At2- The Terrace Standard, Wednesday

, October 30, 1996

From front

Strike

Trustees tangle again deal

KITIMAT SCHOOL tustees are mad at
their Terrace counterparts, saying the latter
deliberately tet employment contracts for

senior administrators be automatically
renewed.
That's different from what Kitimat

trustees say they did — not renew some
contacts of their administrators past Dec, 1
because of the two districts merging.

This is the latest problem to erupt be-
tween the two boards over the merger of
their districts.

Kitimat trustees want an open competi-
tion for senior positions while Terrace ones
prefer to bring their senior people with
them,

Kitimat trustees stopped extending con-
tracts when the forced merger was an-
nounced, said Peter King, vice chairman of
the Kitimat board.

Bul he claims Terrace trustees didn't da
the same thing. In particular, he says Ter-
race could have stopped the automatic

renewal of Frank Hamilton’s contract when
it came up this summer.

“Our employees felt safe because they
thought they’d have a fair kick at the cat,’”
said King. ‘'We should have given them
more lucrative contracts,’ he said In
feference to the expensive severance
clauses in the contracts of Terrace senior
administrators,

“We're learning quickly that the best
thing to do is to be irresponsible and get
rewarded for it,”’ said King.

However ‘Terrace trustee
Christensen disagrees,

“"He’s not quite correct in what he’s
saying,”’ said Christensen,

Christensen says Hamilton’s contract
automatically rolls over unless the board
passes a motion for it not to continue.

He added that the B.C, Public Sector
Employer’s Council has told the Terrace
board it is adhering to the spirit of amal-
gamiation.

Stew

Severance deal unusual

FRANK HAMILTON isa’t one of the high-
est paid superintendents in the province.

The last available listing of his salary puts
him at $119,000 4 year, but that figure in-
cluded a pay out for vacations not taken.

Among school superintendents, Hamilton
ranks 20th in pay. Superintendent salaries
range from $80,000 to $140,000,

Yet his contract provision for an automat-
ic renewal cach year so that the contract is

always for five years {s unusual, says the
Public Sector Employer’s Council.

And the five-year buyout provision does
place him at the high end of severance
terms, it says.

Assistant superintendent Skip Bergsma,
with an annual salary of $97,000, has a
similar five-year clause in his contract.

So does secretary-treasurer Barry
Piersdorff who makes $96,000 a year.

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But while the 1981 school
board moved to protect
Hamilton, a review board
Set up to probe the causes of
, the 1981 strike appeared to
be heading in another direc-
tion,

The three-member review
board was agreed to in June
1981 as one of the condi-
tions of ending the strike.

It was ‘‘to examine proce-
dures, policies, processes
and events’’ in the school
district, according to its
terms of reference,

Its three members
organized hearings in the
fall of 1981 and worked
away on a report of non-
binding recommendalions,

One of its key recom-
mendations was to change.
the responsibilities of the
Secretary-treasurer and su-
perintendent.

In doing so, the review
board suggested that a
country-wide search be un-
dertaken for candidates for
both positions and that the
current ones may wish to be
considered as candidates.

The review board issued
its report in November. The
board signed its five-year
contact deal with Hamilton
on Sept. 1.

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