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frequent tax billing meets opposition sal bommarito staff reporter sleigh bells rin photossteve somerville murray grove has a great way to spend the holi days the 9th line resident rents sleighs carriages and the like and here he takes youngsters from chickadee day care for a christmas ride from left are lisa zeck becky nighswander rean leadbeat- er tonya lowe kari haliburton matthew nigh swander adam messam and harvey nighswander who drove the children and murray grove council had right to call meeting ward 6 councillor ken prentice wants to see more frequent tax billing but the idea met with stiff opposition from councillors and staff prentices request that staff prepare a report on the cost implications of sending bills out more frequently was rejected by council however town treasurer ed blackburn said he would take the councillors comments into advisement the town presently does its tax billing on a quarterly basis but prentice believes people are having trouble meeting the lumpsum payments because of the difficult economic times a more frequent due date would give people more flexibility said prentice more frequent billings would cost the town more in postage and admin istration costs to process the payments said blackburn its another due date we have to deal with he said the town sends out 7800 tax bills four times a year of those 4000 are transactions at the counter he said the quarterly billings also coincide with payment deadlines the town has to meet said mayor fran sainsbury the town has to meet dates for payments to the region and board of education these are very large sums she said ward 5 councillor bob ancheril supported prentice in a recession we have to be more sensitive to people every year is different we have a responsibility to be sensitive and act accordingly he said blackburn said staff tries to be flexible and sensitive to individuals whenever possible when collecting taxes if a businesses late and it means closing the doors we try to be under standing said blackburn sal bommarito staff reporter a spurofthe moment council meeting which dealt with a defeated mayoral candidates request for a recount of the elec tion results was within the law according to the towns chief administration officer the meeting was called directly following the regular council-in- committee meeting to approve a motion rejecting wayne emmer- sons request for a recount of the nov 1 1 results the issue of whether the town acted within its rights was raised by ward 6 councillor ken pren tice at tuesday nights council meeting just days after the same question was raised by emmer- son at a press conference held at his home last week emmerson said at the press conference the move by council in committee was contrary to the municipal act whats the required notice for us to call a council meet ing is it 48 hours queried prentice bob panizza while acknowl edging the pro cedural rules of the act specify 48 hours notice is required maintained council acted proper ly panizza you can wave the procedural tules council can call meetings anytime it wants panizza said mayor fran sainsbury echoed panizzas comments saying the notification clause exists so that the public and press can be prop erly notified of a council meet ing but since the press was in attendance and so was the candi date no notification is required said sainsbury panizza said council was told to formally adopt the motion relating to emmerson s request for a recount to meet the dec 14 deadline out lined in the municipal act if its not adopted by council its not in accordance with the municipal act said panizza driver killed in accident frannie lipson correspondent a leaskdale man was killed in a head on collision early last wednesday morning with a claremont driver clinton harrison 20 died when his vehicle struck another on webb rd west of the third concession near uxbridge the driver of the second vehicle was craig reynolds 36 of claremont he was transferred from uxbridge cottage hospital to a toronto hospital with undetermined but non life threatening injuries said durham regional police spokesman sgt scott a passenger in the second car received minor injuries police did not have his name or descriptions of the vehicles scott said the accident occurred at 1245 am it appeared the two vehi cles met at the brow of a hill and neither had seen the other approaching charges against reynolds arepending depending on results from samples sent to the forensic lab scott said dean ww no downpayments 5786 main st stouffville 46423655 on selected models suhbirds safari vans buick gmc and pont forget we offer no monthly payments sunoss 1000 cxhiack no interest for 90 days but huwwkffekds jan 792 on all remaining 92 cars trucks js if i i 11 if 1 ss m a