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; I l" ' ' ' " ' Orono Town Hall BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 163 Church Street 1.1.05 Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1T7 $1.00 GST Included Wednesday May 12, 2004 Serving Kendal, Kirby, Leskard, Newcastle, Newtonville, Orono, Starkville and Tyrone sincej^937^ Residents sound off over Mosport "With the stroke of a pen, this council has rescinded Bylaw Bylaw 97-124, despite the fact that so many people had worked countless hours to put it in place," stated Mr. Clay Taylor of the NCRPA. In April of 2003, a resolution resolution repealing the sound limitations limitations at Mosport Parts received unanimous approval by council. The report recommended recommended that the by-law which was put in place in 1997 be repealed because the owners of Mosport Park had indicated that the noise levels in the bylaw bylaw were unreasonable and practically unattainable. The 1997 by-law set maximum maximum sound levels for different different times of the day, with the lowest sound level being between 12:01 a.m. and 9:59 a.m. Installation of sound barriers barriers and muffling systems on vehicles using the track were also included in. the by-law. A rough estimate to install the sound barriers on the property property is $3 million according to a report issued by the Municipal Clerk's Department on May 3, 2004. That report also states that Mosport Park did not lobby council to have the by-law repealed. Given the terms of the Municipality's by-laws, the tracks at Mosport are underused, underused, compared to several other tracks in the United States owned by Mosport Park's parent Company, Panoz. While the tracks could legally be used seven days a week from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., Myles Brandt, Manager of Mosport says this is deliberately deliberately not done, as they do not want to further disrupt their neighbours. While the Municipality What's Inside**. considers Mosport a good corporate corporate citizen, Taylor of the NCRPA asked "What type of good corporate citizen would create a situation whereby every weekend neighbouring property owners are subjected to intolerable noise levels? Noise levels that are so loud you cannot sit out on your deck and have a conversation. Noise levels so loud, that with the windows closed you still have to turn up the television to hear your program. A corporate corporate citizen who continually disregards the curfews set out in a by-law and wakes up its Villagers beautify Town Hall grounds see page 5 neighbours at 8:00 Sunday morning by racing cars around its tracks or by making announcements on its public address system. In closing Taylor asked if council intended to do anything anything at all to alleviate the noise issue in North Clarington, and what they would suggest property owners owners adversely affected by activities at Mosport consider as a course of action to mitigate mitigate the problem. Council referred the presentations presentations by both members of the NCRPA--Mr. Greg Sznajdruk of 9580 Murphy Road and Clayton Taylor of 5505 Darlington/Manvers Townline Road to staff to have their questions answered. Ryan Armstrong swam up from Beavers to Scouts Monday night at Orono Park. Cub scout Quinton McRae welcomes Armstrong into the pack. The inaugural Orono Bluegrass and Country Jamboree is all set to go at the end of the month. Committee members are putting together final plans for what they anticipate to be a weekend full of great music. The festival is being held at the Orono Fairgrounds on May 28, 29 and 30th features such acts as The Adams Family and Friends, Don Barraball and his band Beyond Reason, Rainstone, Doc Holiday, Supper Break - The Next Generation, General Store, McCormick, the Fitzgerald Family, Louise Wright and Friends, Mark Sullivan and the Ganaraska Country Cloggers. Festivities begin Friday night with an open stage from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. Bands will be playing on Saturday from 11 to 11 and Sunday from 10 to 4 p.m. Events Sunday morning will include a gospel concert. Admission for the entire weekend is $25, $5 for Friday, $15 for Saturday and $10 for Sunday. Rough camping at the fairgrounds is available for $5 for the entire weekend. Children 12 and under arc free when accompanied by an adult. For more information call Jim Hayward at 905-983- 9191. Re: Mayor's campaign contributions Request for audit denied Richard Ward's request for a compliance audit of Mayor John Mutton's 2003 election campaign contributions contributions was denied at Monday evening's council meeting. Council was of the opinion opinion that that there are no reasonable reasonable grounds to believe that Mayor Mutton contravened contravened the regulations relating to elections campaign financing. financing. Richard Ward, the only other candidate for Mayor in the last municipal election, requested the audit saying he felt that two contributions of $750 each, the maximum contribution allowed under the Municipal .Elections Act, were from the same company. The contributions were in the name of Cougs Investments Ltd., and Lawrence Glen Holdings Limited, both of 27 Buggy Lane in Ajax. Ward's application for a compliance audit was based on the fact that a Mr. George AUDIT sw peg# 3