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The Famous Mr. Coffee $64.95 iillll iS^SIsliï | OTTAWA and Small: Business' By KENNETH MCDONALD Everywhere in Canada, thé property tax is fair game for greedy tax gatherers. m • m There is no underlying principle in its application, What justification can there be for charging education costs against the property tax of pensioners and others whose children have children of their own? • # « Or for taxing farmland, not bn what it produces,but on what some bureaucrat happenings:... UNWANTED ACTIVITY Some one or group last week entered the Orono Town Hall after hours and stacked Recreation Department. Up to this point there has been no trouble at the hall but this incident happened after the furnishing about the building Youth Centre had closed for causing concern with the the night. INAUGURAL MEETING . The inaugural meeting of the Northumberland and Newcastle Board of Education is to be held in Cobourg on Thursday, January 13th at 7:30 p.m. MUST RE OF AGE There is to be no exceptions in the Board of Education policy regarding the age of children attending Kindergarten, A child must have attained thé age of five years an or before December 31st of the year they are to start school. Council Briefs TABLE RECOMMENDATION RECOMMENDATION Council tabled the payment of an invoice to Hale Waste Disposal in the amount of $7,035.00. The treasurer of the Town asked for approval for the payment and also noted that the Region was asking for payment of this sum. APPLCIATION FOR REZONING REZONING BEING PROCESSED PROCESSED An application by Mr. E.H. Samuel for rezoning of lands on the north side of Ring Street in Bowmanville is being processed. It was pointed out at Council meeting meeting that the- rezoning is to clear the way for a building housing two-floors of commercial commercial space and seven .floors of apartments along ^ith a pent house. WITHHOLD DECISION ON STATION STREET, ORONO . Council withheld their dec- ion on the purchase of Station Street, west of ■ Main Street in Orono. The matter came before" the finance committee with a price tag of $1,200.00. The finance committee committee referred the matter to the Public works committee where it was pointed out by Mr. E.R. Lovekin that the first priority wa's now to clear up the position of Edwards street in Newcastle which opens onto property for a Senior Citizens complex. Council gave approval to have this matter cleared up taking no action towards the purchase of Station Street, which in some areas appears not to.have full support at this time Mayor Rickard pointed out t at the council meeting that the Town did not hold clear title to the eastern portion of Edwards street even though water, sewers and paving had . been undertaken on this section of the street by the previous council of the Village Village of Newcastle. TOWN COUNCIL BRIEFS The Present council of the Town of Newcastle closed out their term of office on Monday with a full agenda. All 'members were present with the exception of Mrs. Ann Cowman who had previously previously stated that she would not be available for the meeting. APPROVE EXPENDITURE FOR FENCING Cohncjl approved an expenditure expenditure of $2,56?.75 for the fencing of McLean's Cemetery Cemetery north of Kendal. Tj?ie, expenditure was some $302.41 above the allotment from the McLean family for the work. TO RE CONSIDERED BY NEW COUNCIL Town council on Monday, decided it should be* the * decision of the incoming ccmncjj in 1977 to make a decision on whether or not M.P.P. Doug Moffatt should be a memb'er of the Hydro Liaison Committee. It was also noted that Mr. Jasper Holliday who was elected to council would have to have his position replaced on the committee. CLERK AND TREASURER T HAVE AGREEMENT DRAFTED • The clerk and treasurer of the Town of Newcastle have been instructed to consult their solicitor regarding an agreement between the Durham Durham Central Agricultural Society and the Town applying applying of grants fofrthe repairs to the Orono Arena. At the present time no agreement exists between the two parties. parties. ' decides; it would, fetch 'foi housing or commercial development? development? Or for fuxijjg busi nesses at 150 per cent of assessed market value? * *' # Yet these glaring anoma lies, far from being corrected, are being used by provinces as levers for grabbing more taxing power. > 0 © ' Take Ontario, where a full-dress tax reform commission commission is sitting. It's important, because the eventual findings are likely to be" cited by other provinces to justify moves of their own. • 0 0 One proposal is to cancel all exemptions for churches and charitable organizations because "it is felt that direct assistance through grants is preferable to property tax exemption". Hear the authentic authentic voice of the tax collector! 0*0 You work with Crippled Civilians, or Big Brothers, or Boy Scouts. You've put in 10 unpaid hours a week, willingly, willingly, for years. So have your neighbors. You've raised enough money to keep solvent solvent and the hall you use for meetings or collections is exempt from property tax. 0 0 0. Suddenly the province decides decides you will have to pay 100 per cent tax on market Value of the building you use. But if you go cap in hand to the bureaucracy at the provincial provincial capital you may get some of it back. No prizes are offered for guessing what happens to the rest of the ■ money you paid. 00a New Brunswick has a good idea: Let property tax 1 pay for property and let people people pay for people. The property property tax would pay for fire, police, water, roads, garbage and sewage; personal taxes (income, capital gains, sales) would pay for education, recreation, recreation, welfare and health care. Then, as it should be, the business tax would be abolished abolished , farms would be taxed on what they produced, and all property owners -- business business and residential - would pay for the services they received. received. Social services would be paid for from the genera! revenue. In its brief to the Ontario commission, the Canadian Federation of Independent Business strongly recommended recommended adoption of this principle. principle. Let municipalities set their own mill rates on property property to cover services to property. And make Ottawa and the provinces' pay "for ' social services from general revenue. CPPCHANGES (Continued from page 6) the fifth and subsequent children; provide more flexible authority for the negotiation of international' social security agreements; allow the payment of pe'r diem allowances to members members of the CPP Advisory Committee; and grant the necessary authority to withold the payment of CPP benefits, where necessary, in order to obtain documentary evidence evidence relating to the eligibility for benefits. Orono Weekly .Times, Wednesday, December 15th, 1976-7 Donna VanHaverbeke was when the Orono Chamber but another admirer of Santa, sponsored the family Christ- on Sunday at the Orono Arena mas party. • « < Thank-You ... ! wish to thank the voters of Ward 3 for electing me Trustee on the Northumberland and Newcastle Borad of Education. I will attempt to follow up on the three issues that I stressed throughout thè election campaign. If you have a problem please feel free to call me anytime. Margaret Ibfootson »••*••••••••••••• *>•e #•• Lighted Table Top Garden Approx. Size 24V2X13x23 (Adjustable) CSA Approved $39.95 ( Light Not Included) Fold Away Work Mate Giant Vice and Saw Horse in One. Folds up into Suit Case size $59.99 4--way Toaster Oven Works as a Broilèr, Toaster, Baker, Top Browner $75.98 4-Step Automatic Brewing system 10 cups in 5 Minutes $46.88 Black & Decker Router Kit 3/< H. P. Router 2 Wrenches - Straight and Circular Guide. Plastic Carrying Carrying case. ROLPH (Dominion) HARDWARE Orono, Ontario Phone 983-5207