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a16 tribune march 11 1987 policy change stouffville changes to the municipalitys rural land farm severance policy were to come up before town council for final approval tuesday night planning advisory commit tee members have recom mended the official plan be modified to read a retire ment severance from a viable farm operation will be allowed only for a bona fide farmer as determined by council at the end of his or her active working life existing provisions had per mitted only one severance per 50 years prompting council lors to recently call for more flexible and liberal rules whitchurchstouffvilles planning committee also sug gested a parking reserve fund be reestablished in town a contribution in lieu of parking for commercial and industrial developments has been set at 1000 per parking space pending council approval in other business rate payers opposed to a proposed official plan amendment re lated to a markhambased book publishing firms in tended move to whitchurch- stouffville will meet to dis cuss their concerns with with the proponent sometime in april fitzhenry and whiteside li mited wants to relocate its op eration to part of an environ mentallysensitive 55acre property at the southwest cor ner of woodbine avenue and bloomington road offers management advice executive worried about towns future whitchurch a promin ent whitchurchstouffville busi ness executive is so concerned with the towns recent state of municipal affairs he wants to share his managerial expertise to help ensure a brighter future nick tatone who lives with his wife and two children on vandorf road west of mcco- wan contacted the tribune in an effort to air his views on how to curb what he views as stouff- villes gradual decline he has been following the municipal scene closely mainly by reading newspapers and said he has noticed re cently that councillors arent working as a team or displaying the necessary qualities of lead ership i see the failing signs and i dont want to see them the ward 1 resident said i really love the town and i dont want to see it fail i want to see it man aged properly so that my kids can live here according to his analysis of the situation there are three major problems 1 residents have no faith in council 2 morale is low among council lors 3 council is failing to car ry out decisions that control the towns future recent signs of a breakdown include a lack of leadership in the mayors chair and a sense of frustration and discontent among councillors the rate payer claimed addingthetown also lacks future strategic plans and goals and has no participa tive management failure to listen fear of change and lack of communica- tion were listed as three univer sal causes of the problems he identified as a manager employed by a large hightech company the 36yearold tatone said the municipality can be much more effective if run like a business and he believes a council posi- tion involves people- management just like in the corporate world its a great little town weve got to sell it according to the fouryear resident of rural stouffville while he doesnt want his comments taken as an attack on mayor fran sainsbury its apparent he does have some real difficulties with how the town is being governed mr tatone said he may one day decide to run for office him self but stressed that political aspirations were not the moti vating factor in his going public hes even willing to volunteer some of his time to teach vouth classes at stouffville dist secondary school on such topics as excellence in business pre paring for a job interview and future changes in our lives the businessman is also writ ing a book on success and excell ence involving many of the same principles he applies in analysis of the town municipal system mr tatone has taken time to list most of his thoughts about whitchurchstouffville in high lystructured written form some of his key suggestions on how the town of whitchurch- stouffville can get back on track include must have a leader who lis tens can adapt to change and can communicate at any level create an environment where residents become strong participants show management energy to set and move to achieve new objectives create organizational cli mate and allow staff to be con cerned with multiple factors and how they relate to new goals or the towns strategic plans enter into strategic plan councils analysis on business growth people industry etc vandorf road resident nick tatone is concerned about how whitch- urchstouffvilles municipal representatives are going about their duties a prominent businessman with possible political aspirations i he has volunteered his own management expertise to help ensure the i town enjoys a bright future winter weatuerune whir spoil safe planning of your winter travel is worth a small investment heading north for a mere 75 cents you need only dial one number for the most recent and useful weather information new and expected snow conditions forecast weather conditions 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