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1m You mo. " iiuaur, and»: 3.1000 "s can: at an um NREGI6’NAL MOVE In an interview Friday, Thomas said proposed chan- ges "could mean cutting back on some of the jobs. By Philip Jams: The region may institute staff reduction through attrition in an im- minent, major shake-up in the regional administrative structure, accord- ing to Doreen Thomas, chairman of the region’s personnel committee. And though she says there have been no official discussions, the Waterloo alderman and regional councillor wouldn't rule out the possibility of Ba- tg, adjustments, holding back, pay increases or "red-circling" some Jo s. g City must be 'beechy-keen' Staff, may be cut through attrition new Sutherland V _ C - writer A recent advertisement for a new housing develop. ment in Kitchener has left Alderman Mary Jane Me- whuneyjs hand wining. . New showed council on Monday an ad for homes built ha laurel: .Cttmtmetioet Limited which spared over the-weekend in a local manner. developer'calls the area Beech Wood Forest and that'g confusing. accord“ to Mewhinney, be- cause there's already a Beechwood West and a Beech- wood North subdivision. both in Waterloo. Thead says the Kitchener development is in "the country side ot town" aad is located just with of Wa- terloo’s Beechwood development, _ _ An advertisement by Major Holdings and Dovelop- meats Limited. which appear“ in the some weekend newspaper. claims its Beechwood West development near Westmount Place and the University of Wa- terloo. is "a tradition continued ... Waterloo and the Beechwood community have become synonyms with the area's heat in luxurious quality living." W iieairirir told coucil that it in: “windy inap- propriate“ for the developer to use a similar name for itst1e_tehrmertt, _. . ... .. "We're careful not to duplicate stteet names and 'atrtl protect the names of subdivision: in Wa- ter J' Mewhinney said. But Aldermen BlaheHull told council that if they ,eeretoaetooewttimiersmotimttttqyeqrideaqteet MorttmatterstteWateruooveritiottttetutme Westmount. ' Council - with Hull's mutton that no action be taken on Icwhinney’s complaint but that it be "noted all tiled." Jim Willis. city met; said subdivision names are “mid" and tune should he left to the deve'trpe" to tea-Ive. =THIS WEEK INSIDE I even at the senior level." Irthat happens, she ex- plained. there won‘t be any less bodies working for the Society helps SEE PAGE - 5 region, Rather, thgrg w_i_l_l_be a realignment and shuffling of present responsibilities and the region's steps "could involve a long range plan for attrition." "There is agaibility of that." she s .' . quick to point on! .tl'tlm been part of the discussions (by the committee) to date. That‘s somewhere down the line." Pressed on the matter. Thomas said she couldn't rule out the possibility of ad- justments to salaries or nor- maLpay hemm- A ... - She called the prospect of "red-circling" some jobs a "rumble possibility" but one that has only been dis- cussed privately with no de- cision made. Regional council is meet- ing in-camera tomorrow to consider recommendations from Thomas' committee about a major shuttle among workers and senior staffers. mainly in the en- gineering and planning de- partments. along with a "slight adlr/'llt'S in the region‘s ega tr2'r2 The report I I also deal with a possible replacement for former winning corn- missioner Darcy Dutton who left in Atty to take a si- miliar post in London. Mn. said most of the work on the report - "the bulkolit" -wasdonelrythe region‘s new chief adminis- trator Bob Richardson. who replaced the retired Whit Bradley in August. “He‘s-null} burned the midnight oil working at. . (mum on a... 3) SEE PAGE - 16 launched INVESTIGATION CALLED Alderman John Shortreed has called for an investigation into Watertoo's rising tran- sit deficit which he expects will top the '100,000 mark by the end of the year. Waterloo rents its transit service from Kitchener and Shortreed told council on Monday that the amount the city pays Kitchener Transit for each kilometre tra- vetted by the buses is escalating every Waterloo paid Kitchener Transit $t.M per: kilometre during the f1rst six months of 1980. but that amount rose to 81.50 this Mayor Marjoria Carroll groan Gavarnar Ganaral Edward Schnyar and his wife Lily whan they arrival at city hall last My. “Ia Caravan were in Witcrloo to (Spun the Java” International cont-tone. at the Wltodoo Motor Inn that night and paid I visit to city hall while in the Shortreed Wants study of transit deficits _ WELCOME ro WA TERLOO By Stuart 80mm mth'and Shortued expect; another in, crease of about: by the end of the year! tittfrtreed blamed the rate increase on tattirtgree-artdrisitsgeorsartdtat1i Waterloo is "808,000 behind projected costs" tor transit. service. Waterloo expects to pay Kitchener Tran: sit man than $t-mittioet for transit service this year and Shortreed said that with the ”seriousneu" of the service ""oven'ln an investigation is needed as - as possible. "The transithadntpuoutoiwhack tttar-ttte-r-tut-isnt-tree end at the your with an increase in the (Woman-3)