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Charles E. (Chuck) Greb, has been chosen as the 1978 Citizen of the Year by the Kâ€"W Jaycees. Mr. Greb has been involved with Kitchenerâ€"Waâ€" rloo Oktoberfest for approximately seven years. por the past two years he has been president of the orâ€" ganization and is now serving as pastâ€"president. Most recently he attended the Quebec Winter Carnival to promote Kâ€"W Oktoberfest. The resident of Ayr was also heavilly involved in promoting and running the Ontario Summer Games in 1977. He is presently involved with the Uniroyal World Junior Curling Championship (Scheduled for Kitchener 1980), Participaction, the Grand Valley Conservation foundation, the Y.M.C.A., Kitchener Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement and the Kâ€"W Federated Appeal. For 28 years Mr. Greb was involved with Greb Inâ€" dustries Ltd., Greb Shoes Limited, the Bauer Skate Division and Bauer Canadian Skate Incorporated, a U.S. Branch of the company. He sold his interest in Greb Industries Ltd. in 1974 and remained as execuâ€" tive viceâ€"president until 1976 when he retired compleâ€" tely from that company. He is presently president of Musitron Communications Inc., and is a director of Logisticon Inc. L As Citizen of the Year, Mr. Greb is now honorary residentof the Kâ€"W Jaycees. A formal presentation will be made at the Citizen of the Year Banquet to be held at the Granite Club, Kitchener, on Thursday. Feb. 15. Tickets are available to any interested perâ€" sons for $7.50 or may be purchased at the door. Maude Kieswetter, a resident of Pinehaven Nursing Home, celebrated her 98th birthday on Feb. 11. She was presented with a plaque by Herb Epp, MPP, on behalf of the provincial government and received a card from Mayor Carroll and the aldermen. Mrs. Kieswetter has two sons, William and Francis, who reside in Waterloo. The 1978 Christmas Seal Campaign. conducted by the Waterloo Regional Lung Association, has been completed. The people of the Region have contributed a total of $91.315.81, a figure which was $6.315 over the target of $85,000. The association would like to thank the citizens of Waterloo for their interest and conâ€" tinued support The building. located in the southeastern corner of the campus. has been reâ€"named in memory of the late C.A. Poltock. a Kitchener industrialist who was one of the founders of the university and its chancellor at the time of his death last summer UW‘s newest engineering building underwent a name change last week and will henceforth be known as the Carl A. Pollock Hall as opposed to the ~Enâ€" gineering 4 building. UW building reâ€"named Waterloo at a glance Well over the target Citizen of the year School board seeks: > relief from budget _ Should the Waterloo County Board of Education take over collection of its portion of the municipal tax levy? Should the board charâ€" ge admission for some comâ€" munity use of its schools? > These are just a couple of the questions raised by Board Chairman Lynne Woolstencroft in a recent budget seminar set up to exâ€" plain the complicated proceâ€" dure of school board budgetâ€" ing for the benefit of members of the news Mrs. Woolstencroft, in an interview Monday, said that the board in 1978 had budgetâ€" ed $400,000 to cover mainâ€" tenance, custodial and other costs related to community use of schools in the region and ‘""the vandalism in schools increases almost in direct proportion to the community use.‘‘ She added that she is a great believer By Terry James To rent, to build or to renâ€" ovate! That was the quesâ€" tion facing the Waterloo County board of education last week. For the past two years the board has been house hunting because their $200,000â€"aâ€"year lease at Corâ€" poration Square in downâ€" town Kitchener expires in 1981. The board rents 32,000 square feet in the office tower and has an additional 28,000 square feet of adâ€" ministrative space at seâ€" veral of its schools. To build to renovate or to rent? Trustees voted two to one in favor of building a new administrative facility. Dr. Donald Baker,. Waâ€" terloo trustee, was opposed to the decision and in an inâ€" terview following the meetâ€" ing. was quick to point out that the $2.1 million figure reported was "just a specuâ€" lative figure"" based on a 50.000 square foot building. ‘*We don‘t know how large a building we want or need.‘" said Dr. Baker. ‘*Some of us on the board are urging the use of empty classroom space for various departments. Some effort is being made to keep the new building modest. The locaâ€" tion. size and retail cost are all to be dealt with later. Dr. Baker felt the decision to build as opposed to renoâ€" vating, an existing facility. was made too quickly. He said there are three big cities in the Region with a downtown core â€" namely Waterloo. Kitchener and Cambridge â€" and to his knowledge the only schools looked at were Suddaby and Victoria Schools. both locatâ€" ed in downtown Kitchener He is not satisfied that the committee appointed to the task has examined all the By Geoff Hoile _ Waterioo trustees question decision possibilities. He said he is not certain as to whether the Preston â€" Public School (which came under discusâ€" sion