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voie 9, No. 45 Wednesday, November 7,< 1979 28 Page. Boy Found Not Guilty Mfter delberating for .2 houri, the jury lias fowid the 15 year old juvenile not guilty by reason of in- sanlty In the. murder of Whltby ichool girl Kathleen Wels. The juvenle wlll h taken to thie Oakridge Mental Health Center i Penetnuse. The defence attorney Terry Elly nid it was the only verdict the jury coWzd have reached as three psychlatrist nid lie was Insane under the deflultion of the criminal code. Despite the verdict the boy's name and the evidence cannot ho released. Kaàthleen WeLs murder case... Juvendle pleads fot guit y The 15 year old juvenile accused. in, the murder of Whitby scliool g ail Kathleen Wels pleaded flot guilty hofore Supreme Court Judge Gregory Evans i the Ontario Supreme Court i Whitby on Monday. Prior to thé jury'seélection,'the judge warned the mem- bers of the.açoMof4* zilaJ~Cd states that tli name df the accusèd nor any of the evidence can ho made public. Defense lawyer Terry. Key told-the court that his client' was fit to stand trial. î Earlier Monday, the juvenile appeared before Provincial Court Judge Donald B. Dodds where lie was ordered to stand trial. Earlier Monday, the juvenile appeared before Provincial Court Judge Donald B. Dodds wbere lie was ordered to stand trial. Kathleen Wels was found dead on July 2 on an unused portion of Garden Street where she had been Jogging. Miss Wels was recently awarded 'the grade il mathematlcs prize at Anderson C ollegiate, posthumously. .The accused was arrested 10 days after the murder. Earlier the Juvenile had been charged in juvenile court but subsequently bad bis -case moved hi, adult court. It is obvious where this merdhants opinion lies. This sign was found outside Garrow Automobile 'on Dundas Street ,Est., Community ivolvement from merdhants makes ita hot- ter place hi, live. Dave Garrow, the owner of Garrow is tlinked by the Free Press for bis support on the bus issue. Unfortunately, *Mr. Garrow was unavailable for com- menta at press time. Free Press Photo by Mike KnelI Regon oses $60OO surplus -Emm By MICHAEL KNELL Free Press Staff Althougl it seems in- vevitable,' regional taxes Winl go up i 19 according hio Whltby Reglonal Coun- cillor Gerry Emm., he increase i Emm's opinion, however, wlll only cover the icreased coots that the region lias hi psy. Ini a report hi tthe reglonal finance eommlttee (that Emm sits on)-from Finance Commisioner J.L. Gartley, the staff have proposed a ten wr cent impact on the average taxpayer provldlng there.- is an asseasment growh 0fthreeper cent &ring the same perod. lii reortgivus W«or mation oùt budget guldelines ~budget calendar for both the capital and current budgets snd, appclfles the Impact oni < le average taxpayer. Of the. $18,872,2W0 that reglonsi taxpayers will bave hi, psy next, 'year, !$1,0,90M Ie directly sttrlbut.d thinh- flation. Emm nays that it- is probably that there will ho a net taxInhcrease 4"serais the board" and that "the least we can do (reglonal gover- nment) la to keep it (the in- crease) below tbe inflation rate."9 Gartley'î report detailed' seven projects undertaken by the reglon that added substantliîally hi the inerease in Costa. Ibe Lleet, amount of *708,000 was spent for the police department .expan- sion ito the nortliern areas 0f the region that will i- clude the hirlng of 13 con- stables and two civillans hi man the facillty. This ares la presently patrolled by the Ontario, Provincial Police (OPP).- A 13.6 per cent inerease i the welfare caseload, a sâub- sldy iortfaU 'and tean- nualizatio f'staff hlred in 1979 lias. added. $«9,M00 h the, Costi',0f the. social er- vices departmnent. The roadi, development charge' levy reserve fund had a *24,000ý decrease i fundig due hi lower than expected contributions in 1979. There was a $M4,000 decrease in the anticipated operating surplus because of a restrictive 1979 budget. There were several other programs, projects and ex- penditures in 1979 that arnounted thi $742,000 i inw- creased costs. Ini the report Gartley naid that "4wlile a tan per cent target impact may appear hi ho h1gb, it sliould be recognized, that regional departments have sea- comodated a three per cent budget target for two con- secutive years(that is, tliey ony-reMeved tbree pier cent moemoney to run their departnits) and even, ,meeting ýthe prnosedex- penditure' target of, .2 per eut (the actual amowlt 0f increased funding available hi' each , departinent), resultlng from the tan par cent target, will ho dif- ficult." Gartley also suggested in the report that if regional couneil sets an increase of lois than the proposed ten per cent, one or more major programs wod bave hi ho dropped. E-mm snid that the $640m,00 operatig surplus that the reglon at the end of 1978 does not eist because of the inflationar spiral. "Vie don't have a surplus i 1979", Emm snys although hle believes that the proposW edtn per cent Im- pact should ho reduced by oniepit "We have got hi look for ways hi keep our costs down," lie says. Emm nays that the region is caughit hte middle of i-' flationary prics and the demand hi keep the -impact on taxpayers down. Although hle snid that the reglon wlll fot ho runnng at a deficit this year, everything linges on whetber the area lias a tlire per cent growtb in assessment. r A.,merchant-forbus À Bus s urvey 775,s-a-y y-' esý 20 say noý survey vvrap-up next week