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c8 economist suntribune sept 12 1s84 markham council residents compromise when residents of the amleigh heights subdivision near buttonville heard that the town of markham was planning to expand hughson park recently they were all for it that is until they found out that the level of the old section of the park was to be raised four or five feet to accomo date the new but after two public meet ings and the resolve of the town not to change its stand the residents finally settled for a compromise they will now have significant input on the type of playground the town will build and have also managed to change the name of the park from hughson to arnold were not totally happy with it but we have to accept it said ed quesnelle who acted as spokeman for the amleigh group mr quesnelle said his group objected to raising the park to the higher level for several reasons one was that it was now impossible to look into the park and see who is in it from road level it looks like a reservoir at our end of the park he said noting that at the other end where a new subdivision has been constructed the park is level with the surrounding area its beautiful at the other end but i guess were stuck with what we got he con tinued you have to walk into the park to see whats there it looks like they the town are trying to hide something ward 3 councillor fred cox said he is pleased with the new park and thinks its a great addition to the com munity from a visual point of view its 100 per cent better said mr cox its been land scaped and treed and it has a new pathway the town has received many compli ments mr cox explained that when a new subdivision north of the amleigh residents went in the developer was told he had to build a park it was de cided at that point to build one park for both communities by adding to the existing one by raising the level of the old park thats when the trouble started and the public meet ings called in addition to objections about raising the level of the old park some re sidents asked the town if a ball diamond could be instal led another resident wanted a horseshoe pit there isnt enough room for a ball diamond and a horseshoe pit just isnt appropriate said mr cox the public meetings were each attended by approx imately 100 residents mayor carole bell estimated that as much as 13000 could be saved by joining the two parks mrs bell suggested the money be used in conjunc tion with that of the developer to buy additional playground equipment and the motion was accepted the area residents who will have input as to what type of equipment will be instal led also asked that the name of the park be changed to arnold park george arnold who once owned a farm on the property where the amleigh subdivision now resides don ated the land for the original park error may cost town 2000 by christine koserski staff reporter a simple typographical error may have cost the town of markham 2000 the error was the typing of the letter y at the end of the word eight which changed a bid of 8975 to 80975 on a ten- der for new lights for the toogood park tennis courts the figure was written out in full instead of using numerals the tenders for the supply and installation of new lights for the tennis courts were opened july 19 one was from leslie palmer co with a bid of 10885 the other from re wilson electrical con tractors inc was for 80975 parks and recreation director brian wriggles worth told council he had no choice but to recommend the lower bid of 10885 even though the other bid was quite obviously meant to be 8975 about 2000 lower it bothers me that we would spend 2000 extra be cause of a typographical error said councillor do- reen quirk i feel its very dangerous that once we open a tender to assume what someone has done on a tender explained mr wrigglesworth this is an obvious error but to keep the tender process honest and above board we had to accept it regional councillor ron dancey agreed with council lor quirk i dont see why we 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