Manitoba study

WINNIPEG (CP) — A
report recommending a
Major restructuring and
tighter controls of

vernment operations in
fianitoba was tabled in
the legislature Monday
by . Minister without
Portfolio Scdney Spivak.

The two-volume, 276-
page document, prepared.

group
by the

” WINNIPEG (CP) — A
report on organization
and economy in the
Manitoba § government
has recommended that
the province’s univer-
sities tailor their courses
to the labor market to
help graduates find jobs.
e report, tabled in
the legislature Monday,
alsorecommended
higher tuition fees and
severe limitations on
increases in funding

report ‘said .

The
universities and com-
munity colleges: should
monitor the labor market
and tailor their courses to
produce graduates who
will be able to find jobs.

‘Tme government

university funding to a
three-per-cent increase to
a level of $89.1 million
and slightly lowered
support ‘or community
colleges to $24.2 million.
The report said.
universities must come to
grips with an enrolment
op that may reach 25
cent inthe 1980s or

: face increasing unit costs .

which would push tuition
fees to “unreasonably
high levels,” .
or this year, the
report recommends:

—The province limit in-

creases its a

PAGE 10, THE HERALD, Tuesday, April 4, 1978

Report urges massive change in province’s administration

power" in the Oct. 11
general election, made
extensive recom-
mendations on all de-
partments of govern-
ment, crown corporations
and government agen-
es.

on

Economy oposed
among other tilings, the
restructuring of govern-

7 epartments,

required to finance in-
creases for other non-
salary expenditures
through tuitlon fee in-
creases if savings on
administrative ef.
ficiencies won't cover the
difference.
—Tultion fees he
allowednto rise up to 25
per cent-to provide an

additional $2.2 million in’

“Keewatin and

3
f

reducing the number of
portfolios to 11 fram the
20 that existed when the
government came to
power, but adding a six-
man Treas Com-

mittee, an inne cabinet

of toplevel ad-
ministrators.

“Just as the growth and
diversification of a
corporation requires a
change in management
structure, so too does
growth in ‘size and

revenues, '

—Community colleg
tuition fees increase to a
general $27 a month rate

‘om the current $20.

—Greater  co-
ordination and co
operation between the
Red River Community
College and the smaller

“putgrowth of

complexity of a govern:
ment operation, the
report said. “The central
management structure of
government, developed
one to two decades ago, is
inadequate today,"” -
IMPROVED REPOR-
TING

The committee en-
yisages a management
information system, an
e finance
department and the. pro-

vineial auditor's - office,

siniboine colleges be in-
vestigated, considering
the ° sibility

establishing a single
college with satellite

operations.

—Accraiitation be
considered for those
trained in industry and
greater co-operation
offered to industry in

‘

“Top priority should be

‘given to designing and

plementing an ef-
fective cost control
system.”

As & longer-term goal,
the report said, “The
government should move

ard a system of
financial control which
has come to be known as

“rero-base budgeting.”

Zero-base budgeting
requires managers to
justify thelr entire budget

training programs out-
side the colleges.

- =ontro]) -in the
dramatic growth of
divisional overhead
costs,

The report warns that a
tuition fee war should not
be allowed to develop,
and calls for an in-
vestigation into tenure
classification for faculty.

Other news in brief

VICTORIA (CP) Two
aerial searches continued
over the British Columbia

Interior. today for two

aircraft carr a total
of five persons that went
missing in separate in-
cidents, ©

One search. was being
concentrated in northeast
B.C., where a ‘Piper
Cherokee... aircraft with

three -Mackenzie,nB.C.

men went missing Friday
‘while on a: flight from
Mackenzie to Liloyd-
minster, Sask.

Radio contact with the the U.S. Supreme Court
' today a

Plane was lost. only 15
minutes after takeoff,
The search was being
carried out by 20 aircraft,

including five from the’

Canadian Forces.
The missing men were
identifced as pilot Gar-

_ nett Ericson, 38, Patrick -

Schindler,

44, and Harr:
pinta rs

¥

Kasher, 54.

” In the other search, 10
aircraft were searching
for two Ottawa men who
went missing last

Monday while on a flight .

to Victoria from Pen-
ticton, B.C..

_ The search was being
concentrated in the area

- between. Penticton and

'the Fraser Valley, east of
Vancouver, for Douglas
Craig, 23, and Abou
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Tights.

The Federal Trade
Commission (FTC) ruled
in late 1975 that claims
about Listerine’s ef-
fectiveness against
anything.more than bad
breath were false and
would have to atop.

In addition, the FTC
arder prohibited Warner-
Lambert from all future
advertising of Listerine
unless the. ‘first $10-
million worth ofnfuture
ads included this
statement: ‘Contrary to
prior advertising, Liste-
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colds or sore t ts or
lessen their severity.”
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ut ruled
that the first four words

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conten that the order

restored.

of the required corrective
message were “not
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request in detail. Under
the present system,
managers generaliy must
account directly only for-
asked-for budget in-
creases.

The report also apeiled
out the responsibilities to
be undertaken and the
goals to be pursued by
each of the 11 proposed
departments,

t said that a recurring
theme in the 300 briefs
received from public
service employees was a
lack of clear-cut purpose
and explicilly-stated
responsibilities. NO
COMMUNICATION

“This problem ap-
pearednto grow more
acute as one descended
the chain of command ....
The frustration which
this uncertainty creates
has, it appears, been
compounded by the lack
of communication bet-
ween those responsible
for the delivery of ser-
vices and their superi-

structure put forward in!
the report was -not:'
necessarily the only one. .
acceptable for A smooth. °
administration... ©. - 24

But the message the *-
committee members
received from 200 briefs 4
submitted by persons..or.,
groups outside the public
eilce was that “many.
citizens believe, rightly...
or wrongly, that. the:
bureaucracy {s either:
unresponsive or in-
competent.”

The report's firat'
volume, 100 pages long,
dealt with. general:
recommendations, many-.:
of. which were long-term .:
in nature. DISCUSSES:

DEPARTMENTS .
The second discussed ®
existing departments,”
agencies and crown’
corporations,nand
concentrated mainly on _
short-and medium-term ~ ..-
recommended goals. =.

ors.” ot
The report noted
similac ‘problems of
accountability within
some crown co
rations, along with the
uncertainty of where
responsibility belongs
and a loss of control over
rations.
“The number of boards,
commissions and
agencies within the
government--250 to 300—
was termed “far too
many,” and a special
ommittee was recom-
ended to reduce their
umber and increase
eir effectiveness.

Another criticism of the,
present system contained
the report was the
number of employment
categories: permanent,
term, contract, depart-
mental, and casual. The
report recommended
ucing these to three.
The report sald its
authors recognized that
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