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st tribune5 april ma993p3 soccer club wants 2000 fee waived tracy kibble staff reporter the stouffville soccer club cant ask last years players to pay 2000 in user fees and is asking the town to waive the bill alto gether local officials heard last week but taxpayers will have to pick up the tab if council forgives the 1992 rental fee for use of the towns facilities warned finance director ed blackburn blackburn said department heads have worked their budgets out to the penny and the 2000 will represent a revenue loss if officials excuse the soccer clubs 1992 tab if you waive this fee you are writing off a loss for the town for this year blackburn said but the town asked for 1992 fees too late to collect last year and the club cant go back and ask parents to pay for a retroactive fee said whitchurchstouffville soccer club president sal lombardo lombardo told officials the soccer club executive has no problem working the 2000 field time tab into this years registration fees but said its impossible to request 1992s participants to pay this year lombardo said the club received a letter after its season began last year but that no figure was discussed blackburn however said the club was notified more than once before the may 24th season began warning the fees would be col lected from the 1992 season lombardo said if the club is forced to charge the 2000 for 1992 the funds will be collected from the youth to pay adult user fees from last year council will make a decision on the matter at its next meeting after discussions with staff police york officials may centralize phones less than half the residents living in york know the police departments phone number and it should be simplified regional officials heard last week regional councillor carole bell told officials a 1991 survey undertaken by yorks police department shows 45 per cent of respondents knew how to quickly contact police this should be of some con cern to us the number now is difficult to remember and in a crisis its hard to remember even the simplest number bell said the councillor was referring to a public needs survey by the york region police to help the force enhance its service to the public the department mailed 1105 questionnaires in dec 1991 randomly selected from each of the nine area municipalities based on its population of the 1105 mailed 505 were returned representing a 45 per cent return rate officials said in a list of about 20 major findings in the 60page report one of the most prominent dis coveries pointed out that less than onehalf of the 505 respon dents knew their local york regional police telephone num ber bell said the local numbers are not simplified and are just too awkward to remember during a crisis she asked for support to have police chief bryan cousineau change the number even though the emergency 911 sys tem will be online next jan uary councillor gord landon a member of the 911 committee agreed it would be an oppor tune time to change the police phone numbers to one common nonemergency number set up for the entire region he said he would bring the issue up at the next 911 meet ing here are some of the other major findings in the public needs survey commissioned by yorks police force more than threequarters of respondents know where their local police facility is located people are greatly con cerned with crime in york region and nearly twothirds believe crime is on the increase in their neighborhood citizens are calling the police when they become aware of a crime twothirds of respondents stated police responded appro priately when a crime was reported careless driving and speed ing was the overwhelming con dition which posed a problem in the region twothirds of respondents are afraid to walk in their local parks at night tracy kibble blown fuse forces town evacuation an electrical problem at the town offices last week forced a tem porary evacuation while crews replaced a blown fuse in the towns air handler system about 40 people were asked to leave council chambers at about 7 pm lasttuesday after smelling a bad odor deputy fire chief murray emmerson said repair crews were called in to repair an electrical problem in the air system emmerson said the terrible odor and dimming lights were the result of a blown curcuit fuse which shut down part of the three- phase system the repairs took about 30 minutes before the public was all6wed back into the building hbbwbffiqib cyv 4 a w hf 38 -u- jiiiililg o atmk v r m 1 ft 1 3k- f fa hi ml i if fll v h 1 fraf iip issimpb j g f 1 v ml j k v m va jmev yr vj a ifik rv kb 0 i i 4 v im id s sh pt m s m ipipl i hands up photolori emmerson director sue- myers leads the cast of music mania opens april 22 and final preparations are under in a number at rehearsals on sunday the show way parents battle board over cuts from page 1 guidance staff means the loss of counselling time and the cut ting of reading recovery and peer mediation programs that helped to combat discipline problems we are disturbed by the repercussions that the proposed budget cuts will have at bal lantrae hoeller said both the principal and vice principal will be heading back to the classroom in the fall in order to provide services to our students and keep some of the services that are in placed school association vice presi dent janet king said you dont have to raise taxes just spend our money wisely said ballantrae parent judy walker leave our teachers where they are and allow them to con tinue to do what they know how to do best educate our children hoeller said director bob cressman resigns from page 1 1969 since 1981 cressman has stouffville lowest for seat belt use stouffville has the lowest number of people wearing their seatbelts in the area according to the ministry of transportation while the national rate if 87 per cent and the ontario rate is 84 per cent only 73 per cent of stouffvillites are buckling up according to reports out of the 23 fatal accidents investigated last year seven death were directly related to improper use of seatbelts provincial statistics show that unbelted drivers are 15 times more likely to be killed and five times more likely to be hospitalized than belted drivers it is also important to secure children in the car because they are 14 times more likely to be uninjured than unsecured children york region police are tak ing the statistics seriously they are going to be crack ing down on people who dont wear their seatbelts until april 18 they will be issuing warning tickets but on may 1 the warn ings are over and violators will receive the regular 90 tickets been seeing to the needs of the board its 66000 stu dents parents and staff for 12 years ive been making decisions for cressman other people he said this time its one for me a press releases states that cressman resigned tuesday evening from the post of director as he retires from active educational adminis tration effective june 30 1993 but cressman will remain on the board payroll for a year as an advisorconsul tant to the new director trustees delayed a budget committee meeting tuesday evening for nearly 90 min utes keeping 50 parents and nearly 20 staff members waiting in the board office foyer while they deliberated in private on the resignation and discussed contract terms when asked by reporters what the salary of the new director will be board chair bill crothers refused to release this information chair of the directorsearch committee karen barker would also not divulge the number of replies received for the position or how many applicants made it to the short list barker said she believes hogarth will emphasize coop eration with the community parents and students as the board launches its 10year strategic plan swsffmhsfflwwfflhwwiwsefflg kids earn extra money become a carrier today call 1 6402100 1 stouffville j i wmmmmmmmmmm attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 4 a piece so tar this year we have delivered 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