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st weekenderaprfti 24 1 993 p3 stouffville woman critical afte tuesday accident judy phillips correspondent a stouffville woman was critically injured in an accident tuesday afternoon on stouffville sideroad at about 4 pm joy rose 32 was travelling eastbound on stouffville sdrd between kennedy rd and mccowan rd in a 1993 pontiac acadian when police say she crossed the centre line crashing head on into a 1991 gmc van stouffville firefighters and three different ambulance services worked in the pouring rain for about an hour with the jaws of life to free the woman from her car she was taken by a metro toronto paramedic unit to sunnybrook hospital in toronto where she is presently in critical condition in the surgical intensive care unit driving the van was james pedwell 33 with two devolopmentally handicapped adults karen slark and robert brown also of stouffville the driver and the two passen gers were taken to hospital with minor injuries photosjud y phillips firefighters work to free joy rose 32 from her acadian after a tuesday crash in heavy rains education attorney general to be involved in bob cressman salary leak case julie caspersen staff reporter the attorney general will been recruited to root out the persons who released private information to the press about the york region board of edu cations director trustees were called to an emergency meeting last mon day when the person who anonymously leaked confiden tial details of a education director bob cressmans retire ment contract was asked to step forward and apologize through the media a deal approved by the elect ed board april 7 will allow cressman to work as a consul tant for the board for the final year of his contract that expired june 30 1994 hell receive his regular salary estimated to be as much as 135000 benefits and a car plus a 48000 consulting fee paid to cressman enterprises for helping a new director make the transition these figures are protected under freedom of information and protection of privacy rules according to the board a board news release explains that although the original plan was to have cressman in place as director in tin july 1994 and a designate director learn the ropes for a year trustees voted to retire cressman a year early and pay him for his expertise for cressman the revision recognizes the boards apprecia tion of his leadership the release said the board deeply regrets that some individual or individ uals who may have disagreed with these objectives and strategies have taken steps to attempt to embarrass the board- sarah jones spokesperson for the office of the information and privacy cressman junior kindergarten put on back burner junior kindergarten is once again on the back burner while the york region board of education waits for a per sonal response from the educa tion minister the board is one of 23 in the province that has never offered junior kindergarten although the space- has been built into regional schools con structed after 1987 the min istry of education is targeting september 1994 for the provincewide implementation of jk but the york region trustees put off formulating a plan until the ministry responds to january letter advising that the board plans to look at alternatives to tradi tional jk formats such as housing the classes outside the school placing the chil dren in with the senior kindergarten kids and having an all dayalternate day course most boards will wait for a legal mandate before institut- mayor defends towns 3 hike ing any plans and spending any money on jk curriculum superintendent win pro- cyshen said a 1990 report estimates the cost of jk to taxpayers is 45 million annually with startup cost of 187 million director of edu cation bob cressman suggest ed the trustees table the jk report and write a followup letter to the ministry asking for a reply commissioner said there are some pieces of information that the legis lation talks about educational and employ ment history as well as financial transactions are considered private personal information is pre sumed to be protected jones said wed have to look at the circumstances every case is different there are some cir cumstances when an institu tion can disclose information jones said as of noon yester day the commissioners office had not received a request from the board to investigate the alleged privacy breach the freedom of information office said any requests for an investigation could not be con firmed under the privacy laws from pagel despite an estimated growth assessment of 165 per cent staff and council worked to reduce expenses drastically rather than put them directly on your tax bill but many of these expenses are not within our control sainsbury read from a pre pared statement the mayor defended the towns three per cent hike two per cent of which will help patch miles of broken rural roadways sainsbury said outstanding taxes a six per cent hike in garbage costs to the town loss of investment interest and a poor commercial tax base all contributed to the hike i would love to see it at zero again but we dont have the advantages some of these cities and towns have sewage capacity growth and develop ment fees and excellent industrial and commer cial incomes wo are basically a rural municipali ty with few households to cover our ever increasing expenses6ainsbury said j g w t w t finance director ed blackburn said this years budget was one of the more difficult processes he has experienced in his more than two decades at the helm of stouffvilles treasury department it has been extremely difficult this year because so many things have had to be built in it was hard this year to come up with a budget acceptable to the people when a lot of people are hurting bad blackburn said the town will also chop services or financial contributions by cutting main st hanging flower budget in half- from 12000 to 6000 eliminating some parks maintenance ie grass cutting cancelling the strawberry festival annual 10000 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