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Annual annoyance for budgetmakers Midland's Finance Com- mittee, as it does every year at this time, has the pro- blem of being tagged with the blame for higher school taxes. Committee 'Chairman Deputy-Reeve Nancy Keefe says school taxes will be higher this year on the alone that the separate school system has a full high school system. basis The municipality has nothing to say about the level of tax set for educa- tion. But since education tax, and the Simcoe Coun- ty tax, are lumped with a taxpayer's municipal: tax when he receives his tax notice, the larger increase in education tax, which raises the amount asked of the taxpayer, sometimes is blamed on the municipality. Another factor in the making of the 1987 Town of Midland budget, a factor over which the Town has some control, is contracts with its employees. All of the contracts between the municipality and _ its unionized employees will be renewed this year. Negotiations have begun. Municipal politicians have long complained that because municipalities col- lect the taxes levied by school boards, the municipalities get all of the blame for higher taxes. Because the municipality collects the school tax, it looks as if the Town is keeping it, Keefe said. Municipal politicians feel a pressure to keep the tax over which they have control, as low as possible. "It squeezes us at the town level to keep a reasonable tax level," Keefe said. In recent years the Town Winter weather How mild a winter have we had so far? Significantly less snow than normal has fallen to date in the winter of 1986-87. The average temperature has been warmer, too. According to the record of snowfall and temperature levels of the Beausoleil Island weather station, as of yesterday morning, snowfall in 1986-87 has amounted to 98.4 centimetres. (By Jan. 9 a year previous, 237 cen- timetres of snow had fallen on the island.) The average temperature for December 1986, -2 degrees C., is four degrees warmer than the average temperature of December a year earlier. The last significant fall of snow of this winter, of 13 centimetres, came on Dec. 12, 1986. The only snowfall approaching that was eight centimetres last Saturday. No more than three cen- timetres of snow fell on any day between Dec. 12 and Jan. 9. Two Decembers ago, snow fell on the island on 27 of the 31 days. The snowfall figure for Midland as of Jan. 1, 1986, was 274.6 centimetres. (The fact that more snow falls on Midland than on Beausoleil Island has to be taken into account when comparing Island figures and Midland figures.) The record snowfall numbers for Midland are a maximum of 523.03 cen- timetres in 1964-65, and a minimum of 175 cen- timetres in the winter of 1982-83. The average fall of snow on the island between 1975 and 1985 was 302.4 cen- timetres. The total snowfall on the island for 1985-1986, last winter, was 379.8 cen- timetres, or 77 centimetres higher than the average of the previous 10 years. Environment Canada has not had a weather sta- tion operator in Midland since November of last year, so up-to-date figures for Midland are not available. of Midland budget creators have started with the hope of a municipal tax increase of, at most, five per cent. Budgetmakers have to balance keeping up ex- isting service, increased new expenditure on im- provements to roads, sidewalks, and sewers. crease of five per cent, Keefe said 'I don't know how much of a dream that costs such as wages, and And the winner is... Nicole Grenier of Penetanguishene won the $1,000 draw sponsored by Centre d'Activites Francaises last Friday. The draw was made Friday at noon by Odette " Speaking of the ideal in- is will be going on sale soon at a cost of $100. Moreau and Muriele Laurin. 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