This week: A plan to ta ; the pain away erby Squish sorted a few H maps and charts and jotted a few notes in preparation for the first quarterly management meeting with market- ing manager Syd Silver and mill manager Buzz Sawyer. Their first quarterly plan shouldn't be too / complex, he decided. That might cause a little confusion in the ranks... And that might mean a second disaster right on the heels of the first. The waste from Sawyer’s pro-. duction disaster was still being trucked out of the mill, and Milton Jovial was counting every load. A second disaster? Unthinkable. "That would be very bad," Squish said aloud as he added the letters K1S.S. to his notes in large, heavy print. He retraced the letters. "Keep it simple, stupid,” he whispered. "Keep it very, very simple. Make all your mistakes small, and learn from every one of them." The thought reminded Squish of a poster laying in the bottom drawer of his desk. “Good idea," he said with a fresh sparkle in his eyes. He retrieved the forgotten poster and pinned it to the wall where it couldn’t be missed by his peers. "Learn from the mistakes of others..." he read aloud. “You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." He smiled, "A new company motto. Keep it simple... and learn. The very first line in every one of our quarterly plans from now unill... Until when?" A pause. “Who knows?" Squish decided. A disturbing thought. Buzz Sawyer wandered through the open door of Syd Silver's ' office. Silver was leaning way back in his chair... Feet on the desk, eyes pondering the ceiling. . . Ne . He was day dreaming about how the quarterly management plan should look from his point of view. "Good moming Syd," Sawyer said to break Silver’s spell and announce his presence. Silver nearly lost his balance. Feet crash- ing to the floor, arms flailing, chair groaning as Silver forced his 280- pound frame forward to grasp the edge of his desk for support. #Don’t ever do that to me again," Silver scolded loudly as reality and equilibrium came rapidly back into focus. Sawyer jumped. The rebuke startled him. “Sorry about that Syd," he apologized. “I didn’t mean to...” He paused; searching for the words he needed. They weren't there. His mind was a vacuum. He believed he had nearly murdered his new-found ally and friend. What could he possibly say? "What can I say..." he said weak- ly after an uncomfortably long silence. "Never mind," Silver returned in a shaky voice. Then, in a more - relaxed tone, "Are you ready for this morning’s meeting?" "Can't make it," Sawyer apolo- gized for the second time. "Jovial’s called me to his office again. Cari't imagine why. Probably wants to flog me with his latest count of the truck loads of hog fuel and chips driving by his window. Beat me with the bottom line. Tell me profit is the ticket. It doesn’t mat- ter how you make it, just make as much as you can." "Maybe some day we'll carve those words in his head stone," Silver suggesied. “Somehow, we've got to try to get through to him. Explain that the bottom line and the right way of doing things don’t always agree." "You can have the job if you Poe q re | by Tod Strachan, in consultatio like,” Sawyer offered. "No thanks,” ‘Silver laughed. "ve got a wife and... I forget how many kids." Another pause as the two men reflected on the recent past, Silver felt sorry for his friend. The recent — disaster in the mill hadn’t been all Sawyer’s fault. The problem began with Rocky Rhodes arbitrary road building decisions, and was compounded by High Towers cliff-bashing harvest- ing methods. Then the entire oper- ation was ‘sent into a tail spin by Jovial himself with his bottom line Silver pondered the sign on the door: "Herby Squish, Woods Man- ager." He wondered if Squish regretted his decision to give up his own business to work full-time for Jovial. Had it been a mistake? A quick rap on the door. "Come on in," came the immediate reply. Silver entered Herby’s office and explained that Sawyer wouldn't be joining them. At least not for a while. "Feel sorry for that guy,” Squish said. "Still, an ill wind always passes." orders to-meet the new deadline no. matter what. Sawyer hadn’t been ‘given enough time to come. up with anything better than simply turning a dial to make the mill run faster. . "Don't worry about it,” Silver consoled his friend. "Everyone knows it’s not all your fault. And Herby and I are willing to back you if Jovial gets out of hand, You Again, Sawyer was lost for words. He wanted to express his friendship to this large, usually jovial man, but didn’t know how. "Jovial?" Sawyer thought to him- self, "Don’t ever tell Silver he’s. jovial. That would be cruel." Silver broke the silence: "You go to your meeting with Milton, and Herby and I will do the ground work on a quarterly management plan. You join us later and we'll finish the plan and show Jovial _ that his management tcam knows what they’re doing." Three doors. down on the left, ~ MPRP — How THE PROCESS WORKS | Last week the Terrace Review published the first part of an analysis examining the structure of the Major Project Review Process, the B.C. government guidelines for assessing high-impact industrial developments. In this concluding section we look at the process from Stage If omward. In a Stage I review, you will have to address all unresolved technical, environmental and/or socio-economic concems. This will almost be like a re-run of the first round, but hopefully, with better information and management