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st e strikes down and dirty tom vallarino gets close to the action at the recent ballantrae public school naturalistic planting held by robin fosters grade 8 class photouike huta and ancheril will lose seat by tracy kibble staff reporter police call for more help the police union has tossed a plea for more officers into the political arena the york regional police asso ciation is appealing to candi dates running for regional coun cil in the november municipal election to add public safety to election platforms i dont want one of my mem bers to get killed because of lack of backup said association president paul bailey he is call ing for 75 officers to be hired the force of 682 uniformed offi cers has not increased its strength since 1990 and bailey said just to keep up with the pop ulation growth in the region 75 more police should have been recruited by now he said if the population continues to soar an additional 25 cops will be needed by the end of 1995 because it takes a year to train a new recruit bailey wants the officers to be hired now regional councillors dont give a hoot about what he calls a shortage of police power were an overhead to regional govern ment bailey said appealing to the region and to the police ser vices board got the police union nowhere bailey said so hes turning to the electors to make public safety an issue for council lors running for reelection and residents vying for a council seat this is not a contractual thing this is not about money its a safety issue where is ward 5 councillor bob ancheril thats a question many of his constituents might be asking these days since the man they elected in 1991 seems to have dis appeared from the face of the whitchurchstoufrville political scene ancherips absence of late has left his constituents virtu ally without contact as he has left no phone number for the press or town staff town clerk michele skinner said ancheril has missed 1 12 months of consecutive meetings the halfway mark to having his seat declared permanently vacant skinner said under the municipal act councillors who miss three consecutive months of meetings regard less of how many regular meetings are held within the month will be asked to vacate their seat unless council passes a resolution waiving the right council usually only authorizes a waiver for missed meetings for sympathy rea sons such as a car accident family death and the like the end of his term is coming to a close and there will likely only be two more meetings i before the summer break the election follows i in november ancheril ward 5 residents with concerns or questions can call the town offices at 6401900 where staff will do their best to relay mes sages to ancheril when he calls the office skinner said no agreement with public hearings set for tuesday elementary teachers c5 j sj contract negotiations have and lasted until 9 pm s a gormley scrap metal opera tor wants to expand his cardico drive business to include an indoor recycling faculty and will appear before the town in a public hearing next tuesday the owner of black river scrap metal disposal ltd at 28 cardico drive has applied to have certain restrictions lifted from the industrial general zoning to allow the operation of an indoor dry recyclable mater ial processing facility as an additional use the threeacre property would remain in water control status however although the addition al use requires an amendment to the zoning the public hearing is sched uled for tuesday evening some time after 7 pm following a council in committee session anyone with comments or objections is urged to attend houses the property fronts on millard street with access from baker street and would require a zoning change to urban resi dential a public hearing will be held at council chambers on tuesday june 28 sometime after 7 pm the owner of an 86acre piece of land fronting on the west side of woodbine ave at cone 3 wants to use his property for a cemetery and will appear for a public hearing at the town offices on tuesday june 28 the amendment would change the zoning of his proper ty from rural to institutional to permit a cemetery and related uses such as a crematorium columbaria mausoleum chapel and a sales and service build ing anyone with concerns com ments or objections is urged to attend the meeting which will begin sometime after 7 pm contract negotiations have turned into a game of russian roulette for the public board and its teachers said the union president the york region board of education and its high school teachers failed to come to an agreement during a marathon bargaining session friday and saturday lynn johnston head of the ontario secondary school teachers federation said the fate of the contract is in the hands of an arbitrator who has been given the power to opt for either the board or the union offer its like russian roulette therell be a bullet for some one he said the weekend bar gaining session was the last chance the two sides had to hammer out a deal but they couldnt hurdle the roadblocks on the issues of pay for experi ence and pupilteacher ratio talks started at 10 am friday and lasted until 9 pm satur day mediator mort mitchnick called an end to the bargaining when it was clear a total accord was not in the works four areas remain unre solved he said and both sides will submit a final offer on each area three are procedural items while the fourth area includes ptr staffing cuts maternity plans and pay scales the final offer deadline is july 11 and both sides will defend their position at a midaugust hearing mitchnick will then choose either the board or the union offer for each of the four areas this is the first time in ontario that private mediation has been used to settle a dispute in the education sector the teachers have been with out a contract since august 31 1993 but a final agreement is expected to be in place before school starts in the fall the owner of a sevenacre institutionally zoned 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