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2 - Approve new arena for Scugog ny Remaining By October 1976, Scugog "township youngsters could #pe slap shooting their way around the ice of a band new, $750,000 arena. SES CYT RA a 128 XJ Rr ORO tl Ht] y i A ' . LL hE 1 dy . ov i.e Ta J] AR YW 3 SR ES TRE SATE BY SR EIR SV AAT aS Lal SIE Adi SED A a yr ee I's just a matter of time, now that Scugog Township Council has approved the building of the single-pad arena at the 47-acre landfill site on the 7th concession, Ward 1. The approval came at the Monday meeting of Council after New Arena Committee Vol. 109 -- PORT PERRY, ONTARIO, Wednesday, March 12, 1975 -- No. 18 28 Pages Region or Scugog | Who's to handle services? Water, sewage, and solid waste disposal should follow regional guidelines and standards but should be handled by the municipal- ities, say some members of Scugog township council. - The question about what policy to follow came up at the Monday meeting of coun- cil after a Gore and Storie Ltd. report for the Region of Durham on Water, Sewage _and solid Waste Disposal. Water, Sewage and solid Waste Disposal. Qne of the concerns in the past has been a $7,100 water bill from the Region of Dur- ham Works. Department. That's a deficit, despite the fact that Scugog turned $19,000 in surplus water funds over to the région -when~that new body took Scugog township Council Monday night decided it was not of their 'business if the Town Hall 1873 used the facilities in the partially Hospital Report Week Ending February 6th. ~ Admissions ...,..... REN, Emergencies Operations Discharge...... decide, over the water services. Who subsidizes who was also a concern, with southern communities insisting Scugog is subsidized for some things while Scugog pays its share of day care and police--yet getting no direct benefit. Coun. Bob Kenny reaffirm- ed his "opposition from the start" to flat rating systems _throughout the region. He said the only thing that has happened is that the town- -ship is getting bigger bills to pay. He said the community could have handled the ser- vices easily, with no increase in staffs, probably more economically. While he could see regional handling of the water source and storage (wells_and holding | Structural work complete, ~ Old Town Hall put to use renovated basement of the old town hall on the corner of Lilla and Queen Streets. The Town Hall committee requested council to allow _ the basement to be used by a once-a-week art class, now that the structual work on thé basement has been completed. ~~ Although council informed the committee that it was not a malter for council to the resolution includes 'a request for the commiltee. to consider insurance obligations. tank), the distribution and the handling of bills should 'be carried out by the local municipality. "We have less to do today then ever before," he said, "except for roads and dele- gations. We have no real authority in planning..." Chairman, Howard Hall, out- lined a commiltee report including five alternate fin- ancing schemes that juggled different quantities of funds from government, public. subscription, corporate donations, taxes and deben- ture amounts, to fit the $750,000 goal. The accepted proposal calls for the raising of $200,000 through public organization, corporation donation, $250,000 through the issuing of a five-year debenture, and an additional $75,000 each year in 1975 and 1976 through the tax bill. The scheme also involves using $75,000 from present accumulated lot levies on hand, and $75,000 from a community centres grant. Although the $200,000 donations figure is double that of the other four altern- atives, Mr. Hall called it ambitious, but possible. He said raising money through such a campaign would mean a greater awareness and participation by the pub- lic, one that would not be 'generated simply by slap- ping on a debenture to cover the cost. An amendment to the resolution passed by council stipulates that the debenture amount of $250,000 may be increased to cover any short- fall in the canvass. Unlike most of the other proposals, the scheme would not include lot levies on projected developments. It was pointed out in the report that: these levies could be used to offset the debenture if council so desired in the future. Coun. Reg Rose was one of those who opposed a Ve lh Se E nr of ' . ; ; HACIA i a a EE case, the arena was clearly meant to replace the old, and not to augment present facilities. Main stumbling block expected 'by the committee was the size and length of time of the debenture, and alternate schemes in the report ranged from a $625,000 debenture over 20 years to $250,000 over 10 years. The 10-year figure in the acceptable alternative was reduced to five years by council, after Mr. Hall out- lined figures calculated with the help of the auditor. To raise the $40,686 a year under the 10-year debenture, Scugog's mill rate would increase 2 mills, Reach 2.7 mills, Port Perry 3 mills and Cartwright 4.2 mills. Under the five-year deben- ture, the $65,900 that would have lo be raised annually would mean a rate hike of 3.29 for Scugog, 4.45 for Reach, 4.94 for Port Perry, and 6.92 for Cartwright. The debenture would not become payable until 1977, therefore allowing the com- munity to raise the $75,000 by taxes Lhis year and next without a huge jump in the mill rate. That would result should both be applied in the same year. AVY YA . 14 FEA 4 CBIR ' Using his own house as an example, Mr. Hall said he would be paying an additional $24.00 this year and 1976, and in the following 10 years, $16.00 to pay for the debenture. The house is assessed at $4,825. : Mr. Hall said that all figures have a built-in safety (continued on page 15) Open House For those who want to see just what is being done at the old town hall on the corner of Lilla and Queen Streets, the Town Hall 1873 Committee is hosting an open house Thursday, Friday and Satur- day this week between the hours of 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. With committee restora- tion efforts in full swing, visitors will not only get an idea about what has been done, but also what is proposed. Charts, diagrams and plans will be available at the site. The open house is designed to familiarize the com- munity with the efforts to save the prominent land- mark, and to try to boost community support for the project. Workers recalled as GM sales peak General Motors of Canada announced today that over 6,100 of its employees at heavy reliance on such _Qshawa and St. Catharines future lot levies, saying .it would raise a moral question of getling the newcomer to pay for something that is basically of benefit to the entire community. If it was a matler of paying for a second ice surface to meet an increasing demand, felt Coun. Rose, it would be appropriate to use future lot levies. But he said in this A hearty well-done for 'Suzanne Doupe and friends who sculptured this snow bug during a morning session at Prince Albert Public = School. conditions just right last Thursda With » youngsters at the 5 plants who had been on temporary layoff for the week of March 3 will be back to work on Monday, March 10. As of March 10, all lines at Oshawa will be back to two- shift production. The com- pany had previeusly announced a shift reduction on its full-size Chevrolet and Pontiac lines, with employees on the first shift working the week of Feb- ruary 24 and second shift employees working the week of March 3. The employee call-back has been assisted by GM of Canada's record sales in February, 1975, with new car sales showing a 10.3 percent increase over February, 1974. Sales of GM cars and trucks in the United States, while not showing such spec- tacular gains, are also stead- ily increasing. school headed for the playground to build scores of the. snow sculptures, including this snow bug, a huge dinosaur and many more. From left are artists Sharon Moore, 11, Tina Arnold, 12, and Suzanne Doupe, 12. A es SSE El NT NA Ro 9 = S LESTE Sag) 4