LETTERS TO THE EDITOR THE HERALD Wednesday May IB Page clarifies comments on townhall To the or The Herald On Monday May Town Council of the Town of Hal ton Hills held a special meeting to consider the needs of the Firemen In Ward I and the future of the town hall May I take this opportunity to clarify a few comments that we made at that Special Meeting Elliott on behalf of the Citizen Group made on ex cell en presentation and was pleased to learn that everyone recognized the need of the firemen and were desirous that thiir facilities be updated immediately The Citizens will be pleased lo learn that a meeting has already been held to finalize their plans The second part of the motion establishes a special committee lo explore ways and means to fund the restoration of the town hall In Acton by government grants and private donations During the discussions on Monday evening I referred to FANTASTIC SUPPORT Mrs Bert Benton spruces up the display of baked goods for sale at the Minor Sports sale Saturday Support has been fantastic for the organization VERT SQ SPECIALS Acrylic Saturday May 21 An exciting button Iron capos So soft so charm so very patterns hind crochet some with Wishable 100 acrylic in white or be go an earlier and by the reaction or the audience I believe that they were not aware or the report In the fall of 1967 Ihe Acton Town Council commissioned and received a report from an and on engineer dated October 1967 Tills report commented on many concerns in Mr Alan Zecgan report drew ell a attention to the brick the exterior and concluded J GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN MARKET CENTRE a folio We from Inspection that any extensive renovations of this building would be uneconomical and it would be much more practical to phase out the use of this that eventually its use would be discontinued The economics of a new building a similar floor space would be mare favourable than carrying necessary to utilize the top floor of this budding Since 11 in the late DO and members of council that time spoke on Monday namely Duby Tjter Marks and McKenzie removed the stairs when they renovated the Police office and did not provide funds to make the building structurally safe one must conclude that the majority of councillors at least accepted the report When Elliott illustrating Actons ability to fund special projects he among others the I ion Pool Reader opposes money spent to save townhall To the editor of He Recent stories in your paper concerning the old Town Hall in Acton compel me to write this letter In my humble op Town Council was entirely correct in recommending the demolition of this crumbling edifice on Willow Street and the fact that they have swayed by a number of signatures on petitions mostly school children is not lo their credit Since most of the children who signed cither have no idea or care about the cost I feel it deceitful to sign petitions and wave their little signs at the Municipal There Is an urgent need for this property and could be put to belter use at less cost to the Taxpayers us an enlarged ire Hall and parking tot In ihe same issue there is a complaint from the Downtown Merchants concerning loitering mid behaviour some of our teenagers and young adults with the com men that we cannot afford to Police Officers lo patrol the Surely In this en of the creased cost of everything should be very careful of priorities the lion of tired old buildings should be very low on the list Let us not forget that even y obtained from grants foundations is ultimately our money as these foundations are generally funded by the Government who pltks our pocket to gel money and the only woul not like to see one dollar of tax spent on this project Lion Club spearheaded this project but the funding came from many sources Federal and Provincial Winter Project Com Centre Grant Hilton Board of Education 10 Lot Levies Special Reserve Fund Public Do mil Ions through Lion Club Municipal Taxes In Hills Total cost project Since Acton is now part of Hills some of us may not realize that when project is or financed out axes the ratepayers of Township farmers or semi urban dwellers pay dollar for dollar with you and me This explains Councillor Miller and Patterson concern for tilt of this project and how It was 10 be financed It might be interesting to note that In 1977 a project costing one mill In VOTERS ARE YOU ELIGIBLE TO VOTE on Thursday June Qualified voters must be on the NEW of VOTERS in order to vote to you TO THE