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® ® Present site has flood potential NO SCUGOG LIBRARY EXPANSION Scugog Township council should not permit any expan- sion of the War Memorial Library building on the bowl- ing green property. That is the recommend- ation made in a report pres- ented to council Monday night from the Township planning consultants which says "substantial flooding in the _library-bowling green area" could occur in the event of a major storm. The report goes on to say that "minor storms can cause flooding on the bowl- ing green and back-up of the storm run-off to the extent where it weirs over John Street. Last month, council asked the Township planners to prepare a report on the flooding possibilities of the area which is proposed for a possible expansion to the library building on Queen Street, Ron Patchell, an engineer with Totten, Sims, Hubicki Ltd., told council Monday night that a flood-proof lib- rary extension could be built, but this would be extremely expensive. He said that ideally, it is better not to build at all in the retention and flood plain area. Council asked for the re- port last month when mem- bers of the Library Board said the Board had decided to build an addition to the Council wants five on Hydro Commission Scugog council has rejected a recommendation - from the Port Perry Hydro boundaries of Port Perry. Actually, the new commis- sion will have five members __ 'Commission which-asks-that.- ----beeause the Mayor of Scugog a two-member commission be appointed to serve until November, T980- when. the. _-- commission members would be elected. ~~ Instead, council decided Monday night to seek nominees for a four-member commission, made up of three persons who live in Ward 2 (Port Perry) and one person who lives in the area of the Township outside the is automatically a member of the commission. The present four member commission passed a resolu- tion July 26 calling on council to appoint a two-member commission to serve from now until November, 1980. Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor told council Monday night, that the present work- load of the commission could (Turn to page 14) Durham to ask Queens Park for more $$$ Durham, Region council has decidey to appeal direct- ly to provihcial community and social services minister Keith Norton to lift a restric- tion on the subsidy paid by Ontario to the Region this year for administration costs of Durham's Social Services department. The decision to appeal to Norton was made by the council at its regular meet- "ing September 5. But in the process it touched off an acrimonious debate among some members of council, and brought an impassioned appeal from Doug Johns, Durham's commissioner of Social Services. At issue was a letter from the provincial government dated July 20 which said that the subsidy for administra- tion of Durham's family counselling and general assistance divisions would be limited to 50 per cent of $1.4 million in 1979, which would leave a" shortfall of $101,000 in the Region's social services budget this year. When the motion to appeal the restriction came before council last week, Oshawa councillor Ed Kolodzie said there appears to be areas of the budget where the short- fall could be made up this year, without having to go to the province for money. Councillor Kolodzie cited several sub-accounts for 1979, where funds had not been spent so far this year, and claimed that these could total as much as $500;000 in the Social Services budget alone. He suggested that (Turnto page 17) Scugog Mayor Jerry Taylor is among nine Durham Region councillors appointed last week to sit on a committee which will study certain aspects of the Regional systemy and hold public meetings{in each of the eight municipalities which make up Durham. However, some members of Regional council last week expressed grave doubts about whether this commit- tee will accomplish anything worthwhile or constructive, and whether the $10,000 allocated for operating expenses will turn out to be a waste of tax-payer's money. The appointment of the eight committee members and Oshawa Mayor Jim Potticary as chairman turned into something of a farce when Regional council € existing building, rather than try to expand the lib- rary services in the Town- ship with a new building on 'another site. Vol.113 No.43 The flooding potential comes from a creek that runs down the west side of the bowling green and along the north end of. the ¢ library property. Last month, Library Board chairman Chuck Preston told council that the Board would seek necessary side-yard and parking re- .Striction amendments from the local committee of ad- (Turn to page'17) 36 Pages Jumping a four-foot barricade requires skill and practise by both horse and rider who must work as a team. This action took place during a met last week. Oshawa councillor John Aker opened the debate by saying he would oppose all eight nominations to the committee. "It's just a waste of money,' he said. "I can see a lot of spinning of wheels and no positive benefits. It will be good for the press and a few ambitious politicians." He then proceeded to try to have council rescind the July 25 resolution calling for the establishnfent of the committee, but he could not get the necessary two-thirds support of council to intro- duce the rescinding motion. ~ At one point during the debate, the usually calm and articulate councillor Aker rose from his seat and in a loud voice proclaimed that this commitee would just be p--ing away the $10,000." That remark brought hoots and hollers from several members of the council who added appropriate comments to the effect that the proceedings were all wet, anyway. But the strange goings-on didn't end there. Newcastle councillor Ann Cowman, who was nominated by her municipality to sit on the committee, told council she wasn't interested anymore and asked that her name be taken off the nominated list. For a while it looked as if Newcastle would be without a member on the committee until Bill Clarke said he would let his name stand. Oshawa Mayor Jim Potti- cary easily gained, the position of committee chairman over Brock cross country event held Sunday near Port Perry. Township mayor McPhail. In a roll call vote. McPhail naturally enough voted for himself, while Potticary cast his vote for McPhail as well. During nominations for the chairman of this committee, Pickering councillor Ken Matheson got to his feet and said in a rather disgusted voice that he had been plan- ning to nominate Scugog's Reg Rose to chair the committee, "but this has already turned into a fiasco, and beneath a man of Rose's credibility." The motion to establish the committee was introduced by Oshawa Mayor Potticary at the meeting July 25 before council recessed for the month of August. Although specific terms of reference have yet to be set. AN [For results see page 23.] Regional study off to rocky start the motion calls for a *'study of Bill 162 (which set up the Region) to improve legis- lation for the benefit of the people'. The 'motion also calls on the committee to hold public meetings in all eight munici- palities, and mentions boundaries as one aspect that should be studied. While those opposed stated that the committee would only hear a lot of crying from disgruntled taxpayers who don't understand how the Region works in the first place, Uxbridge Mayor Gary Herrema voiced his approval by saying Durham is "a multi-million dollar a year business. We should take it to the people, and they had better start to under- stand it." er?