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economist sun stouflviue tribune saturday aug 14 1999 5 the millennium survey the first in a monthly series of questionnaires asking our readers to help york region plan for the future todays topic amalgamation sex tell us about you age town level of education high school college university marital status how many children in the family how long have you lived here your town what do you like most about your town what do you like least whats missing from your municipality how would you rate the quality of these municipal services poor fair good excellent road maintenance garbage removal recycling services recreation programs fire services bylaw enforcement planningdevelopment how would you rate the performance of your municipal council poor fair good excellent and why how would you rate the performance of regional council poor fair good excel lent and why changing boundaries some officials suggest amalgamation would make government more efficient and cost effective and would enhance the ability to use lands more effectively others say amalgamation will result in a loss of local identity and that government will be further removed from the resi dents it should serve do you support or oppose the idea of amalgamating some of the communities in york region why if your municipality has to join another municipality or municipalities in york region which municipalities would make the most sense to you and why circle the amalgamation option you like most georgina e gwillimbury nwmkt 1 wstouff 1 i king aurora rhill l i j markham i i vaughan wmwmwmmmmmmsmmmmmmmmmmm t georgina pel j king e gwillimbury nwmkt wstouff aurora r hill llarkham 1 vaughan mssmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmism option a york regions nine munici palities would remain as they are the municipalities would eventually report directly to the greater toronto services board regional government would be slowly phased out option b three cities one north of bloomington aur eg part of king geo nmkt northern whst two south of bloomington one east from bayview to yorkdurham line mkm part of rh part of whst one west from bayview to hwy 50 vau part of king part of rh georgina 1 king e gwillimbury nwmkt wstouff aurora r hill 1larkham 1 vaughan vaughan e gwillimbury nwmkt aurora r hill twmwmmwm wstouff markham option c york region becomes one large city option d two cities the north city king aur nmkt eg whst geo and the south city vau rh mkm option e none of these options suit you heres what you would do ihhhbbhi hh msmkmwswmk bsbhsbsbhsr v r rluv v 7 j o would you like to entfi r our draw to say thank you for taking the time to com- name pete our survey well be giving away four sets of four passes to amc interchange 301heatres address vaughan just fill out the ballot and return the entire page to the erabanner box 236 580 steven crt newmarket ont l3y 4x1 by sept 10 entry not required to participate in daytime phone survey sponsored by the erabanner as a special project to help build a better future for our communities j