JOAN foves the social part of the upcoming Christmas season. She enjoys formal evenings
and likes to end them with a soak in her hot tub. Joan also likes sailing and horseback

riding.

_IRENE WATTS knows
the value of a good
idea

The North Vancouver
provincial court recorder
was awarded $100 recently
through the provincial gov-
ernment’s Suggestion
Awards Program for an idea
that will not only save the
B.C. court system untold
amounts of money, but save
court recorders untold
numbers of sleepless nights.

As with all the best ideas,
the suggestion from Watts is
simple. Modern court pro-
ceedings are now almost ex-
clusively committed to
cassette tape via tape re-
corder rather than paper via
shorthand. A single cassette
currently represents the only
existing record of a par-
ticular trial, preliminary
hearing or day in court.

If that cassette gocs miss-
ing or is accidentally erased,
the court proceedings con-
tained in it also go missing.
There is no replacement, no
written record. The only

alternative therefore is to
reschedule, at massive ex-
pense, whatever proceedings
have been lost.

: i
IRENE WATTS
“*T recently erased a tape
accidentally,"’ Watts said,
“and the next tape in line
contained a murder trial. If 1
had erased that it would
have been game over."'
Rather than live under the
black weight of such un-
thinkable eventualities,
Watts reasoned that a simple
solution would be to make a
copy of each tape with a
cassette tape duplicating
machine. Her suggestion
that all provincial court

houses be outfitted with one
of the $700 machines was
sent off to Victoria last
summer. She was informed
of its acceptance and her
reward earlier this month.

Projected total cost to the
province will be approx-
imately $65,000; projected
total savings will be in-
calculable.

“If a five-day trial were to
be lost or erased,’’ said
Dorothy Penman, ad-
ministrator of court services
for North and West. Van-
couver, ‘‘the cost of
reconvening that trial would
be tremendous.”

The suggestion program
was launched late in 1980
arid was set up to encourage
government employees to
submit labor-saving and ef-
ficiency promoting ideas.
Awards run from $100 to
$10,000 depending on an
idea’s estimated financial or
labor-saving value to office
or employer.

Watts’ suggestion, accor-
ding to Penman, is more
than just a good idea. ‘It’s
the kind of initiative that in-
spires the whole staff.”’

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