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Public meeting to look at city council size ile the public will be Wleba!ing council size and composition at a public open house tonight, a little known motion councillors passed in December may have already solved some of their concerns over workload. WATERLOO CHRONICLE Believe it or not, was her idea. ixâ€"yearâ€"old Quinn SRuhy will say goodâ€" bye io all of her birthday presents today â€" and she couldn‘t be happier. The little Waterloo girl, who calls reading books one of her favourite pastimes, thought it would be nice to help her local library. So, in lieu of receiving traditional gifts of toys and games at her recent birthday party, Quinn asked all her friends to instead bring her their favourite books. After the party, she gathered up the literary collection and donated the pile to the children‘s department at the Waterioo public library. "I didn‘t mind," Quinn said. "I wanted to help the library." Quinn‘s idea has resulted in a gift of more CGirl‘s wish helps library A citizen initiative inviting Continued on page 4 By Anorea Baiey Chronicle Staff By Bos VrBANAC Chronicle Staff 11 Sixâ€"yearâ€"old Quinn Ruby donated more than 20 books to the Waterloo public library today. local residents to express their views on whether the current council size should be increased from five to better reflect the composition of the City of Waterâ€" loo, will be held in the council chambers starting at 7 p.m. It was precipitated over conâ€" cerns that the workload for the current council has become more difficult to manage since council was cut from eight to five in 2000 WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 2005 + WATERLOO, ONTARIO Serving your community since 1856 under a provincial push to reduce the number of local politicians. That means a current councilâ€" lor could be sitting on as many as 20 committees in addition to regâ€" ular council meetings and inâ€" camera sessions. The discussion will also include how to get better repreâ€" sentation on council. and the redrawing of ward boundaries to better balance the number of citiâ€" zens each councilior represents Former members of the Waterâ€" loo Voter‘s Support committee, which organized debates and information nights during the last municipal election, pushed for the proposal to look at the council structure. In the meantime, council itself has reacted to what they‘ve idenâ€" tified as a heavy workload involvâ€" ing complex issues by coming up $1 INCLUDING GST ANDREA sARey raoto with a revised meeting schedule that gives them a bye week every third week. Based on a modified version of the City of Cambridge meeting schedule, council unanimously passed the revised schedule Dec. 6, 2004, dropping a public meetâ€" ing every third week and simply reserving those days for in camera | WHAT‘S . INSIDE ) Viewpoint Classified Continued on page 4 "Walkieâ€"Talkie* 800 Victoria St. N (at Bruce) ($19) $79â€"2252 Ask for details Zeller‘s Plaza 94 Bndgeport Ad. E (§19) 725â€"2570 10