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BUDGET: Lauded by MPPs, chamber, homebuilders,~s2 Parents: Brou offers 'sunm vv-r-m ghtofl Bid to speed Brooklil I Redmen rocked development page 3rejected as season Page 16 begins Province to decide netweek on modified calendar By Mark Reosor Education ministry officiais will meet early next week to approve, conditionally ppoe or rejoct C.E. B»roughton, public school's modfid eool year calen- dar. Durham officiais won'tb. involved mn the meeting, says education officer Alex Leroy. who adds thie rional office may notify the board or a recommenda- tion maLy b. passed further up the hefrarc for approval. 'Whether its a decision or flot depends on where the appova i.(rquire rom),' says Léroy. Since offciais in the office have nover deait with such an£ plction ther'sno plc ofloho mays, and thyesIl IscsIgwonr oapo the modfedysarcaendar if iv ecided the assistant deputy ministo or deputy ministerhan to aigu it, there will b. a furtiier delay, h. says. Sehool tax mecrease 2.16%, Decîision £ànally mcelast-week, lakReesor l'wo Blayeràftê- .r-n'arrow1y rueêci I, 196budIet;Dur- '021 ochol bardtrustees changed their mind - agfain - and approved ft b a vote of 1"- lest Weèdnesday,-imaking oly one Change. But the change - a motion by Oshawa truste. Mike Nicholson te keep seven speech pathologists and psychometrists . the board hiait previously voted toecut - was enough te persuade Nichol- son, ty trusteDoug Rous an board chair Audrey MacLean te change their mmnci and support the document. >Onify Aex trustee Sherrill Wil- lard hld fm m'iher opposition. She, along with Rou arsud Nichol- son, vote& in favour of the budget at committe. May 1 - it was passed by a 10-5 vote - but thon change te. minds May 6 aet a s;pecialboard meeting, causing a surprse 8-7 defeat. Restoring'the seven poitions will cmo about $166000 for the reot of thisyar, estimated busi- ness superitende;nt Brian Cain, who added the money will b.' found in the $361.4-mîllion budget - about $5 million les. ýýthanlastyear. (The ."boar.oenrolment in- creased 4.2 per cen't this1 year over last;it had 61,804 pupils as of February.) The average education tax in- cresse will remain at 2.74 per cent acroos Durham Région - 2.16 per cent or $27 more for the average Whitby household. iEducation taxes account for more than half of the total muni- cipal tax bill. The Town of Whitby (no increase) and Region <0.5 Per cent increase) portions of the. tax billwere decided in SEE PAGE 25 $7.3million contract aardedor .ne-W.arna B y 111k. Kowalskl -A Kitchener construction com- pany has been awarded the con-, tract for the expansion -of the Iroquois Park rcration com- plex. Town council Monda accepd a $7.3-million bidfomBl Brothers Lâtd. te build three more ice rinka at the south Whitby sprt facility Tefamily-owned firm was' one of tbree finalists narrowed frorn a field of 19 comne whichre oded te the Tos Cai for de% mfd7 proposais BaIl Brothers wlI oversee con- sitruction of the. $7.6-milion Pro- will * include a- banquet Ilal sd esturatwblle the architectural firm PBK Groupof Burlington will do td.m cta 17~ias osinedmore arenas and sports, facilites in North America than any other archi- tect. Its major developments in- clude Northlands Coliseum in Edmonton and B.C. Place i Vancouver. As deligted representatives of WImhy' ice user groups looked on wit approval, council cleared the way for construction of the long-awie arenas te begin later this year. Several counSflors com mended the minor sprts officiais snd their corps ofvoluntersfor sp portinga proces wbich wl eventualfly result in on., of the. lgest ,municipally-operated recreational complexes of its kind in Canada. «This is a godsend 0' bein te this gcommty, r< councillor Marcel Brunelle. "ýAnd the most magnfientthn about, it in. thpt it wont. ost the ta- Amrdig toa park.suad receaton epartment report the projectsà $7.6-million coot wil1 be financed tbrough a *6.1-mil- lion debenture,.2 .zmillion in development charges, and $311,855 from fuudraising, spon- sorships,, program proffits sud leases. lb. cost of the debenture will be. covered. by a $25-per-hour increase in current rentai fees for the two existing pads at Iroquois Park sud the single-pad Luther Vipond Memorial Arena in Brooklini. . ef.. hike, broken down into increments of $12.50 on Sept. 1 sund agamn on April 1, 1997, will b. in addition te suy inflationary increases. RecalliugË that the Ontario government ,contributed ;700MOO *oard the. cont ofý building the second arena at Iroquois Park about 10 years ago, Brunelle1 said 'that doesnt haonenanvmore." Ifeandl éther counci1Iors salu- ted Town staff for their efforts in sangalpproximatel *$1.2 mil-, lion trugh the " >s .ibule approach as sedop he more tradtioal ixf=*Ocontract. This procesa ivov* sbiin one contractor who in solely res- posile for paig artcMt engineers -andi construction crews ev,,if tlie.cost. 4eyodthe figure sbm t WhIl h.also cplemented diteci the. people'.Who çO "out evey dy sd nihàtcoaciiugthe, u~ sdvôliterngteir installed in the new arenas, the volunteorsshould b. recogmzfed. «I dont wsut, my- name going on it, t doesn't matter one way- or another,he said. " But without .thei. volunteer, we wouidntbe-buflig! Councilor Do-Mti ellremin- ddbscoe]amuesthat'building more. imsurfaces*wasbism prorir snoe'bing .eleted',to SundIme yfagof.- M'IbsTown has alwajs been a hoted of ce sport anItis will now give, us- thé- faclties te mtatch the quality f iitem sud peope-who partWlat. iim wier i *g o lgù-standing comàplaint .of- Whitbs ice user oueMitell add.d' a twist te th hme from tii. movie Field pageO