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st viv tribune february 6 1991 p3 town operates like sports team cao tracy kibble staff reporter photaioerd witteveen dance an andrew walker at left and steve moore at right look as though they are bringing a little less violence tocanadas national pastime in a pickup game at an open air rink in clare- mont last week whitchurchstouffville operates like a sports team and its success depends on its players members of the whitchurchstouffville cham ber of commerce were told at an angles eatery breakfast meeting wednesday morning guest speaker bob panizza town chief administrative officer dis cussed the municipalitys adminis trative role in the community to about 40 chamber members mr panizza who has previously worked with the towns of rich mond hill and vaughan said staff at the local level often receives the biggest brunt of criticism from cit izens and said the job sometimes puts staff in an unenviable posi tion sports team but he said a municipality is like a sports team we use a team to see how suc cessful an organization is a municipality is the same set up taxpayers are the most important and are at the top then comes council chief administrative offi cer senior staff and staff mr panizza said a good organiza tion capitalizes on its strengths and weaknesses and welcomes new faces ideas and talent a poor team just plods along continuing to operate with the same old system mr panizza said his job is like a general manager of a team who interacts with the fans or taxpayers i set the tempo for the administra tion and a blueprint for the design of the future mr panizza said he said the chamber and other organizations help sell the commu nity while a town planner is like a onfloor salesman a public works town announces new appointees master plan update despite ward 1 councillor margot marshalls objections to hiring leisureplan international inc a con sultant which studied the feasibility for an indoor pool the town will hire the company again to update its recreational masterplan it was decided last week the master plan will cost 75000 of which taxpayers will pay one third the cost council briefs the last time the master plan was updated was in 1982 councillor marshall is not happy with leisure- plan and claimed the firm did not survey a sufficient number of citizens to determine the need for a pool she has stated however council supported staff recommendations to hire the consul- pholosjoehd witteveen a fla with heart the heart and stroke foundation flag was raised monday morning at the stouffville municipal offices from left are mary trull heart and stroke area coordinator for york region south jim rae stouffville campaign chair and mayor fran sainsbury tant to update the plan 1991 town appointments bylaws were passed last week to officially announce various appoint ments for 1991 scott barrett to town of whitchurchstouffville laborerequipment operator ian sutherland robert sanderson and ken tranmer as fence viewers gladys clarkson and jean barkey as museum board members john spang and morely smalley as pound keepers and diane ward as livestock valuator brian tew as facilities mainte nance foreman paul stover and eric blundon as fulltime firefighters volunteer appointments roy graham reta alcorn john phillips ivanka bradley ronald pre ston ward 1 councillor margot mar shall and ward 3 councillor nick tatone as members of the vandorf community centre ward 6 councillor jim sanders replacing councillor nick tatone m toole n emmery d probert b mcnamara and e hastings as mem bers of the lemonville community board ron robb filling vacancy left by erica hannah susan england dolores whytall helen clark carl insley ward 5 councillor doug alles as members of the whitchurch cen tennial community recreation cen tre board marran woods as member of the parks arid recreation advisory board correction last week a story on the stouf fville progress club was incorrect the club meets at la villetta restaurant and holds its meetings on the second and fourth wednes day of the month the tribune regrets any inconvenience this error may have caused director is a service manager and the building director the parts department quality staff can generate a quality product but one poor indi vidual in a company will make it falter just like in a municipality burden he said whitchurchstouffville doesnt have to grow as big as markham vaughan and richmond hill but added that some business growth will help take the burden off property taxpayers he said in whitchurchstouf fville 85 per cent of services are paid by residential taxpayers while in vaughan and markham the ratio is 50 per cent residential and 50 per cent commercial mr panizza said the town needs to set future plans in place because one day the york durham service system big pipe is going to be laying at stouffyilles boundaries developers should not dictate what happens here we should fix the puzzle and not let them bring in the pieces mr panizza said theres nothing wrong with maintaining a small town but we need some fresh money to help pay for roads that are falling apart and sewers that are collapsing mr panizza added however chamber member neil patrick said provincial and regional restrictions have kept whitchurch- stouffville from growth being a rural town with little growth is not from lack of effort from council its the province and region thats responsible for that mr patrick said and jack burrows asked if the town is lobbying these outside agencies to let our input be known mr panizza said the town is beating their heads against the wall talking to the region about getting on the big pipe but we need to have our goals in place first and the town is working towards that mr panizza con cluded fire calls up from 1 989 the whitchurchstouffville vol unteer fire department answered a total of 375 calls in 1990 up from 356 calls in 1989 according to a report from fire chief bill brown toping the list were false alarm calls which totalled 74 up from 58 in 1989- there were also 48 fires ranging from structural to chimney to garbage and car fires as well as51 vehicular accidents answered in 1990 the majority of calls came in during the month of april 38 fol lowed by june 34 the slowest month in 1990 was november with 14 calls responded to the report showed hazardous material calls were up from five to seven calls in 1990 the report also showedneither the fire chief or deputy were able to attend training courses due to increased demands at the station ward 2 forum slated for feb 13 a ward 2 allcandidates forum will be held at the whitchurch cen tennial centre wednesday feb 13 at 815 pm organized by the whitchurchstouffville public library the meeting will give candidates running for the ward 2 seat an opportunity to present their platforms and answer questions from the floor in the event that no one else runs against sole candidate stephen bellerby the meeting will still proceed with the acclaimed candidate participating carl insley of rr 2 stouffville will chair the meeting and the pub lic is urged to attend and air their views relating to ward 2 and other municipal issues home looted a whitchurchstouffville house was looted for loonies last week between 1 and 145 pm jan 31 a house at 108 westlawn cres was entered through an unlocked back door a suspect wearing light blue jeans arid a black waistlength windbreak- er made off with 1 70 in loonies thieves net 15000 a weekend breakin netted thieves 15000 in loot from a local house a house at 3 forest trail was broken into between 1030 am feb 1 around 215 pm feb 2 stereo equipment and various household items valued at 15000 are missing damage is listed at 50 extra money become a carrier today call 2948244 or 6402100 attention flyer advertisers we can deliver your flyers for as little as 312 a i piece so far this year we have delivered i 2093722 flyers doortodoor in markham i unlonville mllllken stouffville uxbrldge and i surrounding rural routes j we can deliver your 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