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Public meeting catled, By MARC VINCENT cel Brunelle tihe lack of prig traffic and and street enhancement Free Press Staff people at the meeting is peesrian circulation of thse downtown core. Whitby la about to not reflective of a iack in downtown Whitby and Tise construction will reeie owton of iiterest but rather a provide a street enhan- cost approximately faceift but nto nep 'confidence tisat the cernent program with $450,000 and is funded by peares lnterested in tise committees know what storefront im- the provincial gover- details of the plan. tisey are doing. . provemçnt. tnment under the Coni- At least tisat was tise "My impressions are Thse plan will take munitY Area lm- imresin ivn ihe we were doing about four years to provement Program, imptbsson gConcil' sometising wrong, we coniplete and is con- Wiitby Town Council WhibY ow Concils would have a hall full of sidered an initial step in and tise Business Im- administrative commit- people," said Edwards. making downtown provement Area, whicis tee, tise town planning Anotiser factor Wiitby a more pleasant is funded by local depatnto n d tise perisaps is thse plan is commercial shopping businessmen. provement Ares Board oniy a draft anid tisere is area.Th onwlpa caled metin an no another six weeks . Tise draft plan witis a about $165,000 and thse caned savme tngan-l before tise final recom- Perr tetprking lot BIA $60,O00witi tise rest onedl, sv e tWo mendations are made to bo bulîtSbyptise end of coming from boans, to divduls ssoedp. public. thîs year. tise BIA and tise council However, according Barring any Tise remaining three and provincial grants. to Reg. Coun. Tom Ed- problems, tise plan is years wil see recon- Tise streetscape uflrd0s andflaun. Mar- designed to improve struction of Byron St. enhancenient will in- VU1_ f L0. UaUUififarm"" Region ai politicians earn'ed $4799531 Members of Durhsam Regional Council cost tise taxpayer $479,531.47 in salaries and expense allowances during 1984. In a report table before council last Wed- nesday,- finance coni- missioner Jack Gartley noted tisat Durhsam Regional ciairman Gary.Herrerra was paid a sslary of $46,941 and incurred $4,684 in automobile expenses. Tise ciairman also spent $12,834 attending conferences and con- ventions on besaîf of -tise region. However, Uartley did pint out tisat as chair- màn'ý Herrema is provided with an automobile and is re- imfbursed on a different basis ý,tin . egional councillors. Mayor Bob Attersley was paid $15,315 for being a member of regional council in 1984. Tisis l in addition to iss salary of $25,130.82 ise received as Wiitby's ciief magistrate. Altisougis Attersley did not dlaim any ex- penses as a. regional counillor last year, he was re-imbursed $500 in expenses incurred as cisairman of tise Durhsam Regional Police Commission. It sisould be pointed out tisat h isl not paid for being a member of tise commission. Tise two provincial governinent appointees - former regional ciairnian Walter Beatis and for- mer Ontario agriculture minister Bull Newman - are paid $5 '000 a year to ait as commissioners.) Wiitby Regional Coun. Tom Edwards was paid a aalary of $15,315 lat year. He was also paid $9,547.44 as a member of WhitbY Town Council. Edwards did not dlaim any ex- penses eitiser at tise local or tise regional level. Wiitby's otiser regional representative, Gerry Emni, was paid a sligistly iigiser salary of $16,103. Emin receives an additional stipend for serving as cisairman of regionai councii's public works committee. Emni aiso ciaimed $525.04 in meeting ex- penses (mileage, etc.) and $387 for attending conferences and con- ventions. Emm was also paid $9,593.43 as a member of Wiitby Town Council and received $624.96 for expenses. R*ional council also paid *two Wiitby ward councillors for tiseir service to tise Centrai Lake Ontario Conser- vation Autisority. Eaât Ward Coun. Joe Drumm was paid $3,700 to serve as C.L.O.C.A.'s chairman iast year. He was also re-imbursed $78.25 for expenses. Drumm also earned $9,547.44 as a member of local council. West Ward Coun. Joe Bugelli was paid $840 to serve as Whitby's otiser representative on tise conservation autisority. He was re-imbursed $68.50 for expenses. He, too, received $9,547.44 as a member of local council. Prior to Feb. 28, Wiitby treasurer AI Claringboid and Durhsam finance com- missioner Jack Gartiey are required under tise Ontario Municipal Act to make public al salaries and expenses paid to elected officiais. vov see donatown ofsteencldonor- namee ntaludboulvrd tre ntlgboleare future p n d ast pedetrian damnat are tisnortheat crnater f rck and corndaso Sts. an The nda prouetwil Th n routwl la Council to seek railway barrier Wiitby Town Council bas petitioned tise Railway Transport Committee of tise Canadian Transport Commission to order tise installation of gate barriers at tise Garden St. C.P.R. railway crossing. Voting on tise reconi- mendation last week, al members of council wiso spoke on tise issue noted tisat tise crossing was a particularly dangerous one,, Refi onal Coun. Gerry Eesmn noted*. tisat thse anglé crossing poses greateC.. isazards for passing motoriats and pedestrians. .i. He also noted that ciildren pass over tise 'Ïracks on tiseir way to eitiser Whtby Senior Public Scisool or Florence M. Heard Public Scisool, botis of wisicis are located soutis of tise tracks on Garden St. grants Two Wiitby organizations will receive grants from thse Ontario Arts Council. Tisey are among 458 in- dividuals and 191 arts organizations tisrougis- out tise province wiso will receive a totai of $2.3 million. Tise Wiitby Arts Inc. will receive a grant of $15,000 toiselp operate tise Whitby Arts Station Gallery this year. Tise Wiitby Public Lîbrary will receive $108 from tise O.A.C.'a Touring Art Fund. g t b! w, 's 'e e i 's *1S g e 'e WHITBY FREE PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCII 6,1985, PAGE 3 but nu une came identity of Wiitby, Brunelle says. will improve tisat small town flavour," ie noted, identity we cail tise Town of Whitby. " cars yours? 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