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Decision on York salary hike mileage probably Thursday NEWMARKET York Regional Councillors are ex pected to decide tomorrow whether to give themselves a mileage allowance along with a pay increase But first theyll have decide the proper procedure for getting the consensus of a Jan caucus meeting onto the council snafu on the matter Members knew what they wanted to recommend to council but they wound up taking no action On Jan 7 the new council held a closed caucus meeting to standing committees legal status Solicitor Edward Oakes advised the committee Monday but neither was it And Newmarket Mayor Bob Forhan who chaired the caucus said he had no authority to report to the administrative committee on the caucus recommendations The ad ministrative committee com prises Yorks nine mayors He made that remark near the end of an extended discussion on salaries for councillors and Regional Chairman Garfield Wright So the committee decided to strike from the record all Its discussions on salaries and let Mayor report directly to council tomorrow afternoon It was clear however that the caucus had decided to raise councillors salaries from to apiece and to pay Mr Wright plus fringe benefits However there was disagreement on whether council members should get a mileage allowance for trips on business At present they do not Markham Mayor Tony Roman new administrative committee chairman said he understood that the caucus wanted an allowance for councillors of cents per mile Mayor meanwhile argued that all expenses should come out of a councillors THE Since I VOL NO NEWMARKET AURORA KESWICK ONTARIO JAN Community school grant unlikely Shannon I Ontario grant under a new community use of schools program has probably scuttled any chance of Newmarket receiving a grant this spring under the same program ac cording o town recreation Dan Shannon The school board has ap plied for the grant to hold a conference of education and service agencies on community use of schools Newmarket applied for one or more of the grants made available in December by Education Minister Tom Wells The town wants to operate a pilot community school program In the community school concept said Mr Shannon the community school becomes the centre of leisure lime activity within a chosen geographical area and includes not only the community school but other neighborhood facilities such as pools arenas parks and churches got the grant now mainly because the hoard of education has applied for a grant to handled a Dec meeting with teachers at Huron Heights Secondary school which ho was to explain community use of schools He said he was informed in the morning that he was to speak that afternoon and that teachers had not been given Copies of his detailed brief in I advance This very short notice created a negative bordering on i Extend St speed limits extended feet north and south St and l feet west on Highway town council point on Saturday morning he had only bee while winning us games during the fund exhibition Upper Canada Mall com phi Student blind man win draw against chess champion man and a high school student were among those boat or at least hold to a draw chess master Walter during a Mall Thursday Friday and Saturday Mr won 140 games lost two and drew Newmarket and Andy a Huron Heights Secondary moves the same number Mr had taken to defeat him in an earlier game It was a totally different game Andy said Monday of the second contest Doth of them were pretty good games although did get wiped in our first one The Newmarket youth has been playing chess for only two years having gained an interest in the game after receiving a chess set from his Sha for ANDY TEMPLKTON Since then he has won the York County public school area one junior cham pionship Among the four players who held Mr to a draw was nay a blind chess player from York Other players who held the visiting chess master to a draw were Eric Penrose of It Newmarket Sebastian of St Newmarket and Tom of It Cookstown The benefit threeday exhibition raised for the Canadian National In stitute for the Blind Objection to furniture mart is withdrawn NEWMARKET Council decided Monday to withdraw its objection to a St nine- acre furniture mart proposed for construction just over Newmarkets northwest boundary in East Gwilllmbury Council had strenuously opposed plans for the huge retail store when they came before York Regional council and it filed objection to the Ontario Municipal Board suggesting that the store would open the Monday council adopted a report of its coordinating committee recommending that Thomhill church bids for bingos NEWMARKET A Thornhill church wants to run a weekly bingo in the new com munity centre and the town lie Paul opened negotiations with i from its food and drink council was told When Mayor Rob asked if the committee had considered what would happen to local organizations raising money through the operation of Regional Councillor Ray Twinncy recreation chairman said the only bingo left was the annual event run by the Newmarket fire department Councillor Tom Taylor pointed out the proposed agreement would contain a clause allowing the town to terminate it if a local group wished to enter the bingo field Make it known the hall can be rented for We might have a local club ready to take it on said the mayor He insisted that any agreement come back council before being signed by be made with he Thornhill church The com munity centre is going to be a very expensive