Ai2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 4, 1996 Crunch looming for merger talks TERRACE AND KITIMAT school districts have until Sept. 20 to make some important decisions about the up- coming amalgamation of the two districts, The deadline was imposed by the education ministry last week in order to guarantee progress in talks between the districts. “We've been stalled,” ‘admitted Kitimat school board chair George Neumann. He said Kitimat has been trying io get meetings going between the two districts since May, and hinted at some reluctance on the part of Terrace to move things along, The two districts now have to decide by Sept. 20 on how the senior administration for the new district will be selected — something which has been a big stumbling block so far. Part of the problem is the cost of buy-out packages for administration, A number of senior staff positions will be Sat. 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Incentives in this package could induce some em- ployees to retire, hopefully reducing the costs of amal- gamation. That was about as much direction as the education minis- uy offered, said Spooner, So without guidance or money from the province, the two school] boards plan to meet soon to try and hammer out an agreement. Kitimat favours some form of competition for the senior administrative positions. Candidates could be drawn from a pool of displaced administrative staff from around the province. **Terrace has not yet indicated what they want yet,'’ said Neumann, but he thinks they favour filling the positions with incumbents. And since Terrace staff would cost more to buy out than Kitimat staff, that would mean Terrace administrators could slide into the new positions, Spooner admitted that this was a contentious issue for the © two boards. 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