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tt vol 89 no 44 whitchurch stouffville march 10 1977 20 cents 1 pages 741 million budget passed by school board in recorded vote aurora public school supporters in york region face a 95 per cent tax increase as a result of the york region public school board budget approved here monday night board officials said the 74 1 million represents an average 35 tax increase on a home assessed at 20000 final figures will vary from community to community board finance and ad ministration superintendent george ford stressed and wont be known until complete budget estimates are prepared for monday nights board meeting the 35 increase is based on a regional mill rate of 188 or 375 per 20000 home last year five of six area municipalities were assessed above the regional rate in whitchurchstouffville the 1976 levy on a 20000 home was 14 above the same levy using the regional base in king the public school levy on a 20000 home was 45 above the regional average while the levy on the same home iii aurora was 11 higher than the regional figure in newmarket the public school levy on a 20000 home was 15 above the regional average while in east gwillimbury the levy on the same home was 12 above the regional figure last year georgina township was the only northern municipality below the regional average with public school taxes on a 20000 home 11 less than the regionwide levy following approval of the budget board finance chairman bob mcmonagle who opposed the 741 million in a recorded vote said efforts are underway to prevent a repeat of what he earlier termed flim flam passage of the budget the finance committee is currently studying introduction of threeyear zerobased budget forecasts noted the markham trustee at the same time there are moves towards a meaningful budget breakout said mr mcmonagle and an earlier budget presentation the proposed budget break down will include more than 100 pages clearly outlining all costs he added while a report on revam ping the budget structure isnt expected for several months thats the way the finance local trustee says t could be cut york cty not happy with only a 200000 cut from the york county board of educations 743 million budget whitchurchstouffville trustee harry bowes voted against approval the budget was cut from 743 to 741 million with eight trustees opposing acceptance in a recorded vote i thought we could have got another 500000 off the budget mr bowes told the tribune we got so far he said and then they decided to vote on that figure a lot of the new trustees arent used to spending the time going through it they wouldnt go for all the bickering the budget as approved will mean a 95 per cent taxincrease too much according to mr bowes he feels the budget should have been kept to the rate committee is moving now he said just wait until the tax- payer gets his bill said mr weller we must start 1978 financial planning right away weve got to do something mr mcmonagle and mr weller had pressed for a major budget cut to 723 million from the 743 million first draft in a stormy session lasting nearly five hours the board instead approved the smaller cut and while not offsetting the mill rate through the use of reserve funds agreed to use any 1976 surplus funds to cushion the mill rate trustees didnt confirm where cuts will be made but in a twoandahalfhcur committee discussion considered 15 motions calling for specific budget cuts and additions when the committee reported at 1030 pm the three surviving motions which were later received by the board but not acted upon called for net cuts totalling 63000 included in the changes was a 33200 reduction for complete- removal of master teacher time at the secondary school level and a 2000 addition for late busing services even that wasnt enough for mr mcmonagle and mr weller however who voted against the 741 million along with harry bowes of whitchurch- stouffville bob houghton of richmond hill keith hargrave of georgina steve taylor of markham and separate school representatives john stephens and terry ogrady richmond hilptrustee eric baker was- of inflation about 7 to 8 per cent absent issutoront the schembri family of goodwood were- somewhat surprised when heidi the goat they are looking after for daughter penny lummiss recently gave birth to triplets shown here with the three goats is lenora schembri stouffville during a special session of council following the regular meeting tuesday night council voted to present a brief to the ontario ombudsman by the end of the week the brief prepared by town solicitor paul mingay seeks an inquiry by the ombudsmans office into the recently ap proved five year expansion of the york sanitation industrial landfill site on highway 48 actions taken by dp caplice director of approvals branch of the ministry of the environment are specifically cited mr caplice received the report of the environmental hearing board which con ducted a year- long inquiry into the application the application major town cleanup planned for the people of stouffville saturday may 14 should be put aside as a day that the com munity can get together and do something really constructive for the town namely clean it up on that date the stouffville recycling committee will direct what they hope will be a large number of people to take part in the giant cleanup the day will be the culmination of what mayor gordon ratcliff will declare as recycling week in an effort to tidy up the town jean belisle coordinator of the recycling committee ex plained that a lot of people had expressed concern- over the garbage that was building up on many of the streets she com mented that weve asked every organization in town to join us in cleaning up the town and if we get enough people we would also like to clean up the parks and the stream recycling in stouffville is a relatively new endeavour it started in june 1974 mrs belisle who has been with the group since its inception said that one of the first things that had to be done was to go to unioriville to see how their recycling depot operated their first- place of operation was at an old garage on market st where they stayed for one year at- that time they had four bins and 15 volunteers they still have only four bins but have increased their volunteer numbers up to 40 who work once a month for two hours kthe committee went to council for another location in september 1975 and received permission to use the building built for that purpose on park dr across from the swimming pool in january 1976 there have been some changes since they first started as the committee is now under contract with ralph spademan who also has the general garbage