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st weekender january 23 1993 p3 budget deficit town asks iwa to pay leftover 32800 dump debt tracy kibble staff reporter the towns mayor wants to erase whitchurchstouffvilles entire dump fight debt from the books before budget day and is asking queens park to help her do it sainsbury won regional support jan 14 in a bid to separate local fundrais- ing efforts from yorks payback scheme which would compensate 50 per cent of the towns 73363 deficit sainsbury argued the towns 8218 fundraising efforts shouldnt be deduct ed from the total bill before york calcu lated the amount it would reimburse but that still leaves whitchurch- stouffville with a 32800 deficit a debt local tax bills will likely reflect if not cleared up before budget day sainsbury said this dump fight left us with a deficit and we cant afford it nor did we expect it the costs were dropped on our laps the mayor said and although sainsbury is apprecia tive that york region is paying 50 per cent of the towns deficit she said local taxpayers shouldnt be stuck with one penny of the money spent to keep a dump from stouffvilles doorstep the region has so far taken more than 130000 from its 20million keele valley reserve fund to pay half of each of the six municipalities dump fees but york officials say the reserve account is quickly dwindling and want the interim waste authority iwa to replace the reimbusements given to municipal taxpayers under the provin cial participant funding scheme thats not fair sainsbury says she believes the region should be second in line to collect paybacks from the iwa after the municipal taxpayers have been freed of all debt first sainsbury said yorks reserve account doesnt affect taxes since its used as a savings account for landfill and related purposes local debts incurred last summer on the other hand have put municipali ties in the red and will directly affect 1993 tax bills sainsbury said but york officials argue keeles 20- million balance wont even come close to the amount needed to build a land fill site for yorks trash chairman eldred king has said it could cost the region more than 100 million to build a longterm landfill site before metro trash is even con sidered for burial he said halton region has already spent 80 million for a 4million tonne capacity site york residents dump 20 million tonnes of trash in keele valley each year reports show the mayor is sending a letter to iwa officials this week in hopes to convince the provincial crown corporation that municipal taxpayers should be paid back before a regional reserve account its a drop in the bucket for the iwa to pay back municipalities she said the letter drafted by town enginee tom parry requests money for the town before consideration is given to york region metro toronto f ripping off york region taxpayers in trash fees politicans say tracy kibble staff reporter white on phouvstevesomerville finance guru dr jerry white spoke at the chamber of commerce dinner at spring lakes golf and country club last week york region municipalities are getting ripped off in tip ping fee costs imposed by metro toronto several politicians charged in newmarket recent- ly metro works department runs and operates the vaughanarea keele valley landfill site which takes trash from metro and york since 1988 the regions municipalities have enjoyed tipping fee rebates based on the difference between the gross tipping fee and the actual system cost determined by metro but newmarket mayor ray twinney accused metro of exaggerating its operating costs and passing the inflated price onto york taxpayers theyre really sticking it to us we cant let metro push us around twinney said metro left york with a 45 million tab last year when it reneged on a deal to reimburse the region in promised rebates the regions municipalities had based their waste manage ment budgets on a 112-a- tonne rebate but were told metro would only give back 84 a tonne that put yorks municipalities in a financial crunch which was temporarily corrected when the region reimbursed each town from its keele valley fund york hopes to collect the difference from metro tipping fees and sticking the losses to york taxpayers yorks waste engineer neil embree is currently drafting a revised agreement with metro to firm up yorks position cao bob forhan said metro has been very receptive to yorks demands this year more than most and we all know why that is said forhan sos takes ditterence from metro in plfrjf l a attempts to prove the city jlhltt zo ooclvcl reneged on a signed agreement the rebate shortfall left markham with a 1 million shortfall whitchurch-stouf- fville behind 190000 and newmarket at 440000 twin ney said i thought we were going to take these people on it doesnt take as much to operate keele valley as they say twinney added officials believe metro is losing money each year in education sdss examines possibilities for future bruce stapley correspondent stouffville district secondary school sdss opened its doors to the community tuesday night as part of a campaign tp help chart the schools future the approximately 50 invited guests pointed to an expanded coop program a strengthened liaison between the community and the school and better use of community resources as being essential for the school to thrive nine focus groups consist ing of parents members of the business community ciergy and school officials submitted a total of 143 suggestions as to how sdss could better interact with the community the visitors were asked to list ideas they would like to see stopped started or continued at the school they were then asked to answer three ques- tionst 1 how is sdss perceived by our community 2 how can sdss interact with the community to increase 3 how can the community interact with sdss to increase student learning some of the guests used the forum to express their concerns over such issues as students clogging traffic on edward st the school working in isolation from the community and the teaching of unrealistic materi als sdss principal alan dick son started off the evening by outlining his future commit tees plan to restructure the schools approach to education over the next 10 years the community is going to start to come into the schools said dickson whos committee also includes sdss viceprincipal jay hooper guidance head doug mccammon and teachers diane patterson and jan percy we want to begin to involve you in the collection of data dickson said afterwards he thought the night had been a huge success it was a positive evening there were some naysayers but we feel the only worthwhile change is popular change grass roots change now that we have this data we jsjs look for key elements which once acted upon will encourage many new activities to flow patterson who is in charge of compiling the data said certain super themes emerged from the discussion we were told to do more that is realitybased get more kids into the coop programs and to keep the com munity informed as to what is going on in the school said patterson the session was the latest in the committees yearlong con sultations which had previous ly included staff students sec retaries custodians techni cians and police concerns identified in prior meetings included student assessment methods the nutri tional value of food offered in the school cafeteria community interaction interactive learning the use of mentors from the community and work ing with elementary teachers to help ease the transition from elementary to high school dickson said the community members would be consulted again after his committee had finished documenting the data received tuesday night he said his committee was deter mined to implement the changes deemed necessary by the community representa tives we want to use this informa tion to enhance the climate for learning and the quality of edu cation he said from page 1 newmarket taxpayer jorma ponka launched an attack on teachers salaries as the cause of the 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