The Fresno Bee from Fresno, California • 49

The Fresno Bee Sunday May 16 1978 D1 Real Estate Classified School Chiefs Get Pay Hike In State Bargaining Plan lam here Mom Pay attention to me too a retarded individual 1Vvi IS POSSIBLE we will give the teachers more We must make it clear with management that whatever the decision is they cannot hassle about it Board President John' Toomasian said he understood the new salary plan settled the pay question for all management employes for the 1976-77 school year year from now they have to set up their bargaining unit and make their proposal commented will bargain collectively with the view is opposite from that of the other board members who say management employes are prohibited under the new law from negotiating for salaries or other benefits THE LAW STATES representative shall be permitted by a public school employer to meet and negotiate on any benefit or compensation paid to persons serving in a management Dr HM Ginsburg was not interviewed because he is recuperating from a heart attack The new salary schedule for management personnel is based on the relationship of the various jobs to each other and to the 25 largest dis tricts in the state Fresno Unified is the fifth largest district In recent years middle management jobs such as principals were tied to the teachers' salary schedule and the top administrators were com-1 pared with their counterparts in eight other districts The board then voted to eliminate any formula in deciding salaries for the top administrators LAST AUGUST in a surprise move the board voted to freeze the salaries saying it was an economy move The administrators protested on several occasions Mrs Richardson said the five per -cent raise for the administrators was included in the new plan because of hell we went through last fall (considering possible salary 'increases in a subjective manner! with no policy on what we were going to base them on I think any of us would want to repeat that SALARY SCHEDULE was not designed for the top administrators only but alqo for middle management people They were scared to death something would happen to them like happened to top management last year The board would get mad at the superintendent and they would not get fyc Art Offers Way To Get In Touch With Yourself 'Cherish your art It is you and deserves your attention By RICHARD HALL Bee Staff Writer COLLECTIVE BARGAINING talks have yet to begin in the public schools but the new state law already has helped Fresno Unified School top administrators win a five per cent pay hike effective July 1 The raises which were denied to the administrators a few months ago are contained in a new salary plan covering approximately 200 persons in 82 different kinds of Jobs The board has decided to exclude those employes management personnel from the collective bargaining process because of their supervisory-duties Except for the administrators the other management employes had been tied to the salary plan As such they received a five per cent raise together with the teachers in this current school year THE ADMINISTRATORS vigorously protested the lack of a salary hike When the new pay plan was written as part of the preparations for collective bargaining the school board agreed to the increase Most of the management personnel will receive no pay raise in the new pay plan However all of them could seek a salary boost in the new school year 1976-77 The board must bargain collective- ly with the other district employes but it will decide the salaries of man- agement personnel unilaterally A question is when? Should the school board decide salaries for management before or after its collective bargaining agreements with other groups of employes are settled? Would an early decison cm management salaries unduly influence the collective bargaining talks that follow? TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS with board members showed they have diverse opinions and there js some confusion Mrs Nancy Richardson indicated -she leaned toward settling with management last to avoid an appearance of trying to influence the collective bargaining talks with the other employes Keith Chun said he favored settling management salaries first as a way to at least establish a bottom line in negotiating with other employes Robert Arroyo also said he favored settling management salaries first but for a different reason: we settle after there is a tendency to give the same raise as we give to the he said need to set the stage for independence in settling with the administration Banking Oh Telethon 8000 Will Gather Fpr Shriners Parley he or she is feeling For example a retarded individual drew a pen and ink sketch of a mother holding a baby with another child kneeling at her feet The statement beside the drawing says am here Mom Pay attention to me None of the art forms have titles Instead statements describe what the artist is feeling Another example is a drawing of an empty swing The statement says am an old porch swing I am empty now I used to hold folks who would sit and talk and sing in me Now I blow in the breeze It was drawn by an elderly woman reminiscing about the days when she felt human and in touch with people THE SHOW HAS been put together by three artists and art therapists Sue Anne Eslinger Evelyn Virshup and Doris Arrington who are working with groups such as the handicapped or mental patients 'jising art as a means of expression and a way to put the struggling person in touch with him or herself The women state their' differences with traditionalist views of art in a statement of belief that includes: is for and by everyonethe THE FIRST WAVE of the more than 8000 delegates to the Western Shrine Association convention will arrive in Fresno Tuesday night Fezes the hats worn by shriners will be a common sight throughout Fresno through Sunday' as the delegates scurry between social events tours business meetings and during a Of Bicentennial Saturday THE RODEWAY Inn is the convention headquarters However the major events of the gathering will be held in the'Con- vention Center with fringe activities set for the Rainbow Ballroom and homes of local Shriners Two tours will be conducted to Yosemite National Park and indicated the effort will be getting a significant boost this month see no reason why they will not be able to go ahead on their he said have yet to find any real negativism and they are just getting into it (the fund Fenz noted many people expect the public television needs of the Fresno area to be served by cable television with the importation of KQED Channel 9 from San Francisco FACT FINDER THE ACHON COLUMN by Howard Miller KMTF Drive At 'Critical Stage' tours of the Roma Winery and Sun-Maid Raisin Plant are also planned The first business meeting of the convention will be at 9:30 am Friday in the Rodeway Inn At 11 am a fashion show and luncheon will be held in the -exhibit hall of the Convention Center THE