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WAGE ROLLBACK FOR ADMINISTRATORS

Administrators and "excluded" personnel at Douglas College unanimously supported
a three per cent reduction in salary in order to preserve educational programs
and activities of vital importance to the community.

The move to reduce their salary was at the recommendation of college president
Bill Day who said the rollback would take effect October 1, 1982.

Day believed the rollback which equals about eight days of pay a year would
provide leadership in these times of restraint. However, Day was careful to
point out that the administrative group was not indicating any support for the
provincial restraint program by asking for a three per cent reduction.

"We believe that if the choice has to be made between preserving the college's
educational components and our wages, then our wages have to be looked at
seriously," Day said.

"The administration's largest concern is keeping Douglas College public
services running smoothly, and given the tight money we have been given, difficult
decisions have to be made."

College board chairman Bill Hmerton said the board did not like asking any
employee group to roll back their wages, however the board was hard pressed
for solutions to the current financial crunch.

"The administrators certainly deserve the wages they are paid, but we just don't
have enough money and we've already cut a great deal out of programming,"
Emerton said.

He also said that comparitively, Douglas College has one of the lower per student
administrative costs in the province. That cost would be even lower once the
plans to layoff two administrators are implemented next month.