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46402100 jijt uv 1j 3611 680 3c l3rf news item six trusteed absent from board rl rbudget meeting whats 064niim6ii dollars v its trustee chastizing time every year with the release of the annual budget everyone from the man on the street to municipal politicians become experts- in making costcuts on education however few if any ever appear before the board to make- a verbal presentation and even fewer will ever put their- suggestions in writing recommendation would be welcomed are even encouraged but the truth is no one has any validrecommendations to make its just that ninetysix and a half million dollars seems like tand is an awful lot of money there should be room for reductions- somewhere but where with so many ex- penses such as salaries already set the 1 trustees hands are virtually tied y t f this doesnt mean that board members arent obligated to trythis is difficult to do when dnethird didnt even bother to show up at last budget meeting absent were beverley breslow and bill munro of richmond hill john stephens and patti grand of markham craig cribar of newmarket and hector massey of kingj auroras norm weller never one to jwaste words drew attention to the empty chairs around the board table march 24 theres something wrong here he said and he was f so right the most important meeting from a taxpayers point of view in the entire year and six out of twenty missing perhaps for good reasons perhaps not in our opinion each absentee trustee owes his or her municipality an explanation to them the budget at that stage might have appeared filial a faitaccompli so to speak to others like- norm weller- and bill laird georgina it wasnt they spoke out against it but what of the missing sixsilence must mean consent r ninetysix million dbllarshmmm either it gave them a scare or theyjust dont care growth kefejping cdts down thetown ofmarkham has on several subject to tremendous pressure with on many occasions been criticized by nonresident occasions no alternative butto give in regional councillors and this newspaper for however theres a positive sideone that failing to restrict growth to whafwould seem all too often is ignored by those resentful of to be a reasonablelimit because of massive change markham is growing residentially build-up- great sums of money have been thats true but it is also growing industrially sugar and spice solving the eikerj fj bybiisrriilevl everybody talks about the energy crisis buf nobody does anything aboutit in point of fact as we say in this game expended so that services such as schools and commercially and becauseour southern s not sure of eitherour pointor our roads andvecreation can keep pace r neighbors are enjoying great industnal cts precious few people knowwhat a crisis some of these funds have come from growth the region as a whole is benefitting f regional coffers and quite naturally resent- j ment surfaces when so much money is ear niarkd v that direction r v mii rural representatives derstand markhams situation jmetro torontos doorstep just the other day i went down- to the licence office and paid sixty dollars for the privilege of driving a large lump of rusting metal about polluting the countryside i told r the girl that if shed give me the 60 back and add three hundred she could have the put a governor on every car so that it couldnt go- over 30 miles an hour id ground every aircraft on a pleasure flightand tie up every ocean liner dittos id issue an edict that subsidized lohgjohns and fine every household wuvmc rvckiuu a w benefitting i v add three hundred she could have the car- caught with itstemperature labove 60 degrees admittedly regional- costs are uo con- asanowenglishteacheriknowacnsis sherefused and i dont blame her t v of course iqexpecta cadillac and a jet jiuui- pirxiri x f lsatuniingdointthatoccursinasfnrvor nlav s vtho itiiixintiofti xontnrv ic lin i t-o- liner and a power cruiser to transport me about on my yarious7jiefarious duties teens need to be ehallehged the lionssponsored bikeathon has been cancelled danger to participants has been cited asone reason there are others the most obvious being a lack of challenge bikes being wha hey are today twenty twentyrfive and e n thirtymiles is really no challenge at all proof of that was the fact one entrantwent around the route twice i mostkids and some adults like to be tested tothem doing the impossible is fun anything less is albore and thats what the bikeathon had become a bore so very few bothered to take part however t desire to be challenged remains in some other form that is why the v lions or i another service organization should come up with something t different even difficult anything that will inspire young folks ahdolder to give it their best with so many young and old on the run these days why not a jogathon or if that 1 seems too tough bring back the walkathons that proved so popular a decade ago r aside from the moneyraising end theres y something to be said for community in- v6lvementbut first the community must be challenged to get involved j ohjjlithely in our unfounded assurance that we could always bewarm at the turifdf aswitckalways be cool at the turn gas and drive twice as much as we used to we buy wood stoves at wild prices andfirewood at even wilder we talk moreabout unem- of another kill each other in- steadily- in- creasihgnumders ontlie mgjiways- tearv- resear around ohbsats and motorcycles arid- jse ftingb v snowmobilesfly7to the far corners l the- i earth for a comparative pittancejand so oh- the garden of eden smelling of oiland j poisoning the ozone what a collection of nincompoops and i do mean the poops part of it s 11 i it became acrisis when theayrabs came to theirjserlsesgot us by the short arid curly and began to twist even then itwasjiporis like a bad dream than reality our brilliant political leaders assured us that iherewas plenty for everybody for another twenty or ten or thirty or fiftyfyears- depejtdirig6n whether or not x they were in power j7 ii so everybody bought a second fampy car i or a new cruiser to hell with our grand children leathern freeze in the dark the great oi companies with their conglomerates