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"The people who always show up and work hard are insulted; the trustees who don‘t show up, don‘t support it because they have the most to lose," he said. Under Hendry‘s proposal, each committee will be assigned a dollar value and annually trusâ€" tees would be permitted a "grace period"" of two meetings for each commuttee on which they sit. Deductions will be made from the trustee honorarium for each addiâ€" tional meeting missed. For examâ€" ple, he suggests that $150 be deducted for each committee of the whole meeting missed, $100 M Hendry said he has been camâ€" paigning for changes to the trustâ€" ee honorarium for four years and the issue has always been passed over we as trustees don‘t do it ourselves," said Hendry. "It‘s very simple â€"I don‘t think we should be paid if we don‘t attend the meetings. What I‘m, asking is that the board start with themselves when it comes to accountability. At tax time we tell staff and administration that they have to be more accountable, that thiey have to do with less, yet as proposeu a scheme wu«ceby every meeting will be assigned a dollar value, and that amount will be deducted from the trustee honorarium each time a meeting is missed. Trustees reâ€" ceive approximately $13,000 a year for serving on the board, which could involve attending as many as 60 board/committee meetings. way. Hendry, who is seeking his third term as one of Waterloo‘s four representatives on the public board, will ask the board Thursâ€" day to implement a new system that would essentially fine trusâ€" tees who don‘t attend board meetâ€" ings Second Class Mail Registration Number 5540 Published every Wednesday by The Fairway Group Incorporated 215 Fairway Rd. S., Kitchener, Ont. September 11,1991 Waterloo county board of educaâ€" tion trustees who do not attend meetings will not be paid their full honorarium, if Waterloo trustee John Hendry gets his Waterloo Chronicle Hendry proposes system to cut pay of trustees not attending meetings PAGE A4 â€" WATERLOO CHRONICLE, WEDNESDAY "I‘m not saying you shouldn‘t miss meetings â€" things come up. But this is a fundamental quesâ€" tion of integrity. If you‘re not there, you shouldn‘t expect to be paid." n en ons ty board‘s computer system. He notes that since attendance is taken at all meetings, collecting the information will not be diffiâ€" cult. Hendry hrgue; â€"tHi;â€"i-sJé simple scheme, easily handled by the 1Sl0g. We all chose to do this â€" being a trustee isn‘t a fullâ€"time job so we shouldn‘t be receiving the benefits of a fullâ€"time job. When you decide to run for the board, you make a commitment. If you can‘t fulfill that commitment, if you can‘t attend the meetings, you have two choices: to resign or to continue receiving the honorarâ€" tum without doing the work. That isn‘t fair to the other trustees and the public," said Hendry per board meeting. The money will be put back into general revenues. The only legitimate reason for missing a meeting, he said, is if a trustee is attending another funcâ€" tion on official board business, including preâ€"approved conferâ€" ences. Illness is no excuse. John Hendry . SEPTEMBER 11, 1991 * 478 Albert St., 3 Albert St., Waterloo g * 50 Westmount Rd. N., Waterioo