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should be sending anything said georgina mayor rob grossi there shouldnt be transfers between municipalities according to provincial rules set out in 1998 social housing and some wel fare costs are pooled from municipal taxes across the gta the money then goes toward fund ing social services programs in toronto in 2005 york region taxpayers were on the hook for 867 million to go toward those programs but the region balked and paid only 817 million resulting in a 5 million shortfall this year the shortfall from the 908 million the province is asking for equals 66 million york taxpayers have been forced to contribute a total of more than 650 million since the pooling scheme was introduced by the conservative govern ment the province could withhold provincial grants to york as a penalty for the regions refusal to pony up the pool ing money said richmond hill mayor bill bell toronto sent a letter to the region last month saying it could get hit with penalties if it doesnt pay up ms hoy wrote regional councillors to formally notify york it had payments outstanding she also wrote that toron to would seek relief from the province if the cash remained outstanding hell that kind of money in one year we could operate the town of aurora for four years based on what york sends to toronto but she also stated in her letter toronto sympathized with york the city shares the view that contin ued funding of income redistribution programs from the property tax base is not appropriate she wrote neverthe less up to now the province has been reluctant to make the necessary legisla tive changes to upload social housing and social assistance and although the money gets col lected in york taxpayers here have no say in what happens to the money once it leaves regional coffers its taxation without representa tion mr bell said nobody gives the region an accounting of how the cash gets spent it doesnt belong on the property tax base the province should be doing this so where does the region go from here on the issue i dont know mr bell said the province is starting to rattle its chains but i dont know where were going and torontos pretty good the louder they whine the more they seem to get york regions refusal to pay the pool ing money shortfall was a deliberate attempt to draw attention to how unfair the funding scheme is said aurora mayor tim jones hopefully that refusal to pay will help get the province to rethink an arrangement that sees between 80 mil lion and 90 million of york regions tax dollars go to toronto each year he said hell that kind of money in one year we could operate the town of aurora for four years based on what york sends to toronto the mayor said in the letter written last month ms hoy gave the region until feb 22 to make the payment however regional chairperson bill fisch has said it has not been paid and has instructed staff to report to council in may what toronto could do legally to force payment funny wi1ty exciting imagine all your favourite 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