building to operate he pointed out Eld We substitutions but there is a minute rest period every lion The oilier nine will be Hilly Smith Dennis I Hill Mil huso i will be in of the two teams Police benefit for Big Brothers NEWMARKET A York Regional Police team will play a benefit hockey game with the Six Nations from Feb to raise money for Big Brothers of York A game between the CFTO- When Yorks first regional council met in It staged a fullscale debate on the mileage question and decided not to permit councillors to collect mileage money Mayor said he did not submit a report of the caucus to councils Jan 9 inaugural meeting because he felt it would have been inappropriate The prime purpose then he said was to elect a regional chairman One of the temporary effects of the delay on settling the pay question is that Mr Wright Is now being paid on the basis of last years council stipend Up to Jan when he became councils first elected chairman he was a provincial appointee Last year he was paid about including fringe benefits The region provides him with a car More red Hags as York province dash over housing Era News Editor NEWMARKET The Ontario government last week waved two more red flags in York Regions race widening the housing policy rift between the two levels of government York and the province particularly Housing Minister Donald Irvine- seem hellbent on a collision OIIAP wants helterskelter home construction In York now and planning principles doesnt have to result in emotional according to one of the men the down the store site to a specific use as a furniture mart and banning further expansion of any commercial use of these All councillors sit on co ordinating committee Its meetings are closed to press and public Council adopted the report Monday without comment Aim to break basketball world record NEWMARKET in Hie lluok of World longest MX in lasted 1 1 ins litis weekend if n lilt ijht nls 1 1 out It Iublii Si hi I will record Paul spokesman of many York officials Mr Irvine and his Ontario Housing Action Program arc the antagonists in this scenario conceived nearly a year ago is the ments answer to the housing I shortage It alms to provide new houses in a short I lime with 10 per cent of them I going to low- and medium- simplest terms the middle Charles Shelley OHAPs Housing for York Region understands why some York officials arc worried He acknowledges that administrators have made mistakes in procedure and diplomacy as they struggled to launch a i new program So hes trying to mend I some fences In particular he wants to dispel he pression that is con tinually plotting with private developers to see YORK page Public pressure building for family centre rescue NEWMARKET Once again York Regions four family life centres are going broke and once again public pressure is mounting for government funding to keep their service alive centres which have been the subject of a funding controversy for the last three years The centres in Newmarket Rich mond Hill and provide marriage and family counselling and community educational programs Although their formal funding from the region and they expect to be able to continue The region has taken the position that it will match funding with the province But the provincial government refused to commit any more money afler negotiations on a purchase of service agreement fell through late last year The petition initiated by churches in the region asks regional councillors to do everything in their power to see that centres get 100 in subsidy this year Katharine chairman of lie board of directors for the NewmarketAurora centre said in in interview Monday thai the would approximate per cent of the total budgets for Tomorrows delegation is to impress upon regional tlie four family life centres will have to close or sticall reduce our services the beginning of April if they dont receive funding she said Ms Iotl said the directors of li four centres realize thai its the responsibility of the province to fund us but they also hope the region will provide a substantial grant com parable what we received in previous years Lost year York provided about which was mat ched by the province in an in terim program contributions alone cannot maintain the service Ms Lett The Newmarket centre tripled its counselling sessions see PRESSURE page Neighbors win reprieve for trees A neigh NEWMARKET borhood protest has again stand of mature maple trees a reprieve from the bulldozer The row of six trees there were once stands on Terry and along the back of property designated for a shopping centre in the Quaker Hill subdivision Last fall when residents of Terry Dr learned Schlckedanz Developments Ltd intended to cut down the trees they trees would Friday a bulldozer began removing them and Mr Scott again on the telephone By asking that the remaining trees be included in a development plan for the a raised the ire of Mayor Bob and Regional Councillor Ray when he suggested the fate of the trees will be council has had considerable protested and v which the developer will attend Monday night town council was told ISO Quaker Hill assured by residents signed a petition has been advised that per cent of the subdivision I graded properly Mr Twinncy said pretty hard for me to accept that SO per cent of the homes In there dont meet the grades recom mended In the zoning bylaw those will be corrected he said To tell Schlckedanz to go in and disrupt per cent of the homes tear up their land scaping without having any complaints is a pretty drastic