Vol. 75 No. 34 September 3, 1975
Donegal teachers are at work in schools after they reject contract;
Greider: ‘One more item needed;’ Landis: ‘Rejection was a mistake.’
Ted Greiner
William B. Landis
Susquehanna Times & The Mount Joy Bulletin
MARIETTA & MOUNT JOY, PA.
Teachers were at their
posts yesterday in the
Donegal schools — although
they still have not accepted
the contract offered them by
the school board.
Up until 4:30 a.m.
Negotiating representa-
tives of the teachers and the
board had met last week
from 7:30 p.m., Monday,
until 4:30 a.m., Tuesday,
August 26, trying to reach a
final agreement. At that
time the representatives of
the teachers felt that two
important items in the
contract had been deleted
by the board at the last
minute.
When the teachers met
together Thursday night,
August 28, they voted
against accepting the con-
tract offered by the board.
Ted Greider, President of
the Donegal Education As-
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sociation, said, ‘“We all
stuck together and voted
down. the package. It was
just not satisfactory.”
Want one change
Despite the fact that the
teachers had wanted two
more items, they decided to
settle for one. Greider said
the one remaining important
item will cost less than
$5000 — ‘‘not very much in
a total budget of $3
million.”
Exactly what the $5000
item is, Greider was not free
to say, because of an
agreement with the board to
keep details of the negotia-
tions secret. He did say that
the remaining item wanted
by the teachers was not a
further increase in salaries.
The teachers are satisfied
with the salary increases
offered by the board last
Tuesday.
Dr. Landis comments
Newspaper articles based
on statements made by Ted
Greider appeared last Fri-
day evening and Saturday
morning in, the Lancaster
newspapers.
Dr. William B. Landis,
President of the Donegal
School Board, told the
Susquehanna Bulletin that
he does not personally
approve of secrecy when
public officials and public
employees are discussing
how to spend the public's
money, but he has abided so
far by the agreement be-
tween the board and the
teachers, to maintain silence
about details of the negotia-
tions.
Greider’s statement to the
Lancaster newspapers, how-
ever, freed him, Landis
said, to make some com-
ments.
Ten Cents
““Teachers made mistake.’”
He said that he thinks the
teachers made a mistake in
not accepting the contract
offered them last Tuesday
night. It was more gener-
ous, Landis said, than seme
board members may now be
willing to support.
He pointed out that,
although the board is
spending less total money
than last year, it has already
had to increase school taxes
seventeen mills, partly be-
cause local municipalities,
following the lead of Mount
Joy Borough, took a share of
the earned income tax that
used to go to the schools.
Public should approve any
further tax increases.
Dr. Landis does not want
to increase taxes further,
unless the public approves
of the increase.
Rissers & Chiques churches rally
to raise new Eli Breneman barn
On July 28 the barn of Eli
Grove, burned to its foun-
dations.
Last week, a month later,
a new barn was going up on
the same foundations.
Members of Rissers
Mennonite and Chiques
Brethren Churches and re-
latives of the Brenemans
were climbing all over the-
new structure, putting it
together piece by piece.
In two days the barn was
almost completed.