Real Estate SPORTS See what's F>enty of horse 4 on the market power at fialton Place TUESDAY, JULY 12, 2005 $1.00 (GST included) J t'~tO~MUUIY Safety group working to keep resident-s on aRcAgn ~ 4 PGES"UingComuncaion10BuiBtte FIsrac Comuniies" îQuestions about former sehool board r*Iside dirctr s evrane rie t eeing comm.........AS diretors svernceans atmee* l".........-LISAi By JASON MISNER Special ta The Champion With a six-year-old daughter enrolled in the Halton District School Board and a littie boy entering his first year in September, Milton parent Ellen Whitehouse says she wants to make sure money is spent where it should be. That includes wanting answers aa to where money for a severance package paid to the board's former director of education, Dusty Papke, will corne from. Ms Whitehouse was among approximately 10 members of the public who attended «a session in Milton Wednesday night in whicb the publie heard deuails about the balanced budget plan for 2005- 06. They were also able to ask questions. One of the pressing questions Ms Whitehouse wanted answered waa how the board plans to pay for the $600.000 severance that The Champion recently reported had been negotiated with Mr. Papke, who officially left his position after eight years June 30. Board Chair Paul Tate said he wasn't at liberty to discuas a seulement, but that the former director had a retiremnent gratuity owed to him. Specifics weren't provided. 'I'm not in a position at ail to discuas what his seulement was," Mr. Tate told the public. Carla Kisko, the board's outgoing superintendent of business services, told the public that a sever- ance would have to be absorbed in the current budget year of 2004-05. "It is definitely a pressure," she said. The Champion reported recently that Mr. Papke had negotiated a seulement to leave the board as its director of education alter learning s lawyer had been hired by two trustees to look at removing him. ls contract had stipulated he be given six months' notice for tennination, without just cause, see BUDGET on page Al1 Chami.n Cuntr . .Al 9-22 Clafsflod ......A25-28 www.miltontoyota.com www.gorrudsautoroup.com or-- M