CONVENTION parade wifi step off at 10:30 am Saturday from Amador Street and -Van Ness Avenue and will proceed south to Tulare Street east to Street and south to the Convention Center -The reviewing stand will be on the second floor balcony of the Fresno Hilton Convention spokesmen estimate the visitors will spend -more than 82 million during their stay here is no he said speaking cable covers only 20 to 25 per cent of the market That really is only the elite of the community and the mass of people are not going to get it" He stressed the importance of meeting the June 30 deadline for raising the 8250000 HEW could approve an extension on the grant but price commitments by equipment manufacturers may not hold or merchant to stand behind his Some banks no longer provide financing for the purchase of appliances and other such items since the customer may more than likely be eligible for a direct loan or a check guarantee loan A spokesman for a local loan office said it has been apparent in small claims actions in Fresno Municipal Court that judges have been holding lenders responsible for some time now elitist intellectual and critical way to look at art is not tiffe wily way is a way to explore our strengths our weaknesses' and our vulnerabilities is a way of getting in touch and appreciating your own uniqueness and is the first step in understanding and accepting the uniqueness of others your art' It is you and deserves your For interested persons a demonstration of art as an experience will be given at 10 am Tuesday at the Art Center The Center is open from 9 am to 5 pm weekdays from 7:30 to 9:30 pm Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday and from 10 am to 4:30 pm Saturday and Sunday pollination of plants and gardens by attracting bees to do this necessary work require he writes a large open bowl in the garden area will attract the bees but also drown many as the water level drops below the He recommends placing plastic covers such as those which come with coffee cans or even smaller cans into the bowl rim down to provide life rafte for the bees when they are trapped in thd water this two years and never has a bee drown he says And improved his garden too In the matter of recycling newspapers Thrifty-Best Rubbish Service would like us to know that Consolidated Fibres is not the only buyer of old newspapers They do and they also pay 825 a ton Further they buy aluminum cans (please flatten) glass bottles and jars (clean please) cardboard and bags: They are open Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 6 pm Saturdays 9 am to 1 pm at 2607 Woodward Ave telephone 264-4761 Thanks you and best of luck By SANDRA TOMPKINS Bee Staff Writer YOU ARE an artist Forget what your mother told you when you painted the trees purple Forget what your teacher said when you drew lopsided animals with sad faces all in one corner of the paper Forget that the word was never mentioned in your presence You are an artist We are all artists who can draw paint and sculpt our dreams fantasies and nightmares If that is hard to believe there is an exhibit Touch Through Art: An Inner Experience" opening Monday night at the Fresno Art Center that may convince you The message is simple yet dynamic: art is a way to learn about yourself it is a process it is for everyone THE EXHIBIT is not something to go and look at Rather it is to be experienced There you will see expressions of art created by children the aging the handicapped prisoners mental patients drug addicts and others not yet labeled And through the art you can see what the artist is saying about what Tax Aid For Seniors Somewhere I heard that a person can qualify tor some sort of tax relief on his home if he too much income and is a senior citizen Well I am £2 and have just retired on Social Security and so my income has taken a real dive I plan to retire so early but my health started to go If this tax business is true how do I go about getting it 1 own my home free ami clear and pay better than $350 taxes a FG Fresno true all right and unless you have a pretty good income above Social Securriy you should qualify for some rebate called the Senior Citizens Property Tax Assistance Program filing time right now May 16 to Aug 31 Forms are available at the Franchise Tax Board offices in the State Building To be eligible the householder must have been 62 on Jan 1 of this year and have had a total household income of under 810000 Last year in Fresno County 7741 homeowners received 8937362 refund on their home taxes (you pay the tax MON MTf 7:00 PJL Warehouse Sale 3285 Behnont Teardrop conpiiq trader mw furniture mattresses bank rapt stock of 10 Rghftwight kikes 8 likes to 20000 retail i consigned mdse Local Appraisals purpose Lenders See Few Problems From New FTC Regulations A Public Broadcasting System official says the campaign to raise money to put public television sta- -tion KMTF Channel 18 on the air is at a but a telethon scheduled for next month probably will put the fund drive over the 8250000 goal The money is needed to match a grant of more than 8430000 from the Department of Health Education and Welfare Roland Fenz director of station development for PBS said he feels the telethon will provide the final boost to put the station on the air have to believe that when the telethon comes around they win need less than Genz said The fund drive passed the 8100000 mark this week with a contribution of 810000 from an unnamed donor Fenz said the campaign will begin concentrating on major contributors within the next 20 days campaign has been run a little Fenz commented He noted the drive had concentrated on small donors in the beginning giving the impression it was getting off to a slow start Usually he said fund drives begin their efforts with the large donors He to the county first then get rebates from the gate) This year also homeowners are not required to include the income of dependent minors living at home or qualified students living at home The average rebate last year according to program director Donald Whitney is expected to be about 8170 Catching Up A number of observations from readers have been piling up of late so use this Sunday space to clean 'em up Fred Frost of the Fresno Cultural Arts Center says we were mistaken in that they could teach upholstery if enough persons would sign up for iL quite in our field' he said classes are more art- Our apologies to the more than 50 persons who called the center to inquire about the supposed course B10 Reader Villemin of Porterville wants to pass along a tip on i Fresno bankers and lending institution officials say they expect few if any problems as a result of the new Federal Trade Commission regulation which makes them liable along with the sellers when they provide financing in the sales of goods will deal only with reputable merchants and said one banker in this day and age most products have a factory warranty 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