Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 12, 1991, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press March 1991 Page 3 Brian City editor rough ride promised for Filmon councillors divided on budget local vital trustees redraft Defeated budget by Maureen Houston school Board Vares compromises As deadline nears Rural a q fax deadlocked Over a tax the vital school Board Defeated its own budget last week and will have to strike a new one this we just cant keep funding at the level we have trustee bar Bara Cape we need to Start rear ionizing our a 33 vote brought Down the Bud which would have seen vital school taxes Rise to on an average trustees must meet again thurs Day night to reconsider a budget with deeper cuts for the Friday budget finance committee chairman Lynn Cormack said she cant see Phil free press How taxes can be made any lower without major staff adding the division is expecting 14 additional classrooms of students next that scares she it would be leaving things very Board chairman Bob Bruce said a trustee who had been unable to attend last thursdays meeting will be present this week to break the adding he believes a Compro Mise has been worked the which led to the first budget defeat in recent illustrates the difficult choices school boards across the province Are facing this week As they struggle to meet the budget in the three City divisions that passed budgets last the choices have not been a simple ques Tion of either raising taxes or cutting Treyve had to do in taxpayers will cough up an extra per cent in local school the increase translates to about and brings the school tax on an average Home to in Between 15 and 18 of about 435 teaching positions will be some through in River East school taxes will Rise per or on an average Home to the equivalent of 29 full time staff positions will be with the Hea Viest Impact on classroom and Spe Fialty teacher spokesmen in the two divisions say they blame senior Levels of government not their boards for the the division has been forced into a situation where Treyve had to make budget Boniface teachers association president Maurice Gauthier its a Chain reaction from Way up at the Federal government River East teachers association president con Lynch said the Divi Sion handled the situation to have the province expecting the division to function on the same amount of Money As last year is not fair at River East saw an increase of less than per cent in provincial sup port Over last while Boni face experienced a Small decrease in at the same inflation and salary increases have pushed the Overall budget up per cent to million in River East and up per cent to million in Boni programs have not escaped the axe Boniface has cancelled a violin program that had been operating in four while both divisions have Cut swim programs and re vamped delivery of special needs in River a gifted students program will be substantially reduced and a program for a risk students Cut fort the third division to pass a budget last raised taxes Pef cent and eliminated a net total of somethings fishy local radio personality Frank Stecky slurps up As Many disease teams ate their fill Offish crackers to goldfish As he can yesterday to kick off help fight liver raise Money for the Canadian liver landmark ruling clears Dean a of faculty head very satisfied with arbitration by Bruce Owen the University of Manitoba Dean of management has won a recent arbitration grievance dealing with his alleged violation of a faculty members academic Freedom the first ruling of its kind in i am very satisfied with the re William Mackness said yes it was very fair and Clear and i am pleased Justice has been served the decision ends two years of controversy Over allegations Mack Ness infringed on faculty member Vedan ands academic Freedom by criticizing him in a confidential memo for speaking out of turn at a University during the hosted by Ved Anand criticized the com pants marketing strategies while commenting on japanese Market Mackness sent Ved Anand a memo saying his remarks were counter productive to the faculty attempts to Groom positive relationships with the business Ved Anand complained the memo interfered with his right to discuss matters within his expertise and filed a grievance through the University of Manitoba faculty As the dispute became Public last summer when a written by Mackness to his was presented at an arbitration hearing to show Mackness was discriminating against Vedan in the Mackness said if we dont do something we will All retire together and leave the place to third world the comment prompted the Ufa to Call for Mackness Resigna Tion and for a of president Arnold Naimark to Issue a statement that the comment was offensive and Mackness apologized for the re saying he never intended to discriminate against the Winnipeg lawyer Perry found that there was no evidence to support the Alle gation Mackness was biased against in his 72page Schulman said Vedan ands conduct at the Xerox function was unreasonable in relation to subject matter and tone and that he exceeded the acceptable limits of Aca Demic his conduct prised a breach of etiquette which entitled Dean Mackness to make some Ved Anand said yesterday he did not want to comment on the Ufa president Betty Johns could not be reached for Vedan ands Mel said that with the the Case was now Mackness Justice served my clients not particularly Happy with he Mackness said he Hopes the Dis Pute is now behind him and he can get on with making the faculty one of the leading business schools in Street is Home for councillor says by Radha Krishnan Thampi about most be tween the Ages of 16 and Are being forced to survive on Winni pegs streets because there Are no Community based agencies to help a City councillor charged the problem is acute because Many of these kids Are subjected to severe physical and sexual abuse at Glen Mur Ray River Osborne told civic planning Murray said that during the last two years Winnipeg lost Al most All Community based Shel ters and drop in centres because of provincial noting Only Mossbrook House and the Pritchard Avenue drop in Centre Are i a talking about the to kids who Are out Selling their Murray adding childrens agencies and the provincial family services department have written them these Are the people who cant stay in school or on the the Gap is Murray adding Many of them also