The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Few extras in budget Continued from pg. 1 Ranked by the department heads for the first time, the wish list includes a finance analyst, hearing impaired interpreters, walkway lighting, roads, parks and stormwater pond maintenance and a Fairy Lake geese population control program. Staff, as requested by the budget committee, also prepared a list of items amounting to 1 per cent reduction ($209,000) that could be sliced from the budget. It includes: · closure of the washrooms at the Georgetown Fairgrounds and Prospect Park Blockhouse (replaced by portable toilets) ($23,000) · closure of Dick Licata Pool for the month of August ($10,900) · reduction in hours for the library's Library-on-Wheels co-ordinator · Thursday evening closures of the library during the summer. (The library is again requesting Monday openings ($68,000) but that has not been approved by the management staff.) · reductions in patching gravel roads in winter, summer and spring ($15,000) · reduction in dust control application on rural roads ($30,000) · reduction in materials to repair ball diamonds, soccer fields and other areas ($6,000) · reductions are also proposed in part-time hours, overtime, office materials and services and professional development.