during the same meetâ€" ing) was looked at in terms of a headquarters. _ in community use of schools, but she doesn‘t feel the board is in a position now, with ‘‘"one of the worst budgets we‘re ever going to face coming at us...to be handing out that kind of money to the community." The trustee admitted that there is a problem with reâ€" gards to closing down an inner city school. "It implies that one has to identify the school that is closing." he said. "It requires the reorganization of student populations and this is a sore point in downâ€" town neighbourhoods."" Dr. Baker said that popuâ€" lation projections show this area has reached the bottom and in 1981 the population will start to increase. There won‘t be a need to close schools. In his campaign during the ©78 municipal elections, Dr. Baker suggested that collaboration should be sought with municipal and Regional governments. He suggested that the board of education initiate discusâ€" sions with the separate board. Regional governâ€" ment and the municipal councils of the Region for the purposes of ~commonâ€" sense‘" collaboration. He said this collaboration might be possible in support services including purchasâ€" ing. warehousing. shipping. printing. maintenance and security While this question of colâ€" laborating services was not raised at the board meeting. Dr. Baker said it has been the topic of many behind the scenes discussions" and trustees seem reluctant to go this route. The main reaâ€" son is time. Trustees feel that collaboration with the Lynne Woolstencroft Waterloo Chronicie, Wednesday, February 14, 1979 â€" Page 3 The chairman agreed with Dr. Baker when he cited the â€"problems involved in the closing of an inner city school. Mrs. Woolstencroft sees two alternatives to the problem ; to charge a small entrance fee to those people who use the schools, similar to an admission charge at a hockâ€" ey game, or increase the school portion of taxes. "Inâ€" creasing taxes without inâ€" creasing services would be pretty poor,"" she said. Waterloo Mayor Marjorie Carroll‘s reaction <to the idea of closing schools to the public after 4 p.m. was that since the city had contributâ€" ed in the neighborhood of $123,000 for capital expendiâ€" ture on schools over the past twoâ€"toâ€"three years, the taxâ€" payers have already paid for the use of school facilities. **How do you lock half a gym?"* she asked. region would slow down the whole process of selecting a site as they would have to enter into long debates. Jack _ Tummon, the board‘s business adminisâ€" trator, in commenting on Mrs. Woolstencroft‘s sugâ€" gestion, said that the board‘s prioritres are with Lynne Woolstencroft. chairman of the board and Waterloo trustee, is not opâ€" posed to the idea of working with the Region in the area of establishing a mutual headquarters. Since her election to the board she has been ~adamantly trying to sell the idea of coâ€"operation between different levels of government." In the long range Mrs. Wollstencroft believes the board made the right deciâ€" sion in deciding to build as opposed to renovating or renting. ‘‘*We‘ve spent eight years at Corporation Square payâ€" ing rent and we‘ve nothing to show for it." she said. If in fact the population increase which is predicted comes true. we will have moved the children away from the city core. Thereâ€" fore what you have is a soâ€" cial problem versus in econâ€" et the children in the system, and if it is necessary to cut back somewhere they have to look at other items in the previous budget. The $400,000 for community use of the schools just happened to be one item they looked at. Mr. Tummon shared the chairman‘s concern that the school board is in a position of having to borrow money and pay heavy interest charâ€" ges during part of the year, while some municipalities have collected the school portion of the tax levy and get investment interest on the money. For example, the Waterloo taxes are colâ€" lected in four instalments in Feb., Apr., June and Sept., while the school board porâ€" tion is released to them in nine equal instalments. Mrs. Woolstencroft‘s sugâ€" gestion that the municipaliâ€" ties and the school board neâ€" Due to a lengthy illness. Waterloo trustee, Neil Maâ€" cEachern. said he has not been in close touch with the decision making process and was unable to attend the meeting. He is opposed to the idea of building a new facility ‘"under the present conditions of restraint and declining enrolment. Mrs. Woolstencroft said the board is in dire need of an educational facility where coâ€"ordinators, consulâ€" tants and teachers can get together. She said the board needs a facility which can house a professional library where staff have easy access to the material. omic porblem,"" she said. ‘‘*With so many empty rooms and spaces available in the Region. we would look foolish boarding up two schools while we wait for our headquarters to open. said Mr. MacEachern. It is Dr. Baker‘s desire to bring the subject of renovatâ€" ing as opposed to building to the next regular meeting of the board even though he beâ€" lieves the decision made last week is ir {eversible based on the strength of supâ€" port it received. (Continued on page 11)