that isell everything from condoms a nylons kept mum and i dont mean they- maintained mother 2 every time some backroom genius came up with an invention that proved you could run a car forty miles onfaith hope and spit they gave hirria million bucks for the patent and told him to disappear quietly theyswere joined in the conspiracy of ysilence by the vast motbrcar companies so powerful they caiidictateto governments a these corporate citizens know andjuiew ldngj ago that theyxwere deliberately burning up the worlds huge energy reserves did they care not as long asrthe profits held up i j if there is any historyof- this time twentietlfcentury man will be looked on by the higher species that evolves in about the sameway welook upon the dodo bird a- creature too stupid to survive v f i we are all so welleducated and literate that wehavea school system churning out seniiliterates who will breed vigorously and producesemimorons f v we have a greedy gluttonous society that gobbles up all the useless things it produces and still cant find enough jobs for the people in it to lead a lie of reasonable dignity i could go on and on as you well know but i must get down to brassfacts- and propose sonie solutions hereithey are theres no use going to the politicians they are infefested in votes- not principles- wneed a dictator ohi dont mean some megalomaniac like hitler or mussolini just a nicex kindly benevolent dictator a sort of mafialike donof the oldschool softspoken i but in charge his first move would be to call in his v boys and gently suggest the elimination of all politicians school administrators economists and driig pushers so thatvyesr could start ona clean sheet 7 i dont mean elimination in the crude way the politicians would have to raise personally every cent they promised to spendthe school administrators would be assignedseven grade 9 classes a day and lunch supervision- the economists would be r seritenced to twenty years of arithmetic and thedrugpushers would beimpaled on sharps stakes at high noon every wednesday jj then hed appointome commissioners to- get things cleared upvifordnewould be willing toacceptthe onerous chores of energy commissioner r i wouldnt be unduly harsh id just have collected and burned every snowmobile power boat and motorcycle in the country id public alwavs welcome uf i i what a difference a week makes yu what a difference a week makes a few oiobnfnn cyeekin thetcenbre of ouftviilewasaraging torrenw with water -coming- within two feet of the top of the bank nowjts back to normal with the spring raniff over joann thompson n by john stephens v york county board of education trustee the policymaking body of the york county board of education is the board of 20 trustees elected by ratepayers within the varioushiunicipalities of york regies i the implementation of policy and all v administrative work isdone by ad- muiistfative staff under the direction and- supervision of the director of education who is alsosectetarytreasurer cf the board v annually the trustees elect frpmamong themselves a chairmaharki a vicechairman who together with the past chairman form v the- 1 chairmans committee- a kind of executive committee off the board but not quite that powerful fx the duties of s chairman are not well set out but they are basically to preside at meetings and monitor things generally for a trustees t vc f y w can be iimitingin that when the chairman wishes tospeak to a motion the chairman mustsfep out of the chair and allow the vicechairman to preside board meetings are divided into two sections one an incamera committee meeting of the wholediscusses such things as land acquisition personnel matters disciplinary items and negotiations in due course actions taken to the extent they cn be r revealed are reported in public all other board business issupposed to be carried on in public in discussions at board meetings at which only the trustees are allowed to debate although staff may be asked for information f i provision is made for delegations to come to the board arid its standing committees i because the board agenda is usually so packed- discussion vis k limited by time i therefore to ensure matters are thoroughly investigated bytrustees arid more time is available for -discussion- the board has established four standing committeesand two required bystatutev- j- iltsffpitjrfmbrepeopledont attend meetings of the board or its committees rae mcfadden baker ayenuestouffville if the program involves young people itsasafe bet that rae mcfadden baker avenuei stouffville is a participant since coming to town in 1959rnuch of his free becnspehtwith children or projects involving children fqrexainple he was an energetic orker within the stouffville minor hockey association- serving in many capacities including house league manager statistician and timekeeper for two seansrheeoached apeewee softball team v was committee chairman and secretary of the stouffville drum and bugle corps was a member of the group committee with 1st stouffville scouts and cubs chairman of the youth education committee within the stouffville branch of the canadian legion sunday school superintendent anda teacher at the stouffville united church secretary v of camp big canoe association chairman of the canadian legions district track and field committee 47 branches and district chairman of the boy scout association rae is a past president of the stouffville legion a former secretary and chairman- of yinany- committees hes served as the zone e2 commander of the legion 11 branches and has assisted wiwthepppy fund including the position of chairman rae served with the rcajf during world war ii and recently retired as an instructor in the meteorogical branch of environment canada raejjs proud of his family that includes two sons tom with the fire- department in calgary john a detective sglwith the calgary police department and arlene a registered nurse on the staff of foothills hospital also in calgary he has three grandchildren and hopes to see thcraall when heand his wife travel west this summer its because of people like rae mcfadden whitcharchstodffvilles a better place in which to live x- i l 1 t v 4 v 4