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twbuneipqpober 14 1992 ps hydro top school phomlom emmerson jeremy schell 4 and his mother sandy schell kennedy present teacher julia topping with the tribune plaque to acknowledge the schools efforts in this years terry fox rum last week the award is given each year to the school in stouf- fville that contributes the most to the annual run airport deal undemocratic council tracy kibble staff reporter york region officials acted undemocratically when they committed taxpayers to a 2million deal with a private citizen local officials said last week the buttonville airport issue was discussed last tuesday night after officials read a resolu tion passed sept 10 by richmond hill council the neighboring municipality is calling for an investigation into the dealings surrounding the airport richmond hill politicians as reported in- the weekender are protesting yorks lack of pro cess after an 117 vote aug 27 committed public funds for the next seven to 10 yearsirichmohd hill councillprdavid cohen said citizens were not properly notified and accused the region of ramming the deal down taxpayers throats richmond hill council is opposing a threeway legal deal between markham buttonville owner michael sifton and york region taxpayers ive always had a concern of how this issue was handled people were told they would be informed the day of the vote and some were informed only 40 minutes before the meeting took place said mayor fran sainsbury who opposed the deal i hope the ontario municipal board will deal with this she added ward 5 councillor bob ancheril called for a sec ond resolution to be passed by local officials reit erating what richmond hills resolution already states york region should be careful when acting undemocratically although richmond hills res olution deals with this we should pass another resolution to show how strongly we oppose what york region has done ancheril said yorks clerk said the matter didnt make the aug 27 agenda because he received the notifica tion too late in the day and yorks chairman eldred king said he sent a letter to each regional councillor several days before the meeting king said it was up to each mayor of each municipality to notify ratepayer groups in their area of what was about to take place and markham councillors said the public had months to air their views in public forum and that the matter to spend the money was already decided york taxpayers will pay 200000 a year to turn the financestrapped private airport into a municipallyrun operation york will act as a silent partner only unlike markham which will lease the lands back to sifton markham and not york are privy to the companies financial books sifton will still run the business teen fight leaves boy bleeding on street at lunchtime last friday a group of high school students gathered on the front lawn of a main street home while several of their peers exchanged punches one boy was knocked to the ground and apparently suffered an eye injury he was taken for medical treat ment while the rest of the stu dents dispersed sdss viceprincipal jay hooper said the school is concerned about student violence and is willing to work with the community to help overcome problems that may arise in future a spokesman for york regional police suggested that any citizen witnessing this type of event should contact police immediately if the students are from the local high school and the officers arrive after the fact they will speak to the staffof the school he said if they are trespassing on your property the best thing is to give us a call right away teens involved in such incidents can be charged with assault which is a criminal offence the spokesman noted photalorieuuebson ready to read library week is being celebrated in stouffville and the staff at the main st library including barb smith and maureen redshaw were in the spirit of things this weekend hydro officials told to find better way in powerlink plans from page 1 new transformer stations built we need to strengthen the north to south lines if we are ever going to send more power from north to south we need extra lines sala said sala said voltage capacity is being drawn very fast and attributed the overload to rapid population growth in the commu nities of markham vaughan and richmond hill we need to feed a growing load in the northern part of northern ontario we need to do something to bring electricity along to the west there needs to be a solid link or connection she added but york officials slammed ontario hydros plans 4 markham councillor carole bell told hydros senior project engi neer john sinclair theres got to be a better way bell said the mess at bayview avenue and hwy 7 should never be repeated bell accused ontario hydro of engineering the hideous towers to save the company money we wouldnt let developers leave that type of blight on munici palities it is really bad look at the mess youre leaving bell said but sinclair said he could not apologize for a design at bayview and hwy 7 approved 20 years ago there are all sorts of alternatives now that was done a long time ago sinclair said but york ghairman eldred king asked the engineer why ontario hydro doesnt implement any of the alternatives the methods of construction of tomorrow are still being used today kingsaid and vaughan mayor lorna jackson said ontario hyrdb can march across our land and do what they want markham councillor gord landon asked why ontario hydro cant run the wires underground the towers are attrocious when you look at the blight in the middle of communities is there no way to bury them landon asked barton however said the technology needed to bury wires for more than 500 kilovolts at one time has not been tested nor proven and is extremely costly what do you think youre doing why should we pay a 79 per cent increase when you put up your socalled improvements ontario hydro thinks its god said king mayor marg britnell britnell also accused hydro of erecting the towers here and then selling the power to us communities if youre going to export it we shouldnt have the price increase britnell said bell urged officials to give the project a thumbs down unless york hires a power consultant to protect the regions interests officials voted to send the issue to committee for further discus sion and recommendation ban cigarette vending machines york council from page 1 too because people drink and drive scott said but vaughan councillor gino rosati said the region needs to take a leadership role were hot banning smoking smokers can still smoke were just saying they cant do it around nonsmokers rosati said council approved the fol lowing four antismoking regu lations restriction on tobacco sales to minors all stores in york selling tobacco products would have to hold a special license vending machines for cigarettes will be banned stricter warningslabelling on cigarette packages york will press the govern ment to make cigarette pack ages plain white with stronger 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