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weekender july- 3 1 1993 p3 iii h a ft 4 a a or recession from page 1 director dr ed meade tuesday the local family services centre had provided profes sional counselling and education programs to hun dreds of distressed stouffville residents for the past three years but funding cutbacks from sources including the united way have made it increasingly more difficult to run the 25000ayear operation the united way contribution was helpful but inade quate to meet essential needs of the centre dr meade stated the centres stouffville employees including one administrator and two counsellors will now be integrated into the 500person markham centre locat ed at hwy 7 and hwy 48 although the markham centre will continue to offer the same service to stouffville residents organizers predict many will find it inconvenient if not impossi ble to make the trip this shut down is a very embarrassing thing but what allows me to sleep a lit tle at night is the fact that similar services are pro vided at markham stouffville hospital black said the local centre which helped counsel about 200 troubled children during the past several years has depended on such organizations as united way local lions and kinsmen clubs music mania churches and local industry two of a kind photobruce stapley shaun and andy caramanico both shot holesinone this week see bruce stapleys from where i live at separate golf courses the chances of a father and son hitting golfs premier shot is so remote the pair might consider buying some lottery tickets police win design award for cruisers york regional police took sec ond place at a worldwide cruis er design competition more than 530 law enforce ment agencies from around the world entered photos in the 1993 international police vehi- cle design contest york region placed second in the category for agencies out side the united states the cruiser was evaluated on its practicality the image it pro- jects how it enhances safety and its ability to quickly identi fy the agency and its communi ty local cruisers are fitted with red reflective pinstriping and decorated with the forces crest the canadian flag and the motto deeds speak the first place award went to a police association from que bec and third place was award ed to the shanghai public secu rity bureau of the peoples republic of china york region const trevor hanko of planning services pre pared the contest entry and the photo was taken by john jacobs of the forensic identifi cation bureau julie caspersen ly will nna it inconvenient u not impossi- iocai industry stouffville prepares to slash 354000 i threeyear plan ffrnm nane h from page 1 the towns chief administra tive officer merlin dewing said the local target will still allow the town to function and main tain its current levels of ser vice and said the exercise pro moted an atmosphere of team work within the town heres a few of the 12sieps the town plans to take to achieve its target to shave 354000 from its budget in the next three years target plan estimated annual savings threeday shut down each year 37500 deferral of cost of living increase allowances 49000 no merit increases beyond job rate 84500 cancelling council meal allowance between meetings 3000 not filling secretary position in planning department 38800 collecting on building inspections contractual work 6000 collecting ogjotgrading inspections for infilling lots and subdivisions savings on engineering costs j 40000 site plan control agreement reviews and inhouse inspections savings on engineering costs 30000 york meets deadline tracy kibble staff reporter after a fourhour marathon meeting in newmarket thursday regional politicians finally signed agreements with 250 nonunion employees in order to meet ontarios aug 1 social contract deadline in order to deal with nearly 4 million in annual grant reductions starting this year and continuing to 1996 york was forced to outline an expenditure redrj tion plan including salary and benefit reductions for nonunion employ ees as part of the social contract leg islation ontario has ordered the region to slice 14 million from its salary and benefit package which prevents the region from hiring 25 new employees already approved through the 1993 budget yorks chief administrative officer bob forhan says the entire system is extremely unfair and hard to manage as it involves too many unionized and nonunionized sec tors which are being treated dif ferently according to previous col lective agreements forhan said ontarios plan wipes out every union agree ment ratified before the social contract negotiations took place he said york region the fastest growing area in the province is being especially hard hit by ontarios reduction plan because it already receives the lowest grants per capita than any other region yorks municipal grant reductions amount to nearly 1 million this year but taxpayers wont feel the loss until 1994 offi cials said we hope people dont feel the crunch we hope that by being more efficient we will achieve most of these demands through other means other than tax increases forhan said he added the social contract leg islation and the provinces munici pal grant reduction plan means a system change that york will have to accept and deal with from hereon in we dont expect these grants to ever return instead we have to plan which services should be pro vided and which should be cut its a hammertothehead situation but we have to agree forhan said although yorks newly- signed nonunion agreements called for no layoffs upfront forhan warned operational re structuring to meet nearly 8 mil lion in social contract reductions during the next three years could result in future permanent lay offs- meanwhile yorks police ser vices board faced with 14 mil lion in cuts for 1993 was widely criticized for not looking further into expenditure control initia tives to help meet regional grant reductions in a letter to council this week the police board said while it could reduce 458000 from its 1993 operations budget the remaining 983000 would only result in laying off 76 officers the board requested council to find other means to absorb the reductions because it is not pre pared to absorb such losses with in its budget an appeal is expect ed a resolution was passed to accept the framework plan which could be amended depending on the economic cli mates of 1994 and 1995 o connor speaks out on go cuts mpp larry oconnor brought the plight of go transit riders in uxbridge and stouffville to the ontario legislature this week after explaining how com muters were protesting cuts to the uxbridgetoronto bus service oconnor said i want members of the legis lature to realize how go transit decisions in dealing with the expenditure con trol plan have impacted on my constituents many of these residents will be mov ing away from these areas after investigating go ser vices that have been stolen from them my constituents hot only want to help go transit but theyve put together a riding profile theyve put together alternatives and i hope the go transit offi cials will take these into serious consideration the statement was recorded in hansard design wins award york regional police recently won second place in a worldwide cruiser design con test the familiar design place behind a quebec cruiser kids earn extra money become a carrier today call 6402100 stouffville smmmimmmmm i m ii i i w if m m ii i 1 m m attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers tor as little as 4 a piece so far this i year we have delivered 17461899 flyers doortodoor in i markham unionville milliken stouffville uxbridge i claremont dickson hill locust hill gormley goodwood victoria square brougham hagerman corners box grove i cedar grove buttonville sandford goodwood leaskdalej greenbank udora sunderland zephyr ashburn cannington and all adjacent rural route areas we can deliver your flyers on the day you want to the area you 1 want any quantity from 5000 to 46000 for 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