plans. You will be required to file a public report outlining how you plan to address identified issues and hold another public informa- {ion mecting to explain your report _ and solicit public comment. You ° will have to collect all comments and information coming out of that meeting yourself, and submit them to the MPSC. There is no set rule for the period of the Stage I review. The MPSC will set that besed on the number and compiex- ity of the concerns. Following the Stage I review, the MPSC will either approve in prin- ciple, reject, or send your idea to a Stage Il review. To understand the Stage If process, back up two phs and read them again. There is one difference with the Stage II process, however. At this level, the Cabinet Committee on Sustainable Development may instruct the steering committee to provide for further public involve- ment in one of three ways: Appoint an individual or panel to review the Stage Il report and go on a fact-finding mission to verify and/or supplement existing infor- mation. Appoint a mediator to mect separately with affected partics lo negotiate a mutually acceptable solution. Or, appoint an independent review panel to look at the Stage If report and hold public hearings in order to make — recommendations to the Cabinet Committee on Sustainable Devel- opment. Whatever course the Cabinet Committee decides to take, the entire process is now complete. Either you get your approval in ptincipte, or it’s three strikes and you're out. The government says the process has been improved over the past year for the following reason: *_ we have received many valuable comments from the public and government agencics on ways (0 improve the process. We welcome and appreciate these comments.” If you have anything to offer, you might want to write to the MPRP coordinator, Ministry of Development, Trade and Tourism, or the MPRP coordinator, B.C. Environment, in care of the Patlia- ment Buildings, Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4. Postage is not required. "A little philosophical this mom- ing. Aren’t we?" Silver observed. "I’ve got another one for you,” Squish offered pointing his right thumb to the wall behind him. "Leam from the mistakes of others..." he recited aloud. "You can never live long enough to make them all yourself." Silver chuckled. "Think we can use that one on Milton Jovial?," he asked, "Get together a thousand or so bottom line policies and show him the end result?" "Why don’t you try it and sec what happens?" Squish suggested, "No thanks," Silver laughed. "lve got a wife and... I forget how News in Brief | Immi world, Several small airports in the Northwest will be improved through — grants from the Ministry of Transportation and Highways Air. ‘Transport Assistance Program. The Kitimat Airpark $35,000 for construction of a passenger shelter and installation of telephone service, $15,000 will go toward an engineering study for ” upgrading of the community airstrip at Telegraph Creek, and $40,000 has been given to the Bob Quinn Airport Society for an , _air traffic survey and long-term planning. a available at the. Terrace office.o the B.C. Government Access Centre. Terrace Review — Wednesday, August 14, 1991 A7 n with Rod Amold and Doug Davies many kids." “*Your right,” Squish: ‘chortled. "Bad idea. But we've got to at least approach the idea of getting away from bottom line manage- ment in-our first quarterly plan. Then keep adding to it until Milton finally sees the light and does an about face." "Agreed," was Silver ’s response. "And a couple of other things, Syd. First, we’ve got to KISS." “Silver paled. "I didn’t know..." He stammered. ‘tNo. No," laughed Squish. "K.LS.S. Keep it simple, stupid. We've got to keep our first plan - simple so there’s no confusion, and gradually work toward a more complex, more responsibic plan." "Apreed again,” returned Silver with pretended relief. “A simple plan that learns over time. and tums one hundred eighty degrees from. bottom line thinking. I like it. Let’s use these ideas as a basic philosophy and begin’ developing ‘specifics. Then, when Buzz joins: us we'll have a framework in place we can adjust to suit his needs too." Next week, Buzz Sawyer joins the discussion and a. quarterly man- agement plan is devised for Milton Jovial's scrutiny and.approval. ’ has received | The 1991-92: hunting and trapping regulations booklet is now f the Ministry of Environment in A. federal government grant through - Employment and n Canada will allow 16:people from the Nass Valley to be trained as silviculture workers. The Nisga’a Tribal Council received the $166,286 grant last month to help relieve high | unemployment levels in the four native communities in the valley. SamBerry Contracting of Terrace has been awarded. a $1,154,658 coniract to replace the Dease River bridge north of Dease Lak on Highway 37. The new 70-meire concrete bridge will replace an old combination Bailey bridge and wooden approach span; work is scheduled to be finished in August 1992. Repap, the Montreal-based parent company of Skeena Cellulose, announced recently that their $2.3 billion five-year capital program to modemize all its pulp and paper holdings is complete. The . company capped ihe program with a successful private placement of $150 million in special warrants exchangable Lor 8% percent debentures. Chairman and CEO George Peity said Repap now has the most modern and productive coated paper facilitics in the —— ee ee + wt . . . vom ‘ wl