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st weekender january 11 1997 p 3 region several scenarios debated for regional city from page 1 provincial representative from the who does what secretari at if the province could pro- vide any direction on which way the committee should go in trying to flush out legiti mate solutions in reducing government in york region barnes somewhat vaguely explained that as a result of the stilltobeannounced leg islative changes contained in bill 26 municipalities will have a greater opportunity to be the authors of their own destiny the changes will allow more local decision making in trying to determine the future governance model barnes said we are building processes that allow you to exercise more power over the decision but there is no map no template he made it clear that the government will be up to its ears in legislative change over the next three months it seems the province would rather the threatened regions come up with their own restructuring solution howev er as cox pointed out thats difficult without knowing exactly what the changes will be and barnes was definitely not specific mayor hates regional city idea says stouffville will go it alone by joan ransberby staff reporter whitchurchstouffville has both the will and the way to go it alone mayor wayne emmer- son told the tribune friday with a regional committee made up of york councillors agreed thursday to a study that could see the reduction of the number of york regions municipalities the mayor of whitchurchstouffville made it clear he wants no part of a nine municipality scheme to have york region amalgamate into a city whitchurchstouffville is very financially viable and can stand on its own emmerson said blending yorks municipalities into a city would only benefit large communities emmerson said under this only the rural municipalities have something to lose markham and vaughan wouldnt lose he said while emmerson is predicting that municipal elections will be held in whitchurchstouf fville in november he admits the final decision lies with the provincial gov ernment if premier mike harris decides that the town of whitchurchstouffville will continue to be and that an election is in order emmerson said his name will be on the ballot for the mayors job emmerson regional cao alan wells warned the committee they can count on municipalities expenditures increasing four and fivefold over the next few years and told them to expect radical drastic changes from the province many including wells believe those changes will include municipalities finan cial structure changes in gen eral taxation including what property taxes should or should not pay for changes in the services municipalities will provide which services will be taken over by the proposed gta services board and how those bills will be paid regional councillor gord landon brought up the very real possibility that drastic legislative changes in- the financial picture will force amalgamation as smaller towns will no longer be able to survive independently vaughan mayor lorna jack son told the committee she was up until 3 am working on her plan three cities based on the federal riding boundaries that would then elect councillors and a mayor she said if council did not submit their own solution the province would likely follow the same format it did with toronto using federal riding boundaries to create one huge city- but even after two years of discussion plus the undeni able fact that push has finally come to shove the smaller towns are not going down without a fight king townships mayor mar garet black refuses to consider amalgamating with the larger urban municipalities like markham and vaughan she suggested with the sup port of whitchurchstouffville mayor wayne emmerson that the region submit a plan to keep all nine municipalities and their regional government because it works richmond hill mayor bill bell a member of the who does what panel said he sup ports the idea of troy one big city because that will allow communities to keep their identity to that east gwillimbury mayor jim mortson said one of every three people he talks to begs him not to turn their town into part of a megacity they want to keep our rural atmosphere and east gwillim bury will fight this very hard he said after more than three hours councillors approved a motion to have staff reexamine boundaries and the impact of boundary changes- to try and submit to commissioner milt farrow suggestions on what responsibilities a gta services board should have and to meet again to discuss the issue public works snow costs have dropped in whitchurchstouffville s on duty this new town of whitchurchstouffville snowplow sands 10th line just south of main street on thurs day jan9 just before the first snowstorm of the year hit photosjoerd witteveen by joan ransberry staff reporter while stouffville along with the rest of southern ontario got walloped with the first major storm of the year thurs day night local taxpayers got a break the cost of old man winter has dropped while the heavy equipment operators from whitchurch- stouffville works department were out in full force in the early part of the evening and a skeleton crew worked until 330 am at least they knew money was not a concern the town could afford the storm last year whitchurchstouf fville council earmarked 244800 for snow plowing and snow removal but the winter of 96 ended up costing 217000 we came in under budget stressed paul whitehouse local public works director meteorologist are now con firming that weather is indeed changing in some parts of the world including here in canada when it comes to winter todays culprit is black ice we had reports of black ice as early as the late fall said whitehouse when dealing with black ice we jump on it early we have to jump on it blaqk ice is very dangerous he said while snow snow and more snow seems to occupy most peoples minds the white stuff is not the high ticket item on the winter budget the cost of salting 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