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economist suntribune transportation s saturday march 4 2000 taxpayers on hook for gtsb by usa queen staff writer property owners in the greater toronto area will be paying 200 per cent more to keep the greater toronto services board running this year local taxpayers will be on the hook for 2 million this year including 315504 from york region residents and business owners thats a 211percent increase over last year when property owners kicked in 668200 york which is responsible for 152 per cent of the budget con tributed 101570 in 1999 but the gtsb had the benefit of a 499000 grant from the province last year during the boards firstyear of oper ation the board which approved its 2000 budget at its monthly meeting friday is now going it alone the budget has increased from 118 million last year to 2 million which includes a 186655 jump in administra tion costs and a 540000 hike in com mittee and workshop costs the board will spend 805000 on strategies to address issues facing the sprawling area that includes toronto and york durham peel and halton regions by far the largest amount is the 550000 set aside to conduct new stud ies and bring together past research to deal with the gtas transportation crisis but not all the politicians are con vinced the money on consultants is wellspent local government is just a gravy train for consultants mississauga mayor hazel mccallion said a lot of taxpayers money can slip away its so easy to say we can bring in a consultant and all levels of are guilty of it im not picking on the gtsb but gtsb executive director lynn morrow argued the board isnt hiring consultants in the traditional sense that they would work independently to bring in their own reports instead the consultants will work with municipal staff in some cases the gtsb will pay existing staff to do work for the board it so happens the best brains to do gis mapping are in york region morrow said but they cant do it by themselves so were going to hire somebody to 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