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are your diamonds secure ewellers across from clock tower stouffville your impost repair speoaust repair speciaust 172 bullock drive un1t31markham 4718660 vol 8 no 6 a metroland community newspaper saturday feb 8 1992 56 pages 25 cents 41000 copies taxes may rise three per cent budget being cut to bare bones and tax hike unavoidable mayor sal bommarito staff reporter taxpayers face an unavoid able tax increase of three per cent or less in 1992 mayor fran sainsbury confirmed this week sainsbury said council is using that figure as a guideline when preparing this years budget but it could be less depending on the final budget council has been looking at budget cuts and staff reorganization as a means of achieving that guideline said sainsbury staff is cutting budgets to the bare bones there may be some staff shuffling and some staff may have to move laterally were looking at how to stream line our operations she said closeddoor preliminary budget deliberations began jan 28 and 29 with two daylong sessions those meetings are ongoing until march 24 when council is expected to release its first draft of the budget carrie purceil here with three llamas at her home the ontario association of veterinary techni- at lionels equestrian centre was selected as cfans technician of the year piirceu named yet teeh of year johnandrews correspondent 1 the award consists of a trophy the winner province ated twice from different d ects that ithin sunnybrook hospital seal sunnybrook hospi- w r kiit- t fill u vflfs ftk 1 1 hfth js sainsbury a second draft should be com pleted by april 7 sainsbury said a zero per cent tax increase is unrealistic in light of a 12 per cent increase in hydro and increases in other services you dont put the recession on the backs of one municipality said sainsbury for staff salary increases sainsbury said it has been councils practice in the past to use the metro toronto- area cola cost of living allowance as a guideline the cola has been set at three per cent this year she said sainsbury said staff salary increases will also depend on union negotiations something the town hasnt had to deal with in the past the town have never had a union in the town of whitchurch- stouffville she said sainsbury denied senior staff will be given increases of between six per cent and nine per cent ed hakonson owner of choko design accused the town of con sidering large salary- increases for senior staff including the chief administration officer bob panizza at last tuesday nights council in committee meeting i couldnt figure out what hakonson was talking about towii staff havent asked for between six per cent and nine per cent theyve always lived with three per cent she said sainsbury said because town staff are making 14 per cent less than employees in other municipalities stouffville is being used as a training ground by qualified individuals who eventually move on to more lucrative positions with larger municipalities the town has decided in some cases its just as costly to raise salary grids rather than spend a tot of money to advertise for qualified individuals sainsbury said staff salary increases have decreased from 95 per centin 1985 to 49 per cent last year she said services such as road clearing fire protection and snowplowing the windrows for seniors among other services will have to be provided music town signs raise concerns sal bommarito staff reporter the chamber of commerce is surprised by a proposal to have music town symbols placed on welcome signs at town entrances according to one of its directors harold van dyke made the comment at tuesday nights councilincommittee meeting which dealt with a proposal by jim thomas a representative for the music town committee tm a director of the chamber of commerce and im surprised to see the proposal for the name on the sign the directors dont know anything about this van dyke told councilthomas proposes signs incorporating a symbol designed by john roberts an art teacher at stouffville sec ondary school be installed above the welcome signs the cost of installing the signs would run between 125 and 300 council passed a motion to refer the proposal to staff for further discussion with thomas and other groups affected bythemove mayor fran sainsbury said welcome signs were jointly constructed by the town and the chamber of commerce with the under- t standing service clubs be allowed to utilize the signs ward 6 councillor ken prentice also a member of the towns economic advisory committee suggested the item be dealt with in that forum if the economic advisory committee is going to promote the town the proposalshould be run by them said prentice the signs are going to be at the entrances of town it is important we want to get it right he said ward 2 council lor steve bellerby said the issue may be one of ownership wardl councillor ivanka bradley suggested the sign may have to be entirely redone cwef administration officer bob panizza reminded council of its 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