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14-- PORT PERRY STAR -- Wednesday, April 25, 1979 Back To Square One: Durham Region council has sent its management committee back to square one in its attempt to nego- tiate a lease to move the 92 employees of the Finance department out of the Regional headquarters building on Rossland Road in Whitby. ) After a long and at times rancorous debate April 18 on whether to accept the terms of a four-year lease negotia- ted with the owners of Durham Tower in downtown Oshawa, a tie vote was broken in the negative by Regional chairman Walter Beath. While that upset members of Regional council from Oshawa who have been pushing hard to have the Finance department move to Durham Tower in that city, PHIL SPRING SPECIALS PONTIAC - BUICK 150 Water Street - Port Perry - 985-7309 Mr. Beath explained later that he was not entirely satisfied that the terms of the lease under discussion allowed for adequate par- king for citizens visiting the Finance department on business. 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On March 21, the Regional council narrowly approved a motion that the department move to Durham Tower in Oshawa, and at that time the Manage- ment Committee was instructed to negotiate a lease with the owners of the building. While much of the discus- sion last week centred around the terms of the proposed lease for the 20,000 square feet of office space which if accepted would have cost the Region about $7.25 net per square foot over 48 months, it was obvious that those councillors opposed were simply not in favour of having the Finance department re-locate in downtown Oshawa. Uxbridge Mayor Gary Herrema put his finger on the heart of the issue when he rose during debate and said "Let's be honest. The hassles and debate here today is a result of the lost votes when the first motion to relocate was taken a month age! (March 21) Oshawa councillor and finance committee chairman John Aker agreed, calling the process a "charade", and suggesting that the real reason for the opposition to the terms of the proposed lease agreement was the fear on the part of some councillors that ohce the Finance department moved out of the Regional building, it would not move back. Whitby Mayor Jim Gartshore has adamently opposed the move to Oshawa at the same time pushing hard to locate the Finance department in a new buil- ding at Brock and Mary Streets in Whitby. It was an amendment from Gartshore last week that gives the management committee the authority to consider any lease proposals from other building owners besides those of the Durham Tower in Oshawa. The need to move the Finance department out of the cramped and fragmen- ted office space it now occupies in the Regional building has been documen- ted in reports to council, and - generally accepted = in principle by members- of council. It has been esti- mated that thé total cost of re-locating the department elsewhere for a four or five year period could run as high as $1 million. Since the Finance depart- ment would be considered a "prestige tenant" in any office building, councillors from both Oshawa and Whitby have fought to have the department locate in their respective cities. Management committee chairman Allen Dewar told council last week that the proposed lease agreement with Durham Tower was the best the Region could hope to get, and he assured members there would be parking spaces provided for Block finance dept. move to Oshawa a mummum of 80 cars. While management committee has been told to go back to the drawing board and negotiate a new lease agreement with better terms for the Region and also consider proposals from other building owners, the battle lines have been drawn, and when the com- mittee does report back to council again in the next couple of weeks, it is not likely that there will be anything close to unanimity about where the Finance department will move and how much it will cost the Region. . In the vote last week on whether to accept the terms of the proposed lease, Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor voted in favour, while Regional councillor Reg Rose voted against. Cedar Creek news by George Kilpatrick Martin den Boer of Was- hington, D.C., U.S.A. was visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. John den Boer for a few days recently. Mr. and Mrs. Rick Laroc- que and sons visited their Farrow relatives at South River last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Norris Doherty and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Russell Doherty near Sarnia, On- tario last weekend. Mr. and Mrs. David den Boer and daughter of Owen Sound were last weekend visitors with Mr. and Mrs. John den Boer. Ian McCulloch was visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dave McCulloch last week. Ian had come home from Alberta to attend the Benschop - Hackner wed- ding. Ian and his mother visited relatives in Eastern Ontario for a few days before returning to Alberta. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Trepanier of Toronto visited Mr. and Mrs. Victor Laroc- que on Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Arm- strong attended the Grand Ole Opry show at the Oshawa Civic Auditorium on Satur- day evening. Mr. and Mrs. John Den Boer received a phone call Friday a.m. from London, Ontario letting them know that their daughter, Reta had a baby boy born that morning. Reta and her husband, Archie Barnhoorn have two little boys, now. Mr. and Mrs. Bill Armstrong were in Paris on 'Sunday attending a poultry show. 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