have chemical dependency prob the planning committee received a report yesterday from the cites social services depart ment which admitted there is no funding or firm arrangement to help those Between the Ages of 16 and 18 who do not want to live at Home and who wish to attend the report said one problem is that childrens agencies usually will not take a child into care if the need is deemed strictly Finan theres a Lack of support in this and let us bring it to the attention of the Larry Fleisher Assiniboine who first raised the Issue with the the committee unanimously approved a Fleisher motion that called on the province to give the City emergency funding to pro vide for these Leslie of the cites social services said a provincial task Force is studying the the provincial government Doest give a Ernie Gilroy Daniel planning committee their objective is to reduce the child welfare is a provincial matter which is extremely Gilroy adding the City cant pick up the the councillors also approved a recommendation to increase Wel fare rates by per cent to reflect the increased Cost of Liv protester has to wait for hearing Phil Wichern went to City Hall yesterday to Gripe about porn video but ended up tearing a strip off City the problem with City Hall is not the number of its their a University of Manitoba associate professor of political he levelled his blast after being left to Cool his heels for about an hour As civic planning com Mittee scrambled to find a quo Larry Fleisher Assini Boine Park said he flew in late sunday from Toronto and decided not to attend the meeting because he didst have time to read the seven member committees i didst want to make an ass of who was called in for the Glen Murray Riveros borne said he was late because his car broke Down in route to City Christine Mckee River Heights has tendered her Resig nation As a councillor and gone on a five week and mayor Bill who sits on All standing was attending other engagements and could not make the meeting on after 90 who represents the group against made his presenta asking the planning commit tee to do something to Stop the proliferation of porn video but Fleisher took exception to Wichern suggestion the Quality of councillors has gone he said maybe Wichern should look at fellow such As whom he said should have informed the committee of her vacation plan in mugging leaves Reader unsympathetic to natives t Ori o Loof Tufye fan to a the postman rings More than dear Sinclair in regards to your column we Are people on both sides of the Stone i thought it was rather i sat Down to read the paper on wednesday evening to get an earlier unpleasant episode off my mind Only to Start Reading your normally i would sympathize with people like 26yearold Ken except after Reading that he was in prison for armed robbery i nor could i find sympathy for the 30 to 40 inmates of Stony who were mostly wednesday evening my 16yearold son was mugged by a Drunken aboriginal the Only sympathy i had was for my who never Hurt anyone and was really frightened by that i taught my son not to that episode left us he was discriminated against for being the mugger called him a Nice White the mugger was hiding behind the shield of being native and using that As an excuse for unacceptable he asked my son if he knew any my son didst Tell him some of my Gordon Sinclair ancestors Are Canadas Indian we Are people we certainly dont use our ancestry As an excuse to behave like we Are people on the other Side of the Stone Wall who feel we constantly have to look Over our shoulders and be on guard for those very people on whose behalf you name withheld i wont comment on the mothers except to explain Ken the armed robber who was alluded is an inmate at heading Ley correctional he called last month because the authorities let him go to his fathers funeral on an Interlake i made a Call on his that bit of background will help explain the following Nan dear Sinclair i would like to thank you for All the help you have Given me in my time of without your help i would not have been Able to say goodbye to my dear and i made him a Promise that i will turn my life too bad it takes time and a thing like this to happen to finally take a Good look at and to see what you Are and what you have As you i am a like so i have to make my father its better late than i wish you All the Luck in your Best wishes to you and god bless May the spirit be with Kenneth Bradburn a a a this letter arrived in a Safeway it referred to a Story i had related last fall concerning a 30yearold North Kildonan Mother whose groceries were stolen in front of the Northgate she was a single Mother on unemployment and the she had spent on food was All the Money she a Safeway supervisor let her refill her shopping list at the company one other the letter from Safeway was postmarked hmm Ramm dear Sinclair your column groceries for 7 came to my attention recently and i sincerely appreciate you sharing a Beautiful Story with your the incident you related reflects exactly the kind of concern for the customer that we encourage in our so you can be sure the employees involved have been warmly commended by their were proud of the Way they handled the situation that otherwise would have meant a troubling financial problem for a valued to great to see a caring act on the part of our employees receive such widespread chairman of the Board president and chief executive officer Nan dear Sinclair your column the other Day Cactus Happy honkers wont be tuned to March 8 prompted Rne to write the following i am a 1290 Fox As far As the music their news department is marginal and their sports department is 2 i am a Job fan As far As news and sports i detest talk in my Jack Wells value As a analyser is Long it really is too bad he didst retire since he had a great Happy Honker or not i will always listen to c Job for the bomber and jets pos game who could possibly be better anywhere at dissecting a game than Bob Ken Don Wittman and Paul Robson Happy Honker or not i will never listen to the 1290 pos game without a sports department they dont have the professionalism to do an interesting i listen to the station for the play play Only because that where its at in my View they do an embarrassing respectively submitted Brownlee i wont comment on the except to Point out that Ken Ploen want a member of the of pos game show last year and wont be this Happy ;