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buy any tuna chicken or egg sandwich ana a soup and receive a free small coffee or pop 435 plus tax dainty donuts deli 1 8 ringwood drive stouffville i uj money m concepts rkops call 6424540 6132 main street stottffrihe vol 109 no 8 ameiroldht y fel 97 tatcham hall board dispute resident calls for councillors resignations by joan ransberry staff reporter the chairman of a now defunct townappointed board is calling for the resignation of two whitchurchstouffville councillors charging that they orchestrated an unfair move to get rid of the board guy castonguay chairman of the former latcham hall board said he was shocked hurt and bewildered after council disbanded without any notice the sixmember board that he chaired on tuesday with the excep tion of councillors ivanka bradley and mike watson whitchurchstouffville coun cil went along with a move by councillors cliff dunkeld and mark kostandoff both hall board members to dissolve the twoyearold board duties of the board will now be carried out by town staff no other hall boards will be touched stressed mayor wayne emmerson emmerson told the tribune not alerting the board prior to the council meeting was a mis take it was an error in judge ment we should have talked to them he said kostandoff agreed maybe it was a mistake he said dunkeld defended councils action the matter was put to council without notice because we didnt want them board members to go out and make public statements before it went to council said dunkeld castonguay wants to know why the board was disbanded we never complained about the workload so why is it an issue he asked while no board member com plained about the workload council agreed that volunteers shouldnt have to do so much explained kostandoff some board members got calls in the middle of the night we cant expect this of volun teers pride stopped the volunteers from complaining about the workload kostandoff said it was pride i think they were too proud to say anything kostandoff said hes sur prised at the board members reaction they shouldnt feel grieved by this they did won derful work there was never anything improper done the option of disbanding the board was discussed at the feb 3 board meeting kostandoff explained yes disbanding was dis cussed it was mentioned as a way wed relieve all of the work he said however the issue of the workload was not discussed at that or any other meeting kostandoff said in a press release issued by exboard member sue sherban she states that coun cil got rid of the board because some members took a recent hall rental problem to the local media emmerson denies this the board just wasnt working out said emmerson lets just get on with it castonguay and sherban are province may force zero budget says school boards vicechair by mike adler staff reporter york region public school trustees must pass a zero increase budget this spring or the province may force them to do it the public boards vicechair claims the education improvement commission not yet even created by the government will have power to approve or change 1997 school board budgets karen barker said last week and education minister john snobelen dis pleased that many boards raised mill rates last year will have the power to stop them she argued the board cannot increase taxes this year said barker a newmarket trustee our indication is that any budget that has a tax increase attached to it would automatically be sent back to the board she said barker the boards chief labor negotiator made her remarks in response to teachers union demands for full restoration of prepara tion time without the 184 per cent tax increase it has levied in previous years we have to find another 8 million barker added noting most of the boards budget goes to pay teachers its not hard to make some conclusions on where the cuts will have to be made she said the boards finance superintendent however cautioned that not much is known on how the commission which would be created if bill 104 becomes law will operate until they issue their guidelines nobody knows what they will do said bruce richardson the group of appointees would under the law be able to make any change that it considers please see page 8 questioning statements made at the council meeting mean while castonguay wants kostandoff and dunkeld to resign from council i think kostandoff and cliff dunkeld should hand in their resignations im very disappointed with cliff dunkeld he joined the board on dec 11 he attended two meetings how does this make him an authority on what we do dunkeld attended the only two meetings scheduled since he was appointed to the board kostandoffs attendance at board meetings last year was please see page 8 helpful mend sarah voss 12 gets help delivering weekenders from her gold en retriever whiskey recently also helping out with the delivery service on lane street in claremont was sarahs mom aleta photo sjoerd witteveen auto tflnfloinn tire w centre hours monday friday 800 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