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markham council in brief town seeks 3 million for roads and bridges weekender november 15 1986 p3 markham council voted tues day to seek more than 3 million in interim payment from the pro vince for roads and bridge con struction done this year the town is eligible for the pay ment under the public trans portation and highway improve ment act for work done between january and september according to figures calculated by the town it spent 490000 on roads construction and 24 mil lion on maintenance almost 200000 was spent on bridge con struction and maintenance library given extra money a successful plea by markham chief librarian judy hare tues day resulted in an additional 575000 being awarded for the thornhill library expansion pro ject council voted to provide the re lief funding for renovations and a building addition at the library af ter little discussion its very clear to us that there are a good number of problems in the building that wont go away unless renovated she told council the project includes a 9400 sq ft expansion and extensive re novations for the existing building vironmental awards committee resigned officially tuesday from his post william mathison chief ex ecutive officer of torontos har risons and crosfield had his res ignation approved by council with regrets at the meeting the committee awards local businesses for attractive building designs and upkeep in the com munity mr mathison would have held his post until april 1988 dance school provincial shoe doesnt fit town resignation back in swing is submitted a member of markhams en- whitchurchstouffville neglected property subject of bylaw a new property standards bylaw will give the town of whitchurchstouffville power to clean up unsightly properties throughout the municipality the bylaw came up for discus sion tuesday afternoon when chief building official bruce arrowsmith presented a draft re port to the towns protection to persons and property committee committee chairman ron robb said he feels these property stan dards are necessary to deal with residents who refuse to properly maintain their properties i dont think the purpose of this bylaw is to nail every tom dick and harry mr robb said but there are some people who neg lect their property and bring down the value of their neighbors property some people wont comply and if they wont this will make them comply the ward 2 coun cillor added mr robb and other committee members noted that theyve re ceived recent complaints about untidy stouffville properties all of which would fall under the jurisdiction of the new bylaw mr arrowsmith will serve in the capacity of property stan dards officer to enforce the bylaw when its enacted by council no person shall occupy or use any property that does not con form to the standards set forth in this bylaw according to the draft document any person being the owner of property that does not conform is hereby re quired to cause the same to be re paired and maintained or for the site to be cleared of all structures debris or refuse and left in a graded and levelled condition wro looks great what i dont finish tonight ill use to paint the porch tomorrow dance teacher sylvia heavener was officially allowed back into her bullock dr dance studio tuesday by markham council council passed two motions to allow her legal occupancy after she was evicted by owner dome- nicrealilast month for infraction of a zoning bylaw one vote issued a letter of tolerance which allows her back in for 120 days while the other put into motion the bylaw amendment process needed to allow her permanent occupancy she is expected to be in per manently early next year customs at provincial equal pay for work of equal value legislation wont work in ontario munici palities says the association of municipalities of ontario amo and in response to its posi tion markham council tues day joined other ontario towns in petitioning the provincial government for separate pay equity legislation in municipa lities according to the amo the proposed legislation is de signed with provincial public service employees in mind and is off base in including munici palities regional councillor bud bonner agrees and says he doesnt think its a concern because markham already meets proposed provincial guidelines under union agree ments with its employees most town of markham em ployees are members of the canadian union of public em ployees cupe and are already bound to specific wage brackets under its collective agreement councillor bonner said he added that wages are paid for specific jobs in the town despite the gender of the employee our position is already stated in the fact that we signed bud bonner markham councillor union agreements said councillor bonner wednesday under the proposed legisla tion municipalities school boards hospitals universities and colleges would be in cluded a brief submitted to council by the amo states that bill 105 was tailored to fit the needs and structure of the provincial public service and not other groups local airport no conflict here markham council tuesday en dorsed a request from buttonville airport operator toronto air ways for onsite customs and bonded warehouse privileges the request from toronto air ways chief executive officer richard rohmer came on the heels of a similar request to national revenue minister elmer mackay this certainly is going to be something very badly needed for the business and local commun ity said councillor gord landon whitchurchstouffvilles recent discussion about conflict-of- interest insurance coverage wasnt all serious business when the matter came up at a council meeting tuesday ward 5s wilf morley jokingly said he just assumed hed receive a finan cial helping hand if he were to en counter problems over an alleged conflict that seems to be apropos to day he chuckled in obvious re ference to the legal aid offered former industry minister sinclair stevens mr stevens former cabinet colleagues have decided to pro vide up to 350000 in tax dollars to assist with expenses accumulated during a lengthy inquiry into con- flictofinterest allegations against the yorkpeel mp whitchurchstouffville council okayed a oct 28 finance and administration committee report bugeting 50000 conflict-of- interest insurance for each coun cillor 24hour ambulance is still in the works by chris shanahan staff reporter whitchurchstouffville is con tinuing to investigate the possibil ity of extending its ambulance service aroundtheclock the towns protection to per sons and property committee re cently received correspondence from byran clarke of the minis try of healths ambulance ser vices branch the letter responding to an ear lier town inquiry as to whether the local ambulance service would come up for tender stated that it will remain under private operation until a new method for contracting of ambulance ser vices is evaluated the combined stouffville- uxbridge unit is funded by the health ministry but is presently run by whitby ambulance ser vice committee chairman ron robb said at a meeting tuesday that he favors a callback or standby system that would see stouffvil- les present 16hour service ex tended to cover the period be tween midnight and 8 am when stouffville ambulance workers go off duty at midnight local emergency calls are co vered by other area services until 8 am but mr robb said hed like to see the towns own ambulance personnel man the station through the night or at least be available oncall i just believe that stouffville is growing at such a rate that we have to seriously look at it ex plained councillor robb who is employed as a fulltime firefigh ter it seems to me the really se rious calls are between midnight and 8 am chief brown explained that if a markhambased ambulance isnt available to respond to an early- morning call here an emergency vehicle may have to travel all the way in from metro j f ft 1 jeff marcellys 1 we deliver we can deliver your flyers for as 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