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EER dr A TE Fire Marshall calls for one Fire Chief The Ontario Fire Marshall has strongly recommended that Scugog Township have one chief to oversee the operations of the two fire halls in Port Perry and Caesarea. at was one of 36 recom- mendations handed down in a lengthy survey of the Town- ship's fire protection services conducted by W.H. Wilson of fhe Ontario Fire Marshall's of- ce. The report and recommen- dations were made public Mon- BIA proposal for min/max payments is not endorsed by council Scugog Township council wants a public meeting before it considers a by-law that would change the way the Business Improvement Area (BIA) as- sesses members for its annual budget. It is expected that the pub- lic meeting will be held in late April-early May, and it will be an A cling, so that as e8s owners can ats: >. without conflicting with their store hours. On Monday afternoon, council received a formal re- quest from the BIA directors asking that the basis for assess- ment be changed to what's known as a "minimum- maximum" method, rather than the current system based on the business taxes paid by in- dividual shops and stores. Under the system proposed by the directors, each member would be assessed a minimum of $200 per year or half of one per cent of the total BIA budget. The maximum one business would pay is $4,000, and never more than 10 per cent of the to- tal budget. When this formula was put | to a general meeting of the BIA members, some 35 were not happy with it. However, BIA chairman Tom Mitchell told council on Monday that aside from two strong objectors, the other ob- jections were withdrawn once the formula was explained. (Turn to page 9) By Julia Ashton. heart deal" has turned sour. hit a snag "Bun urban cours rics OE they arrvedath at Durham Region's "sweet- The deal between Durham and Metro Toronto toshare a 6-million tonne dump in Whitevale from 1992 to 1996 last week when Metro failed to sign the final Jes 2 bspe. 54 region. otcla officials found day morning at a meeting of Township council. And councillors agreed that taking the steps to have a single chief over the depart- ment should be a priority. "Having one chief is one of the first recommendations we (council) should pursue, and it should be done soon," said May- or Howard Hall. Some of the other major recommendations in the report, such as a computerized system for record keeping, and the con- struction of a new fire hall in Greenbank will require further Vol. 124 No. 18 study by the Township because of the cost implications. In fact, council suggested on Monday that because of bud- get restraints this year, none of the recommendations that re- quire spending money will be implemented in 1990. And the report itself sug- gests that not all the recommen- dations can or should be adopt- edin the near future. But the report does make it clear that Scugog's present sys- tem of two halls (Port Perry and Caesarea) each with its own chief and chain of command, is unaccpetable, and contrary to provincial statutes. "The legal aspects of oper- ating a fire department without appointing a person as the chief the municipal fire depart- ment may be questionable," the report states. In fact, provincial law does not provide for the authority of area fire chiefs. Already a committee has been appointed to start study- ing the report and implications of the recommendations. That committee is made up of Mayor Hall, councillors Mari- PORT PERRY - TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1990 lyn Pearce (chairperson), Neil Hunter and Glenn Malcolm, ad- ministrator Earl Cuddie, present chiefs Jack Cook (Port Perry) and Ray Gould (Caesar- ea)and the deputy fire chiefs. Mayor Hall said after the meeting that if Scugog does ap- point a single chief, the position does not necessarily need to be full-time salaried. It could be handled on a vol- unteer basis, as are all current positions in the department. As for the construction of a (Turn to page 3) Copy 50¢ 60 Pages Local firefighters spent Saturday afternoon braving the cold waters of Lake Scugog, as they practiced cold water rescues. The men from the Scugog Fire Department Hall #1 had a four hour lecture on the method, and were then sent out on the lake to practice the procedures. The firemen used ropes, ladders, and an Inflatable boat to res- cue one another from the water. Fireman Kevin Cracknell tows men and supplies over the open portion of water just oft the boat launch to where the men practiced their res- cue maneuvers. out Metro refused to si deal bécause of a m 2s pretation of words in one of the clauses, man ary Herren said, " Theclausein question per- tains to when Metro will p Durham a second i stall. " ment of $21-million in up front payments for use of the dump site in north Pickering Township. "Metra has a different defi- nition'of the word 'approval,' * Chairman Herrema tol group of reporters after Regional Chair- te marathon behind-closed- doors meeting. The statement of prina- -ples drawn up between the two municipalities says Me- tro will deposit the second half of the $41-million in u up front payments to Durham's solid waste reserve fund Juron approval of the Dur- ham Contingency Landfill Site by the nistry of Envi- ronment (MOE) When la 3 from both sides out the final le- gal agreement, Chairman Durham's dump deal with Metro turns soup Herrema said Metro added a I yal the suse and e Wi " » Sonstanid s in Ll different con- x "It's the interpretation of the legal words," the chair- man explained to reporters after JSUnhoite in- camera meeti He said m will stand hehind Heir interpre- tation of clause, rth ve 10 pay EPA (environmental protec: : Durham gh Darian and tion jict) approval from the i for developing the Whitevale site and providing services like communal water for res- dentSafiotiedby tiie dump, (Turn to page 11)