mr Cross- man said With the machine from my pro fessional background I would think you re going in the wrong direction Although no mention was made by the ministry about maintenance costs Mr Grossman said he assumed ft would be carried wholly by the board If you take the normal 15 per cent maintenance cost again that puts it in favor of the smaller ma chines he said Director of education Wnlly Beevor said a 90- day guarantee Is avail able for the ministry com outers but the board has to pay for He noted the present computer equip ment owned by the board has oneyear free labor Thjs speech by Ihe minister is almost word Tor word the same speech as was said wo years ago trustee Anne Fair field said I want to see this board get roped into thinking we re going to get the equip ment Into the schools and usable very quickly The ministry had announced a plan to give grants for school com outers In but it was delayed by financial pro blems among many of the computer companies that were to collaborate In the design of the Ontario machines Ontario school boards have already purchased about microcomput era without provincial grants Groups get extra funds Halion purse strings were loosened a little last week between two social services groups Although grants to the Halton Consumer Credit Counselling agency and North Hospice Care health and social service committee encouraged his fellow councillors to have a change of heart Earlier last Wednesday afternoon a represent from each group appealed for more funds before regional council Consumer Credit provides financial counselling for residents wflh over extended budgets and the North Hospice group of volunteers helps terminally 111 patients and their families A ministry of education offer to keep increases in the education mill rate to nine per cent if Ontario school boards hold increases in per- pupil operating expenses to nine per cent was called a by the Halton board of education surer I think it will apply to us because our mill rate Is below nine per cent Ron Warren told members of the finance committee Monday night board has calculated an average Increase of 1 per cent in the mill rate It also seems most unlikely other boards will be able to use It he said rhe board is one of the lowest spending boards in relation to ail Ontario boards we qualify for the special grant I dont think others will Mr Warren said He said declining enrol ment is increasing the cost per pupil and for tbe Halton board represents per cent of the increase in per pupil cost Also influencing the per pupil cost increase is the provincial governments wage restraint act of and Many boards have tbe opportunity to benefit from this legbla tlon because they had settled contracts with their stairs before the legislation came In last fall Ffrstaittgotirse Georgetown and District Branch of the Red Cross la holding a standard firstaid course commencing Tuesday April 5 1983 The location is at the Georgetown Ambulance Hall at the corner of Guetph and Streets The course will begin at and run for six consecutive Tuesday nights at a coat of Including books Pot more Information and registration call the Red Cross office at or Kearsey at 7064 Free course opens hurts of unemployment Coping with unem in is the topic of a six week course for men and women being presented by Halton Family Services and the Milion Canada Employ Centre The course intended for men and women cop ing with the stresses and uncertainty of unem ploy will focus on short and long term end career retrain ing Although there will be lectures group Is encouraged as information about unem Insurance the Canada Employment Centre legal issues financial stress budget bankruptcy debts effects on the family and individual self worth Job retraining and career change Is shared Consumer Cred it Counselling Service counsellor Janice Joaisk and lawyer Yewer will give advice to participants Open to all Halton resi dents the free course is being held at the Milton office of Halton Family Services at the EC Drury School Regional Centre for the Hearing Handicapped senior girls residence Ontario Street It will be held April to May from I loSpm For further on call Family Service Jack Knight or Canada Employment Centre counsellor Linda at BULK A MEATS Pauls Motto If I wont put It on my table I 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