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The Acton Free Press Wed January 1976 Board rejects professional activity day union talk 10 cut in pay Teachers have to stick to learning how to improve their performance in the class room and their effectiveness when they hold professional activity days Board of Education decided Thursday After discovering recently some of the items on the agenda for the January Elementary Teachers Association s conference delved into teacher federation business and contract negotiations the board decided the agenda must be changed Trustee I- red the teachers for Planning to present union usiness on company time during professional activity day ana said the day is set aside so the teachers can learn how to improve their and in class He noted the teachers had presented the agenda to Superintendent of Instruction One Gilmore about a month and he had objected to some pirts of it because some items appropriate but his warning heeded who was chairman of Inst year negotiating committee for the board reminded the meeting that when the agreement was ratified by the board he expressed the hope teachers would find ways to increase their productivity in light of their very substantial average 33 per cent rnise He said he objected lo he momma session being taken up with speeches by local and provincial teachers fed oration presidents discussing Your Federation at Work and three of the nine workshops where two topics would be contract negotiations One delved Into the problems and pressures facing trustees and the board of education Who knows if the morning session fits into the definition of professional development or activity Then there arc the workshops dealing with contract negotiations As for the one about trustees problems I think it would be of more benefit to teachers If they attended board meetings and talked to trustees Armitage declared School Year report backed up the board s right to prevent such topics being discussed by teachers on a flay when they would nor mally be in the classroom sold it was the board job to make sure professional activity day topics were in the best In I rests of the taxpayers and noted it costs ratepayers In each time the teachers arc away from the classroom for professional development He said it is little wonder the public has difficulty understanding the motives behind professional activity days ana have mis doubts and about hat goes on at the teacher meetings Trustee Helen Howard Locke said the workshops sounded good and objected to any form of censorship by the board of the teachers meeting Holland and Trustee Tony Good ear both told the board trustees are accountable to the public and taxpapers not teachers and it Is board members who have to run for election They maintained the board s position on the issue must be clarified right away Several trustees noted the teaching professions image has been badly damaged by the recent strike in Toronto and Georgetown Trustee Ernie noted the teacher public image has been tarnished and we have to help them polish it up Suitability of topics at professional development day conferences will be left up to board to decide and the administration will try and come up with different subjects Director of Education Emerson Lavender suggested the teachers might stay at their schools in the morning and the principals could arrange programs and then they could attend the workshops which objectionable North trustees Bill Doug Wood Tom Watson and all voted for board control of professional development days Rev Morton and Trustee Noel Cooper both declined to vote when the possibility of eonfllct of interest was brought up Accident damage is high Several accidents in town were investigated this past week the officers of the Acton of Hilton Police conditions much of the week it the lot off St car driven Stavko St mar Hamilton received about struck by an unknown The second failed to remnn it scene after the first iccordmg to police Dog tag sales poor in spite of reminders tag sales and renewals for 1976 in the are very poor according to figures by the two selling igents in town Onh 127 people have renewed their for their pels since the reminders went a few weeks ago At the municipal offices 121 tags hue been purchased according to secretary Mrs Chris This is only quarter of last Wil Print is selling tags fir the first time Only four hut been purchased there ind Mike owner blames it on being his first year for the undertaking He also stated that lot of people Quick thinking saves motorist Provincnl police saj quick ind rolled ifter hilling the thinking by a 23 year old ditch however driver was Acton motorist sived him not injured to he from serious injury early vehicle is estimated at ITic accident occurred bit ween and IS p m last Jin on Mill St vehicles driven 1 and Dons I ishcr It It were in collision TheColtsoneirlnd 400 the I- isher estimated 1 Jin on Ave 1 driven ind Jl Bower were 111 collision for the out of fir the The at pm three vehicles were involved in in iccldeut on Main St Kruger Urn hid damage iled police 17 Tidey ind Ktilh Brown On on Main N in in 11 so a iccidtnt a car driven I rickul up JAMES really hurt and instructor Blair seriously treating him It was all part of a St John Ambulance first aid course which is part of the night school classes at the high school on Monday evenings thei by Saturday morning on High Milton said Alfred Ghzebrook of McDonald was drivme southbound at 7 a m oic hilf mile south of IS when he noticed a vehicle coming lowirds him in the wrong lane Police said decided to hit the ditch ind swerved his to the right The car went out of The are trying to find other driver who failed rcmnn it the scene THE ACTON FREE PRESS Second CI it Mail Postal Registration Number Missed Your Free Press Please Let Us Know Our carriers do their best to give fast courteous service but mistakes do happen so i you do not receive your paper or have any complaints regarding delivery please call our office 8532010 RENTACAR FORD RENTACAR Rent a Comet or Maverick for as little as a Day a Mile rt list around air and as close as phone 8532370 MIDWINTER SAVINGS fc0 LAUNDRY TUB In what was generally deemed to be a gesture to demonstrate good faith in troubled economic times Regional Council members voted Wed nesday In favor of a per cent pay cut for the last year of their three year term Councillor Jim Watson of Milton felt the reduction In salary should only apply to those who voted against establishing the W salary two years ago In other words those who voted for Ihe salary In the first would not face any reductions but those who felt a lower salary vas sufficient could accept the cut Silly After a procedural hassle Watson amendment was defeated But that was done only after Councillor Carl attacked Walson for flogging a dead horse ind presenting silly Councillor Anderson slid councillors were overpaid and suggested thai any notion that regional politics was full time was a lot of feithers He pointed out councillors had five eonse eutive weeks off at Christmas ind more time off in the The cuts will cost this year Those voting against the cut on a recorded vote included Jim Watson of Tom Hill and if Attended classes officer Rodney Donaldson was lirge number of Regional Police personnel who at offered at Infirm Police allege last year Chief Kenneth ind commissioners praised ildson and the oilier educational eomplishments at Thursday Hilton Police Com mission meeting Hills and David Coons Conncll George Harrington Pal McLaughlin Paul Preston Ted and Tom Sutherland all of Burlington Voting in favor of the cul were Mary Munro Morrow Terry Mannell Mar jorlePowya Bill Mason Jack Carl Eriksen Anderson Dick Harry Barrett Archie and Pat McKenzie Mayor Anne MacArthur had been called from Ihe meeting on other business before the vote was called The close vole and threat of a possible tied vote if she had stayed prompted Regional Chairman Allan to say Thank you Mrs MacArthur wherever you Masson 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