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P«r J • PLAIN DEALER HERALD. WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 7. IW4 Teachers' merit pay not favored by MCC administrator Deaths By Jim Nash PUtnrt--Ur H«rakl N«we S«rvtcc Merit pay for teachers, hailed by some as one answer to America's deteriorating educational systems, can create "an atmosphere of paranoia" among instructors. According to a National Education Association newsletter and Dick Fuhler, dean of instruction for McHenry County College, rewarding outstanding performance with money can do more harm than good The newsletter cites one study from the federal Urban In­ stitute, Issues in Teacher In­ centive Plans and an authoritative article in the April 1984 edition of "Across the Board." The Conference Board, a non-profit economic research institute, publishes the periodical. Commonly, merit pay is of­ fered as a bonus to employees who excel in duties assigned them. It was eliminated at MCC, Fuhler said, when the last teachers contract was negotiated in 1983.; MCC teachers had used the system for about eight years prior to its cancellation. <"We didn't feel it was working," he said. "The merit system creates an atmosphere of paranoia.". According to an NEA newsletter, "Merit pay rating svstems force managers to view tneir 'non-meritorous' em­ ployees as inferior. Employees pickup and that eir per- on that feei self-doubt affects formatice." "The concept is good. It's the process of identifying the (derserving workers) that's a problem," Fuhler said. Teachers performing to their full abilities can be alienated when they see other instructors rewarded with bonuses. Edward Mandt, Michigan Life Insurance Company's vice president of personnel, stated in the newsletter that "imprecise and largely subjective managerial evaluations ... create stress and dissatisfaction for employees." Hie institute's report states: "Successfully introducing pay- for-performance plans and sustaining them effectively is complex and difficult, requiring many elements be done ly. If any one element is breaks process. or breaks down, the whole process can sour." In surveying more than 900 corporations, the Conference Board found "inconsistent ratings among managers and departments and supervisors' inability to differentiate levels of performance among their are not the MCC teachers evaluated, but pay is directly attached to evaluation process. There afe "some questions as to how valid the information" how valid merit pi he said. Students make up one faction from merit pay evaluations is, Snowmobile grants now available Bankers Snowmobile grants-in-aid from the Department of Conservation still are available to local govern­ ment units and private clubs for improvement or construction of snowmobiling facilities. Robert Corrigan, supervisor of the Conservation Department's Division of Technical Services, said funds remain from the grant program's 1984 allocation of snowmobile registration fee pro­ ceeds collected under the Illinois Snowmobile Registration and Safety Act. Soon, monies from the 1985 allocation also will be available. Corrigan explained there are two kinds of DOC-administered grants: Those awarded annually since 1971 under the Registration and Safety Act; and a new grant program, the Snowmobile Trail Establishment Fund (STEF), in­ itiated in 1982 when the state's biennial snowmobile registration fee was increased from $6 to $8 to provide a revenue source for it. Though they have the same fun­ ding source - snowmobile registra­ tion fees - the two programs are targeted to different groups. The original Registration and Safety Act grants are for local govern­ mental agencies, such as park districts, municipalities, counties, townships, forest preserve districts and other land-managing taxing bodies. STEF grants are iiw tended for private, not-for-profit snowmobile clubs. Facilities built under either grant program must be open to the public. s cMavnaiiNT LOCATIONS! • McH«nry-4»3 Elm • MS-7744 • Crystal L«k* 230 Virginia • 45J 1040 • Woodtlock 410 Eastwood • JM 4740 Both grant plans offer reim­ bursement of costs incurred in providing snowmobiling facilities, but the reimbursement scales dif­ fer. Under the older plan, recipients can receive up to 50 percent of all of their costs, including those related to site acquisition. The STEF plan covers 100 percent of some expenditures, but is not ap­ plicable to others. Materials and equipment, for example, are reimbursible, but labor costs are not. Site acquisition expenses are also excluded. In addition to site^ acquisition, the older program's grants may be u sed fo r i n s t a l l a t i on , maintenance and improvement of trails and support facilities, in­ cluding camping areas, warming shelters, comfort stations, fenc­ ing, outdoor cooking installations, trail signs, safety lighting and trash disposal equipment. Corrigan said highest priority in awarding the grants is given to ap­ plicants proposing development of LEARN COUNTRY WESTERN DANCING ART HUTCHINSON-lnstructor 5-WEEK SESSIONS STARTS THURS. • NOV. 8 - 7 pm-9 pm AT ST. PATRICK'S CATHOLIC CHURCH 3500 W. WASHINGTON ST. < 1 McHENRY snowmobile trails having year- round and multi-use recreational potential. Under the STEF program, the maximum grant for any project is (7,500 or 10 percent of the pro­ gram's annual appropriation, whichever is less. Criteria for approval of STEF grant applications include the degree to which the project ad­ vances public snowmobiling op­ portunities in Illinois. No more than one project per county may be funded in any fiscal year, unless the STEF program's allocation for that year exceeds the statewide total of funds re­ quested, Corrigan said. Further information on the two grant programs can be obtained by phoning Mark Yergler, Grant Program coordinator, at (217) 785- 3649, or by writing in care of the Department of Conservation, Snowmobile Grant Programs, Division of Technical Services, 524 S. Second St., Springfield, 62706. invited to seminar "The Basics of Forming a Bank Holding Company," a seminar designed especially for bank presidents and fiscal officers will be presented by McHenry County College on Wednesday, Nov. 14. The seminar will run from 8:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at September's Restaurant in Crystal Lake. Conducting the seminar and answering questions from the par­ ticipants will be Michael Deacon, executive vice president at Home State Bank in Crystal Lake; Lee Shippey and Ed Streit, accoun­ tants with McGladrey, Hen- drickson and Pullen. The seminar fee is $40 for the first person from a bank who registers and $20 for each addi­ tional person from the same bank. Reservations can be made by calling McHenry County College, 455-3700, ext. 251, by Nov. 9. EVAES 344-4014 FOR INFO "MAKE YOUR APPOINTMENT NOW AND LOOK YOUR BEST FOR THE THANKSGIVING HOLIDAYS!" •44-1019 FRAN'S HIDDEN CURL 1212 N. Green St. (ofc. 8) McHenry 'The Friendly Little Beauty Salon That's Hard to Find' q Heineken Beer TwSKtlVi-ounc# no-rat urn boctlM k Seagram's 7 crown r Passport ScotchM 1.75 UtersMHH l«u Mfr Rebate S?ae Black Towir Harwich I I III *N4WL. 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"Sure, somewhere there is a merit system that is very equitable, but most seem to create more problems than they solve," he said. Mary Hatwood Futrell, NEA president, seems to disagree. In the newsletter, Futrell notes, "In some places, providing bonuses to a small percentage of a teaching staff is nothing more than a ploy to avoid naving to raise salaries of all employees. Mr. Bennecke retired seven years ago and had been a resident of Johnsburg for about 6 or 7 years. Surviving are his wife Ann, whom he married 55 years ago: three sons, John (Virginia) of Chicago, William (Generate) of Morgan Hill and Richard (Katny) of Schaumburg; two daughters, Mrs. Charles (Patricia) Einweck of McHetary and Mrs. Anne Marie Casica of Woodstock; 17 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren., Funeral services and burial were in Morgan Hill Tuesday. Oct. 30. 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