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Mfflm -Xj. ^ ^ - ; mïmîm'ïmfmZÆ mwWm mmm Serving More Than 18,000 Homes in The Town of Newcastle mÊmÆÈÊÈm. ^asmam. WÊÊÊÊÊÊËÊÊÊÊÊMÊÊÊÊ mmÊËÊÈm WÊÊÊÊÊÊÊË ÉmmËÈmMËm urday, February 20,1! Volume Three, Issue 7 ■H 8338 Region's Tax Bill Up 3.5% Durham Regional Council upped the tax bill by an average of $15 per household when it passed its 1993 budget on Wednesday, Feb. 17. The 1993 Regional Current and Capital Budgets for general purposes purposes are set at $330,956,700. The overall budget includes spending in the areas of roads, police police services, social services, water supply systems, and sanitary sewer systems. Regional Chairman Gary Herre- ma told council he was pleased that the budget had been reduced to the bare bones. Finance Committee Chairman, Brock Township Mayor Don Hadden, Hadden, thanked all the staff involved. "I'm very pleased. When staff was asked, they certainly did their jobs when we set the percentage increase increase at five per cent, they brought it in at just over," the Finance Chairman Chairman said. Chief Administration Office (CAO) Don Evans told councillors he was impressed with the "process itself. It was completed far, far earlier earlier than other budgets. "It was not designed to be done by the time I left," he told the group of councillors, in reference to his upcoming retirement. "The process has worked really quite smoothly" Mr. Evans said. Mr. Evans, Mayor Hadden and Chairman Herrema were not the only speakers to discuss the budget. But, not one councillor spoke in opposition opposition to it. In reference to thé fact that, there wasn't any debate about the 1993 regional budget, Town of Newcastle Mayor Diane Hamre said, "there was no room to do anything with it." Even uftcontrollable expenditures by Laura J. Richards such as Policing and Social Service- A public meeting has been set up did not come under fire, in a budget for Tuesday, Feb. 23, at the Newcas- Continued on Page 3 tie Village Community Hall to dis- '74/ee&e#icC&v *pCcpesK2s Graham's IGA* Canadian Tire* ('indicates partial distribution) For information about inserting flyers in 74e TVee&mU&t, please contact our office at 623-3303 A Bowmanville woman had to be air-lifted to Sunnybrook hospital Wednesday afternoon following this serious two- vehicle collision at the comer of Concession St. & Regional Rd. #42. The 40-year-old victim, who was travelling westbound westbound on Concession St., is charged with disobeying a stop sign. Her injuries were reported to be serious but not life- threatening. The 58-year-old driver of the southbound van, a Cobourg resident, is charged with having no licence and no insurance. He received minor injuries in the crash. Waste Authority, Comes to Newcastle Tuesday, cuss the social, economic and agricultural agricultural impacts of the Interim Waste Authority's search for a Durham Durham Region landfillsite. The evening will begin with two presentations. One of these is from a representative of a consultant, M.M. Dillon Limited, examining Step Six of the IWA's selection process. Details Details of the meeting were contained in information released to media and regional councillors during Wednesday's regional meeting. The second presentation will be by an IWA representative who will give an overview of compensation for lands used as a dump site. This presentation will include a presenta tion of a paper entitled: "Impact Management: A Commitment to Fair Compensation." After a 20-minute question and answer period and a break in activities, activities, those attending the meeting will break up into small groups to promote in-depth discussion on five questions focusing on compensation, compensation, establishing fair market value and impact. Also to be brought up in the discussion is the question of what to do with the landfill once it is filled. This session is scheduled to last about two hours. The final 20 minutes of the meeting meeting will be a wrap-up designed to summarize key points raised during the workshop. Information attached to the agenda agenda states this will be part of series of information-gathering strategies for residents who might be affected by a landfill site. Survey questionnaires are to be done for those located on-site, offsite offsite impact areas and along haulage routes. There will also be a series of "kitchen table meetings" with residents residents on and around proposed locations locations to discuss social impact. These will be conducted in April. During the week of March 8, oral briefs will be received by the IWA on the identification of the short list. PICKERING TOWN CENTRE COMEDY FESTIVAL Friday, 6 - 8 p.m.; Saturday, 12 noon - 2 p.m. February 26 and 27 We Promise You'll Have the Last Laugh!