contract mrs belisle has credited mr spademan with putting the recycling operation in the black mr spademan picks up all four bins and charges 25 a pickup per bin he does not charge rental fees for the bins they made 1000 last year but most of the money went into buying a glass bin mrs belisle said that we would have donated the money if not for the cost of the bin which was 750 luckily though uniohville had one for sale and we got it for half the original price also the recycling depot now has the facilities to accept all cardboard materials except those that have been waxed concerning the centennial day clean up mrs belisle pointed out that on march 14 there will be a general meeting to discuss the particulars of the operation as of now mrs belisle stated we are- planning to divide the town into sections and then designate groups of people to each section we are passing out lists to the organizations so that members can sign up as we need to know how many will be there i am hoping for close to 400 people to come but some say that estimate might be a bit high we will all meet at the baseball park in the morning see community page 2 was opposed by the town andby preserve our water resources powr a citizens group it is feared the dump which is located above the main aquifer which feeds the town wells will pollute the com- munity water supply per mission to increase tonnage at the dump from 150 to 600 tons per day- was granted by mr caplice with provision for more increases during the next five years the towns brief will be hand delivered at the same time as a submission prepared for powr by attorney john swaigen of the canadian en vironmental law association the towns paper is a brief document covering 11 major points while the powr sub mission is a massive 23 pages documenting the alleged abuses of the ministry and the hearing board a motion to hold the next meeting of planning board in the driveway of york sanitation was defeated by a tie breaking vote cast by mayor gordon ratcliff sleeping beauty and the skinbonians during last sundays rehearsal for sleeping beauty and the skinbonians john salvini playing the part of the queen of stouffvillea was over come by a particularly uncontrollable case of the giggles and required a supporting hand from princess beauty joyce reesor roger brndjar the king of stouffvillea looks on for more details see page 2 two jump from second story escape flame engulfed home lincolnville two people had to jump from a second story window to escape a saturday morning blaze that completely destroyed a house on the 10th cone north of bloomington sideroad stouffville volunteer fire department responded to an alarm just after 8 am saturday man councillor bill mcnalley who- introduced the motion and councillor jim doble voted in favour of the action councillors eldred king and becky wedley voted against the motion although mrs wedley said she would favour such a course if the appeal to the ombudsman is rejected mr mcnalley argued the only way to get action on the dump is to block the entrance to the site thus generating adverse publicity for the provincial government but according to chief walt smith there was just no chance of getting it out police estimate the fire started between 1 and 730 am and was too far advanced to be brought under control when it was discovered- chief smith said the department presumes the fire was causeidbya malfunctioning space heater vv the house oh the west side of the 10th is known locally as the john williams place as it belonged to that family for many years a house guest karen harmser sustained slight back injuries when shejumped out the window and john kearns 23 one of the tenants hurt his foot while escaping the other tenant is rick carder 24 the house belonged to fublaehbatra of don mills the house was completely consumed and was levelled right to the ground see picture page 3 some of the charred beams were still burning and smouldering in the afternoon and the owner called the fire department back to dump another 2000 gallons of water on the ashes firemen were called out again sunday evening to a minor chimney fire at the home of gord forsyth on north st former bank sold to realtor stouffville the old canadian imperial bank of commerce building at main and cjvic sts has been purchased by eric whomsley real estate the company is presently located on main st e on the main floor of the building which houses the bowling alley the bank has moved to a newly completed building at main and church sts ballantrae community centre officially opened saturday ballantrae a large crowd turned out saturday afternoon for the official opening of the 126000 extension to the ballantrae community centre mayor gordon ratcliff was accorded the honour of cutting the ribbon a short speech was given by community centre board chairman bill morrison by mpp bill hodgson and councillor bill mcnalley offered up a prayer councillor becky wedley a major supporter of the addition who helped get the project approved by council told the the whitchurch centennial centre is now officially back in operation following- the opening held there saturday afternoon those involved in the ceremony were from left mpp bui hodgson j- w centre board chairman bill morrison mayor gordon ratcliff councillor becky wedley councillor bui mcnalleyand councillor bill kampsrtf tribune that mr hodgson had been instrumental in getting final approval of wintario grants his secretary just sat on them commented mrs wedley of the 126000- total cost 31000 camefrom wintario the same from a community centres grant 13000 from the town lot fee account and 50000 in the form of a soft services fee from the felray subdivision the old hall consisted of a large room capable of holding 120 people and a second room exactly the same size was added on the rooms can be divided by a sliding wall or can be used as one large room with a capacity of 240 people three thousand square feet were added to the building and some existing rooms have been redesigned a series of small rooms in the back have now been combined into one hall with a capacity to hold 80 people a small lounge type meeting room was added and a cloak room with a capacity to hold 330 coats most groups associated with the centre set up demonstration booths and quite a few saw new members signing up several people joined the womens auxiliary which with the ex- panded facilities requires more help r about 60 people signed up for tennis although as yet there are no tennis courts it is hoped money for courts will be available this year mr morrison the chairman- is optimistic the ballantrae community will take advantage of the extended potential of the centre -f- 1