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page 18 the tribune thursday dec 4 1969 ward 1 councillor victor rudik of pickering township addresses a meeting of the rural ratepayers association in the brougham hall peter harris farm assessment a serious problem a a wall york cty farm assessment is a very cru cial issue these days in york county it is far from being a simple ques tion there are many im plications not only for the farm industry but for small landowners rural estates and in fact every resident id like to report here on the most recent step that is the report given by the committee on farm assessment and taxation to the provin cial government this committee was ap pointed last june by the minister of municipal af fairs in recognition of the impact that market value assessment would have on farm incomes the provincial treasurer was quoted as follows generally the govern ment believes that the property tax on working farms should be consider ably lower than on non- farm properties because of the limited ability of working farms to pay taxes out of current in come e 1111 mhvkh 4 what too expensive this is all it costs to grow holstein heifers the purina way feed costs reason 25 lbs nursing chow 140 lbs calf startena 580 lbs calf growena 4000 lbs hay 13000 lbs silage 35 lbs dairy mineral 470 lbs heifer chow spec 940 lbs own grain a total feed cost of 465 882 3248 6000 6500 329 2209 2350 a highly fortified milk re- placer supplies nutrients vitamins and antibiotic pro tection more milk for mar ket is even cheaper than surplus milk develops strong honed big calves feed free ehoice for 2 months feed from 2 months to 6 months refer to feeding brochure for recommended program 21983 to raise a heifer weighing 1200 lbs after calving at 24 months of age why not put your heifers on a research proved growing program the purina program from your local purina dealer stouffville coop assoc 47 edward st phone 6401550 pickerings place in regional govt services for century city will be costly one question with three answers brougham under the new system of regional government what will happen to the twp of pickering at a panel discussion organized by the north pickering ratepayers as sociation three main opinions were expressed join a region with oshawa become a borough of metro toronto remain as it is speakers on the subject included mrs margaret scrivener a member of the metro toronto plan ning board john camer on of greenwood victor rudik councillor ward 1 and dr eugene labrie pickering rr 1 hon darcy mckeough minister of municipal af fairs feels that pickering should become part of an oshawaoriented region while the township coun cil is in unanimous agree ment that the municipality should be a borough of metro john cameron argued that there was little use in forming opinions with out first obtaining the facts he charged that a plebescite on the issue dec 6 was premature since there was little fac tual information available the committee was composed of a n mac- kay chairman and e a hazlett don middleton peter lindley milton mowbray carl bateman jack fraser and m r sather their main recommen dation was that preferen tial treatment be given to farm land the value should be based on mar ket value subject used by arda under this schedule the maximum rate would be two hund red dollars per acre and the minimum fifteen this would apply only to farm land and the committee defined farm land as land that is pro ducing a farm product and if less than 11 acres in size the gross annual re venue from farm products must exceed two thou sand dollars the committee also recommended that farm land be eligible for ex emption from certain municipal rates if the land does not benefit di rectly from the service as is now provided for in section 37 of the act the final recommenda tion was that a transfer payment be made to municipalities to prevent a serious shift of the tax burden to nonfarm prop erties announce new healing substance shrinks piles exdostvebcaudg substance proven to 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meetings should have been held and reasons for going one way or another expressed he feels that a vote on the question should be deferred councillor rudik him self a professional plan ner estimated a popula tion of over 7 million per sons east of metro by the year 2000 if you allow it to spread at random he said you will have another new york he argued that the ability to plan this growth does not lie with oshawa prof labrie an advo cate of the rural way of life recommended that pickering be left alone un til such time as metro re quired additional land he suggested that annexation proceedings could be started when the need for metro expansion becomes apparent if bay ridges wishes to go to metro then let them but let this territory remain rurally governed until the time comes when the land is needed and the need can be demonstrated he said mr labrie said he was opposed to consoli dation and pointed to the school system as an ex ample of what can occur you drive down the level and drive up the cost he continued mr labrie admitted that some services would be derived through amal gamation with metro but would benefit the rural regions very little you dont have that much need for them he said but you will pay for them councillor rudik argu ed that to separate the rural and urban regions v paulcoppin i contracting ltd uxbridge speak ing before a gathering of ontario county conserva tives mr darcy mcke ough stated that to have a new community the size of century city would in volve a great deal of mon ey on the part of the de velopers to provide for would present an un workable region water sewers and roads mr mckeough was reply ing to a question on what information he had re garding the development he added that stouff ville was located close to the area and it would not be advisable to have two towns so close he sug gested the two might be joined as well as an area of ontario county or york he said that no of ficial development appli cation had come before his department 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